skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, I strongly believe that any test at a secondary education level should be open book. We should be testing for reasoning and capacity to apply knowledge not rote-learning.

It's also why I believe that in most cases multiple choice questions have no place in any well designed tests because it's extremely hard to create multiple choice questions that actually test the application of knowledge versus the regurgitation of rote learning.

When I was in university (grande école) in France, luckily all tests followed that format, they were open book, very few questions that needed deep detailed answers and were about interesting problems. Even finding tests from previous years and doing them was actually fun (tests were never reused).

I did an exchange in the US at RIT and most tests had very boring rote learning questions. For example in a computer graphics class: Which company were voting members of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board? Which year was the first OpenGl specification released?. I still remember those questions because I was shocked by how utterly stupid it was to have those on a test but, in general, 25 to 50% of the points of any tests was on those completely irrelevant, useless questions that anyone can google for.

Cheating is a problem for universities that never had proper testing standards. But that's a symptom of incompetence on the part of professors and of universities not making the choice to ensure that tests have to be well designed.
But this introduces a stronger bias for being fast regardless of wether you cheat or not. That is not always what you want.
Apparently this would affect almost any website operator in California, since you could argue kids go on almost any website.

> This turns the bill into a trojan horse for comprehensive regulation of Internet services and would turn the privacy-centric California Privacy Protection Agency/CPPA) into the general purpose Internet regulator.

This would be very bad for tech business in California
Escape the Never-Ending Now
it's not protectionism, there's nothing stopping you from making your own hard ewe's milk and selling it. it's just respecting the definition of the name, in much the same way as a trademark

"hoover" might have become a household name, but does that allow anyone to slap a "hoover" name on their vacuum cleaner?
I used to work on Firebase. I also use Firebase heavily in my work and personal projects.

I am normally quite skeptical of “Firebase but X” projects because they often seem to be running head first into the issues that the Firebase team so skillfully avoided.

This isn’t one of those projects. The author of this essay clearly gets what you need to actually build a backend for a modern app that’s also simple enough to get started with. I’m very excited about this project.
As mentioned in multiple other comments: context matters. Some commenters have presented more extreme contrasts of context (737 Max, B2B etc etc) but I also think the context matters even for products that might be quite close.

While the specific strategies employed at Facebook (or Google or wherever else) may have had a direct influence on the current position there are many other factors to consider when contemplating the fate of some of the most extreme outliers.

An obvious example of this is all the companies who started using (or frequently misusing) OKRs because Google uses OKRs. Using OKRs won't make your company the next Google.

I can get behind the sentiment of "A Bias For Action" or "Speed Matters" but these principles need to be applied appropriately too. I've been in startups where "Speed is the most important factor" has been used to hire faster. The costs of hiring poorly are very high. You can't just revert the breaking change and go back to BAU.
>What you say may be true if some small percentage of customers do it, however if this advice would start to become common knowledge, the amounts on the table change and so probably does the willingness to go after the customers.

So? As long as this doesn't happen, it's still practical.

Might as well say "this would stop working if credit services cease following a societal collapse". Sure, but it's not an actual issue for the foreseeable future.
I expect distros like Debian will patch out any compulsory data collection, they do for browsers anyway.

Got a link about the KDE issue?
>> A digital euro would allow people to make payments without sharing their data with third parties, other than what is required to prevent illicit activities.

Lol what double speak: in order to prevent illicit activites you need to know WHO is doing them: that by definition means that you must know WHO I am.

And in order to prevent illicit activities this must mean that they must have a way to BLOCK transactions: which means the govermnemt can block ANY transaction it wishes as soon as just ONE bad actor comes to power.

Horrible.
The quick rule I use is 10 half-lifes to be considered "gone". Makes the mental math very easy.
I think I agree and I can't help but think that we (as a society) have our priorities backwards.

Who do these tests protect? Do they bolster the student? If so, why would they want to cheat? Is it because the information isn't relevant to their future and only the letter grade is? If a student cheats and then never encounters the natural consequences (like getting the same subject matter wrong on the job) - what was the point of the test?

The pessimist in me thinks that we're protecting industries. I would guess that an industry wants a plethora of candidates that meet a specific bar to choose from, and the information the students must memorize is inconsequential for the most part.
You use a stack which supports it. Elixir and Erlang support millions of concurrent websocket connections on a single, albeit beefy, server.

https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs...
Before the test starts, you are directed to move the camera around the room, behind your chair and things like that. The Pearson proctor made me remove paintings from the wall to prove there was nothing behind them
I assume you've considered this, but what about deprioritizing precisely what spam sites use to SEO, or concocting some other identification algorithm, to filter precisely those out?

