skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think OP is saying that it's more of an insurance policy than something to make you happy. If you asked any software dev 5 years ago what their career security looked like, I'm sure most would tell you that they feel extremely confident. A lot has changed in 5 years. Being good at one thing and expecting that to support you for the rest of your life is a risky strategy in the fast-changing world we live in. Tech people felt immune from that, but the facade is starting to crack.
Any company can achieve this productivity gain simply by building only simple ~useless PoCs and stop building complex products.
Once lawyers are involved, they are always going to be the only winners.
I quit search engines for three months
That hasn’t been true for quite a while. No need to upload code to build or submit, though it certainly makes it easier.
The one problem though that destroys all of this is that there is no curvature on earth:
https://youtu.be/VLGBW6ouvl8?si=VLd5z2axJEyjkovH
I'll confess to taking it personally; apparently I still need to work on that!

Don't know if you saw my other post about this, but the flagging behavior looked normal to me. I didn't see any patterns in the flagging history of those users, such as flagging posts about FB or some political position.
How is a ratchet effect hysteresis?
Side comment: anyone interested in calculus via infinitesimals may also be interested in taking a look at Radically Elementary Probability Theory by Ed Nelson: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books/rept.pdf
Consistency. Small discrepancies between environments.

Abstraction. Not assuming too much that you code yourself in a corner, but also not abstracting away so much that the code is difficult to work with.

Industry standard tools that have strongly opinionated built in paradigms (I would include terraform, ansible, etc.). I feel like the tools of future ought to be general purpose programming language frameworks just to avoid this, too many times I either can’t do something, or have to hack together something utterly convoluted, that could have easily been done if the tool was a framework and I could have just thrown in some Go or Python.
I guess they didn’t “predict” it.
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer
I've only been involved with such Salesforce integrations at one company, but based on that, I can give you my take. I'd be interested to hear others'.

One, the salesforce data changes all occur through APIs (ok) which various enterprise integration tools (Informatica, Mulesoft, etc) support (ok), but those tools typically dont support easy options for retrying a change to a specific row that causes an error. If you are updating 100 Accounts in a single Salesforce Bulk API call and "5" are busy/locked, you have to build a lot of custom error handling to notice and retry just those 5 rows. Its not part of most connectors or python libraries I've seen. Also, 3 of those errors might be fatal and 2 might be retriable but you have to learn which are which or blindly retry them all. In database terms, their API transactional semantics are not statement by statement ACID but row by row within an API request.

Second, no API or SOQL operations can pull back or process or update more than 50,000 rows.

Given those two things, unless the integration person is skilled about both error handling and testing, some of the object busy/contention failures only show up in production traffic with many jobs going on so a generic integration specialist doesn't know about these Salesforce-specific pitfalls and they are discovered after the integration goes live under strange production access patterns.

EDIT: a third issue is that most Salesforce developers are UI-centric in their thinking and training and don't have database or data modeling or data integration experience to draw on so the troubleshooting for data issues on their end tends to suffer.
Tigertext (now -Connect) is a healthcare provider-side messaging company. they started out as ephemeral messaging and pivoted to healthcare.
so restricted speech then? who is deciding what is “obscene”? we form a committee and then vote on this? we elect people in government to make this determination? … we either have free speech or we don’t - everything else is anything but free…
The quality of university education varies greatly internationally as well as within the larger countries. Funding and the ability to attract top educators varies greatly.

It should be noted that Arduinos came about to greatly lower the cost of teaching embedded systems engineering. It really took off from there.
Works on my machine...
they're down in Playa vista though right?
https://archive.is/8qR7w
Is it that bad because it is a smaller model compared to the sota?
Vacancy is hard to prove and typically proxies like water usage or having lights on are used, but they're inaccurate.
Something I have noticed about higher education admins is that they hire consultants to do every project

I came to understand that this is because the career positions have such great benefits, often the last bastion of pensions, that these people literally go there to die.

So they take no risks and don’t try anything. They hire a consultant and if it doesn’t work out the blame lies there.

They also get big budgets to implement the consultant solution, which is bloated and terrible, so the department head gets more money every year to support it
I'd never considered that a sports program could be revenue producing. That's quite interesting. Although it seems weird that higher education and (almost-professional) sports are so tightly coupled.
I don't know but In Portland there's a ton of them, the venues are great, and in the summer we go do it in the forest. And now that the RA app has it's shit together, I no longer have to get on Instagram to find out about stuff.
We can test and change them independently, some features just require changing just one repo but most features affect multiple repos. But yes, essentially, it's a ball of mud in our case anyway because the separation between the two most important microservices is unclear (cannot be explained simply, there is no clear logic/responsibility separation besides the fact that one is an older codebase and the other is newer).

