skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After living next to an AirBNB for 3 years in a quiet neighborhood, good riddance.

If you haven't had the pleasure, having an AirBNB next door is like having your house moved to a cheap hotel parking lot. Random yelling and screaming at odd hours, parties every holiday (even the minor ones), lots of middle of the night loud drunken discussions. Random people all the time, is that guy trying to break into my house or is he trying to get into the AirBNB back yard. Questions, where's a good place to eat, where is the water hose, how do you like living here, do you know of a late night pharmacy nearby?
I'd really disagree with this. Essay writing forces a person to think critically. You have to construct an argument for or against something. Even if it's echoing source material or a teacher, you still have to think in a way that other testing formats do not.

By offloading this to a machine the students are undercutting themselves more than anything else. They'll be less effective communicators and less capable of disagreeing with ideas and concepts the face in the real world
I work on the tooling layer for zkapps on Mina — Great questions!

I think in the future the overhead will improve significantly, and we can already see incremental improvements in some proof systems. For Kimchi (the proof system we’ve built for zkapps/Mina), we've instead focused on features — like infinite recursion. To really see the performance overhead reduce, we’ll need to push more of the compute into silicon (think opcodes designed for zk similar to the ones we have now to accelerate RSA). In the meantime, modern processors are fast enough that this overhead doesn’t hold back many sorts of applications.

On fixed inputs: Kimchi is “universal” in that it can recursively compose arbitrary circuits efficiently — including ones with different public and private inputs and including ones that haven’t been defined yet. This is what powers zkapps and zkapps’ ability to recursively compose circuits on itself (think application-specific rollups).

Randomness: Modern blockchains have mechanisms for trustlessly agreeing on securely generated random seeds. We can tap into that and use mechanisms like verifiable random functions (which Mina uses internally during consensus) to securely manage randomness (caveat: we haven’t built out the randomness APIs for zkapps yet so there may be some nuance here that we haven’t run into yet). If you want to learn more about how this works in Mina, read up on Ouroboros Samasika, Mina Protocol’s consensus mechanism.

Prevent replay attacks: Blockchains are designed for this :). Basically increment a nonce and feed the current nonce as one of the public inputs to the zkapp.

Remote attestation: This requires nuance to define properly as there are different solutions to different versions of this problem. I’ll outline a few here:

1. Consider the case where you trust the entity that attesting to something and they can upgrade their backend: the entity adds a snark friendly signature to their endpoint and you check the signature within the zkapp (remember since they run locally, you execution can just make async network requests)

2. Consider the case where you trust the entity but can’t convince them to change their API: here you can verify the contents of the response against the TLS signature that already exists in the modern web. Caveat: this is still a work in progress, we’re currently calling it zkOracles

3. Consider the case where you don’t trust the entity — in this case we’re talking about reading information from other zkapps or blockchains. Luckily, these all come with signatures in different shapes and sizes so the problem becomes efficiently verifying those signatures from within the zkapp. You can solve this in modern plonkish zk proof systems with custom gates. Caveat: this is also a work in progress for zkapps in Mina.
was it a car or a cat I saw?
I believe that's a Samsung-specifc feature, no?
Dang I low key have a problem here because I already mentioned it was a joke and gave the same explanation, but because this is the top reply and the comments both show n-hours ago it looks like I walked back my statement in response, and I think it's fair to say that this is why the original comment got a down vote and ended up at the bottom.
This isn't always possible to do without some poor UX for things like multiplayer games or VoIP where the pod keeps state and latency is a noticeable factor.
> they want to punish musk by killing a deal he wants to get out of

Cfius isn’t a punitive agency. What Musk wants should be irrelevant.

That said: Musk is smart and powerful. This might explain his recent coddling of Russia.
This is an ideal result -- after all, their working lives will be turning in machine-generated work to machine-evaluating bosses, so we should get them started early, lest they fall behind the prompt-engineering curve.
IDK, I think the shortcuts open on dialogs and widgets.
I think going from a paid sketchy service to a ~free institutional one lowers the bar more than a little bit.
Make no mistake: dialog element is there only because browsers (and Chrome, first and formost) want to remove alert/prompt.

dialog was so problematic that the same people that are now promoting it were in favor of removing it entirely. Literally none of the issues were solved, but now it's a great new element that we all should use.
most useful utility I found from the article is `:has()`
I can’t speak for the EU, but the USA passed a bill earlier this year directing almost 300 billion towards growing chip production in the USA.
ZFS has two flaws: the license and that it's too intrusive.
also seeing some interest in EtLT from other data companies too recently https://twitter.com/tayloramurphy/status/1575541590034362368...
China’s GDP blackout isn’t fooling anyone
I think I don't need the 2022 version, but the 2021 version. Or even the 2012 version, lol!

