skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWICT, at the University of Queensland Engineering faculty this looking the other way for international students doesn't appear to happen. I can't speak for other faculties.

I was stunned by the shear audacity of one recent attempt to cheat. It was a group project involving designing and building a hardware / software thingy. The idea was to pull in students from multiple Engineering disciplines I think. This particular group had both Australian students and overseas.

Like all such groups some did some work, others didn't and in this particular case there wasn't enough of the former so things weren't going well. On the due date they had to drop off the the project at a project room, which was locked up until evaluation day. One of the international students decided to break in and continue work. This involved breaking glass windows, jimmying doors, and turning the lights on. Naturally enough security noticed and put a quick end to it - but not before the submitted project was in pieces.

That made evaluating the project in the normal manner near impossible, so they put together a panel designed to feel like the Spanish inquisition and quizzed each student on their contribution for a hour or two. They passed one and failed the others - including the international students.

I went to UQ myself many years ago, back when it was only Australians who attended, and we also got up to some shenanigans. No country breeds only angels. My student cohort did things that were equally bad. The major one was discovering a security flaw in the PDP 10's operating system (TOPS-10), and using it to crash the system repeatedly so we could get the a little more time on the assignments. It didn't go down so well as that same PDP 10 was used to run the Uni's administration, and so it took out things like payroll. They had no idea who did it and no way of finding out, but needed to put an end to it very quickly. I thought they handled it very well. They put the usual suspects in a room, said no one would be punished, but they really needed to know how it was being done. They didn't have much choice I guess, as everyone in the room knew how it was done but no one was going to admit to doing it.

I can't really say which of these two crimes caused the most damage - the one by the Australians or the international student. But I suspect in the eyes of the Uni the international one suffered from a far bigger flaw than damage or inconvenience - it was just plain stupid in a way I had never seen in my day.
No more war.
I'm maintaining my bookmarks in a git repository with Static Marks[1], which I have written.

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
Loose Romanization for Cantonese
Yeah I find it a bit ridiculous how many there are.. it's like every major speech group has their own now.
There is certainly the disturbing possibility that "Welcome to Life" [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E ]
will rapidly be looking less and less like satire.
So because Apple has to implement it in order to sell to Verizon, it’s their fault? That’s basically victim blaming. Yes, Apple could not sell phones locked to Verizon, but then they wouldn’t be able to sell phones to Verizon.
If you assume they're correct about the dining car being less popular, I wonder what would happen if they rebranded it to draw on "food truck" imagery. :-)
> See, Saddam almost had it with his bluff.

You've said this multiple times but failed to support it in any way
Thanks - we try to tune our alerts, and we have a lot that are self healing as well. The ones I've been mentioning are ones that we currently don't have automated solutions for, and require me to manually action them. Our management team is working on automating away the work, but the technical debt is going to take longer to fix. We get some flexibility to leave early / start late when alerts affect our shift as well, although it's not worth the cost to me personally.
Here is their technology in full:

Google “PR agency London”. Email the top five asking for a price-per-mention, and get offers back in the region of £500 a pop. Sign a contract. Talk about how you were featured on the BBC.
Yes, the UK model isn't perfect. For the most part, it doesn't result in true competition because train operating companies are awarded monopolies over regions and routes rather than actually competing against other. The few routes that really do have competition between operators (like London-Birmingham) are also the routes that have the most competitive fares!

One solution would be to auction off packages of "slots" on the most profitable, and capacity constrained, routes (eg: east & west coast main lines) rather than franchise them as single monolithic entities.

As for "not working very well", those who remember the days of government-owned-and-operated British Rail will attest that the current system is a significant improvement!
Here's my use case: as a scientist, I'm often in the position of needing to review multiple 20+ page grants or manuscripts, resulting in hundreds of pages at a time. I find it far easier to read closely and retain info when I can write directly on the documents, then circle back to collect my comments, vs typing directly. At a certain point, looking at reams of paper coming out of the printer made me feel slightly sick to my stomach. Plus, I appreciate that I'm not left with those stacks of paper sitting on my desk.

(Before someone does the inevitable HN calculation about why the materials used to make the Remarkable are far worse for the planet than all the trees killed to print grants - yes, you're probably right. YMMV.)

I had tried the various ipad and equivalents, and the RM's big advantage is that it feels like reading/writing on paper, mostly - something about the matte screen and stylus, though the stylus is sort of craptastic.

As others note, the software is clunky with annotations moving around on the page, and there's a bit of lag. But, I have yet to find anything better. I do wish there were an easy way to collect all the annotations in one place, but my handwriting as an MD is appallingly bad so that may be an impossible task.
Dead Plants Are Powering Stockholm
I would say, this will never be socially acceptable ... Until my parents in law installed multiple Alexa microphones in their house, and my family of origin all submitted DNA to ansestry.com to be indexed forever...

