skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don’t they just eliminate attendance as well and just have students pay $100k for the degree directly and the students can sign a pledge promising they learned all the material?

Pass/Fail already exists as an option if students want to use that.

Grades aren’t about proving learning, they are a demonstration of competence. I took many classes with prerequisites that required a C or even B in other classes before allowing me to take it. This was because of demand for classes as well as out of necessity of prior knowledge. It was possible to get a waiver from the professor, and some did. But many wouldn’t even meet because they were too busy to meet individually and assess a student’s knowledge.

How will this work without grades? It seems like this is just opting for short term happiness and pushing the actual reasons for grades down the road.
Maybe 2 people who expect to get Alt-DP working with USB 2.0 only cable. For others, things will just work, except not at the max capacity/performance.
its all explained here https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso
The City of Golden Is Launching a 4-Day Workweek Program Trial
How do they recognize that their own language when they speak it?
Coming soon: The engineers who design the airplanes you're flying in, or the bridges you're driving across, or the airbags in the car you're driving... all graduating from universities who do not evaluate students on their ability to perform a task correctly and proficiently, working for companies who give them glowing performance reviews because it makes them feel good regardless of their competence. Future doctors, lawyers, historians, politicians, all raised with no objective standards of quality and performance.

Idiocracy was a documentary.
Yeah, especially when in the case of the fine for consent about personal ads, the fine was for violations before the law was in place.

That is an insane precedent. Most legal systems understand that applying laws retroactively is a really big no no, as it can create a massive overreach of power in the future, and also creates a hugely unpredictable present, if any time in the future you can be liable.

The EU's obsession with getting money from US tech companies is leading it down really dangerous paths.
The idea of leaving behind a lasting legacy of work is vanity squared. The ones who do selfless work for open-source do not necessarily do it for a place in history. The point of choosing a purely materialistic software career was to have the ego humbling of watching one's work get decimated or trivialized in due course.
What's your recommended alternative to the newsyslog style of external logfile rotation? I'm not much of a sysadmin but it might be useful to know at some point. Thanks in advance!
The pw really stressed me, I checked the source code to find what a valid pw looked like.

Pretty cool code btw, it has a rule array that with the error msgs, very easy to follow even tho it was webpacky.

Then I realized the errors were displayed at the bottom of the page.
Wonderful! Very lucky to see two prints from different institutions at the same time! If I'm reading correctly the left one is NGV and the right one is Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumato. Bravo to the curator!
>Universities no longer have a monopoly on information/education so accreditation is really the main value they hold. Erode that and there’s not much vocational reason to go to college.

Again, I think this is idealistic thinking... and doesn't have much to do with universities irl.

Whether or not an MIT degree is an accreditation, it is not an objective, grades based accreditation. It never was. There has never been a world where your bar exam results matter, and no one cares about where you went to law school.

An MIT degree does not mean "passed the MIT exams."

Universities never really had monopoly over knowledge. Every university teaches the same accounting courses. They're also online. There is even a well respected 3rd party accreditation. People still care about where they, their employees or their accountants were educated.

We can debate why this is the case. We can't ignore that it is the case. The university matters, almost always, to the people involved... Accreditation matters sometimes, but usually only as a minimum bar. Neither education nor accreditation guarantee ability.
Depends on the repair but much more of the phone is replaceable that before. Albiet not user replaceable without paying a little extra to rent the tools.
This is great. One of the best applications of LLMs is going to be for NPCs in games. That’s going to be absolutely wild.

I hope to see remakes of all the classics with LLM driven NPCs. Yes, yes, LLMs will be a true game-changer.
https://reddit.com/r/Android/comments/13i7gbb/just_saw_someo...

As anecdotal experience, the same age (or even older) iphones are also being used by many.
Not really. This is needlessly cynical. The transition to college is a big one for many students, with a whole lot of "it depends". At a hard school, students are put in a situation where they might have to manage time and learn to study for the first time, and many learn some very hard lessons along that path.

MIT has had first years go pass/no record for decades for exactly this reason. And I see the exact same pattern in my undergrads at CMU.

(And yes, we really do care about our students adapting, at least at the faculty level. We're educators, for crying out loud. You don't think we take the industry pay cut because we feel guilty about earning money, do you?)
Very useful learning project. It's written in C mostly. Would be cool to do something similar in Rust.
I've been experimenting a lot with using Jupyter Notebooks (http://jupyter.org/) to get many features of literate programming.

The tooling can be a bit clunky -- though JupyterLab and some plugins can go a long way. Importing notebooks into other notebooks or modules is still kind of weird even with the `ipynb` library.

However, on the otherside of it all, you have a collection of documents that contain documentation, code, and tests, all side by side and storable with proof of past execution.

