skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people underestimate how rampant cheating is. I knew people in undergrad that would get entire groups together to take online exams. While invasive, ProcotU makes this far more difficult.

You could make the argument this is how real life works, but we'll need to radically redesign the current curriculum if the internet becomes fair game. Long term this is a must, but short term not making an effort to stop cheating will corrupt the entire institution - anyone that doesn't cheat is at a severe disadvantage.
> I truly think there's a bit of Stockholm Syndrome going on here.

I agree in sense Stockholm Syndrome going on but not just for Go but with almost every technology including Go.

When we have folks defending Rust slow builds, Swift breaking changes, Half-assed tooling for Scala, poor power management on linux laptops and on and on. It could mean either plain old stockholm syndrome or that people can work around these minor irritants and get main benefit of technology. Just like with anything else in life.
voat, the free speech version of Reddit went down this path very quickly. Most forums don't tolerate obvious hate speech, so the people who want to do that have to go to places that promise 'no moderation'
Not to mention Java, R, Ruby, PHP, Scheme, and sh.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/external-pl.html

Heck, there's even a pl/prolog out there, but it looks pretty old and I'm skeptical how useful it would be.

https://github.com/salva/plswipl
They're moving into selling access to structured data APIs.

$50k/year for their mid-tier offering. "Contact us" after that.

https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/

https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/pricing/
phew, the title made me think something happened to Jimmy
The MIT 5th year masters program for EECS requires a thesis and for you to find a faculty thesis advisor that is separate from your academic advisor.
DIY Wunderwaffe
Does Neuroscience Allow Us to Believe in Human Freedom?
Yes. As I wrote, I have donated to Wikipedia and love the project. I think the methods they use to solicit donations undermines their trustworthiness.
What are their expenses btw? Are their hosting costs so high? Do they have paid staff beyond some fairly trivial admin? Do they curate articles for cash?
Jason Thomas here, CTO at CoScreen. Deep inside I had always suspected coding interviews were in large part bullshit.

Originally I based my ambitions on the collective wisdom of the Internet (what could go wrong?), and of course looked towards the FANG interview process, and especially Google.

I was the first full-time engineer hired at the video interviewing pioneer HireVue, and have a decade of experience in the HR and interviewing technology space. This experience made me a firm believer in the structured interview. Line up a set of candidates, give them a set of standard questions in a structured fashion and look for genius in the answer of routine questions.

What could be fairer and more organized than lining up candidates one by one, question by question, rating each, and just hiring the best rated out of all?

Read my post for what I learned and how to set up a truly fair and objective interviewing framework.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/
There should be standards in three main areas:

* Portals - you can leave one grid and go to another with your avatar, if the destination grid will accept it. (The destination grid may not want spacesuits in their cowboy sim.)
Some of the browser-based virtual worlds already have this.

* Asset portability - you should be able to take your stuff from one grid to another, if the destination grid accepts it. This is what NFTs claim to do, but don't. This may already be a legal right in EU countries, per Article 20 of the GDPR, "Data Portability".

* Money portability - you should be able to spend and withdraw money on a grid without being locked into its payment system. Epic is currently fighting Apple over this.

("Grid" here means a virtual world or worlds under coordinated management. This term is used in Open Simulator, where there are grids run by various parties using the same software.)
Does it also makes my likes private, and stop showing me suggested profiles, other people's likes, etc?
I guess you are trying to imply that those documents cover a formal-enough description of what the execution and data model is. Well, even for the section "names" it just forgets to say if imported and non-imported names all share the same encoding and which should it be - just a nitpick, but with less than 5 seconds. Do you know that there are some behavioral limitations of dict that arise from a specific optimization in the implementation in C of dictionary iterators? If you create a new python following those documents, it is possible that you will allow a perfectly reasonable behavior that would fail in most other python interpreters.
Car Talk tho.
Wikimedia spends like 95% of their money on stuff that isn’t Wikipedia. They’re a classic bloated NGO, where they have some initial mission they can do efficiently but they keep asking for money way down the diminishing returns curve.
Tried it out. Searched for lamb curry. First listed is a paywalled NYT recipe. Was hoping for no BS as in no paywall, no extraneous narrative. Oh well.
Food isn't free either, but I haven't been sending Bill Gates money every year to help him buy his own food.
Aha, that's a pretty fair approach then.
That's a really good method. I think one of the reasons why this works so well is that it makes the student think about the "why". Most people are more likely to follow rules they understand (so long as they agree with why they exist).

Telling someone to not drink on a boat is a prescriptive rule. Telling someone not to drink on a boat because being drunk will make it easier for them to drown is too vague. Including specific reasons might help, but it is easy for the student not to internalize these explanations, especially since they would likely prefer to not think about drowning.