I've worked on a lot of projects in my career and this one has one of the most complex/chaotic architectures I've seen yet. Surprisingly, it recovers from service downtimes and reboots pretty well. The main issues are maintainability, deployment and configuration. It's often the case that local env does not match staging when building features.
There's also the inertia problem where it's harder to accelerate mass that's further away from you. The classic spinning ice skater demo. This feels physically disadvantageous. Hopefully I'm wrong though, the more competition in spaces the better.
I wanted to chime in with some advice that also can help in any situation involving long administrative processes. I'm sorry you're going through this and I really hope some of this can be helpful.

- Write stuff down! A paper trail is helpful both to prevent hearsay and keep your own timeline of events in check. Recency bias and the like are too common in stressful situations.

- Remember that you are one (1) human who needs food, sleep, and water.

- Reach out to the Ombud (at the HUB), professors, and other administrators you may know. Even within one department there can be mixups -- nevermind when university-wide policies (such as registration) come into play. Having someone who can help point you in the right direction will be invaluable.

- On that note, the HUB has free legal services; for better or worse, you aren't the first student to be in this position.

- I understand in another comment you said you're confident in UW Leadership's ability, but crucially, there is no such thing as a singular leadership. At a university that large, *even when everyone is working to help*, things can turn out bad. (It's like how a CEO can get fired and nothing changes at a company; the system has its own momentum.) It's hard to say what level of intervention needs to happen to resolve this -- School of CSE? Undergrad CS department? Registrar? UW President's Office? -- and each level will likely not know what the level above/around them can do.

- (And if you do need to escalate, it might be worth reaching out to the Registrar's office directly, over email. I say this because they work at a university-wide level, separate from any school or department, and may have a more-final say on what any individual branch can do/not do w.r.t. your enrollment.)

- Hanlon's razor, or more optimistically, "assume good intention". Always. Even when someone has stated not-good intention. This will help in a few ways: keeping your tone cordial, clearing up miscommunication. Maybe someone genuinely misunderstands what you built, or has pressure on their end to uphold some policy, however arcane. But most importantly, this will give yourself a way to not feel cornered, and distance your day-to-day/identity/etc. from this situation.

- Remember that you are (likely still) one (1) human who needs food, sleep, and water. Those damn robots won't take over yet.

- Be careful what you post publicly! There is a reason the best PR teams stay silent. Less is more. Form a close group of people you trust to share information freely, and be very clear (to yourself) what your intention is with every public post. Is it to get validation/advice? Is it to put pressure on the university? The court of public opinion is a double edged sword! Not every interpretation needs to or will be true. (And employers, like the public, might interpret this situation positively or negatively. It's hard to say which way it will go!)
Pretty sure the search cost of GNFS is (bits)^2, the search cost of brute force is 2^(bits), if it was 2^(bits) GNFS would be no better than brute force.

->but only on the order of e^(cbrt(512 * 64/9))

e^(log(n)) = n
... I remember meeting Rich Hickey at conference when he'd seen a tweet where I'd favorably compared Clojure to Scala. I had a hard time explaining to him, however, how a professor who wrote FORTRAN programs to simulate the behavior of materials (other academics would be quite shocked when he'd explain that we actually could figure out that iron is magnetic from first principles... I regret missing out on his class on density functional theory as much as I regret not taking a compilers class) told me that a 2x difference in performance mattered so much when you were running big jobs in computers. Thus you weren't going to get everybody impressed with the power of immutability. I am writing a chess engine in Java right now and completely in tune with, in the long term, not making any objects at all in the inner loop or the next loop out.

But yeah, CL was one of the first languages specified by adults and set the standard for other specs like Java that read cleanly and don't have the strange circularity that you notice in K&R. So many people have this abstract view that a specification should be written without implementation in mind, but really the people behind CL weren't going to be implementable and clearly they'd given up on the "Lisp machine" idea and made something that the mainstream 32 bit machine could handle efficiently. It's quite beautiful and had a larger impact on the industry than most people admit.

(I think how C is transitional between failures like PL/I and modern languages like CL and Java that can be specced out in a way that works consistently)
I am somewhat surprised issues of scripting and trading even exist in the registration system. Staggering enrollment times over a few days, with new waves every 20 minutes or so, mostly solves scripting issues since you are only competing with a fraction of the student body now. Giving courses waitlists once they are full, instead of allowing people to just directly register once a spot frees up, makes trading impossible since if you could trade you could have just registered for the course anyways.

