skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it had 40+ points why wouldn't it make it to the front page?

For the reason I already explained: rank is computed from upvotes and flags, not just upvotes. The flag input proved stronger than the upvote input.

I haven't lied to you! I never lie to users, partly because it would make me feel bad, and partly because it would be dumb. I'm not going to do anything to risk the good will of the community, which is the only value that HN really has.

It's true that I make mistakes, but that's different from lying, obviously. I can't not make mistakes but I can and do correct them when I find out about them.
My first thought was, based on the current state of Salesforce it looks like they haven’t hired a new engineer since 2004.
And like I already explained I don't believe you for one second. Have a good night.
Might be best to talk to that lawyer first before risking libelling the Uni, or anything they could reasonably claim...
I think that's an exaggeration, I know a few Google school districts and companies.
If all of your offices are copies of famous European buildings, it only makes sense that your glass dome is also a copy of something.
And it doesn’t run on iPhones, iPads and I just can’t use it on the web like I can with GSuite, Office or even Apple’s iWorks
But I agree with your overall point! :) Ok, so the statement "gravity keeps us on the ground" is not a tautology in the strict sense but you have correctly defined it here. I think it probably seems like a tautology because colloquially we might use it that way. I don't think its worth parsing out too much. This kind of stuff about coffee cups and all that has nothing to do with "fact checking" political statements and anyone else being serious knows that.
dava sobel's "longitude" is excellent
I think the move to a community notes style feature is a positive. Fact checkers have shown themselves to be untrustworthy[1]

[1] https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-would-i-possibly-trus...
Nobody's trying to ban people from getting angry when you offend them and it would obviously be anti-free speech to do so. Leftists want hate speech to be a crime. Rightists protest against those laws in countries that have them.
Interesting. This little stunt very much reminded me of Oracle.
Discussion (9 points, 1 day ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628990

Related A Tesla Cybertruck 'blew up' outside Trump's hotel in Las Vegas (77 points, 7 days ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568936
I just use chat gpt. I use it in all manners — questions about the business domain I am in, front end and backend coding questions, as well as istio configurations.

I am well versed in all three areas, but obviously I can’t remember all the syntax, and don’t have time to trial and error the changes, and ai reduces that loop. I don’t use it to generate massive blocks of code, I use it mostly to demonstrate the principle of what I am trying to achieve.

I have many specific examples of massive time save.
But Huawei’s offices are all copies of European buildings so there is definitely a chance that this is not an accident or somehow guided by a client brief.
Shipping is a fraction of what the system does. To completely automate shipping you need an understanding of inventory etc. To do automated customer service, you need knowledge of shipping, inventory etc.
>I have Office 2010 on an old computer. While it lacks some modern features of Microsoft 365 (for example, Office 2010 is much, much faster), it still works seamlessly with any files I create in 365. And I only had to pay, once, about the same amount that Microsoft is charging for a year's use of the same suite in the present day.

You really shouldn't be running an unpatched office suite. While it's not as dangerous as running an unpatched browser, there are occasional 1-click RCEs that show up that means opening any sort of untrusted docx/xlsx file is like playing russian roulette.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide filter for "office"
> I found somebody who taught me how to do really complex modelling in OWL DL

Is there any resource you could recommend for that?
I'll say as an ex-FAANG that recently released a similar stat that it was absolutely real, but only because doing anything required an atrocious amount of boilerplate that AI was really good at figuring out.

Compared to how productive I am at my current startup? Not a chance.
Well yeah, if you hire someone to help you with something, you often end up owing them money, whether or not it ends up successful.
Is there a link to the initial post where you explain the whole thing? I’m curious now.
> That’s when a new option will miraculously appear – Microsoft 365 Classic, which has no price increase or Copilot AI. In other words, it’s your old plan.

That seems almost malicious
I did exactly that as well. I wanted to figure out what a synthesizer does/is, so I bought a MicroBrute and had a great deal of fun with it.

So much fun, in fact, that I bought a MatrixBrute not terribly long afterward. Now _that's_ a monosynth to last me a lifetime!
You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties
I'm not the OP, but I've considered doing this (have personally tried tri-phasic sleep in the past as an alternative) so I'm assuming the motivation might be the same: I just don't have a 24hr circadian rhythm. I'd guess mine is more like 26hr, not 28hr, but same idea applies. If I wake up after getting 8 hours of sleep, after 16 hours I am just... not sleepy. I can go to bed and not use screens and take melatonin and whatever else but I'm just not tired. So I end up staying later and getting less than 8 hours of sleep. Since many studies seem to show that getting a solid amount of sleep is good, my actual patterns seem bad. Much better then (maybe) to switch your cycle to be however many hours you need to get a solid night (~8hr) of sleep and feel tired at the end of the day, like the author is doing.

