skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct this is a staff failure, the failure lies in using the software in the first place.

If we agree that the current situation is so exceptional that we need to fully monitor all students taking exams (and that's still a big if, I also am a university teacher, we don't use any monitoring system. There are other solutions as well such as taking oral exams...), one could simply hire a bunch of proctors who watch the video feed. Considering the savings that universities have made they could send one to everyone's home even.
Yup, this has happened over and over again throughout history. More recently with Stalin, with Han Chinese, in the Balkans, etc.

But also in Medieval times and many centuries before. E.g when Sweden gained control over Scania (Southern tip of today's Sweden) from Denmark in the 17th century they relocated a lot of native Swedes into that area to pacify the population. (I may need to reference this, I am only remembering school history classes...)

All to establish control, though we see it sometimes does quite the opposite. Though I would also think some of it is natural migration. So not always forced, but probably "encouraged".

Though always more when borders have changed. Not to combat an internal "culture"/crime problem.
What kind of argument is this? You're already barbarians so might as well be consistent?
What a shame to have a University with such integrity, descend so low as to commit such a criminal offence. It's really sad
I actually think this is a great idea. If I’m understanding it correctly, it’s essentially Amazon MechanicalTurk for people in your company?

Paired with some capabilities for building custom interfaces (if that doesn’t already exist), this would allow many less savvy companies slowly integrate their human processes into their software processes. Of course there’s something to be said about making human redundancy so interactive and personal for the victim, but from a cost savings/business standpoint it’s probably hard to ignore the potential value.

Good luck! I may pitch this to my team next time we need something semi-automated (btw you’re kind of competing with Slack bots, that’s what we use now.)
No, it's from the word "Proctor" which is frequently a person overseeing an exam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctor
If you only want the sh, you can get it even smaller. This doesn't UPX the busybox bin, though:

$ ls -shL `nix-build -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).pkgsCross.musl64.busybox.override { enableStatic = true; enableMinimal = true; }'`/bin/sh

128K /nix/store/qkq9cj81mcvnfr5y04jmf6nqvnrfg2z1-busybox-1.31.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/bin/sh
Old but still working

Recreate an image as vegetables http://veganizer.veganblatt.com/
If the only reason we sentence people to death were because it is more humane than putting them in prison for life, then it would be given as an option to the prisoner. I don't know of any case of someone sentenced to life in prison who argued they would rather be put to death.

Edit: I've now done some research and found some death-row-inmates do express a preference for a death sentence:

https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2012/09/25/why-death-row-inmates-...

https://www.quora.com/Is-prison-crueller-than-the-death-pena...

http://www.bu.edu/pilj/files/2015/09/17-2SmithArticle.pdf
Right, except Ukraine is not going to attack.

Ukraine has to modernize army (including anti-air), stabilize economy (around 3% year to year growth prior to COVID). With each year more and more people understand that Russia is, unite against aggressor. It forces our government to implement much needed reforms. Meanwhile Russia economy is crumbling. All we need is time.

Unfortunately question today is not about deoccupation, but about preserving our freedom and sovereignty.
Proctor is in wide use in education, not just in the US.
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
A no doubt standard need not cost extra money.
This is from evidence already collected.

Costs would actually be reduced as can shorten the appeals process when a no doubt standard has been met.

Mass murders who don't hide their killings would be one example. Costs no extra money to meet the no doubt standard.
But that's an implementation detail - some software might let you hand write text into an image with a brush or pen, and that might use as its internal representation the X,Y coordinates of the brush strokes.
> You can never get that back. Everything you do is just a reaction.

Yes, but you can try. I can see why the loved ones of a murdered person feel someone is 'getting away' when he is still alive. Killing them feels much more like payback.

I don't that this does reasonably make sense, but I can understand where they are coming from.
If you want text, and something very simple, then I would (and did) start here:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

It was a very simple process, there were one or two typos I found in the code that an experienced programmer should be able to resolve themselves if they haven't been fixed yet.

I haven't done more yet since but would like to. Unfortunately playing games is too fun.
There's some surprising absences in unicode.

For instance, while messing around with setting up the i3/Sway bar, I couldn't find symbols for:

* WiFi. Really. There's U+1F4F6, but it's not exactly the right thing.

* Anything to indicate CPU usage, like some sort of microprocessor chip.

* Anything to indicate RAM usage.

