skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the pictures in the scientific article it doesn't look particularly weird, just a white cloth: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/07/07/scie...
I agree that these e-proctoring measures seem draconian, but the flip side of this is absolutely RAMPANT cheating at universities. I don’t know what kind of fair system lies between these two issues.

Also, the domain is poorly chosen, “Bane Proctoring” sounds like a particularly terrifying proctoring service.
Do you have an example of such a query? Maybe Common Table Expressions would have been enough instead of multiple roundtrips.
The original paper describes that the reduction in working hours has forced the workforce to develop a more efficient way of working. Thus, they have accomplished what should have been accomplished with having better management from the get go.

Given this is the government we're talking about - it isn't really that surprising, is it? They could have reduced the workforce by 20% and accomplished a similar result, while reducing costs.
In Germany we have multiple state-sponsored open-source e-learning platforms that basically all support examinations.
Thank you so much, happy to hear! There's a more versatile version coming soon :)
She is French and she was an executive for 10 years in Facebook. I looked up couple of her interviews on YouTube and she doesn't sound on par with Sheryl Sandberg for example who is a top quality manager in Facebook and in general. But we can not judge people's professional skills if we are not working with them.
Ahh, I've managed to not die every day for the last 27 years so probability seems on my side to never die
> I did not take the exam.

I assume at significant cost?

I feel similarly strongly about my dominion over my own computing devices and the boundaries placed on their intrusion into my environment.

I wonder, at what point should this reasonably be considered equivalent to a religious belief and provided the same sort of protection.
this assumes "open Apple" would have actually survived
Turns out a free IFTTT account together with a web hook "if" trigger and a notification "then" action works like a charm.

See https://help.ifttt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010230347-Webhoo...
> very much non-elected European Commission

They are proposed by the elected governments of the member states, and approved by a majority vote from the directly-elected European parliament.

It is very misleading to suggest that the Commission is completely unelected, like the British House of Lords is for example (in the "typical democratic UK"). It's not comparable.

> some other group with the power to stop it

You mean like the directly-elected European parliament, that needs to vote on it?
I remember round about 1960 one of my Grandma's neighbours had a motor-bike and sidecar - it always looked very dodgy to me, and the neigbour looked on enviously at my Dad's Hillman Minx, but then the bike never lead to a near-death experience: http://www.rafjever.org/93sqnpic142.htm
I assume the target audience would all know the term, and others could work it with a little deduction or Googling.

Though it is a bit US centric I think. Here in the UK what I think is referred to as a proctor would instead be called an invigilator. Though again, unless the target audience is international, that probably does not matter.
WebAR Mass adoption without W3C standard possible?
Hi there, mass adoption of AR / mixed reality will be via webAR, when I first took a look at webAr in 2019 I thought we would have aW3C standard b 2020/2021 but this is not the case.
I´m asking because I want to start a business in the AR/XR space, but think that we first need a W3C standard to kick it off.
What are your thoughts about that?
Am i wrong that a W3C standard is critical?
How could the near future for AR look like?
Last I've checked, Microsoft pretty much owns OpenAI ?
I'd look on the positive side.

We now have a massive electric-car company that is doing a lot of good for the environment and forcing other companies to change.

We also have SpaceX with their awesome reusable rockets.

Sure, self-driving is hard... And Tesla doesn't have full self driving. But almost everyone is aware... Hell, I bought due to a top gear review where Clarkson made fun of it as being a gimmick, everything else on the other hand is great
What OP said has no thing to do with dynamic linking. OP is talking about the linker; the thing that generates the binary by stitching together all the compiled code.
I don't know about HN in general but my impression has been that anyone copying random code off the internet or adding dependencies without understanding the license (e.g. just blindly adding AGPL code) would be very much frowned upon in any remotely professional setting because a basic understanding of copyright and open source licensing is expected of even junior developers.

