skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting rid of grading sounds crazy, but it's actually happening. Los Angeles Unified, the second largest school district in America, is moving to "equitable grading", which amounts (imo) to pass/fail with extra pageantry. Teachers are being retrained _right now_ to equitable grading.

I know an equitable grading champion at an LAUSD school, I'll see if I can get material to share. EDIT: I just received [0][1][2][3].

[0] (5 page pdf) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YO7SQEwisAbHHi6mfgj7XU9FcSB...

[1] (4m30s video) https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eWor4uhSxR8ZITA1w3kzqhTOX0...

[2] (audio interview) https://www.bamradionetwork.com/track/fair-grades-dropping-g...

[3] (article) https://ascd.org/el/articles/taking-the-stress-out-of-gradin...
I did some real estate deals with guys from wealthy families a long time ago. We failed but the difference in consequences was enormous. I lost my savings of 10 years and struggled getting out of the situation. The other guys got bailed out by dad, did more deals and are now very successful business people.
Fil-C has a concurrent GC. It doesn’t stop your program, ever.

If your C code doesn’t dynamically allocate then it won’t create any GC load in Fil-C.
Bad luck, there just happens to be no prime number for a long time. The new prime exponent p is 136M, the old largest one was around 82M. So the overall effort to get from 82 to 136 was around 1.75 times the effort it took from 0 to 82 [calculated as (136/82)^2-1]. So it was more effort to find the 52nd than it was to find all 51 before.
See here for the relatively unusual large gap: https://www.mersenne.org/primenet/
I think it is valid to point of feasibility of something. For fast prototyping there are already breadboards or PCBs that you can just solder wires on, so it doesn't really help with tracing PCB lines. Printing transistors or other things that are good and compact enough to use, even for prototyping, seems to be indeed a stretch
Yeah, it now saves your chat history.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7260999-how-do-i-export-...
It's not the case that Bell etc. were simply overlooked: the whole question of experimental tests of interpretations of quantum mechanics was actively stigmatised and avoided by physicists until well into the '70s, at least. Clauser couldn't get a job in the area. https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508180
I have seen old organs which used solid state VCOs that also had an incandescent lightbulb near the circuit boards to help maintain a stable temperature, and had thought they must use a thermistor although I seem to be mistaken as I can't find much information about that.

I did find this however:

https://northcoastsynthesis.com/news/temperature-compensatio...
That's fine, but suppose you wanted to swap out loggers (or add an extra logger target) at runtime. Maybe someone wants transiently hooks in an observer by logging into a webpage that shoots the logs at that users browser. I don't know enough Haskell (and it's hard enough to read) that I can't tell if this code can deal with that case.
Modern social media has beaten the idea of any nuance out of its consumers. I think it's very challenging for younger people today to understand satire and subtext, even the very concept of a thought experiment. When one's primary mode interaction with the world is short thoughts that are designed for maximum engagement and outrage, there's no room for subtlety. There has been a ratcheting effect of social discourse, and one who dares defy the orthodox positions, even to positions that were not controversial 10 years ago, draws the wrath of legions of anonymous mobs. Ultimately, people are rewarded for increasingly polarized discourse and disincentivized from moderation and especially from challenging thoughts. It's no wonder people are incapable of anything but taking something like Starship Troopers at face value.
There are a lot more details available now worth discussing. This thread shouldn't be deprioritized as dupe, it isn't.
Well... who won and who lost the war?
No doubt about it, the widespread problem is having non-leaders in leadership positions.

The underlying defect is a system which allows absolutely poor performers to advance based on an overwhelming focus on greed and ambition for power.

When it has become more popularly acceptable to allow it to become so.

The most unsuitable candidates for leading people are what the mainstream finds acceptable or even desirable once the culture shift swings this far.

With either a reduced number of key positions that can afford to be occupied by a dud (or worse), or an increased number of limited-ability competitors prevailing on the basis of their dedication to leveraging greed and even treachery, the kind of leader that's really needed is less likely to advance from entry-level at all.

What would really help would be a culture that inhibits those unsuitable individuals from arising toward those limited number of key positions to begin with.
Serious question to any teachers: are any schools embracing LLMs and teaching classes on how to use them and make or tune a model? I see lots of pearl clutching and usually the solution is to learn about the thing people are scared of, is that even happening?
how useful will a 2024 era model be in 2030?

2040? 2050?
Quantum breakthrough: Researchers unlock door to unhackable tech using light
What? I don’t write a check to Google to use their email. It’s free.
If you want to dismiss an argument, maybe do the math instead of saying "do the math" dismissively and inventing an arbitrary number without even saying across how much time that estimate is supposed to be (one in a billion, what, instantaneously? In the first hour?)
Those per-request models usually don’t pan out well. They’re conceptually simple, but you soon realize that you need at least a couple of 24/7 always on boxes and that you only really should use Cloud Run-like services for burstable workloads.

