skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do you honestly believe that or is this sort of an oblique suggestion that it would be non-trivial/"unsimple" to implement?

Not oblique, it's a common feature although I agree with you that few get it right.

But the issue isn't difficulty of implementation, it's with NowDo's philosophy, which is obsessive about simplicity. Our goal with it is to create the simplest useful todo app. The lack of features is its most important feature.

> This is such a mission-critical thing otherwise you're like every other Todoist non-competes scrambling for Todoists crumbs. Its like literally just that to me with the infinite nesting and i can't remember if they allow swipe indenting but thats the most natural/intuitive in combination with drag and drop which can be used together and interchangeably.

Todoist users aren't our target market, we're aiming for the people that want something much simpler and more opinionated than Todoist. We think they are an underserved market, but we're only in the very early stages of testing that thesis.

Thank you again for your feedback.
You can get it all done by 3pm on the dot, just never do the safe thing
You're using the internet which was developed with US govt funding, so that means you're a welfare queen living off public largesse?
Is it always quantity over quality? Maybe just pumping out quantity exacerbated the plagiarism we’re seeing popping up more and more often.
Or maybe you're wrong...? It's a mystery!
Vacuum is a great insulator, which is why we have vacuum flasks.
Aside from simple detection, being able to _identify_ private relay is kind of a fundamental required feature for a tool like this, because the utility of identifying proxy/vpn traffic is destroyed if you’re going to lump “everyone with an apple device” into the pool
> Basic was pretty clearly designed as an interactive, student dialect of Fortran

Exactly. The primary variations in that program from an equivalent BASIC program are the more cryptic output commands (FORMAT/WRITE vs. PRINT) and the comments (C vs. REM).

(Note that PRINT did originally mean "print on paper" using a teletype-style printing terminal.)

I recall reading that Tom Kurtz (BASIC's co-creator) would travel by train to some other campus to batch-process his FORTRAN punched card decks - and many programs failed because of simple errors.
It's a term I just coined and wasn't meant literally. I was referring to interactions that make you feel good and unintentionally become a habit. Myself, I come here to feel clever and learn by engaging in subject matter that interests me. I don't always hit the mark, but I try. I also realize others use social media such as Facebook for the same reason. In my younger days I may have done the same by conversing with strangers in coffee shops or bars.
Video's description : "Sep 15, 2023 -- In 2021 the FORCEDENTRY sandbox escape introduced the usage of NSPredicate in an iOS exploit. This new technique allowed attackers to sidestep codesigning, ASLR, and all other mitigations to execute arbitrary code on Apple devices. As a result, Apple put in place new restrictions to make NSPredicate less powerful and less useful for exploits. This presentation will cover new research showing that these added restrictions could be completely circumvented in iOS 16, and how NSPredicates could be exploited to gain code execution in many privileged iOS processes. This technical deep dive will be a rare instance of iOS security that anyone can comprehend without years of experience."
That’s what criminal background checks are for. Lots of criminal convictions have lifelong consequences, many of which are meant to prevent recidivism. People who are convicted of violent felonies are barred from owning firearms, people who are convicted of securities fraud are barred from working in positions where they are capable of committing securities fraud, and people who are convicted of sexual offenses are kept away from children. All of these restrictions seem reasonable to me.
On Private Internet Access VPN:

* Proxy Score: 45/100 - Likely a Proxy

* VPN Score: 10/55 - Could be a VPN (But Unlikely)
How Fireworks Work [video]
There's a big difference in complexity between OoO implementations of RISC-V like BOOM and a modern x86-64 CPU.
And what makes you think one L8 against an entire hivemind of L8s and L10s whose high-end compensation depends on negating everything you're doing can move the needle? 80+% of my meetings, so very many meetings, were endless discussions of who the next "unregretted attrition" would be so as to appease the need to fire. Those are your leaders, and that's how they spend their time. Or maybe you're one of them and the truth hurts?