This is curious because for instance U+1F50A and U+1F507 exist, so you'd expect to have a set of such generally useful icons. Plus, it's computer tech. The lack of computer related stuff is odd, given that there's no lack of many things I have no idea what they're good for, such as U+1F574 ("Man in business suit levitating")

Edit: would be nice to have unicode support on here. Seems it gets stripped.
It bears note that this is still subject to a MITM attack on whatever channel is used for the information exchange. You cannot generate a shared secret without either an existing shared secret or some form of secure authenticated communication channel in the first place. I mean, you can, but you can't be sure who it is that you're sharing the new secret with.
With this type of argument you attack one of the central tenets of human rights where every human life, no matter what, is worth the same. The moment you define that there are certain crimes where a human life is not the same as other human lives, no matter the reason, you move away from this core tenet.

It's all a matter if you believe in that core piece of universal human rights or not.
I agree that incarceration is a necessary compromise and of course I don't want a killer to strike again. Forgiveness doesn't mean that I'm against all punishment. But I think that it means there always has to be a chance for somebody to change – no matter what they did. Even life sentences without any chance of parole should not be possible: if somebody is no longer a danger to society they should be allowed to return at some point.
>Framing the death penalty debate around "innocent people get killed" will not change the partisan/class perceptions.

I don't agree. All of these moral castigations about it being 'inhumane' or 'barbaric' don't strike me as rational or compelling in the least. I think the idea is humane in the context of those impacted by the crimes in question and I don't see how putting a person in a box for the remainder of their life is qualitatively any less barbaric.

I don't know where pg lands politically but I'd say I'm probably right of center on the American spectrum and for me there are only two persuasive arguments that we should abolish the death penalty. One is that we make mistakes in who gets it, per TFA, and the other is that it's difficult to concretely describe the qualifications of who should get it, risking expansion at the whim of the populace. In other words I absolutely believe there are just executions, I'm just not entirely sure we can create a system to do it justly.
It’s not metaphysical, there are documented cases of biological causes (tumor) causing pedophilia: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2943-brain-tumour-cau...
Sure, free will may not exist, but we don’t have much of a civilization if we don’t pretend that it does.
His legal costs fundraising page is at [1] and gives come background to the harassment by Proctorio.

[1] https://ca.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio
Sexist assholes
Using 8 new accounts in 30 minutes to submit coodingdessign.com articles will only get your domain banned.
You can even drop the battery completely and keep the same dynamics.
Its way way way more complex than that. One point is that you have life imprisonment without parole - the same effect of people not coming back to society is achieved. Another one is expense - death row costs AFAIK are higher than life imprisonment, so the harmed society pays even more.

As for truly horrible crimes (which is something else to each of us), there are also tons of different views - do we want to be in society that is above emotional vengeful reactions, and more about compassionate loving ones? Ie like all good christians/muslims/etc are supposed to be according to their holiest books? You have to start somewhere if you even want to get there. You have to be morally strong to act in smart and compassionate way if you want to claim progress of mankind in this area. And so on.

I don't have a clear position on this myself and not stating some higher moral ground, since there are many pros and cons on both sides and quick emotional reaction to some murderous pedophile is as expected. But I am 100% certain that this very topic reveals a lot about mankind and us humans in our progression to be a better species, compared to primitive uneducated masses of the past. Or regression, its up to us.
But with various AI/ML approaches it's now becoming pretty straightforward. And lots of new hardware has ML acceleration.
Superyacht squeezes down narrow Dutch canals
What next, human Kubernetes?
(No no no it's a Joke, Deliveroo and Uber staff, don't you dare paste that into Slack)
Agreed, the lawsuit is a terrible thing to do full stop, and doesn't seem to make business sense either. Maybe they think his critiques are worse than the bad press.

I agree about the privacy concerns, and in normal circumstances I wouldn't use proctoring software, because all my students would be local (or they would have signed up as distance students knowing this kind of thing would be needed). I would also have much less issue with it if it was open source.

I see it as a currently-necessary annoyance, as the least bad option. The alternatives have greater deficiencies: human invigilators using Zoom etc. don't scale (institution experience); oral exams don't scale (my experience moderating such assessments); no invigilation leads to cheating (by few students but enough to be a real problem, especially for professional qualifications - my direct experience and institution experience); shutting down education until the pandemic's over is unfeasible.
That may be, but I can tell you without whom the world would be MUCH better off: murderers.
For those new to the browser wars, Chrome beat Microsoft's entrenched browser monopoly by adroitly leading on quality and security. Also, I think there might be something to the modern computer user having more awareness that "cross-platform" might matter even if they don't personally use 3 platforms every day.
At my previous position (bank) we called this concept "baba layer". Baba in most slavic languages means "old woman". And when used this term "baba layer" was as an indicator that your system sucks (a bit) that you cant really automate some things away. Or as and easy "solution" to difficult problems. "Well, we just let baba layer solve this"
There are only 3 Free Product Models
It's all over all sorts of EU media, I think in no small part fueled by 'remind me why we're giving Italy 222 BILLION euros in Covid recovery money when they spend it like this?' thinking. Which on the one hand is fair enough; on the other, articles like this coming out shows that you're trying to improve things. The general idea in the rest of Europe is that this sort of thing is rampant in the South, I don't know to what extent that is correct. Anecdotes online suggest that it's not a completely isolated incident, at the least.
> What would Hitler have done with it?