PaaS services or even VM scaling sets with volatile instances can still be stupefyingly cheaper, but that point is really hard to make to architecture astronauts.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759133 :

> In addition to nanolithography and nanoassembly, there is 3d printing with graphene.

And conductive aerogels, and carbon nanotube production at scale

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41210021 :

> There's already conductive graphene 3d printing filament (and far less conductive graphene). Looks like 0.8ohm*cm may be the least resistive graphene filament available: https://www.google.com/search?q=graphene+3d+printer+filament...

> Are there yet CNT or Twisted SWCNT Twisted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube substitutes for copper wiring?

Aren't there carbon nanotube superconducting cables?

Instead of copper, there are plastic waveguides
> taxes are how you don't have inflation.

or you know, don't print trillions to bail out failed banks.
Yes, I agree, and it’s also bothered me since they moved the power button to the side. I assume it was one of those things Steve Jobs fought against and they moved it as soon as he was gone because it looks cleaner, however there’s also an argument that as the screens got taller, it became harder to reach it.

You can’t get used to it by holding the opposite side of the phone off center, but it’s still too easy to accidentally press the wrong button.
That's technically correct, but an infectious person can infect another person over a vector (i.e. mosquitos).

So you get rid of mosquitos OR rid of malaria.
The specific example isn't important.

The point is that our agreement is merely the result of there being no other conclusion as far as we are aware, and to expand our awareness we must be skeptical of our conclusions in perpetuity.

This is why trusting science is insane, because if you trust something you stop questioning it and if you stop questioning then you never know if it's true or false.

>Science, by Popper's definition, is something that can be falsified but has not yet been so. If no evidence could contradict our current findings then, by definition, our current findings are not falsifiable.

I'm going to ignore that you just defined "current findings" as not science, since I presume that wasn't what you intended.
Family is easier, but you can also build up a support network with close friendships too. It doesn't necessarily come for free, but it's certainly possible. That isn't to say it's equal, especially when it comes to money.
Product management's job is not to explain engineering. Engineering does not work for product management. Product's job is to figure out what to build by working with all stakeholders and customer input.
Emacs Lisp is pleasant after hash-table and list libraries and plenty of macros
AI Support in Theia IDE: The First Open, Transparent AI-Enhanced IDE
It's not that skills prevents starting a company, it's the amount of risk & uncertainty people are happy to live with.
Programmers like predictability because what you'd do if your compiler gave a different result every time you compile your code?

A rational person getting a 300K salary would be better off on average than a small business owner after 5 years.

Sales people are paid a high percentage of the deal they close because they need to produce a consistent result in inconsistent environment. Also businesses can easily measure the output of a sales person, but it's way harder to measure a programmers output in a larger team.
The naming of this is so deceptive. It's not a taxi - it can't take you from point A to point B unless either of those places has a landing area (helipad).
Yes it's a valuable service but we should also be aware that it puts more and more weight on written language and less weight on spoken language. Being able to write clearly is one thing, but being able to converse verbally with another individual is another entirely, and both have value.

With students, historically we have always assumed that written communication was the more challenging skill and our tests were arranged thusly. But we're in a new place now where the inability to verbally converse is a real hurdle to overcome. Maybe we should rethink how we teach and test.
Since the announcement a week ago I've started contributing to the project myself. It's fun!
Nation's first commercial carbon sequestration plant is in Illinois. It leaks
I've been going for a comp sci degree for the fun of it lately (never had the chance out of high school) and I've done this for different courses. Typically for big items like course final projects or for assignments it's mentioned are particularly difficult/high stakes.
Profiting From (Some) Failure: Basket of options versus option on a basket
I have a single VM for my personal stuff, but I use Azure’s backup and automated fail-over mechanisms as well as managed services for database and data processing for this very reason.
> Tight coupling is the basis of oop. A method is tied to an instance. Methods cannot be composed with other methods or functions without instantiating state. Methods cannot be moved into other scope.

> The literal definition of an object is a tightly bound set of methods that cannot ever be used without instantiating state.

That is the nonsensical point I responded too, you're bringing up an actual bigger debate that's out of scope.
the ai companies should have had the foresight to guide educators given the hassle they unleashed on them.
that looks so cool! can i know your github if you dont mind?
I/P not IP, as in Israel/Palestine.
Even internally: "Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned"

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/14/linkedin_abandons_mig...
Speeding up does not work, that'll just put it in a higher orbit. My understanding of these issues is that introduced eccentricity gets you: if it takes the "inside corner" (is that the English word for binnenbocht/innenkurve?) around the earth, it could then then meet you on the other side where the orbits intersect. If it sped up (flying out of the corner, in this race analogy) and thereby took a longer way around, it'd rather be a danger to those immediately behind (with each orbit, progressively further back along the circular orbital path)

Disclaimer: this comes from playing a self-made orbital mechanics game, I have no training whatsoever let alone professional experience with this
Not really, the Gyros described in the post are also essential. If you don’t know the attitude of the vehicle, you can’t point the engines in the direction your control algorithm says you should to hit the target.

