skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the response is a bit different because previously the attacks relied on the attacker not staying at the scene of the attack plus the attacker wanted to survive the attack.

With Islamic terrorism came more sophisticated attacks that required more logistical planning. These were only possible because the people carrying out the attacks were simultaneously committing suicide in the process.

Previous attacks did affect procedures it’s just that they weren’t as noticeable and the type of surveillance we have now was not possible at the time due to the technology being used. For instance bags were unloaded if the passenger didn’t board[0] or flight observation decks were enclosed to stop RPG’s being fired at airplanes[1].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103?wprov=sfti1

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Orly_Airport_attacks
I believe this is referring to the entanglement between parts of the system
At a primary school in Utter Pradesh (a state in India) salt and bread (roti) was served to children as part of mid-day meal.

Then the state government did what any sensible government will do. They filed a case against the journalist for criminal conspiracy maligning the image of state government.

Since last few years it has become fashionable to call Indians who criticize the government "anti-national" as if nation = government.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/up-case-against-journo...
Firefox on Android is super-crappy.

I still use it, though.
I'd rather say that the equivalent of what the industry calls "consulting with your colleagues" is more a "study session" than an exam (be it take-home).

This is when you learn things, and everyone brings something to the table.

I'd say the equivalent of an exam is a job interview. When the other party wants to see what the individual knows.
in my differential equations class no one could understand the prof...most everyone cheated
The 737-200 had an optional gravel kit for unpaved runways! A few -200s still in use because of that feature
I've just interviewed for Google and Meta. In total I went through 8 individual coding interviews.

With an exception of one, which was a bit too much like a puzzle, I think the assignments were completely fair examples of what I might experience on daily basis. Not at all tailored to people doing competition style programming, which was what I expected after being exposed to HN for years.

I have to say I enjoyed both preparing for the interview as well as the interviews themselves. And I believe that overall the interviewers were able to grasp how I would code.
If your goal is food. Why aren't you on farm every day to learn how it works? Maybe a few decades there making it all by your hands manually would teach?
I always share the exams I set (and the solutions) with my students. Inhace necer understood the idea that keeping them “secret” is somehow useful.

Yes, writing a new exam each time is a bore but I prefer my students learning my style rather yhan not.
How dating apps are solving it?

They don't. If you are willing to take risk to have sex with a stranger, why wouldn't you take a risk to share a ride with a stranger?

And trust can be easily established if you retain the data from both parties implied and if you make a rating system.
> Paying more for a better seat makes sense

We'll need a working definition of "better"...

Intra-Europe you're going to have to look long and hard to spot the difference between the "business class" seat at the front of the aircraft and the cheaper seats further back.

You will (probably) get an inch or two extra legroom, the middle seat next to you will likely be blocked so there's more personal space, and you'll get something to eat and drink.

Whether that's really worth spending a few hundred $$$/€€€/£££ extra is between you and your wallet.
The emphasis is on the data, not the transforms. The code is often not the interesting part.
I have, it was pretty awful. At one stage I did a 3-4 week mad panic crunch to fix a system where he managed to hide the problems until it was almost too late. He was the "reverse talent" sort of person, prone to coming up with insane solutions that took more effort to unwind than it would have taken to write it in the first place. But only 20% of the time, so we'd often be left with 80% usable-but-bad code, and 20% WTF code. The crunch was me re-writing everything except the user interface.

Apart from that one incident when I copped it, mostly I felt bad for my team leader who had to babysit the guy all day every day. After the incident above it was changed from "supervise experienced guy" to "babysit".

That company really struggled because they were using a niche language to solve a very niche problem. It was the right language for the problem, but it was very hard to find developers who had used it, let alone who were good at it to the point of being useful in their first year with us. So throwing out Captain Useless took a couple of years.
If you would have a proof, you could make an algorithm that verifies it, making it decidable, couldn’t you?
If you want to compare grades across semesters you have to either keep the difficulty of the tests constant or adjust the grades to compensate for how difficult the tests were relative to previous semesters.

BTW, I don't know if it's a named fallacy, but saying "there's no rational argument for X" is not a good argument against X. You can't prove a negative so you cannot know if there is not a rational argument for X.
There is an enormous difference between the people "consulting with colleagues" and the people openly cheating. When I was doing my engineering degree there were always groups of students who would go over assignments together, see if their answers matched up, and then look through the textbooks and course materials together to see which person was right. That's consulting.

There were also people who would pay someone else to do the assignments, and then upload PDFs of completed assignments to a private chat. World of difference.
I agree about the nose loading part. Meanwhile, how does an engine with its nacelle compare to a marine container in terms of dimensions? Would it be easier or harder to load through the fuselage doors? I also assume that they will need a fixture or container for the engine if it was to be loaded into the cargo hold.
> W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a...

