skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not recommend a password manager with a cloud component dependency, that is the means by which the proverbial rugs are pulled. It's important to be in control of the vault yourself. Any keepass variant should do such as keepass2 and keepassxc.
Discussion (40 points, 1 year ago, 58 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38051236
Solfeggio Frequencies
I agree. I feel like I need at least a full day to just decompress from work and work on anything I want to, then another day to manage chores, house maintenance, etc. I end up feeling like I work 5 days for 1 day off.
Dawson's Field Hijackings
> I really don't understand this, how do you not make a transition plan the #1 requirement for selecting the next IP.

To some extent, Postel's Law suggests the only viable transition plan for the internet is "no transition plan"; expect both to continue to exist as long as they both need to and do your best not to break things or step on each other's toes.

Relatedly, a slow "dual stack" IPv4 to IPv6 transition is as much validation for Postel's Law, and that is has been applied to a useful extreme, as anything else: traffic shifts as traffic needs to shift; the internet not only survives, it thrives; most users don't notice nor care.
Mastering Liquid Syntax for Personalized Mobile Messaging
So security checking is for passengers and their luggage. Others can just walk directly in to the plane?
Dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41865141
Parts of US Department of Defense and their contractors do what they refer to as Compressed Work Schedule (CWS) wherein employees work 9-hour days and get every other Friday off. Some people opt to split their off day and make every Friday a half-day so that they can be on the links or at the riverside bar and grill by lunchtime. While in college I worked 10 hours a day Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Saturday was fairly productive on account of nobody being in the office to bother me.

Ever since I've taken remote jobs that have unlimited PTO I haven't missed these arrangements at all. No commute and the ability to take time off with reasonable constraints means that I'm able to catch up on chores and personal obligations much more easily.
Honestly, the problem is not the cheating, per se.

The problem is the lack of learning the material. You don't, IMO, directly care how they produced the answer, you care about it only as a proxy for them learning the material well enough to solve the problem.

And making people do them in person with no technology is unrealistic - not because it can't be done, but because at that point, it's not a reflection of how you'd use it outside of that classroom, and people are going to call it pointless, and IMO they'd be right. You would be correct that anyone who met that bar would have likely learned the material, but you'd also have excluded people who would have met the bar of "can use the material to the degree of familiarity needed going forward".

I think a reasonable compromise would be to let students collaborate on the exams in the classroom, without external access - while I realize some people learn better on their own in some subjects, as long as everyone contributes some portion of the work, and they go back and forth on agreeing what the right answers are, then you're going to make forward progress, even if that ruins the exam process as anything other than a class-wide metric. You could subdivide it, but then that gets riskier as there's a higher chance that the subset of people doesn't know enough to make progress. Maybe a hint system for groups, since the goal here is learning, not just grading their knowledge going in?

Not that there's not some need for metrics, but in terms of trying to check in on where students are every so often, I think you need to leverage how people often end up learning things "in the wild" - from a combination of wild searching and talking to other people, and then feedback on whether they decided you could build an airplane out of applesauce or something closer to accurate.
If the ability to enter the sweepstake would start after the voter registration deadline, that would be airtight as far as legality goes.
The loophole indeed lies in the grey zone, that strictly it isn't a reward for registration, but in reality some people will register just to be able to participate in the sweepstake. Very cunning!
It's fun to see this. My father (W7AAI) recently passed away, and we were just going through his QSL cards from the 60's and 70's. I never learned Morse code, but spent a lot of time hearing him using it as a kid. He first got his license in 1955, and my time in his HAM shack, playing with teletype tape, oscilloscopes and other such things was really pivotal for me becoming a CS major but handy with a soldering iron.

If you're curious about what it was like, here's something he wrote up in 2020 about his experiences with HAM radio in the early days. I see now I shared this once before on a YC post about QSL cards...

https://www.qcwa.org/w7aai-29229.htm
best I can do is $20 since .io might be going away...
New post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904237

Something weird happened with this post. It appeared in a shadow banned sort of form (maybe because of the Unicode superscript?) so I made the other one instead, but now this one actually appeared. Mods should feel free to delete this; I don't think I can do so myself.
The only land borders longer than the US-Mexico border are: US-Canada, Russia-Kazakhstan, Russia-Mongolia, Mongolia-China, Russia-China, Chile-Argentina, Bolivia-Brazil, India-China, and India-Bangladesh.

Furthermore, the disparity between the US and Mexico in GDP per capita is pretty stark--over a 3x difference, far more than any other pair of countries with such a long land border. The next largest difference is India-China, and that's not a pairing that's conducive to economic migration, unlike the US-Mexico border.
A Cosmic View of Soviet Estonia's Nuclear Legacy
I prefer using Python with pybind11. It makes writing new modules or embedding the whole interpreter quite simple.
Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?
Do you mean the stories of debugging the steaming pile of ... I mean my wonderful implementation of the language?

