skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please add the ability to make time go backwards in addition to forwards!

Also, when you click on the stop button (should probably be a pause icon), the icon should change to a play button.

Final feature request: relativistic mechanics pls.
>The sad thing is that I've reported these posts and they always say it doesn't violate their terms.

I'll just quote an experiment conducted by my colleague, where they tracked the outright malicious (porn, malware or fraud) ads they reported from a regular user account: "from January to November 2024, we tested (...) 122 such malicious ads (...) in 106 cases (86.8%), the reports were closed with the status “We did not remove the ad”, in 10 cases the ad was removed, and in 6 cases, we did not receive any response". That's not very encouraging.
You can definitely bang out all the major requirements in 2 years if you don't need any gen ed classes (e.g. community college or other transfer credits). ~18 class-quarters of requirements, 3 classes/quarter => 6 quarters. Possibly as short as 4-5 quarters if you can manage a higher courseload.
Even at a remove of decades from when I worked at JPL, this makes me very sad.
Show HN: 3D-Fractal Game on WebGPU (Desktop Chrome)
Ported Marble Marcher over to WebGPU, so no download required. Open source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/grinstead/MarbleMarcherWebGPU

WebGPU is cool. It's exciting to me to see these things working with no download.

The actual js for this game is 130kb in all, though the music and sound effects bring the whole distribution to 10mb.

The original game is from CodeParade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0XVdvQwAI

It can be a bit of a gpu buster, though it runs fine on my M1 Mac.

I'm experimenting with SolidJS+WebGPU+Vite as a game engine (https://github.com/grinstead/ambush). It's a pretty cool environment to develop in, but building everything from scratch is slow and developing at a hobbyist pace.
I think that's why I'm redoing my old Physics problem sets - but using the infinitesimal approach this time. To see is it more useful. So far the gains are modest but I find it easier to 'reason' about some of the calculations.

The author Seth Braver has two nice examples of reasoning with infinitesimals in the book intro - the first few chapters are available for free: https://www.bravernewmath.com/

Time will tell if the study will pay off. In later years of the Physics degree I ended up doing lots of algebraic manipulation without much understanding. Maybe because I had no intuitive 'feel' for the Calculus and it all felt like symbol manipulation ... As another commenter said, somehow infinitesimals allowed the giants like Newton & Lebnitz to work their way to some amazing results (especially about motion...)
And that's a problem with human expectations not lining up with the reality of LLMs.

You could actually implement such functionality with current LLMs. Even one small enough to run on a phone.

But you can't implement it well enough to be trustworthy. It will make mistakes, and people will quickly stop trusting it. Even if it was as good as a true human assistant (which it's not), humans still make mistakes. We have a tendency to be forgiving of the mistakes that humans make, but we expecit AI to be near perfect and will judge it far more harshly... Hell, just look at how people are blaming it for summarizing a phishing scam.

This is before you even consider the potential of prompt injection attacks. If you give the LLM the power to delete emails, it will be vulnerable to people sending emails telling it to delete emails. A job applicant might be able to tell apple intelligence to delete all other applications.
It makes me happy that OP posted https://sidhion.com/blog/28h_days/ in October of 2023, and somehow lasted 4 months before learning about https://xkcd.com/320/. It's interesting that OP decided to try to align to a daytime schedule on the weekend, instead of during the workweek as in the comic.
I never understood this reasoning. Prior to X being purchased by Musk, every major social media platform had pretty much exactly the same speech policy. You'd see decisions made in unison.

For instance, this was the timeline for Trump being banned off social media

January 6-7, 2021: Facebook and Instagram initially suspended Trump's accounts for 24 hours, then extended it "indefinitely"

January 7, 2021: Twitch disabled Trump's channel

January 8, 2021: Twitter permanently suspended Trump's @realDonaldTrump acc
ount

January 9, 2021: Several other platforms took action, including:

Reddit banned the "r/DonaldTrump" subreddit

Shopify removed Trump-related online stores

Snapchat disabled Trump's account

Various dates: Other platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, and others implemented their own restrictions or bans around this time

Obviously this banning didn't occur due to actions on their platforms, but an organized effort was made to remove a person's digital presence from the internet. And it more or less worked for a long time.

Is a social media monoculture really a good thing? Nearly every other platform has pretty much the same policy on whatever the Mastodon CEO thinks is 'hate speech'.
I would think going junior route to 10 million would be way easier. 1B is becoming a unicorn. A very rare occurrence that has to come into existence at just the right time in the right market.
> You can achieve the same result by paying them prevailing wage. This has the extra benefit of giving them some saved up money to start a new life when they get out, helping them avoid falling back into a life of crime to make ends meet.