"Hackers" "playing" and ignoring copyright is fine, but Copilot isn't promoted as a toy, it's promoted as a tool for professional software development. And in that framing it is about as dangerous as an untrained intern with access to the production server.
Neutral quasispecies evolution and the maximal entropy random walk
I am not talking about the internal comms, as obviously those are required and make perfect sense to send to who ever might interact with him on a regular basis.

It is this little tidbit that caused me to write that comment:

"If things go well, we may decide to stay longer," he continued in the memo. "I'm looking forward to this adventure and to sharing the results of our relocation 'experiment' with you."

In the light of having stood in the way of others doing exactly what he was doing, this comment leaves an even worse taste than it would have otherwise.
The banning of such a tool is a good start. One could also think about creation of requirements for tools to protect student privacy in the future that goes beyond a specific tool or software.
> but the flip side of this is absolutely RAMPANT

I REALLY doubt this. There's plenty of alternative or hardened testing methods.
Control statements rarely "need" a name, but if they are significant enough to be named they can be named by extracting meaningful and somewhat reusable functions.
It could also be a good argument to increase funding for professors and education.
…staggering that unchangeable/indelible personal, political, financial and even biometric/medical data which could potentially be leveraged against users, eg. in an aggregate profile by various forms of AI, is often seemingly slapdashedly stored/shunted around various shady ‘cloud’ services/data brokers. After all, seemingly ‘solid’ companies may go bust/become desperate, governments may change radically/may have radically different values if you plan/are forced by circumstances to move around the world, or what’s to stop eg. insurance policies/mortgages/rental contracts etc. etc. unfavourable to various dubiously-defined ‘categories’ of people in future being based on inferences made from these profiles/dystopian ‘social credit’-like schemes being introduced that could be calibrated based on all manners of unforeseen criteria…
It’s easy to embed the exact problem Rust has to solve for exhaustiveness checking into e.g. Lean’s pattern matching so they have the same opportunity to use SAT for such checks at least for some set of pattern matching situations (though as I said doubt it would be worthwhile). Using SMT for refinement types like F* does is mostly orthogonal to the problem this article is talking about, which arises just from structural pattern matching.
the people of india shouldn’t put up with such tyranny. every person is born free, we are humans first, citizens of our country second. anyone who forgets that has fallen into satans path.
Even for single player games it's never certain everything will work and with multi-player there's too many that don't. At any rate, I barely game and it's still super disappointing when the random thing I want to play turns out to not quite work.
The existence of alternatives doesn't mean I need to like either, and they have changed the parameters of the choice in the last year. I don't have to like that, either.
> Well, no German or Japanese spies, which were presumably the primary worry at the time.

Funnily it seems it was not! My source is a book titled "Restricted Data" by Alex Wellerstein which chronicles the history of nuclear secrecy in the USA.

It really seems that at least initially the biggest worry for those tasked to maintain the security were leaks to Congress/Senate. It seems there was a worry that if the wrong politicians get wind of the project they will shut it down. After all they spent a lot of money on something which sounded like a bad scifi at the time.
I remember when somebody first told me about vacuum tubes in WWII-era proximity fuzes.[1] I thought they were pulling my leg.

[1]: https://www.historynet.com/proximity-fuze.htm
The catch is that in this hypothetical scenario most people would have had to decide that they wanted a big clunky hackable computer for apple to have been successful enough to have all this money... Judging by what people chose to buy, this doesn't seem to be the case. Personally, I buy raspberry pis for hacking and an iPhone for reliable, secure and frictionless pocket internet. YMMV
we'll be going as far as is practical and pragmatic with the actual hardware, and still actually meet user-expectations. firmware, bootloader, OS, drivers, BIOS: definitely.
I worked four days week for six months and had the middle experience: frankly it wasn't really that dramatic a change! (Especially not compared with being a freelancer with less work and an almost fully flexible schedule). Imagine it'd have been different if I'd had kids or used the long weekends to visit someone a fairly long distance away.
How much of this can be attributed to earlier diagnosis (death rate per year is obviously less for earlier stage cancers) and who much to better treatments available? Couldn't find an answer in the article
Maybe they take advantage of it but no it's not just an excuse. 10+ years ago hacking in games was very common and annoying.
someone’s making bank
This article uses the word "psychotic" to describe Facebook's user tracking, but they probably meant "psychopathic".
But windows is paid software? In fact most microsoft software is. If not paid for by you, it's paid for by your OEM or organization.
Or "Honda Leadwing" as they are referred to by other motorcyclists. A bike that massive seems to defeat a lot of the point of having a motorcycle IMHO.
Yeah, but a book like this would be an artistic work.