Imagine mistakenly loading a nuclear warhead on the wrong plane.
> The perceived incentives of being first to market are higher than that of quality software.

"Perceived"?

It's very rare that shipping later because of $quality-concerns is profitable. In most cases, that "later" never arrives anyway.
I have done some benchmarking, and Edge seems to be the most battery-efficient and the most RAM friendly laptop.

When I am away from a power outlet, Edge is what I use to work in GCP, AWS and Jupyter Notebook (via SSH or local).

I don't use Edge otherwise.
some people can't even do that.
>These are very hard questions, and it’s frustrating to read the phrase “we need to fix the system” because yes, obviously we do, but agreeing that things are bad isn’t the hard part, and probably input from people who have never worked in the field is of pretty limited value in how to resolve the hard part, and will not do much more than annoy teachers even more.

I don't agree that the system is broken (broken to me is something that is completely unusable, and we must stop using immediately). The progress we've made as a global civilization is to be credited to the way human knowledge is captured, distributed and taught by us as a species. And certainly formal schooling is a big part of that. And so, I'd rather view the situation as us being on a path of continuous improvement - where everything, including education can be improved.
Gave me a good laugh :D
> The first such successful lawsuit is going to change the landscape. Not just "somewhat" - it's going to be a massive change.

I'd argue that, if there was going to be a needle-mover lawsuit, it would have happened by now. Until there is evidence that it will happen, we can continue assuming that it won't.
What would you do if a candidate said with a smile "I'm pretty sure it is O(n!)"?
It depends on the country. In my country we have Uber and Bolt and we had other players which withdrew.

But most people still prefer taxis as they are cheaper and better regulated by laws.
He was curious how far rhis would go, and enjoying this undercover cop thing a little too much.

A course should tell you what works and what doesn't early on, just like a good computer game. If people go down the wrong path early on, it means early on something failed.
I have an RPi 4 8GB running Fedora, and everything works fine, including running virtual machines with KVM & libvirt. Small VMs, given the limited memory. The whole thing cost me £238 (actually under £200 because I could reuse one of the SSDs).

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/raspberry-pi-4-running...
No it's not. I'm currently contemplating leaving my country of residence because absurd tax rates. I'm a productive member of society and high earner but I'm starting to loose faith in my institutions. If you keep on taxing, and fail your responsibilities, people get fed up and leave, that's what they do. Only the people that don't have the means to leave stay creating a particular nasty downward spiral of people without jobs and home ownership dependent on government subsidies.
It doesn't matter, both violated academic integrity by letting the copy happen. (Submissions are never stolen) If you think letting copying happen is less severe, you ask them and rebalance based on the work. Most of the time 'they made it together'.
You are completely right, the testing /score system is a terrible proxy for understanding and knowledge.

It's also completely unfixable because the solutions you propose (which are obvious) don't scale.

To understand this you only have to look at education through history. A long time ago college education was for a very tiny (well connected) section of society. Conceptually think of it as the aristocracy keeping themselves on top. Teaching staff ratio is high - small classes, lots of attention.

Naturally education slowly opens to the masses. (GI Bill etc). So now there's a scaling problem. Much lower staff ratio, and a need to improve productivity. Think multiple choice, not essays. Lecturers don't know the names (never mind abilities) of Individual students.

Your suggestion is both good, but impractical. There aren't enough people qualified to teach the way you have in mind, and even if there were the student could not afford them.

We can offer a college education for the masses, we can give every college student an indepth real "education", but we can't do both.

Although interestingly the _student_ who approaches a course with zeal, and engages teachers in every possible opportunity, will get the most out of the experience. In other words today the quality of the education rests on the student, not the teacher.
I don't think that's strictly true. I created an account a few months ago with a made-up name, throwaway gmail address and a (cropped) photo from thispersondoesnotexist.com, which is still working fine.
I feel like you're the one unhelpfully flinging accusations. Apparently I'm not allowed to respond in the way I did? Your comment itself seems to "go quickly" from ethical discussion to short-circuiting that with feigned surprise - "Wow". Your first and last paragraphs do little but accuse/label, and your comment would be far better without them. But then it would just consist of 3 apparently rhetorical and rather loaded questions. It seems they're actually making a statement - so why not actually make that statement, actually say what you wanted to say, instead of letting the unspoken do all the work, and making me guess what that statement is.

What I was saying was amoral and psychopath-like was the act of "excluding ethics from the picture". You have reacted as if I'd said that the person I responded to had those qualities. Sorry I wasn't clearer, to avoid that apparent misunderstanding.

