skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, I would go back and adjust grades on individual problems from earlier in the stack.

I can very easily notice my own over strictness from early in the stack.
This reminds me of a funny event when in fourth of fifth grate. When the class was supposed to stand in line we always had to sort based on last name. My last name started with Ö (Last letter in alphabet in the Nordics) so I always ended up last. Then one time, the teacher said something like "Let's reverse the order today, but wait, we also sort on the first name". My first name starts with an A so I ended up last in line anyway, much to the joy of everyone :)
This is a proposal to extend Kafka to (better) handle queueing use cases: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...

"For example, a queue is perfect for a situation in which messages are independent work items that can be processed concurrently by a pool of applications, and individually retried or acknowledged as processing completes. This is much easier to achieve using a queue rather than a partitioned topic with a consumer group."
This is the 4D chess kind of move you get when Musk's brain is operating at maximum capacity.
> 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. Likewise, students with later-in-the-alphabet surnames received a 0.3-point lower grade — creating a 0.6-point gap.

The hand-wringing over such a small effect size seems unwarranted. I suspect you would find similar effect sizes for other small interventions, like whether the grading took place during the week or the weekend, or in the morning vs. the evening.
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I work for a company (Lambda Labs) that would span all these categories. We build GPUs and sell them, sending them off to the customer. We also build them and sell them, but then host it for the customer. We also buy them for ourselves and rent them either bare metal or virtualized.

The "build it and ship it to the customer" business is waning. The reason is because even the most deep pocketed customers no longer have data centers that can support the power and cooling needs of current GPUs. The latest from NVIDIA requires liquid cooling, tons of power, and solid floors (the racks are too heavy for raised floors).

Being able to run a modern server is becoming a very niche skill, one that most companies don't want or need to invest in.
Today I'm 99% sure all CBSE board exams (I think equivalent to A-levels?) are randomized heavily. However I did notice the name's alphabetical order effect in school, albeit in a minor way (folks with later letters were less involved in anything a teacher might need a volunteer for).
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IIRC, “do not wash in direct sunlight” applies to all cars. The water evaporates before you can get it off and it leaves spots. [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoDetailing/comments/30q9ko/why_i...
My mom made the critical mistake of marrying from first five letters down to last five letters during the police academy, only later to be released from the "we have to expose you to tear gas so you know how it feels and only use it judiciously" chamber in alphabetical order by last name.

It was 40ish years ago and I still don't think she's forgiven my dad.
That level of skepticism implies skepticism of everything else. If you don't know if I'm conscious, then you don't 'know' anything.

If you can't separate the internal and the external, then what is there to be conscious of? Subject is implied in the concept.
The page itself is typeset in the font: a nice way to see it in action. The only really jarring idiosyncrasy for me is the backwards slash on the zero, instead of a forward slash. I wonder if there's a specific legibility argument for that, or whether one could just reflect the 0 to fix it without losing anything.
There are a lot more similarities between "both sides" than that. They make a big show out of arguing over a small number of things they disagree on. But for many important things, they don't significantly differ.

The two parties do not significantly differ on indefinite detention of American citizens on US soil.

The two parties do not significantly differ on domestic spying, dragnet-style data collection and warrantless wiretapping.

The two parties do not significantly differ on allowing extra-judicial targeted killings.

The two parties do not significantly differ on the use of unmanned drones, either for combat or domestic surveillance.

The two parties both support pre-emptive "cyber" war and non-defensive hacking.

The two parties do not significantly differ on their support for continuing the War On Terror.

The two parties both support maintaining US military bases around the world.

The two parties do not significantly differ on favoring Keynesian economics.

The two parties support delegating monetary policy decisions to the Federal Reserve, including support for quantitative easing.

The two parties do not significantly differ on their use of earmarks and pork barrel spending.

Neither of the two parties have (recently) proposed plans for balancing the budget.

Neither of the two parties plans to significantly cut defense spending.

The two parties both favor taxpayer-funded foreign aid.

The two parties are largely backed by the same corporate sponsors and special interest groups, with a few key differences.

The two parties both backed TARP and in general favor bailing out companies too big to fail.

The two parties do not significantly differ on their general support of "economic stimulus" as a tool to prop up the economy.

The two parties do not significantly differ on their support for and allegiance to Israel.

The two parties both favor and continue sanctions on Iran.

The two parties do not significantly differ on their use of super PAC funding and their support of unlimited spending from corporations and special interest groups.

The two parties do not significantly differ on their use of gerrymandering to gain political advantage.

