skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author prefers to believe that it was poor instruction. The implication is that because they were willing to show up for a 7:30am lecture, they were capable of making it.

On the one hand, the author is on to something. Most people learn much better with intensive, one-to-one instruction than with large lectures. The real issue, as with all educational programs, is the cost in time and money to teach. More personalized, intensive training from more specialists in teaching a specialized subject simply costs more to get the to the same goals as bulk lectures. Nobody wants to say "There was a very rational cost-benefit analysis and I lost out". Instead, it's all framed as a need to dedicate more time and money at an already demonstrably drawn-out and expensive process.

On the other hand, a person's ability and willingness to show up at 7:30am are probably irrelevant. No matter how relevant it feels to a person who wants to show their dedication, passion, and drive.
Yes, of course they have, but I guess I just discount that more when it's "I want tax breaks for the wealthy like me". It's regular old self-interest on their part. Some of the stuff he's on about... it's much broader (and nastier, IMO) than that, and since he bought Twitter, he gets to broadcast it far and wide so that people are sure to have seen or heard about it. As opposed to having dinner with his congressperson or more traditional ways the wealthy might lean on things.
Researcher, I don’t know if they published anything on the topic.

As to the 60 fold difference, I’m not sure if you realize just how vast the difference in healthcare systems are worldwide. Chad for example has 1/60th the doctors per person as the US, how many colonoscopies do you expect they preform per year?
I’m a musician, not anywhere as good as Beato, and I can hear out on tune instruments quickly. I saw the Smashing Pumpkins back in 94 and could instantly hear that they were out of tune. After the first song one of them switched out their instrument and it was fixed.
US surveillance program (briefly?) lapses amid congressional dysfunction
Do you think it’s good or bad for Rust that they got builtin async semantics this late in their lifecycle, after multiple people have already contributed competing and incompatible asynchrony APIs? Have you paid any attention to the state of industrial asynchronous programming in C++?

I can see arguing to omit it entirely from a language, and to never introduce it, but clearly the Zig authors intend to include it.
But think of all the value you generated for the shareholders!
> Desktop Destroying Screensaves.

There is a guy on YT who does these mini-anime (multi episode) of stick figures fighting each other. The opening sequence happens on a PC desktop against a virus. It is just amazing and that whole sequence as an animated gif would make a great screen saver. Now if it could be made dynamic so it works on the existing screen (like xmelt) it would be great.

I would actually settle for the original (non dynamic) one. The one thing you would miss is the sound effects which are also great.
Besides going into software instead of academia, I haven't tried to maximize my earning power in any way, and I'm pretty well off. I own a median house with two kids who have a stay at home mom, and we never have to worry about money. I'm minimizing the consequences of not maximizing money because based on my experience and a cursory look at the stats, I don't think the are any for a software developer in the US. The median household income in the US is ~74k. BLS estimates the median software development job pays $132k, so almost 2x median household. The 10th percentile still pays more than median household. Someone who can pass a known-difficult interview like Google's should also have an easier time than average finding a job.

So if you aim to have financial security with a median lifestyle, or even better (e.g. single income), that's easy to do in software. Chasing maximum money is a choice. It seems pretty out of touch when looking at any other job to use "well they need to pay the bills" to excuse behavior in this field.
Not necessarily related, but it’s a fantastic Aussie film nonetheless.
Llama 3 8B seems sad to answer... this is the first model in a long time that has had trouble telling me how much is 3! - (factorial)
I'm sorry -- it's much, much more likely that this guy is wildly wrong than him actually finding 1G reactionless engine thrust. It's bad science to outright declare his stuff to be impossible, but it's not bad science to say that I'm not going to spend time on it until he has demos that are being reproduced by others.

Also, I hope he's wrong. Reactionless drives in space are potential civilization destroyers.
Does this give you 4k? Or are you artificially limited?
My point was that humans are arguably quite successful, their success is due to their neural networks, and their neural networks are spiking (in contrast to the ones used in LLMs).

The spiking might be important, or it might not. (One way to find out!) But we certainly have proof that it can be made to work!
I like Lisps. They just mesh really well with the way I think.
In 1939 there were 111 million people in today's Russian territory, in 1946 - only 97. So literally, yes, every 7th Russian was killed fighting nazis.

By the end of 1939, there was no such state - Poland. There was the Polish nation, but there was no Polish state that exercises its power within its borders. There were Soviet Union and Germany and border between them. And after the end of WWII, Poland was restored. Not just restored, but got about 20% of its current territory from Germany. Only Red army from all the Allies was present and won the battles on this territory. Would you restore a neighbour state and gift it yesterday's German territory filled with the blood of only your soldiers if you just want to conquer it?
Multiple factors at play here.

