skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the situation is more complex than just "we must assume they don't care about learning ... just fail the bastards." I think it's more important to first understand what were the social, environmental, cultural (and otherwise) causes of this behavior.

Specifically, different systems of incentives and permissiveness will produce different behavior. I taught high school computer science for 4 years, and I can attest that cheating occurred in the classes I taught. I've also been enrolled part-time in Stanford's MS in CS, and have taken a number of the core undergraduate curriculum for CS majors.

I also went to a hypercompetitive US public high school with a number of brilliant classmates, many of whom also cheated.

My experiences have showed me that there is a wide spectrum of "cheating", ranging from students sharing things like, "I was at office hours and heard from the TA heard from the professor that topic X is going to be really emphasized on the exam, so you better study for it!" to outright blatant copying of other's code or answers.

What I've noticed as qualities of a learning environment that seems to increase the likelihood of cheating are:

1. The technological ease of which it is to cheat: it's easier to cheat on an asynchronous online exam than when you're taking it synchronously in a large classroom.

2. How "high stakes" the course is for students: for students at institutions like Stanford, where they be used to a certain level of academic success, failing a course isn't just a blow to their transcript -- it's a psychological blow to their identity as a "smart student." They may find it easier to cheat and maintain their self-image (and projected image to their family/friends) as a great student than to take the honest hit to their GPA, and have to give up their identity.

3. How "legitimate" the course feels: classes where the instructor is widely perceived as "unfair" or "incompetent" seem to have more cheating. Students feel disrespected ("How could she put X on the exam? We barely covered it!") or unvalued ("He doesn't even bother giving clear instructions on the homework assignments. Why should we respect his test?") may try to 'retaliate' by cheating.

4. How permissive the academic culture is around cheating: if there is widely perceived to be little-to-no consequences to cheating, or if cheating is seen as, "well everyone does it", then you will have a lot more cheating.

I'm sure the above is not an exhaustive list. My broader point is that in order to address the issues around cheating, we need to be more encompassing than simply punishing the cheaters. If the stakes are high enough, and the incentives strong enough, cheaters will still exist even if they are aware of the severity of the punishment.
There's a talk a couple years old now by an Uber engineer called something like "what I wish I knew before scaling to 10k microservices", I haven't watched it in a while but when I saw it I remember thinking "these people are absolutely insane". I've since heard some crazy stories about things like new services being built because people would rather build a new service than talk to the devs that owned the existing one. I don't know if this is true or not or how widespread this was, but the impression I get is that Uber has massively over-built in an effort to look more like a "tech" company rather than a "taxi" company to investors.

We have a couple of local companies in NY with their own ride-sharing apps. They aren't as polished as Uber, but they do work and the companies that built them have about 1% the staff of Uber.
Firefox also requires setup (installing uBlock for starters). I find that setting up Brave is not any more work, and then it is indeed a pretty good browser.
Ok, does that mean the writing aren’t useful?

No
And what is FFS? Fast forwarding service?
General engineering usually falls under the "development" category. The details may be state/country dependent. That said, even in stricter jurisdictions I know for sure that companies tend to group their engineering resources in such a way that they aren't justifying individual engineers (except maybe WRT timesheet filing) rather a bunch of people working on a "project" which meets the definition all get lumped together for purposes of R&D.

Random google search, talking about how broad this can be:

https://www.mossadams.com/articles/2021/03/company-qualifica...
Since the author was dealing with a VM, my only guess is that for some reason the VM started receiving a different fake CPU? Maybe something like the virtualization software had changed? And that apparently caused file system mounting problems???

I agree it wasn’t clear at all.
Was interviewing with a few startups in the Series A and B phases. They had come back and held all hiring.

Their time to zero is in the 2-3 year range but a lot of companies are dealing with a people issue to make sure staff is aware of the state and has confidence they aren’t going to get laid off.

Most seem to have held for 3-4 weeks. Will see at that point how many are paused indefinitely or are back to normal.

If a company is near the end of the runway, they maybe in damage control and would be concerning.
Sword art online but you know… without the not being able to log out part
I honestly don’t get widespread cheating like this…

Bryan Caplan's book concerns precisely this subject: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/03/12/the-case-against-educatio...
This is a highly misleading headline.

It's only two TV channels - CBBC (showing programming for children) and BBC 4 (which shows "arts, documentaries, music, international film and drama, and current affairs"). They will continue to exist, but online only.

All other TV channels are unaffected, as is all radio.

