skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No. You discuss it with your manager, and you do it at the appropriate time.

Sure, if you're not sure if it's the right thing to do, talk to your manager or TL. A good engineering manager can help.
If your manager "would never allow" it, they're not a good manager. Even for jobs much more menial than engineering, a good manager recognizes that autonomy/trust are critical for satisfaction and growth.

If you're working someplace where you're "not allowed" to make the changes you "wish you could," you're doing yourself a disservice. Find someplace where you're not only "allowed," but expected to have (or develop) the judgement required to make these decisions.

To be clear: "the business" expects (and in the medium/long term requires) engineers to make these decisions themselves. That is the job
> I've never seen a wrong Facebook fact-check;

Probably because fact checkers are able to make content become unshareable so you not seeing them is the point? But "fact checking" NGOs have a long history of embarrassingly stupid, biased and self-serving decisions.

To pick just one example, in 2020 an op-ed in the New York Post arguing that COVID might have come from the coronavirus research lab in Wuhan was banned from Facebook and Twitter because of being labelled by an anonymous fact checker. Who was this fact checker? Turns out one of them was Danielle E. Anderson, an assistant professor at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, who had literally conducted experiments at the Wuhan lab and collaborated with its scientists.

You can't possibly get more biased than that, but because she was an academic the sort of people who chose the fact checkers assumed she would be automatically correct. And worse, that anyone who disagreed with her - even mildly - should therefore be banned from the internet.

That is the common pattern in every incident that make people mad at "fact checkers" and the reason they have no credibility is that these events happen all the time, are always in favour of left wing beliefs, and they never attempt to learn from these events strongly implying they're deliberate. Indeed the assumption that government funded people are always correct is basically hard-wired into the fact checker ecosystem. They don't attempt to actually work out what's true themselves, so they can't be fixed.

This is the kind of thing that Zuck is referring to when he says they're discredited. Wrong fact checks are commonplace, you just won't notice them if you rely on news feeds they control.
Believe it or not, $100 provides a wealth of journalism for the year, not just the single article!
Most of these wildfires are caused by humans. Not just because of climate change but because of people intentionally starting fires who want to watch the destruction unfold. There were fires near these exact areas where fires in homeless camps were found to be the cause. Not enough was done to enforce the law and stop street people from intentionally causing destruction and being pushing for it.
Nvidia Cosmos Paper [pdf]
Forgiveness didn't involve the punishment of painful childbirth, apparently.
Not so sure about those examples and pairing with the idea of quick and dirty work.
My guess is that those integration points are intended to be used by University owned and operated services. Having a service that the University doesn't control wanting to do this would be difficult to get approval. Student data is highly protected (legally), so access to it through another application (where the operators could see other students' data) is problematic.
I think you're thinking of this case [1] from Missouri where a reporter notified the state that teacher SSNs were exposed, and the Governor went ballistic. Luckily, it seems like the local law enforcement set the record straight.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-crime-educati...
Nobody wants to live here, but Ohio is pretty safe. There are tornadoes but they're very localized and not common. Really not much else to worry about, aside from being in Ohio of course.
Missouri Governor was the one going after them for viewing the source of a public webpage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805
There are strict privacy laws (e.g. FERPA) which university administrators are terrified of violating and getting sued over.

Meanwhile, most university "enterprise" software is a festering pile of shit.

I'm very surprised by the extortion attempt, but sadly a massive overreaction doesn't much surprise me.
That is hilariously naive.

Particularly in the age of AI, professors might have to go back to the practice of oral exams to have people demonstrate their understanding of an issue. The problem for universities is that means you have to have a lower student:teacher ratio.
I Spent 5 Years Studying Burnout: Here's 10 Questions You Should Ask Yourself
All of the ads mentioned in this article have been removed, though?
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Teespring
Presumably that property is worth more in the first place. Damage by value is a poor metric to use here. Aside from that is there any indication that the fires occur because people "build where they shouldn't have?" Or is it just the case that more "value" is destroyed when a fire eventually reaches them?
It's also a good "first pass dentist" but I wouldn't use it for anything critical.
Your spiel here is much better than the website you've linked.

What you've linked sounds like you're selling a glorified shipping label printer.

I'm curious how this differs from standard TA/TMS systems that have been around for decades. I work in the space and there are plenty of TA/TMS systems that print shipping labels and fulfil orders, that update stock levels and send out tracking emails + SMS messages, integrate with carriers for shipment updates, that integrate with Shopify, eBay, Etsy, big commerce, etc.

They didn't need AI to do any of that. What's the advantage you're finding?

Here's an example that seems to operate in Australia:

https://www.shipstation.com/
This is a fundamental problem of technology, not just software, not just games games. Too many products unnecessarily tether you back to the manufacturer through an online account. When I buy something, hardware or software, I shouldn't have to check in with the developer forever, just to use it.
> trusting that killed immunocompromised grandma too.