EDIT: just read the original post[1] from the author and indeed this is the reason. He maybe explains it better than me so give a read.

[1] https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/
>So is it not overly legislative to bind a person's health choices to their looks when you don't have the whole story?

No, it is overly pedantic to argue with someone making a basic and reasonable statement that someone looks overweight and would probably do better if they lost weight. Being overweight contributes to all kinds of joint pain and diabetes (which causes a lot of other physical and even mental problems). Maybe this woman is a natural oddity that can be in peak health and also significantly overweight at an old age, but odds are against it.
I got one of those from walmart in like 2018 for like $20, still going strong
Yes, it is linked[1] in the first sentence of the article.

[1] https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/
hard to debate these things with people who are born and bred into “slave for someone else” mentality and think like $350k is great salary one should be happy with slaving away at some cubicle in the Bay or at home 12 hours per day… :)

America is great at making sure most people think this way…
The melatonin response to sunlight shortens the cycle so the oscillator runs long without it. It wouldn't work well the other way.
> Executives aren't stupid as you think, they don't get paid what they do for no reason

I agree, but I think the reason they get paid what they do isn't because they're highly skilled (not to say they don't have skills, but those skills are mostly good ol' boys networking and the ability to do basic analysis), but rather because they're part of an insular class that protects its own. However, they're expensive and inefficient, and if we're going to practice honest capitalism then the first group to rip that bandaid off and automate away their (mostly) dead weight actually will be competitively superior to the backwards holdouts, and they will proceed to dominate the market.

This is of course if we're practicing actual capitalism and not a dressed-up form of neo-feudalism.

> but the reality will fall short of the sales pitch in innumerable ways across the board whether that be programmer productivity or anything else

Remains to be seen. We are with AI where the web was in 1996, when plenty of trusted thought leaders were sagely telling us that the web was just a place for glorified brochures.
That sort of exists. You heard of home service plans? You pay a fixed fee to some provider, and they the cost to send a plumber/hvac guy/whatever if something breaks. For software, instead of getting your toilet unclogged, you get small features and bug fixes.
Most universities seem now to include IP rights grabs in the matriculation documents you have to agree to when starting your course. If you squint, and apply a dose of salt, the OPs side of things sounds like a compromise offer to move forward allowing the student not to give over current IP but to develop something new.

Depending on contracts, and local laws, that might be almost legal...
Does this have the crippled version of AutoSave that only works with OneDrive?
> high cost of Camels ("costlier tobacco".)

If memory serves, cigarette packs were priced fairly close to each other. They were implying they did not skimp on the quality of the source product (unlike the other brands' thieving profiteers ;-)
Why are they trying to "solve" dinner? Heaven forbid we don't rush around at all times to maximize the amount of time we can work instead of spending time with family.
An interesting outsider perspective is this clip of Steven Fry going to an Auburn game: https://youtu.be/FuPeGPwGKe8

Regarding the latter, it’s weird and certainly was exploitative when college athletes weren’t allowed to monetize through sponsorships and frankly still is exploitative.
I seriously wonder why this is not happening more given all the copilots available. I guess the h1bs don't have the time/appetite to do this. Wouldn't locals have enough of a vendetta to do this?
The greatest benefit is that you can stay up until you're absolutely dog-tired every day, and not have to worry about all the rituals of "sleep hygiene", like limiting screen time, dimming lights, no coffee, etc.

On a >24 hour sleep schedule, you _will_ be tired when it's time to sleep. Guaranteed. Not only that, you can sleep longer and will always feel well-rested.

Meeting people all around the world, when they're collectively hanging out online, is also fantastic. Social platforms that involve more one-on-one contact, like X, Group chats, and similar, have completely different things going on at different hours. You start to make even more friends spread out across the world, and prevent getting stuck into ruts.

There's also the benefit that conversations and the environment online is always fresh. You're always cycling into new time blocks that you haven't been active in for a few days.

And, not just online. There's something to be said about experiencing (while fully awake) all of the different times of day where you live. You get to see sunrises and sunsets. Busy morning chatter of cars, and the world buzzing to life. The beyond-wee hours of the morning, when the city is so quiet you can hear a pin drop.

Really though, the main benefit is the first one in this comment. You can live your life to the maximum extent, without scheduling in the extra time to manage getting to sleep, and feeling tired when you don't.
I'm speaking of the reality of man. The path of least resistance will be the path that is taken, and so far it (apparently) makes more sense to cry "Climate Change!" than actually do something about preventing these fires.