I chose to "disagree and commit" to "The Law of Two Feet" and left. One L8 claimed he would be blacklist me and my direct reports (who also left) from ever returning. He got a harassment claim later and I asked in return for my input that HR investigate that claim. Nope, not blacklisted, he was just a lying PoS.
This was wonderful!

Do you have more posts about how you went about buying the land?

The surveying aspect is super interesting, including the fact that your neighbor had such an imprecise knowledge of their boundaries.

I wonder what the history of surveying looks like... I assume as mapping precision increased there must have been many many cases where structures were found to lie on neighboring properties.
Throwing out numbers like 83% and 33% seems like a handwavy attempt at precision and diminishes your argument. The real world is not like university, unless you live in the very small subset of the world that makes its living off research. Formal education / book smarts !== leadership.
Subject does not like being talked about or dissected too much.

I highly doubt @dang flagged this himself, other people did. It seems like a controll valve that can be used from time to time. Anyone can gang up with a bunch of others to mass flag a story.
A toast to all the time this year I have spent thinking through date time programming and lamenting calendars
Doesn't detect Google One VPN
Full-width characters are not only used by Chinese, but legit Japanese things as well. Example: https://www.amazon.com/%E6%A3%AE%E3%81%AF%E7%94%9F%E3%81%8D%...
https://archive.ph/2023.12.31-001933/https://www.thetimes.co...
The drama is mostly because lots of people don't like writing tests, and lots of folks at one point or another have seen unit tests that are questionably valuable or past the point of diminishing returns I think of tests that require a bunch of scaffolding to mock out any meaningful logic in order to test a single, simple if statement that invokes some other business logic that is already meaningfully tested on its own. At that point, it's easy to say "Wow, a couple of E2E tests would have caught the whole shebang!" Maybe I've just been burned by how easily one (read: I) can accidentally write pointless unit tests in Python.

I think the unit testing "debate" when it comes up tends to be very handwavey, like this article (which I still think is thoughtful.)
not really. its extremely well established science. you dont seem to have much experience with this topic. ketosis saved my life in 2019 and ever since then ive been learning as much as i can about ketosis and its medical applications
Behind the Scenes at Kamerastore in Finland [video]
What is your class of people? The 99.99% that you alluded to in another comment? Can that be called a class of people?
It’s not illegal to misattribute small portions of a sentence either. There is literally no law against it. We harshly dissuade it at the grade school, high school, and undergraduate levels (meaning, we will give you a bad grade) because we are trying to teach young students not to misuse even a fragment of text with extremely harsh punishments outside of the legal system. We don’t apply the same level of punishment in real life and certainly not through the legal system because it’s not that serious to borrow a few words in the acknowledgement of a thesis. It’s just embarrassing and bad, as long as the concepts are original.

ETA: I say this as someone who has had both scientific contributions and entire introductory sections copied verbatim into other paper. That’s plagiarism. A meaningless sentence copied from my work has as much relationship to serious plagiarism as a fart in a car has to a Sarin gas attack.
I changed my email address in ~200 accounts and only had trouble updating a few: BuiltIn, CPUID, Flickr, Kakao, JCrew, Nord, and Steiger.

After I contacted Kakao support, they asked for some documents. Then they called me to verify the details. A day or two later, they updated my online profile with an editable email field, so I was finally able to update my email address.

When I contacted JCrew chat support, they performed the update immediately and emailed me a temporary password from noreply@demandware.net.

Flickr and Steiger were also happy to help. TBD on the others.

So I can't think of any accounts that don't allow an email change either. But you might have to jump through some hoops.
As always, the issue is hypocrisy . As far as I know, the parent poster doesn't frequently and publically complain about the existence of a government and the fact that it buys things from people.
These are fantastic art works, and driving around to check them out would a perfect euro tour for a future summer. Still I can't help but be intrigued by the wistful tone of the website. Judging by the "about" page, the guy running it is relatively young, so he can't quite have the Yugo-nostalgia. And yet passages like

> there were many in Yugoslavia who refused to fully integrate into this communist-led multi-cultural society [...] During the hey-day of Yugoslavia, this resentment and anger was very much kept in check by the Yugoslavian government's intense efforts in stamping out inter-ethnic retaliations, nationalism or religious hatred in any form, accompanied by the intense promotion of the ideals of 'Brotherhood and Unity'.

