skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps, thought blu ray is looking a little laserdisc like. Never quite got the mass adoption to stay around and now fading away. It's now hard to buy a cdrom drive without dvd support. But ones without blue ray remains common. Notmto mention second hand dvds are available for pennies on bulk for hoarders ...
> I am not planning to get a lawyer involved as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

All evidence so far indicates they will not make it right, but instead they may make it even worse. Your faith is wildly misplaced. Seriously, talk to a lawyer.

Keep in mind, just because you seek advice from a lawyer doesn't mean you need to take legal action against the school. Talking to a lawyer is not an escalation; the school doesn't even need to know you consulted one. A lawyer will advise whether you should take legal action and any more amicable alternatives available before they do anything on your behalf.
Really? If you’re personally impacted then surely you don’t want the media bringing attention to an open vulnerability where anyone can steal your data.

I’d opt for silence in this case and hope that some future update patches the bug (accidentally or otherwise).
They seem to be public. A simple "University of Washington swagger" search turned this up: https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/data-reporti...
How many gates are here?

Is it near the crossover of where the same amount of logic can implement a tiny CPU which can run a program to generate the same output?

(I guess not in this case, because it needs to output 18 million pixels per second, and a micro-CPU probably won't be doing that anytime soon)
"The Beekeeper"
I went to UW a decade ago, and back then it was pretty common knowledge that you don't fuck with software and the class registration system. Registering for classes was really competitive and they were really strict about making sure that no one had an edge over anyone else by being able to write code. There were plenty of rumors of people being expelled for using scripts to try to get the classes they wanted right when they opened. I also believe they forbid or at least frowned on students "trading" registrations, because they didn't want even more people trying to sign up for high value classes and trading them as a commodity.

So at least back when I went there, basically any CS student could have told you that this website was a horrible idea that is sure to get you in trouble.
UW registration weren't really open to criticism or improvement ca. 2009, either. Extremely hostile to student projects that would in any way interact with the registration system.
Isn’t the fix supposed to be some senior leader writes the prompt “make the code faster and less over engineered” and the Rune Goldberg contraption comes to life and echos back “eye eye captain!”. Thirty seconds later, problem solved!

That is my understanding of these AS/GI agentic wizards anyway. They’ll fire the rest of their staff right after the thing fixes all the slowness.

You don’t even need to define “slowness” in your prompt! It just knows what “slowness” means and fixes it for you! It’s truly remarkable technology. Those primadonna devs will be out on their ass any day now.

All hail our agentic future!
They never seem to talk about what happens when the the dream is ubiquitously realized and nobody is left to buy whatever it they are selling because their production expenses fund someone else's sales.

At least it will be interesting to see which pushes civilization off the cliff first, end-game capitalism ouroborosing itself or the direct impact of climate change (which is obviously also related in any case).
Somehow their "agent" AI can't do sales? Can't run email/call scripts? Can't track things in their own CRM?

Huh. So they are telling customers that they'll make their work more AI driven while staffing up their own human sales?
> Let's see Benioff put his money where his mouth is, replace some C-suite seats with AI agents.

How can you replace a job that involves stone cold deterministic thinking and copying the behavior of your peers after a 3-6 month review with a lifeless machine?
What do you mean by documented? Sure we have a general idea of how stuff works, and some implementations can even serve as a reference but almost nothing is documented in an official sense. Your average Chinese SBC is much, much better documented, in the sense that the SOCs are at least officially documented. The Broadcom soc isn't.
> The city of Los Angeles and the Mayor have been requesting volunteers from the public

That's not true. The call last night was for all off-duty firefighters to report their availability, not for members of the public.

Clearly LAFD / LACFD need more manpower, but there's more then enough merit to make that case without misinformation.
It depends on vertical.

Large corps likely have some huge codebases of overengineered spagetti code, which are hardly comprehendable by LLMs.

But if you want to build for example some new/smaller web/mobile apps talking to various API, LLM can boost your productivity significantly, because it will easily generate ready to use code snippets.
Don’t even need a windows PC. You can do USB passthrough with KVM. Just setup a Windows VM, USB passthrough the drive, do it, through the VM away.

The iso can be downloaded officially from MS, activation is not needed for this.

If it takes more than half an hour on Linux just so it in the VM.
Classic solution in search of a problem thinking. "It's not that our solution isn't wanted, our customers just need to get it!"
Let's not forget pre-2020 when the company released "Salesforce Blockchain", "NFT Cloud" and "Salesforce Web3 Platform".