This is the sort of stuff that I was referring to above. It sounds shocking and plausible, but at the end of the day, if you flatly ask someone "would you like a 10% chance to die from covid (being a grandma), or would you like (some lower %) chance to die to prevent it", then why not try?
> People only engage with a behaviour if they believe there will be a reward

This explains why I don't use social media. I see no reward in it.
A good pair of binoculars will be sufficient. You didn't need a ton of light gathering capability for casual planet viewing like this.

Telescopes are a bit of a rabbit hole. Many cheap mass market telescopes are also known as hobby killers. A 6" dobsonian (reflector) is a good starting point for deep space objects like nebulae and star clusters. For planetary viewing Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes are great.

However, learning to use a telescope requires time and patience. Taking it to the field for an event like this for the first time may be frustrating as you will be spending most of the time figuring out how to collimate and align it.

I certainly don't mean to discourage you from getting one though.

A good pair of binoculars is much easier to use. They require no collimation out of the box and show an upright image that makes it much easier to navigate the sky, at the cost of reduced magnification and light gathering capability. You will be surprised how many celestial objects even 10x magnification reveals that are invisible to the naked eye.

Happy planet gazing!
VC folks who live in the region could chip-in and support their state.
I imagine it's more than just the deer who are affected by 100dB sound pollution and "confused" is probably quite an understatement.
> Such abuse includes, but is not limited to, buying or selling one’s seat in a class, holding seats for another student, or otherwise registering for a section that one has no intention of taking."

This bit is important.

At a glance, stubhub/ticketmaster/etc are pretty benign services that fulfil a pretty natural need for event tickets, but we've all seen the damage they can cause. There's a very real risk that OP's service could become a ticketmaster for UW classes, with all the perverse incentives that entails. Their reaction was probably excessive, but, from this perspective, understandable.
> we still don’t know how to or can’t politically manage wildfires well.

Fire is oxygen plus fuel. We entirely know how to manage it.
Exactly. There's only so much they can do. They couldn't fly aircraft. Spread to a huge area rapidly, the area isn't even that easy to get in/out of on a good day. Add in another couple fires that also rapidly spread and it really doesn't matter how much money they had, you can't just bring on firefighters that fast.

I'm glad to see all the aircraft are working the fires and hopefully they'll make some good progress before night.
Let me guess, Ubisoft ?
i think it's fair to say that gpt is indebted to stackoverflow
Does your university have a student's union? I'm not sure if this is common in the US. But in the UK they're usually incredibly effective at sorting out this kind of issue.
> They have a lot of time on their hands because there are so, so many people in administration.

Not so polite take: most of them could be replaced by a 20 line shell script.
Does anyone know if Zoo/KittyCad uses the similar principles under the hood?

https://zoo.dev/geometry-engine
The teams I worked with in the past (even a Bay Area startup) never felt like a A-team. Over the last few years, I've developed a preference for Indie work and loving it.
Slave labor (which is permitted under the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime) undercuts the wages that you would pay in the market hurting both the prisoners (as they aren't paid appropriately or given appropriate medical care for injuries, etc) and the would-be non-prison firefighters.

Worse, you generally can't be a firefighter once you get out of prison as they don't hire ex-convicts. Consequently you're not even learning a useful job skill. Note that this hard-ban was relaxed in California specifically in 2020 under AB2147 (allowing prisoners who participated in firefighting programs to apply to have their records expunged in certain cases) -- but applies elsewhere in the US.
There won’t be massive ai layoffs. Companies will just stop hiring
A bit of a tangent, but I've been shopping around for the best code based CAD software. I gave cad query a shot and had a few issues. Any recommendations? My use case is 3D printing.
i don't know if being that pessimistic is warranted i'd need adam to comment
OK, it is a fair that a "classic 'web site'" is a 1-person wiki is this.

But, I must set the record straight that I am a Gen Y citing a Gen X for coming up with the idea. No Gen Zs were involved :).
If you're wearing "wet ice", convective heat loss from air is preferable to conductive heat loss from water.

Water on skin is a really, really good mechanism for heat transfer (both ways)--hence why we sweat in the heat.
End-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer VPN tunnels for hackers
You mean educated, grounded in facts, inclusive to more groups than white male incels?
If those people were unhappy in their previous product engineering roles wouldn't they have left he company?
We do. And we have setbacks you must maintain and keep brush cleared. But there's still only so much you can do.
No more useless than blind blanket assumptions, which was the point.

> Yes, lead exposure would have likely had similar detrimental effects on human cognition and IQ 2000 years ago as it does today. ...these effects would have been the same in the past...

