skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My perspective after talking to a few colleagues in the CS education sector, and based on my own pre-GPT experience:

Classifiers sometimes produce false positives and false negatives. This is not news to anyone who has taken a ML module. We already required students back then to be able to interpret the results they were getting to some extent, as part of the class assignment.

Even before AI detectors, when Turnitin "classic" was the main tool along with JPlag and the like, if you were doing your job properly you would double-check any claims the tool produced before writing someone up for misconduct. AI detectors are no different.

That said, you already catch more students than you would think jut by going for the fruit hanging so low it's practically touching the ground already:

- Writing or code that's identical for a large section (half a page at least) with material that already exists on the internet. This includes the classic copy-paste from wikipedia, sometimes with the square brackets for references still included.
- You still have to check that the student hasn't just made their _own_ git repo public by accident, but that's a rare edge case. But it shows that you always need a human brain in the loop before pushing results from automated tools to the misconduct panel.
- Hundreds of lines of code that are structurally identical (up to tabs/spaces, variable naming, sometimes comments) with code that can already be found on the internet ("I have seen this code before" from the grader flags this up as least as often as the tools).
- Writing that includes "I am an AI and cannot make this judgement" or similar.
- Lots of hallucinated references.

That's more than enough to make the administration groan under the number of misconduct panels we convene every year.

The future in this corner of the world seems to be a mix of

- invigilated exams with no electronic devices present
- complementing full-term coding assignments with the occasional invigilated test in the school's coding lab
- students required to do their work in a repo owned by the school's github org, and assessing the commit history (is everything in one big commit the night before the deadline?). This lets you grade for good working practices/time management, sensible use of branching etc. in team projects, as well as catching the more obvious cases of contract cheating.
- viva voce exams on the larger assignments, which apart from catching people who have no idea of their own code or the language it was written in, allows you to grade their understanding ("Why did you use a linked list here?" type of questions) especially for the top students.
Point being, in that case you don't have relativistic effects nor effects preceding causes and whatnot.
if you were to invest in datacenter stocks (AI datacenters builders), what companies would be good options?
The MS security software (for better or worse), is better than any open-source linux solution, and can follow attackers as they move laterally through the network, instead of linux servers being a big black hole were adversaries can do as they please.

All security software from any vendor is going to have issues, and often you just have to go with whatever the company is running for the whole environment and not compromising security because of some jokes from the 90s
End to end connectivity without a third party server for discovery is either complicated for the end-user (manually specifying IPs, ports, etc) or it relies on inherently insecure techniques like multicast/broadcast. And once you introduce a third party server that both peers connect to, establishing a connection even through NAT is not that much harder. And yes, NAT does have some costs, but transitioning to IPv6 also does, and I don't think that the Internet justified that cost at the time IPv4 addresses first started running out. NAT's cost is much more diffuse and in the future.

We'll see if this more direct communication actually happens as IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, but I for one doubt it. Especially since ISPs are not at all friendly to residential customers trying to run servers, often giving out dynamic prefixes or small subnets (/128s even!) even on IPv6. And I think the LTE network is decent evidence in support of my doubts: it was built from the ground up with IPv6-only internally, and there are no stable IP guarantees anywhere.

As to the privacy benefits, those are real and have made IP tracking almost useless. Your public IP, even in the developed world, very commonly changes daily or weekly. Even worse for trackers, when it does change, it changes to an IP that someone else was using.
Yes. It's a W3C specification.

That said, the original 2001 version of the spec includes scripting https://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/REC-SVG-20010904... - so some decisions may be lost to time.
This tool seems like it's for a person who is forced to use Windows at work. If you must use MSFT and you can't find a new job, use this tool until you do.
There's been surprisingly little discussion about the DSA. The brussels corporate lobbyists really earned their salaries with that one.
Why? Dumb government censorship could also block your private cloud as well.
I ran a very similar service for years. And yes it will be abused. I stopped when russian and chinese bots where sending many messages per seconds containing AI generated marketing bullshit with links to scammy sites in various format (html, bb code, markdown, …) and it became GB of text… :/. I still haven't finish to clean things up. The service is now discontinued because of this: https://paste.fulltxt.net/

The full code for the service is here: https://paste.fulltxt.net/42

The command-line paste tool was this simple script: https://paste.fulltxt.net/txtp

In another distant past, I ran an URL minification service at http://uzy.me/, and there too because of spams, I had to discontinue it.

Spam is really killing the internet… This actually saddens me.
even then, the llm cannot possibly be a standalone os. For one thing, it cannot execute loops. So even something as simple as enumerating hardware at startup is impossible.
> My current best guess, is to hand the student stuff that was written by an LLM, and challenge them to find and correct its mistakes.

