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> I don't think in my experience students have changed all that much.

I'm actually somewhat inclined to agree with this. I also started at a community college first, so I got to see a lot of adults trying to do career switches into tech.

Many of them were frankly the same if not worse than many of the young students you see in college today. One could definitely attribute some of that to the fact that they have more responsibilities to handle impacting them, but even just overall demeanor was noticeably worse. I frequently had adults 15-20 years older than me throwing their hands up and asking me to just give them the answers to what were ultimately very simple programming problems.

It was great for me because I took it as an opportunity to reinforce the material we were learning, but I knew I was doing them a disservice, so at some point I would stop enabling the poor behavior.

Honestly, to me the biggest thing impacting everyone is the inundation of information from technology today. I know it sounds cliche, but it's making academics a billion times harder than it needs to be. It's also making it less enjoyable and satisfying, thus people take the shortcut to get the grade they're looking for.
The currents that produce the magnetic field are flowing in liquid metal with nonzero resistivity.
> You are basically putting your head in the sand and goading at people to drag it out for you

Nah. I pretty much agree with what Utah is doing here (though I’d prefer just not mandating it and making the decision as local as it needs to be). OP’s link list looks AI generated. That’s just not a good-faith comment.
I have a few thoughts, so I’m just going to write them out and see where they all go. I went to school in the US, so everything here applies for the US.

- Credentialism isn’t a secret. Students attend university not to learn, but to get a credential. The only way to get said credential is to get good grades, and there are lots of ways to get good grades. When I studied chemical engineering, it was an open secret that everyone was cheating. The professors didn’t care so long as it appeared that you weren’t. People readily took easy classes or sought easy professors. Many people looked to get accommodations that they didn’t need so that tests would be easier. I don’t hate accommodations, I had a few.

- This professor that authored this post is complaining that students don’t have original thoughts. For undergraduates, classes are primarily about competency. Having an original thought is really hard work. You have to have a breadth of knowledge in a field that can’t be attained in an undergraduate course.

- I hate to blame technology. Our phones and computers are some of the most valuable tools that we have. I love to read. My parents went out of their way to make sure that my siblings and I could all read well, and we weren’t allowed to watch television. TikTok is more fun than reading. Phones are more fun than reading. I don’t blame people for using them over reading.

The state of education and reading in America is a travesty. I don’t have any solutions.
A popular T-shirt among computer scientists featured the RSA algorithm, along with the label "WARNING: This shirt is classified as a munition and may not be exported from the United States, or shown to a foreign national."
An open source database (lsm tree)

https://github.com/tidesdb/tidesdb
Discussion (1022 points, 3 days ago, 371 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495617
Over 17M EVs sold in 2024 – Record Year
When was the last time we named a law—informally or otherwise—after someone because they committed a high profile murder and wrote a manifesto about it?
That’s a great insight. I totally agree that early Facebook’s ability to surface actual connections was valuable before it turned into an endless recommendation machine.

The challenge is figuring out how to offer just enough discoverability that doesn't creep users. I like your idea of an opt-in, time-limited, depth-1 search, it keeps things intentional while reducing friction. Definitely something to think about.

Curious: would you see value in a simple "import contacts" option, or do you think that would risk overstepping?
That’s only because they got better at time management.

The average college student has almost a month off in December, nearly 3 months off in the summer, a week off for thanksgiving, a week off for spring break, and almost nothing to do for the first 2 weeks of each semester.

That’s nearly 6 months of nothing but free time.

People are just remembering how stressful it gets at exam time and near the end of the semester when projects are so and forgetting how much free time they had during the rest of the year.
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Is there a site that keeps track of these government abductions? Are you talking about American citizens? Can you name five occurrences within the last 18 months, or whatever you mean by "lately"?
Denying life saving treatment to bolster your bottom line for shareholders is also murder by any other name. If you consider murder as requiring malice aforethought then it certainly fits the bill. Just because someone hides behind legalease does not release them from the moral and ethical corruption. No different than the death penalty this is simply a form of murder society has decided is acceptable.

So then it should be easy to see why a large portion of Americans vocally approved of this. So much so, that the media couldn’t even run enough cover to deaden even half the sound of the cheering.

I don’t know a single person who has gone through, or watched a love one going through horrific health insurance “process” in order to gain life saving care, that wouldn’t want someone to be “paid in kind” for their suffering.