While yeah, marginalia finds interesting stuff, I've not been able to find anything useful that I've tried searching for with it so far.
> this sense of entitlement to customer money

Don’t ever move to Europe. This is standard practice across the board there. One thing North America does well in comparison is customer service.
Commits is measurable, beauty and bug freeness is subjective.
Disclosure of an attack, if that attack results in exfiltration, is required by law. If you cover up that, and don't disclose, someone is going to be in legal trouble.

If you've had an attack, you disclose, and what you discuss in terms of the protections you had in place, and the actions you're going to take afterwards weren't completely accurate, that's more of a grey area.
> [donald@duck.com ]

> That duck address is unavailable. Try something more unique.

:(
Google has opened up the waitlist to talk to its experimental AI chatbot
Do sanctions work in a crypto world? Impact of the removal of Russia from Swift
I eat raw but pickled chillies far more frequently than raw tomatoes. (I never eat raw beetroot so I'll leave that, though I'm surprised people do. Or are 'beets' not beetroot?)

I eat raw and not even pickled chillies in salads or on the side of a plate of other food at least as much as tomatoes the same way.

More often pickled, but that's largely for convenience, in no small part for extra vinegary flavour, and not really at all to make them more mild.

But I already said that above and you clearly don't believe me. I don't think it's uncommon either, fwiw, I'm not at all claiming to be unique or anything like it.
At every university that l took exams photo id was required to sit the exam.
China's reliance on foreign battery metals poses a challenge: Industry
But it can affect your credit score and can affect your ability to get future loans.
When I was a kid we use to eat them by plucking them from a tree, dipping them in salt, and then devouring them. It was just something people did.
> Most tests are essentially nothing more than tests for the ability of rote memorization

This a hundred times. If I had to hire someone for a job, I would rather hire someone who knows how to search online the answer to a problem than the one who repeats the book word for word without knowing what he/she is talking about.

Exams are crap like that because better exams would require the use of one professor asking non trivial questions for each student, which costs money.
It is indeed nonsensical, but it was covered by every news outlet a couple of years ago.

Astronomy issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare#Mega-constella...

Orbital debris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome#Potential_tri...

Nobody bothered to look at the details.
If you look at the historical record, the people working to stop progressive taxation were openly racist, and used that to get poor white people to support the policies.

So, white supremacy lead directly to lots of poor white people getting hurt, just like the civil war killed a whole bunch of poor white people.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

> In this “systemic racism” frame and with an understanding of the pre-existing condition of racial wealth disparities, the “anti-tax” shift of the U.S. tax system from more to less progressive comes into focus as a current manifestation of relentless racism. Beginning in the early 1980s, our tax systems have become less progressive. “Anti-tax” fervor took root with caps on property taxes in California in 1978 and the Reagan tax cuts in the early 1980s, and it has steadily flourished. Congress has decreased wealth taxes along with top marginal income tax rates. State and local governments have reduced reliance on income and property taxes, replacing them with increased sales and other consumption taxes.

> The “anti-tax” movement and economic inequality go hand in hand. Leading economists identify decreased progressivity in the tax system as an important cause of rising economic inequality. High-income earners who are taxed at lower rates are able to add more to their wealth every year compared to low-income earners. “Anti-tax,” it turns out, is less about taking the burden of taxation off of everyone and more about shifting that burden away from wealthy taxpayers who can, for example, choose to domicile in states that raise revenues through (regressive) sales rather than (progressive) income taxes.
Not to forget that satellite antennas are directional and can focus all their power in a narrower beam
I messed up my grammar English isn't my first language. I don't know how to phrase it properly. I'll edit the comment when I figure it out.
It's text and data only, no voice.
This might work for things you have to remember off the top of your head, where you have e.g. 10 seconds to write answer, but it doesn't really work when you have longer questions requiring some kind of working which take more than a minute to work out.

I also think that the "extra time for technical difficulties" is going to be very hard to prove or disprove and would lead to very arbitrary decisions.
The problem is very often not a law, but space constraints. Often the city grew around the commercial area and there’s just no space to grow. And even if space is available, it may be costly. So there’s essentially two options: stop growing or move.

The industrial or commercial area not having a bike lane or a tram connection is not a law of nature. Those can (and should) be built when you open a new zone, especially one that has ten thousands of workers. This used to be common and sometimes even financed by the company, for example the Siemensbahn in Berlin - paid for and constructed by Siemens to facilitate worker access to its plants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemensbahn
Don't know where you get that idea, honestly. A lot of trans people certainly think that, but there is definitely no consensus within the trans community about the definition of gender. Personally I even subscribe more to performativity (mostly as described by Judith Butler) than any other theory. But also I don't care that much about gender philosophy.