Finding errors in a text is a useful exercise, but clearly a huge step down in terms of cognitive challenge from producing a high quality text from scratch. This isn't so much an alternative as it is just giving up on giving students intellectually challenging work.

> That's going to be what they do in their careers

I think this objection is not relevant. Calculators made pen-and-paper arithmetic on large numbers obsolete, but it turns out that the skills you build as a child doing pen-and-paper arithmetic are useful once you move on to more complex mathematics (that is, you learn the skill of executing a procedure on abstract symbols). Pen-and-paper arithmetic may be obsolete as a tool, but learning it is still useful. It's not easy to identify which "useless" skills are still useful as to learn as cognitive training, but I feel pretty confident that writing is one of them.
Well, people in those jobs aren't very likely to be showing up on either side of that ratio.
If anyone misses the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
They're saying they find "cat" more natural than "<" which I can understand. Unless you regularly use "<", it's probably easier to remember "cat" and it's more self-documenting.
Was this ever effective? There was a lot of essay copy/pasting when I was in school, and this was when essays had to be hand written (in cursive, of course, using a fountain pen!).

Same with homework. If everyone has to solve the same 10 problems, divide and conquer saves everyone a lot of time.

Of course, you're only screwing yourself because you'll negatively impact your learning, but that's not something you can easily convince kids of.

In person oral exams (once you get over the fear factor) work best, with or without (proctored!) prep time.

Maybe it doesn't scale as well, but education is important enough not to always require maximal efficiency.
In most cases that only tests a students memory and handwriting ability, while under pressure in a limited time.

Can't perform any research, compare conflicting sources, or self-reflection.
For whomever is interested, IIRC, this requirement of random layout came up in late 2000/early 2010 due to:

- keyloggers (safer to click instead of type instead -> on-screen keyboard then)

- but then it turned out Internet Explorer had a bug which allowed attackers to read the mouse click events' X/Y coordinates in other windows which then could be mapped to the on-screen keyboard digits if the layout is predictable
I just discovered Temporal, and I have to say thank you! From what I've seen so far, it seems like the holy grail for workflows, offering very clear high-level task management over complex infrastructure. Is Temporal unique in this space, or are there other alternatives of similar caliber? Given that it was spun off from Uber and is used by top vendors, it sounds like it’s been thoroughly battle-tested.
An alternative idea could be to use some software that does speech to text. Not sure there are any easy to setup local options. I tried one a while ago, but not really investing much time into it, like some people do, who program using such a setup. The result was very underwhelming. Punctuation worked badly and capitalization of words also was non-existent, which of course would be a no-go for writing research papers.

So if anyone knows a good tool, that is flexible enough to support proper writing and able to run locally on a machine, hints appreciated.
>I think you can do much better.

Not to be a troll, but I really think they cannot. The last "good" product they made was SQL-Server/Exchange/Windows2000, and that was a long time ago.
> Such as? We need an answer now because students are being assessed now.

When I was in university (Humanities degree), we had to do lots of mandatory essays throughout the year but they counted little towards your overall mark, maybe 10% iirc.

The majority of marks came from mid-year & end-of-year exams.

A simple change to negate AI is to not award any points for work outside exams — make it an optional chance to get feedback from lecturers. If students want to turn in work by AI, it's up to them
This is how we get to big brother 1984 status. Slowly and gradually in the name of public safety. First you limit information deemed “harmful”, next you make it illegal, then you use your powers to make your own rules.

With the corporate control structure, it looks like we’re heading more towards Neuromancer or Brave New World than 1984. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Azure sucks. Especially the Batch Service, the jobs scheduler is not accurate at all.
Indeed, but it more acute when people don't give anything back, and hobbies don't last forever.
There were comments here about how msft is more enterprise friendly than google because they don't lose any data. msft is the opposite of reliable.
I completely understand what you mean regarding Firefox. While everything already works fine there, the extension isn’t available yet. We had to make a decision regarding the tab management feature (tab grouping), which posed some challenges for Firefox.

That said, Firefox extension support is on the way! Even if we start with a stripped-down version focused on 'bookmarking' for now. We can’t be a privacy-centric company without supporting Firefox, that’s for sure.
>and can follow attackers as they move laterally through the network,

That i wanna see ;)))
Of course they aren't "deleted" in any real sense. The proposition a bank would delete statements with lines only a few days old borders on farcical. Nonetheless, that statement was repeated a number of times by bank representatives, including their specialists in deceased estates.

I presume it really means "when the account is closed, it is removed from the UI and I don't know how else to access it". The statements could be retrieved, but based on past experience that would take forms, money, and some time, and stubborn insistence when dealing with bank staff under normal circumstances. In this case it would also need me submitting certified death certificates, will's, and maybe even probate. Obtaining probate takes months, literally.
In the mid 90s (yes I’m dating myself here. :P) I had a classmate who was such a big NIN fan that she worked the phrase “downward spiral” into every single essay she wrote for the entire year.
I like your project a lot! Please release it.