This is how they operate. Just one marketing hype moment after another. The actual product doesn't really matter (and in a lot of cases doesn't even launch). They just need to keep making pretty slide decks filled with meaningless buzzwords so their customers get distracted from the fact that they are paying $500+ per user per month for a shitty web UI on top of 4 database tables.
What sound pollution? There are permits and everything, and woodlands are really, really big. A couple hills over you wouldn't be able to hear a thing.
Picking strawberries in Oregon was my first job, and I progressed through the usual things kids did for money then, so I know where you're coming from. However, there is a major economic change we also need to consider. It used to be you could earn enough over the summer to buy a usable car or pay college tuition. Can a kid even come close to that now? If those jobs can no longer benefit kids to the same degree, avoiding them might actually be the most rational choice. I say this even though I appreciate the diligence I see in young people who had some early experience of working.
He probably accidentally exposed someone’s bug or other screwups
The VCSL is a great resource for public-domain samples, I know Strudel.cc uses it and probably quite a few others too

https://github.com/sgossner/VCSL

There's also Tidal Cycles Drum Machines (and by the looks of things quite a few other tidal sample repos), but I'm not actually sure if this is public-domain

https://github.com/geikha/tidal-drum-machines
Trading when it happens organically "oops I thought I wanted to take this class, but can't make the time slot work" is beneficial, but making it easy to register for a bunch of classes in high demand and then swap them with others messes with things.
Analyst Salaries Sink 30% as Wall Street Slashes Equity Research
DOOM: The Gallery Experience
That was a great read!

The library at Skywalker Ranch looked like a wonderful place.
Most of it is in liability payouts. The LA City Controller has a fantastic instagram account and website https://controller.lacity.gov/
Yup. At the time, third-party DLL injection was one of the single biggest causes of Firefox stability issues.
It typically takes a special camera and software. You need focus, a large-enough sensor in low-light conditions, adjusting or bypassing compression, etc. Not always impossible of course, just highly unreliable otherwise.
Yeah this announcement is basically stating that all facts should be handled like Wikipedia rather than from an official record via news agency. Because the media is "liberal". This is convenient for meta -- no one is really watching what's happening in metapedia so whatever works for them can become fact. Problem solved.
> I'm not informed on the specifics on these cases, but I generally view that (many/most) prisoners have a debt to society for breaking the social contract and serving the community by making it safer is a generally positive activity.

Yes -- but -- by undercutting the wages you would have to pay people outside, it lowers the pay of the non-prison laborers. This hurts that community.

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.
Release announcement can be found here: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-3-0-released/15916
Dupe (569 points, 3 days ago, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42607794
> “And then, we will have less support engineers next year because we have an agentic layer."

As I was predicting... [0]

The first affected are the "support engineers" then they will try to get away with going after everyone else at the company. Test subjects are needed for a trial run.

So what eventually happens to the existing employees when the AgentForce gets even better?

Can they just admit that they are replacing workers with AI agents instead of this newspeak bullsh*t?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630993
Will do! I will fix the issue and re-upload it.
TADS, an OOP language + VM for interactive fiction, has this "value database" model. Once loaded into memory, the compiled image can be updated with values stored in a separate save file. The compiled image itself could store updated values as well.

In fact, it does this during a "preinit" stage that runs immediately after compilation. Once all preinit code finishes executing, the compiled image is overwritten with the updated state. The language includes a "transient" keyword to permit creating objects that should not be stored.

This same mechanism permits in-memory snapshots, which are used for the game's UNDO feature. No need to rewind or memento-ize operations, just return to a previous state.

It's not a general-purpose mechanism. After all, the language is for building games with multiple player-chosen save files, and to permit restarting the game from a known Turn 0 state.
Discussed at the time:

How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845576 - July 2021 (344 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so! especially for a great article like this. Links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
Yes, I agree with you on the first point, but on the second, it's not always so easy to lock down devices, kids will always find a way around them if they want to, in my experience.
> their job is to give someone for their boss to have in his little fiefdom.

In my friends' case, he didn't really want a little fiefdom or even to be a manager.

The problem was that they made it clear that the only way to get promoted and move up the salary ladder was to become a manager of a team. So by converting his one-person role into a job that had to be done by several people, he could justify hiring a team underneath him and therefore getting a significant raise and better title.

It's weird to hear them describe how everyone seemingly knows the game is broken, but they're open about how it needs to be played.
I don't see how public servers and matchmaking are an issue. The public servers that are known to tolerate cheaters are themselves just going to get a bad reputation.

The issue is the kind of game that doesn't allow you to host public servers, and which instead has an automatching system with an undisclosed algorithm.

And since this also tends to be the kind of game that has DRM, doesn't even allow offline/private servers (is online only), and worse, engages into microtransactions and gambling, the sooner these games are made illegal, the better off the society will be.
Looks like it. The only other explanation is they just stopped investing in other products and focused on Agents, thus no need for loads more of engineering.

