skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did undergrad before chatGPT and now I’m back in school for an MBA at a school where the school pays for all students to have access to GPT4o. Maybe because we’re all older the tools are less of a problem, but I would say they have been a net positive. GPT3 was ass and students could easily tell when a classmate used it for their group contributions. Profs seems to be about 6-12 months behind the curve in terms of the tech. All profs are aware and thinking deeply about how AI is changing how they teach.

Group papers are usually made into an outline at first and then we divvy up the responsibilities. If you use AI, most kids only care if your work sucks. AI consistently scores like an 80-85% (profs sometimes submit and blindly grade the responses), but almost always misses the core teaching points of classwork.

In my program, grades don’t matter (so employers can’t stack rank us). People who make extensive use of AI are really only cheating themselves. If you’re a big AI user, other kids generally know and try to avoid forming groups with you if they know in advance. You learn better when learning alongside others and if all someone does is dump AI slop in the google doc, you’re wasting my time in addition to yours.

I use AI to flesh out points, especially on assignments I don’t care about. It can help for idea generation and “connecting the dots” between ideas, but I always edit the output because the AI makes stylistic choices I don’t like. It’s definitely an accelerator for me when writing papers. I stand behind all the papers I’ve submitted, though some have sucked (regardless of AI usage or not).

In undergrad, when my priorities were less about learning and more towards dating/partying, I definitely would have abused this tool. At the end of the day, using the tool mainly cheats your own learning. I hope they transition to talking about using LLMs like one uses gambling - a little is fine here and there but if it’s all you do that’s a problem.

I’m not sure what to do about elementary age kids, because the AI easily writes “better” essays. At least in college I could do better than an AI if I applied myself. But in sixth grade? Good luck me. Cats out of the bag now and we should be really empathetic to the younger generations. Imagine getting slammed with TikTok->Pandemic->ChatGPT in the span of like 6-7 formative years. They are growing up differently and I certainly have no clue what we need to do to help them be successful.
That still means I have to depend on Apple to get access to my services, no?
Salesforce will hire 2k people to sell AI products
Ask HN: How do you deal with overly negative comments?
It seems like the longer I use the Internet the more I'm aware of just how many people use it exclusively to act like ass holes without recourse.

Particularly insidious are people who seem to poison any positive outcomes by spreading falsehoods and doubt. Sometimes even simply by having a shitty attitude.

My question to HN is: how do you deal with people who seem to go out their way to spread negative comments.
Cool. Come over here to Europe and tell us how expensive our you pay what you expect concert tickets are.

Naive shilling for the capitalists doesn't get you anything, except more expensive concert tickets that is.

So let me ask you one question. Who do you think will pay more:

1. the person who sees all the costs upfront

2. the person who at the end of the deal will see additional fees

please tell me it is 1 and tell all of us how it is you "who understands basic economics"
We’ll be free of that as well.
There's no way you can convince republicans to buy electric cars if the electric car guy is a democrat.
Why, I am acutely tuned to the hivemind, of course.
> How is a Yubikey any different than other physical keys people have been carrying for hundreds of years?

1. Not everyone caries keys (I don't and haven't for years)

2. Because every other existing alternative doesn't require you to cary something extra. Asking people to cary something with them to be able to sign into accounts will feel like a step backwards to most people.

3. Because most people only need to pull out their keys a few times a day. Requiring a Yubikey for every sign in means you'd now need to constantly be pulling your Yubikey out to sign into things.

> Password managers have the added complexity of still needing a password themselves and all the quirks that come with auto filling and programmatically reading forms.

I don't buy this. I use Lastpass which is arguably the most widely used password manager. I sign in using the master password maybe once a month and it works seamlessly on my phone. Apple and Google both have their own native solutions as well and still only 1/3 of people use them.

> Outrage was also due to proprietary connectors that were patent encumbered.

I think you're living in a bubble. Just go look back at the headlines from when that was announced. Almost no one gave a shit about it being a proprietary connector. People were upset because they were being forced to buy and cary a bunch of dongles. Just look at the comments on these reddit posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5a6lbd/it_just_works...

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5j66d4/the_world_isn...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/ox3s26/apple_do_...
Thanks; kind of you to say.
As a current academic who uses Turnitin regularly, I find it works fairly well. There are a lot of false positives, but it also regularly identifies actual plagiarism for me.
Mmm as a library author, even if your users don't use TS they can still benefit from the typings you provide as an author.
Yes! Markets work better when deceptive price signals are not inhibiting price discovery. When deception is not rewarded.
> which is starting to get a bit limiting

Extremely limiting given that streaming services are increasingly moving towards timed releases of shows/movies e.g. Silo is released on a Friday.