I'll take this arrangement over someone's unit test and CI suite every day of the week.
I would also recommend OpenWRT - to anyone who's tech-savvy enough to upload a new firmware file and go through a web interface to set up the network. I was used to setting up things like Mikrotik or OpenBSD+pf (which while great, are not exactly intuitive), and was surprised it's really no more difficult (often less difficult) than using whatever stock web UI these SoHo routers usually come with.
Probably the most painful home Internet experience you can have is a consumer router fail. Suddenly you really need all those basic sysamin features a business system provides. I used OpenWRT on Linksys back in the day, but later had an early PCEngines APU running PfSense. Those worked well enough until my ISP increased our bandwidth. Made the jump to a little Mikrotik RB2011 on the top floor and added an extra AP (actuall a RB 900 series router) on the first. That did the job up until we got 1 Gb fiber. Not willing to use the ISP's router+mesh, I got a Ubiquiti EdgrRouter and a couple of Netgear APs (by then all our switches were ProSafe managed). The ER has been great. After mastering RouterOS, Vyatta was no big deal. I regret now not getting UI APs, Netgear changes its crappy prosumer interface with every model it seems, and they're painful to manage without paying for the cloud service. The switches are OK, but the once again the UX annoyingly varies by model. Of course, Ubiquiti has its own issues mostly in how the company itself is run. If I have to, I'm ready to go back to Mikrotik (whose web ui the Vault 7 goons could only crack during an interlude between firmwares: as if anyone leaves that UI enabled). In all the years I ran it, Mikrotik never caused me a problem with a RouterOS update (neither has EdgeOS).
We're definitely two different kinds of people. When it comes to network equipment I value control and security over that sort of convenience any day.

(add.: and I don't mean "different kinds of people" in a condescending way, but that we value different aspects and have different methods for going about these things)
Only superficially; the display server architecture was quite different and more powerful in NeWS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575

There are a lot more interesting DonHopkins comments in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22455722
So I work with Oz GP practices. It's not very likely you'll get a reasonable export of your data. It's doable, but may require some convincing. Your practice will likely get a copy of at least some of the hospital documents - that's common. You could ask for the same export of your data that they'd send when moving you to another clinic if you want a complete view (you may get it on a CD though...). It's not that there's really any issue, it's just that the staff likely never handled this request for the patient and wouldn't be sure how to do it.

There shouldn't be any issue to view all the received documents on the screen during your visit though.
“game-changing” and “10% efficiency” don’t seem to match that well…

I suspect that the ability to handle pure Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is the critical improvement here, but the article doesn’t provide the context that:

- current engines can only run with 5% SAF

- airlines are trying to get as much SAF as they can but struggle to find more at an affordable price

- how much SAF we could make based on current food trends and what is blocking us from reaching that level.

The announcement phrased as it is makes sense for professionals, which is why I understand RR PR department has phrased it that way, but the BBC shouldn’t expect its readers to know all that.
I use it in a commercial team to write technical documentation. I write it while, for example, exploring an API that I am integrating with. It produces a nice little document with important integration apis, limitations, open questions, integration decisions as well as interactive ways to check certain parts of the integration.

I do this with Typescript (deno) and a neovim plugin called sniprun.
I am nearly expecting her (her legal team) to find ever new ways
to keep her out of jail.

Perhaps all ending in an overturn of her conviction and plea deal.

How can she afford a legal team though?
A lot of such products are resold on local "auction" sites. Not sure if that's a loophole or not.
Healthcare is the perfect storm of layered, ossified systems created across decades + input data that's normal just often enough... that everyone thinks bounds are actually handled.

And then Mr. O'Leary checks in.

Fuzz testing tools would be great, but I haven't seen many institutions that have functional 1:1 lower environments (i.e. including all system-system integrations working in test).
No, I actually think the opposite.

In most C++ environments you will have std::string, STL vectors, unique_ptr, and RAII generally. Cleaning up memory via RAII discipline is standard programming practice. Manual frees are not typical these days. std::string manages its own memory, and isn't vulnerable to the same buffer overflow/null terminator safety issues that C-style strings are.

While in C you will be probably using null-terminated strings and probably your own hand-rolled linked list and vectors. You will not have RAII or destructors, so you will have manual frees all over.

Perhaps the big difference is that due to the nature of the language, C developers on the whole are probably more careful.
https://hapifhir.io/ for open source.

