skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Charge me 50% more than what you are charging now. ( around $6? ) and get rid of the hassle.

The cost is completely notional & arbitrary with these visa waivers. Doubling it doesn't make it faster/better somehow.

>Especially when previously it was 0.

As the article stated...blame the country that kicked off this trend. It's reciprocal to the US ESTA.
Previously, Ray Wenderlich.
Not all rewriting and not all summarization is the same, and the surprising part is that it often makes it seem more legitimate. There's no reason, for example, that it couldn't rephrase it in a way that conveys it as suspicious.
If that's the response you get from people when discussing politics, then you'll probably get better results with a different approach.
I once had the opportunity to do a transatlantic Cruise from west to east in which we changed ship time every two days, resulting in 24.5 hour days.

They were much more natural to me than a 24 hours day length.

If I ever win the lottery, I just may sail endlessly west to east...
We use so many SaaS I'm not sure it's worth resisting anymore.

Microsoft 365.
Can't exit because: it's our SSO provider, also it's cost competitive with all the other email providers and you can't self-hosted email because sender reputation is too important in business.

Job tracking system.
Can't exit because: it integrates with our cloud accounting software and getting that to link up with anything self-hosted is virtually impossible.

Freshdesk.
Can't exit because: we could get off the ticketing system, but the knowledge base is hosted here as well, and that's publicly accessible.

Miro.
Can't exit because: needs to be cloud hosted to share boards with customers, probably not worth hosting it considering costs involved and feature gaps with open source version.

This probably costs us like $2-3,000/yr per employee, sure, but wages are like 50x that these days. On the business continuity side of things using a bunch of SaaS does make me nervous, but if you have to have to rely on APIs connecting everything and throwing SSO around the place, can you really escape being held hostage to it all?

I think what it would take to escape SaaS is to go back to paper filing, and I think that would be more expensive than the money saved by the cross-integration of SaaS, for example manually copying bank lines from statements from several banks would take a good part of a day. Manually distributing copies of documents around the office would mean we get less work done. Manually backing-up everything probably costs more in external hard drives and time than it saves in SaaS fees.

I write this while holding back tears (:/) that things have come to it.
There will always be jobs even if production increasing workers arent needed. If the capital owners can create massive wealth without labor they will always be willing to part with some of it to have concubines, personal chefs, chess trainers for their children, gladiators or whatever other nonsense gets their rocks off.
I'm saying that I liked this site until I noticed that my submission (the only one I've ever made) got 40+ points and never made it to the front-page. Then I noticed that my upvotes don't work. Then I saw you lie about how my post made it to the front-page and started getting flags (it never made it there). So why would I be anything other than hostile?
Yes, that’s what I meant by pidgin :-). English is full of Latin cognates.
Sounds like UW does not follow its own Honor Code.
Also it's about 10 years late. This guy had Miku Hatsune in a tube a long time ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihiko_Kondo

I sure as hell can't understand waifuism, if I can fantasize I can fantasize about having a whole harem, even a harem big enough that I need a harem to manage my harem. I think I got a Miku plush around the same time he did but it was one of those crap plushes meant for Otaku where the legs don't bend, unlike the plushes meant for girls to play with that you can sit down anywhere.
Cringely used to be a house name (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_name ) until one particular writer who had done most of the work managed to wrest it away for his use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely )
I think the big tech companies have set standards so low that's it's often easy to look good by comparison. By the standards of big tech this is pretty small potstoes as egregious cash grabs go
I haven't buried this story. The users who flagged it are doing that. The data suggests they're doing that in good faith, as I've explained in several posts (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639323).

It's true that we (i.e. the moderators) sometimes turn flags off on a story, but we only do that when there's enough information in the story to support an intellectually interesting discussion, at least potentially. I don't believe that's the case here, and not because of Sam; the decision would be the same if you replaced his name with anyone else's. The "vested interest" here is not in protecting any person, it's in protecting HN for its intended purpose. I realize that not everyone agrees and not everyone likes this, but that's also the way HN works. Nobody, including me, gets all the threads they want on the frontpage.
The US telecoms industry has supposedly been "fighting phone spam" for well over a decade. I can tell you it's simply not working.

The system will die, if not from the abuse than from rejection by individuals, businesses, and organisations. And I suspect we'll never again have a single universally-accessible voice comms system again.

Email has similarly been slowly dying for similar reasons.
At UW? No. You must log in at exactly 6am (preferably 5:58) on your registration day. Have your planned schedule in hand with all class codes and multiple backups. Assuming the system doesn't crash repeatedly, all of the required and/or popular classes will be full by 6:05.