The two parties oppose any measures that would strengthen the viability of a third party.
I started learning zig to build electrobun a couple months ago [1].

It’s very much like low level go and feels like home for people with Typescript experience.

Even with all the little quirks and gaps, it’s my new fav language.

The other day I ported a c implementation of bsdiff to zig and was able to make it go 20% faster and compress patches 10% smaller.

Very excited for the future of zig. The stated mission of replacing c and mindset of the people building it align well with how I think. Can’t wait to update to 0.12.0 when I’m back at my laptop.

[1] https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun
> The article then launches into recommendations about requirements gathering and writing down your thoughts (functional specs anyone?) which kind-of sounds a little bit like the waterfall method to me. I believe the waterfall method has a bad reputation for overengineered and overcomplicated solutions. We have come full circle, again!

That's not really waterfall, it's just normal analysis and design.

The trick is to identify when you have enough domain knowledge that the analysis and design time is valuable/optimal, or to identify that you don't have enough domain knowledge and need to iterate to gain the knowledge.
There are very few substances with noticeable effects on the human body in microgram doses, not to mention the ability to cross the skin barrier. I think there is just maybe a dozen known toxins able to kill an adult in a dose below 1 milligram. I am not sure for those toxins the effective dosage was even widely known as cautionary tale, back then.
The following comment suggests a target of 0.1 lb per week, only eating if one weighs less. Not sure how often meals would be skipped, though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200900
Seeing as Neon, Nile, Citus, etc. are all open source, I highly doubt it. But who knows. In the end, most license changes are blown out of proportion by a vocal minority and largely have zero effect on 99.9% of users.
Disagree with most points. This seems like another "hyper-productivity" driven blog post that is so common nowadays. If you don't grind 10h and have a clear career path, you are a failure. Couldn't disagree more.

- Have good sleep habits. Sleeping 4-6 hours per day because of "productivity" is not cool.

- Don't be obsessed with "productivity" and "efficiency". It's okay to take days off and relax.

- Which leads to... Prioritize your mental and body health.

- Career path? Big aspirations? Nothing in life is promised except death; don't forget to enjoy every day. Build habits that you truly enjoy doing every day.

- Take care of your family and friends. Don't see people as a "network" to use for your own benefit. Love and be loved as a genuine human.

- Absolutely do write blogs and do some public speaking because you enjoy it, but not to clickbait people into buying your motivational courses.

In summary, find balance and true happiness for yourself. This post was sad to read.
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How is comparing the number of Muslim nobel prize winners to that of Trinity Collage[1] a thoughtful criticism of Islam? How is sharing a silly video meme[2] (irony intended) of nonsensical comparison between Muslims and feminists thoughtful criticism?

Recently he even tweeted about the cultural importance of Christianity while continuing to attack Islam. He had been careful about this in the past, claiming to attack all religion equally.

His anti-religious views are at odds with the scientific consensus around culture, which is very ironic coming from the scientist that first described the meme. And the fact that he attacks Muslim culture more then others seems to suggest that he has a problem with Muslim people rather then the Islamic religion.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/richar...

2: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-vd...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092886
Learning I was low conscientious was super helpful for my programming career. It explained why I was okay taking big risks which was helpful for my career, but where I needed to spend extra time on unit testing, functional testing, feature flagging etc, since I'm prone to making production incidents.

Also no to-do app in the world works for me, I wish I could make it work and get myself organized.
Probably what’s needed is regulation, to control their pricing and ability to accept or deny customers. They’re basically a utility.
Hyperbole; "nobody" means an insignificant amount of people.
Again, if only the world were as simple as your reasoning ability. Removing two apps from the app store doesn’t exactly qualify as evil. China’s lack of free speech may be, but that existed before Apple and will continue to do so no matter what Apple does.

It’s neither ethical nor unethical, nor is it a corporation’s job to decide whether it is. That’s the role of government.

A system in which corporations can simply decide which laws they comply with would be totally broken, and so to not comply with the law is itself unethical. Apple made the ethical choice. I think our congress’s potential banning of TikTok is unethical, I don’t think Apple and Google will be when they comply.

What would you have them do? Sacrifice a trillion dollar business in token protest? You’re just a keyboard warrior with no point at all who would make the same choice and justify it the same way you imagine I do if you were ever in the position they are.