Your questions seem puzzled, irritated, as if I obviously have no common sense or understanding of what life's like, and you've had to instruct me in the basic realities, like a condescending teacher to an unlearning novice. I'm not sure what I said that suggests that. I would've thought it would be uncontroversial, a mere repeating of the dictionary definition, to suggest that to exclude ethics from the picture when acting in life is amoral, and like a psychopath.
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I use Firefox in android even though it has too many rough edges.

But I primarily use Bromite and Brave. I have disabled Chrome altogether. Bromite has some rough edges, but Brave is ready to be used as a primary browser. DDG android is nice, too.

> had to switch back to Chrome

Give Brave a try?
The patent system seems like it is a ripe subject for the kind of automation and disruption that we have seen lately in the legal sphere. Where you can fight your parking ticket and work within the law to defend your rights based on advice from an AI or similar system.

Has anyone done that for patents? You could have a section for proper writing of the patent, an accurate search function that runs in parallel and searches existing patents, an easy submission system that integrates with the world's patent database.
Time Machine Like Backups on OpenBSD
Again, it’s so easy to criticize, point out the “problem” and then offer no solution.

The “knowledge factory” exists for a reason. The way our society is constructed, we need structured specialization (pick a course), verification (you’re OK) and rating (you’re the top 5%) — because our entire society expects these things to work and be available.

It sounds like the only difference in your example is that these things exist but are not centrally verified to be identical, because apparently diplomas themselves are the problem.

People need to be able to improve, be excluded when incompetent and rewarded when excellent, because that is how our society works in all other aspects, and the one thing that will always be true about an educational system is that it will mirror society: and if it doesn’t currently it will in a few decades.

You cannot suggest fundamental changes to an educational system without more or less advocating a revolution in society. No wonder most complaints stop at the problem and never continue to proposed solutions.
Well the idea of hidden variables is that they are totally inaccessible to current technology, so they aren't really observable. In the case of Bohmian mechanics the "hidden variable" is the configuration of all particles in the universe, which is clearly not something that can be observed by any observer. It's also not a quantity that is changed by observation which your line "once it's value is observed is instantly for all observers no matter how far apart" implies. It isn't a quantum observable: it is a normal classical kind of state. It's just that the physics for one particle depends on the configuration of all other particles, which is completely non-local.
I genuinely don't think they care unless you're a wavering Tory Brexit voter who has (amazingly) reached their limit – at which point, they'll do anything to try to keep you coming back for more punishment. From the recently-announced plans to reintroduce imperial measures [1] to the fact that 96% of respondents to the Government's consultation on the sale (privatisation) of Channel 4 disagreed with it [2], this government is stupid, antidemocratic, nepotistic and downright dangerous. The list of rules broken and scandals encountered could not be larger, and still, Boris does not go. Urgh.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johns...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-...
Yes, as if an algorithm is some sort impartial god-like entity rather than a rats nest of code constantly tweaked by the organisation that owns it.
You already get ad blocking with DDG, Bromite, and Brave.
Paul's Math Notes
https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
Some stuff you just have to drill until it makes sense. Ordinary differential equations was a bit notorious when I studied. Most people took 50-100 hours of drill before they could solve them reasonably competently (enough to get an A). For me it was that and some of the control theory stuff that to this day still seems like a dark art.

Other stuff once you understand it the exams are straightforward, if tedious. Antenna design was like that for me, I'd solve it geometrically in my head then work out which transforms and equations matched my solution. Other people just ground that stuff out along with all the rest. I hope no-one was twisted enough that ODE's made sense...
Learning the Beauty in Songs: Neural Singing Voice Beautifier
Apple's AR Plans (Thread)
I think you're on the right track. BTW even when I don't win, I'm learning something in a gamified manner so I don't have problem with losing too.

Keep up the good work!
I'd posit that's because a growing Islamic movement allows power to rapidly shift outside the established political structure. Just like with papistry in Europe in the past, if you're using people's faith to manipulate them then someone coming in and 'stealing' those people's adherence means your power is depleted.

Islam was arguably designed by Mohammed to cede power from the establishment of his time. Joseph Smith's (Mormonism) very obvious deceptions lead to a new global power structure; Ron Hubbard's (Scientology) even more obvious deceptions are used to target individuals in powerful positions and gain leverage over them.

Those who truly believe will always have a negative reaction to religious ideas that challenge their truth; those who use religion to bolster power will be even more against new religious ideas.
> Do you mean lang:ja or lang:en content?