I still prefer to use tables to layout my websites.

Question: Say I want a layout that has a top row, a middle row and a bottom row. Each row gets 33% of the screen space. Unless the content does not fit. Then the row should expand to the content.

Here is the table version:

https://jsfiddle.net/vg2ey8r9/

How do you do that without a table?
My father who is a college professor in his late 70s is starting to do this in the US as he found less correlation between a written assignment and students actually knowing what the material was. Forcing a presentation makes it harder for them to cheat.
No, that doesn't sound like genuine curiosity.
That is why rng whitening algorithms exist.
Is Many-Worlds even falsifiable?
> In the American context, an extreme right-wing city government

My businesses is in Carmel, Indiana. It is the definition of far right wing republican. There are often races where the only candidates are Libertarian or Republican. Here’s what it looks like:

* Constant growth driven by tax incentives.

* More roundabouts per capita and a corresponding low injury accident rate

* Fantastic public parks and commons (that drive up real estate values)

* best or near best public school system

* consistently in the top 10 places to live in the US

It’s been this way for 20 years. The city is expensive to live in and safe, and public transportation is minimal.
It occurs to me that the very existence of Airbnb(and so many other startups that offer cheaper alternatives) is a grift on people who can’t afford the real cost of travel and vacations.

As usual, the companies make money and the product is the economically strained consumer. We see this kind of grift everywhere from car sales to real estate interest rates where poor people and people of colour are targeted because they want something more than they can afford.

Everyone is always looking for a deal or something cheaper even when they don’t have to..and there are others who have been conned into parting with the few dollars they have because they have been convinced that they deserve a certain experience even if it’s sub par.

The only way to deal with this societal malnutrition is to find joy in everything. Example: The notion that one has to go on a family vacation annually like it’s a sacred vow pilgrimage is a uniquely western phenomenon. and a seemingly recent one.

Something strange has been happening recently. The attachment to material things has somehow made people blind to reality. Their own reality. The reality of their wallets.

Consumers in the west are not the true poor, but due to social media and some perverted sense of entitlement, they want the experiences of gazillionaires. Which makes them artificially poor. Quantity over quality is the first indication that one is living with a sense of lack or scarcity.

But I don’t understand the new found middle class obsession with luxury at cheap deals. Never has anyone in the world lived in such abundance. No one has childhood memories of overseas travels or annual cruises or vacations. So this must be a planted desire. It’s not real. The Airbnb customer is the product. Consumers minds are just fertile grounds where unreasonable expectations are seeded. Hence the wild chase for something cheaper.

The first priority for any vacation stay should be safety and then cleanliness and then comfort. The reviewing system and site should be independent.

But that’s a long game. Companies that want to stay forever put in such controls. Short grifts don’t have to worry because in a Ponzi scheme, the people at the top would have made the money early on well before the decay and rot sets in the balance sheet.
OP here. The full title of this article is "Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays. Good."

The last word was edited out by the mods, presumably under the belief that it's clickbait. Unfortunately, the headline now sounds like I'm complaining about this development, whereas my post is about how it will force much-needed improvements to education and free students from the drudgery of pointless essays that ask them to regurgitate content (as opposed to essays that teach writing skills or critical thinking, which remain valuable).
> but it goes against the economic incentives driving websites today

Tomorrow does not need to be the same as today. It is called progress. It starts with ideas like this.

> websites will continue to bloat until they break.

And this may be the economic incentive driving this progress.
how do you envision a distributed tensor API as working? (perhaps a code snippet of an ideal API?)
Actual nesting is on the way [0], but for now you can already use :is() [1] in many cases.

[0]: https://blog.openreplay.com/modern-css-selectors/

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:is
I agree in principle, but there are so many special accommodations required (extra time for graded assignments, special assistance in the form of a reader, etc.) that would make this a nightmare.

I lament, though, that students are often either (A) so overburdened with distractions that they don't have time to learn, (B) so pressured to get high grades that they cannot afford to get a bad grade, and thus must cheat, or (C) just don't care. There are a few gems that are willing to put in the work to learn and appreciate a subject, though. I just wish that more students put in the work required to learn.
I think the article makes it clear that SpaceX does not care much about security here. It's more that they don't have (engineering) bandwidth to actually put something together and sell/support it.

Focus is a very real thing in business, starting an additional product that has a minimal overhead can still end up ~2-3 years later as a massive cash drain with a complex hierarchy of workers with a very small ARR. That's why you take on customers before building it.
Good joke, an exec testing in different browsers to ensure the color tint is the right color.
Eg grid + vh unit. Look them up and you should find plenty content!
> students could then rapidly see what a decent essay or code body looks like.

