skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and:

Additionally, universities (and, by extension departments) want grades to approximately follow a normal distribution (and yes, you in the back, their actions show they do actually want that, even if they say otherwise).

When you start grading a problem you have some idea what a "good" solution looks like, what an "ok" solution looks like, and same for "bad" solutions... If you award points based on that, the result will be a normal-ish distribution. But your idea of a good/ok/bad solution evolves as you see more papers.

There's two reasons for that:

First, you can't (ahead of time) imagine all the ways that students will invent to fuck up a problem set, and find edge cases in your grading rubric that result in unfairly-high or -low scores. As you gain experience teaching, you will anticipate more of the ways, but you will never anticipate every way.

Second, the TA/grader wants to be able to stack-rank the papers and have the scores be monotonic. The grader wants this because non-monotonic scoring triggers far more complaining than harsh scoring or picky scoring. When you come across papers that are worse than ones you've already recently graded, you assign even lower scores.

This results in a ratcheting effect with more extreme scores as you get closer to the bottom of the pile. But, since the mean score is usually a B/B-/C+ (~75-85), and since scores are usually limited to the range 0-100, this means that papers closer to the bottom will receive statistically lower scores.

Now, you could go back a re-grade ones you've already done, but:

1. The university is officially only paying you for 20hrs/week (and requires a signed end-of-semester statement attesting to the same).

2. The assigned workload of teaching and grading doesn't permit a two-pass grading scheme while keeping within 20 hours.

3. If you complain to the graduate ombudsman about the workload needing more than 20 hours, you won't have funding next semester (so you have a prisoner's dilemma among TAs who might want to grade more fairly).

4. If you're grading (say) a final exam for a frosh/soph class, you're probably in a room with 4-8 other graders late into the night. One effective way to make your coworkers hate you is to be that guy who always finishes grading his stack last, when everyone is worried about catching the last train/bus.

Basically, all the incentives are aligned to make this happen.
When I worked for NCC Group, they heavily emphasized recruiting from Hackbright, specifically because Hackbright doesn't admit men.
Not ichthyo (meaning fish), but ichthyo as in a shortened form of ichthyosaur.

It’s a stretch.
It isn't.

> Electrons, like other elementary particles, are indistinguishable from each other.

They are the same article.
I think it’s about finding a strategy that works for you. Ultimately it’s about the calorie deficit but you need to find strategies that make you comfortable with the deficit. A one size fits all solution never works.

I lost a lot of weight and found that two things: (1) I’m allowed to eat any amount of healthy things: no limit, (2) exercise acts as a junk food craving suppressor for me.

I tried intermittent fasting years later and it led me directly to binge eating. Might work for some people (awesome) but doesn’t works for me.
Also, it seems they keep the outside lit and that can't be cheap in the desert.
I appreciate the point he made, and would have appreciated if he'd had made it maybe two fewer times. I think the point he's missing is that people don't really care, and if it sounds fine, then that's good enough. I come from a musical family, and when I'm listening critically, this kind of stuff can tweak my knobs same as his, but that's not often enough to be a problem. Usually I'm just enjoying music, and unless something is egregiously out of tune, then good enough is probably fine.

I think he also misses the point of context of the note. An out of tune string sounds bad in isolation, of course, but without knowing the piece, maybe it wasn't played very long, or happened to work in a passing tone to the next chord, or maybe was drowned out by the mix. There are lots of reasons that people without perfect pitch would miss a bad note.
Parsing json in shell? Easy!

filter="$(printf 's/.\[%s\][[:space:]]\([^"]*\)/\\1/p' "$(json_path "${1:-}" "${2:-}")")"

Please, no! How can you know this is safe?

Why not just use Python? It is installed pretty much everywhere, supports json without such hacks.
How so? It’s still significantly better than cable because there is no contract and you are not paying for services you don’t want to use.
As a career switcher, I think there IS a balance to this, but only because of the competitive aspect as you're getting going.

I was in a director position in an unrelated field as a 30yo, and solidly in the camp you're describing before switching into a more junior software position.

You do need to stand out until you've developed credibility. I think most people relax a bit once they have the power to safely do so. Everyone's situation is different, so this point may vary in each individual's career.
But if your TV was expensive enough it had a bit of RAM that stored the pages as they were broadcast, so keying in the number took you straight there.
School >> Boot camp.
All the booze, partying and sex clears the mind and brings in insane level of focus.
Also available here https://www.amazon.com/Its-Quieter-Twilight-Suzanne-Dodd/dp/...
While the odds are he's wrong, it's always worth remembering that everything that was ever discovered seemed wildly wrong and "impossible" before it was eventually accepted as obviously the truth. Copernicus comes to mind.