If it takes enough of the state burning down for another path to gain lesser resistance, then so be it. That is certainly going to happen if California keeps going down the same path. I'm certainly not pleased that a piece of my childhood is burning down in unprecedented terms.
>and doesn't scale in exactly the same way as the general variable costs associated with delivering a service.

You underestimate the technical sophistication of the average user. Even with perfect docs, there's going to be 1% (or whatever) of customers that call into technical support asking questions. That's essentially COGS.
You write: "I'm scheduled to graduate in a few months"

Is the UW CS Bachelor just 2 years? Your LinkedIn profile states that you started there mid-2023, so you've been there for just 1.5y. What am I missing?
Mark was nice enough to invite me to his home studio when I was a new high school grad to talk working in games as an artist. He told me the story of the fight over dithering. I give him strong partial credit for ending up a game engine/art pipeline coder instead and got to thank him after his most excellent GDC presentation on the lost power of palettized textures https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0

You can see that power in action here

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ (Hit show options)

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...

BTW: Deluxe Paint has been remade in Python if you want to give it a try https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter
“It feels like programming languages are stagnating.”

As they should be. Not every language needs to turn into C++, Rust, Java, C#, or Kotlin.

The only group I see lamenting about features these days are PL theorists, which is fine for research languages that HN loves but very few use outside the bubble.

Some of us like the constraints of C or Go.
Customers will install agent interaction prevention agents to prevent the infinite onslaught.

Sales will still happen with dinner and handshakes.
Honestly, this reads like some kind of mercurial character in a sci-fi novel.
I treat food delivery apps the same way. There’s no stickiness for me, I just check all of them and pick the one with the best coupons for my restaurant. A sign that this kind of stuff is very much a commodity. I usually end up on DoorDash, but that’s mainly because the current credit card I use affords discounts for it and as a result wins in the bidding war for my business
As someone in the culture 20-30 years ago, it was always something that was underground... not promoted in a traditional sense, and hosted in unpermitted spaces. Usually you wouldn't know until the day of the event where the location actually was.

Much of the time it would be in industrial areas that were pretty deserted and dark at night, far away from any life that would complain about the noise that would go on until at lease sunrise. If outdoors it might be out in the woods, on the edge of an Indian reservation, in the desert, etc. Often there was a gritty sense of danger and some really odd characters you would meet, certainly not helped by the substances they might be on.

What you linked is what I'd call outdoor parties/festivals. Maybe folks today call them raves, but these things existed back then and we certainly didn't.
Fantastic! Will we venture beyond the solar system in the future, encompassing more astronomical objects? If so, that would be wonderful.
Not to mention that University of Washington is a public university run by the state. IANAL but this may well fall into constitutional issues so the ACLU might be interested, not to mention any number of other pro-bono lawyers. Most attorneys I’ve interacted with give a free one hour consultation and this sounds like a rather clear case where they can at least refer the OP to someone in their network who might be interested in doing it for free (again IANAL).
Whether it ends up being successful or not while still having to pay the lawyer is how the lawyer always win. This is not the gotcha you think it is
I reckon most HNers in such a situation have made the same script, I know I did.
I might be oversimplifying; but it is the product, the founder's salesmanship and connections that might result in a $1b company.

No matter how many brilliant programmers you employ, if the investors don't see merit in the product, vision and market the valuation won't grow.
What I think is success
Please get a lawyer. This is a crazy, non-reasonable stipulation "They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate....unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for."
Mr Ginsberg was known to inappropriately start up the exposed genitals now and then

source: people who saw it
Negative feedback can be a net good for anyone, even if they don't like it in the moment, and even for conglomerate entities like a school. Petty bureaucratic admins abusing their authority to spite you are likely abusing it against others under their purview. Honestly if you feel you have an allegiance to the school there's an argument that it's your duty to oppose petty tyrants within it. Think of it as a service to the the ideal of the school.
Probably the chinese they just asked chatgpt to draw them some glass ceiling
I like the idea that something has to be surprising rather than factual to be “news”.

A dispassionate and accurate description of a new feature that reaches millions of users? Not news. The lead singer of Limp Bizkit having an unexpected cameo in a recent movie where he sings an acoustic George Michael cover? That’s news baybee!
I cannot stress enough: wat
To be fair, I doubt anyone working at a publication that has articles like "Ferry cancellations and delays: your rights" and "What to consider when joining a gym" on the front page knows about microsoft's involvement in npm, TypeScript, GitHub, or VSCode.
> With the fires still largely unconfined, and no sign of letup from the winds spreading the blazes, the loss of JPL is looking increasingly likely.

