skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don’t have sympathy for the cheaters who were caught, I really dislike this method of trying to catch them. When encountering an impossible problem, an honest student winds up not only wasting time trying to solve it, but also may get discouraged by the failure to do so. Both of these can result in underperforming for honest students.

All that makes me wonder why the teacher didn’t do what most would (and what is common across standardized tests): prevent using the bathroom during the test.
Your own house? Homeownership rates in Western Europe are ridiculously low. Here in Switzerland, many are renting for life.
China's Chang'e-5 Lunar Capsule Returns to Earth Carrying Moon Rocks
Then the answer is extinction. Current tech is completely incapable of even attempting to help. We may as well try to solve the issue of governance with steam engines or the wheel - they're as close to being helpful as any other tech we have today.
How about this, it's not hypocritical to think that discrimination against gay people is wrong but "discrimination" against people calling for violence is right. It's only hypocritical if you think that calling for violence and being gay are equally morally wrong. That or if you think that those who were saying you shouldn't discriminate against minorities were also including people calling for murder as a minority (they weren't).
I tried to use Blender for video editing. It wasn't pleasant. Creating proxies to scrub through video at any reasonable speed was finicky. And Blender didn't warn me that my video has variable framerate and just placed frames evenly spaced on timeline.

I'm pretty new to video editing and I have a lot of trouble to find a tool that just works and makes simple things easy to do.

Best I found was on Android. It's called YouCut Video Editor.
> Imagine if MS could do this back in the 90s on Windows, would that have been acceptable?

It was not acceptable and they were forced to display a browser selection pop-up, on a OS that already freely allowed users to install whatever browser they wished.

Contrast this with Apple's iOS, where they somehow get away with not allowing any other browser engine than Safari's Webkit.
An article that talks to much about the need of exercise but so little about diet and food. Watch "fed up", the most part of it is your diet, exercise is required, but not as much as a good diet thats refined sugar/processed free.
I disagree, the drivetrain difference is because it's an EV, a Volkswagen EV has the same type of drivetrain a Tesla does but a Tesla doesn't have the same build quality as the Volkswagen. They wouldn't have to compromise on the drivetrain because It's cheap to build a reliable single speed transmission that can handle <insert newton here>, and 3 phase motors are cheap and easy to mass manufacture too.

I just don't see any justification in worse quality than a 1995-ish SAAB because It's got a touch screen.
It's always two things.

1. You need to make officials accountable.

2. You have to make everyone in the country understand what's good for them and give them the ability to make informed votes.

Uganda is suffering from 1. The US and Europe is suffering more from 2. (extremism in any direction). They are completely different problems.

Censorship goes against 1. Fake news goes against 2.
It's crazy how editing still hasn't improved much on mobile. Compare it with the desktop editor. I guess people don't really do much editing on mobile?
I dont see how the militias who brought bombs to capitol or planned execution of governor could be radicalized further.

I am also in uneasy when these are equated with general right wing. Yes, contemporary right wing is generally enabling them at best, but I still see it better if right wing wont become synonym with armed attackers groups.
Not sure collapsing is the right word here. Sounded to me more like a portion split off
I clicked get started and nothing happened. Pretty pictures on the website, though.
tl;dr: an engineering prof made an unsolvable problem and had a TA ask the same problem online, and answer it with a wrong answer. Those who answered with the online answer (because they went to the bathroom and found it on their phone) got a zero on the test.

There are so many details lacking (e.g. when and where did this happen?) that I question its veracity, but if it did happen it seems pretty inconsiderate to the non-cheating students to put an unsolvable question on there.
still the students wasted time on a question they couldn't answer and that impacts a fail/pass grade. don't know in the uk but in germany this wouldn't be legal
Where does it leave the people who lack trust in that kind of delegation? What do we do about that?

I'm inclined to agree with what you describe, but it worries me how many of them (us?) have come to feel that it doesn't work.

We have a growing left convinced that 'the government' is just a bunch of elites caring about maintaining their wealth, and a growing right that believes the same.

I feel both perspectives are at least not unreasonable. So as someone trying to be reasonable and in favor of maintaining some kind of order, where does that leave me? How do we maintain order without accepting a very small elite to maintain it's (corrupt) power? How do we talk to our 'constituents' about this?

I'm truly in favor of solutions that don't end up causing societal chaos and killing people, but I'm lost as to the how.
CTO: "This is an important and disruptive decision. I feel that we need X more time to gather information and make sure we don't kill the company doing it incorrectly. What do you suggest?"