— to me read like they celebrate the Yugoslav communists. Would be curious to know if it's just me, or others also share the impression.
Neither is working for a multi billion dollar multinational tech firm designing ways to spy on users, get them addicted and manipulate their worldviews, but that doesn't stop most of the people who do from fantasizing and larping.
A lightweight ls alternative written in Rust
I've been learing rust and I wanted to make something I can use so I made a lighweight ls alternative I've been using for the past 6 months
You mean like Steve Jobs who, by your definition, didn’t go to a top school, but is more highly regarded than 99.99% of graduates of top schools?
The documentation page linked to the demo page gives a good explanation on how this works (https://proxy.incolumitas.com/integration_instructions.html)

> The most important proxy detection tests with the highest accuracy are:

> 1. Latency Test - latency - This test is extremely effective at detecting proxy connections. It works both for residential and datacenter proxies. The reason why this test is effective: It is very hard to spoof and fake the latency test effectively. Furthermore, this test captures the very essence of proxy connections.

> 2. TCP/IP Fingerprint Test - tcpip_fp - This test is also capable to detect both residential and datacenter proxy connections. Although it is possible to spoof the TCP/IP fingerprint of a proxy server, most commercial proxy providers don't do it.

> 3. Timezone Test - timezone - The timezone test detects both VPN and Proxy connections. Clients can prevent the leaking of their locale and timezone, so this test can be bypassed rather easily.
We are going to start charging for dedicated IPv4 in January 1st
Out of the blue I received a bill from fly.io for ipv4 addresses. No warning about this, no email communication or anything. Forgot I even had anything on fly.io, was just some test stuff I created years ago. So if you ever tried them out but don't use them, go delete your account just in case they start billing you without warning. Oh and, don't put your credit card into a hosting service then forget about the "free" app you had on there...
Communications of ACM
The problem with your idea is there are lots of services that blacklist VoIP #'s like Google Voice from being used for 2FA. They also don't have modern 2FA options like TOTP.
Register Windows were a very targeted solution to the problem of spilling temporary registers across function calls, mostly the demand that it put on the memory subsystem.

This extra hardware only helped that one problem, which is pretty wasteful.

Instead, more modern CPU architectures have focused on implementing features that improve performance of the whole memory subsystem.

Even a simple on-die data cache will go a long way to solving the memory bandwidth, as most spills and refills will hit the cache. But modern out-of-order designs have store buffers that will detect when the same address is stored, loaded and overwritten in quick succession, allowing the spilled value to avoid even hitting the L1 data cache. I believe some architectures (like AMD's Zen 3) can even eliminate the memory operation entirely, by detecting pairs of stores and loads and redirecting them to renaming registered.

The other issue caused by spills is the extra instructions themselves. Some architectures (like arm) implemented load/store multiple instructions that more or less solved this problem, but others just relied on extreme out-of-order execution to improve throughput of all instructions.

The article concluded that the idea of Register Windows went away because it was a bad idea that didn't really work in practice. But I think that's only half the reason, and that could have probably been fixed with some design iteration. The other half is that idea of Register Windows were simply unneeded after various improvements to the memory subsystem in general.
They (along with the SFC, EFF and others) will only ever do so if you sign all copyright over to them, AND they have to want to help you specifically in the first place. I know many projects that have tried to go to them and were all told to pound sand.

