skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Old school wvw player here too. I'm so damn tempted. It looks so good, but it seems as if I'm rolling the dice as if it will work for me haha.

I think though it seems as if throwing a new account their way would help. The more money the more Dev time and all that.

Cheers
It’s hard to see it in any other light. You could always have online exams happen in front of an online board— take the human interaction we’ve always used and just move it online.

Proctorio reflects the cost cutting, hyper systemization of education, which is a trend that— every time I see it— seems to be antithetical to actual education.
I found Wails very simple to use, and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a lightweight GUI library.

However, Wails v1 uses mshtml (basically ie11) on Windows, so some features are unavailable.

Wails uses Webpack so you need npm installed when developing your app.

You might also be interested in Tauri [1] which is a similar framework but in Rust.

[1] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
As both a TA and a student during the virus, we did better and so can you. Stop trying to shoehorn your in person lesson plans and exams into virtual and design new material and tests. Dont be a shitty teacher just because you're too lazy to change your now dated ways.
I love the hover text (you can see it on mobile if you long press):

All services are microservices if you ignore most of their features.

I don’t think gluing things together is a bad idea for one off scripts etc when you just need to get stuff done
True. Not sure what the best thing to do would be.

But I don't think the government needs a list of all people with a certain religion. Could be abused.

In the end, the only reason we have this is that the church and the state are to close. Religion is private. If you are a member of a church, you pay your membership fee to the church. No need for the government to be involved. It's nothing I would start a revolution about, but slowly change the system and make it better.
the funny thing is that many jobs that aren't particularly real-life-interaction-demanding were never considered as potentially remote and still have people getting infected in their offices.

at least for those that were open to the possibility - eg many tech jobs - the taboo has been broken and ultimately i think companies that offer permanent flexibility will have an edge.
Reminds me of this story of a civil servant who was told to stay home until called, fired 5 years later when they discovered he had been paid all that time without working, ordered to pay back those 5 years of wages, fought it in court for another 6 years, and in the end won 11 years of wages.

https://www.hln.be/binnenland/ambtenaar-krijgt-211-000-euro-...
I wonder if anyone ever reverse-SLAPPd the humans behind the SLAPP suits.
Because the rules are made by lawyers
No need for stacks of `..`. Use this instead:

function up() { for i in $(seq 1 $1); do cd ..; done }

# usage:

up # goes up 1 directory

up 2 # goes up 2 directories

up 42 # goes up 42 directories
That seems optimistic. Scientific fraud is caught all the time and basically never results in anything happening. The university here repeatedly signed off on this so it's institutionally culpable. Normally when bad stuff happens in research academics just all blatantly deny anything is wrong and dare you to do anything about it.
Reminds me of the Spanish bloke who studied Spinoza while he should have been working.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/long-lunch-spa...
If decently socializing with you requires me to spent extra money, you definitely are a snooze to be around.
It's more like: I see a pattern.
A new version of the Verge article would included 4D Toys (2017) which in addition to iOS is also on Steam (with VR!)

[1] https://4dtoys.com/
Which does not make tracking everyone a solution to the problem of cheating in exams.

Higher level education is largely voluntary, and it's up to the person taking it up to decide what they gain from it. If they are only in it for a diploma, they'd get there one way or another.

To me, focusing on finding "cheaters" makes education a competition. I never felt cheaters got anything over me in my studies, and I never felt like I've got a lesser grade because of them. Does that happen in cases where you've seen "exam-sitting-for-hire" in action?

Even if you normalize your grading scale based on the students taking the exam right then, if your claim that "most students are honest" is true (and I believe it is), that should not affect any non-cheater significantly (unless you've got a small, non-representative group, but then normalizing grades is unfair to begin with).

So my question is: who are we trying to solve the problem for? What is the expected outcome, knowing that there will always be people who "cheat" their way through life too?
Ah, I didn't notice that detail of the discussion, thanks.

If "basically python" means "scripting language" vs "C++" then I can see why by that standard "performance" could be a concern to someone.

But, yeah, doesn't seem to be a Python/GDScript specific concern.
have you ever lived in manchester?
For those like me who read the article and still had no idea what KDE Gear is:

> KDE Gear is the new name for the app (and libraries and plugins) bundle of project that want the release faff taken off their hands. It was once called just KDE, then KDE SC, then KDE Applications, then the unbranded release service and now we’re banding it again as KDE Gear.

(https://jriddell.org/2021/03/22/kde-gear-21-04-apps-send-us-...)
One small detail, because the home owner has less rent he needs less capital.