Generally speaking, the way to buy a soul is to offer convinieance. It doesn't even have to be major.

For all those thinking there will be regulation or protections, where are those protections for consumers of the current privacy violating services and products?

You sign on the dotted line and are bound by the terms, there is no big other to protect you from you own choices.

You choose whether you sell yourself, but once you do, don't expect a bigger force to keep you protected...

You are the only person who is going to advocate for you and the people you care about.
looking at how many people voluntarily give up their privacy in exchange for convenience (facebook, alexa, etc.) it seems that most won't need to be compelled to do anything..
Unlike interrupting somebody on the street, your comment is only taking concentration and time from people who voluntarily choose to read the comments.
Presumably that it was easier to use to illustrate the actual content as opposed to implementation details. This is definitely the case, at least in TensorFlow 1.x there were a lot of details which made converting from [the way we think about the problem] to [practical implementation] more cumbersome. Some of these existed for good reason (eg. performance) while others were simply architectural cruft which the benefit of hindsight makes unnecessary.
Show HN: Simple Kids Game, Created with HTML, CSS and JavaScript (React)
You can find plenty of articles online claiming that communal tables are a restaurant trend to attract millennials, so... different consultants claim the opposite about millennials and this is just an excuse.
An interesting idea, that we've come to understand the need for bacteria, fungueses, and virus in gut flora; next stage are gut worms.
Here it is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
> What of the empty parcel posted to 19 Acacia Avenue? Presumably, the parcel isn't signed for when it is delivered? Or is it? If the parcel requires a signature on delivery, surely the resident of 19 Acacia Avenue will immediately notice the parcel is addressed to someone else?

This is addressed in the article. They sign for it, see it’s empty, assume error on someone’s part, and dispose of it.
It's not a web framework. It's the replacement for tcp that http3 uses.
Thanks - I'm glad I got at least one reply of someone who's confirming that level of paging wasn't abnormally high to them.

When on primary on-call, we also are generally not expected to make progress on project work, although we don't have reviewing of all our incidents after our shift (generally just major ones.) I think there's definitely room for improvement here.
The US also does this.
Why would the turf battles end? Those that provide the most X will demand more in return. Those states that are given the most Y will fight tooth and nail to keep it. Someone will threaten to leave. Europe is quite the example.
Capitalism promotes (unrepentant, unrelenting) greed, then it points at the world and goes "look how greedy people are! it's a rule of nature!".

It's all a ruse, a self fulfilling prophecy. The truth is, simply, people will do as the system rewards. In a society where brute force is glorified, people will be brutes and the world will be cruel. In a society where scholars and scientists and artists are valued and rewarded, there will be more scientific progress and cultural output. The humans themselves are the same as they have been for 100,000 years, its just the culture that changed between cavemen, renaissance Italy, Mongol hordes, and modern day growth capitalism.

In a world where greed and individual selfishness is the one metric that is rewarded, guess how most people will behave. That in a system such as ours most people are still good and altruistic and empathetic speaks volumes to how wrong that thesis is.
Sure, but that does not really address the point. Couldn't we do all that with robots?
There is no match for our brains; but robots bodies can sustain acceleration, temperature variations, lack of atmosphere, etc. much better than us. They work faster, longer, better, etc.

And thanks to telecommunications we can pilot them while staying in the comfort of our planet.
I didn’t realize it until visiting your HN profile but I see you are one of the people behind reMarkable!

And you guys are based in Norway too!

A few questions if you don’t mind.

How many people are in your company?

What are the current and future plans of the company in terms of product? Keep improving the software for the current hardware? Make new models with different hardware?

Where in Norway are you located?

Are you looking to increase the number of people working in your company? Planning to hire more software developers?

And in terms of the open source parts of it, I don’t have this product, nor have I really heard about it before, so I haven’t had a chance to try it but, is everything that the community would need available in order to create a fully open source alternative “firmware” (or really, a “distro” might be a better name for it since it’s running a Linux kernel and all) that can run on your hardware?
In theory, we should already disallow this. The foundational law of the United States prohibits "unreasonable" searches of "persons, houses, papers, and effects".

In practice, this has been eroded to the point of practical meaninglessness, such that the FBI director can issue a statement that clearly violates both its spirit and its letter, and few people bat an eye.
Why is the transition property prefixed with - webkit- only? Immediately this starts off on an incompatible, vendor-locked foot.

Edit: seems all of the properties are Webkit- prefixed. :/
The hard work of syncing kill me.