1) Rubrics are often defined, but the application of the rubric is by a human. Application will shift as the grader gets a sense of the classes understanding.

2) As you get fatigued while grading, you'll make mistakes, and be less tolerant of others. Especially if you're an overworked adjunct or graduate student.

3) There are probably a lot more last names early in the alphabet so weighting is important.

My policy on this when I was a grad student was to publish the rubric, and ask all students to check their grades too.
>> This is straight up fraud and should be treated as such.

They have to cover overhead for that person. In e gineering that adds 30 to 50 percent. I think doctors have additional overhead, like malpractice insurance, and since this is an educational environment more oversight. 2x doesn't seem bad.
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I think that's too dismissive of the their reasons. Migrants just have more flexibility and for good reasons.
You can’t imagine learning much in a few months of full time schooling? Really?
It's a common mistake. So common, in fact, that it has real practical impact on students at the edge who might not otherwise have failed or passed.
Some courses are only graded based on a small number of tests. I actually went to UM and a grade might be something like 30% midterm 60% final 10% homework (obviously different professors have different systems). In that case if you get unlucky just twice on the two tests you basically get the full penalty.
For grading, you could probably just add a mediating factor and throw in test cases that calibrate the factor and then you curve everyone on that factor.

It'd seemingly be more work but would result in averages that are more reasonable to the changes in stress.
Ask HN: Domain registrar that won't block my domain with zero notice?
Hi,

I had a registrar suspend a my very important domain for no good reason and with no warning, and it was hell getting it back online.

I'm now in the market for a premium registrar where they actually contact me and get my side of the story before messing with my business. I've contacted MarkMonitor, Com Laude, and Safenames so far, waiting for a response.

I'm curious what the ballpark cost of this kind of services would be? Also, is there another option that HN recommends?

Thanks
both bash and zsh are orders of magnitude more complex than sh or even ksh
So if some websites say v0d4f0n3.com is the site to go to, that's endorsed by Lloyds?

Have they thought this out?

Does anyone at the FCA read HN? (I think some do.)
GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs
I was there night one, and am going again tonight and can firmly say this was the most immersive and impressive concert experience of my life. The sense of presence of being in that building is amazing, and seeing “the world” react to completely live music (especially on copious amounts of drugs) is magical. I think that’s the part that is hard to convey outside of being there. It can really feel like the world is reacting to music, which makes all those inner music videos you think up while listening (well I do lol) feel possible.
Exactly, I find this argument weak. People can have many interests. I enjoy gardening, photography, reading history, and travel. It turns out those are things you do not get paid for.

Fortunately I also find financial markets interesting enough that the programming problems they present to be engaging. It helps if you have "T shaped skills" as they say, where you can apply your technical skills & domain knowledge.

Most jobs will not be as fun as sitting at home and arguing on the internet, for example.
I mean he claims 40 grams of thrust, that should be so trivial to demonstrate. I'm really surprised there's no video of it in action.
In what way are they potential civilization destroyers?
What's one thing around your business you have trouble finding solutions/ideas?
This isn't universally true. Different tunings have been used in different time periods and locations. The modern standard pitch A440 (A4 at 440Hz) was only defined in 1926. Before that, the "standard" pitch has been as low as 415Hz (baroque pitch) or as high as 465Hz (Chorton pitch).

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch :

> For example, a 1740 tuning fork associated with Handel is pitched at A = 422.5 Hz, while a specimen from 1780 is pitched at A = 409 Hz, about a quarter-tone lower. A tuning fork that belonged to Ludwig van Beethoven around 1800, now in the British Library, is pitched at A = 455.4 Hz, well over a half-tone higher.

Besides the chosen pitch, only in an equal-temperament tuning can a piece of music be transposed to a different key and sound identical. Under different tunings, the ratio between subsequent notes is not always constant so transposing a piece of music to a different key will produce slightly different harmonic intervals.
United Nations agency investigates ransomware attack, data theft
agree it's likely nonsense, but really interested... why are reactionless drives in space civilization destroyers? (I write a bit of science fiction as a hobby and I'm wondering about a story!)
Well it can't be powertripping editors because everyone is equal.
I especially noticed this when grading programming projects, because it is slightly complicated.

I’d either find that:

A bug was really common, got to re-evaluate after the first couple times I see it, apparently it is an easy mistake to make.

Or, I’d find a new bug that was pretty common, but which I didn’t know about at first. Got to update my tests and re-run everybody.

I tended to be really thorough and re-do the whole stack eventually, but it was a real pain. Could have half-assed it of course, but they spend weeks on these things, feel like I owe them honest feedback.