Turning this around puts the negative outcome, drowning, in the forefront. This puts the focus on the reason why the rule was created. By thinking about why being drunk will increase their chances of drowning, they will better understand why they should follow the "no drinking" rule. In your case, it sounds like you even have them derive the rule itself. This requires at least some thought about the issue and should make it more likely that they will both remember and follow the rule.

I would guess that this technique is most effective when the negative outcome is severe and/or something the student doesn't want to think about (e.g. dying). By focusing on how to cause these negative outcomes, the student is forced to think about things they may otherwise try to avoid.

It also seems that this technique is effective when the positive outcome is the negation of the conjunction of the negative outcomes. For example, consider the goal of "staying safe while boating". Being safe is easiest to define as not doing any of the things that increase the chance of danger, or, in other words, "not being unsafe". Being unsafe in general is the conjunction of all the ways of being unsafe specifically ("NOT being drunk while boating" AND "NOT entering the water without a life jacket" AND ...). Being safe requires avoiding unsafe outcomes. By flipping the goal, it becomes more clear that we need to figure out what the unsafe outcomes are. Once these are determined, we can start to come up with ways to avoid them.
I share similar sentiments as the article's author: I donated once ~4 years ago, and have been *completely* turned off donating again (despite wanting to, and knowing I should for such a fantastic resource) by such agressive emails, because I feel it's rewarding such behaviour.
I have always found Wikipedias begging for money weird.

Even if they chose to be driven by donations, I'd have imagined one the biggest website on the internet has better, more effective ways of raising money.

Is it really that bad for non-profits on the internet?
Yale University has an endowment of $30 billion. That’s an endowment 300 times bigger than Wikipedia.
https://investments.yale.edu/

Apple, in comparison, has $200 billion in cash reserves.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-companies-most-cash-reserv...
Pelosi, Newsom, Breed All Violate Indoor Mask Mandate at SF City Hall
If you have suspension and the proper tires (which are a legal requirement in many places) you can take pretty big pebbles in the front wheel.
There are plenty more pictures of this too:

https://twitter.com/khtb677/status/1458084157083594766/photo...

In SF there is an indoor mask mandate along with covid vax pass mandate. You can't get a burger in SF without wearing a mask and showing your pass but all these people get away with it every single time.
> Look at spacex.

You mean the defense contractor? Ah yes, taking gov money to build bombs is definitely going to save us from... idk what?

https://observer.com/2020/10/elon-musk-spacex-military-rocke...

What big problem has ever been solved by a billionaire's "philanthropy"?

Government is dysfunctional, but the solution is NOT and never will be billionaires - I for one would prefer not to become a serf - the solution is functional government.
You can subscribe outside of the App Store, and I’d likely pay more than $4 a month to see only tweets, without ads. The only thing holding me back from paying for something like TweetBot is that Twitter has intentionally hobbled notifications for third-party apps.
They never said they were using rsync on their datasets. They're likely using ZFS snapshots.
China's per capita emissions are just over 1/3 of Canada's, and India's per capita emissions are about 1/10th...

So you're patting Canada on the back for a per capita decrease while demonising China and India for a total increase despite their per-capita figures being a fraction of Canada's?

No logical consistency there...
At the risk of exposing myself to some more sanctimonious insults, let me complete the half-told story here by showing - with the requested sources [1] that when white South Africans were actually offered a truly level-field, one-man-one-vote referendum as to whether to end Apartheid in 1990…

the vast majority (> 80%) of eligible whites turned out and voted 68% in favour - with the gerry-mandered districts in my original post voting 85% in favour.

Thus supporting my original explanation that a cynically engineered voting system is incredibly advantageous to the incumbent and needs far fewer supporters than is often believed to maintain the status quo over a long period.

Sadly, some people just stopped thinking after the Spitting Image jingle.

And since its a mandatory part of the weird I-never-thought-I'd-see kubuki theatre on HN: to remove all possible doubt, Apartheid had no redeeming characteristics, was a completely evil idea, and only a fucking moron would defend it. Sigh

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_South_African_apartheid_r...
No you need to get Twitter Blue for Enterprise for that
The problem, as other posts allude to, is it has too much money and not enough interesting, useful projects to do with it. It's a great example of how a fantastic resource very much can be - and is - funded purely through donations of time and money. They just try to tell you it isn't doing well.
Sure, sorry for that! Will submit next week
I see my teams listed under my user profile. Or if I go to the left side bar and click on my name, it says when I'm next on-call for various teams. But the UI looks different than last time I logged in a few weeks ago, so maybe something has changed.