No way in the world they got 30% gains. 5 maybe realistically
Tell them that. Alumni support is critical for a university and if they feel their donation base is upset, change will happen.
Again, the OPs post is an introduction to synthesis. Good luck finding those “sounds.”
nice, strategic reduction in workforce growth that accomplishes a similar outcome to a layoff: controlling headcount to optimize margins and account for market conditions, disguised as sales and marketing. A++
It opens up for abuse by offering to sell a spot.
I wouldn't answer this question if I were the OP.
How much water do you need to dump enough to saturate all the territory that would need to be covered with wind gusts up to 100MPH? (How do you fly and aim the water in those winds?)

Wildfires are obviously not new, if you're saying the fault is of the administration of the last 10 years, how do you explain that the earlier government for the fifty years prior ALSO failed to see and implement your "just dump the water everywhere from planes" approach to the fires in the 90s, say?

We're, what, 13 years from terrible financials for the state and local governments that forced widespread major cuts and furloughs and reduction in hours? Everyone who's been hit by those can point to negative outcomes somewhere or other (crime is up! education achievement stats are down! wait times are up! etc) but there's no free lunch here to just have avoided any cutbacks in any area.
I recently learned that from a distance moon looks like revolving around sun rather than earth. It's orbit does not mak e loops/spirals. Instead it's more like a dodecahedron. Or if seen in isolation around sun, it will look like normal circular orbit.

Can you add an option to switch drawing orbit of moon around the sun of its planet instead of its orbit around its planet?
Wait! What!

I sort of understand the part they wanted you to shutdown the website. Maybe its a copyright issue, even though the website only showed dummy courses.

I don't understand why they'd not let you sign up for classes to graduate, it seems like you were operating in good faith, and a University would lean towards the student. It doesn't seem like there was any indication of monetization here.

I'm definitely flabbergasted by their stance on asking you to build the same feature as an extortion mechanism.

I've lived in WA for ~9 years, and held UW in high regard as I often interact with graduates at my day job. But, this leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

Hope the University admin that is involved in these series of decisions, receive health as more leadership gets involved with this going viral.
FWIW various studies find that software engineers spend about 25% of their time coding on average.
Shut the fuck up and start calling lawyers now.
> The recommendation engine is unfortunately not able to distinguish between regular content and suggestive content, and no amount of reporting/blocking seems to change that.

Maybe currently... But you can definitely crowdsource / user generate some thumbs-up or thumbs-down mechanism whether something is "suggestive" content
Are you saying Firefox doesn’t restore state?
The ability to trade creates an incentive to register for courses you don't actually plan to take, which leads to further scarcity.
That is a point that seems to get lost in the hype (or fear) of AI replacing software engineers.

If we take at face value that AI can “replace” a software engineer, it can most certainly replace most of the managers and executives above that role.
Somewhat related, Dwarkesh Patel has an excellent talk with David Reich about the broader history of genetics:

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/david-reich
I was an EE student and worked for UW CSE back in the day, someone tried to do this back then as well and got very in trouble.

There may have been some browser automation scripts about… I wouldn’t know.
OP please consider listening to this reply. Do not rely on an unaccountable bureaucracy to "do the right thing." They don't.
+400% engineering time and effort because of the bloated mess Salesforce has become, then -30% because of “AI productivity”. Got it.

Most SFDC projects I’ve seen recently are over budget and behind schedule on delivery.
Royal Mail legitimately use a custom link shortener at ryml.me, which doesn't help confusion.
"existing" is basically all it does. They make 8B a year and have the 12th most popular website globally.

The email product has gobbled up both AOL and Verizon and they also whitelabel to a bunch of other ISPs. Just because they are never in the news for anything cool and hackernews commenters dont use them doesnt mean they dont exist.
This tidbit does nothing for the people experiencing loss at the moment.
Lol, C'mon, it takes less than 2 min to skim through it.

1) Do you know the author's education is in Organizational Psychology and he's been reading academic articles about burnout and high performance teams pretty much everyday as his life? (disclosure: I am the author, haha)
I would not call that overzealous? It's not couched in legal language / demands, it fully explains the rationale for the request. Intro CS students cheat all the time, they're very lazy about it, having posted answers as top Google results facilitates that and increases TA burden. (Full disclosure, I was personally acquainted with Whitaker long ago. He was a TA for the intro classes. I think he just sincerely wanted to reduce cheating in the intro UW CS courses.)
Yeah. I got the evil eye when I told my company Genie aka Data Cloud is nothing more than a ETL and data warehouse for the different SF clouds. The SF director at my company went on a rant on how stupid I was. It was a déjà vu moment for me. I had SF and Microsoft account reps go ballistic when I informed my bosses of my opinion of their shitty products.

https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.c360_a_data_...
But, we are talking about Salesforce.
Personally I'm not sure I'd use VCV rack as an entry into subtractive synthesis, simply because there's so much to modular synthesis it could be hard to untangle one concept from another. That being said, I think it is a great intro to synthesis as a whole.

