skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a TU Delft master’s student so I can comment on this.
E-proctoring here is highly dependent on your department (also called faculty). I am in the TPM faculty where we don’t have any proctoring whatsoever (most of our exams are open book). But I do know from my friend that Aerospace has quite heavy proctoring with closed book exams. Similarly CS too (if I recall correctly) has proctoring.

Additionally, proctoring is unsurprisingly quite unpopular amongst students - for privacy reasons, and also perhaps because of the “assumed guilt”. There’s a lot of push to completely stop e-proctoring university wide.

Here are some interesting articles from our newsletter, TU Delta, with a lot of relevant information:

1. https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/online-proctoring-i-was...
2. https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/why-ae-students-have-so...
3. https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/dont-want-online-procto...
MS rejects researchers claims that CVE-2021-34527 patch isn't effective
Will you use this Clojure framework for micro services on top of Kafka
Isn't this the way it's supposed to be? People invested. And now the new investors have a say.

It also means they're responsible for their decisions and if they screw up they lose their investments.
Mental Health and the Pandemic [pdf]
An Empirical Analysis of VM Startup Times in Public IaaS Clouds:Extended Report
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03467.pdf
I'm not sure how often this happens post-2008, but before that I knew several people (most would describe them as "beautiful young women") who were paid to go to busy bars and order a particular brand of alcohol. Or to encourage other people to buy those drinks for them, I guess. It seemed like a waste of money to me until I realized that I'd started ordering Jack Daniel's Honey liqueur because they'd installed one of those machines with the upside-down whiskey bottles at a bar I was in, and it sounded interesting.

So people are pretty susceptible to steering on things like alcohol preference, and it doesn't seem to take much to steer us.
The author of Sci-Hub doesn't need to try hard to be respectable.
Now I'm worried I've done that job with Fronk and was not paid. There's a handful of companies, with Algolia coming to mind first, that I've evangalized in interviews because the product did fix a huge problem.
It's unfortunate, but I agree with you regarding native Rust libraries.

There is a reason why we don't have options in this domain, apart from Qt, Gtk (with lot's of caveats) and more recently flutter.

Building a cross platform native UI toolkit is an immense amount of work.

It took Google a long time to turn Flutter into a decent option just for Android and iOS, and the newer desktop integrations are still very rough after years of work.

All for Rust implementations are not at all viable for professional usage, and won't get there without major corporate backing.

That said, the gtk bindings are in a good shape and very usable.
what is the "solution" to climate change? What's the "win" condition, what would make it no longer a news story?
Super Mario Party was not up to their content standards—the minigames were good, but there were only 4 boards, and they were both tiny and dull. Animal Crossing is a mixed bag—it has stuff previous entries don't, and is missing a lot that previous entries contained. But that might have gotten derailed due to Covid. The Mario Golf game that just came out supposedly has minimal content too, but I haven't played it.

On the other hand, it's not universal—New Pokémon Snap is a sequel to a game that could be completed in ~5 hours, and is absolutely filled with content.
Which iPhone was 2016 and what was the quality issue of the hardware, os and software?

Consistently Apple have been the leaders in all of the above. Even now, superior chip, camera, battery life, pixel density... it's hard to find better.

I've used Pixels since they became a thing and Apple iPhones. Other than quirky App Store bugs the quality issues almost always occur on the Pixel phones. ("Ok google" just stopping, gestures just stopping, ringing phone not responding to touch etc).
How to set up a no-code CI/CD pipeline with GitHub and TravisCI
Deep in rural China, Bitcoin miners are packing up
the luminance-examples links under 'Other crates' in your README.md give 404
Not OP, but in the same boat.

One by one my integration’s have been failing over the last 4 years. I have no idea how my alexa integration worked originally, less idea now. My kids enjoyed “alexa, TV off” while it lasted.

Started by moving all of my automations to node-red.

Most of my z-wave devices I’m interacting with directly over MQTT. After the bumpy switch to z-wavejs everything has been stable.
What are the differences between versions that contribute most to the performance difference ?
It's an interesting idea, but ascending the ladder (beyond "senior" or "line manager") usually has very little to do with productive output.
That’s ok, thousands of other people will.

Seems weird to let leak “secrets “ during an interview that require a NDA though. Just be vague and tell them the secrets later.
It is interesting to see people complaining about google getting into military and immigration. And not complaining about universities doing the exact same thing. I don't see much opposition in the academic and they work on the same kind of "problems".
ethics and legality are different things of course. You need to figure out how to handle things when they are opposed. There are no easy answers.
Are you really trying to argue a bottom feeding $199 (price in 1984) computer was the reason for $2800 ones lack of expandability? :D

Btw C64 provided full CPU bus on externally accessible edge slot.
The annoying thing is they have a performance cost though: list comprehensions can be very fast because they stay in the C codepath of Python, whereas unrolled into a loop you lose some of that.
It's possible to prove that a given x86 binary does not have malicious opcodes. Trivial examples would be a zero-length program, or one containing only NOP instructions. You just scan the program and if the byte sequence representing malicious opcodes never appears, you know that you're in the clear.