If we hope to advance as a civilization, we need to discover new stuff and new ways of doing things. So in my mind we shouldn't focus on him being "WrOnG", because that will only deter others from trying. We should encourage out of the box thinking and experimentation, and celebrate people who are willing to try new things and look at things with a fresh perspective.
Children demand things all the time, but yes it's silly to always cater to their whims.

This is increasingly difficult when most other parents do, I've seen 5 year olds with their own phones. It's quite difficult to continue saying no as they age and this kind of thing becomes socially alienating. For my generation it's like "the kid without a tv at home" — the impact wasn't as large then as it is now, but there was a swath of popular culture that they couldn't participate in with their peers.

Now with a lot of socialization moving to social media, what does it mean when we don't let our children participate? I'm more on the "no phone" side of things, but it's hard to navigate.
I have a football fan friend who uses a teletext style app to get the latest results
Yeah, if you play an A chord on the guitar and it sounds "off", then one or multiple strings are out of tune (sharp or flat relative to each other). The same is true if you have 2 guitars playing together and one guitar is out of tune to the other (or any number of instruments).

Beato seems to think that people should just "feel" or know that, but I think he might be blind to how little people play instruments or how little the average person has "trained" to pick up when something is out of tune. People that play instruments can usually pick it out pretty quickly, especially in a band setting. People that pick up a guitar can't just immediately tune it. Over time, however, you get a very intuitive sense for what "in tune" means (which is really just like a set amount of harmonic 'steps' between the strings) and can tune by ear very quickly - whether that in tune guitar has actually been tuned to E standard, however, is more about a common reference point for that note. Beato seems to be thinking that common reference point is a kind of general knowledge, but it's definitely not.
My first thought was, "Who takes the time to sort before grading?" Computers change the world in such incredibly subtle ways. Of course, such subtleties exist without computers. This is just one case where computers make the subtleties more detectable.
The theory may be premised on false beliefs about unions.
Isn't the most likely candidate for the Great Flood the Black Sea being flooded? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
For about a decade, the tech sector had explosive growth, and some companies were taking “anything” they could get, which often included people who don’t know what an array is.
Not enough to be employable and I have pretty low standards for my employees.
>> I'm only 20 years into my career, but my retrospective would be that I wish I'd realized that work sucks and that software was not going to save the world a little sooner.

Yeah, me too (that's why also gave you an upvote).

Maybe if all that energy to burn yourself out translates to higher and higher salaries and bonuses and stock options, so you work your ass off for a few years and save for a lifetime. Then it could make sense.

But most people will make average money by definition case when I sure won't do any heroics. Here's an alternate retrospective, or as some may recognize it, the "loser's strategy in a Gervais hierarchy environment": work the absolute minimum which keeps you gainfully employed (which also those familiar with Gervais know it's not slacking, just avoid to be a worker bee as all that attracts is more work for the same pay). Preserve your energy, do what you like with what you got left. Go hiking, spend time with your kids, build your side business empire. To each their own. Just don't kill yourself over anything, it rarely pays off.
Dark Forest?
It should be quite naturally so as a lot has happened in the field of medicine in the last 30-40 years. A 60 year old doctor who was trained 35 years ago uses old knowledge and techniques. Even though doctors get some updates via conferences and articles in journals and maybe some hand on course, they cannot absorb all that new knowledge in practice.
As someone who always used uppercase for tags back in the day, it wasn't about saving space; it was to improve human readability. All caps tags stood out better against the backdrop of mostly lower case prose. Also the DOM APIs case-folded to upper when inspecting an HtmlElement object's name.

To be honest, this is the first I heard that folks thought it had space advantages.
Future nuclear power reactors could rely on molten salts
Taking Big Oil to court for 'climate homicide' isn't as far-fetched as it sounds
Silent flight edges closer to take off, according to new research
The article mentions that the paper is under review, but I'm guessing the effect size is small and that individual differences between graders is very substantial. The article states:

> The researchers collected available historical data of all programs, students and assignments on Canvas from the fall 2014 semester to the summer 2022 semester.

Thousands of students X 8 years X lots of assignments per year and you get a sample size so big that it would be hard not to find statistically significant effects.
In a capitalist world, capitalism is behind everything. This isn't insightful.

In the magical, post-capitalist utopia where everyone is fed and clothed and housed without having to lift a finger, and nobody is compensated for anything they do, what things would people still choose to do? People make bikes on an amateur basis, but would people addict children on an amateur basis?