While software is in this limbo between copyrights and patents...
I was thinking "Oh? Another pattern that's apparently going out of style?" and was very surprised when I clicked the article :))

I'm probably working too much with Istio.
Warning: Link goes to browser, then tries to open another app. Possible scam/Trojan.
If you are copy and pasting code from open source projects into your own project, then I think that is more likely to be considered copyright infringement than fair use. Fair use is generally for things like criticism, parody, teaching etc. Obviously this kind of thing would need to be judged on a case-by-case basis, but I think you are on shaky ground here.
Another important point to consider is that by having these big projects you maintain the ability to do them, capabilities need to be maintained by exercising them.
If it can more effectively radiate body heat away from you it would be somewhat effective. Plus, radiant heat doesn't have to be from direct sunlight.
Which Synology model did you move it off
Social Engineering Isn't Hacking?
I was wondering the same thing, it would have likely been faster to build this with native frameworks.
Nice example!
Seems solvable by printf debugging though..
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Yes it could. It would make employment statistics better, so politicians like it.

My predictions:

- 4 day work week, 20% reduction in pay, hence the need to take up a second and even a third gig job,

- The Internet is happy (we did it, 4 day work week, what is reality?),

- Many well-paid people are happy,

- The lowest paid are even more unhappy (2-3 extra jobs, more commute time, less free time, tax confusion),

- The government likes the employment stats that hide reality,

- Automation is phased in somewhat gentler than it would be if people just lost their jobs completely.
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Sounds like these solutions are just outright garbage. I wonder if ML/CV will ever work outside of GAFAM.
Here is a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFkjzf8HYKU
Your stance is that it’s unaffordable for a university to spend a small amount of money on randomized browser tests, therefore they should spend a large amount of money on intrusive spying software?
Upton Sinclair: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
BootStrap website really needs this in the documentation for its components
I never thought we'd see Tim Cook in here. Welcome?
The 'forecar' in the article looks terrifying. Imagine that strapped to the front of a modern sportsbike!
Is there any collector site that states what titles are Linux compatible and what are not? I'd like switching and gaming is keeping me from it.

Browsing to all developer studios websites for my favourite 50 steam titles is a bit tedious... in other words... I'm lazy.
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Most of the afghanies and Iraqis that I saw that were farmers were armed to the teeth. I have photos of one farmer I talked to every day the guy protected his sheep with a full automatic AK.
Well put.

Parent is correct that it "all counts," but that doesn't mean it all resolves to the same thing over the long term.

For example, one of solar's key strength is the improvement curve that its on. Carbon, energy and dollar costs are improving. So in a sense, every Kw produced now reduces the costs of Kw produced in the future. Its valid an important to think of lifecycle costs currently, it's also not a full picture.
Plot twist: developed in Wuhan?
If he doesn't trust the engineers under him to work without constant supervision, then he has a huge recruitment/management issue to deal with.
In Japan they have these portable AC jackets. I believe they are mainly used by people working on building sites where it gets very hot in summer. While these are actively cooled rather than passively (as in the article), they seem like a better idea than air conditioning whole rooms.

https://wonderfulengineering.com/japanese-invent-a-jacket-wi...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2016513/Japa...

