skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many privacy flags on this one, I'm shocked colleges are using this software.

Just a few highlights from the article that really stick out:

“You have to record your environment, you have to record the whole desk, under the desk, the whole room,” Molina recalled. “And you need to use a mirror to show that you don’t have anything on your keyboard.”

On top of that, if the wireless connection was disturbed during an exam, Molina said, students would receive an automatic zero — no excuses.

He said he didn’t realize he hadn’t sufficiently shown his notepaper to his webcam, or that his habit of talking through questions aloud would be considered suspicious.

“At the beginning of the exam, you leave the area for about one minute without explanation,” Merrill wrote in an email to Molina. She added that it looked like he was using his calculator for problems that did not require a calculation and that he solved certain problems too quickly. As a result, Molina was given an F in the course and his case was submitted to SDSU’s Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities, where he could appeal the decision.

Neekoly Solis, an SDSU junior and first-year transfer student, said each test-taker now has to verbally explain each of their calculations to their webcam every time they use their calculators during an exam.

Then, she had to show the camera her desk, and underneath her desk, with her bulky desktop computer. She realized she was in a pair of shorts, and her webcam was picking up — and recording — seconds of her bare legs that could be seen by her older male professor. She was creeped out.

“You have to do a crotch shot, basically,” said Jason Kelley, associate director of research at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy group based in San Francisco. He recalled watching a tutorial video from another proctoring system called HonorLock, horrified as he watched the video subject do a long pan of their body.

Some other unsettling parts about the data their collecting:

Respondus’s website states that the default data retention period for Respondus Monitor is five years, but the client can change that.

And worse yet, what about the appeal process? Not exactly in the students favor:

Molina appealed. But even well into the fall semester and over a month after the accusations were filed, the office had canceled his scheduled meetings twice due to coronavirus-related emergencies.

After the third rescheduling, Molina finally had the chance to explain himself. One week later, he received a letter of “no action,” meaning the university would not pursue disciplinary action against him. He forwarded the letter to his business administration professors and requested that he get the grade he deserved. He said he had already emailed the student ombudsman twice, and never received a reply. Merrill finally gave him his grade back, almost two months after he’d received an F in the class.

In conclusion, you have a dodgy software program, that's highly invasive to your privacy. It can take months to get your appeal figured out. In the meantime, you're left to twist in the wind. And worst of all, the company keeps your data for five years.
Heroku pipelines are great and I believe they were added after the acquisition
I recently noticed truthorfiction.com being prominently displayed on Twitter/Google searches related to the election, so I looked into who's actually managing content there. A few quick Twitter profile searches on the "Our Team" people revealed years of scathing Tweets about Donald Trump.
> Or you could just set the speed limit appropriately, at a level that most drivers will naturally conform to.

The problem is that such a limit would not be a safe one, you would basically be replacing the limit with a sign that posts the rate that people like to drive at.
> The other major case in point being NLP

Speaking of which, Google Translate was published in 2006, but when did the "learning from data" approach became an accepted idea in machine translation? I think the earlier attempts at machine translation were more about trying to codify grammar rules in software, than doing statistical learning from large text corpuses? I remember in 2002, the approach of leaning protein substructures from data was already the best performing approach in the protein folding problem.
wait till you learn how the same stories are told in different countries. its different everywhere.
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x86 instructions are variable length with byte granularity, and the length isn’t known until you’ve mostly decoded an instruction. So, to decode 4 instructions in parallel, AIUI you end up simultaneously decoding at maybe 20 byte offsets and then discarding all the offsets that turn out to be in the middle of an instruction.

So the Intel and AMD decoders may well be bigger and more power hungry than Apple’s.
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Exactly. The far larger ROB, great branch predictor, large L1 and significantly decreased memory latency combined with a lower core frequency allcontribute to keep the core fed and prevent it stalling.

Still sustaining 8-wide (or even just 4-wide) is very hard. Apparently most code has an ILP of 1.5 on average.

I guess that the large width helps recovering from stalls (somehow absorbing spikes).
And the non-neurotypical.
I'll check it out, thanks. So you know, I have used system wide ad blocking to great success before, but years later and I had forgotten what I had installed. So, I know they exist.
It doesn't have to be affordable to the working class, it just has to be affordable enough for a few engineers who saved up a bit in the last boom to take a ~5-year sabbatical. Then fear of falling into the struggling working class motivates them to keep inventing, while a desire to replace all the working-class employees who can no longer afford to live in the city gives them a ready-made market.

