skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why standardized tests exist. They're the same test no matter where you're from.

IMHO, standardized tests should always be about mastery and scoring should reflect that rather than having a simple number like 1200 or 1600. Someone could get a 600 on their Math SAT but the parts they got wrong were related to simple fractions or time-based calculations. If the only information you have is, "600 out of 800" you don't have that information.

Furthermore they shouldn't even have scores, really. They should be pass/fail based on mastery of required subjects (whatever the test is about). Either you know quadratic equations or you don't. If you got 90% of the quadratic equations correct you know how to deal with quadratic equations... You probably just made a minor mistake somewhere or were running out of time. You still "got the gist of it".

It would make a hell of a lot more sense to me if students had to take dozens of standardized tests demonstrating mastery of all facets of the high school curriculum rather than one great big test at the end of their schooling that measures their ability to remember randomly-sampled fractions of that knowledge.
> Well, that can make sense, if the 10% is valuable enough that it pays off.

Even so, that's still a job that's 90% worthless.
Also, a person in Arizona is going to use much less energy than a person living in Minnesota. Not to mention the energy used in Arizona is going to come from lower carbon sources than in Minnesota. It just breaks people expectations that a big, complicated machine uses less energy than simply setting something on fire.
Too Much and Not Enough
It looks like grades may be different depending on when you were born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_the_United...

In my day, Rank-Based grading was the system, but not just among the students in a specific class -- it was based on historical numbers. The same course was taught for many years so it was easy to get that longitudinal view.

Especially in secondary and high school, a 'C' meant you were average for the students who took the class. The tests had questions of differing levels of difficulty. If you couldn't answer the difficult questions, you clearly didn't "master" the material and therefore couldn't get an 'A'.

People with average ability would be expected to get an average on the test, so a 'C' would still mean you learned the material adequately and could move on to the next class / grade.
There's also postman.com, readme.com, buildwithfern.com, speakeasyapi.dev, useoptic.com, bump.sh along with countless others. It's a very, very crowded market
I think the point is that there could be some meddling to make sure people pass. I am not purporting that's the case I just think that's why it's mentioned. I went to a school that was nowhere near Harvard level and saw it regularly, people sleeping in class or who didn't do a single assignment who still graduated with me. I think it was a money thing. Still not saying that's happening at Harvard just that it wouldn't be the most shocking thing.

That said, I agree with other commenters that you set this situation up with the rigorous acceptance criteria. You're testing the people who got into one of the best schools so presumably if your selection criteria works they should all excel at the courses.
Last time you reposted the same story like 5 or 10 times from different accounts. The fist time it got some traction, but the repost didn't. Reposting too much will make you lose the goodwill from the community. I understand you are very worried, but losing the goodwill from the community is a bad idea.

Someone noted that it was not a "Show HN:" because it's not a project people can try https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html , and recommended to change the title to "Tell HN:". It's a small details, but again you may lose some goodwill from the community.

If I have to make up a scale, it goes from:

1) Upvote for visibility

2) Make a friendly comment

3) Make a snarky comment

4) Flag+Hide+Forget

You really don't want to reach "4)".

My personal opinion: I checked your website last time, and it looks like the service is about sending spam to generate traffic to other sites that have a Stripe account. I'm not sure if I misunderstood your service, but if I made a mistake perhaps Stripe made the same mistake.
It's a confusing photo; those antennae are for that machine as a client, not an access point. I use it only as a router (i.e., it routes my LAN to the internet over gigabit fiber), and I use a separate access point for wifi.

The antennae are useless for my use case, but they came with it and if I removed them I'd just have to find somewhere else to store them...
Show HN: Chatbot Doctor for Long Covid
Currently beta-testing in top research university
That sounds great, but I'm a bit sad that it seems to come only in SUV form factor. Do you happen to know if they have anything in less obnoxious sizes?
And the difficulty of that subject matter should reflect that expectation of superb academic excellence. Harvard has a duty to increase the relative difficulty of their coursework UNTIL a certain percentage fails. Otherwise it's just a rich persons Lions club for angsty 20-somethings.
Well now we know why they went extinct.
I always liked this compact linear calendar format for planning and estimating. I use it often, with weeks on the left, and my list of tasks on the right.