Or how to debug these kinds of system?

For the latter, I am actually very optimistic about making it possible to debug systems at a much higher and more meaningful level than currently, because you are making the high-level structure visible in the code instead of hand-compiling it down to some procedural implementation, with that hand-compiled procedural representation of your system being the thing that the the debugger sees.

With both the polymorphic write streams and the storage combinators being so highly composable, it becomes fairly easy to insert logging/instrumentation/debugging elements between the components of your system.
New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively
Negotiating scope with relevant stake holders. Understanding the problem to decide solution tradeoffs. Understanding the codebase enough to decide what code to write.

Why haven't you automated it? Because there exists no good automation that is cheaper than me hiring someone else and paying them more than what I earn.
The Alarming Prevalence of Zone Transfers
Factorio: Space Age Is Here
How toxic is it? It should be inert and cause no problems, but asbesto is also inert and very toxic.
Related Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI (82 points, 15 days ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753983
Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab
> If someone intends to bomb a plane, they don't announce it

In the heyday of IRA terrorism, they would regularly phone in threats shortly before a bomb went off.

It's much easier to claim responsibility for a bombing if one does so before the bomb goes off. And when one's aim is political pressure, one might prefer to target military/ police/ infrastructure/ politicians/ whatever with fewer civilian casualties.

Of course there were also plenty of bombings without phone threats, so make of that what you will. And in one of the most deadly bombings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing - the warning didn't specify the location of the bomb, and people 'evacuated' towards the bomb.
https://liliputing.com/sifive-hifive-premiere-p550-risc-v-bo...

> Note that the $599 starting price is for a model with 16GB of LPDDR5 memory

That's incredibly expensive, I'd definitely wait for the sipeed/milkv SiFive P550 boards.

Here is a geekbench comparison of the P550 @1.4GHz vs Cortex-A72 @1.5GHz from the Pi4 (total scores: 150 vs 253): https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/123?baseline=74...

A large part of the differences are clearly due to missing RVV in the P550.

I'm not sure, but this seems to be P550 @ 1.8GHz results (181): https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/6049688

The 1.4GHz version is on paper barely faster than the 1.8/2GHz C910 cores that have been available for a while, it's only a slight upgrade if you can reach the 1.8GHz boost.
On the other-hand, this is just from geekbench, and many people reported that the C910 was surprisingly slow in real world compilation task, while the SiFive U74 performed a lot better than in comparison than geekbench would suggest.
The thesis of the article is:

> Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border is a wasteful endeavor that is ill-equipped to respond to an ill-defined problem.

This article cites efforts of doing this all the way back to 1997. The critical problem is not that the cameras are literally broken, although they seem to have struggled with this, but the fact that the cameras have not shown to improve operational results.

An intelligently designed program would try to learn from these decades of trying the same thing unsuccessfully and try something else.

Before confidently claiming that the problem was the quality of the execution, you should try to present some evidence that this solution is a sensible one. Claiming it would work if it was better is something you can do indefinitely with no evidence.
When people don't want to talk to you anymore, it doesn't always mean that you're right. You should take that advice into real life.
Sure, but Azure also exposes an extremely large array of knobs and buttons that put the tenant admin squarely in control of what "login" means in the first place: the kinds of authentication allowed or required, by whom, under what risk profiles, for which applications, etc. If you feel like it is screwed up there is, as likely as not, action that it is the tenant admin's — not MS's — responsibility to take, to fix it. I don't know what to tell you about refreshes, that's just how Oauth works mostly. I'm tempted to take a video of myself logging into the Azure portal right now just to ask what about it is so weird.
One of the aspects that has never been discussed in those studies is the competitor's offset, which wouldn't adopt the 4-day work week.

Local companies in Germany have a very defensive business due to the nature of the market (not so internationalized, highly consolidated, a lot of small businesses that no big corporation would try to enter, and low competition in mid-sized businesses due to bureaucracy).

For local SaaS companies or local companies for sure, it can work since no big competitor can rise. Still, the real test would be Germany placing that in their industrial base (e.g. cars, industrial instruments, chemical industry, logistics), or in some other businesses where the entry barrier is low.
I know for a fact it does.

I can view the logs in AdGuard Plus, the only time I see an ad in Words With Friends or Flipboard on my iPad is when I'm off my Tailscale VPN (which goes through AGP). Apps that serve their ads directly, like YouTube, are not blocked sadly. But there are multiple workaround apps for that on Android atleast.