Mirth is the commercial offering many people use - it is nice because it handles the MLLP protocol, gives you a mapping system, lets you transform and call your own endpoints. That’s also why it sucks: it’s a big heavy system.
I realise the UK is starting in one of the worst positions for house price pressure, but it does seem to be a general trend in all Western countries. My point is that it seems like my potential children would need to work harder to get the same level of basic necessities. It might be getting tougher more slowly in some countries than others, but that doesn't meet the criterion I feel is necessary of mostly getting better for most people.
You can send trailer "headers" after body. So HTTP is fine. Browser support was not, but may be it's better today.
I switched from a `show configuration commands` router to a `sho run` router and personally can't go back to anything without at least the former. To my knowledge, OpenWRT, OPNsense, Mikrotik RouterOS, as well as basically every plastic shell routers don't have it, but it just make way too much sense compared to those.
Kill Overkill
I've worn out quite a few as well. One thing I've noticed is I seem to use middle click a lot more than most as, while I have had the left click button fail, the middle button is usually the first to go for me.
> the main subs are policed by a bunch of supermoderators (who are mods in hundreds of subs)

This is easily evidenced and is not true. You can check for yourself. Parroting this talking point shows that you do not check your facts.

Top 100 subreddit moderators and number of subs moderated:

* https://gist.github.com/bspammer/d6059d2bfa222a0f340353ae0be...
Like Ithaca, Urbana, West Lafayette etc.
SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code
If you look at the list of fines you'll see there's plenty domestic ones. You're just reading American media.
I don’t even have access to regular Claude so can’t confirm this but the 100K token model they released should in theory be able to handle this to a certain degree.
yup. this is basically the collective dumbing down of everyone, bringing everyone down to the level of the laziest, least motivation, dumbest people. this is the equality that some people want apparently. all they're doing is widening the gap between the poor and the wealthy, as the latter can afford to push their children to legitimate schools so they can be challenged and learn. its the destruction of class mobility and meritocracy. under the guise of progressivism. what a joke. people whose title is "provost for educational equity and academic success" are such hacks and leeches on the system.

if its pass/fail only freshman year, fine. thats usually very basic anyways. but if it spreads to the entire degree then its a problem.

I guarantee history will not judge any of these people kindly. the destruction their bullshit will have over decades will be looked upon with disgust as to how we tolerated this dumbing down.
So, you want to manually download an update, install it and brick your device on your own schedule?
My experience with old cars and full insurance coverage is if the car repairs cost more than the value of the car they just total it and pay out the estimated sale value of the car. Which isn't great if you were happy with the car.

I remember my boss 15 years ago having an accident that totaled his old but reliable car because the trunk and read bumper were damaged. He bought the totaled car from the insurance company for $500 and just kept driving it. But it was a lot easier to get junker cars inspected back then.
No, not any more than anyone types out XML anyway.
The send to bottom button making the dialog go down slowly was so hilarious !
That's as an absurd notion as saying that getting rid of money will solve wealth inequality. Weird Communist logic where when the world shows you people aren't equal, instead of accepting it, you claim the world is wrong.

Too much stress might be bad, but there's an optimal level of stress and it is definitely not zero.

Software that doesn't get tested will be full of bugs, students that don't get tested will misunderstand the material.

People need reward function. They need clear motivation. If they don't have money / grades / other goals, very few will be internally motivated enough to do things out of sheer will. Just like communism doesn't work because people need to see the carrot in front of their face to be motivated.

By the way, in actually communist countries, their education was even more stressful and competitive. If you decide to not use carrots, you're very likely to find yourself using sticks.
Who cares how much? It’s still tantamount to theft.
R4 is where things get a bit kinder and gentler.

https://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/core/Condition-condition-duodena...
It's interesting that music notation has taken a long time for computer generated music to be as readable as good hand copy. And the people I know who do it by computer tell me that it's a lot of work to go from basic data entry to a readable layout. This becomes apparent reading jazz band charts in a hazy bar.

Also, chord symbols are possibly the only respectable use of Comic Sans!
Looking at it in a shallow way I suppose one could say that. But to me there's a great distinction between a switch/router and e.g. a smartphone or desktop browser.
MIT's had pass / no-record for Freshman for some time now.

WPI has had similar things to the point where getting Fs wiped off your record can result in what was called "snowflaking" or a blank transcript for a term...

RPI uses whole letter grades. A/B/C/D/F. Those are the only valid grades. A high GPA was far from guaranteed, because A- to B+ is a big shift.

Overall, I think Pass/No Record is good. I think it results in less stressed out Freshman especially at elite schools, where some of them will get their first B or C, later on. They need to understand as a friend so eloquently put it:

At MIT, you take all the kids who sit in the front of the class, and put them together. Guess what... at MIT there will be a kid at the front of THAT class.

(And likely... it isn't you.)

People need time to adjust their world view, or suicide rates, etc.. aren't pretty, they aren't great as IS. Many of us know someone who took their own lives, or just left after falling apart.
No, there was a demo that fit on a 1.44 MB floppy from the late 90s (and thus only needing to support functionality of the time) [1]. As stated on the page, the kernel itself occupied 45 KB at the time. A current version would need additional lines to support features ubiquitous in modern chips such as having multiple cores.