So a popular show could wipe out all capacity with enough people continuously caching a 4k stream.
Design Token-Based UI Architecture
If you’re assertive enough, it is.

“Oh, sorry, looks like we’d already applied the undercoat to your car.”

“Ah, thanks!”

“That’s an extra $400 charge.”

“I’m not paying for it. I didn’t want it. You can have it back if you want.”
They do. On the other hand, I'm typically exempt from a lot of the airline add-ons for various reasons.

Airlines are probably not the best example. A lot of people probably want cheaper airfares even if it means less/poorer service in a lot of ways.

But it should be as transparent up-front as possible. Even if infrequent travelers may not always understand the details.
> The price on the tag, is exactly what you pay (same with services, like hotels).

That's the norm, not the exception, in developed countries.
Biden admin waited too late to look into this. Its over. Musk is about to break all sorts of rules until even republicans can’t tolerate it.
Introduction to Janet RPC
It’s a very interesting idea. How does it perform compared to a regular data warehouse?
So it either only caught a single cheater among some unknown number, or only a single student cheated? Neither case seems to justify the expense and hassle of subjecting everybody to this process, not to mention everything else wrong with TurnItIn.
Somewhat reminds me of a project out of IBM some years back: "Billy Goat" https://dominoweb.draco.res.ibm.com/reports/rz3609_revised.p... (bummer looks the site certificate expired a few days ago.. sign of the times for IBM, eh).
Came here to leave a snarky "guess I won't use Klarna then", but happy to see your comment. This info fills me with great joy.
What do you mean? Minimising monopolies is how you keep the free market competitive.
Obviously there's a balance to be struck. There are certainly schools and teachers that teach arithmetic poorly, and there's a practical limit to the amount of hours spent doing equations before it becomes tedious busywork.

But I still think it's important that kids are taught how to do arithmetic by hand. And part of that will involve repetition, both to help reinforce and practice skills, and so educators can more accurately gauge a student's ability. You can't just bypass the need to sit down and do the work, even if the exact amount of work necessary is debatable.
'Plenty of places' is not all places and you want to completely count out a significant energy generating ability because you are annoyed that it doesn't agree with your politics. If it isn't feasible then they won't build it -- by going around and advocating against it you are doing the same thing that happened in the 70s and 80s -- removing a perfectly valid option for energy that we need and will otherwise be fulfilled in any other way if not provided -- almost always with fossil fuels. If you can guarantee every place for all time will be fine with renewables, I'd like to see it, otherwise, why not step back and let engineers and scientists evaluate instead of grandstanding against an option?
GuardSplat: Efficient and Robust Watermarking for 3D Gaussian Splatting
I, too, can confirm all this. Way back in the day, I hosted a largish forum and moderated it. It grew to be a pain to moderate, and it became costly to run as well, in short, it was no longer fun like it was initially, and I walked away from it.
I think that there will be people that will only learn to copy LLM generated text, and they will be not able to look like people that learn.
Agreed. They’re quite clear about what this is and how it works.

It’s just usually tremendously impractical to extend the tar pit to all your layer 2 domains in many modern network architectures, so while this is interesting, it’s unlikely to see production use.
Thank you for your kind words. I need to just get off my ass and get to an AA meeting already.
Chess Makes Historic Debut at Esports World Cup 2025 – $1.5M Prize Pool
Very easy, we can get inspiration from the web shops 10 years ago (and still a majority of honest sites today) : the price of the item and somewhere close the base shipping price and a (legal minimum size) link "shipping price" redirecting to a shipping price table. We can even impose the table framework like the nutritional information on food to avoid volontary complexification of that page.
Of course there are positives for being hyper connected. That doesn't mean there aren't going to be any negatives. Furthermore, choosing to ignore them won't make them magically go away.