(Sorry can't find any good links - the jackets aren't a fad and seem to be popular with builders)

Edit: The company website (Japanese) https://kuchoufuku.com
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A big difference is that software is both is and isn't an artistic work.
Recognition algorithms often make assumptions about the way people "should" be shaped according to their recorded gender or the way the machine attempts to "guess" said gender, and a clash in expectations gets flagged and generates false negatives because things aren't in the "right" places it thinks they should be.

For a really simple example if this problem, the TSA body scanner machines flag on trans people constantly. It detects as an "unknown mass" if gendered body parts (ie. breasts/genitals) don't match its binary expectations for what gender is marked on their passport. Often they get it coming and going: a trans femme still marked M will get flagged for having breasts, but if they've changed it to F, they get flagged for their genitals instead.

Now you get a full grope patdown from a suspicious TSA officer, because a machine was coded to make binary assumptions about bodies.
There is no value locked, the money (the real one) is where you got your coins.
Perhaps protondb fits your needs?

https://www.protondb.com/
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I don't believe a public institution would be able to come up with a system like this that works reasonably and have it developed in a reasonable amount of time within a reasonable budget.
> I terms of providing value to the world at large they should have gone with Wozniak.

In theory yes, but it also could have tanked Apple resulting in Jobs/Woz going elsewhere and Apple never becoming what it's become, never pushing Mobile, Music, thinner / better quality laptops, etc.

I think in the ideal world we would have a balance between Job's vision and Woz's vision. Having that highly profitable company but the hackable open world.

(if that makes sense)
Lab-developed chocolate passes the taste test
This makes me wonder what the transition to the 8 hour work day was like. Did the pay stay the same? Ironically I don't have the time to research it.
I (undegrad. prof. of mathematics, Spain) did "nothing" (see below) except prepare (not so) different exams.

Same results as always. Exactly the same.

Someone will have cheated. Well, as always: I am sure people cheat at my exams as they do at any other.

I do not repent and I do not think I would do otherwise.

*However*:
I DID spend a lot of time preparing materials, attending tutorials, replying to emails, correcting my lecture notes, recording videos...

I honestly think my students acted in accordance to my attitude: if you are honest, we are going to be as well.
Similar to how the executives who decide the rank and file should sit in open floor plans work from private offices.

https://goomics.net/247/
If you are a particle physics student, you will understand the concept of mean free path. Adding more greenhouse gases (including water vapour) decreases the distance a photon can travel before being absorbed again, and thus increases the amount of time it takes IR radiation to escape the atmosphere. The fact that basically no photons manage it in one go is sort of irrelevant.
Nicely written article. I didn't even know that these things could be done as described in the article. Well-crafted topic. Worth reading :)
New Russian brain implant to GIVE SIGHT to the blind
Followed the link, the browser gets redirected to this PDF:

https://www.cell.com/biophysj/pdf/S0006-3495(21)00454-9.pdf

The document contains 32 pages about the subject.
Not related, really.
As a native English speaker, I take “one-woman show” to mean it’s just her.
is the cost passed on to the renter? yes.

is it still better to do that? yes. Because i can now compare the cost of rental, fees included on a comparison site, instead of looking at the place i want and finding it out it has a hidden charge.

this is why they changed the law in the uk so the landlord has to pick, becasue it means they will be incentivised to put it into the rent, and this way its STILL better for the renter because now they are able to compare the full costs.
Not the person you're responding to, but...

I live in the UK, and the BBC is definitely propaganda.

I also agree with you that private broadcasters can definitely be worse.

OTOH, it's a vicious circle: you cannot fix society without fixing propaganda, and if the propaganda is any good, you cannot fix propaganda without fixing society (most people will lend an ear to it, believe it, parrot it, support it, work for it, etc.)... so we just have to learn to live with it :/
Every year the Pioneer Run goes right past my door, lots of pre-1915 motorised bicycles and motorbikes going from London to Brighton. It's always a riot, and amazing to see these old machines on the road - I've taken many pics over the years, but here's my favourite sidecar one from 2004.