There's no guarantee that the working class as we know it today (i.e. those who perform repetitive tasks with their hands) will continue to exist. Most of the Bay Area's history has been about automating and replacing progressively higher-level portions of the economy with machines.
You're referencing responses to pandemics from before the germ theory of disease. More recent responses to pandemics were far less restrictive. For example: The Spanish flu was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. It infected 1/3rd of the world and killed 1-6% of the population (depending on which estimate you want to cite). It was a much deadlier virus than covid. It killed the young and healthy at a much greater rate. There was zero chance that a vaccine would be developed. Despite all of those greater dangers, the response of first world countries was to implement similar restrictions to today: encouraging or requiring masks, doing more business outdoors, reducing business occupancy, etc.
Maybe it simply doesn't economically make sense for Qualcomm and even less so for Samsung. Their SoCs equip a lot more entry-level or mid-range low-margin phones, compared to Apple.

There might be the need to make more powerful, desktop-class SoCs in the future if Google and Microsoft push for that. But I imagine the real competition will come mostly from the server market for now. Unless Nvidia starts making beefier SoCs, maybe the upcoming Orin.
The fact that kids go for art in a state school that isn't renowned for their art program says yes.

There's nothing wrong with going for underwater basket weaving if you know and have a plan to do just that. The average college student just associates that student loans == "worry about it later!" && Student loan == "I'll get a 50-60k job out of college no problem!"
I think the other replies are a bit confusing. unwrap causes a "panic" - panics in rust are similar to python exceptions, but it's not catchable. (there actually is a way to catch panics because that's how the stacktrace printing is implemented, but you usually only use it if you're making a custom allocator or runtime or some other voodoo magic)

So if you want your "exception" to be able to be handled by the caller, you have to indicate it otherwise, usually with enums.
Easy lithium is in salars aka salt flats. They serve like a natural chromatography column, and some of the strata contain double-digit amounts of the ion (by molar mass, not weight, lithium is quite light).

There's no salar like Salar de Uyuni, so no, it isn't a simple matter of looking harder. There's plenty of lithium-bearing rock, for some value of 'plenty', but this is both expensive, and entails grinding and leaching ore, which is enormously more environmentally destructive and energy intensive.
I have used both Octave and Scilab as a substitute for MATLAB. Scilab is a much more polished system, but it has multiple gotchas if you are moving back and forth between it and MATLAB. Octave aims for full MATLAB compatibility, but I found the system pretty rough all around.
If you have the flu you should wear a mask.
We are enforcing mask-wearing and doing lockdowns because of COVID asymptomatic infections, these methods don't make much sense for the flu.
I loved Growl because it helped me manage my ADHD, I could monitor conversations without switching apps. For some of us communication is the main purpose of computing.

The issue today is that every application now offers notifications, and only some of them are useful. So disable the ones you don't need.
I read this article while drinking a Samuel Adams American IPA. Sweet, sweet, hoppy irony.
SF has had generations of this type of politician. I can't count the number of times I've seen the phrase "fighting for real change". Finally on Preston's flyer I tore the "for" out.
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Only during charging. The bigger problem is the release of lead dust during the recycling process.
> Academia is the worst job training program ever.

Pet peeve of mine. Academia is not a training program for jobs. The role of academia is not to produce business-perfect-candidates.

If business wants trained workers, they should train them. Cutting costs by not training them, then blaming universities for not producing trained workers is disingenuous at best.
Another one from 2016:
https://twitter.com/quine_tweet/status/777962342789152768
https://mametter.hatenablog.com/entry/20160920/p1
Ooh that's very interesting! I've just presumably subsumed one of those into one of the others.

Seems like there's a cycle-3 game of life creature called a pulsar that would be perfect for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#/media...
unrelated but the reason i opened the link was because the .cgi file. It's been a very long time since i visited one. The page uses a 2006 YUI library and a 2010 jquery version. The amazing part is it still works in Firefox.
It is incomprehensible to you, because you just simply do not understand what your parent is talking about. You are the ignorant one here and indeed quite rude. Doesn't matter that genetics is not natural language. The point is we can train large transformers auto regressively and the representation it learns turns out to be useful for a) all kinds of supervised downstream tasks with minimal fine-tuning and b) interpreting the data by analysing the attention weights. There is a huge amount of literature on this topic and what your parent says is quite sensible.
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/micron-technology...

Hmm... I don't know what's going on.

This chip claims to be LPDDR4x, but it is a 556-pin package. This is in contrast to your earlier data-sheet, which only has 200-pins. Maybe LPDDR4x doesn't have any standardized pinouts?

This isn't exactly where I normally work, so I'm not entirely sure what is going on.
Pip supports constraints files. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#constraints-files :

> Constraints files are requirements files that only control which version of a requirement is installed, not whether it is installed or not. Their syntax and contents is nearly identical to Requirements Files. There is one key difference: Including a package in a constraints file does not trigger installation of the package.