I challenge you to consider that details matter, and one of those details is that the recent past through today has seen significantly more exposure to airborne lead than existed 2,000 years ago.
Buying more firefighting equipment is like building a dam higher and higher every year as the reservoir fills up, instead of letting it drain out gradually. The natural cycle in California is for there to be periodic fires, but due to the policy of suppression, they haven't happened for 70 years or more, so now when they do, they are these massive infernos.

Better and better fire suppression tech over the years that enables a quicker response, like aircraft, satellite monitoring, remote video cameras, etc, has just served to make the problem worse in the long run.
That's especially interesting since Joi Ito is often credited with introducing the scene to Japan, and prior to that he was very involved in the US scene in Chicago. I wonder if he brought the terminology over too!
If you want to make music, making music is simplest thing that might work.

If instead you actually like the idea of making music more than making music, you will probably do something else in line with what you like to do.

Good luck.
Great question, lets take a look at the 2024-2025 budget sheet for LA City:

https://cao.lacity.gov/budget/summary/2024-25%20Budget%20Sum...

(This PDF is great, props to whoever made it for making it so easy and accessible for normal people to read.)

If you look at the pie chart on Page 11, you will see that by far the largest slice of the pie is the police budget. It's 45% of LA County's entire budget, totalling almost $2 billion. The LAPD's budget for one fiscal year is larger than most country's GDPs, yet crime is still rampant in Los Angeles. So that's the first place I would start. You could probably find $23 million sitting between the couch cushions at LAPD's headquarters.
Nyquist is super ancient.

The links don't even work anymore on CMU.

Common Music might still work but I can't imagine bothering with Nyquist.
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/

There is just not much reason to not use SuperCollider or Csound instead of these though.

Edit: I did just find Nyquist has been rolled into Audacity scripting that sounds pretty cool https://audionyq.com/
I frequently go past TigerText. I assumed they were related to TigerDirect!
Agreed. Highly portable passkeys get you 90% of the way to where we want to be. I'm looking at implementing passkey support for my authentication library and considering only supporting major password managers because they have solid interaperability between ecosystems.
> “Filters are delays” doesn’t imply “delays are filters”.

Purely logically, no, but that's not really the practical sense we're talking about. And by introducing a digital delay, you do induce a filter on the sound. So if you have a delay, then you have a filter.

> In particular, the type of effect known as a delay (e.g. a delay guitar pedal) isn’t a filter, certainly not in the musical sense, which is the relevant sense here.

I think it's best to reconsider my original comment. I was arguing that it isn't useful to suddenly rename subtractive synthesis as a "transformation", because you could just rename all of synthesis "filtering". But that's not useful, and synthesis just means building up sound from parts. I.e., it's best to work at a given level of the parts and think about things like waveforms, envelopes, LFOs, pulses, triggers, delays, reverbs, etc., most of the time.
It's a tradeoff. You can have excluded middle in your logic or infinitestimals in your extended reals. For mathematicians dealing with all the wild stuff coming out of studying infinities in the calculus, getting rid of excluded middle was a non-starter, so the system based on limits was created. If non-constructible proofs via contradiction aren't useful to you, as in physics, then you can certainly use infinitesimals.
It's not a binary choice between expanding aircraft and doing nothing. I have seen some convincing arguments that firefighting aircraft are mostly for show against large fires. Essentially the amount of water/chemicals they can move is trivial compared to land approaches, and the cost is significant. That doesn't mean that nothing should be done, just that the money should be spent on more effective measures.

Lord knows I'm not going to defend the competence of the CA state govt and I'm sure they could be protecting against wildfires better, but I don't know that railing about the number of aircraft involved will help anything.
Have you come across Stuart Semple/ Culture Hustle?

He makes a lot of interesting paints and pigments, and is UK based.

https://culturehustle.com/collections/powder

I've bought a couple of versions of his blackest black paint, and one of his whitest white, and they've all be extraordinarily good.

I have some of his "LIT - THE WORLD'S GLOWIEST GLOW PIGMENT", but I haven't used it yet. I have no doubt it'll be great as well.

(I have a vague plan to paint a motorcycle in Black4.0 to see if it's unreflective enough to evade the IR laser speed detectors cops use here...)
There's nothing new in the HN community functioning this way. In fact, it's because the HN community functions this way that the site exists at all; otherwise it would have long ago turned into just another current affairs or celebrity gossip page.
something is missing from this story. it doesn’t make sense they jumped right to blocking your account because you requested to integrate. You sort of skipped over the part where you got hold of the Swagger files. would you care to elaborate on how exactly you found those files and if this might have been the reason for the heavy handed response? usually swagger files would be locked down on the backend .
《 And then, we will have less support engineers next year because we have an agentic layer. We will have more salespeople next year because we really need to explain to people exactly the value that we can achieve with AI. So, we will probably add another 1,000 to 2,000 salespeople in the short term.” 》

I guess they are building a saleforce at the expense of everything else !
Independent self-starter types that respond creatively to strict rules don't like schooling. They often don't bother to start university so never drop out.