Edit: I think I misunderstood the comment. Yes, you can use the absolute methods for rough guidance and then use relative positioning for the final approach. The article has a line about why the author doesn’t think that’s likely though.
Using Protocol Buffers in JavaScript: Efficient Binary Format
I'm a big proponent of appengine/heroku and similar platforms for small startups.

You can almost certainly fit all your business logic into one or two appengine apps, and fit all your data into one database. While you have just a few programmers, the fact they're all sharing a process with eachother won't matter.

The goal is working product and paying customers ASAP, not a nicely architected microservices backend 2 years from now.

Yes, it'll end up being a mess when the company has pivoted and changed directions a bunch of times, and when you finally come to get to 50M users+ scale you'll probably have to rewrite from scratch. But by then, you ought to be rewriting from scratch, because you won't know the true requirements till you get to that scale.
I'm kind of sad for the people that didn't get to experience the magic of book encyclopedia -> encyclopedia on CD-ROM -> Wikipedia.

It was a lot of amazing change to live through! (Cue grade school teachers reminding students that Wikipedia isn't a valid source)
Yeah, but where would you store state? The hyperscalers give you pretty reasonable durable storage (even datalakes). Most people don’t get storage tiering or using PaaS for workers, though.
3000 rpm would also be good for normal aircraft, and incidentally, centrifugal pumps, assuming the torque is good enough
I always fancied that they might be debating philosophical points or maybe even offering up "tweets" of wisdom. Owl: "In order to understand the very nature of the mind itself, one must earnestly seek to find the answer to this riddle: WHOoooooooo?!"
I am here to learn. You can help me by educating me. I do mean it sincerely. If you think you have a grasp on the subject, I think HN as a whole could benefit from your expertise.
This sounds like "they're successful because it's easy for them."
Skeptical readers will note that this trivial approach blocks one type of Google’s ads, but not every type of Google ads. And that’s certainly true.

And then proceeds to sweep it under some nostalgy. Nice try ;)

To learn what something is about, learn what it does to money. Subj does good to money, so it is for that. Extension security is a lateral positive effect used for marketing. If it was important, MV2 would get upgraded soon after or even before its release.

They didn’t care for all these years, only now it crossed their mind. Sure, sure. And they won’t include the most important project on the web into the standard suite. “No, it’s for everyone, we can’t make exceptions and we’ll remove the page access functionality for other browsers cause that’s uhm… un… unsustainable! Such an accident, ad blocking was so good.”.

That’s a quantum law of bigcorps, there’s nothing under the money layer. Everything beyond money is just an interpretation and a side effect.
790 + reviews in the first hour it was available (to me) on Steam.
If you get your MBA at Emory University, you learn about the New Coke fiasco. In a building named after Roberto C. Goizueta. The Coke executive responsible for New Coke. I suspect the irony is often lost on the latest cadre of MBA grads.
Right but that’s just digital infrastructure, and of course that will have positive side effects, no matter what role AI has in the future. Rail otoh is the infrastructure.
The examples in the proposal already look like a completely new language. And yes, one that is significantly less readable than C++.
Already switched to Safari a while ago over this decision by Google. You know that the privacy stuff works because third party Javascript only sometimes does lol. No longer just the best browser to download Chrome with...
I wouldn't state that unequivocally. I think for many people, homelessness (really, the pain, shame, and indignity associated with it) is worse than a "glorious" or meaningful death. Certainly, many people's actions show this to be true, if you believe to the idea of revealed preferences.
No, but if you have backups and DR set up, most hyperscalers will just automatically move your workload someplace else upon failure within minutes (state management complexity notwithstanding—you need to architect for that).
I use tailscale and dns authorized letsencrypt certs for "internal" services and it has worked pretty well.
You can't divorce the law that's on the books from the organs that enforce it. Any legal theorist will tell you that. Any lawyer will tell you that, and if you were ever involved in serious litigation you know.
OO was created for a reason.

Before OO, you had these data structures, and they got passed around between functions. Well-designed data structures were not just a random collection of items - they had a relationship between the elements. And you kept finding structures that were in an invalid state - the relationship among the elements had been broken. Well, who did that? You couldn't tell. It could have been any function anywhere in the code that took the structure.

With OO, you could have a very small set of functions that could change the structure. If the constraints got broken, you had a very small footprint to look at to see how it could have happened. That was the OO advantage.