> Use a constraints file like so:

python -m pip install -c constraints.txt
I'm pretty impressed that it took less than 1000 attempts. It would still be feasible even it were several orders of magnitude harder. This twitter project I made (predicting celebrity deaths) took about 250k tweets over the course of a few months: https://twitter.com/ghastly_omens
There are dozens of sub 100k homes where I live and plenty of nice apartments sub $800. And that's a midwest state known for having some of the highest real estate taxes in the country.
Aren't these just word games? How do you define "autonomy"?
Caltech is also smaller and extremely hard to get into, hardly representative of avg college student.
> All I can think of is CopperheadOS which died because it was company-backed

CopperheadOS did not die. https://copperhead.co/android

/e/ mostly uses LineageOS code without providing attribution. They have a fair fight ahead of them and the Android FLOSS community benefits from this internal competition.
> Bernie Madoff doesn't get to print his own currency, you see why that's different right? You know who does though? Tether.

As I said, you don’t understand money. Currency is not wealth. Purchasing power cannot be printed, despite what MMT claims real wealth has to be produced using real resources. You can print all the dollars you want, in fact, that is exactly what the monopoly board game creators do.

> Paying. Lending implies that it has to be returned, it does not.

As I said, again, you don’t understand what money is. Under the current system all money is debt. And governments have no purchasing power to give but what they confiscate from citizens via taxes in the present, or take via inflation from the future. Either way, canadians are paying those $2000 back.

> Inflation has been in a tightly controlled 1-2% range in the US since the 1970s. They are. So forgive me for not giving a bunch of un-elected, un-accountable randos with commit privileges and a narcotics trafficker the steering wheel lol.

Which is why the FED came out saying they are gonna increase the rate of inflation that has actually been lower than reported all these past years right? The inflation metrics do not represent real inflation and even the FED admitted it, nor do they capture the wealth inequality even if they did. The riots on the streets, the uncertainty, most americans living paycheck to paycheck, miles of lines at food banks, most americans not having even $400 in savings, all signs of how the experts are such experts at managing the economy right? Not even 1 week of trouble could handle this wonderful economy when covid started they had to print trillions to bail out mega corporations. Such a well managed economy right?

> Who is "our" and why does one have anything to do with the other?

You, the one that claims having a printing press and growing gdp faster than inflation means governments will outrun debts. Don’t shill magic beans.
That would require the AI to exist outside of time and space.
Psychology is equivalent to humanities imo only because you need a graduate degree to actually get a job in that field.
I do think that entirely too few people in the US have ever tried anything other than fries of smaller cross section and that properly cooked Belgian style fries would be a revelation for a great number of people over here.

Everything tastes better when you're on vacation. Less stress. Heightened senses It's science.
This is nerd humor at its best.
The best fries I ever had (as an American who has eaten fast food since the 70s, including the legendary McDonalds fries) were served in Switzerland. The guy quickly sliced up the potato and prepared the fries in some sort of wok with some sort of oily substance that I always assumed was clarified butter, but may very well have been beef tallow or some other concoction.
I had a lot of mental health issues and I registered with my school's accessibility services. I was surprised I could get extra time on tests, extensions, etc. so easily. Unfortunately, none of those accommodations were even helpful for me. An extension would just make me fall further behind on other work, and I didn't have test anxiety or a disability which would prevent me from taking tests quickly (though I was offered this accommodation anyway).

The only accommodation that I took once or twice was having a teacher re-weight marks from a missed assignment to other assignments, which was only good for me if I was going to do well on those other assignments. I think for mental health, the most important things my school did for me weren't even accommodations. They were: letting me reattempt courses any number of times, letting me take a year off without even having to notify them, letting me take a reduced course load, and stuff like that. These things give no advantage to students who utilize them, but can make a world of a difference to students who need them. Without them I'd have failed my degree, but now I'm mentally healthy and I'm going to graduate soon.

Anyway, it's shitty that some people abuse accommodations, but most of them don't give them an advantage over other students, and some students do need them, so getting rid of them is not really a solution. The main one that would give an advantage is increased test time (the solution to which is to write exams where students already have plenty of time -- the majority of my profs already do this).

As for the whole system being put at risk, I think the whole system is going down the shitter anyway. Why do I need to pay thousands and thousands of dollars a year for an education which could easily be delivered for less than a tenth of that price? Prestige? I don't think universities will survive the modern Internet outside of programs which need hands-on lab experience.
They all cross the antipode, but not at the same time. There is no point where they all meet at the same time, if the planet is oblate rather than spherical, or has other irregularities in pressure or temperature or surface terrain.
The problem isn’t restaurants, the problem is the American preference for cheap, bland, calorie dense food. With such a wide range of cultures and individual preferences the most widely acceptable option ends up being fairly mediocre.