I wrote a command-line app similar to `cal` to generate them in simple plain text: https://npmjs.com/package/calx

`calx 2024` will give you next year’s calendar.
From last month:

* Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37443644

* Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37404413
It is when the ship is sinking and the remaining people are deciding if they too should jump.
> They don’t want people to resell software that they bought.

Aren't people legally allowed to do this, regardless of what Apple wants?
Meet Elon Musk, unassuming inventor of internet success story [pdf]
Mental note to talk to the boss about the next design: the model should be on the same fuse as the ignition.
OpenZFS 2.2: Block Cloning, Linux Containers, BLAKE3
Probably a positive trend if college students end up worrying less about their GPA and spending more time learning things they are interested in / trying out different careers / making friends and memories.

From my experience, college students worry enough about grades without forcing the curve to be harsher than it currently is.
healthcare has its own special kind of regulatory capture too
But why do this flagging out in the open where other member countries will see this obvious pattern of behavior and abuse of this system? Once again, yes this tool can be abused, but there are much simpler and harder to detect approaches that a corrupt or authoritarian government could implement. That is where the rubber-hose analogy comes into play.
Couple points to follow up.

- US based business, Boston. Taxes are higher, rent is higher (when you needed rent). Salaries are higher (if you want good people). As the founder, I wanted my company to have great benefits and healthcare. That cost (and I'm not kidding here) reduced our revenue considerably. This is why I'm a huge fan of a single payer option in the US that takes healthcare off corporations.
- B2B business with SMB's, average customer ARR was about $3K. E-commerce integration product, so it was a bit of a lift on the technical side with many nuances between integrations.
- Support ended up being about 75% of our labor costs.
They still do: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMTN2AM/A/earpods-lightni...

The AirPods are a great product. This is very likely why they are so popular.
Don't tell the normies this! They're all shockingly easy to talk to or work with right now.

Another reason why they are skirting under the radar is that many of those kind of folks are, shall we say, somewhat unsavory. Consider Automatic1111 is also famous for racist rimworld mods, actively credits 4chan in the developers, and uses ho-chi-min as a github profile picture, meaning he's either Vietnamese or a deranged communist (or maybe even both!)

The reality is that a ton of AI innovation is happening on discord by people with anime profile pictures whose entire reason for their obsession with this stuff comes down to chasing dopamine rushes - and hardly anyone outside of the space knows about it!
If the grades are supposed reflect profficiency then sure. The program should be the same.

But one should argue that those good schools should have a more difficult program.

This of course leads to the problem known in Poland (before the 2009 reform): the top schools ha# harder programs. For example if you studied French, all the students allready knew it before joining the university. They learn the advanced topics.
Or if you studied maths on the entrance exam they would ask you about topics that are not part of the highschool curriculum.
They changed it recently, but Im not convinced that for the better.
Now everyone writes the same final exams, each university doesnt run their own exams anymore - at least in theory. Some still do
Happy to be a supporter of the Texas Observer. My tshirt says “Texas needs an Observer” — that’s an understatement.
GPS sensor results could still feed a cache of historical location data which will be uploaded when it next gets a connection, likely when brought in for service.
This can and will be used by criminals to target communities that have less tech or tech that is exploitable/circumventable. Yes I am aware that security through obscurity is not the answer.
You're alright! Hindsight is 20/20 I am a backend dev not a visual designer either. It was straightforward for me to notice on my monitor that I'm used to etc but that doesn't mean on your monitor it looked the same. Just thought I'd share some feedback!
Google.com tests a news-filled homepage, just like Bing and Yahoo
What an asinine, worthless comment. Yes they get some equity too.
I briefly trained as a helicopter pilot. We do refer to it as the Jesus nut.

Bit of trivia: the bigger danger to helicopters is actually the rotor slowing down too much. If that happens, the rotor will fold. Yes, centrifugal force is the major force keeping rotors in one piece.

So lose your engine, and you must slam the collective down to keep rotor speed. (Nit: higher energy rotors give you more time.)
I thought this article (https://www.eurogamer.net/who-killed-rare) was pretty insightful.
Sure but as it relates to the after-life there's not even a "hard" problem to speak of because there is nothing we can assert except that maybe it is the same experience as the one before birth.