For me, it was the microbrute which really taught me subtractive synthesis, simply because of how stripped back it was, I couldn't just add a new module to cover up my bad sound design. Though obviously that's far less accessible (£150 hardware synth versus free software you can load up right now), I'm sure there'd be a middle ground. I know iOS is really good for its synth ecosystem, maybe there's a nice subtractive synth there.
The request was in 2015, dawg.
As I understand it, no. Most counties require that you have an EMT license to be a firefighter, and many people with conviction histories are barred from getting EMT licenses (Title 22 § 100214.3(c)). There was a bill a few years ago that allowed CalFire specifically to hire people as firefighters with an alternate credential that doesn't have a blanket-ban on people with conviction histories.
>"Projecting much? That doesn't describe me _at all_."

Didn't you just project, too? Lol. My comment is based on the writings I've seen here over the coming years about this technology.
It's almost like this one-sided story is leaving some things out.
That's why the Irish pronounce it "Salesfarce"
They didn't in the beginning. I think they realized that it wasn't sustainable with not enough people paying (pure speculation).
Salesmen selling to other salesmen.
it is undeniably in bad faith. the ToS was updated to use the phrase "transgenderism" which is used exclusively by right-wing anti-trans actors.

https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/policies/community-stand...
Just out of curiosity

if more people downvote / individual flag it than upvote it, then how did it rise to the front page to start with?

I recall multiple HN Epstein discussions that didn't get flagged (in the sense of Net Flagged status assignment by HN, not talking about individual acts of individual flagging)

It would really help the discourse if HN used separate terms for the button for users to individually cast a flag, and the [flagged] marking by HN: a suggestion would be to give the latter a different word like [perverse], as the literal meaning of perverse come from Latin "per" (away) "vertere" (to turn), i.e. "turned away" or "to turn a blind eye" as one would say in English.

That would seem more apt as it describes what is done, and allows HN commenters to talk about the difference between individual acts of users pressing the "flag" button versus HN mapping that to an attention modulating action.

For example discussions about the method of mapping upvotes, views, flaggings, and their relative timing distributions, onto the either "attended" or "perverse" status.
This kind of math is nonsense, even as a back-of-the-napkin exercise.

Engineers productivity is not linear, both over time and team size. In fact there may be productivity improvements just be freezing hiring as adding too many people becomes net negative if the architecture and domain complexity does not support. Also, writing code is not the bottleneck on value, it's making the correct changes that adds value. While AI can accelerate simple and repetitive code production, this could easily add more technical debt and be net-negative producing over time if engineers aren't thinking about the big picture. On the other hand AI could add a lot of value not directly related to coding as it can process and "understand" more breadth of information (including code) that can magnify engineers productivity if used thoughtfully, but that may have no direct relationship to coding per se.
> A RSA key is the product of two primes, not any number, so you need a lot more bits to get equivalent security

This explanation doesn't seem right to me. For 1024 bit numbers, about 0.14% are prime. So that difference only loses a handful of bits. There are more than 2^2000 usable RSA-2048 keys, and simply guessing and dividing would require more than 2^1000 guesses. Those few bits lost to the prime number restriction aren't why the level of security is so low.
This seems to assume that engineers have no agency in the work they do—they are merely “assigned” tasks and they mindlessly carry them out. I don’t know what the authors experience has been but it doesn’t match mine in any of the places I’ve worked. Engineers typically have a lot of input about what they work on and if they are motivated can take on bigger projects right away. They can also extend the scope of assigned work to be much bigger than it was initially. All the best engineers I’ve worked with do this type of thing regularly.
why complain when we can just stop using facebook?
The British have a nice word: "jobsworth".

No bureaucrat is going to say "yes" because the consequences of something going wrong costs them their job while the benefits of things going right are zero.

(For example, a DDoS. The number of times I have accidentally fired a DDoS at an API endpoint is non-trivial. Or it could get so popular that it's a DDoS. etc.)
Most universities have sliding scale (down to zero fee)law services available for students.

Things like tenant rights, criminal cases, immigration, consumer, employment, wills, health care directives, power of attorney, name change, etc.

You should make use of them. Especially if your educational career is being impacted “a hold” (whatever that means). If it was coursework project then your professor also should have some sway if he or she has tenure and any integrity

Good luck