You mean like how today they study well-regarded human works? I’m not sure how the ML adds anything except which words tend to appear close to each other across a large corpus. The moment where young writers believe that ML is creating anything new and they try to learn from that is when modern civilization starts to eat its own tail.
Does anyone have experience with Nim and Zig that can talk about which use-cases each works better for?
A powerful domain search engine
> Logs Insights is limited to the last 3 hours of logs

You may want to check again, there is a date selector in the upper right of the page that allows you to choose between 5m, 30m, 1h, 3h, and 12h. There is also a Custom option which allows up to 4 weeks, or a calendar widget where you can choose any start and end date.
The worst thing about this system is that there's not usually any chance to retake the exam. As far as I can see, there's no good reason for this, and all it does is heap pressure on students while providing a worse overall assessment of their ability.
All soil moisture sensors will eventually become uncalibrated, wear out, or fail.

The only automation you need to keep a plant alive is a timer attached to a water source. Also, don't forget to feed it with nutrients every month or so... they don't eat soil and letting a plant starve isn't proof you needed a moisture sensor.
I'm in the process of building a new kitchen in the NYC area and I can't really find a way to make it cost more than $150,000. And that's including demo work to expand the size, new floors and windows, and entirely new appliances, countertops, and cabinetry.
CSS Grid.
That'd depend on if they're the same entity as "The Billing Project LLC", that seems to own the "KILL BILL" mark for downloadable software. I hope they are the same.
Its almost kind of a quirk of history that it worked though. Magstrips were essentially already waveforms in near-audible space when passed through a magnetic pickup. There were already plenty of software libraries around based around reading that kind of data from an audio stream.

It wouldn't make sense to use the headphone jack to transmit data otherwise. It's extremely low bitrate, subject to lots of noise and other issues.

When they switched to Bluetooth for chip/tap card readers they didn't avoid the headphone jack because nobody had it, they avoided it because a bluetooth serial connection makes a ton more sense.
So, um, is this cheating?

The rule is you have to turn in your own, original work. You provided a prompt, and a piece of software turned it into an essay.

Is this inherently different from using the predictive keyboard on iOS, or using Grammerly to write clearer sentences? Where is the cut off point where the computer did too much work on its own?
Time to go back to in-person handwritten essay exams.
We will see. I expect cut backs to be clawed back by higher prices. So people will get less and pay more
> Does this algo weight comment based on its age ?

No but that's a fantastic suggestion. Thanks!
Americans and others are just going to discover that they need to invest in education, as in: invest in educators.
Empathy with Legacy Code
my only takeaway from this is cringe. IBM did the same thing with Watson for about a decade. find $thing, cobble watson onto it, gin up a presser, and kick it onto the stage to be unceremoniously ripped apart by the jackals of reasoned thought on places like HN whilst cloistered C levels gobble it up like a can of Dinki Di in the wasteland of AI/ML.

IBM nerfed Ansible when they pulled the community packages off it and made them a paid premium in their Red Hat Enterprise Linux. ansible-core, as they call it, is like a shaved cat: newcomers are going to find it offensive whilst veteran cat enjoyers are going to call it out for what it is and shame you for the misplaced effort with a set of shears while they download the EPEL fur you tucked under the couch cushions.

The reason we did ansible is because we dont have a good product that competes with Github...either that or the tech writing team is particularly bad this year after the recession cuts.
In Orion browser for iOS [1] we have something called the Energy Saver mode which blocks the loading of images/scripts/web fonts. This was added in response to a situation I had on a camping trip with very bad connectivity and it became apparent that low fidelity way to consume the web was needed.

We built this natively in the browser as an on/off switch, but one can also relatively easilly build a dedicated browser extension that incrementally blocks loading of various resources depending on the users' fidelity setting. This can be more scalable approach then waiting for websites to build support for this.

[1] https://browser.kagi.com
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps,
snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a
banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo,
cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!

-- From Guy Steele, "Common Lisp, The Language (2nd ed.)"

More: https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~schol/WWW_palindromes.txt
Online tools also violate your privacy, as they have the contents of your conversations.
Yes. Massively.
I don't think the DoD and GPS are enough revenue to offset the massive CapEx of building Starlink. Their ROI lies in providing internet to the whole world, so its's reasonable they're not allocating time/money on this.
At one point I thought collections were shared publicly on Mozilla's add-ons website but I don't see how anymore. They still mention that as the use-case however:

> Collections make it easy to keep track of favorite add-ons and share your perfectly customized browser with others.