If you wish to defend capitalism, you should ask questions like "would people still farm, and supply others with food, in a free society without capitalism?". Y'know, the big, fundamental questions about the basic viability of a non-capitalist system. Trying to downplay capitalism's known downsides is the worst kind of apologism.
Is anyone confused by "lower-ranked names"? To me this means A, B, C, but the article says "Wang said students whose surnames start with A, B, C, D or E received a 0.3-point higher grade out of 100 possible points than compared with when they were graded randomly."

So I guess "alphabetically lower ranked" means the last letters of the alphabet, not first? Confused.
But, assuming we take the facts of the post at face value, there clearly wasn’t a rational cost-benefit analysis that resulted in only teaching large lecture-style courses and deliberately serving only those who could thrive that way. The instructor’s claim was not that the author needed more instruction that wasn’t available (indeed, they turned her away from seeking such instruction). Rather, it was that people like her simply can’t “hack it”, which the author demonstrated to be false.
How does it violate conservation of energy.

If you convert a stored battery charge, to a thrust?

EV Cars aren't violating anything.

Nothing is saying the thrust is producing more energy than stored in the battery.
Even if this thing turns out to be slamming some kinds of particle out the back it could still be a quite useful drive system.
Hamas is just a group of young guys that have seen their parents being bullied, abused and humilliated by Israely settlers, probably now they are full of hate and mental issues. At the same time Israel was sponsoring Hamas, so no wonder this happened.

If you are this upset because of Hamas attack, imagine how Palestinians feel after years of bullying and abuses.
TLDR: I like Javascript because it is the PL that allows me to get things done in the fastest way. But other than that, I like Go, because of its simplicity. And also like the mindset that functional programming languages like Haskell provide.

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I like Javascript. Not because it is elegant, performant, or a well-designed programming language, to the contrary, it is one of the programming languages that are full of foot guns. I like Javascript because it is one of those PLs where you have no problems with finding the libs you need, can get things done in a very fast & efficient manner (once you know your stuff), and so on.

I try to avoid side effects as much as possible and JS is not the best PL when it comes to it, but the thing is it is elastic enough that you can still write the way you like to work. I can still follow the "functional core imperative shell" mindset, and use the "good parts" [1] of the language.

I also like Go, because of its simplicity. And find the mindset that is provided by functional programming languages interesting.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfo...
A teacher friend of mine always goes through his stack twice. Once to correct all mistakes and a second time to write down points. As you said, once you have seen all mistakes you know how "bad" of a mistake it actually is.
> choice of fictional hill

My bet is that even the starting assumptions are fictional, in order to either (a) self-promote the blog, or (b) draw out heretics, or both.
Has anybody found this link to this study? Or even the title?

I searched the authors in google scholar but I couldn't find it.
Pulling real-world data into this debate opens them up to the argument that there are no female space marines because there are no space marines. Space is inhospitable and marines would not be effective. And that would remind most people that this is pretty low-stakes decision about changing up a fictional setting. The real worry is about messing up real-world friendships made around it, and I think those will survive ok. Growing a community means not giving the loudest whiners a veto.
I for one am glad that I was not born a mosquito, the odds are not in our favor!
I'm not sure how much a +/- 0.3 (out of 100) deviation from average on a single course matters even if you end up dead first/last for both midterm and final in that example. I mean, it will matter sometimes. But it's (by far) not as big a deal as if it happens for all your courses.

Still, yes, you could flip the order from midterm to final instead of randomizing both and the effect goes to more like +/- 0.1 out of 100 for the luckiest and unluckiest.
The “holier than thou” flex is /particularly/ ironic.
There’s a difference between quirky English and incomprehensible English. If someone has poor English but their point is understandable, there’s not much to complain about. This article however falls squarely in the bucket of poor English and possibly proofing inhibiting comprehension. If someone aspires to be a journalist in English as the author claims to be, communication and comprehensible English are critical. It’s not a nitpick - there are plenty of sections where it’s not clear what the author is trying to say like:

> Although iOS is better served with good apps, some Android exclusives are missing.

The broader point here is that this appears to be a very low quality/effort article, and so question was genuine: what am I missing? It clearly resonated with some folks.
In the video from the conference he does say he has a video.

But it was part of a conference and they moved to next speaker.

He does say he has a working model and video. Just isn't in this link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjPi7uZ2OI&t=3696s
I tell my children to do whatever they want.

But I also tell them they'll always have programming skills in their back pocket should they ever need to finance their passions.
I think part of this is about staying up to date. I'm not sure if there's a legal requirement for ongoing training? But I've had the experience of going to an older physician and being told my theory is impossible, based on a hypothesis that was disproven in the early 1970s (incidentally, right after the physician graduated).
It's an interesting idea, a great exercise for people like me who's not good at social networking.
I considered this about halfway down the article, but the conclusion sounds earnest.
I think the point is that some automated systems like Canvas may hide the names, but they're still presented in alphabetical order. Pseudonyms don't help if you don't shuffle them.
Reactionless drives allow for fairly trivial civilization ending kinetic weapons.
I can't help but point out the humor of one being hundreds of years old while the other thousands.