For the first time in 18 years I wish this site had a block feature. People like you ruin the internet. You can have the last word if you like, it won’t be worth reading Im sure, so I’m done with you. GFY.
not very good compared to what? Hard to reconcile your comment with its outsize performance on arena/glowing praise from others comparing it to much larger models.
Yeah. I've been considering something like `git bisect-find start 14d` as people often have some sort of notion for how long something was likely to fly under the radar. If it is an obvious bug maybe a few days, if it is subtle maybe start by jumping back a month.
what about something like this? two minipcie slots which i suppose you could put two cellular modems into. not sure what OS it runs though but presumably some flavor of linux.

https://mikrotik.com/product/rbm33g#fndtn-specifications

maybe someone could make one that uses an RPi compute module instead.
As far as I know even now it's the same for government universities (eg Delhi/Mumbai Uni). But private unis may just have a few/one profs grade everything.
I remember particularly adoring the art style at the time, possibly because it was so different from the other games at the time. Especially the clouds.
Physicians are required to complete a certain number of hours of continuing medical education every year. These are training courses (online or in person) which have to meet at least some minimal quality standards; it's not just showing up at a conference. But whether they actually keep their skills current or just check the boxes depends on the individual.
I absolutely observed my own biases and created techniques to mitigate... a few that come to mind

1. Grade problem by problem. This actually makes grading sooo much easier on your own mind

2. Take a second pass to look for outliers in consistency

3. When possible, craft problems that can be automatically graded for correctness. This leaves more time for commentary on the quality of the solution

(I taught computer science, which lends itself to some of this)

The harder bias to handle is the one you develop for students one way or another through the course of a semester or course. Perceived effort shifts grades
That's an extremely common opinion on the internet. But I don't get it. If a 12 week bootcamp is "at least as good" as a 156 week bachelors degree, then what are people learning the remaining 144 weeks of college? I feel like my first 12 weeks of college were worse than a bootcamp - I was working from dusk till dawn having a nervous breakdown trying to keep up. And there were plenty of hard quarters after that. Calculus, Linear Algebra, C++, Differential Equations, Discrete control systems, Numerical analysis, having to make a weather simulation with navier-stokes equations in MATLAB, having to make a room mapping roomba out of a microcontroller and some bump switches. I could go on and on but college was hard AF for me. Jobs have felt like a breeze in comparison. Maybe it was all waste of time, and I should have gone straight into job experience. I'm genuinely saying that, not sarcasm. I just don't know.
Google workers protest China contract.

Sentiment of top comments : 'If you work at Google and you have participated in this protest: Thank you.'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776276

Google workers protest Israel contract.

'If the company continues cleaning house and gets back to their mission then maybe there's still hope for them.'

Hmmm... Something is amiss.

Protest china, thank you.

Protest israel, you deserved to be fired.
> Plenty of us here aren't American and find it tedious when Americans online try to pull us into their sphere of regressive politics.

Why do you assume I'm American because I referenced FOX? They're a multinational media corporation, arguably they do more damage abroad than they do in America (looking at you, Murdoch).

> Preferring that the information be wiped from the internet is an immature and low trust perspective.

And yet, you persist with an alt account. Maybe you prefer keeping certain information secret more than they do. Now that's fascinating.
> The advisor said that "it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours."

Wow. Also, what is a “car wash mode”? Why is that even needed? The only thing my car manual said is to turn off automatic wipers, which is no different than many gas cars.
Small anecdote; I knew someone who used to call that the “Hurry Coward Correspondence”, which is what I usually call it now.
My CS school implemented OCR test sheets, with some exceptions, and equivalent strategies, such as test suites and benchmarks for programming assignments. This was done to avoid subjective grading, as it was a big issue even in well-intentioned cases.

Often, you still get big problems, but the set of solutions is small. It's always three options plus a fourth option (none / all). If you make a mistake you score negative points. It's not perfect, sometimes wording is ambiguous and it's unclear whether you need to tick the fourth catch-all option, but I found it better than the alternatives as it removes most arbitrariness from the process, but obviously has other issues.

Regular exams often had wildly different grading standards for the same course depending on the class, and thus on the professor who was correcting exams. This was really annoying.
8B llamafile when? :^)
Yeah I uses to have these but currently don’t
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This response is kind of funny but it actually really highlights the wrong way to think about these things as well. The suggestion isn't to have a career in medicine it is to get your boots on the ground. You have to find a clever way to get a vast amount of hands on experience quickly. For lawyers the equivalent won't be going to law school it might be doing transcription or office tasks or secure courier work or being an EA or volunteering at the DA office or some other clever hack.
So if I communicate with a non-US citizen, I effectively forfeit my right to privacy? Am I understand this correctly?
Company Discord of a client. My name is among the top.

It's a remote job so, being frequently visible in that list can be an advantage.
I have a middle letter and also don't remember this happening much.