We can't effectively use the tools of science here (at least yet), whereas with consciousness and conscious experience we can at least grapple around the edges.
Up to a certain point. From 2015, "New cars in Europe could soon automatically call police when you crash":

* https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/new-cars-in-europe-could-s...
This is the first-phase goal for the Nature programming language, as outlined in the first section of the README on https://github.com/nature-lang/nature. To summarize:

- Type system, null safety, generics, and union types

- An in-house compiler/assembler/linker that is not reliant on LLVM and supports compilation for amd64, riscv64, and wasm architectures

- Non-intrusive interaction with C for efficient and high-performance development

- Progressive Garbage Collection, supporting both automatic and manual GC

- Built-in vec, map, set, and tup data structures

- Package and module management

- Function tags, closures, error prompts, runtime stack traces, and coroutines

- Integrated SSA, linear scan register allocation, reflection, and an assembler & linker

We anticipate that these key features will be completed around version 0.7.0, at which point a community-ready version will be released. By "community-ready," we mean that there will be stable and backward-compatible syntactic API support.

https://nature-lang.org/docs/prologue/release-notes Record the core features that have not yet been completed in the version release notes.
> They also assess risk, make forecasts, and make decisions on how capital is allocated.

I think they were making a critique of neoliberal capitalism, which might be represented as:

1. Capital efficiency

2. ???

3. Social benefit

Obviously, if you've bought in, #2 doesn't feel at all vague to you. But it's not uncommon for many to step back and see the whole enterprise as an underpants gnome scheme that's on track for a lot of underpantsless global citizens.
They're no more expensive than any of the other products in the category: https://www.theverge.com/21309820/best-wireless-earbuds

They're not garbage! What are you talking about!?
It's not at all proven that the megafauna extinction is a result of overhunting.
I'm surprised it's even the same order of magnitude on land. Hopefully we can mostly use solar and not significantly slow the wind!
Wouldn't the library dependency hierarchy have been figured out during development in order to get it to a state that can compile? I'm assuming if you're pinning a dependency you already have something that compiles
However many points you take away, the joke was worth it.
You could have a look at some of the Scandinavian countries. It’s not “full UBI” but it isn’t far off either.

I think you will find that much of what you are expressing concerns about isn’t really happening at any kind of meaningful scale.
OpenZFS 2.2 Released with Block Cloning, Linux Container Support
> After signing in, get started and provide your legal business details, app name, description and purpose of usage.

That's an annoying amount of work if you just want to access your own car
And? Laying off 200 employees isn't really that much, Activision-Blizzard employs 17k people after all, and he is creating a lot of value. Boards want to incentivise CEOs to take moonshots -- for institutional investors, a 50% chance to make $100 million is better than a 100% chance to make $30m.

Keeping employees around for the sake of keeping them around is just bad business. A 1% layoff isn't a cost cutting exercise, it's just organisational reshuffling. Employee churn is a fact of life, no need to get too hung up over it. The optics might be not great, but that doesn't really matter.
I do agree here, but also I think if a company is acquiring to give an even better service to their own users it's a good thing (as one of those users). I'm sure I read they've agreed to keep them cross-platform so it won't impact Playstation users (maybe a delay with new games being released on Playstation, like how FF16 isn't on Xbox yet) - but what I am really hoping for is the games simply become part of the Xbox Ultimate subscription.
Wait, we haven't even seen this theme or how well it is done and you already reject it?
The more important context is that exactly 50 years and 1 day before the attack, Israel was the victim of a surprise attack. Just like in this case. Intelligence failed. They had clues, they saw the forces amassed at the border. But leadership both in the military and the leadership level convinced itself that the enemy was defeated.

This is a repeat of history on the damn anniversary of that failure!

Leadership should have known. In fact, the head of opposition made a warning one month prior that there are forces coming in https://twitter.com/onehaham/status/1710628628692680925

He understood there are risks from the briefings he got, but the prime minister was too busy trying to overthrow democracy to care. He probably wanted a war so he can assume power.
I don't understand how this is supposed to exonerate anyone. Many accounts attest to the fact that Epstein's "interests" were hardly a secret. Donald Trump himself alluded[1] to it.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10314430-i-ve-known-jeff-ep...
Would you be interested in handing it off to a maintainer owning it in a 501c3 as a public good? If not, do you want to continue to run it as a non profit public good with donations? I am willing to donate, just curious what the costs look like, and am a huge fan of projects like this (sensor networks/fabrics).
Close, shortest verse is: “Jesus wept”.