Is “murder someone” just? No. Do I agree that this was how we should’ve approached fixing healthcare? Absolutely not. But there is an interesting moral and ethical dilemma that, much like everything else in life, paints a picture that is not exactly black or white. Many people view healthcare as an inalienable right. You can see how this creates a potentially dangerous high stakes conflict. The proper solution is, of course, to use our legal system to provide safeguards for the most vulnerable health insurance customers. If we focused hard on this, as we should, this entire situation could’ve been completely avoided.
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That is a totally separate question from whether this precedent will directly cause deaths that you and everyone else here will feel bad about. What happens when people internalize that it's not only okay but good to go kill the "bad guys" since the law won't?
I am working on this mobile app that is a cross between karaoke and musical instrument practice. Through playing music for a long time, I realize that playing with a band or with the actual song is important to get a good feel of music, specially for starting musicians. Hence the app. Currently I have Nepali songs up. I am finding it difficult to get more subtitle files or generate them quickly (for lyrics layout). Through this I would want to ask how I can quickly generate lyrics file. I really would appreciate the help.

https://guitaraoke-app.web.app/
The "Markdown" package on PyPI gives you a <1MB (including precompiled .pyc; excluding Pip, which is trivial with the know-how) virtual environment that depends only on the Python runtime. Pandoc is massive overkill if you're only interested in converting one format to one other format.
I sometimes go down this rabbit hole and wonder why people don't use server-side includes to just have Apache or nginx handle a common header / footer or whatnot. Seems like what they were made for. Are they slow or something?
Https://AppGoblin.info

Free online database of all apps and their third party trackers.

I made an Android app that lists the trackers on your phone.

You can checkout that app by going to https://AppGoblin.info/about and clicking the link there. It is a test url for an open source ad tracking software. (ie track where an install came from, in this case the about page of the site).

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in either project.
You will make nothing so grand as a platform used by billions so that's all irrelevant.

If you make, say, an ovulation app designed to feed user data to companies so they can fire pregnant workers before the company is required to give leave or other benefits, that's bad. Get it? You are not so incapable of distinguishing these things as you feign here. Pretending that everything is a neutral tool that might be misused for bad is child-like. Stop doing that.
None of the power comes from the Earth's rotation. Angular momentum is conserved in a closed system.
https://getapptrack.com/

I wanted a better way to keep track of applications I sent out, A spreadsheet just seemed like a poor way of tracking data. So overtime I built a desktop application to track my job search activity for me. Most alternatives are web-based, but I didn’t love the idea of broadcasting my job search to third parties. This is a native desktop app (Windows/macOS) that keeps everything local.

Still working on code signing (so no scary "unknown publisher" warnings), but otherwise, v1 is ready.

Would love feedback—especially from others who’ve struggled with job-search tracking!
Reserve of Prehistoric Dinosaur Fossils Discovered Next to Utah Subdivision
assuming you can get the cloud trail message sometimes there’s more information that you can decode using the STS service:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/sts/decode-...
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits (2020)
I'm not especially interested in the moral and ethical dilemma of whether it's okay to murder—in my own frame of ethics it's not up for debate, and I don't share axioms with people who think it is. I'm far more interested in the fact that not everyone has the same set of values and the next victim of a politically motivated murder by someone looking to make a statement will probably be a victim that those here won't consider to have deserved it (but of course the murderer will!).
I'm building CAIL – an AI that makes and answers phone calls for you.
You type what needs to be done – it calls, talks, waits on hold, asks questions, and sends you a summary. Kind of like a voice assistant, but for actual phone calls.
Also built an AI voicemail agent – it can answer missed or declined calls, figure out what they wanted, book a meeting in your free calendar slot, or even mess with spammers if needed.

Started as a personal pain after moving to the US. Now works for both people and businesses. Built our own voice infra. iOS, Android for B2C, and web dashboard for B2B. Building full-time with my wife – just pushed the first version of the mobile app this week.

https://cail.io
Win32 would buffer keystrokes so that a sequence of commands wouldn't be lost even if the UI took long to respond (e.g. if a dialog took long to open), but that has mostly been lost in the era of web apps and other similar bullshit.
How can i profit from extra-earthyl humanoid expansionism?

Is it too early to register the domain for the SolarSystemPlanetFederation.com ?

Does the presence of a human on Mars confirm intelligent alien life?

When will the first Mars v Earth war be fought, and with what sort of technology will humans and martians fight with?

So many questions, and so few Tweets with which to X them with.
>calm down and take a breath...

Yeah, I was a little heated, because I misunderstood what you meant by cost-gated, and thought you were being rhetorical and bad faith. My bad there.

We simply had different definitions of cost-gated, and talked past each other because of it.

