skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you examine most of the Walton family's shenanigans, it becomes fairly apparent that they're on the narcissistic people-user side of things. This isn't surprising.
A surface implies an interior, otherwise it's a just a point. A surface is a boundary, by definition there is another side, something that is being partitioned.
People change, life is long. We are all struggling together. Have hope.
> think that is going to change as increasingly people see for themselves the negative impacts of unchecked immigration

Doubtful. Wealthy communities profit from the wage disparity and can afford to insulate themselves from the problem. And the voters most animated by this remain hyper-responsive to performative solutions.
Doors have rights too!
So they aren't making copies? How then do they have an archive of internet resources if not by copying said resources?

You do realise the "downloading" is implicitly a copy.

If you want to actually have a civil discussion then you need to make some reasonable argument than "They're not making copies either."

Sounds like whatever role you played at IA when you were there didn't give you any actual insight into what happens in operation and you simply tried to prove your point with an appeal to authority instead of backing it with facts and reason.
During my postdoc, I wrote some code running parameter optimisation on a large dynamical system. It wasn't clever code, it was closer to a grid search than anything else. I spun it up across 200 cores of the local supercomputer, I waited 72 hours... and then nothing. I had forgotten to write the results to disk.
it doesn't to be on github or "interesting" though, if it's something that a person worked on in their free time - it's good enough to consider...
Exactly, it takes more time and energy to undo a mutation that unblocks a better solution than it is to mutate a solution that works with existing mutations.

It's why intelligent machines will absolutely destroy us when it comes to being "superior".
C++: Uncompromised Performance, Undefined Behavior, & Move Semantics [video]
You'd live like a king on $14.5 million/year, regardless of where you lived.

https://www1.salary.com/Suresh-Kumar-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Opti...
It goes both ways. The comps being paid in the tech industry right now would pay off an average single family home in California in under 5 years. At this point these people are driving around in Porsches with second homes choosing to retire at 45.
> Who said anything about rewriting? That's not necessary. You can have GPT write your essay and all you do is study it afterwards, maybe ask questions etc. You've saved hours of time and yes that would still be cheating and plagiarism by most.

Maybe. But I think we are getting too deep into hypotheticals about stuff that wasn’t even related to my original point.

> The article is about piping essays into black box neural networks that you can at best hypothesize is looking for similarities between the presented writing and some nebulous "AI" style. It's not comparing styles between your past works and telling you just cheated because of some deviation. That's never going to happen.

You cannot postulate your own hypothetical scenarios and deny other people the same privilege. That’s just not an honest way to debate.

> My point is that it's not this huge effort to have generated writing that doesn't yo-yo in writing style between essays.

I get your point. It’s just your point requires a bunch of assumptions and hypotheticals to work.

In theory you’re right. But, and at risk of continually harping on about my original point, I think the effort involved in doing it well would be beyond the effort required for the average person looking to cheat.

And that’s the real crux of it. Not whether something can be done, because hypothetically speaking anything is possible in AI with sufficient time, money and effort. But that doesn’t mean it’s actually going to happen.

But since this entire argument is a hypothetical, it’s probably better we agree to disagree.
It's a bit different at the intro level. I'm talking about the professors and the grad students. It's not that they're directly religious, but I get a status-quo-preserving kind of feeling from them. Like maybe they're influenced by a tradition of not calling your patron an ape--or somesuch.
I had the same thought! Perhaps we're on the same wavelength...
I had one of those deals for 3 phones. I was paying $272 a month all in. Once I paid off the phones, I switched to an MVNO on the same carrier. I get the same level of service for $105 per month. My "free" phones cost me $168 x 24 months = $4032 for phones that cost about $3000 combined at retail pricing.

Never again.
>Everyone is reading this as intentional anti-competitive practices.

Even if it is anti-competitive, I don't care. Why should VS Code have to support alternative AI assistants in their software? I understand why people would want that, but I'm not sure why microsoft has some sort of ethical or legal burden to support it. Plus it's open source, competitors can take it for free and add their own co-pilots if they want.
But on the salary they are willing to pay you can have like five bass boats.
YUP

Perhaps another way to widen the scope of what is not cheatable (at the cost of more teacher work, ugh), is to require showing all work?

And I mean every draft, edit, etc.. All paper scratch-notes. Or on work on computer applications, a replayable video/screenshot series of all typing and edits, like a time-lapse of a construction site. Might even add opportunities to redirect work and thinking habits.

Of course, that too will eventually (probably way too soon) be AI-fakeable, so back to paper writing, typewriters, red pencils, and whiteout.

Just an idea; useful?
Germany: Will city of Wolfsburg survive Volkswagen's crisis?
Not sure this is something I'd regularly use just because I prefer reading the news to listening to it, but I still found it pretty cool.
It already is a large extinction event. It is also still possible to massively affect how much worse it gets, and the chances that our species is ultimately included in the extinction.