This is unsourced conjecture. If JPL actually burned, it would be a tragedy, but there's nothing to suggest that a massive, fenced, landscaped facility with a fire station literally at its gate [1] is in any real danger.

[1]: https://maps.app.goo.gl/B1F9ULKFrs7KvQa7A
The scientist M. Temple Grandin is known for her great contributions in the field of mitigating pre-slaughter animal panic.

She is autistic. Her methodology included walking the chutes used to direct cattle to slaughter and working out in great detaiL mods that would reduce their stress. I've heard her interviewed a few times. She's extraordinary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
https://isgithub.live/
Moneywise, the jobs could make sense for workers if we didn't import so much from other countries (fruits, veggies, and products). The same applies to construction and lawn work. Is it better for these kids to be driving for Doordash or working at McDonalds or something than working outside? For young people especially, I think the answer is no. But we all know that most people prefer to work inside an air-conditioned building if possible, even if the job actually pays less than picking strawberries or whatever.
Funny part is most of those apply to passwords too, using an old password and complaining its not working, mistyping shit and complaining that its the system, and requesting a password reset and not getting the mail LOL so i only see upsides
Could you please point me where to buy it?
Exactly this.

All of our local plumbers and electricians were bought out by a PE firm and merged together.

So now to call the electrician, I need to be a “member” and pay $25/mo (annual commitment billed monthly) for the privilege of calling their call center to schedule an appointment.

They offer “free plumbing inspections” annually as a way to find problems to charge you to fix.

Private equity is an underrated danger to society.
The one that will be found in Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' (607 points, 1 day ago, 490 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42619139
I did 36-hour days (awake for 24, asleep for 12) for a long time and it was fine. I'm unable to do so now, due to other obligations, but I still think it worked better for me than a 24-hour day. Even today I inevitably stay up all night, getting at most 1-4 hours of sleep, 2-3 times per week.

I don't see anything problematic with TFA's 28-hour days.
California voters had a question before them in this election of whether or not to ban the practice of slavery, and they voted to keep practicing slavery.
> No smart phone in the waiting room to compete with?

Yes. Sometimes it was a deliberate tactic - mostly adverts would go for the 'just an evocative picture', but a few would go the 'wall of text' route. My memory pops up the name Alan Sugar for an example of those - really dense walls ...
IANAL, obvs, but their is a consideration, the provision of education, so a contract can be formed. AFAIK, IPR clauses are standard (but I know nothing about this jurisdiction).
When using magic links, you can still support the common UX polish of letting a user log in on a different browser/device.

If the user opens the magic link in the same browser that initiated the email, then just log them in. Otherwise, present them with the Apple-style "Do you want to authorize a login from 1.2.3.4 using Firefox on iOS possibly located in Portland, Maine? [Authorize] or [Reject]".
That's not quite what's going on with these particular fires. They weren't caused by excessive fire suppression. Most of the terrain involved is chaparral rather than forest. The previous two years had relatively high rainfall which caused a lot of fast brush growth. This season has had much less rainfall so everything dried out, creating tinderbox conditions. In those areas we have to rely more on clearing defensible space around structures.

https://youtu.be/gunenpZ5JuE

The forest management issues are valid but apply more to other parts of the state.
The gap between the claimed capability of "AI Agents" and what you're actually able to build with tools like AutoGen and Crew (and presumably AgentForce, it's been a few months since I saw a demo) is the largest gap I have ever seen in the field and I've been working with NLP/Conversational AI professionally since 2016.
Time flies when you’re having fun!
The title:

> How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer

and the subhed:

> For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.

both suggest a mystery that isn't there. Not that there isn't a mystery—there is!—but I think it's unreasonable to describe it as the title and subhed do.

As the rest of the article, which is at Quanta's usual excellent expository standard, explains, there is absolutely no debate about the number of real numbers; it is 2^{\aleph_0}. You don't have to know what that is, but it is important to know that it is a definite, precise answer. You can ask whether it's the same as \aleph_1, and that's something we don't know. But that doesn't mean that we don't know the answer to how many reals there are, only that we don't know whether some other potential answer is also the answer.
Upvoting too.

> Unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for. They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate.

Wow. Literally blackmailing a student to do illegal work (at least would be categorized like that in my country). A student that already paid money for class and potentially a degree the univ is trying to block, mind blowing. OP, 1000% lawyer up.
Ok, it might be more intuitive. But in terms of applications, is there any example where there's any advantage of using infinitesimal calculus or non-standard analysis?
CNDI: A GitOps Framework
https://freefromharm.org/animal-farmer-turned-vegan/jackie-s...
Using LLMs and Cursor to make side projects take even longer. FTFY
As Russian losses in Ukraine mount, Putin faces devastating demographic timebomb