It's the CEO's job to be able to weigh different kinds of risks and make a decision. So bubbling up your concerns is the correct answer.
Side stepping the free speech issue, they should have let Parler die on its own accord because it’s such a garbage app.
I had a few CS professors at the University of Illinois that allowed students to answer “I don’t know” for any question and receive 25% of the points on that question. (I utilized this multiple times myself)

If this professor did that, would people be less angry about him putting an unanswerable question on the exam?
I doubt if all Americans that voted for Trump are sympathetic to the Capitol riots. Polls showed that the majority of Republicans were against them.

Yougov showed 45% support among Republicans: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio....

PBS/Marist poll, only 18%: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/533452-poll-18-percent-of-....
That is odd because I have seen people advocating the use of face masks on various reddits since the begining of covid.
What kind of mentality is it to fire/sue/witchunt people over the smallest things and try and destroy their lives?
Tests suck. I understand they are necessary, and I don't have a better idea on how to do them, bit they suck.

I remember the mechanics exams from University. You would get a test that is simply impossible to finish in the given time, which meant that you had to practise doing the calculations really fast. You had to speedrun through the whole exam, pattern matching the examples against stuff you practised. No time to think about them.

Knowing fully well that the exam could only be finished in time via this method, they made sure to put examples in it that we had never seen before. And while this is the right way to test understanding, and the way I prefer my tests to be, I really don't understand how they can ask you to do both at the same time, with that time pressure.

We had more than 50% fail rate at these exams, which the professor was proud of.

And all of this combined with the worst teaching I ever witnessed.

I also had a fun experience getting between two professors once. I failed the second semester math exam, and the assistant professor held a refresher course in the third semester, for the roughly 100 people who also failed. It was 1.5 hours for something like 6 weeks. It was the best class I've ever been in, and I really deeply understood all the stuff for the first time.

The professor proper then prepared an exam for us that 95% of the people failed (I managed to get a passing grade, along with 5 other people).

Literally an old professor being angry at a younger one who does better teaching. And that old professor was even pretty good, to be fair.
Yes it seems this is how people are interpreting it. By "problematic" I meant that the distinction of "European users" is problematic to me because it is unclear how the distinction is made. As an EU resident who doesn't live in the EU and doesn't use WhatsApp on an EU phone number, will they allow me to be exempt?

By "millions" I meant that there have to be millions of EU citizens and residents living, working, and traveling outside of the EU. And there have to be millions of Africans, Asians, Americans, etc living, working, and traveling in the EU. Does this cover them?

I'm not a lawyer or some super well-read privacy person... just an average Internet person who thinks Facebook already gathers too much data.
I honestly prefer Safari because the WebKit team deliberates before deciding whether to implement or not. This is evident by their status page.[0]

This has its pros and cons, and is up for debate (Eg. Web Bluetooth API[1], another example is how much time it took Apple to implement Google/YouTube's codec). I personally prefer their slow and steady pace as I feel the browser is lighter and more easy on the battery than Chrome and Chromium based browsers.

[0] https://webkit.org/status/

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101034
But that's exactly what happens, for example, in Russia or Belarus. The opposition claims the election was rigged, the court dismisses these claims, and the government uses the law against inciting violence to silence and or jail the opposition. And it is nearly impossible to prove that the elections in the whole were rigged - in the best case they have a proof on a number of episodes that total in, let's say, 100k of votes, but that still doesn't prove the overall result is falsified.
Ah the mirror, reposting stories from /r/prorevenge. Quality journalism at its best.
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Wouldn’t you say that not getting hung up on the little details is a vital real-world skill? Like you say, it’s a fact of life that some do. Should we ignore it then, so that everybody has a “fairer” chance?

In fact, this is one of the most exam-tackling strategies: spot and rake up points with low-hanging fruits throughout the test.
Is that pronounced "noob" or "new-bee"
I remember when it came out, I think I read about it on Slashdot. I dismissed it at the time as a utopian ideal that would never work in the real world.

I'm glad I was proven wrong.
The warm period in December has a word in Norwegian: kakelinna, traditionally thought to be caused by excessive baking before Christmas. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakelinna
> According to a book I read years ago, some people pronounce it "Squirrel", but I've never personally met one.

Interesting. Adding to that, MQTT is pronounced as Mosquitto.
Is etsy really the recommended pronunciation? I say et cetera.
I find the whole argument that 2nd amendment rights support rebellion a bit weird. (UK speaker here.) The US government has marines, tanks, and advanced weaponry. Even the police are tooled up to the 9s, partly because of those very 2nd amendment rights. Is there any case of a citizen militia successfully using force to overthrow a modern state with a well-equipped, loyal army?
What is your tech stack?
Neither Biden nor Trump actively incited riots. Though both were wishy washy about their respective riots, generally supporting "protestors" and giving generic statements disavowing violence.
Oh thank your for your feedback

Regarding pricing, this is what I'm struggling with. The reason for fixed pricing is to cover commission + if I got a lot of users with like "$0.01/mo" usage, then it'd be hard to support all of them, it's literally free option.