It’s not defeatist to acknowledge reality- it is necessary to choose a realistic course of action. "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle" -Sun Tzu

Here is a more technical treatment of what is actually happening: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09678

Look at Figure 2 to see where we are now compared to past mass extinction events. We're well below the 75% of all species threshold, but that criteria is for a time frame of 2 million years in length. We can only guess at the future, we can't for example say for sure which species are already past the point of no return when they aren't yet extinct.
S3 is mind bogglingly expensive compared to Hetzner.
Also his work is largely regarded as a historical cautionary tale and has been poured over by infinity textbooks so there's really nothing more to say about it.
I've had a couple of people who are decidedly good at math (engineers) explain to me that, at least here in Canada, for at least one carrier, for at least one kind of phone (recent, high-end model iphones) if you get out of the carrier contract the moment you can (2 years I think), you do get the phone for less than if you bought it outright and went on a market rate prepaid plan right away. Not even considering the interest free "instalment plan" that they are essentially buying it on.

I guess the carriers still make money because once habituated, especially if they've never done the port-number-to-new-carrier thing, people stay in the high priced plan longer than necessary. Like the three years until they've truly paid the above-market price for the phone, and are now eligible for another "free" phone which they may not even take advantage of.

For what it's worth, carrier locking phones has been illegal here for some years (and any phone from the locked era had to be unlocked for free for the asking after the law was changed) and it hasn't changed anything in terms of these rent-to-buy type carrier plans. So I don't know what the fuss is about. A contract is a contract.
Nextcloud CardDav.
> Clearly, Walmart management does not care about their employees.

Well duh. They've been on the top 5 companies with employees on food stamps for years [1] and, like Amazon, just love to set up shop in areas with lots of unemployment to have a captive audience of employees who can't afford to escape.

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/walmart-mcdonalds-larges...
CTO in the article appears to be beyond the age at which pregnancy is possible?
Considering AT&T is basically an arm of the US government at this point i'm sure theres some infighting going on.
This reasoning makes sense. Roads and parks aren’t public, as they are city property. “Public” is only when something has no legal owner, like the moon and stars, or love.
Does mind wandering in this context refer to daydreaming or does it refer to blanking out? As someone with late-diagnosed ADHD and likely also on the spectrum, I find myself struggling with both of these. I engage in a lot of Walter Mitty-esque hyper realistic daydreams, but I also have random periods of minutes of completely blank mind. Both result in a lot of "lost time" for me throughout the day. It runs in my family such we refer to it as "the our-surname fog".

Skimming this paper it's unclear to me whether the author is referring to one or the other, or both.

Interestingly I'm not sure that the mind wandering is separable from my creativity and problem solving. Often I'll come out of a blank period with the answer to something without consciously having been thinking about it. I think of these periods of "lost time" in my day as background processing - it's just my misfortune I live in a world where it's not socially or economically acceptable to space out for long periods throughout the day.
It also would be great if a person doing the interview could take the rest of the day off rather than jumping on a quick call with no time/interest to really try and understand the person on the other side of the desk. At the moment in most (all?) big companies an interview is something that noone wants to commit to and and when they have to - you understand the effort, dedication and focus that goes into it - that's right, none.
I think you’ve made a good point here, its not like they force you to have vscode. I feel like it wont be super popular here thoguh
Having been to AK, all I can say is it's a toilet. I wouldn't ever want to suffer living there. Only MS is worse in my estimation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_mind
> What benefits are we gaining by doing so? What consequences do we face?

Just ask any city that has had to deal with a massive unexpected influx of people. Try NYC for example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/08/09/nyc-ma...

Hospitals, schools, infrastructure, social services, housing, they all depend on planning for funding and to keep pace with population to avoid being overrun. Things are bad enough right now with the massive numbers of economic migrants coming into the country, but once there are literal billions of climate refugees things will be much worse unless we are prepared.

Now is the time to invest in the regulation of immigration and defense of our borders so that we can safely accommodate as many of the people climate change displaces as we can. We also need to be thinking about what climate change will do to populations within the US.

See for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/clim...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-america-3-millio...

If you think it isn't worth the investment, even in low cost expenses like cameras, I can only imagine you aren't living near the boarder or aren't considering the refugee crisis that is coming.
Sorry, I might have added confusion: this applies to limited-liability in Germany (all kinds, the cheap ones and the regular ones). If you're running your company with unlimited liability, there is no salary (I guess technically you could pay yourself a salary, but there's no reason you ever wood vs a limited liability which is its own entity) and your income from that work will be taxed as regular income (though labeled & treated slightly differently).