I fully agree that you can do just as well renting as buying in the long run. Which is better is different for each person, and partially depends in things not knowable in the future.
C'est la vie. There are many things that it would be interesting to know, but the ethics of it wouldn't play out. It would be interesting to see how well Greg Kroah-Hartman resists under torture, but that does not mean it is acceptable to torture him to see if he would commit malicious patches that way.

To take a more realistic example, we could quickly learn a lot more than today about language acquisition if we could separate a few children from any human contact to study how they learn from controlled stimuli. Still, we don't do this research and look for much more complicated and lossy, but more humane, methods to study the same.
>This really is just your moral judgement not a fact. You think Bitcoin is wasteful. Others think it’s useful. And the debate has raged for a decade.

It's definitively a fact. BSC provides the same pyramid schemes and pump and dump cryptocurrencies for a fraction of the power consumption of Bitcoin.
Having different displays for different markets is exactly what Unicode allows for: you specify the intended symbol, and then it's localised in the font you choose. An example from the proposal is "flat dry when wet, European variant has two bars, US and Canadian variant has three bars".

A glyph in one font may look confusingly similar to a completely different glyph in another font (or the same font). If you don't have a digital version you then have to rely on context clues. You can quite reliably tell if a given C is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C or CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES, by assessing the surrounding text and the medium to see if the author was most likely writing for a Russian or an English audience.

Of course, it's possible that manufacturers currently mix contexts confusingly. In that case, having each one draw from a single Unicode palette should help.
I'm not fine with it. But those researchers are not helping at all.

And also, if I had to pick between a somewhat inclusive mode of work where some rando can get code included at the slightly increased risk of including malicious code, and a tightly knit cabal of developers mistrusting all outsiders per default: I would pick the more open community.

If you want more paranoia, go with OpenBSD. But even there some rando can get code submitted at times.
Here's my answer to that, an 'nd' (newdir?) alias that calls this python script:

https://github.com/danwills/shell-scripts/blob/bb989985d270c...

This makes all directories with names provided by args, including spaces and multiple levels (slashes) at once. It then enters the resulting directory as well (when aliased including 'cd' as advised in the comment).
> If you actually mined you would know that no two miners use the same amount of energy for a given hash rate

True but irrelevant: The upper bound for rentability is the cost of electricity plus the capital cost of the mining equipment.

As soon as the sum of these two exceeds the expected mining reward, rational miners stop mining.

I don't doubt that there are inefficient miners out there, but I strongly suspect the majority to act according to their rational economic self-interest and not as players in an expensive technological lottery.

> it's possible to come up with the solution too early or too late entirely through luck

Yes, but not consistently and therefore also not profitably so. The law of large numbers [1] applies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
scrub didn't help? I thought scrub was like fsck for ZFS.
How long was that long time?

I read a timeline once, and from what I remember it was a considerable number of days. But not more days than I would expect from any big organisation. It takes time to push data and wording up and down an orgchart until all the necessary people have signed off.

I've waited longer for routine code reviews in supposedly agile teams.
Local resellers helps funnel Oracle technology to police and military in China
Reconstruction of the Mercado Central Area’s Deadline Is Up in the Air
I don't think they sell 100% of uptime, I guess it is around 99.9....
> That can very well be socialism for a subgroup of your existing population.

Using that same line of reasoning one could frame the American slave trade as "socialist" in nature because the slave owners were "socialized" by the exploited slaves.

> Economically, on a scale from free-market to socialism, where do you think nazis rank?

Which is kinda meaningless, if you want to see were Nazis stood on what you gotta look at their actions past abstract economic theories and their own PR, you have to look at the people they oppressed, persecuted, killed and for what reasons they did it.

Or you could also look at what kind of people [0] and ideas [1] in large parts inspired them.

Those weren't socialist/communist ideals out of the East, that inspiration came nearly exclusively from the West, a lot of it from over the pond, straight down to originally coining the term "Untermensch" and the associated race theories [2]

[0] https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1938...

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch#Etymology
If you've ever done code review on a complex product, it should be quite obvious that the options are either to accept that sometimes bugs will make it in, or to commit once per week or so (not per person, one commit per week to the Linux kernel overall), once every possible test has been run on that commit.
Honestly, not at 100% today. But I am very focused to make it keyboard-friendly, many operations could be done only with keyboard. Keyboard support is improved continually, eg. recently I have added configuration of keyboard shortcuts and command palette like in VS code (after F1), if you don't like context menu.
Little related but saw a nice documentary(1) called "Have you ever heard of the "Emoji Commission"? | DW Documentary" where a lady became a passive member by buying a $20K ticket or something to get a dumpling emoji added (IIRC it was sometime ago).

If you have time to kill, it's super interesting on how they decide which emojis to add.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr9L27V337E
> what is the overlap between the set of people who check "just pay it out of checking/savings" (50%) and the set of people who check "charge it and pay off in full at the end of the month" (36%)?