Not the OP, but I'm sure it's webpages that don't have the lang attribute at all, which is why macOS used the Japanese font stack instead of the English one.
Although I agree with the sentiment, one has to consider:

- in the JVM classes are an obligation

- using functions instead of classes puts stronger requirements on sensible naming of modules and functions. E.g. in python functions from imported modules easily litter your namespace

- not using unneeded classes makes your code harder to read for many colleagues. E.g. if I have a python module universe my colleagues hate it if I import the module and call a function like universe.create() [instead of Universe().create()]
And yet you don't express any of that recognising the value in having that financial security in your post.
Is it just me or do the "up-scaled" versions look more like a child's MS-Paint drawing?
Probably get burnt for this but too many animated gifs.
Just took a look and it seems pretty nice!

But found their pricing page (which was very hard to find other than the generic "contact sales" page) and it seems the starting price is 360 USD/month, that's not something we're comfortable with right now.

USD 0.25/vCPU/hour, minimum 2 vCPU = 0.25*2*24*30 = 360

https://www.yugabyte.com/yugabytedb-managed-standard-price-l...
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My opinion is that the educational system in most industrialized countries today rewards the wrong things and that the quality of education suffers to allow an easier time of mass-grading and classifying.

Whether this means it’s “broken” or not is of course completely subjective because it depends on what you think the educational system should be doing in the first place.
I had the same problem, I really struggled to focus on the article with all the gifs. They reminded me of the ads that im not seeing because of my adblocker. I wish I could easily block gifs in Safari
As the article states: earthworms breathe through their skin; require moisture for this process; and do not have lungs that can fill with water.
Haven't read the entire post yet, but must say that this was the page that finally made me look into how a webpage works so I could hide the gifs to read the actual content in peace. Why would anyone, much less a cognitive psychologist, think it's a good idea to take a fairly long piece of text and then liberally shower it with attention-grabbing moving images? Must be Twitter brain.
The data is either already compressed or dense binary soup, so no luck.
Ah nice!

So the prices I mentioned where just example configuration. That's pretty cool then, specially with that free tier.

Will put fly.io back on the list and do some benchmarking in the future.

Thanks a lot!
You have to be certain beyond any reasonable doubt for each case of cheating. It takes a ridiculous amount of time to document that.
Note: I haven't read these patents.

Mathematics by itself is not patentable, but its usage certainly is. (In fact, if that were not the case, perhaps nothing would be patentable given how mathematical nature is.)
The whole capitalist system is broken. Not only the teaching part. Our world is ridiculously fucked up and we can count the days till it will collapse.
agree with you, i hid them all with a simple ublock origin filter: `.gif|$domain=crumplab.com,image`
Rackmount Hardware Placement Issues? IKEA Lack to the Rescue
Literature classes felt this way sometimes. Having to find and present in writing some interesting meaning to be discovered from the blandest of passages. Alfred E Prufrock comes to mind.
A class also acts as a namespace. If computation is complex and requires multiple subfunctions that you don't want to leak to the global namespace, I think it's totally fine to use a class instead of a bare function. Some algorithms also require a lot of context to be passed between such subfunctions, and it's sometimes quite handy to store such context as private fields of the class to avoid passing it from function to function everywhere. Another thing is dependency injection, if the algorithm requires several dependencies, it's sometimes better to inject them in the constructor once instead of passing them from function to function, or using global state. But I agree that for small functions it's an overkill to create a whole class. It also depends on the language you use and what's idiomatic in it and what is not.
>> HOW do you measure knowledge? And when you decide how, how do you scale it?

This is what makes the problem intractable. Measuring knowledge takes time, lots of time, by a skilled person. That does not scale.

Since we need (want) scale we necessarily have to use (ever weaker) proxies for measurement. And if there's one thing we do know, you get exactly what you measure for.

Hence, the system is not broken - it's working exactly as intended. It's not "fixable" because there's nothing to fix (at this scale.)

Real learning happens either because a) the student is soaking up everything they possibly can using every resource offered or
B) they've left college and are fortunate enough to be in a workplace where there are more knows than know-nots, and they take every opportunity to soak it in like a sponge.

College does not prepare people for the working world (and never will). It is operating exactly as it is designed to do.
Pip can download from github

Pip install git+<repo_url>
I'd recommend going through the Khan Academy curriculum and filling your gaps - only study the topics you are struggling with. Once you do that, I'd suggest studying this https://teachyourselfcs.com/#math
This is the link excerpts are from: https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game | https://archive.is/z3MkF
It may be my limited experience with C#, but I really missed Rust/serde when deserializing a config file into a class/struct. (Actually INI not JSON.) It feels like doing error handling twice: first catching parser exceptions, and later checking for null fields everywhere. (Basically I was forced to default-construct the object before parsing, which either means nullable fields, or having hardcoded defaults for every field.) I guess the pragmatic thing is to turn off null warnings and accept that it may fail later.