I have to switch from these kind of paper device as it is hard to manage info across them. Pad like devices are paper to me and kindle. It is more like in Star Trek you see captain use a few pad devices as if there were separate books/doc. It would be better if the two New iPad Air can manage the files in their app. As it can’t, I bought new old stock of macbook 12”. It is all portable and all work together.

as background I own kindle, boss the pad size and the huge one (max 2). Once the ipad has the paper like screen protector i did the switch. The newly bought 15” i9! Is not portable. Hence the macbook 12
My experience has been quite different. I've found the software updates to be great and fix a lot of the issues I had with the device. As far as getting things on the device, my primary use case is reading academic papers, so I wrote a script that uploads documents from a Zotero folder.

https://michael.mior.ca/blog/zotero-remarkable-sync/
Software patents hamper development of new software by increasing legal costs while at the same time enabling concealment rather than publication of innovations.
Some decent orthodontic braces and a couple of little screws in the skull and you’ll keep the fMRI at bay for a while yet.
Though it might be cheaper to just move a little and ruin it that way instead.
"I have for years not liked having paper books. They're expensive to store (need a larger home, and thus higher rent).."

ah ha ha

good one
Come on, this meme thar is 'everything is cultural bias' is getting ridiculous.
"After comparing the post-sample accuracy of popular ML methods with that of eight traditional statistical ones, we found that the former are dominated across both accuracy measures used and for all forecasting horizons examined. Moreover, we observed that their computational requirements are considerably greater than those of statistical methods. "
My own retrospective... been using OCaml in a production compiler on obscure UNICES since 3.08 (> 15 years!). Pretty seamless, simple updates, everything kept working, lights are still on. I think source changes were required ~3 times, so amazingly stable from my POV :)
Non-paywalled version: http://archive.is/frI3q
Thanks - of the 5-7 pages per week I was mentioning, all of these are things that are items that require me to manually action them. Lots are after hours customer support issues that require administration level access, others are systems issues tied to technical debt or legitimate problems that occur.

There is effort to try and resolve the underlying problems, and we do make some headway here - we just keep adding changes to satisfy customers which end up causing new issues. We're being told this will get better over time, but it's certainly not happening fast enough IMHO.

Again, thanks for the feedback and insight!
Agreed that syncing APIs aren't great, although there's been a lot of third party software developed now that makes the use case you describe at least possible.
Survey: Diversity Lacking at HLS (1996)
It's not surprising that R has good tools for statistical assumptions checking. It has everything with an API perfectly suited for stats professionals. In the Python world scipy and statsmodels implement most of the important tests, but probably not as many as the ones available in R.

One recent project that I looks very promising in the Python world is called Tea: a high-level language for expressing statistical analysis questions. Basically the user describes the characteristics of the data they have, their assumptions, and their hypothesis, and then the tea runtime checks all the assumptions and figures out which test can be applied to test the hypothesis. You still have to know some stats jargon, but the user-interface between human and machine is revolutionary! Here is a bunch of links I collected about tea: https://www.one-tab.com/page/aUF1eWnDT8CIyrwScWD2uA
Tech company names in general have completely lost the plot.

Looking ANYTHING up in search engines these days is completely and utterly derailed by tech companies (/programming languages/frameworks/etc) who insist on naming themselves after common words used in everyday language.

Go, Espresso, Vanilla, Box, Square, Stripe, Express, Next, Angular, Feather, Mint, it goes on forever.

Each one insists on branding themselves just with that word, using it on its own and poisoning search results and online content the world over.
It doesn't have an eink display which I find necessary. It also does a much worse job of helping me avoid distractions.
Italy has the concept of competition on the same route - at least on long distance routes, Italo compete with TrenItalia. The result is cheap, pleasant long distance service. It's a much nicer model than the UK has, certainly.
I would assume anyone caught looking up data on how to pass lie detectors will automatically assumed to be a liar by the state in the first place. If your brain is the only bastion of privacy, your internet history is already a weapon against you.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/WkHHpZ1
You don't mention SQLite in question 1, but then include it in questions 2-4.

Did you maybe mean "SQL" and not "SQLite" here?
Amstrad’s CPC 464
So far I haven't spotted a problem with Safari's new content blocking mechanism (using Ghostery Lite). I still prefer the PiHole because it applies to all devices without additional configuration.
Man jailed for criticizing court system has been acquitted by jury
That's a very interesting article. Does anybody knows if Postgres 10 and 11 addressed any of those issues?
Blast from the Past
Thanks for your reply - we do have some recurring types of issues, but I'd say it varies a fair bit. A lot of issues are customer support related (that require administrator access to fix), but there are a lot of system issues as well. All are deemed as items that need fixing after hours (even if I don't necessarily agree with that assessment.)