Edit: The headline has been changed, but it still says "close", which is wrong.
Yes but you can’t just let white supremacists claim everything that they use. It’s like saying a football player who chooses the number 88 is associating with white supremacy.
Both of those are outside of your control, so the similarities are more than your comment suggests.
check out the suspected new displays in the next oculus headset https://www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtual-reality/quest-...
>Really? A false equivalence? I think it might boil down to who initiates the use of force to get their way.

I guess it's not a false equivalence after all.

>Really, I’d like to see your explanation.

I don't need to explain anything because I'm not making any assertions beyond the one, that gun rights rely on a threat of force on the part of gun owners against the government and/or gun control advocates. An assertion you don't appear to disagree with.

>Whereas if I say “self defense is a basic human right,” how are you directly threatened? I’m not a gun rights advocate, I’m a human rights advocate.

What does "self defense" mean in the context of "gun control enthusiasts (ending) up Ceaușescu-ed if they are too successful?" Whom is defending themselves against what, and with what means?

>“Ceaușescu-ed” is another way of saying “sic semper tyrannis”, in the karmic sense, not as a threat.

"Karma" didn't shoot Ceausescu or Lincoln. Again, who or what is meant to be doing the “Ceaușescu-ing?” By whose hand is this karma dealt?

When you say gun control advocates depend on the use of force, what I think you mean is force of law, as in the monopoly on violence (a monopoly that gun rights advocates claim rightly to be theirs by virtue of the Second Amendment.)

So by that definition you might consider any sufficiently effective gun control laws to be an initiation of the use of force against what you consider your human right to keep and bear arms, and thus also consider retaliation to be justifiable self-defense. You may even consider that karma. But at the end of the day, "karma" won't be pulling the trigger. Rhetoric and semantics aside, it still is what it is.
The first is not revolutionary nor a swindle. The second is on that level or more so.
I see. That's good then, because from where I sit D&D is the 800-lbs gorilla that dominates mind-share especially among newcomers. Nothing wrong with liking it, I guess I feel that more people should be aware that there's so much more.

Was that 'My Life with Master' you were referring to?
Grades are meaningful during school for all sorts of reason, of course not failing is the most meaningful, but so is not losing financial aid/scholarships, or your parents are paying for it and care, or you want to get into certain programs. If they aren't meaningful after school then they are revealed as a farce. So why not cheat. And they're made even more farcical if other students are cheating.

And then, culturally, we don't tell you that you need actual skills to get an actual job out of school. We do tell you that you need a degree. And even if you believe a degree is necessary but not sufficient, it may not be at all clear to you that the skills you need are the same as what you're learning in school.

I never cheated, probably because my strongest skill is learning raw material on my. But I get the perspective. You're paying for a degree and would like to actually receive what you're paying for.
Ok, we've made the title say what they're specifically closing.
That should be considered cheating!

Games that pretend to be physics-based but in reality have a backed probability engine.
Because I have access to education and wealth opportunities that they don't.
How ready is Linux (or a BSD; I'm willing to learn!) for home server use?

I understand there will be some growing pains for ARM chips as they venture into server land; the x86 ecosystem with a bazillion different motherboard / component options is much, MUCH further ahead.

What about Docker or kubernetes? How about kvm / libvirt? Are they ready to rock on ARM?

Having a few (mostly idle) x86_64 home servers consuming an unpleasantly high amount of power doing nothing, I really look forward to ARM. Not sure if the power savings would eclipse the savings I get from basically freeloading off of 3-year-old workstations destined for the recycler I grab from my employer, but as someone who frets over power utilization for a major cloud provider every day, I can't wait for ARM to get here!
If Uber is covering 200x the market globally as a local NY company that has 1% the staff, it seems like Uber is more efficient on a sales/employee basis.

I doubt NY is 1% of the phone-hailed taxi market globally.
Absolutely nothing. Every sports league is a monopsony that is legally allowed to collude and have an exemption against anti trust laws.
Thank you. I was not aware of this approach.
Safari: not an option outside of Macs. Gnome Web: barely usable. Falkon: insecure due to no/low maintenance (think the last release is years ago). Firefox: requires setup too.
Can you explain further what you mean by "integrity"?
Please add "(2008)" to title.
I applied a year or two ago, and have received various invitations for onboarding - which always seem to happen at times like Saturdays 2am, or Tuesdays 8am (PST).

Not going to happen at those hours.
I did that for one class. It was both extremely time efficient and effective.

The downside to oral examinations however is you can't really grade curve them.

Which is a beautiful thing, but also not what the faculty wants.

The faculty grades mostly because they want to cull the chaff from the hardest working grad student candidates.