[0] http://hazeii.net/images/2004/pioneer/p25l.jpg
they both have the same connections on the outside (they both have the same "netlist") and you can use the exact same SPICE model (a transistor-level simulation) but usually they're entirely empty inside.

so the VLSI tool can still Place-and-Route them, you can still creaate GDS-II Files, but if you send them to the Foundry, the Foundry will look at you like you have two heads or something and won't talk to you again.

that said: some Foundries have their own Symbolic ("ghost") Cell Libraries, which they send you. you run the VLSI tools with those, then when they get the GDS-II files they SUBSTITUTE the REAL cells for the ghost Cells... and then put that into the Fab.

they do this because they're so paranoid they don't even want you to know what's inside their "Symbolic" (ghost) Cells.

Foundry Symbolic Cells are invariably available only under NDA.

sigh.

which begs the question, how the hell is any information is going to leak out from a completely empty Cell, and unfortunately the answer is: quite a lot. number of layers, what the "stack" is of those layers, distance between tracks, width of tracks, and so on, and the PDK also has to include via sizes and so on anyway.

this starts to give you some idea of the levels of insanity we had to workaround, to meet our Audit and Transparency objectives.

bottom line is until we can bust through these final layers of NDAs, customers who really want to verify the complete GDS-II Files are also going to have to sign a Foundry NDA.
Reminds me of that AI model for sex classification that would - quite accurately - recognize trans people as their birth sex rather than their 'gender identity'.

People were complaining that it was transphobic or whatever, but it was just saying what it saw. Like what most of us see, even if we politely acquiesce to the fantasy.
Well, that was for basic functionality.

How to book vacation time is extra.
I think it's great
Ransomwhere is the open, crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker
Probably she didn't say "show" in russian though. Some things are getting lost in translation here.

She laments that The Chronicle doesn't credit her as doing actual work by describing what she does as a "show" instead. (implying that a male is doing the actual devops work behind the scenes)
I did say I use Windows for gaming, I don't think I said I couldn't switch but you have the right idea. I haven't tried Linux gaming in some time (ages). At a base level I don't mind having Windows for certain things, such as gaming and using Win or Mac for some media workloads.

If they could just stop with the egregious overstepping I'd be pretty okay with using Win for gaming, accounting and a few other things. I'll likely have Win around for the foreseeable future, not just me in the household :)

I appreciate the update on Linux gaming though, haven't really looked in a long time.
> ...and wanting to shift this burden to professors is unreasonable.

Why is it unreasonable? What level of duty do you perceive course instructors having to achieving positive outcomes for their students? Who is responsible for pushing improvements beyond the trough of the status quo?
As a kid there was nothing better than Singapore Airlines Raffles Class and brand spanking new Changi Airport in the 80s and 90s. Some of that magic still exists.
Sometimes it's law (like in Switzerland).
Probably. I wrote it and I can't decide which would be more appropriate.
Some of the indirect effects of Covid are infection by opportunistic bacteria. They don't help you fight Covid per-se, they help you not die.
You could use appropriate tools like valgrind and compile with ubsan to make this a non-issue.

So I'd happily take more performance for code without UB trading off slight inconveniences for debugging UB issues.
I get where you're coming from, and I've been there, but this is a truly sad way to live.

If you can't find something that you care about to work on, why do it? Isn't it worth everything to do something that you're proud of with your life?
You don't care about attribution and other moral rights ?

(I guess these are going to depend a LOT on the jurisdiction that you're in ?)
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Absolutely this it paints a terrible picture for travelers. I worked security in Iraq during the beginning days of operation freedom. Was told to escort a woman journalist around. She was told about the dangers but totally didn't believe them at all because of news sources like the guardian. she went on a walkabout and got raped by a group of 8-13 year-olds.