Rinse. Repeat for the entire 2 weeks of registration.
The song, "Up all night to get lucky," would like a word with you.
Hmm, could be a good time to set up as a contractor serving Salesforce
Yeah I agree, not ideal given how limited capacity is in some classes.
Office is so 20th century.
After reading the article I didn’t pick up what any of the advantages are of 28hr days other than being able to communicate with other regions of the world on certain days. I suppose that could be a very important factor for some people who do work in a geographically dispersed area. A few things I would be concerned with are:
1) your SO is not on the same schedule and really for what isn’t a solid reason. I could see this becoming a source of resentment at some point.
2) you have to cut people out of your life vs explaining the schedule when they don’t understand why. I understand that the lectures would likely get tiresome at some point, but it seems a bit selfish to switch to this schedule when it could become problematic for friends and family members.
3) I think cardio and total health should be measured and monitored as part of the experiment. It is entirely possible that this schedule can have real benefits for health or at the least not negatively affect your health. You mention that you are able to workout more often and effectively, so it may also be interesting to track your fitness level on the schedule vs 24 hr days. It would just be anecdotal but it would at least be some data.

I guess the only other things I would want to know is what factors pushed most to switching schedules? How long do you plan to stay on the schedule? How does your employer handle this schedule change? Or are you self employed/running a business? What do you think the biggest challenges are during the switch aside from being tired at hour 10-11? What does your SO really think about this schedule? The more I think about this, the more questions I have :)
I think silicon labs uses salesforce for their iot cloud. The iot cloud - globally - is gigantic, and a requirement for any embedded iot device with a radio.
> For non-commercial use

What the hell
What are your concerns with that?

If it's overhead for the flagger, they could be presented with a single multi choice question, eg:

What most deserves flagging: a)item title b) item content c) hn discussion d) something else

With different users presented with different questions to build up a picture.

Flags could be recorded even if the question isn't answered, but with you reserving the right to weight ones without answers less.
And all you got out of it was a clickbait quiz?
imo, some combination of TESCREAL ideas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL , the "disrupt" and "move fast and break things" startup hustle culture , a distaste for anything "political" , and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" style libertarianism / anarcho-capitalism
The Southern Poverty Law Center has characterized it as catering to "intellectual wing of white nationalist movement" wrt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_(magazine)

Everything in that article might be true, but I'd use a different source.
This is from 2019, and the final glass dome design is not similar to these early renderings and imo uglier in comparison but still pretty. https://www.trip.com/moments/detail/dongguan-212-125302011/
The relaxation of the limit was announced in mid-2019 after Trump's trade war started.

https://fundselectorasia.com/china-officially-ends-foreign-o...
space question -- why are the three outer-most bodies as consistent in general direction as they are? it looks like something blasted us (our solar system) in a specific direction. (speaking of, is there some astronomical/solar system analog for cardinal directions? like how would I say, "looks like we've been blasted in a north-east direction"
You can still buy the latest Office for personal use with a one-time purchase.
> they were really strict about making sure that no one had an edge over anyone else by being able to write code.

Or you know, they could have just improved their registration system so this wouldn't be an issue... But hey, I'm sure UW raises their tuition every year for good reasons and the money is well spent.
One half of me is sympathetic with you, the other wonders whether you're trying to get attention for a job (this is how the end of your LinkedIn post makes it sound).

It's hard to judge from the outside as you haven't shared the actual writing from UW.

I would probably cut this from the end of the LinkedIn post, this makes you look like you're possibly trying to blow this out of proportion for attention:

> I'm scheduled to graduate in a few months and am eager to move on to projects that don't need to be cleared with the UW Registrar. If you know of anyone looking for a full-time software engineer with a knack for getting the attention of senior leadership, please send them my way! I can start full-time in June

Your LinkedIn profile states you graduated high school mid 2023 and started at UW mid-late 2023. How can you graduate in a few months already? That would mean you'd just take 2 years instead of the normal 4?
I get why they bundle in the AI update and blame the cost on that ... but it would almost be interesting to see that if it was up front people would chose it if it was more transparent.

Less money overall maybe, but also tell you if people want it / see the value...
I tend to write in markdown. If someone needs a Word Doc/docx whatever format they're using these days, I use pandoc to generate it. If someone sends me a docx file, I can read it with my choice of software without paying the MS tax.
On the very rare occasion someone sends me a docx file that they need me to edit and send back to them, I'll do it with whatever is handy and if they complain I messed up their formatting or whatever I can blame Word bugs.
Infinitesimal calculus is the old-fashioned calculus! It was what Newton and Leibniz invented. Limits only came into play later when mathematicians wanted a more robust foundation. But then Robinson proved that infinitesimals were perfectly rigorous. IMO, non-standard analysis is more intuitive than limit-based calculus.
There are similar geometric elements, but it's clearly not a copy. I support artists but very loathe to copyright "style" and other such slippery slopes.
That is a fair point, though understanding one's sleep patterns through professional evaluation can be valuable even if one plans to continue one's current schedule. A sleep psychologist could provide insights about optimising the chosen schedule, identify potential health considerations, and offer additional tools and strategies. The goal is to have more information to make informed choices about one's health.
Drastically cutting the police budget is almost certainly a good idea. The problem is that you can't just count everything you take from the police budget as extra money because even though the police aren't able to competently do a lot of the work they are currently being utilized for somebody still needs to do that work and they also have to be paid. At least initially it would require an investment to get a better agency to start handling that stuff.