But since limited liability is a pretty good thing to have and is affordable now, these days many people opt for it, especially if you're somewhat successful because one of the disadvantages is increased accounting duties -- but if you make more than 50k (or something thereabout; in profits) without a limited liability, they'll apply the same duties to you.

Corporate tax + dividends is usually more expensive than personal income. On 100k profits, you'll pay 30k taxes, and then you'll distribute 70k of which 25% are tax (capital gains), so another 17.5k gone, and you've paid 47% until the money is yours. Top marginal income tax is 45% (250k+/yr). Accountants are technically optional, but practically mandatory for LLCs, and they cost 2-3% of revenue (by law, no negotiations possible).

Germany very much doesn't like self-employment when you look at it from that angle. But I doubt there's an intention behind it, it's mostly historical: limited liability is supposed to be the larger companies, not an electrician with two employees. But Germany doesn't adjust, so our 2nd highest marginal tax rate (42%) starts at 66k€, which around 10% of employees in Germany hit, and it rarely gets adjusted to account for inflation. But no worries: there's been a lot of noise to increase this to 57%, payable on income > 80k€. We'll get to the 70% eventually.
Black holes also have a charge!
Aren’t the people who make the bulk of what Walmart sells remote workers? It’s not like they go into the office…
Something something unfair to those who paid. Something something economy.

Well life isn't fair and it's about time the not-rich benefitted from that sentiment.

And I wonder if part of the US deficit comes from this horrible model of non-bankruptable loans given in the tune of 6 figures per individual that can never reasonably be paid off by most jobs. It's sure not like the public sector (you could at one point also provide 10 years of labor to pardon a loan) didn't fall into the same crap shoot of today's job market. So even that's not guaranteed way to stimulate labor.

I paid my loans off in 3 years. I'm all for a reset to this model and forgiveness to those stuck in it.
It's exactly what I use "alarm clock xtreme" or whatever it's called. Math puzzle, retype or even scan barcode to stop alarm. It has been invaluable, especially as you can change difficulty, I found out even half asleep I could do basic addition etc...
Yes. It's the canonical (and, I think, original) example of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly .
> What happens when the buyer says "no, I'm not paying" and sells the phone?

This is just like any thing you get a loan for. It goes to collections and your credit gets hurt. Why would normal consumers have restrictions because of bad actors?

AT&T operating income for 2023 was $23.5B and T-Mobile was $8.3B. Carriers are doing just fine.
This made me nervous, I used their web site under accounts check unlock status. It shows unknown for ours. We bought our Android phones on Amazon. I guess that's why the status shows as unknown for ours.
No, compilers don’t take endianness into account. (especially not C)

You need to use a bit mask in order to make this code endian-independent rather than a pointer alias. Like (uint8_t)(int & 0xFF), or something like that.
But OP was not planning on returning the letter, so it would never be scanned.

I think the BBC could have solved this preemptively, by simply making the letter say "Please do not write below this line, if you are returning the letter."
I just have to say that from my perspective it's the Bay Area politics that has produced the capital allocator warlords.

Gig work did not sprout from places like Arkansas.
An archive of an archive
It literally is a cofounder story, no disguise or metaphorical analysis necessary
Well, of course they will. Human farmers still exist, too, but their day-to-day activities don't resemble their ancestors jobs in the slightest.
From Starter Story Inspiration to Building a Chrome Extension as a High Schooler
Hi HackerNews I'm a high school student who's been pulled in by the entrepreneurship idea, and I wanted to share my journey with you all.

Like many of you, I've been captivated by Starter Story's YouTube channel. Watching video after video of entrepreneurs sharing their experiences has been incredibly inspiring. It's amazing to see how people have taken their ideas and turned them into successful businesses.

As a high schooler who loves coding and tennis, I started thinking about how I could create something useful for others. The stories on Starter Story made me realize that even small tools can make a big difference.

Inspired by all the content I was consuming, I decided to build a Chrome extension called Palo YouTube Assistant. It's designed to add a new way to interact with these videos.

Enough about me though, I'm even more interested about the process of creating something from scratch and putting it out into the world.

I'd love to hear from other young entrepreneurs or those who were inspired by Starter Story. How did you get started? What challenges did you face? Any advice for a high schooler just dipping his toes into the entrepreneurial scene?

P.S. If anyone's interested in checking out Palo YouTube Assistant, i'd love to hear some feedback.
I'm counting long borders as borders between country A and multiple other countries, with a focus on notable security issues[1] related to borders.

One timely example might be Ukraine, with the Belarus/Russia border, where Belarus is a proxy for Russia.

1. Contraband, espionage, aggression, anti-proliferation, proxy attacks, etc etc.
They would also support limiting immigration.
We get it: YOU ARE DISHONEST.

That shit means, in practice, that if you're in bad shape and will obviously need an abortion; the hospital will wait until you are nearly dead before they perform it.