>my point that healthcare in countries with universal healthcare systems (and America, if it were to adopt one), is cost gated

Sure, but... who cares? It still produces better outcomes, better coverage, better in nearly every measurable way. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

>Cost gated meaning people who need or want treatment will not be able to receive it in a timely manner in all cases.

Yeah, sure, but that really isn't the point. The point was that free at point of service (what I meant by not cost-gated) healthcare produces better outcomes, covers a larger % of citizens, and is generally simply a better way to do healthcare. Not receiving in a timely manner is miles better than not receiving at all because you can't afford it. That's a pretty worthy delineation to make, even if you could in the abstract call both "cost-gated".

The overall point is socialized medicine costs less, provides better outcomes, covers more people. All the rest is besides the point I was trying to make. Sorry again for coming in so hot, I'm clearly much too used to arguing with much more dishonest people than yourself.
There was an attempt in Oregon back in the early 00's. [I was part of this attempt]

The basic argument is we all either benefit or struggle more when the work of the people, for the people, is locked up in proprietary closed tools and data formats.

When open tools and data are employed, anyone can step up to improve those tools, and the State can fund the creation and maintenance of necessary tools and when that is done the savings over longer dpans of time.

A simple example:

PDX needed water billing. A 40 million bid was tendered and a private company created a system that they own and the State Basically pays them to use. And the State pays for fixes etc too.

What happens when a 40 million dollar investment is made in people using open code to do the same thing?

Well, the State owns the tool, and the data is open meaning anyone needing access can use open tools for that purpose.

When it matures, the org that got it done can fade away, leaving a small crew to maintain

, or

Maybe that org approaches other municipalities interested in similar savings. Over time, that problem is solved and most of the nation is enjoying a great savings and developers make a fine living, etc..

Wash rinse and repeat to reduce the cost of government and the work of the people is lean, mean, effective.

Everyone enjoys the benefit of a lower cost environment too.

This had broad bipartisan support and who pushed it away?

Big companies paid lobby shut the effort down hard.

They could very easily see the popular appeal and chose to spend huge now to shit it down, paying the house speaker to block it all from having a vote.

It was going to pass easily.

I think many governments can see how to think this way.

Big companies do not want it.
I love the ones that come with the little thing of the fake cheese to dip them in. 'merica!
>When there are no judicial penalties for running a vast machine of death like UnitedHealthcare, then eventually people seek extrajudicial ones. Our goal should be to make sure that this doesn't happen. Luigi is a symptom, not the sickness to be treated.

Where do you draw the line between "When there are no judicial penalties [...] eventually people seek extrajudicial ones" and "some nutjob went on a shooting spree"? There's no shortage of people killing because of "the great replacement" or "pedophile elites", issues the government aren't exactly in a hurry to address. Are those also examples of "When there are no judicial penalties [...] eventually people seek extrajudicial ones", or can we just chalk them up to the shooters being nutjobs? Is the former just what people say when they're sympathetic to the shooter, similar to how terrorists you support are "rebels" or "freedom fighters"?
You can choose NOT to make things you know are bad and you can choose to try to make things that are good.

Disappointment is irrelevant. It's the choice that matters in the context of this article and discussion and pretending that there is no choice is cowardice.
> Having been around the planned parenthood lines with screaming terrifying threatening christian folks

Did that expose improve your opinions of them?
I graduated from top university. I wasn't a particularly bright student, so I had to study very hard in order to pass classes. Just like you say, professor could fail a third of the class and that was normal. Having a weekend off meant that I was forgetting about something.

After graduation, I stopped learning. The older I get, the less point I see in endless grinding. Sometimes I watch some pop-sci shows on YouTube, but pretty much without any actual knowledge retention. At my work I do the bare minimum not to get fired.

I wonder what does this all mean. On one hand I think that if I worked hard again I could achieve great things. But on the other... god damn, I was constantly depressed as a student. Now that I spend my time just dicking around, at least I don't want to kill myself.
Verses from Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (2009)
What happens when society internalizes that it’s okay for a CEO’s actions to cause the deaths of thousands, and that that somehow weighs less heavily on the scale than one murder? The UHC CEO in my opinion did a lot more harm to people than Luigi.

The point is that people won’t internalize that vigilantism is the right path unless the system is broken. If you don’t want that, fix the system.
I'm an app developer, and I've had such a terrible experience with deferred deep linking providers like Branch and Appsflyer that I decided to build a competitor - https://DeepLinkNow.com

Why I think it's good: deferred deep linking has become an also-ran feature for MMPs whose primary focus is tracking users and advertising.

It's so bad that I can't even open deep links for Tiktok on my home network, because onelink links are blocked by adguard.