Also some apps don't work with the tracking blocked, like Fox Sports, but I just whitelist the minimum amount needed on a per device basis.
Apple Working on New Magic Mouse 2, Magic Trackpad 2, and Magic Keyboard
Yes, a company's marketing is absolutely part of the representations the company makes about a product they sell in the context of a product liability lawsuit.
Julian Assange's dad thanks Vladimir Putin for his 'support'
These darn things don't need to be "cloud enabled", or even wifi. Please make them Bluetooth, etc only.

These dopey use cases of needing to trigger a cleaning while miles away have always seemed like a stretch.
Small Discussion (45 points, 8 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41902808
I can see where it might overturn some predator-predatee ecosystems.
Good example of how security is counterintuitive. Another one from real life is how bank robbers often create misleading or blocking maneuvers such as setting a truck on fire, blocking road access to helicopter pads etc. But the epitome of “security paranoia paradox” must surely be military dictatorships, where powers you create to protect you can eventually overpower you.

As a tangent, it feels like there are close analogies to computer security for these cases.
I work only a few hours a week. best time of my life!

everything else is modern slavery.
This sort of snarky response fails to consider the actual benefits - for both the employer and the employee.

Often by the end of the week, people in complex positions are well past the point of diminishing returns - pushing them harder may work in the short-term, but it's a recipe for burnout.

It's better to have someone operating closer to their peek performance for longer - even if you sacrifice a day overall.
How do you know those buttons go to hardwired switches rather than being controlled by software that could be remotely hacked?
I think the greatest challenge with eradicating Malaria is that it is most prevalent in impoverished regions of the world. The USA occasionally has incursions of Malaria which is quickly quashed by the CDC National Malaria Surveillance System. If you have enough funding, Malaria is preventable. However, if most people do not have access to medical care, they cannot be diagnosed or tracked.

Essentially, a lack of access to health care results in Malaria continuing to devastate regions of the world. If you ever want to save a life, donating to the MSF is a great way to do it.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/cdc-malaria/index.html

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/medical-iss...
For folks who work to live, yes. Folks who live to work generally are more divided.
It's not about productivity, profitability, or anything measurable like that. It's about control, about keeping "us" different from "them". "Us" being the better, more worthy people, who deserve to enjoy life, and "them" being dirty lowly workers, who should be happy they have jobs, keep their heads down and not grumble.
If this was an unpublished manuscript, rights of first publication would apply and it might be covered by a kind of copyright that would vary depending on the country. Since this was "rediscovered" after first being unambiguously published back in the 1890s, it's pretty clearly in the public domain.

OP got incredibly lucky though that the author's name was included in the original publication - things like this (i.e. contributions to newspapers or magazines) were often published under obscure pseudonyms, initials, puzzling hints like "By the author of Such-and-such" or no author indication at all.
So this is fewer hours as well, right? Not just the same 40 hours but compressed into 4 days?

It doesn't seem unreasonable it could work for some jobs and people. Too many hours and people tend to get stressed, tired, worried about home matters they can't attend to, etc - and their performance suffers as a result.

Depends a lot on the job and person, though.
My mother was a single parent. Of course it’s better to have two parents in the house, but if you can’t get that you can still get a lot of improvement out of having some money.
I suspect you're getting downvoted by people who haven't actually read anything by Stoker.

My wife has read most of his stuff. I know because I buy it for her. She says aside from Dracula, most of it is not great.
In Geostationary orbit? Only for something like 3% of the time. The rest of the time they're off to the side. They'd mostly be catching light that would otherwise never hit Earth.
Wasn't that mostly due to Windows, which has since been fixed?
> whichever is greater

This always stuck out in an otherwise excellent bit, because you should definitely _not_ be taking the absolute value of your control error.
My explanation is that their tight control is an illusion. Not to get political, but the illusion of power is power, and suggesting they control billions of peoples speech is certainly an illusion of power.

China, and all other (supposedly) top-down-economies, survive only because their control is not airtight. If they were to actually have complete control, things would fall apart rapidly. “No one knows how Paris is fed” and all that.
Hi author. Just commenting to say I found your article to be very clear and insightful, thanks for writing it!
Presumably anyone with a multimodal transformer already pretrained on Human data could be further pretrained on animal vocalizations. I don't know whether any of the large model owners are doing this.
God bless these teenage degenerates and their endlessly creative fuckery. They bring more color to the world.
https://archive.ph/2024.10.21-190145/https://www.nytimes.com...
Your comment itself, is, of course an "in-group signifier". But I guess if you're not an academic it's less gross? Or if you are an academic, you're virtue signaling how "not an in-group signifier" you are by "out-of-group" signaling. Or something.

I'm not really meaning to attack you, even though it sounds like it - but just noting a certain irony of judgement about in-group signifiers without acknowledging that one is always signifiying.