I understand that the registration system is probably old and tied up in tons of just as old management software, but if the university really cared the solutions should be there.
Ah, the toxic env, I'm too familiar with it. Quarterly layoffs, perks gone, more RTO, but execs can still travel around lavishly.
Seems like the most productive option.
Given all of the very public stories about university administrations and how they like to skirt the law/court system with their own tribunals and procedures and/or blackmail their own students to stay quiet why would you ever have a reason to have faith in them?

It's clear the ones running things do not care about their students. They care only about their bottom line and appearances. Don't let one or two nice administrators fool you. Get a lawyer.
And 80% of its value. Musk bought it at $44B. Fidelity recently used an internal valuation of $9.4B for their own shares in the company.
TOSLINK is completely successful, but ethernet over fiber is a datacenter thing, not a home or office thing.
No, it renders native views.
Interesting piece of history. The actual exploit techniques have a real flavour of SQL injection about them.
There's nothing. I don't get the massive united states pay, but I do well. I just can't be bothered to love it anymore. It's a job.
It's not related to the size of the model.

It's more of a prompting/design issue. The LLM has been told to summarize the message, not to identify it as a scam or not.
> However, in practice variable-fixing can and often does give an _expected time_ speed-up

Proof? Because as far as I know literally none of RP, BPP, ZPP relationships to NP are known.
The only guidance I’ve heard so far is that the shelters are in need of bedding. Neither of the press briefings today offered more opportunities for support.
The h1: Plug & Play Calendar database to boost your application development might be better as the title?
This year's marketing trend: crafting copy in a way that it is prioritized by Apple Intelligence.
Great resource, thanks for sharing.

I thought the written text was very high quality and didn't show many of the usual tells of a non-native writer. Could you share some details of how you used AI tools to help write it?
"There's only so much you can do" doesn't mean "we have done what we can" or even "we have done enough".
I wish they'd used hours after waking/before sleeping vs simply defining morning as between 4am and 12:00pm or evening as being between 5pm and 4:am

People who wake and work later would normally drink coffee more often at later hours and there's already a bunch a research showing 2nd/3rd shifts can cause health issues which wouldn't show up in the people who get up at 5am and have a cup or two in the next few hours.
Advancing space medicine: a global perspective on in-orbit future directions
Does "know" mean I need to meet the guy in person or is OK to just know him from somewhere?
Well to the extent that this happens (I agree it probably has this effect) that would benefit them anyway and I suspect they know about it.
Having worked in university administration before I would say that anyone who lasts as a manager is a professional politician, so expect them to have engineered a very good reason and possibly have allied with another department.

As manager pay is usually based on headcount instead of being aligned with good outcomes, they might just have threatened someone's mortgage payments. So, that manager might be willing to call in every favor and fight with everything they have got.

But yeah of course it's possible that they got into more trouble than they can handle.
Be extremely careful about what you say online or to friends from now on. They may use anything against you.

Do not give any extra details about the project, do not comment on how it was made and what it used etc.
$4,799 for an M2 Ultra with 128GB of RAM, so not quite twice as much. I'm not sure what the benchmark comparison would be. $5,799 if you want an extra 16 GPU cores (60 vs 76).
You can't "send them back home."
They'll just find another employer.
They aren't the "indentured servants" y'all are trying to paint them to be.
> 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.

WTF!

That can’t be legal
I live in France and I saw many night clubs close for reasons I think are unrelated to security. I remembrer an entire street with nothing but night clubs, some of them quite famous, they closed down one after the other, the last one was in 2017 I think.
I lived next to the beach for most of my teens, we had two night clubs, none of them remain, the next town has one that still remains but another one that closed in the early 2000s not to open again, a major electronic music came in its place, incidentally cancelled last year for financial fraud raisons.
Where I live today, I saw one night club close, I think in 2019 (before covid) but I didn't see one open. In fact, I don't remember seeing a night club open since the early 2000s. Plenty of bars, but not night clubs.

These are anecdotal evidence, but that's a lot of anecdotes.

In none of these case I saw a particular event motivating this, I guess it was just not profitable. Also worth noting that most night clubs that are still open tend to get terrible reviews on Google (less than 3/5 on average). It is kind of a meme to complain about nightclubs you go to, especially if you get denied entry, but still, not very encouraging.
Often times your new ideas aren’t new after all. Been there done that, only realized my stupidity as I grew more experienced.
LADR is the SICP of linear algebra.

If you can handle it, fabulous.
If not, you're really in deep doo-doo.
There did not seem to be a half-way to me.
Astounding exercises, and also some are astoundingly hard.
It was a failure at acquiring young users.
It's harsh, but that's not what defamation means at all.
Nonviolent prisoners who have served as firefighters during their incarceration can have their records expunged since a 2021 law (and it’s retroactive): https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/...