A few of the smartest people I personally know left school at 15 - they reacted badly to school restrictions and just wanted to just do something (not study) and often left home early too.
Google, Oracle, many many others.

I live in the area and have never seen a fire move this rapidly. The high winds were a major culprit.
I really hope someone here makes it their goal to get hired by Salesforce in 2025
Usual technofeudalist "free speech", nothing to see here.
NASA's FIRMS site shows the scale of both fires. They are huge given their proximity to the city.

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@-118.57,3...
It's already happened to a degree. People used to need to birth their own personal/family workforce (to work their land, for example). That was the main purpose of children. The idea that children are for some kind of top-of-the-pyramid self-actualization experience is really, really recent.
If you look at the GitHub commit history, the repo was created before the blog post from UW, and also never contained actual courses.

This is important, because it's the only explicit reference to "trading open spots" they've made.

The Registration Abuse policy covers access to the registration system for:

* buying or selling one’s seat in a class,

* holding seats for another student,

* or otherwise registering for a section that one has no intention of taking.

It's unclear if HuskySwap actually violated this policy, given that it never actually accessed the registration system and no students used it in conjunction with the registration system of the school.
> a corporation bending the knee to an incoming administration

Funny how you aren’t critical of when Meta bent their knee to the existing administration by participating in the censorship requests. I guess that was ok…because you supported that action?
There's no comparison at all there to the laptop. The scandal about the Hunter Laptop was the fact that every MSM network plus the FBI, CIA, and deep state, and all Democrat bureaucrats all colluded to hide the truth, about it, even called for censorship of Americans over it, cancelling even high profile people by the thousands, and ended up swinging an election. There were even democrat politicians who urged not just social media, but phone companies to stop people from even texting at all about the Hunter laptop.
We've had two large tribes come to use from SalesForce and tell us all the issues they've had from no support to poor sales relations. My interactions with the support was just downright saddening. I cannot imagine having to do anything AI related with them. Also, most companies now can just build their own CMS with ease, SalesForce is not going to be around for long.
> not quite pre-COVID levels at a number of places, but some are busier than ever.

The real estate bubble, if we are to call it that, goes back to the early 2000s at least. Pre-COVID, implying somewhere around 2019, isn't telling. For what it is worth, the housing price data I have in front of me shows that prices have come back down to nearly pre-COVID levels as well, so that more or less tracks anyway.

How does it compare to the 1990s? The landscape has definitely changed here. A couple of decades ago there were three busy bars mere steps from my place. Now, there isn't a single bar in town. Those closures brought consolidation to bars found in the next town over, which saw them thrive there, but now the decline is staring to become visible there too. The next, next town over is probably busier than ever as a result with even more consolidation slowly starting to take place, I can believe you there, but that doesn't imply general strength of the industry.

The media regularly reports on the dying death of the third place. Your local experience may not be providing an accurate picture.
Have Meta or Zuckerberg waived that flag recently?
Latin has been extended with new concepts before, e.g. Newton didn't write classical latin like Cicero, but a post-renaissance latin with extended vocabulary. Koine greek would be another option, being another dead language, but Latin has the benefit of already having a large heritage of scientific writing.

Carefully extending a dead language does have the strong benefit that you can keep it understandible across time. Even mid 19th century English is noticeably more difficult to read, and that's saying nothing about the 16th century English of Shakespeare.

Here's a microcosm of what a waste this is: Benjamin Jowett has translated the complete works of Plato to English, and they're public domain! Great! Free Plato for everyone! ... except this was written in the 19th century, and they're written in an archaic prose that contemporary readers struggle to read, so everyone who wants to read Plato still has to get a modern translation. We're still translating texts that have been readily accessible for half a milennium. Sure there may have been a new insight or a better phrasing here and there, but primarily it's to get it into a language that is accessible to the contemporary reader.

Sticking with English we're losing access to generational talents of the past because we can no longer understand what they're saying.
Hmmm

Raves died in the 90s for a few reasons.

1. They made dancing illegal (look it up before rage comments).

2. Corporate sponsors moved in.

3. Glow sticks / candy ravers

4. Drugs

5. Police tactics and not being able to be paid off by promoters.

6. The internet (remember map points and info lines?)

7. Models, actresses, famous types going and demanding special service / VIP.

8. DJ as GOD sick gross

9. OG promoters cashing out and not caring. Think Drop Bass and Daft Punk (google it).

10. Techno mainstream / a la hip hop. (DRUGS/S&M)
Isn't this just cover for cost cutting draw attention away from potentially bad earnings?