skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does your refresh rate time accounts for time slowing down for things moving fast (relative to you) regardless of spatial direction they are moving?

Spacetime simplifies many things for example in that framing nothing is ever at rest or nothing ever travels at different speed. The speed of everything is the same, it's just that things spatially at rest have all their speed in the direction of time. Accelerating something in spatial direction is rotating (mathematically) their motion away from time direction, into some spatial direction. This requires energy so the time direction is lowest energy but to rotate it away from it you need to put in energy. If you want to rotate it to 45 deg you need infinite energy.
<< The grade was ultimately changed, but not before she received a strict warning: If her work was flagged again, the teacher would treat it the same way they would with plagiarism.

<< But that doesn't scale at all.

I realize that the level of effort for oral exam is greater for both parties involved. However, the fact it does not scale is largely irrelevant in my view. Either it evaluates something well or it does not.

And, since use of AI makes written exams almost impossible, this genuinely seems to be the only real test left.
You're correct, but even then you've still the problem of storage - the torrents are only useful (and there's a lot of them) if a sustainable number of seeds remain available.
[dupe]

Earlier:

Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41890460
Probably: he is a contributor to Servo
Yep, that's what happens on mobile when each paragraph is in a <pre> tag of its own.
When I look around in the shared open workspace I am in currently for a meeting, everyone (programmers, PR, marketing) has Claude/GPT/Perplexity on their screen. 100% of the people here. So I guess this will not be limited to students.
An essay written under examination conditions is fine. We don’t need new assessment techniques. We have known how to asses that a student and that student alone for centuries.
https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/working-at-amazon/what-is...
> Such as? We need an answer now because students are being assessed now.

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.

That's going to be what they do in their careers, unless the LLMs get so good they don't need to, in which case https://xkcd.com/810/ applies.

> Personally I think all this is unpredictable and destabilizing. If the AI advocates are right, which I don't think they are, they're going to eradicate most of the white collar jobs and academic specialties for which those people are being trained and evaluated.

Yup.

I hope the e/acc types are wrong, we're not ready.
Why do people say such unsubstantiated nonsense. Places with guns have more death. And it's obvious to see why guns are a tool for for killing, and they're pretty effective.
While I agree with your premise, it’s worth noting that much of the military is also “bureaucrats doing necessary government work.”
Sadly, this is not what is happening. Based on the article ( and personal experience ), it is clear that we tend to happily accept computer output as a pronouncement from the oracle itself.

It is new tech, but people do not treat it as such. They are not figuring it out. Its results are already being imposed. It is sheer luck that the individual in question choose to fight back. And even then it was only a partial victory:

"The grade was ultimately changed, but not before she received a strict warning: If her work was flagged again, the teacher would treat it the same way they would with plagiarism."
> And, since use of AI makes written exams almost impossible

Isn't it easy to prevent students from using an AI if they are doing the exams in a big room? I mean when I was a student, most of my exams were written with just access to notes but no computers. Not that much resources needed to control that...
AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner
From the article, IPv4 only has 3.03 billion unique, routable addresses. The world population is 8.2 billion. So there's only enough IPv4 addresses for 1 unique address per 3 people on the planet. But of course, in reality, huge swathes of the IP address range are held by big companies (like amazon), universities and the US military.

Its very common for whole streets or neighbourhoods to collectively share a single IPv4 address. Its required, as a result of simple math.

You'll even see this in some parts of the US and UK.
Successful marketing stories in memo format
What takes too much of your time at work that could be automated but isn't?
Follow up question: why haven't you automated it yet?
It's not forgiving of types at all. Reality is not forgiving of type errors. The only thing JavaScript does is move the moment where you find out reality is not forgiving of type errors to when your code is running in prod rather than at compile time, and makes them more implicit. That doesn't make it a bad thing per se to be forgiving of type errors. For example, if you really like fixing errors in production rather than before pushing them to production, this faux forgiveness is precisely what you should be looking for. It's all up to personal preference. Personally, I prefer knowing early on if there's problems with my code, and having a higher degree of certainty regarding it working or not.

All of this is under the assumption that whatever you're writing has some degree of complexity to it (an assumption which is satisfied very quickly). Five line python glue scripts don't necessarily benefit from static typing.
> For any process where an computer is allowed to judge people, where should be a rule in place that demands that the algorithm be able explains EXACTLY why it flagged this person.

This is a big part of GDPR.
> They don't know how it works, they cannot explain it, they don't care, it just works. It's magic. If it says you cheated, you cheated. You cannot do anything about it.

People trust a system because other people trust a system.