And this advantage did not go away with multiple programmers. In fact, it increased. If you had a class that you "owned", some other new (or incompetent) programmer could not break your code without changing that class's code. You didn't have to rely on everyone else always doing the right thing with your structure.

Note that this advantage is orthogonal to inheritance vs. non-inheritance.
>Software is eating the world, and it's only just getting started.

More like software is eating software now. I don't think anyone is prepared for the fact that practically all junior/midlevel SWE roles are going to be automated away in the next couple years. We'll look back at the last 20 years as a golden age similar to the 20th century postwar period of manufacturing jobs in the US.
>What I am claiming is that the universities in question ended up with a proctoring product that was more likely to produce false positives for students with darker skin colors, and did not apply sufficient human review and/or giving people the benefit of the doubt to cancel out those effects.

The issue is that, for most people, the term "racism" connotes a moral failing comparable to the secret agendas, fear and hatred, etc. Specifically, an immoral act motivated by a deliberately applied, irrational prejudice.

Using it to refer to this sort of "disparate impact" is at best needlessly vague, and at worst a deliberate conflation known to be useful to (and used by) the "super-woke Ibram X Kendi" types - equivocating (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy) in order to attach the spectre of moral outrage to a problem not caused by any kind of malice.

If you're interested in whether someone might have a legal case, you should be discussing that in an appropriate forum - not with lay language among laypeople.
I don't know if this helps, but Gwynne Shotwell is the President and COO of SpaceX. She's overseen some of their biggest achievements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell#SpaceX
Civil liability isn't determined by the "gov't" it's determined by a jury of your peers. More interesting to me is how you came to the impression that you had any idea what you were talking about to the point you felt justified in making your post.
The vast majority of money is not physical, by likely 2 orders of magnitude, so you cannot touch it. It's a value in a ledger that can be moved electronically (or copied by hand).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
If I hadn't already taken so much PTO this year, I probably would have taken today off just to play this.

It's gonna be a loooooong work day.

BTW, while Factorio (and its expansion) will likely never go on sale, if you're a Humble Choice subscriber, you can still get 20% off. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/factorio-space-age
no

if it remains in GEO orbit (same speed vector), it will remain in same "place" relative to other satellites, and won't ever hit them

if it changes speed vector, it's no longer in GEO orbit
Related:

Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707418
Dr Doolittle on corvids would be easy.

1. Train crows to push a touchscreen for reward of food.

2. Next set up two touchscreens back to back. Make it so touching one screen only dispenses food on the other side.

3. Next make it so food is dispensed on the other side only one crow is perched at each terminal.

4. Next make it so food is only dispensed after a crow says something to the other crow on the other side.

5. Next display a picture on one terminal and give the other crow the choice of four quadrants. The food is dispensed if the picture on the far side matches the displayed picture.

6. Start decoding words.
The solution is to gleefully disrupt these people. They can't keep doors on airplanes.
At the moment I can trace every action of every user on every machine, all from one platform that alerts me if anything abnormal happens.

As an administrator of around 10,000 servers and devices, I have never had this ability before.

I am sure there are better products out there, but this is what the company purchased, and the visibility it has given us into our organization has been a game changer for us.

I apologize for not hating it just because it is Microsoft.
Try putting one window on the left half and one on the right half. There will be a pixel gap between them in the center and one on the top between the window and the top bar. 1 does not equal 0
Once you have an online class with no proctored exams (or even biometric ID check) you don't know who took the class anyway. Frankly, that makes any "online degree" certification basically worthless without a proctored exit exam. That doesn't mean the education or study aren't valuable, they are to whoever is actually doing it.

I didn't realize that so many community colleges and state universities were basically online diploma mills.
Is 3% supposed to be significant? Or did you mean 4 Turbo and 4o mini?
Obama wasn't necessarily anti-gay marriage, but like most liberals at the time (and like liberals for most issues), was sitting somewhere in the middle. He was in support of civil unions which would grant legal rights to gay partnerships but would leave the labeling of it as a marriage up to the states. A sort of "separate but equal" application to marriages. Did he actually believe this in his heart? Who knows, but that's what he said and did as a politician. It almost doesn't even matter what candidates say, they are looking to sway voters and donors, not actually make policies. You really just have to wait until a president's second term for progress to happen.

The slow march of progress has to navigate what is politically acceptable for most people of the time these changes take place in. Obama put in two of the justices that granted gay marriage rights during his first term.
It's what OpenAI does. They have a small safety model checking on the big model.
IEA Says Oil Demand Growth Weakness to Continue on China and EVs
In a pass/fail system, what does a student need to do for a teacher to be willing to fail them? What is the minimum bar to pass?
Vietnamese mothers' experiences with potty training for kids from birth to 2 yrs