That's not the problem being posed here, though. To be useful as a security feature, it needs to be able to work on arbitrary x86 programs, i.e. ones that can contain potentially malicious opcode sequences. And many of these programs will not in fact be malicious, i.e. they never jump into the middle of some other legit opcode to have it interpreted differently. A one-sided test that tells you it could hit that opcode isn't useful if it flags every useful program on the computer.
100% mean that you will spend an hour trying to find that element with a margin that causes a page to wobble when you scroll it.
Yes, some companies still do this. In fact, the oneNO CARRIER
They don't feel off, they are off.

But with the popularization of apps, webapps and Electron everyone is accustomed to custom UIs for every app. Does the Spotify app feel Mac-like? Barely. Does it need to be? Not anymore.

I think that as long as we don't see badly-drawn UIs and "ugly styles" (like Java apps’ gradient buttons) we're good nowadays (given that someone actually designed the UI)
> The solution to misinformation from without cannot be the tyrannical coercion toward state-sponsored misinformation from within.

"Citation needed". Who says it can't?
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They get comission when the job is filled by a candidate they supplied, not just for sending someone to an interview.
It was less than a week, and I don't think it's happened more than once. If you just consider uptime, Sci-Hub is doing pretty well.
Sorry, soft buttons. One on the lock screen and one in the home screen.

And yes, as far as I remember Xperia was good, it just failed physically (later realized it was my fault as I used it as alarm clock and ended up applying force to the charging cable each morning.) Also they lost me as a customer when they included Amazon ads in a OS upgrade.
What is it with every modern publication about art (or anything else, really)? "Here, we're talking about art extensively. Enjoy at most two accompanying illustrations/reproductions/photos."
Heath exhaustion in geothermal definitely exists. Even wikipedia mentions it

> Even though geothermal power is globally sustainable, extraction must still be monitored to avoid local depletion.[21] Over the course of decades, individual wells draw down local temperatures and water levels until a new equilibrium is reached with natural flows. The three oldest sites, at Larderello, Wairakei, and the Geysers have experienced reduced output because of local depletion. Heat and water, in uncertain proportions, were extracted faster than they were replenished. If production is reduced and water is reinjected, these wells could theoretically recover their full potential. Such mitigation strategies have already been implemented at some sites.

I assume that some of the places with the largest geothermal investments (ie. Iceland) don't suffer this problem that much.
How about User Experience (UX) and System Experience (SX?)?

UX engineers are creating software for the express purpose of interacting with users, i.e. human beings, and having to deal with all the messiness that entails.

SX engineers are creating software to be used by software. Their focus is on API/SPI design, versioning, flexibility, discoverability and so forth.
Google exec will reportedly keep working remote, opposes it for staff
You helped him sharpen the skill of never putting all your cards on the table. Having a convincing answer to that particular question other than "I need to pay the rent and think maybe I wouldn't hate this job" is a key interviewing skill.
I would be suing the surgeon and reporting them to the surgical regulatory authorities if something like that happened.
Tauri is written in Rust, but it's a Electron alternative, with user code written in Javascript. It deserves a curtious mention, but it's not really relevant to a Rust UI development.

(Sure, you can write UIs via WASM now, but that's equally true for Electron)
This happened to me with Google in 2002. Back in the heyday of the desktop widget craze, Google approached me several times via email wanting to discuss acquisition of my widget application. Bear in mind, this was when Google was just buying stuff up wholesale, rather than absorbing the team behind an acquired product. I eventually responded, and the rep and I set up a phone call - solely to discuss the sale of my code to them. I was pretty surprised when the person I spoke to jumped into a full-blown tech screen. I humored it initially, and was then subjected to meeting-reschedule-pinball. Super weird bait and switch by the googs.
Lets assume your numbers are the right ones, 76% is no business to throw out of the window (pun intended).

Plus there are these other toys called HoloLens and XBox.
Focus on succeeding not winning, rip coach(https://www.ted.com/talks/john_wooden_the_difference_between...). One can win by chance but success is a more profound, long term thing which is less susceptible to chance.
The "Spark CPU usage with GraalVM" chart is ... not zero-based. Using that kind of chart to show 10% reduction isn't an honest way to show the improvement.