There are big positives about having an abundance of food, but along with that we get type 2 diabetes and plenty of other health problems. Trying to understand the cause of these health problems does not mean one wishes to return to an era of widespread starvation and malnutrition. I suppose you have the same criticism for the doctors who began theorizing that an excess of carbs/sugar was causing problems? After all, plenty of people enjoy sugary desserts and lots of families get quality time together eating them around the dinner table. I don't see why those doctors had to choose to have such a negative view. Ignoring the problem would have been better, no?
Are you sure - that person could just quietly put their stamp on it without saying anything. As the other poster said, in the US notaries will put their stamp on anything. In other countries they have different rules, so if you don't live in the US I could believe they don't stamp most contracts.
But they have to be genuine, not "We found the button to press to get the best result."
The PWM function is built-in into the electronic switches that drive the light outputs, so you can programmatically control the brightness, it also accepts different switching frequencies so it’s just a matter of increasing the frequency for the “strobe effect” to be unnoticeable. The advantage of these switches over analog are several, including output diagnostic and lower power dissipation.
Some states do check for headlight alignment.
Do you think China will stop here?

This is like trying to hide Photoshop from the public. Realistic AI generated videos and adversary-sponsored mass disinformation campaigns are 100% inevitable, even if the US labs stopped working on it today.

So, you might as well open access to it to blunt the effect, and make sure our own labs don't fall behind on the global stage.
Introduce support for the Meson build system – git.git 904339e
Not really in my experience. That's how final PhD examinations are typically done. Outside of that, it's pretty rare. That said, PhD students are also regularly interacting with faculty members and discussing their work so it would be difficult to get by without actually knowing things.
If IBM had given OS/2 to their mainframe division to develop (and hired someone to design a better GUI, with much better icons - these things matter), I think it could have been a hit. I was using hypervisor stuff on VM/CMS in the early 1980s and it worked flawlessly (fun to run a vm inside a vm at the time). Of course, you need the hardware to support it, and IBM were too slow on using the latest Intel chips, and should probably have developed their own.
Similar study mentioned from earlier in the year:

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40339852
A business already has to take care of the sales tax. So they can just show it on the price tag.
I'm an EM at a large tech company. Spent a decade as a developer. I have a Yubikey for work and I hate it. I understand why I need it and the value it provides, but I hate having to cary around one more thing.

The fact that this user thinks the average person would be happy to have to cary one around is wildly out of touch.
Qualcomm DSP Driver – How Serbian authorities deployed surveillance technology
Discussion (65 points, 2 hours ago, 71 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444363
I think legitster is suggesting that the sticker price on the product should be the price paid, rather than a uniform sales tax code. If the seller knows what to charge the buyer, then they know what they need to put on the sticker.
Depends on the institution. If you have one faculty member for all those students and no TAs (yes, this happens) then it's going to be rather c hallenging.
Joel Spolsky wrote about this roughly 20 years ago on JoelOnSoftware. IIRC, he hired a locksmith to copy a key and the key didn't work. After the third (and likely final, because of how irritated he was getting) try going back to the shop, the locksmith took a closer look at it and said, "I'm sorry, I see where I went wrong." Instantly, situation defused from major annoyance to "OK, this guy just made a mistake, I'll try it again."
Even if the certs were properly cryptographically vetted, you could just point the camera at a high-enough resolution screen displaying false content.
The competitor is domestic fibre and every country is rolling it out, albeit slowly.

Starlink will increasingly just be a product for rural and niche use cases.
thanks Marc :)
Yap yap yap. Keep living in denial mate.
Except for the one with the largest economy.
Many have been created, but how many have significant usage?
I’d never let school get in the way of my education!
today's one of those rare days when my penchant for painting ancient greek miniatures feels like the shallow end of the nerd pool.
Insurance on my 1999 Chevy pickup costs more than my 2001 Olds Intrigue.

Or at least it did a few years ago when the car was insured and on the road.
Let's be honest here.

The people that claim to support "free markets" really just mean they support corporations being free to do whatever the hell they want.
I guess give every API response a LLM laundering and there you go.
Count the service charge toward what you would’ve tipped.

Wait staff reading this: bosses at restaurants like this are stealing from you if that doesn’t go straight to you. I tip very well, but I’m not tipping twice. And yes, if it’s a “service charge”, that’s the same as saying “tip” from the customer’s perspective.
SeleniumBase modifies the webdriver so that it doesn't get detected when used alongside the CDP stealth mode and methods. It'll download chromedriver for you. Not sure what you mean by the multiple branches, as there's just the primary one. What 1000-line methods are you referring to? By "flags", do you mean the different command-line options available? As for Playwright, they aren't undetected: See https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/23884#issueco... - "Playwright is an end-to-end testing framework, where we expect you test on your own environments. Bypassing any form of bot protection is not something we can act on. Thanks for your understanding." On the contrary, SeleniumBase is OK with bypassing bot detection: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/exa...
That's a moronic dissent. It's either valid or not, lame duck or no.