I don’t see how you can do this, because you turn punishment into privilege. If the way to firefighter pay is through a jail cell you create all kind of problems around perverse incentives.
I get the costs of engineering, but there's these sort semi antagonistic "yo we're not hiring software engineers" announcements that are weird.

I don't ever see someone say "we're not hiring anymore customer support" or HR, or janitorial staff, or middle management.
Wow, really? So you just pay for a year instead of 4 years? Why do people not do that more?
Do they put them on both sides of the phone, front and back?
ADB logcat is your friend.

Build the app for Android, connect your phone via usb, make sure adb is running and try this https://gist.github.com/giacomocerquone/cc195287d1104c8e288a...
> Wouldn't you want something original and innovative?

Some cultures promote originality more than others. Some cultures are good for getting things done.
Agreed. You need a lawyer. Not necessarily to go to court, but at least to write some letters. That should not cost more than a few hundred dollars. Don't wait.

Document everything. Make copies. Store them somewhere safe.

Read Washington State law on extortion in the first degree.[1] Follow the link to the definition of "threat", especially the section on "official action": "To take wrongful action as an official against anyone or anything, or wrongfully withhold official action, or cause such action or withholding". It's really bad for a state official to attempt extortion. It's a 10 years in prison felony offense.

Edit: Having a lawyer write and send a letter on your behalf tends to resolve a large number of annoying situations.
A lawyer on the other side will have to read it. This immediately gets you past the first-line people to people who have to consider consequences.

[1] https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.56.120
I daily drive Linux for everything except games, and gaming on Linux has come far enough that I'll be switching over soon. My 60+ father also uses Linux for most of what he does.

And, yes, software working on your OS is not a minor point. That's the whole reason I used to go with the "best tool for the job" approach. Windows Recall is what changed that for me. I can't see using an OS with spyware built in as a "feature".

In my opinion, Apple is no more trustworthy than Microsoft, so...

> It’s a big deal for people who do things other than use a browser, text editor, and terminal.

So, the number of video editing, photo editing, CAD, gaming, and so on tools that work on Linux has grown a LOT. It's not just for basic stuff. You can do almost anything you need to on Desktop Linux. Yes, a lot of things are rough around the edges, but they're that way because people haven't invested in them, not because they're bad tools.
That is an incredible amount of cooked calories for that price. No idea this was a thing. I do remember being in college and local mcd’s doing the typical “if team wins chicken nuggets are $5 for 20” but never heard of this sports box concept
If you eliminate most of the frontend, of course you're going to need a backend. Otherwise you have no app. Intelligent post there.
d, a, c, b makes perfect sense to me --- it's naturally compositional!

There is a style of grey-beard that never wants to reason in parts. He simple loads the whole program into his big brain and works from there: trees through the eyes, forest (maybe, certainly subjective) in the mind.

I too am big-brained, but I wholly reject this approach --- it makes for code that is sorely lacking in motivation --- all "what", no "why".

With "goto" I need to reconstruct what the arbitrary control flow means. It might be cleanup, it might be something else entirely! With "defer", we have the essence of RIAA without any bad OOP nonsense. The cleanup obligations themselves are literal in the code.

You don't need to know the order d, a, c, b run in 99% of the time. The reverse-order semantics indicate the LIFO semantics, which should be enough and tied to e.g. the deadlock avoidance or inter-resources-that-need-cleanup dependency management. And again, whenever you do want to see what the actual order is, the desugarer should always be a click away, perfectly your questions.
Something definitely smells.
That's the process that I thought I understood from your comment, but for me personally it bothers me spending precious USPS/UPS resources mailing aluminium bottles of gas around the country. For absolute clarity: I'm not shipping-shaming, I'm just saying that's why _I_ would not choose that process

That said, I bet my girlfriend has no such qualms :-D so I'll be sure to look into that further for her. Thanks for making me aware of it o/
Seconded. Also, please make the non-planet labels brighter. The contrast isn't good enough to read it.
> Personally I have a history of patello-femoral problems

Look up "knees over toes guy". Seriously.
Uh yeah you should get a lawyer, they are threatening to kick you out unless you do work for free?? That’s crazy! How can they justify this?
So, for context, UW's registration system runs on, like, a single 1980s VAX.
There are deep concepts behind multi variable cal. But if you just want to pass the course, memorizing problem shapes through practice will get you through calc 3.

Do all the homework problems check the answer in the back of the book. You’ll make it.
Is it possible? Well, probably - WhatsApp famously had only 32 engineers when they sold the company for $16 billion. But is it likely? Oh, goodness, no.

The second challenge sounds much easier, though I'd trade at least half of those engineers for marketing/biz-dev support.
I'd heard of people writing these kinds of scripts but never heard of anyone getting expelled for it (ca. 2010).
Thanks - this was one of the more interesting things I've read here in a while.