It would tend to lead me to “softer” grading as well, if you are lazy and only check for a couple bugs, you might take a large number of points off for each problem. Finding some problems and punishing them harshly is not very fair for those students that randomly hit the bugs you expect. If you find every bug, you can only take a couple points off per bug without tanking everybody’s score.
I propose one of the following:

1. Keep the present system of grading by alphabetical order

2. Record the order in which the papers are actually graded

When the grading is done, the teacher assigns a point scale (A = 90, B = 80 or whatever) but the computer does a regression fit and removes the bias.
"greatest drug venue imaginable"
Whatever one the teams I work with know well.

I've seen vanilla JS go incredibly far, no typing at all, but it was everyones primary skill so it was easy for them. Same for Python.

Worst thing I've seen is people forcing languages that nobody knows.

My favorite is TypeScript just because its so easy to find engineers who are good with it.
I wonder why Helen Wang chose this as a research topic
Very good points, especially about timing / stage of life.

> track record of success

This is another factor - I didn't work at Facebook or Google and am not a member of the Bank of Mom & Dad, so if I got into investing I'd want to have enough extra time and money built up that I could participate in (or lead) the round and get a number of others involved, rather than being a candidate/applicant asking for funds and help - I'd want to be active in it.

Great points, thanks for sharing!
It’s 0.6% so it would only be if you happened to drop a letter grade as a result. Like 90.5 -> 89.9. And that would have to happen multiple times to significantly affect your GPA.
Notwithstanding the — ludicrous — choice of fictional hill to die on, in both the 40K universe and this one women and men (and, indeed, the intersex and the transex, which are not the same thing, BTW) have essentially the same genes and endocrine systems, hence why the author can accept their wife’s kidney or virtually any other transplantable organ (assuming, very generously, that the author can has a wife).

Additionally, and for the nerds amongst us more importantly, nowhere in the lore — and I started back in the Rogue Trader days — are the gene-seed organs depicted as actually being in either the testicles or immediately surrounding the urethra.
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The result seems pretty intuitive to me. The test is easy to re-run, unless the data have been "lost," which is not mentioned.

Most importantly, none of the researchers is a psychologist or behavioral economist or any kind of "social scientist."
This reminds me of an experience I had of just the opposite: tightly-controlled consistency in writing assessments:

Almost 20 years ago I worked for a standardized test essay grading service. We graded against all sorts of secondary-level rubrics (not AP, who do their own). These would usually be from 9 - 12 grade, from every US state, and evaluating everything from reading comprehension to subject matter-specific assessment. We'd do weeks long jobs of a single test (e.g. Alabama 9th grade reading proficiency). These usually had at least 3 dimensions, and at least 4 points per dimension. We would go through a week or more of training on a rubric, then another week of 'leveling', where a manager would occasionally bring you aside and talk through why that '3' you gave on a dimension should have been a '2'.

By the end of the training, we usually had had enough discussions and encountered enough edge cases to understand the weaknesses/inconsistencies in the rubric (which we had to abide by anyway). Once we were running at full-speed, everything was still double-graded and inconsistent scores were reviewed. Sometimes graders were pulled if they still didn't get the rubric.

It was a simultaneously stimulating and very boring job, and most readers were educators themselves. I wonder how long before it disappears completely.
I would love to hear more of this "no good reason and with no warning".

What are the domains hosting?
Maybe related, or maybe not, but I remember when I was in K-12 school back in the 80s and early 90s, they would always seat us physically in the class front-to-back by last name. So the kids with last names starting with A-D or so would always be in front, and the kids with last names starting with U-Z would be in the back. For every class. I remember this because many of my friends had last names "near" my last name since we were always in close proximity to each other. I vaguely remember, by the time we were in high school, there were definitely more high-achieving kids with A-D last names and definitely more of the troublemakers were U-Z. Was it caused by sitting in closer proximity to the teacher and getting more teacher attention? We'll never know because this wasn't an experiment and there wasn't a control group.
How can you tell if you're a good developer?
I only skimmed the story because it's so padded with fluff, but is his current device around 30 to 40 grams?
Me too, until it's a huge hassle and extremely expensive. I was happy to pay for Netflix, until a bunch of other corporations got involved and made streaming into exactly the problem that streaming fixed... We're back to cable again.
This is why I read HN. Where else would I get exposure to a cult this small, with this much passion for something so obscure. Thank you for bringing a smile to my face and restoring my faith in nerds.
The best results I’ve seen from bootcamp, as someone who has interviewed over 200 such graduates is they act as

1. Talent identifiers. The best bootcamp grad I’ve ever interviewed is now a staff engineer at Uber. He started as a practicing lawyer and hated the hours