What would Hitler do with space ships? Colonize the Moon, I guess.

> This is why in Germany there were protests against recording peoples religion during the census.

You already do that for tax purposes, right?
>Then one day Google decided to suspended the app without warning because of 'deceptive behaviour'. Saying the app does not work as the title says.

You're claiming that Google haven't told you what the problem is but you also say that Google said the app doesn't doesn't work as the title says and that there is some deceptive behaviour. These statements are contradictory.

I think it's going to be hard for anyone to judge what has happened without more detail about what the app is and what the title is.
Alibaba Data Scraper
For archiving ebooks you have purchased, you might want to check out Kobo's book store instead of Amazon. Some publishers chose not to use DRM at all or use Adobe's. Depending on the jurisdiction you live in, downloading the file with Adobe Digital Editions and stripping DRM with Calibre and the DeDRM plugin[0] can be an option as well.

It take a bit more effort, but prevents the store from pulling an Amazon on your purchased ebooks like they did with 1984 a while back.

[0] https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/
Creativity Advice, According to GPT-3
> but what does society gain from ruining his life in turn, to the point of what feels like mental torture: Being locked up for such a long time, all the while knowing that you will eventually just be executed.

From what I gather on Americans' comments about this over the years it's mostly about "not spending taxpayer money" to house, feed and take care of criminals that received a death penalty.

I don't know how true this argument can be given all the costs over decades associated with a death penalty judgment (appeals, preparation for death row, maintaining death rows, etc.)

Quick edit after reading the thread a bit more, an example of what I mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26900987
In contrast, Orwell's fundamental rejection of the totalitarian surveillance society is well known and documented. Even in 100 years, those who are interested can read it all.
It's just another tool to internalize the discrimination. As long as nobody hits both them and their clients hard, holding them responsible for building the tool as such, for choosing it, or for continuing to use it knowing the issues, there's no incentive for anyone to do better.

Think of it another way. If you knowingly contract a member of the KKK to do your hiring, you can't pretend not to know why people of color don't get hired in your company.

Proctorio's issue may be more subtle than the "in your face" example I gave above but they're there and whoever contracts them does so with full awareness of them.

P.S. Because I'm sure the wave of downvotes is less about people supporting racism and more about ignorance, let me further support my point about such tech with real life examples:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gxg3/proctorio-is-using-ra...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254631/university-of-il...

https://twitter.com/uhreeb/status/1303139738065481728

https://twitter.com/cmg/status/1304593597338185730
Well that great military industrial complex, with its 2 dozen intelligence agencies and access to every data source imaginable had no clue where Donald Trump came from. Same story will repeat with Palantir or whoever else. Just having access to all data doesnt mean anything or our libraries and patent offices would be mass producing Einsteins.

Its like watching huricanes, you can have thousands of sensors, radar, satelites etc and have no clue which way its going to move tomorrow morning. And no one is even day dreaming about what needs to happen before the chimp troupe with 6 inch brains can control the path of a
huricane.

So while these data oriented firms be it Palantir, FB, Netflix all happily trumpet capabilities of prediction and control there is lot of proof they are coasting on hot air.
Is your comment any better?
>But it’s today clear that “the China price” stemmed in some measure from the coerced labor of Uyghur Muslims.
In a complicated manner.

Really, why is this a problem for people on HN?

I'm hoping it's not what I think it is.
NFTs that point to particular IPFS proxies or that point to IPFS files that nobody pins are not a great start. There are technical solutions to this problem, like using Arweave instead.

Overall I don't really like or care about NFTs.
So we train an ML model to convert images to text. How do we encode that text information?
oh, that's useful. Thanks - I filed a bug. Hope I can use it soon!
dwm.exe is in the same directory, c:/Windows/System32. The process is launched by Windows automatically, immediately after login. The desktop capture app I was working on is launched way later than that, by user.
You can make that argument for any piece of entertainment. why live? let's all kill ourselves, that way we won't use any energy anymore.
What problem is alchemical symbols(https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/alchemical-symbols/) solving ? Not every character is solving an issue, but they represent something that exists today and is already a standard icon.
U.S. senators question Apple and Google on app store dominance
The tooling for doing all that with images is called a font.
Well, now you know why Denmark and Norway suspended AZ vaccinations for everyone, and many European countries stopped them for everyone younger than 65. It wasn’t because their governments are antivaxxers.
The criminal justice system can still function without the false premise of free will and agency, and without the false premise that someone with a brain tumor magically has less agency than someone without a brain tumor but who has some more complicated and less understood problem with their brain.