So that's why I built DLN. It's brand new and open for beta testing, I'd love some feedback and feature requests + to know how people use deferred deep linking.
I didn't find the original comment negative. Saying it's not that hard to try to build an MCP server yourself is actually very helpful and constructive. That's how I read it. Nothing that would discourage me from submitting a "Show HN" in the future.
Been there done that. I created one called inscribe years ago. Good luck!
They’re not paying these amounts. They’re borrowing them.

Hence the student debt crisis.
Archive link for those that get paywalled: https://archive.is/2IsnY
Maybe 25 years ago. Hardly today. Today it's Big Tech, hardly different from Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Finance, etc.
Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/active

It's like an alternate HN front page that sorts based on activity, and unlike the default front page, it does not suppress submissions that have been flagged. At this moment I see these flagged-but-very-active submissions:

[flagged] Trump says he is not joking about third presidential term https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43525860

[flagged] It's the hottest car company. You can't buy one in America https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43523797

[flagged] [dead] Trump suggests Tesla vandals should face 20 years jail, be sent to El Salvador https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520632

[flagged] ICE Revoking Students' Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Uni's Knowledge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43528356
This rule only applies to loose (spare) Li-ion batteries, not batteries which are installed in a device.

I've heard of people ordering 18650s online and getting them along with a free flashlight in which they came; I wonder if this regulation is why.
A Windows 3.x UI theme would get the childhood nostalgia going much stronger for me than a 95/NT4/98/2000/Me theme does.

Occasionally I boot up Windows 3.1 in a VM and play a game of Solitaire, for old time’s sake - I can run Windows 95 in a VM too, but it just doesn’t have the same pull.
If you support a culture where people look at $250,000 and don't care what happens to it, then I hope you aren't surprised when it turns out the management class are serially incompetent. Their literal responsibility is to look at large amounts of capital and decide what happens to it.

The startups had a strategy of pooling their money - their huge amount of money, as it turns out - into a fund run by people who couldn't keep a bank solvent. If you want to shield the people doing that from consequences then, frankly, you don't have an interest in running a high-integrity system geared to competence. Because there need to be direct and painful consequences to an action that stupid. Oh there are only 5 of them! Well there is only 1 of me and I can tell you how dumb they were in isolation. The only reason to act this way and keep all the eggs in one high-risk basket is because of an assumption that the government will come in and conduct bailouts if any risk eventuates. IE, a management class that doesn't ever expect to succeed on their own merits. Although since the bailouts did happen that suggests that sticking to a dumb strategy is what winners should do.

The entire capital management system here is out of control.
Are you talking about the german Rentensystem or something else? All I've ever heard about it living in Germany was that it won't cover your expenses anymore by the time you retire which is why they tried Riester Rente (and yes that failed). "Privatvorsorge" is a must, so I don't know why you'd say it's working.

Also 401ks don't invest in single stocks, but mostly index funds...
> Trans people out of women's sports

I can't believe you actually looked at the man who promised to pardon all the people who tried to hang his own VP for not subverting the election, and decided that 'the competitive integrity of amateur sports' was literally your #2 voting issue. Literally surreal.
> I assure you, most people cannot tell you the difference between bounded polymorphism, parametric polymorphism,

And yet most people know one of Java, C# and Typescript and know how to use generics with constraints. Meaning they know those concepts. Your arguing my point for me. Knowing those concepts clearly isn't sufficient.

There are three things being discussed that you are conflating. Knowing a concept, knowing it's terminology and knowing how to all of them combine when used in a new concept. Knowing the underlying concepts does not imply the first. And similarly not knowing the terminology does not imply someone does not know the concepts as you seem to think it does.
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IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Receive Lands in Linux 6.15
An additional complaint that I've heard, from a writing professor, is that their students are narcissists.

I don't think the professor meant that entirely literally, but I'm sure they had considerable visibility into students' thinking and personality, through the students' writing.

(This was shortly before the "cheat-GPT" plague; maybe now a professor's only insight from a given student's writing assignments is that their student is a cheater.)
One big difference is that one is true and the other isn't.
sweet. how would you hook into my inbound phone calls?
She characterised as "could be seen" -so this is awareness of apprehension of bias. It doesn't mean either that she was biassed, or the slides were antisemitic.
Or maybe it's only a problem when it happens on the right?

I and others swarm on here to shut down people who try to justify the crimes committed by right wingers motivated by the same reasoning. It's only when it comes to Luigi Mangione that I feel suddenly alone.
You can't just trade (angular) momentum for energy or vice versa, those are independent conservation laws.