I've been 'summarising' a lot of articles using NotebookLM's new feature and publishing them as podcasts episodes here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0C8DGPdYwZQ1cbvQsnvO6t

I've been using their service to easily draw out the key points and if the episode is a good one then I publish it on the feed.

I do think that for specific content, that a lot of gold is stored within the comments sections and reading those actually gives more insight than the article itself so I've been planning on doing a few which draw off comments from either a reddit or hacker posts which link out to some post. I'll probably do one from reddit first. Probably science focused.
That's not solving the right problem. That keeps you sharp driving, but does not keep you sharp supervising. If the car did drive you 1000 km flawlessly, but can still kill you with a random erratic bug on the 1001th km (or on the 1234th). That is where people will zone out. Keeping people driving will keep them able to drive, but won't make them less zoned out when they are not driving.
Seems reminiscent of https://world.hey.com/dhh/capture-less-than-you-create-c30e4...
the music is more distracting at higher speeds for me and i usually listen at 1.5x when walking or at the gym. you could have the music be a separate audio track where the playback speed doesnt impact it and the toggle plays it simultaneously with the vocal track or not.
That depends on the questions. There are also open book exams. A viva is a type of exam so I don’t see they are incompatible with assessing research
Honestly I'm totally on the side of the hackers in all this. The IA is the most important thing on the internet and the fact it has such bad security is absolutely inexcusable. Thank you to the hackers for bringing attention to this
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Huh, I've been doing it wrong my whole life.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! Looks like this one has stopped publishing since the end of September though.
I did not know that. Thank you.

Reading the rules quickly, it does seem like you're not entitled to know why the computer flagged you, only that you have the right to "obtain human intervention". That seems a little to soft, I'd like to know under which rules exactly I'm being judged.
> "pro" updates (which I don't get the backlash about.)

Waving a security update in my face on the premise that I'll pay them more is rather unacceptable. That said, I wish Ubuntu all the best... in the meantime, I'm considering switching to debian for my cloud stuff, hopefully Trixie comes out in decent shape next year...
having something explained to me has never helped me retain the information. That only happens if i spend the time actually figuring out stuff myself.
It would be nice to pattern diodes and semiconductors on PCB without components as follows: etch circuit layout of a copper layer, mask the traces so they don't oxidize, then heat the PCB to have unmasked copper turn into Cu2O (cuprous oxide, a semiconductor).

Anyone seriously attempting this should make sure they understand solid state physics, and at a minimum understand diffusion length of charge carriers and the different type of contacts: Ohmic, Schottky ( for example https://lampz.tugraz.at/~hadley/psd/lectures20/contacts.pdf )

Performance will be horrible, but in some situations constructing and inspecting the device oneself can be paramount ( bootstrapping a secure computational platform, implementing formal verifier associated to a cryptocurrency, ... )
If only we could do `fileA> command >fileb` for the ultimate readability...
> The ones that didn't come back have less than 5% of the followers they used to have.

Well, first of all, I mean, who cares, honestly, how many followers one has? But also 5% does sound weirdly low. I think I had about a thousand followers on Twitter, which I was on from 2007 to 2022; I've been on Mastodon since 2022 and appear to have 300 there.

Overall, for me, Mastodon's worked out fairly well; it feels rather like noughties-era twitter. YMMV, of course.
I understand.. We had to start somewhere. It will be open-sourced and available on all browsers hopefully soon.
Note that Bernadotte (in imperial disfavour in summer 1809 [p15], adopted to form current swedish ruling house in fall 1810) played his psychopath cards well.

> Napoleon would dictate to his secretaries exactly what he wanted published in the Paris newspaper [p22]

> « Je redoute trois journaux plus que 100.000 baïonnettes. » (I fear 3 newspapers more than 100'000 infantry) —NB

There's a nice (but very long) soviet joke that concludes with Bonaparte admiring Pravda.

> the Emperor makes war not with our arms but with our legs [p28]

As in the days of the Renaissance Condottieri; oddly enough the same is true in fencing: whoever has the stronger legs controls the distance (I wouldn't be surprised if 膝行 had been meant as leg training in the land of 間合い).

I wonder if the reliance on foraging for manoeuvre was part of his defeat by General Winter? Early canning (jarring in champagne bottles, I believe) had been developed under his version of ARPA, but I don't know if he had had that logistical element in 1812, nor if it would have been available much beyond metropolitan france.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia#Logi... suggests french planning had assumed russia would be nearly as dense as poland.