To put a 2 KB OS into context, the average x86 instruction is going to be around 3-4 bytes, so that OS would need to be around 500 assembly instructions in total.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20011106140711/http://www.qnx.com...
It was this one:

https://youtu.be/9qRxNYuR2c4
Any recommendations for someone that doesn’t spend much time tinkering these days?
> over 50 gigawatt-hours

That can't be right.

2300 kg * sqr(410000/3600) * 0.5 = 14893006.000 Joules

14893006J * 0.000277778 = 4136.9 watt hours

Edit: out of curiousity, in order to have a kinetic energy of 50GWh, it would need a speed of 1424260 km/h (884994 mph)
Streamlit Meets Headless BI
There is a specific Hokusai museum, but I think this particular image (being a blend of Western and Japanese techniques) is much more popular outside of Japan. There are other great woodblock artists, my personal favourite is Kawase Hasui who was prolific from around 1920 for a few decades. As is with the way of woodblock printing, the named artist is the person that drew/painted the original artwork which was then interpreted by their supporting team of carvers and printmakers and the original is destroyed in the process! Some alternate originals have survived for a handful of Hasui artworks, featuring people or boats in different locations or different colour schemes, but that is not the case for The Great Wave.
In general, yes. In this specific case a person who lives in your community and looks at the letters going into your mailbox everyday will also have a profile of you.

Of course this is less true in denser areas
I have a HP wide format printer where after loading in a roll of paper, it presents a "Paper loaded successfully" dialog, with an "Ok" button to dismiss the message. The fun part is that the dialog also dismisses automatically in a couple of seconds and the UI underneath has the "Unroll paper" button in the exact same position where "Ok" used to be. I must have accidentally unrolled the paper immediately after loading it in dozens of times by now.
The EU can't regulate that. The device and the chargers already negociate the charging standard to the lowest and safest common denominator supported by both devices and the cable connecting them.

There are several universal chargers you can buy that support all standards under the sun from all manufacturers.

That's a non issue outside of HN mind games people here like to play to draw their own straw men.
Good you follow my advice! Sooner better than later! Hopefully you won't annoy people with shit wifi anymore.
This seems funny to me as well as the point of learning isn’t the actual learning, it’s the knowledge gained. That’s why we learn.

Yes the journey is valuable but the purpose of classes isn’t to measure learningness as a process, but to measure the knowledge and skills gained.

If someone already knew material and learned nothing and got an A, it means they have knowledge of that topic and now there’s a little more signal of that knowledge. It doesn’t matter that they went from 90% knowledge to 95%.

If someone got a C+ and went from 0-78% knowledge they learned much but still can’t demonstrate much knowledge.

If we wanted a course on learning processes specifically, then create one. But thinking that the point of grades is measuring how much was learned seems so backwards.

It’s good to recognize effort, but the point of effort is to achieve an outcome, not the outcome itself. “Prepend is so great, ve works so hard. Totally sucks and is stupid but works so hard.” Is silly if used for ability to do a particular thing, but useful in measuring grit and discipline or whatever.
Counterfeits are their own issue. In short: more developed countries, better laws and their enforcement, more risky to manufacture counterfeit goods.

As for low-quality products from China - until recently, Chinese vendors didn't even sell directly to customers in Europe. Most of the garbage products were, and still are, western products, which are only made in China, because... everything is made in China. It's the world's 3D printer. Chinese manufacturers can make goods to arbitrarily high or low quality standards - it's up to the company that orders production to choose how much quality they want to pay for.

That is, if you see a shitty product made in China for a western company, don't blame China - it's the western company that chose to request production of low-quality garbage.
That was exactly my point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan_leather
I had a black/white/gray vim theme that supports that, the only color is comments are gray. Press F6 and it reverses code and comment colors.
What is the email for at the end?
Latency. Latency. Video calls, gaming etc. Ethernet is best.
Um, what is this about ? Sounds nuts.

Here in Finland, there's some babbling at the start/end of each stage, but as for scanning each individual item, it just BEEPs when a barcode registers successfully.
see also

Optimization Without Derivatives: PRIMA Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35959991

SciPy enhancement: The Fortran 77 implementation of COBYLA is buggy and challenging to maintain. Switch to the PRIMA implementation? #18118, https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/18118#issuecomment-155...
> Tangential remark: substack is becoming as annoying as medium now. [...] On medium it's become so bad now that I don't even open their links anymore.

FWIW I find that Reader Mode works fine for making posts on substack and medium interruption-free, both on desktop (Firefox) and mobile (Safari).

I realise it's possible that either of them might try some Reader Mode defeating hijinks in the future, so you still might want to avoid putting your blog there if you don't want that possibility looming beyond the horizon. But when it comes to reading existing stuff that other people have written, an accessible version should be just one or two clicks away.