Use a zero-based chart, and show a longer time period. Then the gap is clear, even though not as dramatic.

Also, the article probably shouldn't talk about the general benchmark, and probably better to omit the performance of the Enterprise edition, because Facebook is probably not using it. (It's not clear from the article which version of GraalVM FB uses, but I don't think they pay for it.)

We all know 10% CPU reduction is superb, especially on the Facebook scale. And we also know GraalVM is great technology. So please don't try to fool the readers.

By the way, it also mentions that they moved Presto to GraalVM and saw an improvement. It can be as significant, and would be nice to show the number if there is a latency improvement because Presto is interactive tool and the improvement can end up productivity gain, in addition to saving the CPU cycles.
You've confused ethics and morals. The ethical action (which is about professional standards rather than your conscience) is usually to follow the legal agreement you've signed (barring something that supersedes the NDA like being legally required to report something to regulators).

So no, it isn't unethical for the author to abide by his NDA, arguably the exact opposite is true, though exposing these shenanigans at a personal risk could be argued to be the better moral decision.
shout out to AWS InfiniDash!
That's true, cache utilization declines as a function of your processing parallel (and in gunicorn/celery, your max-requests-per-process-before-suicide setting). Cached properties still can help a good deal though, especially when coupled with a) careful prefork initialization of cached data and b) even more careful use of multiprocessing's little-known shared memory interface which really does allow caches to be shared, without read locks, between multiple processes.
I have yet to see a better laptop for 90% of people who want a laptop than a MacBook Air. Battery life, portability, weight, heat production, reliability, adequate performance, price, ports.

They seem to have made all the right compromises.
As long as we're signing things before an interview, maybe we should be adding clauses like "I'm in this interview solely for the purpose of applying for this job" and "I have no other commercial interest in this interview."

Or, to put it another way, this is not a large-scale sustainable enterprise for a startup; even if it "succeeded", the business environment will adapt to eliminate it. Interviews are too expensive to let companies be screwing around getting paid to pitch crap at you in an "interview".
Engineering is building some schema, creates and uses multiple data stores , message queues, etc, eventually the queries do not longer work properly as the company scales and gets more and larger customers and hundreds of other issues. Doesn’t engineering need a proper data engineering team/dba/you name it to handle those?
PSA: On the Free Trial of Fastmail
Since they're not documenting this anywhere, I figured I'll let google do its thing and index this piece of info:

During the initial month (the "free" trial) on Fastmail, they make use of an "intensive" spam filtering system that can delay your emails from being sent by days (or not being sent at all).

When contacting support, this is all expected and nothing the user can do.

So essentially, due to this policy, Fastmail's "free trial" is useless, as the mail is neither "fast" nor, in some cases, "deliverable".

I can't speak of its service after the first month, but who* in their right mind would give money to a company that has such an unreliable delivery of emails (even if temporarily) ?

* here, by "who" I mean new customers, not existing ones that "never had a problem", of course
> On my ancient and overloaded S8, the camera loads in under a second after double tapping power.

Lucky you.

> These anecdotal "I switched to x and its waaay better" things always reek of bias.

Well, here I am. I don't think I touched an apple product from 2012 to summer 2018 because I disliked OS X so intensely. So not exactly the biggest Apple fan.

> That a 2017 phone is slower than a 2018 phone is obvious - plus you'd need to reset the s7 to factory defaults for fair(er) comparison.

I talk about normal steady state usage after a month or two. My iPhone is still smooth. My Androids were hardly ever smooth even shortly after installation. YMMW. If it works for you, more power to you.

Edit: I know Android devices can be good. My Samsung S II was amazing for its time.
Perhaps not illegal, but by definition, unethical, otherwise the NDA on the actual intended role would not be needed.
Netflix Hires Ex-Apple Executive to Lead Podcasting Operations
Yeah that was kinda confusing, did that use to be standard practice?
I find this funny:

https://rodgersnotes.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/google-and-app...
I don't want to over-romanticize WSB, but this all seems fairly wholesome and even old-fashioned.

A hoard of like-minded investors put a lot of money into AMC because they felt it was under-valued and with a little push could ride out the pandemic. Now that it's on the rebound, they're not immediately cashing out with their short-term gains, instead they're encouraging the company to avoid wall street games like stock issuance and instead focus on organic growth as the economy recovers.

We were warned they were going to take down whole markets, but at this point they seem like agents of stability.

(Yes, I understand I may be giving the lads way too much credit here, but one can hope.)
>Is that really what's going on here? I'm in way too deep to be sure what's best for beginner programmers, but I feel like Python must surely optimise...

For these particular numbers, CPython has one optimization I know of: Small integers (from -5 to 256) are pre-initialized and shared.