It does not matter if the system is the inquisition looking for witches, machine or Gulag from USSR.

The system said you are guilty. The system can’t be wrong.

Kafka is rolling in his grave.
> active is taken to mean electrical control of current flow

Is a transformer an active device? Asking because current in one loop can control current in the other loop.

From there, are two copper wires an active device?
Definitely clockify for time tracking
I typically write my own.
Discussion the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881487
OP is a Servo contributor
Huh? It seems you've forgotten that you were just saying that a single bit change would result in a 4096 byte write.
> many larger animals self medicate and apply external anti pest substances

It seems like some birds use cigarettes butts to prevent parasites so it wouldn't be a first

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cigarette-butts-h...
I have a couple of read-heavy >2TB Postgres instances, document-oriented too.
You're right that bulk updates can be too slow. Too many times I end up doing the updates incremental (in batches) or even use COPY.
My partner and I are both native English speakers in Germany; if I use ChatGPT to make a sentence in German, he also spots it 100% of the time.

(Makes me worry I'm not paying enough attention, that I can't).
Yep, some with fun results. I occasionally amuse myself now by asking for X in the style of writing of fictional figure Y. It does have moments.
The ones that are easy to spot are easy to spot. You have no idea how much AI-generated work you didn't spot, because you didn't spot it.
I'd guess using typed arrays or even normal arrays wouldn't slow the code much, and the slowdown will be probably a small constant factor.

If the JIT detects the array as homogenous it will compile it to low level array access. JS JITs are very good.
Net Promoter Score (NPS): The metric that's taking over big business (2020)
They work as well as the AI :)
> but what on earth would be his motive

Rumors said that his motivation would be to just actively sabotage colleague's work because managers decided to give priority on GPU resources to those who were working on DiT models, and he works on autoregressive image generation. I don't know what exactly was his idea, maybe he thought that by destroying internal competitors' work he can get his GPU quotas back?

> Also, what kind of outfit is ByteDance if an intern can modify (and attack) runs that are on the scale of 256 GPUs or more?

Very high. These research labs are basically run on interns (not by interns, but a lot of ideas come from interns, a lot of experiments executed by interns), and I actually mean it.

> Do you not have source control or some sort of logging in place?

Again, rumors said that he gained access to prod jobs by inserting RCE exploits (on unsafe pickle, yay, in 2024!) to foundation model checkpoints.
> The best method for assessing performance when learning is as old as the world: assess the effort, not how well the result complies with some requirements.

I am really quite confused about what you think the point of education is.

In general, the world (either the physical world or the employment world) does not care about effort, it cares about results. Someone laboriously filling their kettle with a teaspoon might be putting in a ton of effort, but I'd much rather someone else make the tea who can use a tap.

Why do we care about grades? Because universities and employers use them to quickly assess how useful someone is likely to be. Few people love biochemistry enough that they'd spend huge sums of money and time at university if it didn't help get them a job.
I think it was in Ch.17 "Time and Chance" of https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/pleasures-of-counting/0... but only plan to be able to double check that (and provide page #) sometime before 2025.
Indeed. Quoting article 22 [1]:

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing [...]

[1]: https://gdpr.eu/article-22-automated-individual-decision-mak...
Nobody said we shouldn't try to solve the problem. But the first step is accurately describing the problem to be solved. Something that occurs once a year across the entire country has very different solutions than something which occurs once a week in every county.
> I'd call myself a fairly aggressive driver

This is puzzling. It’s as if it was said without apology. How about not endangering others on the road with manual driving before trying out self driving?
It's a similar problem to people being banned from Google (insert big company name) because of an automated fraud detection system that doesn't give any reason behind the ban.

I also thing that there should be laws requiring a clear explanation whenever that happens.
One course I took actually provided students with the output of the plagiarism detector. It was great at correctly identifying where I had directly quoted (and attributed) a source.

It would also identify random 5-6 word phrases and attribute them to different random texts on completely different topics where those same 5 words happened to appear.
This is not about ChatGPT. The same happens in HR departments And governments.

Just introduce an incomprehensible process, Like applying for a Visa or planning permission, and then use it to your advantage.

From the victims perspective, there is no difference between bureaucracy and AI
It appears you think that giving women the same opportunities as men is a bad thing.
Yeah we always did that in high school for essays that were actually graded, otherwise there's always the option of having someone else write it for you, human or now machine. The only thing that's changed is the convenience of it.

The problem is more with teachers lazily slapping an essay on a topic as a goto homework to eat even more of the already limited students' time with busywork.
It's what I was taught: you switch on your indicators when you have checked that you are clear to merge and you have effectively committed. I always assume that someone who has put their indicators in is going to move according to them, whether it's clear or not.
Thanks for the feedback!