(But yeah, Mediterranean/Europe wasn't at its best in-between...)

Also, postmodern science concepts of relativity and various quantum weirdness not having had an impact on postmodern philosophy (with the incompleteness theorem straddling both) is quite a bold claim.
Sure. Nature also forces me to eat. There are forcing functions everywhere, and if you ignore them, you will die. You have to participate in your own survival on some level.

How you do so is up to you. If you want to start a commune, go for it. If you prefer to work at FAANG, that’s cool too. We are very lucky to find ourselves in a society where we have this choice, and we should be careful about the extent to which we impinge on others’ ability to choose as well

As another poster correctly pointed out, no one is forcing you to specifically support your own survival at Google. People choose to work at Google because of greed and a desire for prestige, and because it is much easier to benefit from what already exists than it is to create something yourself. This is all perfectly rational, but framing the issue in lamentations about “force” and “democracy” is nothing but crocodile tears.

Plus if property taxes and so forth really were the issue, there is already a democratic remedy for the problem. Taxes are instituted by our society democratically, and they can be removed democratically as well. But I suspect that this would not rectify the OP’s concern, because it’s not really about democracy or freedom. Instead it’s about greed and envy for what others have that they do not.
Then there would be inevitably a conscious individual in evolutionary history whose parent is not conscious.
Brother Printers Tried to Scam My Dad
A computer-based system like this is an opportunity to remove all personal details from an assignment while grading it, it baffles me that this isn't the default.

The database could tag every assignment with a UUID4, and present them for grading top-to-bottom in UUID lexical order, without exposing who is being graded in any way.

You can't fix fatigue bias, but this would distribute it randomly. It also removes the opportunity for favoritism and hostility, subconscious or otherwise, which is probably more important.

Once grading is completed, the assignments are reconnected with students. Give the profs a way to mark assignments with metadata, sometimes they need to talk to a student personally about something, this should be made easy.

Grades can't be immutable, professors need discretion in that, but it would leave an audit trail if professors maliciously modified grades (or the opposite). That should be uncommon to begin with, but both professors and students benefit from an audit trail here.

A system like this should be used whenever it's practical, and always for high-stakes tests like midterms and finals. Not making a case against oral exams here, just that when it's possible to blind the grading process, it should be.
I wish I could upvote this more... snaps are the worst!
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 'transforming' from repeated coral bleaching
I'm not closely following the state of async/await in Rust and C++, but from my outside perspective it looks like it resulted in a hot mess in both cases.

Zig's initial async/await solution looked like it would avoid a lot of that mess, but IMHO it's better to not have a feature at all instead of a half-assed feature. So I actually appreciate Zig to focus on other things first if they don't currently have a good plan on how to provide a good async/await implementation that fits the "Zig vision". Personally, it's definitely not anywhere close to the top of my "must have" list for a low level language like Zig.
A .3 point difference isn’t going to make a real difference to anyone’s life and is likely a wash when other yet undiscovered biases are in the mix. Unfairness and bias is a critical factor in driving people to extraordinary achievements.
It served as both, but at the time I definitely saw people referring to it as a Leeroy Jenkins reference. With the fact that can also refer to a butler as a bonus. Though I'm sure some saw it the other way.

It's a kind of pun that programmers like. For example when I asked, Larry Wall said that he named Perl, Perl after he had two acronyms. Namely Practical Extraction and Reporting Language and Perfectly Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
I think it did get added to the NTSC Standards - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NABTS

That said, there were several other competing standards offered at the same time including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_(teletext)

The issue of course - like everything else with standards adoption in the states, the decoder wasn't mandated to be included with TV sets.
I'm not a musician and I'm a Rick Beato fan as well. I especially like his "What Makes This Song Great?" series of videos breaking down how well-known songs are put together.

I think he explains what he's saying in the video, but it takes about 3/4 of the video to get there. When he de-tunes his C-string and plays the chord, it very obviously sounds dissonant. Even to my untrained ear, it sounds bad. When people say, "I've never heard this song before?" what they really mean is that they don't know if the bad sound they are hearing is intentional or not. If you watch a lot of Rick's other videos, you know he has not only a trained ear but also an understanding of chord sequences. Even if he hadn't heard the song before, he would know that a chord sounded bad based on what notes were played before it.

To your last point, Rick's thought is that people /should/ be more sensitive to out-of-tune-with-themselves instruments given how perfectly tuned most commercial music is these days, and that's why he's surprised that people don't hear it (or think that it might be intentional).