We should ask people with later letters if they remember this more.
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Thanks, dangerous in the sense of damaging equipment/starting a fire? (As opposed to say shocking someone)

> Also, there are issues with high voltage DC contactors welding themselves closed in high demand EV situations because they were sized incorrectly or had poor control.

Would this have have made a difference if it were AC? I think AC welding is also a thing.
What I find odd is that I know of a lot of companies looking a moving back to their own hardware.

They are going to need a hell of a lot fewer boxes today than in 2009 (15 years ago)

This is 2009: https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1307/...

I can get a 128 core system today, if I need the density. And that is the thing, density is through the roof, and pricing is roughly the same as 2009.

The same thing has happened to storage performance and (to a degree) scale.

What would have taken a few racks 15 years ago barely fills one today.

30% percent of AWS's revenue is profit. Thats what you're leaving on the table. For a lot of companies (at least the ones that can plan ahead and do basic accounting) that does not make sense. Even more so when lending is tight and every dollar counts.
Not here. The whole history of the moves fit in a context window of 8k. No RAG necessary.
We are in total agreement. I was illustrating my point that a unicycle rider avoids flipping because they never use the full braking power (lock up the wheel). The gyroscope controller won't let you - you can only brake as hard as you can counterforce (throw your entire body weight hard backwards). As soon as the gyroscope senses a change in angle, the P.I.D. motor controller compensates.
Most modern panels seem to be rated for a system voltage of up to 1500V; i.e., you're allows to connect enough in series to get up to but not beyond, as long as your MPPT can cope.

And yeah, 1kV target is practical, you could run a triple half bridge inverter from that into a motor with enough stray inductance to smooth the PWM into pure sine, yeah. It can do the MPPT task at the same time, btw.
I see how the problem maps onto this. It seems like the main issue in the original problem is that you have a fixed number of eggs. But for git bisect-find there are unlimited eggs, but we want to use as few as possible.

It is also quite different because there is a bias that most targets are probably sooner. If you have a 10 year old repo it is more likely that an obvious bug is in the last month than the first month. (Otherwise the optimal would always just be to test the first commit and then assuming that it is good just bisect from there).
When I was a TA I always did a second pass to make sure everything was even. It’s not that hard.
While their description claims that there is no reaction mass pushing on, this does not mean that it is the correct explanation if their device would work.

The device might not work far from the Earth, but only in the neighbourhood of other bodies, due to some kind of interaction with them.

Moreover, while around the beginning of the 20th century it has become fashionable to rebrand what was called previously "aether" as "vacuum", this change of name has been just a useless cosmetic change.

The mathematical description of vacuum has remained the same as that of the aether as conceived by Maxwell and the other physicists who opposed the theories based on action at a distance, i.e. the vacuum is something that mediates the interaction between bodies. Regardless whether it is called aether, vacuum or electromagnetic field, in most theories it is endowed with properties like energy and momentum.

So it could happen that there would be a way for a device to push on the ubiquitous electromagnetic field.

This device may be a hoax or a honest mistake, but the current theories of physics are much farther from being completed than most people believe.

Much of the physics taught in school is full of junk that is more definitely wrong than the claims of this patent.

For example, the so-called Lorentz force, which is taught as the way how the electromagnetic interaction happens, does not satisfy Newton's law of action and reaction, so it also does not push on what it should push. (When the Lorentz force is integrated over closed loops, it gives correct total results, but when the forces that act on parts of the circuits are computed, the actions and reactions are not equal.)

Only the Ampere force, which nobody learns, has a form that is compatible with Newton's laws.
Does that actually work or is it just a candidate doing a joke or "well there's always that one in a million chance"
In California the people with enough money to buy oceanfront homes are, unsurprisingly, expert in working the system.

Their efforts proceed along two fronts:

1. Subverting the Coastal Act through endless lobbying and litigation, to allow private or public artificial barriers against the sea.

2. Promoting replacement-sand dredging projects, sold as "beach replenishment" and charged to the public treasury, of course.
There is no genocide.
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I hate how much I love this worthlessly picky comment
It's the first time I can ever remember on a contested vote where both the two Democratic Senators from my current bluer than blue state voted the same (nay) as the two Republican Senators from my former redder than red state. Strange bedfellows in interesting times.
DC arcs don’t self extinguish like AC ones do, because there is no zero-voltage crossing phase point. For a given voltage, it makes DC much harder on relays, and DC relays are more expensive and harder to produce.

This is true even though AC peak voltage is quite a bit higher than the RMS AC voltage. 170V for ‘120V AC’ for instance.