I thought about prepaid, I don't remember exactly why I declined that option. I think I liked the digital ocean model, though they don't have fixed dollar.

Hmm
I have only a high school biology background so I had trouble understanding.

Could you please explain in simpler terms what this means?
The main matrix instance is overloaded and slow so plenty of active people use other instances. Though, most people probably sign up on the main instance.
Mexican farmers find rare female statue in citrus grove
These examples are a joke though. No reasonable person thinks "the gloves are off" or "destroy them" coming from AOC is violent intent.

A reasonable person could reasonably interpret endlessly repeated claims that some liberal cabal is literally overthrowing the government and that America will actually die without immediate action, followed by violence that isn't condemned, mixed with blatant encouragement of violent action, with a long history of identical behavior, as violent.

Your examples might work in a vacuum where the reader has no knowledge of common english terms, any cultural context for the language, or any context about who the speaker is (though even then I think the obvious difference would be detected).
Not to mention that this was posted and answered online, and it's possible that one or more of the students might have actually seen the question beforehand and memorized it. Some people have eidetic memories.

I have no respect for cheaters, but catching innocents in this little trap is absolutely unconscionable to me.
The National Guard is a military reserve force, trained in military combat. A few hundred years ago the roles of the police and the army might have been much more similar, but today we have better ideas in how to address an occupied building.

History is full of examples and dead bodies where the military has been used against its own people who oppose or obstruct the execution of law. It many countries it also follows a period of regret and new laws in order to prevent something similar to ever happen again. Just because the government has a law that gives them authorization to send the military in order to secure a building, it doesn't mean it is a good idea.

Would the military trained personnel have done a better job during the capital attack than the police trained one?
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Is you are in the US or Brazil, https://absam.io might be an interesting choice.

Their cheapest plan is 30 BRL (about 5.50 USD) for 1 GB or RAM and 50 GB of storage.
As a counter-argument, is it not a little obnoxious to use Ecosia with your ad-blocker turned on?

What's the point of using Ecosia if not to help them fund-raise for their environmental projects? Why not use Google or Bing directly (with an ad-blocker) and save the Ecosia the bandwidth costs?
I would argue that students who haven't learned this skill have a certain expected value of penalty already applied, when they take a legitimate test. An impossible question compounds the penalty.

EDIT: In other words, if you know to hoover up the easy marks, you get a better score anyway.
I've always wondered about this in the context of dynamic equilibria; a system where nobody reigns over one another seems like it would be unstable. As soon as one person breaks the "truce" and does start to reign over somebody else, they then have a little more power and they might use that extra power to accumulate even more power. The usual answer seems to be that all the other people in society would somehow band together to oppose the initial perpetrator and then voluntarily split up their band/mob/militia again at the end, instead of keeping the power they formed by banding together. If one of the groups does not disband, you'd need an even greater group to forcedly disband the first and then an even greater group to disband the next and so on until you are right back where we are now: with nation sized groups in detente against each other.

It seems the current situation naturally forms from a system where no one reigns over one another as a result of people having personal ambitions. I don't think ambition is something humanity has the means for to abolish, even if we wanted to (which is in itself an interesting debate).
Renewables are very important, and that is why I very much dislike the term "clean energy".

> Most claims of running on “clean” electricity come with caveats, and many technologies required for round-the-clock renewable energy aren’t quite ready yet.

IMO the bigest caveat is that none of the energy they are writing about is clean, even though it is better in many ways - please use meaningful terms.
It works like that in troubled countries and areas where civil wars are frequent events. In a democracy youth goes out and protests without being shot live rounds at.

I was not equating blocking the app stores with addressing youth unemployment.

Silencing the opposition didn't quite work for Idi Amin, because the opposition became part if the military which topped him and tge next president.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-10/as-polar-...

Fewer cool graphics but much more understandable article.
I always thought the correct way was "attic" or "et cetera", but a few years ago I learned it is etsy.
Neither Germany nor Netherlands belongs to the Nordic countries though?
I really don't like the term "coordinated" here. Seems to imply intent, and maybe a powerful actor pulling the strings.

To me the situation feels a lot more like 4 friends sitting together...

friend1: hey, you still owe me money, pay me back!

friend2: huh yeah me as well!

friend3: me as well and planned to pay me back tomorrow. will you even have enough left? better dow it now!