2. Finishing school for amateur programmers. The second best grad that I’ve interviewed was an ultima online hacker

The pool of such individuals is small
NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit
It's interesting that mammal lungs are inefficient for the same reason two-stroke piston engines are.
University exams, this probably makes a lot of sense. After all, the exam is the exam and whether a student is well-spoken and actively participates in class shouldn't matter for an exam grade. I'm less convinced that blinded conference proposals are a good idea--an argument I've had with various people. If you know based on past experience that someone will almost certainly hit a home run, I'm less inclined to pick a random person without obvious qualifications for the same topic--although just picking friends of the committee can obviously go too far.
I bought a Tesla before the Diver/sub idiocy. I still have (and honestly love) the car, but I don't think I could buy another in good conscience
Kinetic energy equals velocity squared times mass.

Incidentally, that is another reason this won’t work: It violates conservation of energy.
Well, currently I can also get everything by bycicle or train, as I live close to a train station.

The city close by is just dead. So we are looking for nice rural home outside a vibrant city close to a frequently run train station. Problem is, everyone is doing this nowdays, so hard to find something, that ticks all the boxes. I know my children can handle traffic, I just want to save them from it as much as possible. Fumes and noise are also not exactly healthy either.
One day it will simply stop working. Something will be wrong, and it'll not be spotted. It will come back, but the failures will be a slow cascade of dominoes. Two more years, perhaps one. Will it last the election?
Not everybody wants to spend $$$ on a projector. A 30" LCD can be had for 80 bucks to receive OTA signals.
I owned a Model 3 for 5 years until it got rear-ended and insurance totaled it.

I didn't replace it with another Tesla because of Musk. We instead went with a Ford Mach-E, and are quite happy with the decision.
Along with an interesting story, the Russian-language flyer has fascinating Runglish words, phrasing and grammar.

"Кливланд" (Cleveland) is spelled with "а" at the end, which makes the pronunciation "Cleev-lahnd". The modern version is "Кливленд", which is pronounced almost the same as English.

"Мувис" is just transliterated "Movies". I suppose the movies were new enough that the current words "кино(театр)" (kino(theater)) and "фильм" (film) were not in use within the diaspora.

"От'езд" uses an apostrophe instead of ъ, which is what Ukrainian uses. E.g: "від'їзд".

"Все идем видеть его" sounds odd. Maybe an English-structured sentence written in Russian, or maybe just the grammar of the times.
Isn't a human brain a spiking neural network? And a successful one at that? I didn't say what we can build now is identical to a human brain (...why would anyone say that?), I said we have proof that the concept is viable, because a spiking neural network is literally the thing reading these words right now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

> The term "keming" is sometimes used informally to refer to poor kerning (the letters r and n placed too close together being easily mistaken for the letter m).
Ask your customers.
I’ve worked with 2 fresh bootcamp grads in the past and they were both fantastic. Our bar for hiring entry-level programmers was that they can write syntactically valid code while pairing with a more experienced engineer, ask lots of questions, and are quick learners.

Nobody expects a bootcamp grad to jump directly into engineering entire features from scratch. They do expect this from uni grads but I can tell from personal experience as a fresh-out-of-uni engineer that this is a terrible idea.
A new German fusion startup with a strong approach
I'm Indian (in the US) and I've noticed a vast majority of my Indian friends name their kids Aanav, Aanir or Aanvi etc. some of which aren't even words in any Indian language. Now I probably know why.
For someone that is smarter than me, here’s his patent https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020159603A2/en
It depends on what you are doing and how you are grading. I’d try to not take many points off if an error is somehow “really easy to make,” but that depends on my ability to evaluate the difficulty of mistakes.
A couple of caveats about the article: First, there were only two cases. Second, the article notes: "Based on non-human primate and mouse models, cross-species transmission of CJD is plausible. Due to the challenge of distinguishing sCJDMM1 from CWD without detailed prion protein characterization, it is not possible to definitively rule out CWD in these cases." I'm not a biologist, so if someone knows more please correct me, but I read this to mean that they definitely found CJD in the patients but could not establish the presence of the CWD prion. So they say "is plausible" and "not possible to definitely rule out".

In PA, CWD has been detected in a lot of areas (https://pagame.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/b3c0fd44cc594...) but the prevalence seems low: The dashboard is showing 102,933 CWD samples with 1857 cases of CWD detected. (It's not clear how representative this is, or how the samples were acquired.)
But all the wangs and Xiang and Zhu’s still getting high grades
Unpopular opinion, but I think if you already possess the necessary mathematical knowledge as a foundation, something like a boot camp followed by an internship or apprenticeship would probably be at least as good as what a college education would provide.
I use ditto as my clipboard manger and have a key combination to "purify" the output