My "transgenderism ideology" is quite simple: other people's gender or presentation is none of my business and everyone deserves the same basic human rights. If that's dogma, okay I guess
Skytable – A realtime NoSQL Database written in Rust (in dev)
I’ve found varied success. In general, I’ve encouraged the move across to being teaching source control. That has been in contexts where notebooks are being used for critical outputs rather than exploration.

When you get into MLOps as well, having .py templates actually makes the Data Scientist’s job easier as they can plug and play their models into a system that tracks inputs, outputs and changes for them
It's just harvest season for my chili's and I eat all of them fresh.

Also the majority of chili plants aren't actually that spicy.
> Maybe still my mistake, maybe over eager receivers, maybe my hosts were just in a bad net block.

A common problem with new mail setups is the receiving end marking your messages down because the domain is newly registered, as this is seen (correctly in some cases) as a potential spam flag. Nothing you can do about that one except double-check you SPF & DKIM config and wait.

One of many gotchas with hosting your own mail. I still consider it to have been with doing so all these years.
Many Fastmail customers pay them in large part for the web interface.
You just gave me hope it's alive again – alas!
I think this confusion is probably caused by English not being my first language.
> China depends on overseas sources for 93 per cent of its nickel, 98 per cent of its cobalt and 65 per cent of its lithium [...] The three metals are key raw materials for making lithium-iron batteries

> The ministry said China will also accelerate research and development of new types of batteries, including sodium-iron batteries and hydrogen energy storage batteries, in an effort to reduce its reliance

> The downward pressure of the real economy is increasing, but the new energy industry is going against the trend

It seems that raw material scarcity is promoting the research towards new technologies for batteries and also for new recycling systems.
I'm not sure what exactly this is (a joke or something?), but here's a long list of "proofs" for P=NP (or the other way around): https://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm
I'm not asking things that can be solved by Google [1], because they can be solved by Google, and I only gain the knowledge "Candidate can Google", I see this as given. It doesn't mean that not a lot of work at the job involves googling Stackoverflow - I do it myself all the time.

[1] I don't ask API knowledge, if someone doesn't know some API I tell them just to invent the call they need.
Exactly, that's what I mean by being better clickbait. But it's just not the case at all, and the author doesn't even really take issue with that, that's just who happens to be behind the company.
Agreed on the first half of your comment.

Philosophy of science, however, is a well established, important, and fascinating field. Keywords: Positivists/Viennese circle, Karl Popper and falsification, Feyerabend and Against Method, Thomas Kuhn and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, W. V. Quine and the Two Dogmas of Empiricism, the Science Wars.
Definitely not only perceived. There still no sight of mustard in the condiment section of supermarkets around here (leaving mayonnaise and ketchup surrounding empty shelves with a handful of jars of savora). Although i have seen some at organic shops.
The EU is moving close to this
Very good initiative. I remember the first time I tried `nix-shell` I thought how nice it is to have this, and too bad its UX -IMHO like the rest of nix ecosystem at that time- will hinder its adoption.

Great to see it being repurposed and presented with a much nicer UX this time.
This kind of story is the pulp romance novel of the engineering audience.
Which of the guidelines do you think would prevent the discovery of genetic differences between two groups?
I get it that OP's projects do not stand out in your eyes. They do stand out in my eyes! They are impressive to me! I don't have to find something impressive by your standards just as you don't have to find something impressive by my standards. Good day to you too!
DARPA was responsible for a few things you may have heard of.
It's hard to believe that a suitably motivated college student couldn't figure out a way of getting around that kind of scanning - what about papers in books, info on phone screen, even someone holding up posters at the window.
> 'with deep connections to Hollywood' is among the quotes OP admits as though it makes it worse somehow.

Well frankly it does. As the article says, "with close ties to Hollywood (any time there’s an internet destructive law happening, if you scratch hard enough, you’ll find Hollywood somehow connected)." And if you read techdirt with any regularity you'll find Hollywood is indeed almost always involved in some anti-internet efforts.
Discovered this book in my elementary school's library when I was a kid in the mid-1990s. It became my favorite book, and it remains so to this day: I absolutely love it!
If you let your jalapeños get red, they'll be hotter and tastier.
Hey.com can generate unique email addresses for each website? I don't see any mention of that on their page, and it wasn't there when I tried it.
Disclaimers: our attempts to run a RabbitMQ cluster were a few years back, maybe things changed since then.