1) That's strange, I don't do anything to prevent zooming. Although I could provoke a situation where I interacted with the player and it somehow captured all subsequent touch inputs, so zooming was blocked. Maybe that's what happened? Reloading the page should fix it.

2) I like it because it adds a bit of personality. And I felt like the generic name "Jane Doe" would be fitting for an AI. Kind of hinting at the fact that it seems like a human, but it's not. Also low-key telling you that the whole thing is AI generated, in case you don't pick up on it immediately.
No cap.
When you hop, at least get promoted. That way it paints a better picture. If you can honestly say that job C has more responsibility than B and B than A (even if same title) that is good too.

One option is to work for a large company with more opportunities negating the need to hop due to it going bad financially and more room to go up levels etc.
Which is an atrocity. Depriving everyone of the ability to build on existing works until those works are ancient history is absurd and there is no way this is a good deal for society.
I can't think of a single time that we've ever willingly put down a technology that a single person could deploy and appear to be highly productive. You may as well try to ban fire.

Looking at some of the most successful historical pushbacks against technology, taxes and compensation for displaced workers is about as much as we can expect.

Even trying to put restrictions on AI is going to be very practically challenging. But I think the most basic of restrictions like mandating watermarks or tracing material of some kind in it might be possible and really that might do a lot to mitigate the worst problems.
If AWS has such a high turnover of staff how does this affect the suite of new services that companies build their infra around?
Speaking of redirections... Here's another fut bit of lesser-known shell:

f(){ cat;} <file
f # prints out contents of file

I.e. You can bind redirections to function definitions that end up applying at call time.
I suppose we all get from school what we put into it.

I forgot the name of the guy, who said it, but he was some big philosophy lecturer at Harvard and his view on the matter ( heavy reading course and one student left a course review - "not reading assigned reading did not hurt me at all") was ( paraphrased):

"This guy is an idiot if he thinks the point of paying $60k a semester of parents money is to sit here and learn nothing.'
You don't block an entire tram line just because there are pickpockets on board some trams
The "solutions" implemented here in Italy are not solutions, but abominations imho
NAT doesn't ever provide security, only pretending to.
Show HN is for things you've made people can try which excludes most reading material, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
It's a race to the bottom, though. Why should the humans waste their time reading through AI-generated slop that took 11ms to generate, when it can take an hour or more to manually review it?
Police enforce the law. We aren’t discussing police; we are discussing universities. Some have their own police departments, but even those are beholden to the law, which is not the university’s to define.

Your police argument is a strawman.
This is the MySQL approach, but it isn't without downsides - consistency, predictability, etc.
Little Johnny who tried really hard but still can barely write a for loop doesn't deserve a place in a comp sci course ahead of little Timmy who for some reason thinks in computer code. Timmy might be a lazy arse but he's good at what he does and for minimal effort the outcomes are amazing. Johnny unfortunately just doesn't get it. He's wanted to be a programmer ever since he saw the movie Hackers but his brain just doesn't work that way. How to evaluate this situation? Ability or effort?
"The Agentic Reasoning Era Begins" Sonya Huang and Pat Grady of Sequoia
How would preservationists go about automatically updating the torrent and data they seed? Or would they need to manually regularly check, if they are still seeding the up-to-date content?
“Subsetting” a language is a useful practice. Consider the set of language features someone has to know in order to understand your code. If you can make that set smaller (without unreasonably sacrificing functionality), you lower the barrier to entry. More people can read your code.

The typical retort I hear is “but it’s just this one feature, how hard is it to learn just one feature?” But you’re only considering your favorite feature. To the casual code reader, it isn’t just that one feature, it’s everyone else’s favorite obscure feature as well.

Using cat makes your code readable to a wider audience. Using cat has real upside with no downside. Forcing your readers to learn more shell syntax has real downside with no practical upside.
> The Internet Archive is a supremely boring target politically.

I mean it's where we go to prove a politician said something after they deleted it or where a government changes the wording of something...

I'd argue it's one of the juicer political targets if you're actually wanting to do something.
Turns out we spent way too long thinking about how machines could beat the Turing test, and not long enough thinking about how we could built better Turing tests.
Not saying where, but well before transformers were invented, I saw an iOS project that had huge chunks of uncompiled Symbian code in the project "for reference", an entire pantheon of God classes, entire files duplicated rather than changing access modifiers, 1000 lines inside an always true if block, and 20% of the 120,000 lines were:

//

And no, those were not generally followed by a real comment.
> people were fearmongering that people would no longer memorize things but rely too much on books...