I wonder if "Programming languages seem to have somewhat stagnated to me.", a sentiment I share, is just me paying less attention to them or a real thing.
Relying on good faith won't help you at all.

Someone at the uni has taken this personally, and has attacked you. At this point, if you don't defend yourself - that person has won.

Please seek legal advice.
I feel like the whole "notification summary" use case addresses the wrong problem. It's true that a lot of people are innundated in notifications of varying levels of importance. But I don't think the solution is to condense those diverse notifications and lose a lot of context in the process. A better solution is to reduce notifications altogether, so that the problem remains human-scaled and leaves the user in charge.

Maybe an AI (or even a simple statistical model) can suggest group chats to suppress notifications for, based on how frequently the user actually reads and engages with them. Maybe the notifications system can be overhauled altogether so that non-DM uses are severely restricted by default (e.g., a news app can only display one notification at a time).

The problem with too many notifications is too many notifications, not the user wishing they had the motivation to read all of them.
To save some folks a few clicks, "Digitization Shadow Prices".
You're making some assumptions here that I don't think hold.

OP is likely able to do this because they have a longer circadian cycle (though I think it's still less than 28 hours)

A person who might naturally have a 24.4 hour cycle without external stimuli (which is the average sleep researchers found) will likely have problems trying to adjust to a 26 hour cycle or longer, because even if they push themselves to stay up beyond the beginning of the sleep phase of their cycle on a regular basis, there is a good chance they'll wake up closer to the end of their sleep phase, and therefore might not get enough sleep.

It's better to follow a sleep cycle tailored to your own circadian rhythm, which for most people conveniently aligns pretty well with the natural day.

I say this as someone with non-24 who often does free-running sleep (where I've found my own cycle to be a little over 26 hours in winters, and closer to 24 hours in the summer)
Yeah maybe OP really is grifting us all
Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
its no use. HN is pretty much on the same political spectrum as Reddit. Arguing with the far left ppl like archagon won't result in a debate based on facts but emotionally charged ideological conjecture as you experienced.
A 'fictional' toggle, with items and locations from movies and TV would be cool.
> solve the problem by making all function calls async.

This is just blocking code and it’s beautiful.
> What makes you say that “whatever HN thinks” does not have any bearing on what the President-elect will or will not do

because he doesn't read HN?
Two very wet winters caused fuel buildup followed by an extremely hot and dry year.

References for the "hot and dry year" ('cause I hear it tossed around a lot). As far as I can tell, all of California had several relatively wet (but hot) years and nothing dry afterwards. I'm linking to NOAA's the California drought map, which shows "Abnormally Dry" (less than "moderate drought") for LA currently and I think showed "none" for much of the year [1].

The thing is, I agree this was to be expected. But only by the principle "climate change is going to cause disaster out of nowhere". We need to say this and let people understand.

[1] https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...
It appeals to old people. Young people aren’t coming back. It’s been on a downward trend for longer than the pandemic started.
It does though. Its quite lucrative...
TRX won a lawsuit and you can't get one from Wal-Mart today

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trx-obtains-federal...
There is no meaningful sense in which firefighters are "fighting" this fire, nor could they.
In my experience, while there are some things in the backlogs that a developer can basically pick up and run with, others require input from other roles to actually address or implement properly. And then once developed, you need to test, document, and localize a feature. (Realistically, you probably want to market it as well.) Depending on your design and support model, your customer service teams may need to help organizations implement the feature effectively or may need to be trained on how to answer customer questions about that feature.
That's a very kind reminder, thank you.
> Most disagreements (at least in my experience) are not reaching this level, and are instead diving towards anti-intellectualism and dismissing statistics and data interpretation wholesale.

Not without reason though. Many statistics are pretty bad and very partisan. Unpacking this is not trivial, and who wants to invest that effort to settle a debate with one other person?
Those two titles are funny as hell
I find it hard not to see "AI safety" in a similar vein as "the war on drugs". I truly can't imagine it ever succeeding (nor do I want it to, despite the unfortunate outcome in Las Vegas).
A few hours per week simply isn't enough, the best success I've had studying was 6 hours a day, resting for 3 (leisure activity), "working" for 3 (class, commute, chores, related reading) and sleeping 12 hours.

In books like Stewart, staring at a theorem until you can write it's proof should trivialize most problems in the book.

If a method for solving a particular problem is too difficult for you maybe consider researching and/or inventing some new method to solve these problem. People created these methods in the first place because earlier methods were too tricky

Or just focus on work that doesn't require hundreds of hours to gain proficiency. As long as you have time every day to stop, think, and come up with an idea that solves a problem you won't become intellectually unfit.
There was a ballot proposition to increase imprisoned firefighter compensation in November but it failed 47/53
>Can the second block of the do-while see `value` in its lexical scope? If yes, you have this weird double brace scope thing

As long as it's documented and expected, it's not weird.