I'm not sure collections changes anything in the case of Firefox mobile, the add-ons are still bifurcated.
I appreciate the reminder that there are better places to spend my time than HN
I could see it as a get out of twitter play. Coddle up to china and Russia to torpedo twitter acquisition
Wow, trite cynicism on social media for others; such a great showcase of your unique and quirky personality.

Social media is an open sewer of low effort demands of the world to serve individual sensibilities, revealing the apes are not as civil and inclusive as their philosophy has lead them to believe. I love it.
Isn't facebook trying to build something like this?
I mean, yes, quite literally, because Google's "monopolisation" pales in comparison to the insane influence Jio already has. Jio was the first telecom in India that required it's users to submit fingerprints to get a SIM card. You can't get more explicitly dystopian than that - want internet? Submit your fingerprints so we can link it to your National Identity Document and who you call/text.
CSS Grid. It’s a mostly simple spec that allows for what you’re asking for and a whole bunch more (including different grids for different screen sizes, which tables definitely don’t do). Probably start with https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
To each their own. Traveling isn’t about the act of traveling, that’s miserable for almost everyone, it’s about breaking out of your routine. Sounds like that’s precisely why you don’t enjoy it? Nothing wrong with that.

Personally I’ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on overnight trains, in random bars and in far flung corners of the world. I can’t imagine my life without it.
I remember a day when WordPerfect employed thousands of local college students to staff top-notch help lines. They had what at the time was state-of-the-art phone queue management and tried very hard to minimize your wait time. If you needed help adjusting margins or creating footnotes, just call their support and they'll fix you up.

Can you imagine Google answering a phone call or a chat line to explain how to arrange bookmarks in Chrome? Ok, Chrome doesn't cost money, so maybe that's fair. How about Microsoft helping to move the taskbar back to the bottom of the screen? How about Samsung explaining how to set DoNotDisturb? Facebook walking you through how to recover from somebody taking over your account?

Ah, the bad old good old days...
I wonder if this experiment could be ran in real life today with EnChroma Color Blind Glasses and a cohort of color blind subjects.
> base grades on... and for CS, in-class coding

Given that a typical programmer on a typical day has online access, and given the creative lengths students will go to to maintain access to said resources during exams, it seems worth considering allowing online access for programming exams. To address the obvious problems with that approach, could we use AI to generate unique variations on the problems we want the students to solve?
On the other hand, it risks privileging students that are extroverted and skilled at using rhetoric to disguise ignorance.
Essays are often meant not as a measure of understanding, but as a tool for the student to learn, to reflect on how well they understand the material, and for the teacher to be aware of their weak points. Sometimes they're also meant as a tool for training the skill of essay writing itself. In those cases, it's only graded in order to nudge the student into reading the material and studying (and sometimes to cushion the impact of test scores).
Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3M patients' info
Agreed — superdeterminism is not so much a theory as a theory-for-a-theory at this stage (a vague guess at the form such a theory might take).

It is a sign of the much greater maturity of the physical collapse models that their parameters can be constrained by experiment. The ability to be constrained is a good sign, not a bad one.

I love John Preskill’s standard nod to superdeterminism in his writings: without mentioning it by name he says “I leave it up to the reader to decide how seriously to take this possibility” (get it?)
I have been using Thunder client in vs code. Love not having another app. Postman is horrible now.
So if they can so can we. Bring back high tech manufacturing.
I had this for some classes in Spanish literature in college and I found it way easier than writing a long winded paper about some dull novel about an overbearing matriarch. My business classes similarly had presentations that were partially peer-graded and I really enjoyed those as well.
> to base grades on in-class essay writing

Of course. I don't understand how essays written at home are acceptable. It's a good exercise to do them (if done properly) but they shouldn't count for the final grade.

Before AI there were professional essay-writers, or tutors, or parents. In a sense AI is progress because now everyone can cheat, instead of only the wealthy.
I agree with you, but I also had instructors who demanded the same thing: essays as arguments, drawing on evidence and analysis to back up a thesis.

An essay that is simply a description of the source material, or a listing of pros and cons with no actual thesis, is a totally different endeavor, and one that has much less value as method of instruction or assessment.
I have legitimately met college students in the last few years who had no frame of reference for how much time they should be putting in. Freshmen who think that spending 15 minutes a week looking over their notes is "studying a lot" are pretty common right now (in the USA).
Why not just term limits then so people don't see this as a permanent career path.
Very cool but I don't care about saving humanity either, parent of parent asked a valid question and "FSF says so" with some hand wavy rationale is just not a very satisfying answer.