It happens every day, and vile, dishonest, woman-hating pieces of shit like you lie lie lie to defend it.
This comment is interesting to me because I know a lot of people who went to Walmart Labs with similar stories: Amazing at first, then sudden drop in compensation when they didn't refresh RSUs, then slow slide into being pushed out.

The strange part is that all of the stories I've heard covered different time periods, often not overlapping. Off the top of my head I can think of 4 people I've run into at local meetups who went from thinking Walmart Labs was a great place to work, to having nothing good to say about the place at all.

It's natural for new jobs to have a honeymoon period that wears off over time, but I've heard this same story arc so many times that, as an outsider, it feels like something must be wrong with how they approach long-term employees. Obviously the RTO mandate is a huge blow to one of their original selling points, too.
Markov chains generators have been around for at least 30 years…

Show me a Markov generator that can explain how it works.
In edinburgh we had this: https://devpost.com/software/the-marauder-s-app which showed who was using which computer based on logins.
> From a metabolic perspective (e.g. ketogenic therapy), mind wandering can be seen as the result of blood glucose fluctuations that cause mental fogginess and impair focus

Could you please provide some sources for this?
How many are moving there because their husbands are moving there and don't want divorces?

50%+ of them being in favor of restricting abortion means the rest don't like restricting abortion, but may not have the means to leave.
Do you fail to see the irony in comparing abortion to a weapon and not meaning the actual killing of the fetus? (Abortions to save the life of the mother are a very small percentage of abortions)
That's an interesting objection so I asked ChatGPT to clarify:

California Attorney General's Office (2024-25 Budget): $1.28 billion total

California per capita spending: Approximately $32.92 per person, based on a population of 39 million.

Arkansas Attorney General's Office (2024 Budget): $36 million total.

Arkansas per capita spending: Approximately $12 per person, based on a population of 3 million.
Ask HN: Should Apple's hearing test have option to hide your results from you?
In this way, you can use the hearing test to improve your hearing via the AirPods Pro 2 without knowing how bad your hearing is, which might upset you.
> consider what the result of measuring anything to an infinite precision could possibly look like. It would require somehow recording an infinite amount of information

This is Zeno's dichotomy paradox [1]. Finitely-defined infinitely-complex systems (e.g. fractals and anything chaos theory) are the escape.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_p...
Seems like a false dichotomy. Move fast is just a public undocumented unstable API.
Both can be true in a country with over 1 billion citizens, through shear volume of individuals talented/determined enough to bypass information control.
Some people are so stuck in their bubbles that they can’t imagine anything else.
There's some prior history, see India Air Flight 182 (1985 bombing, 329 fatalities, Canada's largest mass terrorism event):

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182>
I mean even real biology like our tailbone, reflexes and organs we no longer actually need are all good indicators.
The prepaid phone models available are usually the cheaper phones?

Or is there some carrier that sells the expensive $1000+ phones on prepaid plans?
It would be best to skip all the fluff and build exactly what customers would find valuable. IF you knew what that was. So how do you figure that out with confidence before building something?
I used to buy $200 Android phones. I never had one last more than 18 months. I'm talking dead, not just annoyingly slow. I now have a 3.5 year old iPhone that I expect to get at least another 1.5 years out of. $200/yr compared to $133/yr but I'm generating less waste and getting a better overall experience the entire time I own the phone. For me it was absolutely worth it.
>Why should VS Code have to support alternative AI assistants in their software?

Because of the dominant position of Microsoft in various markets.
Because it greatly lowers the risk that AT&T will need to write off the debt for your phone and sell it to a collections agency for pennies on the dollar.

It’s the same difference as a home mortgage vs unsecured credit card debt: When the threat exists that the lender can repossess your home if you don’t pay… they don’t have to worry as much about you not paying your mortgage, so they can offer a much lower rate.
Who said anything about recording? What would the subjective experience of measuring something with infinite precision possibly be like?
I assume this is the new Boeing Intelsat MAX-8?
Agreed. Couldn’t black holes warp spacetime to the extent that there is no such place as “inside”? Time dilation is infinite at the event horizon, after all.

As you approach the event horizon, your frame of reference slows asymptotically to match that of the black hole while the universe around you fast-forwards toward heat death. I’d expect the hawking radiation coming out at you to blue shift the closer you got until it was so bright as to be indistinguishable from a white hole. You’d never cross the event horizon; you’d be disintegrated and blasted outward into the distant future as part of that hawking radiation.
Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its "cloud exit" will save it $10M over 5 years
No LICENSE. Have you thought about adding one?
> Visual studio is open source.

No it’s not. Visual Studio is a proprietary product and the latest version is Visual Studio 2022.

Visual Studio Code is open source, and it is about as close to Visual Studio as Lightning is to Lightning Bug.