The scope then is the whole "do-while" statement, not the brace.
What do these acronyms mean?—IE, FEA, DOE?
“Leave it to a white man to cut a foot off the end of a blanket and sew it on the top of the blanket and think it makes the blanket longer.”
I wrote up what I learned an a technical report that got sent to the editors at ISO a month or so ago and ought to appear pretty soon. Look up my profile and send me a note.
Never allowing the forest to burn, which is a part of its natural cycle, is a form a drastic climate change for the forest.

Proper management of the forest means selecting a time to do these burns. If we don't select a time, mother nature will select one for us.

Yes, global temperature rise is real, and could potentially have had some effect on the fire. Completely disrupting the natural cycle of the forest is a much bigger deal.
It's hard to determine without meaningful regular/frequent interaction, and by that I mean more than just a weekly phone call to catch up on things. I've been watching my father's interactions with one of his older brothers, and the decline of his brother in the past year has been quite astounding. His brother lost his driver's license after a minor accident because he didn't follow up as required, and that led to a loss of social interactions, a rapid physical decline from not being as mobile, and now he's having trouble remembering what happened a few hours earlier.

Slight physical decline is very hard to spot on a family video call, but is painfully obvious in person as subtle changes in gait are something most of us are wired to notice. Nothing is a good substitute for real in person interaction. If you can't do that yourself, find someone you trust that can.

I find it a similar challenge dealing with my sister. She won't have the hard conversations anywhere other than in person, as it is far too easy to put on a good face for a short social interaction, yet it is much harder to hide true emotions when spending hours with someone you know extremely well over the course of a full day.
The people in the DPRK that also believe they're educated and grounded in facts.

A more accurate description would be educated on facts that never lead to fundamentally undermining the mythology of one's government.
There is nothing wrong with this...
2024 Shkreli Awards
I remember the days before SaaS. Sure we paid only once and self hosted services with open source, but we also needed a full time sysadmin/IT person for a 12 person startup. I'm not sure it worked out cheaper.
Why not apply this dismissive logic to all suffering?
Thanks for the insight! That makes me even more doubtful of the 30 percent claim.
I think it's because so many men smoked that marketing to women was a growth opportunity.
Yeah. It's incredibly depressing.

Thanks for replying. It's good to know that I'm not alone. That's the real reason why I comment these things.
There is always excellent money to be made as a contractor doing Salesforce work.
I know very little about lawyering, but I could imagine a UW-alum or Seattle-area lawyer advising pro bono bc of generosity or good publicity on a very newsworthy case

Anyone on here friends with a UW-alum or Seattle-area lawyer who might be interested but doesn’t read HN?
All I’m saying is that if I were a scammer, I wouldn’t bother tricking someone into saying a specific thing. I’d just use gen AI. I’m definitely not arguing against “call the person back using a verifiable good number.” If everyone did that, we’d hear about a lot less fraud.
Hi HN,

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Why we built it:
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Why it’s unique:
We’ve already got thousands of self-serve users, but we’re now piloting a B2B product for businesses that want to take things further. This includes advanced tools for automating campaigns at scale and leveraging cloud credits ($25K-$350K) to maximize ROI.

We’re looking for feedback and early adopters to help refine the product. If you’re interested, we’re happy to offer a money-back guarantee during the pilot phase.

Would love your input on:
• How you see AI fitting into marketing automation.
• What challenges you think small businesses face in this space.
• Any feedback on AgentsBase or features you’d like to see.

Thanks for taking the time to read this—I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
I don't think a lot of HN users understand corporate speak.

When they announce they aren't hiring any more software engineers they are basically telling its own engineers to leave now or face cost cutting measures.

If you work at Salesforce, I would start putting out resumes now. The play seems to be to use the narrative "agents replaced our engineers, we cut %X of our team" as both a sales pitch and excuse for poor deliverables.
Stacksocial has been doing Office promos for years. They're inexpensive, forever licenses but I'd guess they aren't transferable. I've bought a dozen or two.

https://www.stacksocial.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=offi...

Techspot has deals on Office 2024. https://www.techspot.com/news/96637-microsoft-office-lifetim...
Age of the suburbs has a significant impact on their character. A New Jersey burb established in 1880 can be far more pleasant and walkable than a Florida McMansion neighborhood built in 1980.
Before we downsized from our home to our condo, I had a home gym with a treadmill, elliptical and a rower and I paid a fee each year for maintenance.

With so many moving parts and sweat getting on parts, things always needed replacing.

Also when I did have our home we paid service contracts for the yard, the weeds, termites and pest control.

When we turned it into a rental before we sold it, we also had a monthly home warranty.

But, in the case of MS Office, unlike Adobe, they still sell a copy with a perpetual license that you only pay for once.