Edit: The full decent reads like choosing fealty to Trump over good rule making. https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/ferguson-junk-f...
Clinical Trials for Drug That Replaces Missing Teeth Underway
Vague appeal to authority; I'm hereby asking front end devs to actually have a look and confirm the above.
apologies for hijacking your launch (congrats btw!)
The standard joke among pilots is: if you can walk away, it was a good landing. If you can re-use the plane, it was a great landing.
There was a post earlier today about mechanical watches, of course this site was linked again.
I’ve always wondered how different human culture would be if we had multiple moons. Related: the relationship between lunar and menstrual cycles is an open question, eg see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3716780/ or https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7840133/
Nitpick: "tenets"
As a pro-market fan, Khan is great.

Pro-market: pro-market advocates for policies that enhance competition and market efficiency. Understands that god markets are made. Pro-market advocates believe in creating conditions where businesses can compete fairly without undue advantages from government favoritism. Government regulation can be essential to correct market failures and promote a level playing field.

Free market: and ideological stance where markets are without government intervention. Belief in ideal world where market failures don't exist and if they exists that's a good thing.
Now do the same with airline companies. WizzAir charges the crap out of you for everything they can. Do not fly with WizzAir!
If you're talking about sales taxes, they can't until you input your shipping address. Because they depend on where you live.

Nobody's trying to fool you by not including sales taxes. There's just no way to show them in advance, unless you want to start typing your address and zip code into every shopping website before you even browse.
As a stop gap until infrastructure is updated to handle the electricity and generate it from renewable sources. Tesla is heavily in the battery and solar space as well, they just have focused on cars so much its practically been ignored. Solar in order to generate electricity, and battery to store it so you can use it when its night or cloudy. Once alternatives are truly available, you'll see you'll see a huge change, but as it is now, electrification itself enables you to later simply change your power plants rather than every vehicle on the road.
I mean those weren’t the exact words. They were very gracious, but it was clear we had goofed and intruded.
Unfortunately, there are 13 zip codes that span across multiple states.
Plenty of people can fake genuineness. It doesn't have to be genuine to be effective, it just has to be well received.
I wish that "Online Coupon Price Tags" in stores would also be banned. I'm talking about these yellow price tags that show lower than "Club" prices, which are only valid if you collect a coupon online.

Like FTC, I estimate that banning these would save U.S. consumers millions of hours they currently spend searching and clicking on pointless coupons on their phones before making purchases. It would also increase happiness, as it's extremely annoying to pay $20 extra, knowing that a lower price is available if only you spent ten minutes struggling with a store's website on your phone.

Whoever invented this is evil and is destroying happiness.
> Captain Asoh was the last to leave, and returned to the plane after ensuring everyone was safely ashore to gather and return the passengers' personal belongings.

> A language barrier between Captain Asoh, who spoke little English, and his American copilot, Joseph Hazen, was also partially to blame, as the pair attempted to use a new instrument landing system for the first time. But at the NTSB investigation, Asoh chose not to blame any of those factors or make any excuses. When asked what went wrong, he simply replied, “As you Americans say … I f--ked up.”

Talk about being responsible for ones actions. This man is a model.
Grammarly acquires productivity startup Coda, brings on new CEO
Block them and move on.
I doubt they are water tight, so eventually they'd fill with water. It's not like they're designed for space and need to be perfectly sealed
This is hilariously a result of China's view. China's claim is that Taiwan is part of the still civil warring China, and should be re-integrated. Part of that strategy is an insistence that OTHER countries need to parrot this claim, including countries like the US that recognize Taiwan as an independent entity. The "oneness" of China is vitally important.

The claimed story is that Taiwan is worried if they abandon the "one warring China" policy and openly state they are Independent, that will aggravate China and cause them to push their claim harder, and maybe lead to war.

Taiwan having such a policy is directly because that's the policy China wants everyone else to claim. Notably, Taiwan has taken zero effort to produce a military capable of doing any over-water invasions, which would be absolutely necessary if they actually wanted to do that. Unless you think Taiwan would rely on the USA to invade China for it, which I do not think the US ever wants to do. Our explicit strategy is to own all the islands around China (including Taiwan) and basically blockade China in all but name.

China meanwhile DOES build a military to take over Taiwan, explicitly, including systems designed to sink our carriers and practice targets in the desert. Strictly speaking I'm not concerned about China wanting a viable means to sink our Navy, as China doesn't want to starve to death if we could blockade them, but the buildup around the capability to take Taiwan betrays that it is not a defensive posture.