That said, I'm sure there is plenty of opportunity to cut waste too and in addition to slashing the police budget a great way to recover some tax money being burned by the police would be to clean up the department so that taxpayers aren't on the hook for the millions spent in lawsuits generated by their repeated abuses, screw ups, workplace injustices, etc. Much of that actually would be free money.
I'm 100% sure that in the past I've seen you say that you turn off flags on stories where HN has a vested interest because you don't want the obvious appearance that you're censoring it and you want to be neutral. Yet not only does this story not get that treatment, you personally dive in and make excuses and downvote commentors who, as expected, question the neutral nature of a site deeply involved with the subject matter. Don't want these types of accusations? Stick with your previously stated policy of disabling flagging on HN related topics.
> But in the meantime, it’s good to understand what it is and isn’t, the moreso if you plan on using it or building on it. Don’t be fooled by its fluidity with text into thinking it is more than it is.

I agree with the author, and would like to offer another framing to aid understanding:

1. We've invented a make-documents-bigger algorithm that is trained on lots of documents, to figure out what "fits next".

2. A bunch of systems have been built where there is one document that looks like a movie-script where BotCharacter and UserCharacter are talking, and the LLM is tasked with "make it a bit longer."

3. So you are not talking to an AI. You are simply being fed lines from a character in a work of fiction. The things you type are being inserted as the dialogue for UserCharacter each time.

With that framing, it's easier to see things like:

* "Hallucinations" are not qualitatively different from normal use. It's a digital-daydream the whole time, and people only complain when they don't like where the dream-story is going.

* "Prompt injection" is not qualitatively different from normal use either. All text is ultimately part of the same generic document, regardless of how it got there. The people running the bot just don't like it when it wanders from their original prompt/intent.

* The character is not the author. We can have a story where a character named "ChatGPT" is a cheerful sponge living in a pineapple under the sea that enjoys the smell of grilled meat, but that doesn't mean the actual algorithm is any of those things.
I stopped doing the multi-monitor thing in favor of a single gently curved ultrawide. Coupled it with some window positioning shortcuts/gestures and it’s a dream for me
Well, yeah... If you read this poem, it's right there on the surface. I see no reason to defend the author's character--the text is what it is.
I was up there this summer, great weekend :)
Maybe applies for gender too?
What in life has taught you that? High profile abuse allegations are frequently false. Consider the duke lacross case, for which the accuser recently admitted to fabricating it. That isn't to say that such allegations are never true, but believing such allegations when all other evidence contradicts them goes against the experience of any honest person.
> What does it do for you?

It means you can put "Microsoft Partner" on your sales and marketing communications and some people will throw money at you just for having that on your shingle.
In some cases businesses won't contract with anyone who doesn't have partner status.
In the web side of things, collabora has gotten so much better as well, see by yourself: https://demo.filestash.app/login?type=tmp&next=/view/tmp.doc...
In golang, `panic()` and `return err` are two different ways of unwinding the stack. 80% of my error handling in go is `return nil, err`. But there's no reason syntactic sugar couldn't be applied for something like `when err { return nil, err} { err := doSomething() }`
The United States is certainly providing far more value than they’re receiving back, especially given many partners in NATO aren’t even meeting their relatively paltry obligations to defense spending.

There’s of course some benefit here but it’s largely intangible. It extends the United States’ sphere of influence and diminishes Russia’s.

I’m not saying it’s altruistic because we’re definitely acting in our own self interest and there is perceived benefit to doing these things but the consequence is still that we are spending more money on defense than we need to and other countries get to spend far less than they should be.
> So they throw in a few gigs of OneDrive to supposedly justify the cost?

OneDrive Family plan is still the cheapest and largest cloud storage (6TB of cloud storage for $99/year).
Will Limitlesstcg let you print proxys? That's the main thing I'm doing here.
I don’t think author names need to be in the title
Well, yeah. If an engineer offers to do extra work, a businessperson isn't gonna say no.

If an engineer asks the businessperson for extra time... that's when things get dicey.

But, that's what nights and weekends are for, right? Go get em tiger.
That's for the Home version, the business one is here (and $100 more expensive):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...
No, the rule is that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved in a story. (Let's set aside the fact that Sam hasn't been at YC for years.) In the present case, we haven't moderated the story at all, so there's nothing to do less of.