It's not a slam-dunk case if you can't afford or aren't interested to litigate in the first place, which is many of such projects.
HN is the best. I'm really grateful it exists. Thanks to you all.
Sure, it could be half the circumference of the earth instead of the diameter. The circumference is pi times the diameter, so half the circumference is a little over 1.5x the diameter -- the sun could be 3mm across instead of 2mm.
> Its efficacy is also strongly dependent on understanding that it's a keyword search engine with no semantic understanding.

Good. I love keyword search.

"Semantic understanding" can be so biased and ... just shady sometimes.
Happy New Year HN!

Still waiting for the Annual 2024 Prediction thread to show up. I think csomar used to does it every year [1] so i dont want to start one and steal his tradition.

@Dang. Since we already have an official monthly Who is Hiring thread why dont we have an official yearly prediction thread as well?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628
https://chimeraos.org/ I've been using this one, it updates the system atomically.
Soviet Bus Stops, the movie (2022)
Makes me wonder - how viable is it to install actual SteamOS on devices that aren't the Steam Deck (and use the Deck UI and all)? Are there any mods or something to make that work?
There was an infamous 2008 case study of a man who developed gynecomastia while consuming three quarts of soy milk a day[1]. I actually remember rumors about this so I wouldn’t be surprised if those same rumors spread around the bodybuilding community.

It certainly seems that the soy-estrogen theory became widely accepted “bro science” somehow; I just don’t know of any evidence that it was in any way related to anti-Asian racism.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18558591/
Okay, so I read that page and I understand that nvidia graphics are very much a no-go for that distribution. I’m just wondering why? Full disclosure, I know very little about the finer points of GPU compatibility on Linux, but why isn’t it just a matter of installing nvidia’s closed source packages?
"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important... Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Correct, those of us that didn't get into any elite institution (and most likely aren't considered "qualified").
A yearly prediction thread might be fun, it'll be cool to look back on it and see if anyone was right about major events. Personally I'm hoping that in 2024 we'll achieve AGI and have a robust definition of what that means. Maybe I'm just a little bit too ambitious though. I was hoping that we'd get there in 2023 but progress seems to have stalled more than I had expected.
It seems like my takeaway is identical to the article's takeaway, that getting in matters more than going. Unless you're thinking of something else.

The whole "matters less multiple years into career" bit is a cope if it's just a measure of how inherently good you are if you can get in. There seems to be a clear separation between the people that get in and the people that don't!
Personally, I make sure my HDDs (regardless use case) never spin down when idle. The cost in life span isn't worth the electricity bill saved.
That's asking a hypothetical about a hypothetical. The OP made a claim about chants on campus that I didn't hear.
Not directly related, but also a (sort of) brutalist architecture book that comes to mind is Soviet Bus Stops:

https://archive.org/details/sovietbusstops0000herw

Edit: I see that the book about Spomeniks and the one linked above were actually both released by the same publisher — Fuel.
Do the people chanting that believe that to be a call to genocide or people who don't want them to be able to chant that?
These schools can offer harder, accelerated courses under the presumption that the floor of the student body’s ability is higher than average. In that sense, the education can be more rigorous and faster. Is that actually the case in practice? I’ve never gone to a mediocre university so I can’t compare.

But I can say that aside from intellect, attendees of top universities are not ethically superior to the average person.
I just came to HN to see if there was something about this here. I just got my first charge out of nowhere. I’ve had an account there for a couple years and tried it out a long time back but wasn’t actively using it.

I like fly as a service, and I have no problem with them charging, but coming out of nowhere with no prior notice is definitely frustrating and unexpected.
> The other, easier, answer is to buy more ram, if you simply have more memory than you will ever use (such as having 128GiB of memory when you only regularly use 30GiB), you'll rarely run into OOM issues.

Wanna emphasize this mostly because it took me way too long to think of.

Was dealing with memory pressure regularly and constantly getting frustrated… then dropped an entire $60 or something to throw another 32GB in the machine and never think about my memory again.

Like a week later when I ran out of disk space again and was struggling to make room… same realization. Spent $75 for a 1TB NVME SSD dropped in my mailbox two days later and doubled my storage.