The report plainly states:

> When faced with a hypothetical expense of only $400, 59 percent of adults in 2017 say they could easily cover it, using entirely cash, savings, or a credit card paid off at the next statement (referred to, altogether, as "cash or its equivalent") https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2018-economic-we...

The 4 in 10 comes from the very next paragraph of the report:

> Among the remaining 4 in 10 adults who would have more difficulty covering such an expense... https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2018-economic-we...

and, from the very next figure in the report, none of the 4 in 10 would use "cash or its equivalent" to cover such an expense. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2018-economic-we...

From this data, it is reasonable to conclude that "Four in 10 adults would not use 'cash, savings, or a credit card paid off at the next statement' to cover such an expense."
I always wondered what those weird symbols on my clothes were for. And why everything shrank, wrinkled, or changed colour.
Emoji is the sole exception to this rule and then you still need to convince the committee that separate WiFi, CPU or RAM emojis are needed to communicate the intent (say, for example, given there are other computer-related emojis). In fact I do think you can, given they were probably never suggested before [1] except for "wireless" which status is "Prioritization Pending".

[1] https://unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html
Yeah, it's not the police investigation process that's broken here...
Would you? It would probably be by far the worst agony you'd ever experienced, and given the circumstances you might also not be able to be certain you had actually experienced it. Beyond that, you'd likely face strong dissuasion if you did try to talk to anyone about it, even a doctor or nurse involved in your care, assuming the article is accurate in saying most don't really believe it can happen. It might be hard to argue with someone in a position of professional authority saying it was all just a bad dream, a pre-waking hallucination, or similar - nothing more than the anesthesia messing with your head a little, nothing you'd need to worry about. And you might well want very much to believe that was true, too.

I don't know, and I don't feel competent even to really guess. I have a degree of physical ability to tolerate pain that has drawn surprised comment from doctors and dentists in the past; between that and the mental and emotional toolkit I've had to develop in consequence of various painful illnesses for which I wasn't immediately able to obtain care, I might, very possibly, if the procedure was short and God was kind, be able to withstand something like this without being entirely crippled by trauma, maybe. Even then I don't know that I'd tell the surgeon; it would be a difficult and uncomfortable conversation to have at a time when I'd no doubt already be feeling unusually fragile. And that's me - for someone totally naïve to severe pain, and lacking any of the advantages I have in dealing with it? It's horrifying just to think about.
People like to drive outside the city to hike, travel, go to restaurants, movies, bars, ballgames, museums etc...

You don’t need to spend a huge amount on social stuff, but if you are only willing to do completely free activities, you are vastly limiting your social circle.
Canadian semiconductor firm Alphawave plans $4.5bn London IPO
That’s not enough $ for that honestly
> Killing them feels much more like payback

I'm sure many find that it didn't feel like it at all, because of my argumentation. Payback will always be incomplete. It can never be paid in full.

Even if you kill someone over and over again (some Sci-Fi comes to mind), the perp always took the first step and elevated his role in society unjustly.
It’s Time: InfiniTime 1.0
Getting paid properly is important of course, but intrinsic motivation (of which a sense of autonomy is an important driver) is very important to keep workers happy, independent of whether they're doing crowdsourcing work or just a regular job.

I find it hard to believe that this platform will be competing against Amazon Mechanical Turk on price, so they'll have to compete in other dimensions. Increasing worker motivation to improve the quality of the output is a win-win for all the stakeholders, so IMO it's worth pursuing.
> being videoed by a machine while you do a test is a) not much different from everyone else in the class who's being watched in person

> "suspicious" events get reviewed by a person

Being taped and having that tape scrutinized after the fact is not equivalent to being in the same room as an invigilator. I could accept a live video call as being roughly equivalent, but not if it’s recorded.
Exactly. As a small team, the main thing is to decide the things that you will drop.

I remember Powerhoof Games (a 2 person team) had to downgrade their pixelated graphics on Crawl, so they could have really awesome animations. Think about that: deciding to have some awesome animations in there, and therefore also deciding your pixelated graphics will be very flat and basic.
You’re Unlikely to Starve in Valencia
This is a remarkable regressive perspective. Nothing is 'unblockable'. If global powers decided tomorrow that bitcoin was a blight on humanity, they could effectively wipe out the network in a variety of ways; it wouldn't take very much coordinated regulation to deflate the hype to a point where the utility of crypto basically tanks for the average user (who are mostly speculators at this point). Just because a system _could_ theoretically replace fiat currencies doesn't mean it will; there's a reason fiat powers are fiat.