It can be premised on concepts such as rehabilitation (which I believe mostly can't happen with murderers), deterrence, creating a sense of fairness in society (which builds trust), protecting people from the murderer, and so on.
Could this be used to write dynamic analysers more easily? Like valgrind but without the need to decompile/modify/recompile the analyzed process.
> intended to take on a specific gendered role; to politely and submissively assist.

> Moreover, the monotonous presence of pre-recorded voices also embodies the stereotype of the ‘nagging’ female. She’s constantly reminding us to remove shopping bags from the checkout, to mind the gap, to be careful and so on.

One of these is not like the other.

A thought exercise for the article authors: how would these parts of the article look if the voice sounded like a man?
What exactly is it you're arguing for? I don't get it. What difference is there between recording a female and making a male recording sound female?
Just to clarify in case OP wasn’t aware, HackerNews readers are often privacy conscious folk, and it’s quite well known that Microsoft (like Google and Facebook) embed a lot of user activity monitoring into their applications. The audience is happy you are not doing this.
Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview – GUI App Support with Windows Subsystem for Linux
When you've seen exam-sitting-for-hire in action, you believe it. Most students are honest and genuinely want to learn, and the few that are dishonest cause everyone to be subjected to this. It sucks for everyone, students and staff.
Funding of Open Source Web-Projects in Austria (by netidee / Internet Stiftung)
I don't like proctorio, but in situations where it is really necessary for students to demonstrate a certain level of knowledge (think: medicine), I just don't see a reasonable alternative to online proctoring, given the circumstances.

Why would you say that this is evidence of a 'screwed' system?
It’s not so surprising considering Unicode is about text, not about symbols.
Thanks for this. I've been using Beekeeper Studio (https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/) and I've been mostly happy with it, but glad to see alternatives. The only problem I have with Beekeeper is that scrolling the table view is really slow (laggy and jumpy), I assume it's because of Electron. Is DbGate any different there, you're using Electron too?
Go 1.17 will provide up to 10% better performance thanks to register-based ABI
This is the kind of thing used by companies with terrible management. I hope universities that rely on these extreme tools come to realize how badly it reflects on them.
Personal Narratives, Tribalism, and Robots
How the U.S. Postal Service Forever Changed the West
Blurring is a good idea! It could work with placeholder images, but it'll probably be better with smaller ones (eg. profile pictures).
I don’t see your counter argument here.

The post is indeed arguing that “zero people killed by the government for crimes they did not commit” is more ok than “greater than zero people killed.”

This is a valid argument, drawing on the intuition that accidentally letting a guilty person escape death (even if we accept they deserve it) is a lesser evil than letting an innocent person die.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-initial-previ... is the microsoft blog link, available at the bottom of the phoronix article.
> The state should not have the power over the life of a person.

Then it can't do war and can't defend its existence as a state unless it's somehow a dependent state of some other state that does have power over the life of a person. Like some small Pacific island that's protected by more militarily well equipped allies.
That's still not the problem: Proof-of-work mining wastes energy purposefully, while any other type of data processing only does so coincidentally.

Data centers would jump at the opportunity of using 50% less electricity due to more efficient processors. Bitcoin miners would just mine twice as fast.
Could this also be used as a different way to prepare processes in the fork/exec dance? To do a post-exec setup instead of a pre-exec one.
Peak psychological safety.
There's plenty symbols in it. For instance:

https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/miscellaneous...
International Space Station About to Get Crowded, and It's Running Out of Beds
> such as U+1F574 ("Man in business suit levitating")

It looks like this character made it into Unicode due to the fact that it was part of the Webdings typeface. Given how widespread that was, many of its characters made their way into Unicode.

https://codepoints.net/U+1F574

Now what it's original intent was, I'm not sure.
Some very impressive examples here: http://www.zintaglio.com/knots.html (and a video of them and others here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnfuH6nTs5A)
This is the most absurd thing I've heard this month. The page you are looking at right now is in fact an image that your computer put on screen.

However, that fact does not help you when you want to reply to my comment. Or more generally, if you want to edit, transform, store, compress, search.

I can easily search 1GB of text on my computer for a specific pattern. I could not even store all that information directly encoded as (say) raster or vector graphics.
I was a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan when I was young, I'm a big Aphex Twin/Richard D. James fan and I don't know if I'd ever connect those two songs on a playlist or even play them together. That might be the issue, it's too much a subjective judgment.

I've worked and interviewed for companies that do music analysis to find moods, atmospheres, similar timbres, chords and structure to mix and match automated playlists for business needs (restaurants, cafés, retail stores and so on), would like to see what kind of similarity scores they could get between the songs you mentioned.