So we’re talking $135 to double my RAM and storage and stop wasting time and brain space on this stuff.
That says it all about police in the US
>Personally I never found AMD is that efficient at idle.

Since we're talking about Japan, Intel is affectionately called the IdleM@ster as a pun on the very popular IdolM@ster franchise.

https://twitter.com/neko1942/status/1261661579101143040

https://twitter.com/Fact_M_Q/status/1325604249623953408
It is here now, it is just a question of how widely distributed it gets.

Last week I was playing through Asgard’s Wrath 2 on the Meta Quest 3 which is a AAA game for standalone VR which has the scope of a big console release. A lot of people use VRChat already. I could see the Apple Vision Pro being ablem to synthesize a very good avatar with its eye camera.
Judging by his podcast “Judge John Hodgman”, I’d say he’s an extremely clever individual. His shoot from the hip material is so clever sometimes it makes me wonder if it’s entirely scripted.
Reed is a pretty selective and well regarded school, unlike the schools I got into.
Stuff like this makes me realize how different people use the internet than I do
Mullvad VPN location set to Frankfurt germany

Using the us east test server:

Proxy Score: 10/100 - Very likely not a Proxy

VPN Score: 0/55 - Very likely not a VPN

Using german test server:

Proxy Score: 10/100 - Very likely not a Proxy

VPN Score: 30/55 - Very likely a VPN

The thing that changed between both tests was the flow latencies vs ping latencies check. Clicking on more info it said: "flow variance too large in relation to avg flow: 0.6937484181219945"

I guess it works kinda, but not very consistent.

But e.g. https://ipinfo.io/ reveals immediately that this IP is a VPN IP address.
I am an engineer so I know very well that industrial replication is far from easy, but that's a whole different topic here. That's why when manufacturing at scale you implement numerous controls for each step to ensure you remain into "whats known" territory.

Now, when you publish a discovery in a paper, common sense demands that you are sure that you results are not random, and the only 100% reliable way to do that is by replicating your results. There's no way around that. The fact that most people who publish stuff and the system that allows it never ever do that undermines any credibility in said "science".

Hence this is cargo cult. This is typically something that mimics the look of Science by using the scientific method, but it has none of its properties, because the incentives to cheat are obvious and there is nothing in place to prevent them.
> Police are the violence arm of the state.

It should be stressed that it's not so in every country
Idk, having a day job so you can fully engage in your passions without having to compromise the thing your passionate about for commercial concerns, while maybe not ideal seems at least consistent with the ideals of punk.
Ask HN: How to teach a high-school CS course?
Happy New Year, Hacker News!

Short: How would you teach a High-school Grade 11 Computer Science course?

More info: I'm a STEM teacher at a Canadian high-school in China. Our program is for Chinese students whose parents want a western complement to the Chinese system. In effect, students may be wildly talented or wildly unready - I have students with a 5 in AP Calculus and students without a gist of functions. I must wear many hats at this school. My new hat is Computer Science teacher, which falls to me because I write a little code (e.g. my React Native iOS app 99to5.com for learning physics, self-promo apologies). How can I make this class most edifying for the most students?

Thanks for any advice! And I wish you joy and good-fortune in 2024!
whats wrong with the current interface?
Don't be silly. If I write a sentence in a paper that happens to be identical to a sentence someone else wrote, I've now committed plagiarism even if I had no way of knowing that sentence even existed!
This isn’t stealing. Using a meaningless sentence isn’t a very big deal. In academia we care about plagiarism because we care very deeply about the misattribution of academic credit. In practice this does not mean borrowing a sentence in an acknowledgements section, which is sad and embarrassing. It means stealing full ideas and written sections to take credit for them. We treat this much more harshly at the early student level to dissuade serious violations later in life. We do this for the same reason we demand exceptional performance on the parking section of the driving test, even though many licensed adult drivers are terrible at parking and society survives just fine.