See https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/long.html#c.PyLong_FromLong

This is generally invisible to the python programmer, but leads to https://wsvincent.com/python-wat-integer-cache/
Buried? It's right there on the page, alphabetized like everything else.
This is the Chronicle of Higher Education, not the Houston Chronicle
> it's the same for any other mining operation like gold and so on, states put in place laws that you cannot use harmful chemicals

This only works if you actually have an alternative. What if your process requires benzene and there are no alternatives?
Oracle advertises the enterprise edition has having a more advanced compiler that does more and better optimizations.
Here's a video of a session by Chen Li (mentioned in the post as a collaborator) from the Graal workshop with more details and some background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hepjf00LJrM
Right, but in come the MBAs and acting classes, and corporate raider smoothing the path on all strategic decisions this mole makes.
Toolz seems to have it.

https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/streaming-analytics.h...
Biden Takes Aim at Corporate Consolidation, Big-Business Tactics
South Korean tech workers are having a lousy time at work
Anyone here giving anything on grades when hiring? I know I never did.

For a new graduate with little other experience, I'd look at it. But, on the list of things that really mattered, it was near the bottom - at most, a "low" GPA would trigger me to ask more basic tech questions than I might normally.

For anybody with career experience, I don't care.
About a decade ago I needed to know thermo ... a subject I had really disliked as an undergraduate. So I went to OCW and read what seemed to be the same course I’d taken when I was in school. I skipped the lectures, but the course materials were vastly superior to what we’d had. Really glad mit does this.
> How do you do it?

By breaking the bond between responsibility/authority, and remuneration.

Promotions could be increased autonomy (which intrinsically includes responsibility, but it is personal responsibility, not responsibility of others) and/or remuneration without the need for increased responsibility or even seniority.

In yesteryear payrises were to be given on a length of service basis. You got extra bonuses after X years, you were given an (extra, significantly above inflation) raise on your Nth jubilee, Etc.

I think this bond between promotion and "climbing the ladder(s)" is problematic and is a means of wage suppression.
Just another take-off: https://fr24.com/BGA231I/2857b4b9

Did not hear that, but the loud buzzing C130-Hercules https://fr24.com/HKY688/285738c9 7km up a few minutes before.
+1. @Zippy - May I ask for some of the vendors you refer to, please?

Also love the Uranium analogy.
Here in Argentina the government of the City of Buenos Aires says that the transmission in schools is very low (they are opened, but they include mandatory mask, temperature check, cleaning with alcohol everything, weird staggered enter and exit time to avoid contact between different classes, and every time a student sneeze the class get closed for a week or something like that.)

The National government and the government of the Province of Buenos Aires that control the ¿20? satellite cities [1] (with a total of x3 more population than the city) disagree, so they closed the schools.

After some time, the city closed some the classes of the oldest kids, and the province opened the classes of the smallest kids. And perhaps both made additional opening and closing, I lost track now. (If you have some spare popcorn and can read Spanish or are fine with an autotranslation, you can use Google to get more info. It's heavily politicized, so take each news source with a grain of salt.)

Anyway, ... it's not so clear how much is the spread rate in schools, and it's also not clear that they are using the correct coefficient in the model in this game. My guess is that we will need like 10-20 years to get an accurate model, and meanwhile we should try to make some educated guest.

I think the model in this game is accurate enough to decide between schools and business in real life, but it's useful to get an intuitive feeling of other stuff, like that you should not wait until the hospitals are at 100% of capacity to start a lockdown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Buenos_Aires
Is that so different from the (British Army's) Royal Engineers and similar units in modern armies really?
Honestly, I really don't know if I want to work for a company after meeting a few people there.
> Or in a law exam, case names.

I want my lawyer to double check the sources. Even if he has the case name memorized, joe vs sally is easy to get confused with joe vs sue (or sally vs joe...), and those details are important to get right, lest I lose the case on a technicality.

There is a time to memorize details, but for the most part I want people who verify before making a statement.
"6 options" vs "be creative", so yes, lesson learned
>> A typical AC cycles its power input.

If it has reached the requested temperature. Like basically all consumer thermostats, it is a bang-bang controller. There is no set on-off cycle. If the AC unit is running at capacity, ie it is properly sized for requirements, it will just be on all the time.
Yeah...when Fan's overlook the downsides.

Why do you block access (for a whole country) when someone gave your name to a wasp?
> better to omit the performance of the Enterprise edition, because Facebook is probably not using it

unless the point of this post is to attempt to sell the Enterprise edition to FB
Web scraping using Selenium and Python
It's not their problem that they were defrauded. But yes it would be stupid.