They aren't after pure comprehension, they want hard workers.
Strongly agree with (A). As a current college student, the most interesting assignments are the hardest to cheat on.

That is, I’d strongly prefer an exam where I can write an essay to show my understanding of a topic to a series of multiple choice questions where I just regurgitate the lectures.

Unfortunately, most of my professors reuse old content verbatim (usually content they didn’t even write themselves in the first place) and put it in the easiest to grade format possible (multiple choice/auto graded math). My CS classes are concerningly light on actually writing code.
Fairly good assessment IMHO.

Naturally that is a custom transformer, just not the high-voltage range that a normal tube amp requires.

Looks like the physical layout might have been originally designed to be fully equipped for high-voltage operation, which would mean two additional audio transformers would be needed in addition to a high-voltage version of the present power transformer. Transformers are probably the most costly components to the BOM.

The PCBs would all be different too, and a hobbyist having the proper transformers could discard the present ones and completely rewire for conventional high voltage operation, probably easiest on a point-to-point basis without bothering to design an alternative HV PCB for the proper passive components needed.

If HV transformers were ever originally involved I could imagine the supply of the HV units ran out before the supply of tubes & sockets. Therefore it could have been redesigned as a solid state amp more cost-effectively using the tubes mainly for decoration and to maintain a premium pricing cache. Especially if full tube amps were originally issued and gained a decent reputation to begin with.
As a kid: my dad

As a university student: some brilliant young academics and read a lot + self-taught

As a professional: working with experienced engineers from many different disciplines.

In non-software field, engineering is more a design, specification role. You identify and document the requirements, breakdown the design into modules and carefully specify, etc the solution. So often what is called software engineering is, in effect, software construction with minimal design. No wonder so many enterprise-sized projects end up over budget and late.
> I do it because it's a good job and I want money

I wonder what you think will happen after you get that job?

(Either go in a different direction now, or else you might as well start learning how to keep your head above water in your EE career now.)

edit: I should add: I posted the comment you’re replying to and in regard to this:

> …are people who have never had the experience of being a "bad student"

Nah… I’ve been a bad student — just based on averages, likely worse than you. My only “special” skill is that after multiple crushing failures I realized, “hey.. maybe I should think more than zero steps ahead” when considering my many pressing life problems. In retrospect, I’ve found it’s like a superpower because it seems like almost no one bothers to do it, so you can get ahead in almost any circumstance.
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When I was in school, I inadvertently realized that the biggest cheat code was not cheating. Professors will open doors wide open for you if you are honest with them and engage with them, and it's actually usually easier than going to all that effort to cheat and not get caught.

During college, I focused on learning a ton from the few courses that I found interesting (and where I learned new material), and I passed the rest with a B- average. As a result, I got to work with several professors on research and as a TA, and that totally overshadowed my low-3's GPA in the job market. "Research courses" with no requirements other than work I found interesting let me pad my GPA. I graduated in the bottom 30% of the class having done two years of research and taught a course (as the instructor, not a TA). I left for a position with the highest salary of anyone in my class, and I had a company literally begging for me to interview after I turned them down for asking about my GPA.

These are opportunities which you cannot get if you do not engage honestly with the material you are learning. Professors usually know when you are cheating, and professors talk - they may know that you are a cheater the moment you step foot in their classroom. They don't want to report it, though, because it's a lot of work to gather evidence and go through the process.

Some professors of required courses are happy to help you if you are honestly not very engaged with the material in their course. Some have egos that are too big for that, but a lot of them don't. They understand that the course is required, so you're going to get a B or a C if you don't cheat and you want to focus on other things. All they want is for you to learn something from them, and you will still learn a thing or two by doing half their homework honestly.

The back door in the job market is a lot bigger than the front door - a lot of people get jobs from referrals rather than the traditional application process, and most of the really great jobs are found that way. Cheating at school almost completely shuts the back door in the entry level job market, since your professors and fellow students will know you are doing it. Don't underestimate what you're giving up.
I used to teach myself, but thank god I didn’t have that level of meddling.
agree. I never cheated college although I did in high school a bit . The profs are pretty good at picking up on cheating, and I saw some of my classmates get busted. But I can def. understand why some would cheat.
> Juniors tend to do better in those, ironically enough.

Is it ironic or intentional? Seems like a great way to hide age discrimination under the guise of "fairness" (everyone gets the same test).
And let me tell you, the difference between Cs and As as an undergrad is the difference between getting a job in the industry and getting a job making $200k or more at FAANG straight out of college, that will put you in touch with the smart and/or moneyed people who are going to make you a multimillionaire. And you want to be a multimillionaire because this is the USA and that is the only path to being able to afford the medical care you may very well need especially in later life.