One cannot escape signification. And to judge it as something to be avoided (as opposed to observed and noted), is... well... IDK. No man is an island and all that. Even stones cannot escape being signified, but they are incapable of signifying. Humans on the other hand. Cannot even escape the process of doing the signifiying. There is no "gross" as it is a social phenomenon and all ingroup/outgroup dynamics always hold, and all such organizational referents happen across the domains, regardless, and no-one is above this, no matter how much we wish to absolve ourselves of this process.

And that was a hell of a signifier, on my part. (one signifying I'm a wannabe academic with no actual formal education, I suppose).

EDIT: Further - what exactly do you think the point of Academics is? To get published, and how do you get published? Via RECOGNITION OF PEERS. So this fits fully hand in glove with entirely WHAT academia is. Academia is a social function, it is not a sterile lab with pure physics and escaped from the social dimension.

I guess I am critiquing you, despite what I said earlier, as I've thought about it more, and think - this sounds very much like something someone who works in a pristine 'logical' domain of computing thinks academia should be, not what it is. It further reinforces the fact that comp-sci people SHOULD take social sciences to understand such things, and it also explains why Elon is such a shit lord cuz he thinks the greats like Norbert Wiener and other systems theorists were abstracted away from society, when they knew full well just how integrated society is in everything.
There are a number of blog posts online and StackOverflow questions explaining IOCCC entries, and they generally seem to be built/obfuscated by hand. It's an art and it's far from trivial, which is one of the reasons why the contest exists :)

For an example, see this StackOverflow question and its detailed answers for an overview of what obfuscation techniques can be used, although many more exist of course: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15393441/obfuscated-c-co...

I was able to compile it on macOS, but had to include an extra flag to stop clang from being too strict (version 16):

cc -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -std=c89 -o test test.c
./test
What's the best material for a lunar tower?
'Blade Runner 2049' producers sue Elon Musk over robotaxi imagery
Valve Founder Gabe Newell Turned 'Half-Life' into a Nearly $10B Fortune
Space-based will by necessity be centralised. Some businesspeople like that kind of thing.
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]
> The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK Guide), published by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), represents the current state of generally accepted, consensus-based knowledge emanating from the interplay between software engineering theory and practice. Its objectives include the provision of guidance for learners, researchers, and practitioners to identify and share a common understanding of “generally accepted knowledge” in software engineering, defining the boundary between software engineering and related disciplines, and providing a foundation for certifications and educational curricula.
The United States of Abortion Mazes
Feeling Is Reality
Some of my experience of exams comes from a history degree where around eighty to ninety percent of the overall grade came from final exams. I can only speak of my experience but I don’t think this is atypical depending on educational system.

One of the reasons I mentioned the viva was an example of how we can decouple production of some work from an assessment of quality and some reason to believe that some candidate is capable of the work without assistance.

It would be unreasonable to spend five or so years working under examination conditions. But that doesn’t mean we can’t subsequently examine a candidate to determine likely authorship amongst other things.
It's also possible your tenant admin updated Conditional Access rules for some locations or applications. Or maybe they screwed up the Hybrid AAD sync from the on-premise DC. As I've been trying to point out elsewhere, tenant admins have a much higher influence on these outcomes than people are willing to admit, and there are a lot of admins out there who can't be arsed to keep up. I've made some of those mistakes myself.
> Egypt’s robust surveillance system was instrumental in early case detection

This sounds like HN material on its own.
We say a changing current in one coil of a transformer induces a current in the other coil. It does not control the current of the other coil.

Any induced current is superimposed on top of whatever is already there on the other side. This is different from controlling the current.

For example, you couldn't block DC current passing through the secondary side regardless what you did on the primary side.
I'm still disappointed the Samsung ring didn't come with nfc payments, therefore I didn't buy it.

What an oversight by their executives, are they even doing their jobs, do they even know their market. And the price? Absurd.
That's not a bug, that's a feature.
It's one character in the best case. In the worse case you need to convert the error types to your error type which just re-wraps or replicates the upstream error type. Then repeat this for every library type you use. Zigs error design seems saner in this aspect at least. Rust, IMHO, just makes errors require lots of unnecessary manual labor instead of being smart about it.

Alternatively everything just gets put into a `dyn trait` and you're effectively just bubbling up errors just like with exceptions, but with way more programmer overhead. The performance overhead of constantly doing if/else branches for errors adds up as well in some situations.

Of course a fair bit of Rust code just uses `unwrap` to deal with inconvenient errors.
We're pretty far from starving ourselves to death.
Yes, and when we're productive enough to do it, it'll probably happen.
We have AE (acousto-electric effect) at home
I wonder what Turing would've made of that.
It is a short and good read.