Moreover, the parent comment isn't simply complaining, and isn't even necessarily interested in presenting an opinion. You made a very strong claim about the lack of a necessary resource expenditure race in bitcoin mining (a point which I think is laughable from a thermodynamic/economic perspective) and this comment is presenting a counterargument; If none of this matters, why did you even bring it up?
> I could see it being done for something absolutely crucial such as a bar exam.

Why? How did we ever produce lawyers in the past without Proctorio?
For those who reads Russian this is the best her verse as rated at [1].

Утреннее солнце восходит утром –
Столько соблазнительных вероятий!
Что же ты, девка, ходишь по квартире,
Тапками стуча, пятки печатая?

Что тебе, голубка моя лебёдка?
Поворотись-ка, сними последнее,
В золотое зеркало полюбуйся,
Это и то вперёд выдвигая.

И чу! Я слышу глухое биенье.
Тепло бокам и шея удлинилась.
Ноги не радуют, но белым перьям
Многие подруги позавидуют.

Достаточно сделать движенье крылом –
В животе ухает; паркет остался
Далеко внизу; родные, простите,
Пишите мне до востребования.

– Бессмертная, навеки бессмертна я,
Стиксу не быть для меня преградою!

[1] https://readrate.com/rus/news/luchshie-sovremennye-russkie-s...
I agree with it. Just because it ends doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Emojipedia is not just an encyclopedia, it is a major contributor to the Unicode emoji process (its editor, Jeremy Burge, is the vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee).
I see you stoped caring about real arguments because its to much effort for you to read through them and trying to argue against them.

Sure, lucky enough, i'm arguing on hn also to make sure that comments and articles dont' scew the image of bitcoins being bad for the environment and happy enough, you stop arguing about it, does exactly this.
I've read extensively on the subject and I'm aware of the claims of using socialism as PR and I'm aware of the great purge.

At the same time, Hitler viewed Marxism not only as a philosophy close to its own, but also as a rival. I don't think the first victims of Dachau prove anything.

The only data I use to argue nazis were closer to socialism than free market capitalism is that their economy (despite having a semblance of a free economy) revolved around the state: prices, wages were fixed, members of the nazi party were put in control of private companies who disobeyed.

Hitler was definitely to the right of Stalin, but he was left of most modern left wing parties.

I also disagree with you that something is not open to debate, and I think it's worrying to hear people hold this view - especially on something so subjective as political categorisations.

Some more reading material:

https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-s...

https://fee.org/articles/anti-racists-should-think-twice-abo...
Brown and Cavill to Return as ‘Enola Holmes 2’ Is in Development
How to encourage remote water cooler moments
I would have been amazed even 5 years ago too. For example, I listened to Harry and Meaghan's cringeworthy new podcast on Spotify. Afterwards I clicked around the web, trying to find some commentary that would truly sum up my feelings.

Eventually I landed on the Daily Mail's site and what do I see? A headline: "Woke Word-Salad". At that point I had to concede: okay, maybe this is where I belong.
If you have a testing centre you don't need this kind of software, and if your students are scattered across the world due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, you can't have a testing centre for them. I consider invigilation absolutely crucial in a professional engineering degree in mid-terms and finals (engineers are more likely to hurt more people than lawyers). I don't think this kind of software is a crutch for the lazy; it's more work to organise and manage than human invigilators, and doesn't scale as well.

I don't think it's a slippery slope. We will have significantly more local students than remote for the foreseeable future, and the local students are invigilated in person. We have students wanting to opt into remote study, including using this software, but so far if they're local we tell them no (except under extreme circumstances).
Just had a quick play around with it and it is really well executed and quite a useful tool. I'm recommending it to my academic and research friends. Hats off to you and the team.
It's inhuman and barbaric to sentence criminals to death penalty (usually very quick less painful), and yet, the usually much worse criminal acts (cold-blood torturing, mass murdering, beheadings, etc.) that they ACTUALLY conducted on other completely innocent human beings are just not inhuman and barbaric and unethical enough for you to the point that you think it is not even worth discussing and a no-brainer to forgive. This is why the crimes are on the rise in this world, and justice is not being enforced by law due to the hypocritical "empathy" for the real criminals.
Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (2019)
I think I have three different sets of textile care symbols in my closet depending on whether the piece of clothing was ordered from the US, Europe or Japan. It's a handful.
In person exams. In a pandemic, that can be a problem.
While I despise software like this and how high-stakes and petty it can be, keep in mind that it's in the institution's interests to not only provide a quality education, but to defend the value of their brand.

You might have worked very hard for a diploma from University X, but if it was found that University X was handing out diplomas like candy to other students that were not as academically rigorous, it weakens the value of your diploma.