Disclaimer: Am an employee.
> Is it really "equal measure"?

I meant it's a double edged sword. For every ten anonymous 'uncensorable' darknet blogs exposing truth and exposing The Conspiracy, there's another ten sites hosting CSAM content.

I know, it sucks.
The high value of Wikipedia is the (only?) reason why so many people tolerate really annoying donation solicitation practices.

If it were any other way, it wouldn't be this way.
I think that's fair if you only look at this from a business perspective, but clearly those things have great effects across state lines even if the business is usually intrastate. (Although a good amount of gun purchases are done on the internet and the only local businesses is the FLL doing the receiving)
I've been using on full-time basis all of these 3 major OSes (Windows, Linux, OSX) in my career - here's my insights:

- Linux - love this system (command line especially), but it tends to have some weird issues from time to time that I need to handle, also doesn't have that great app support that I would have (also: games)

- OSX - for some time I've been in love with this OS, but then something happened in my mindset and its close nature and customization boundaries makes me hate it. Also lack of gaming is bad for me.

- Windows - until WSL happened I wouldn't even consider using it full time. But since we've got it I'm in love - can use my beloved terminal, apps and games. I've also bought a Surface Book 2 device that I've fell in love with (design, performance (at least for my needs), keyboard etc.)
Yeah, there are four standout features for me in this release:

* resumable code for computation expressions - zero-overhead, ergonomic state machines that are user-extensible! really excited to see what folks dream up with this.

* overloading computation expressions members - another great enhancement for using CE's for task-specific DSLs

* enhancements to debugging to make stepping through pipelines muuuuuuch friendlier

* relaxing the indentation rules to make them much more natural for a whole host of expressions

just really solid, feel-good features in this release. Let's keep 'em coming!
You should never move just to move. Postgres has an incredibly long scalability curve just on a single server or small cluster, and after you outgrow that, you can move to something clustered that's PG-compatible, either self-hosted or cloud, like CockroachDB, Citus, or a cloud DB like AWS Redshift. Whatever you do, don't lift-and-shift just for the fun of it (or to pump up your resume!)

Unless you are facing extreme variability (changes) in your workload (i.e., growing by 20% per week or something like that), you should probably stay where you are. There's absolutely nothing wrong with stable, predictable organic growth.
Done it multiple times, most recently we got an MVP off the ground using only ElasticSearch as a backend, since the primary use case we wanted to validate and demonstrate was discoverability.

As we added more features, the lack of transactions and relational structures started to slow us down, so we dropped in Postgres as a backend, and having application-generated UUID4s as primary keys was a big part in making that move fairly painless
A little off topic, but I don't think grok is correct to use in this context. Understanding and grokking are different things
"Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM"

Maybe it's worth a couple of million to not have to deal with the risk, and just keeping status quo.
The Origin of Patterns
The Beginner’s Guide to Kotlin Coroutine Internals
Is it really rent seeking though?

Without a peg like gold, the dollar keeps loosing value. Even if a company stays with the same "real value", with dollar actually being less valuable, it's fairly normally for people to park their savings in company ownership rather tan dollars. Are these people rent seeking? They simple want to keep their capital.

> you need to ensure that the count of dollars increases at a rate equal to the value of the assets being created.

How? You can't predict how business will do. If Apple/Tesla/Amazon/Microsoft will be much more efficient than yesterday or do a bad strategy decision.

Money printing shouldn't be related whatsoever to how you think the big companies will fare. Whoever is trading stock simply must understand that Prices are in dollars, and dollars are deflating, so you can't compare the prices with old prices in a simple way.
No bank will let you go on a $500k spending binge when you've never had more than $5k in your account. And no amount of averaging over a lifetime will make up for the fact that rent is due now.
Why. The existing ones were un-changable aspects about you that you can't control, and are born into. You can change the addition with the wind, and its a thing you grow into and learn and mold.

How do you even define something as political? Eg. Saying X group of people should stop being killed by police is, to some, a validation of humanity, but to others a political issue to be argued at the ballot box?

What about marriage, which is based in laws, but some say should be a religious issue? Is that protected?

What about hate speech? Thats very much bad, until someone claims they're just politically conservative, so now its protected?
> have some empathy - you have to deal with Comcast for a few minutes; they have to deal with it all day every day, and take the bullets from customers for Comcast's support policies and training.

I spent 6 and a half years working for what was once the largest privately owned prime contractor that did work for Comcast.

I'll measure my empathy based on the fact that their continuing to agree to work that job is in fact enabling Comcast's abusive/neglectful behaviors towards customers, contractors, hell even non-customers can get caught in the crossfire.