It's true that we've sometimes turned off or reduced the flags on stories in this category, but that has never been a rule.
M365 Personal or Family can actually have a place as cost-effective cloud storage that 'just works' for consumers that don't care to go down the self hosting rabbit hole. It happens to include an office apps suite, but even without that it's extremely price competitive with other consumer-focused cloud storage. For $6-7/month you get 1TB of online storage, or for $8.25-10/month you get up to 6TB. Their competition (Apple, Google, Dropbox) pretty much all start at $10/mo for 2TB, possibly with paying for a year in advance.

The business plans are a different matter, but can make sense particularly if you're actually paying salary/wages for someone to maintain and support a self-hosted alternative.
Ask HN: Could 20 tier 1 developers build a billion dollar company in 5 years?
As a thought experiment, imagine your a founder and due to a weird tax code thing you can effectively deduct all employed salaries.

You may offer up to 400K TC per employee.

You must have a valuation of at least 1 billion after 5 years.

Alternative challenge.

You are a senior software engineer.
You can only offer 75k to junior engineers, and you have up to 20 of them.

You only need to reach a valuation of 10 million after 5 years.
You can still buy Office 2024 as a proper app without any of that cloud stuff if you want to.
Nobody moved to free alternatives. All the normies pay for Office. The cheapskates pirate it. The whole world runs on Office.
I've long felt that consumer acceptance of this pricing correlates with whether the subscription has a cost-of-good-sold component.

Desktop software does not impact COGS, and people near universally hate subscriptions for desktop software. File storage obviously has a COGS impact for the physical drives, and no one questions Dropbox/etc charging for their cloud storage (even if the price is an order of magnitude disconnected). Notably, customer support is not usually considered part of COGS, and doesn't scale in exactly the same way as the general variable costs associated with delivering a service.
UK Colleges and schools use MS, so students don't have much choice.

Some UK government stuff appears to be MS only, which really is awful. Of course it's Microsoft's "open" formats; so you can use FOSS alternatives but MS will screw up the formatting.
Microsoft Partner Network. $500 a year includes five seats of Office 365 Enterprise and $100 a month in Azure credit. On top of Visual Studio Pro and a bunch of other perks.
> Tahlequah is using much of her energy to cling to the dead calf, which weighs about 300 pounds, and she is unable to forage for food, scientists said during a news briefing on Thursday. They said that her closely knit pod was supporting her. Other female orcas, especially her sister, have been observed to be consistently at her side.

Utterly tragic. It's also singularly evil the devastation humans have brought to some of the hyperintelligent species on the planet.
Oh plenty of company are stupid enough, good thing that they eventually disintegrate.
I find it increasingly hard to justify any sort of SaaS subscription these days. Is the value you get out of Microsoft 365 really that much greater than any of the open source alternatives? So much better that you let a corporation dictate the terms of your computing environment?

It honestly makes me angry. And I say that as someone who works in the industry for a SaaS company. The only SaaS I reluctantly pay for is Fastmail and that's only because it's basically impossible to host your own email these days if you care about your email actually getting delivered to all those Gmail and Outlook inboxes out there.
Good. This sector could use of a change of leadership. If it takes a few rough years and some failed businesses then so be it.
Office 365 is very much targeted at personal users, as well. I mean, it literally has a "personal" plan (and also a "family" plan).
It works seamless in mobile, that's just mind-blowing!

Curious to know,
- Is the Source code open source?
- If not what is the stack you used to build this.
Riprap (1959)
Appreciate the feedback. Our take is that Playwright is an open-sourced library with a lot of built-in features that make building with it a lot easier, so it's definitely an easier starting point for us
Office suites are particularly annoying as for a home user ... most people don't use much at all.

If it wasn't for the office sort of standard, you can get away with just not using an office suite, lots of good options out there. Free / surprisingly capable apps.
Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?
FAANG used to over-employ not just due to ZIRP, but also in the fear that their engineers would build competing products.

These companies enjoy healthy margins. Unemployed engineers can duplicate the core functionality and offer it for less.
Heh still cheaper than two operation engineer salaries.
RSA2048 is 112-bit-equivalent symmetric security under currently known methods. Number theory advances may change that. It is hard to imagine any significant advances in the breaking of symmetric cryptography (mathematically-unstructured permutations).

Cryptographically-relevant quantum computers (CRQC's) will also break smaller RSA keys long before (years?) the bigger ones. CRQC's can theoretically halve symmetric cryptography keys for brute force complexity (256-bit key becomes 128-bit for a CRQC cracker).
They'll probably just hire the same person anyways, just call them prompt engineer, not software engineer.