Famous among kids who once attended Sunday school programs that asked them to recite a bible verse each Sunday. First kid to go always takes that one.
Why would you want "interesting problems that require you to think further" to be on exams?! That should be the entire point of lectures, office-hours, group problem solving, etc...
I'm giving up my car. My primary mode of transportation is bicycle and secondary is public trans. I'm cycling about 400 miles a month. This is the way.
Very interesting concept. Looks like the motor might be very lightweight so hopefully doesn’t add too much unsprung weight to the wheels. Wonder if it can be made to be durable under those conditions though.
I think it's a circular argument.

"if other llms are good enough" assumes that in principle they have same opportunities, access to same data, or content. My fear is precisely that this assumption may be taken away - I. E. That news paper publishers or encyclopedia owners or big websites (stack overflow, web Md, etc) will enter into arrangement with specific llm companies - just like Netflix Disney prime etc aren't competing on their app or price or flexibility, but on exclusive underlying content. Nobody WANTS to subscribe to Paramount+ or cbs access... But if they hold enough material hostage some people will 'have to'. I can see a future, not far off, where different llm organizations selling feature is not how good their technology is - to your and overvodys point, THAT moat is likely to even out - but what underlying training data they have legal access to.
No, I don't know how. The clinic also took a medical history and said, based on my symptoms, it probably happened in early childhood as a baby.

I always knew there was "something" wrong with me, so I jumped at the opportunity to get a brain scan. The clinic was a little suspect in that they claimed to be able to diagnose mental health issues via the scan, but they combined the scan with more traditional evaluations.
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So how long does email take?
Study finds link between breastfeeding, rise in adult colorectal cancer risk
Study:

https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(23)00673-0/ful...

Summary:

A new study has found that individuals born in 1990 have four times the risk of developing colorectal cancer compared to those born in 1950. The study, conducted by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, suggests that breastfeeding may be a contributing factor to the rise in colorectal cancer cases among individuals aged 50 and younger, with those who were breastfed as infants having a 23% greater risk of developing the disease as adults. However, the researchers caution that further study is needed and that this analysis should not discourage mothers from breastfeeding, as breast milk provides numerous health benefits.

Q&A with authors:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/study-finds-l...
Me when I learn about the music industry
> Harvard has a duty to increase the relative difficulty of their coursework UNTIL a certain percentage fails.

Why? What benefit is there to the world to making students flunk out of a school when that same student would have passed with flying colors elsewhere? "Sorry, you've got a great grasp of engineering that any firm would benefit from, but you'll work at McDonalds now, because Bob got one more question right. Thanks for the $100k and four years of your life!"

The goal of education is to educate, not to flunk a certain percentage of people.
How does the concept of the 3rd place combine with walkability?
I actually am not a particular fan of most 3rd places, but ok, I used to love to pop out to play soccer outside of my flat, or walk to a local bar for board games, but on the other hand there was no escape if I wanted to open a window in summer and a loud soccer game was going on, or if there was a late night party at the bar. These days, I like climbing so (in urban context) I drive to the gym, and I drive to a library (or take an uber/sometimes bus to a bar) if I want to play boardgames. I still have the 3rd places, but I don't have to live next to them.
He can say it's worth whatever he wants, but the fact is he is willing to cut off his finger in an effort to get £10, thus £10 must provide equal or greater utility.

> The finger is clearly a case where the utility disparity is obvious.

This is the erroneous assumption that leads to the false conclusion. There's no such thing as an obvious utility disparity. It's a decent heuristic that works fine in the real world, but in this imaginary scenario where a person would actually be willing to cut off their own fingers simply because they have not gained £10, it no longer holds true.
It's not just a theory. Many animals have bigger brains than humans including mammoths.
A rich famous guy who was known to be surrounded by underage women at all times, yeah. I'm not exonerating anyone.
It’s not a SUV. It’s small funny car. With catastrophic crash test result. On the pictures is looks indeed like a normal SUV, but it is not.

Crash test: https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/dacia/spring/44197