First of all, operating a cluster is a hassle, sometimes (for no apparent reason) on of the members gets thrown out and doesn't automatically rejoin, you have to do that manually.

Second, and this is a bigger issue: If you use a query/response pattern, the requester typically creates a temporary queue for responses, with names generated by RabbitMQ. Those response queues are only readable for the connection that created them, so even if you were to replicate those queues and messages through the cluster, that wouldn't help anybody. BUT, the service sending the response needs to know on which cluster node the response queue, and use the connection to the right node to send the answer.

(At least this is my understanding; we had an application running on a single rabbitmq node, and when trying it on a cluster, clients wouldn't get responses; maybe the reason was something else, but the fact stands that it simply didn't work).

Such response queues are also not durable, they don't survive the failure of a node.

I assume it's possible to make applications work reliably with a RabbitMQ cluster, but I guess that would need to one of the stated goals upfront. Our attempts to retrofit applications to a cluster failed.
Try polish mustard, it's often available in supermarkets. Brands are Kamis and Roleski. I think it's pretty good.
I've seen some very hairy multi choice questions in Math/Computer science (think testing order of operations, which function gets called due to complicated polymorphism etc). I think it depends on the subject.

Although I also encountered a few where multiple answers were technically correct. Then you have to guess at which answer the professor thinks is "more correct" which kinda sucks.
What is the proper way for emphasis if not with *bold*?
Figma plugin for Stable Diffusion AI rendering
It's not just googling
. It's communicating with others. In a no checks environment you can have an a la carte team of paid consultants and helpfull friends solving the test with you.
> they don’t do that in France

That's just wrong, food products are labelled according to european regulation number 1169/2011.
Moreover, you often find nutri-score labels on the front face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutri-Score
The rumours are that it was too good at generating nudity for their comfort, and in particular that some users may have combined that with younger subjects.
Could that fact still be published in Nature?
Right, but what about normal text editors?
How is her peerage title more relevant? Her movie career is the most notable thing about her other than this law.
Another product that does all this (relations, reactivity, offline, permissions, sync, etc…) really well, is Realm.

It is beyond awesome for building mobile apps, but mobile only. Annoyingly they have never released a web version. No idea why.

I would still look into it for ideas. It is super powerful and a joy to work with. I would love to see something like that working in the browser.
Maybe machine learning techniques for translating text could produce unstripped binaries based on stripped binaries, given a large training set?
We used to do this for an app, but moved away from that eventually, because:

1. You need to support old command (and payload schema) indefinitely. Or need migrations for those instead.

2. In highly interactive apps, this needs a lot of chatter. A peer that is offline for a few weeks may need to sync many many commands before they get to the latest version, and people generally don't like waiting on sync to complete. And syncing while users are interacting with the app gets complex pretty fast.

We tried to alleviate 2 using things like compaction and merging of commands, but eventually it ended up being much more complex than syncing the latest ui state which was a much smaller payload for our case.

It also eliminated many of corner case bugs in our command history compaction logic where some clients could end up in an invalid or unexpected states in very specific scenarios which were very hard to reproduce. Doing aggressive compaction while retaining effective order can get tricky if the object model is complex and deeply interlinked.

Not saying it is not a valid approach, but Ymmv.
Capital cost of a diesel generator, fuel bunker, the bund, and compliance. It's technically true (the best kind) ignoring capex and opex outside of fuel cost.

Also, have lived behind gensets, the power is not line grade, it destroyed the liebert battery stack. Scale up for cleaner power it's just more capex.

And your neighbours hate you.
No explanation in article. Popular theories:

- capsaicin is anti microbial

- used as a cultural marker of toughness

Personally I like the taste but also the mild high I get.

Interesting genre of article. It's like usual content-free content-marketing but it must have taken some work at least.

Bland, doesn't answer question it purports to, fairly generic. But requires research. Wonder if AI generated.
I use TeXstudio [1], which is really good with tables, and supports macros which tremendously help speed up the writing process.

When writing for group projects, we use Overleaf [2]. Its Git feature also makes it possible to write locally in TeXstudio and then push the changes to Overleaf.

[1] https://www.texstudio.org/

[2] https://www.overleaf.com/
Best technical interview I ever had, they sat me down in front of an internet-connected laptop, gave me some problems on a piece of paper, and said "we'll be back in an hour, do your best". Just left me alone with Google et al.

(Then I spent an hour-ish talking to swardley about 3D printing and its future impact on IP law, etc. -- this was back in early 2007, before it was generally available. That was the weirdest non-technical interview I've had.)