There are actions being taken to fix both the number of customer support cases as well as the systems issues - but progress is slow, and our appetite to implement all of our customer requested changes end up adding lots of new problems.
Another advantage of strong individual focus is you can end up owning your own inventions rather than having them assigned away to some extent.

Living off your own technology is not for everyone. Most innovation is not ground-breaking or is so marginal that it actually needs to be highly leveraged to achieve the benefits of scale. Without a large research group to support it is possible to get by on the lesser advances, and if momentum can be built from that it can allow the time and space to gravitate to more potentially impactful approaches compared to modern or established institutional trends.

In many situations it can be a lot easier and less costly & time-consuming to invent another sure-fire energy-saving device for instance, than it would be to risk the resources seeking eminence. You can end up with an unfair advantage at the inventing itself compared to those who divert any effort away from the task, simply because you can not afford to take that kind of risk.

You also have the unfair disadvantage relative to those who basically just toot their own horn, but everybody has that.
> > So you're saying, "All regulation is insitutionalized violence." Okay...

> Yeah, essentially.

Amazing! You're literally arguing that 18 U.S. Code § 1111[1] is institutionalized violence.

> Are you going to engage with the point, or are you just going to make fun and appeal to emotion and it's obvious rediculousness?

My general approach to debate is that the person I'm debating with is not going to be persuaded no matter what I do. The person I'm trying to persuade isn't you, it's anyone else reading our conversation. So no, I won't engage this point, because I assume the audience is smart enough to figure why your point is irrelevant on their own. That is what "obvious" means, after all.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111
If this catches on then at a certain moment there will be more bots than real people.
Build an NB-IoT GPS Tracker on STM32 L476 with Apache Mynewt and Embedded Rust
It is depressing as knowing someone [0] make a living out of Rumpology [1]?

I remember discovering [0] decades ago when the internet was young. It was funny back then. I search for it recently to illustrate to my kids how wild the early internet was, and to my horror found it hadn't disappeared. One the contrary, it had grown stronger. (Definitely same site run by the same woman - I have never forgotten her face.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpology

[1] http://www.jacquelinestallone.com/rumps.html
Thanks - that's what I was expecting this to be like also - it's sadly not though. Appreciate the feedback!
Serious question - can anyone explain how you would choose which of these to use? e.g. I'm aware that Quinn is tokio-based whereas Quiche is an async-agnostic state machine. Where does this one fit in?
> * It's an open-source Linux-based device but not entirely. The actual UI application isn't open source. But as others have said here, it has pretty good hacking potential, and it's definitely more open than most commercial devices. The company's support of open-source was another reason for me to buy it.

Can you tell us a bit more about this? Took a look at their website and searched around a bit, but don't find anything about it. What makes ReMarkable more open than most other commercial devices? Seems any device running Android and alike would be more open to hacking.

Also can't find anything about the company's support of open source.
There's also something called Chezz, which is virtually the same thing and probably derived from the same original.

https://quickbytegames.com/en/games/chezz/index.html
Rarely. In a team of 3-4 engineers who share the on-call responsibility, I think one of us gets paged every 3-4 months.

Normal shift is like every other day. Just go to work, do my job. Come home, eat, chill a bit and go to sleep.

It used to be more. The company started with three people three years ago (myself included). Now we're over 50. We have enough resources to fix and solve problems before they become real problems.
Let's build an NB-IoT GPS Tracker with STM32 L476, Quectel L70-R GPS module and Quectel BC95 NB-IoT module... And discover how Apache Mynewt OS and Embedded Rust make it so easy!
No the brainwave satellites have been operational for quite a while now.
A reply in the twitter thread makes the most sense to me: "Interesting! I can imagine this being used to generate & monitor traffic for factory test."
That would make verification much easier and also explain why it's undocumented. Of course if there's a way for testers to use it, there's potentially a way for others to use it as well.
Author here.

I had been working on Linux professionally for about 6 years at that point, and got burned out on it. I have a lot of thoughts on the success of Linux as a general-use platform but mostly keep them to myself these days.

I still have a deep love for graphics, and have since moved onto working in the games industry, where I am much happier. I also still have a passion for explaining graphics topics.

Current efforts:

https://noclip.website/

https://blog.mecheye.net/2018/03/deconstructing-the-water-ef...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rCRsOLiO7k
could you (and the parent if possible) comment on the role the canton system plays in direct democracy ?
The journey of getting 100 users in a week
I remember once when OpenAI team chose to not release a particular algorithm because they thought it's too dangerous.

This example would force governments about how to regulate AI
Having implemented and played this game a lot I don't think check makes sense in this game.

There is an advantage of moving into check quite often. (A check with a rook across the board is quite weak)

Better to just play until the king is captured. (This is also how regular check is equivalently played)
Any sasquatch around?