Graduate programs are also GPA-gated. So best get those grades up if you want your license to science (i.e., a Ph.D.).
Or theft. Gitlab private projects don't offer confidentiality from the service provider afterall...
Software engineering in general does not test well. It is, like many trades, best learned by modeling. This isn’t really conducive to large classrooms/numbers of students. In the end copying is perhaps exactly the best way to learn good programming practices.

What do we do to train our more junior coworkers? Tell them to figure it out? Sink or swim? No, we write mountains of documentation, examples, pair program, etc. We actually value consistency and predictability between engineers. We like doing all these things universities tend not to do.
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I submitted a customer support ticket.
Discussed at the time:

Notes on concurrency bugs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12234922 - Aug 2016 (26 comments)
The world sure would be easy if we could just label what street designers do as "engineering work beyond redoubt" and every opposition as "[political] activism". But of course it isn't. It is long known that making oversized streets encourages speeding. Yet they keep designing them oversized. It is well researched that "sharrows" do nothing. Yet they keep painting them. Their work is not that of engineers, it's work from guidelines that are of course the result of politics first and foremost.
And stayed with the intentions of seeing whether the students would cheat again, rather than addressing the root of the problem.
> For most university courses, even at elite colleges, you could just show up and attend the course without enrolling.

This has never been true at any college I have attended. You absolutely got booted if you were not on the class roster after the enrollment period was done.

At California community colleges, it seemed it's also a matter of insurance liability. They were remarkably aggressive about enforcement.
I just had a terrifying vision of the alternate universe where VBScript became the lingua franca of the web.

JavaScript isn’t perfect, but standardizing on VBScript would’ve been a catastrophic mistake.
As someone who “cheated” - it was a requirement to pass classes. “Professors” (researchers and post-docs who hated lecturing) were in a constant arms race against the students. We were assigned problems routinely that we would ask the professor to solve in class - they could not do it. They would fail it themselves. This happened in multiple subjects.

Many classes also had students not showing up if it was clear that they were not going to need to be in class to know the subject material. If you could read it from the book and the professor was straight forward with their testing - students wouldn’t show. It was a waste of time to go to the lectures because often these professors were absolutely terrible. You were just better off reading the book because you’d be less confused by that.

Tbh - college is a giant scam in the way many people think of it as a way of “learning”. For myself and many of my peers - it was purely a transactional procedure. We needed the credentials and we needed good grades in those credentials. Everything else was secondary.

Optimizing for “learning” is such a joke in our capitalistic winner takes all economy. Give me a break. I’m not a Rothschild ffs.
Discussed at the time:

The Weight I Carry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18874086 - Jan 2019 (135 comments)
How dumb do you have to be to cheat on a chat app hosted by your professor?

Did they even know they were cheating? Maybe they thought it was okay?
Literally nobody that lives in either region would agree with this. They really wouldn't.
NPR, CBC and the BBC receive government funding and that doesn't seem to squelch criticism.

That doesn't mean that they're free from bias, but the alternative is for-profit organizations where content can be compromised by the need for revenue, and partisanship seems to be more of an issue.
Nearly all of it except the web renderer. You may like its GUI, but a secure or privacy respecting option it is not.

Network analyses also show it's a very chatty browser.
When I was six, my grandpa built me a rudimentary breadboard with bulbs, sockets, knife switches, batteries, and wires. I immediately knew I wanted to be an electrical engineer.
IMO as a teacher the correct action would be to try and resolve the issue of cheating at its core. I feel that staying in the new gc and waiting to see if students cheat again is a lack of integrity - he is waiting to see if students cheat rather than teach and grow them.
Birds stomp or trembling their feet to get worms to come up.

Here’s an article on it:
https://www.geographyrealm.com/the-foot-trembling-bird-gets-...

And videos of birds doing it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bird+(stomping+OR+trembling)...
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The right is all about control.
First, I compared the Gatorade to a single lecture, not a single semester. Second, regardless of effort, there is a net value, and the net value of your average college course (what you learn less the effort and time required to learn it) is less than the net value of a Gatorade.

Finally, you can just change the thought experiment a bit. If you offered to pay someone twenty dollars to attend a random college lecture, would they? Probably some people would. And that fixes the upper bound of the value of the average lecture at less than twenty dollars, since, if it was that high, many people would be freeloading.
Plus all the back end billing and payments, including integration with some third-party enterprise expense management systems.