EDIT: when in high-functioning global teams, I've noticed how time zone diversity allows development to proceed nearly continuously; B's habit [p24] of sleeping from 19h00-01h00, in order to process yesterday's reports and get the new Orders of the Day out (~03h00) before his army woke up, seems similar.

EDIT2: (a) no such thing as foraging for a blue-water cruising naval vessel, (b) navies already operated with admirals using flag signals to coordinate their fleets, and (c) before modern comms, navies were already nearly "relativistic" in that news travelled about as fast as they did and so, eg if you sent a captain to the indies you had to have great confidence in them, because it'd take on the order of a year to close the accountability loop.
For me, this works on iPhone after tapping the svg and waiting a bit. It runs through a demo in this mode (since there is no mouse or keyboard) and is very impressive! It includes sound as well!
By that argument, no one would ever learn anything.

Everything in programming is new to someone at some point. There are useful features few people know about, and you get them to be widespread and familiar by using and talking about them.

Just because you only ever learned about `for` loops doesn’t mean you shouldn’t understand and use `map`.
You don't need to be thunderfoot to understand that pretending you will start to colonize mars in the next years lies somewhere between daydreaming and scamming.

Although I like when thunderfoot compare the archives of what musk said with what actually happened
> Maybe scientific progress shouldn't be driven by money, personal ego (fame, honors, etc.)

It's like that top to bottom, from the shittiest uni to the most prestigious institute it's all a big game of thrones, absolutely rotten to the core with a few exceptions here and there.
> Personally I think all this is unpredictable and destabilizing.

I completely agree, but then again it seems to me that society also functions according to many norms that were established due to historical context; and could / should be challenged and replaced.

Our education system was based on needs of the industrial revolution. Ditto, the structure of our working week.

My bet: We will see our working / waking lives shift before our eyes, in a manner that's comparable to watching an avalanche in the far distance. And (similarly to the avalanche metaphor) we'll likely have little ability to effect any change.

Fundamental questions like 'why do we work', 'what do we need' and 'what do we want' will be necessarily brought to the fore.
I find PyPy gives me enough speedup for my Python scripts to leave it.
I really wish LinkedIn would stop trying to be a social network and would stick to being a professional network.
WebKit definitely uses those, search the codebase for "TCSM". I would assume that the Chrome people either worked with Apple on it, or they reversed it from what WebKit was doing.
Interesting idea but millimeter-scale logic doesn't really have much practical use in this day and age :) but it's s nice proof of concept.
> That said, I don’t think that JavaScript is inherently slow,

That said, I don't think the author understands performance when it comes to language details. There are several layers of untapped performance, all which JS makes hard to access - optimal vectorization, multi-threading, memory/cache usage, etc.
Gulen, the powerful cleric accused of orchestrating a Turkish coup, dies
A lot of FOSS projects are started by young people, often students. At some point, life hits, with spouses and children and real jobs demanding lots of time. Slowly people burn out, and most of the time, other people want to scratch their own itch and don't necessarily continue what already exists.

I guess password managers are relatively simple at the core but have to fulfil very different requirements so there isn't one obvious piece of software that everybody can focus on. See also bike-shedding vs building a nuclear reactor.

A better philosophy on how to herd cats would be useful in the FOSS world, though. It's a formidable force, but terribly scattered.
If most people are using a term "wrong", then they are using it correctly.
It's a really funny way of thinking about things. That when your rotate, you don't, instead you rotate entire universe around you. Yet, somehow, how hard is it to rotate has nothing to do with what's in the universe but everything to do with you.

Moving your point of view from one inertial frame of reference to another is easy enough, but there should be some overarching mathematical construct that can model all the inertial frames and their relationships at once. Phenomenons such as energy, mass and acceleration should be easier to understand within it.
I just discovered that they discontinued their VPN back on June 20th.

Somehow, I am not surprised.
LigGen / SciHub are model citizens in this regard. Use the best tech for the job . Torrents + IPFS + simple http mirrors all over . While their data is big its not as big as Archive.org https://libgen.is/repository_torrent/ so I guess one still needs the funding to go to these decentralized nodes and they are there mostly for resiliancy
How to Activate the Value Flywheel Effect with Your Data
This article presents a model for activating a data-driven value flywheel within organizations, emphasizing the interplay between business and technology through a structured, four-phase approach. However, as with any framework, its utility and effectiveness depend on real-world application and feedback.

I welcome the Hacker News community to share their insights and experiences with this model. Do you find it useful in your work? What aspects resonate most with you, and what improvements or alternatives would you suggest?
I thought this was the difference between mindmaps (anonymous connections between things) and concept maps, where edges are directed and labeled such that (node, edge, node) triplets form propositions.

I agree concept maps are more useful but at this point I do think they deserve their own word.