Posters here love to bring out this argument, but I think a major weakness is that those people wound up being right. People don't memorize things any more! I don't think it's fair to hold out as an example of fears which didn't come to pass, as they very much did come to pass.
It's sad that you don't have Internet friends that you trust enough to share that with after writing all that code. Maybe open source it but don't link to your demo instance? It's more sad that the Internet is like that. There are a couple of really neat quirky projects out there that I only know about through word of mouth because the open Internet is not to be trusted. The projects are behind a login wall, so it's not like they're discoverable either.
That's very odd. I can see it on my end while logged in. I tested it without being logged in, and I am seeing it being removed. Gotta be a bug.

You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/YasserKa/9a02bc50e75e7239f6f0c8f04fe...
FWIW, I'm a consultant for a large University hospital, and Dutch. My PhD thesis, years ago, got the remark: "Should have checked with a native speaker."

So, now I use ChatGPT to check my English. I just write what I want to write than ask it to make my text more "More concise, business-like and not so American" (yeah the thing is by default as ultra enthusiastic as an American waiter). And 9 out of 10 times it says what I want to say but better than I wrote myself, and in much less words and better English.

I don't think it took less time to write my report, but it is much much better than I could have made alone.

AI detector may go off (or it goes on? of is it of? Idk, perhaps I should ask Chat ;)), but it is about as useful as a spell-check detector.

It's a Large Language Model, you should just is like that, it is not a Large Fact Model. But if you're a teacher you should be a good bullshit detector, right?

If I'm every checking some student's report, you may get this feedback: For god's sake, check the language with ChatGPT, but for God's sake check the fact in some other way.
Relatedly, Backblaze b2 is routinely blocked by corporate IT (and even Chrome's anti-malware list from time to time) for similar "bad neighbour" reasons.

It's bad enough that you basically have to stick a reverse proxy in front of it to reliably serve content at scale.
But with the amount of AI generated content on the web, in a year or two (or maybe less) surely this method will fail dramatically?
It's more like being a driving instructor, which has a higher effort and skill bar than just driving.
My free book "Rust Projects – Write a Redis Clone" is out
At some point google should consider offering a VPN service :)
I wonder if you realise how much of a dystopian nightmare you have to be living in to write a comment like this and consider it reasonable.
I understand your point. It's still early stages and I expected these kind of comments honestly, because I myself saw a lot of these "desktop in a browser" demos that ultimately had no use to me whatsoever.

I believe our approach is very different though, and as time goes by hopefully it'll become even more useful to even more people.
Thanks, I had a look at the datasheets and it seems that I have to upgrade my knowledge. But why are transformers fire still a thing then? Cost?
It's anything but simple; good try though.

From your comments, it's clear you've already made up your mind that it can't possibly be true and you're just trying to find rationalisations to support your narrative. I don't understand why you feel the need to be rude about it though.
> you don't want him having to pace you through conditioning exercises---that would be a waste of his expertise

I fundamentally disagree - I vividly remember, many times during homework in maths for example, I realised that I am stuck and so don’t understand something explained earlier, and I need to ask someone. For me, my parents were able to help. But later in Highschool, when you get to differential equations - they no longer can. And obviously if your parents are poorly educated they can’t rather.

Second point, there is no feedback loop this way - a teacher should see how difficult is his homework, how much time students spend on it, and why they are struggling. Marking a piece of paper does not do it. There was wild inconsistency between teachers for how much homework they would set and how long they thought it would take students.

Lastly, the school + homework should be able to accommodate tag the required learning within 1 working day. It is anyway a form of childcare while parents work
Thanks a lot, all very good points!
Good point. I agree, but it goes back to some level of unwillingness to do this the 'old way'.

That is not say there won't be cheaters ( they always are ), but that is what proctor is for. And no, I absolutely hated the online proctor version. I swore I will never touch that thing again. And this may be the answer, people need to exercise their free will a little more forcefully.
People are absolutely irrational creatures.
You may miss some optimizations for cat | tail. And you can't --follow a cat, obviously!
Also, you can replace cat with pv to get a progress bar. Or replace cat with socat to stream stdin from a network socket. Etc etc.
More like the landlord wanted the kids to cut the grass for free so he gave them permission to look at the grass but not touch it and explicitly forbid playing on the grass. Oh and it turns out he doesn't even own all the land.
The problem is, you sound like you were educated without relying on "AI". Thus you know enough that you can use a LLM as a tool.

There are studies showing up already that students educated with LLMs end up retaining nothing.