Even with this just happening organically on the spur of the moment, triggered by his own behavior, it would be easy for friend4 to feel like there was an orchestrated setup...
As an engineer speaking to someone who is clearly also an engineer - you're highly discounting the levered impact proper, high quality leadership makes on a business.
This isn't the same. I'd compare it with Putin having lost in the election and trying to prep his base to overturn the votes using lies and propaganda.
( Belgian opinion)
How do you define non-destructive? It's possible to do peaceful protest that are nonetheless economically destructive.
I did CS as an undergrad. I'll never forget one assignment that was given to the class. It was difficult and we were all struggling to produce the correct results. Most of us were working on it separately in the computer lab but a few had grouped up to solve it. At one point, someone announced they had found the exact problem and answer detailed online. Everyone (except me) crowded around and confirmed it was the same question. The URL was shared and most people had the answer. Unfortunately it didn't turn out like this article. I scrapped a pass while everyone else in the class got top marks.

It left a sour taste in my mouth as I refuse to cheat - even in a pub quiz - but it gave me a reality check I suppose.
Social mobility in and of itself isn't desireable. But the possibility for it, is. Otherwise you'd (1) live in a static society where those in power, stay in power, and those who're not, never will, even if they wanted to. And (2) you'd also live in a society which is not conducive to exploiting the talents and resources within it, as swathes of people are never able to move up the socioeconomic ladder.

When looking at an individual, you of course can't conclude that because someone didn't move up the socioeconomic ladder, that there's some kind of problem to be remedied. This could have many reasons, many of which entirely reasonable.

But looking at it from a societal perspective, on aggregate, it is a useful proxy. You'd expect that among different population groups in different countries, humans would be roughly similar in their tendency to be ambitious, safe for some cultural differences. If one in country you see that there's very little social mobility compared to another (taking into account cultural differences), that's a good proxy to determine that the earlier mentioned problems exist, (1) the power imbalance and (2) not using human resources effectively.

So if you find that in the US, social mobility is lower than in Nordic countries, despite a stronger culture of 'you can be anything you want' and the 'american dream', that can be a useful indicator that there's a power imbalance and a system not conducive to letting people be the best version of themselves.

How any one individual chooses to live their life is a completely separate manner. We would have to assume that roughly, there will be about as many people with a disposition to life as you, in countries around the world. That's why ceteris paribus it's interesting to look at social mobility on a national level.

It's a bit like BMI not being useful for individuals, but being useful for larger studies.
This is mitigated somewhat by "there was one particular question that wasn't related to what they had all been taught in class"

But I agree
Parent probably meant renting not owning. Although in Europe there is some social housing poor people can buy, while if you're middle class you're kinda screwed as you're considered too rich to be allowed to buy into social housing but are too poor to afford buying into upper class housing and middle class housing in almost a disappearing species. You either live in the nice green quiet areas where all the old money is or you'll be a renter your whole life.
But in reality we all know why he's not attending, and it isn't because his mom can't drive him or he didn't buy tickets.

Context is king, as always.
A wonderful parable on engineering complex systems.
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What an extraordinarily well written article. It appears the author has won some awards for her writing http://www.aurvi.com/
I am in Scotland.

What did you ask. Was it something like "Do you think it might put girls off computing to know for years the main picture used for image processing was a cropped picture from Playboy" (I don't mind you asking a different question, but I'm curious what you asked).

Yes, the image "as is" is fine, but people in the area know where it comes from, and what it is used for.
> Just as important to build (some...) trust and preserve culture among remaining employees.

This reminds me of how Toyota did it: they calculated roughly how many workers they'd need in a plant (counting expected future optimisations), then they went ahead and just said, "This is how many we think are needed to do the job. As you can see, we have been forced to fire 25% of you. The rest of you have a lifetime guarantee of employment with us."

And, critically, they didn't back down on that guarantee. That always struck me as really understanding how important it is to build trust among the ones that remain.
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> That guy is just unreadable, I wonder if he was schizophrenic.

I find him among the most readable of philosophers, maybe the most readable. I can't think of any philosopher who is as readable. I don't care for Zarathustra or his poetry, but everything else he wrote I've read numerous times, with a lot of pleasure. Often he's very funny.

Only his last book Ecce Homo seems really nuts, and even that has a lot of good stuff in it besides the grandiose claims.
I've heard multiple pronunciations of "kubernetes"

Koo-burr-net-ease

koo-burr-neet-ease

Cube-burr-neet-ease
The intersection of politics and technology is highly relevant to HN.
By the same logic used to bring down Parlor, Twitter itself should be shut down
That is a lie.
I had not made any ideological or nationalistic comment I merely stated that culturally american values are very different and is often forced upon people in other countries via the internet. I don't wish HN to become that way, once I see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html enforcing conformity to american culture I will stop using it as I'm sure many users in other countries will. Thank you Dang for moderating accordingly.