I mean FFS, I made a point to live in areas so that I don't have to get Comcast and they -still- found a way to make my life a living hell a couple years ago. We're talking kafka-esque levels of "You can't speak to a human that will do anything but tell you to fill out this form with information you legally should not have to give." (Yes, I tried filling out the form omitting the information that was not legally required. They rejected it and then asked for even MORE.)

Sadly, the only thing that -did- work in stopping the harassment was to harass back. I would politely argue, ask them to consider a career that wasn't so soul-sucking, and point out at the start and end of every call how much time I had spent on the phone with Comcast, and the resulting number of dollars it was costing them to not just leave me the F alone.

I probably can never get Comcast service at this point, but at least they stopped violating my FDCPA rights and messing with my credit...
You don't need to hire a lawyer to understand GDPR. That is just something they tacked on the end there to add a boogeyman to their argument that everyone hates.
What’s a hardware manufacturing private company have to do with the Wikipedia foundation?
I find this to be a null argument with the potential future development of smart contract wallets that help secure hot and cold assets and require multiple users to sign off on a transaction for cold assets. You can delegate sign off authority for transactions to multiple other wallets of users that you trust in the real world. That way there are multiple tiers of asset transfer authentication.

For example I wouldn't be able to transfer my house deed NFT without first getting a relative to sign off on the transaction via their wallet as well as maybe my best friend. The beauty of a smart contract wallet is that there can be multiple if/then statements that determine when cold assets are allowed to move, all of which are up to the discretion and preference of the end user.

An alternative solution is altering how we manage assets in general including the suggested Harberger tax from the Book Radical Markets. But I feel that's a deeper dive into more theoretical territory.
The post is literally about how ZFS compression saves them millions of dollars.
I would like a world where no one needed to hire lawyers. The law should be understandable to the average citizen sufficiently that they can ensure they are adhering to it.

This is not that world.
So the theory is that the entire profession of architects is against constructing buildings people actually want? Or that times have changed and we lack the environment and infrastructure to achieve what we once could do.
Agreed they've been infected by the PC police/woke mob... Quite a shame because they used to do real hard-hitting reporting.
Agreed, I used to love some of their programming, but the NPR of today is completely unlistenable to me.
You can join for free and just pay to reduce the toxicity levels slightly.
A really ancient secret, one of the grey beards I learned a lot from early in my career told me about how he got CV running on an Apple II way back in the day on the cheap. He decapped a DRAM, and carefully stuck a lens on it. They're not just susceptible to cosmic rays; without the package regular old visible light rays can cause bit flips too. If you look at CMOS sensors these days they actually have quite a bit in common with DRAM.
> That's a call to authority

My comment was responding to a call for authority. I’m not using their position for anything more than to say that they’re informed.

> When I don't sleep, I'm not in my bed or my bedroom.

I’m similar now but I was in my room a lot when I was in uni. There were also plenty of kids on my hall who were in their rooms at basically all times, leaving only for class and food.
It's not true because of "eventually" it's true because of "fiat".

When an entity (e.g, the government) decrees (which, remember, is what the word "fiat" means) that some piece of paper or entry in a database is "money" is when the trouble starts.

I prefer my money to be a medium of exchange and account as well as a store of value that I can trust which, by implication, means it cannot be decreed to be so by some "authority".
I find this discourse incredibly frustrating. I don't like billionaires, and I would prefer they give away their money more rapidly. But they are following that laws that exist just as much as the rest of us. We don't expect people to voluntarily pay higher taxes than required, and that would be a ridiculous way of running a government.

It's stupid to say they are "not paying their taxes", because in fact, as a policy, our government has chosen not to tax them. If people disagree with that policy, they should focus their ire on government, not on billionaires.
Wikipedia is incredibly valuable, but the Wikimedia foundation is not known to spend money wisely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...

A very small fraction of the money is going to keep the servers running. The editors of Wikipedia are unpaid.

The software projects ran by Wikimedia have not been very impressive. What happened to proper discussion pages, for example? That has been going on for more than a decade.
How are you dealing with local tax and labor laws?

My employer (mid-sized international software company) recently posted a revised work/travel/location policy. Basically, for anything over a month, we are only allowed to work in a locale where the company has an existing presence, and we have to notify the company in advance so they can plan payroll accordingly. I believe (thought not 100% sure) this is because they effectively transfer us to the local entity for the duration of the travel.
If anyone is interested in load testing in your language of choice using your page objects, postman, or any request-making executable, drop me a line.

I have a magical solution, and I'm looking for people to try it.

edit: thanks mcny, woops! On Gmail, I'm ebeland.
Unfortunately not all donors donate without being asked/motivated.