Plenty of exceptions exist, but tend to be very local.
We can't really demand compilers to create code that's compatible with all the ancient variations of a currently popular architecture. It's still good manners to include a function that exits with a clear error message about a required architecture feature that's missing.

I had similar issues with PPC software that just blindly assumed I had Altivec on my G3. It wasn't fun.
They still work in SF, whether they live there or not.
The PC world has already switched architectures 32 bit to 64 bit already so its doable.

The big issue I think is if you are Intel / AMD why would you do this? Even if there are performance gains do you really want to undermine one of the things (backwards compatibility) that distinguishes you from the competition? Plus what would the new ISA be?

Plus Intel still has the memory of Itanium.
> You don't succeed in remote teaching and learning by trying to make it as close as possible to the in-person setup. You have to treat it as an entirely different problem.

I agree at a high level, but practically speaking it's not realistic to expect colleges to completely reinvent their entire teaching systems for a temporary, 1-2 year remote learning period.

Now that we've been dealing with COVID for almost an entire year, it's easy to forget that at one point we thought this would all be over in a matter of weeks or months. The situation was also evolving in real time. Colleges were looking for the most efficient stop-gap solutions, not for ways to completely overhaul their learning experience.

> It is also practically impossible to prevent cheating.

It's a mistake to assume that because we can't eliminate all cheating, we shouldn't bother reducing any cheating.

The advantage of synchronous test taking is that everyone is exposed to the problem set at the same time. The obvious cheat with asynchronous test taking would be for one person to volunteer to take the test early and then send the questions to their peers, all of whom take the test at the last possible minute.

This happens whenever in-person classes offer two time slots for taking a test. The later time slot is always far more packed than the first and comes back with significantly higher scores. Adding the internet and screenshots/camera phones to the equation amplifies this because students can share the exact test, not just what they recall from memory.

> In an online setting however, people can face all sort of troubles in a few hour window in their home. Your internet might stop working, neighbor might be making too much noise etc.

Educators aren't oblivious to this fact. Working with students who have interruptions is just part of the job. Having someone lose internet isn't much different from having someone get a flat tire on the way to the test. It happens, we deal with it, and it's fine.

I also think you're not giving students enough credit. They're not dumb. If noise is a problem, they're going to use headphones. If internet is flakey, they're going to find a better location to take a test.

It's such a weird double standard to see HN champion work from home as unequivocally superior to working in an office, yet whenever the topic of learning from home comes up we get a laundry list of what-about possibilities that might make the experience worse.
They should've included the WASM part in it
Naive question: how do you draw graphics in Rust? (Or "go"?) Some wrapper on top of OpenGL?
> but that is not at the expense of other software

It's always at the expense of something. Transistor budget is fixed.
>"Maybe motherboards should stop coming with dimms and use the apple approach to get great bandwidth and latency and come in 16, 32, and 64GB varieties by soldering LPDDR4x on the motherboard."

I prefer the upgradeability.
Almost every single of the tens of thousand papers by the hundreds of tenured academics in the field of protein folding are made obsolete by 10 google engineers.

This is what it's like when someone really moves the needle. And academic science cannot get it's head around it.

And yet, none of these scientists will suffer any career consequences. Their irrelevant work will be healthily cited by all the other scientists who are doing and have done irrelevant work. They'll retcon a story in their lit reviews about how their irrelevant work led to this.

The career consequences are saved for those who had their eye on the real ball for the last five years, but didn't get there first. For them, the comfortably irrelevant will have the gall to ask in accusatory tones: "What have you been doing these last 5 years?".
> I find McDonald to be a really, really shitty burger

They started serving quarter pounder burgers made-to-order a year or two ago, and if your local McD's does it properly (instead of breaking rules and making them in advance and letting them sit around), you'll get a burger that's medium on the inside, and incredibly juicy and flavorful.

It's not Shake Shack, but it's still miles better than any burger they ever sold in the past. Absolutely nothing shitty about it at all anymore. I was astonished -- never once in my life did I think I'd actually enjoy the beef in a McD's burger.
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> Lets build our own, make it work and push it live and see what crumbles.

A good attitude for a weekend project, but not a good attitude for cybersecurity.

> "Free and Opensource" until it comes to crypto which then becomes a touch area of "leave it for the experts" but with full reason makes sense in a way.

It's still very beneficial for it to be Free and Open Source. It can be studied by hobbyists and students, it can be audited and analyzed by anyone at all, or even by automated systems.

Glad it's been helpful.
thanks z2,

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