This was a big deal after the Camp and Complex fires because of some viral articles that drew well justified outrage among Californians so they went a step above and just allowed them to expunge their records completely (so that they can get hired everywhere else too, they don’t have to become fire fighters).

There are some stipulations like the sentence they served must be at most 8 years, but they’re not all banned from continuing their work.
Laser Speckle Eye Test [video]
Nice. I was vibing to this poem you shared earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639593

(I'm not familiar with Carl Sandburg and appreciate the introduction.)
It’s a funny thought, but looks like a nonstarter:

> SLS cannot represent a student when the opposing party is another UW-Seattle, Tacoma, or Bothell student or UW entity.
are JD Kaim and Ed Kaim related?
My other suggestion, which isn't super popular in australia, is we should consider deforesting / reforesting eucalyptus trees. They are a lot of trouble.
The deal still has me scratching my head. They tossed out the brand name and logo. Elon already had the X name and domain. For much less than $44B I feel like you could clone Twitter and come up with a strategy to acquire users. Hell, for $1 billion you could probably pay a good number of influencers to move to your platform. $44 billion is an absolute fuckton of money to kill Twitter and move those people to your pet project.
This is really important, they can delete emails. And if they do, that's one more point for your case.
Sure, but it's either true or it's not. If they fall for the hype, the company will pay the price for it eventually.

(And it's not true - if you could "replace engineers with AI" we engineers would have already done it and be relaxing while AI does our work)
HN people have to be able to use the thingy, and signup forms don't count ("you have to have something more than a signup", per 'dang).
You've encountered a psychopath in the wild. "You did such a good job we want to show our appreciation by _stealing your work and threatening your future to do it while compensating you nothing_."

It's so egregious. If you do a gofundme for legal support where would you post it? So we can follow you there.
If you enable a feature that summarizes messages, then messages get summarized. Summarizing messages requires rewriting them. Where is the surprise here? Not only that, but the moment you click on the summary, you see the whole thing. Whether that's clicking the email summary to view the email, or clicking a summarized notification stack to expand it and see the notifications. The summary doesn't replace the message, it just lets you know whether it's something you want to click on.
From the source link it's hard to tell if these prisoners are even working voluntarily. Prisoners can be enslaved under the 13th amendment.
There is built-in support for some reshade functionality in SteamOS's gamescope. But by how adamant you are, I'm sure you already knew about it, and it's shortcomings.

https://github.com/safijari/Reshadeck

For others, the built in support is enough if you'd like to apply some retro shading "filters" to a game or two you play. I really enjoy this VHS effect for games like The Messenger and Slipstream https://github.com/safijari/Reshadeck/blob/main/defaults/sha...
Imagine a steadily bubbling surface of mixed quasi fluid materials, every thing moves, none the less a pattern of long term "stability" exists wherein various regions have behaviours fixed within local constraints.

California has "behaved" in some manner for twenty thousand years, as has the Pacific North West and the Great lake regions to the north east (in central north america).

Now that the sea+land surface layer has more energy thanks to increased insulation above various parts of the globe are bubbling along more than they have the past; wet forests that have never experienced fire are drying out in a manner previously rare and having fires not experienced in human history, drier areas with a fire cycle (California, Australia) are experiencing more intense and more frequent fire events.

> if we hypothetically cut all greenhouse gas production to zero ..

it will take a lag time for the human added insulation to disapear from the atmosphere, when a new stable equilibrium is reached the energy driving the additional bubbling seen so far to date will be gone and the former equilibrium (of dynamic stability) would resume .. for a few thousand years.
> Math 416 is a rigorous, abstract treatment of linear algebra. Topics to be covered include vector spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalizability, and inner product spaces. The course concludes with a brief introduction to the theory of canonical forms for matrices and linear transformations

Just be warned that this is literally the graduate level linear algebra course taken by mathematics majors. If you are looking for applications, this might not be it. On the other hand, if you are looking for a deep understanding of the fundamentals - I would say you found it.
They got a notice of "Registration Tampering Abuse Policy" for filling out a request form to request data that is available?

Is the request system just a honeypot?
he bought presidency with it so it is not that bad of an investment. it is short-sighted to look at “twitter” value since he bought it, one should look his net worth since he bought it. even if closes it down tomorrow it will be money well spent
Nor should it. Scam identification is a feature of junk mail filtering, not of summarization. Any scam that's being summarized is one that has already made it past junk filtering.
Salesforce is the Herbalife of software companies. Kudos to them for making great money, but their products all seem to be worse versions of their competitors, sold at a much higher price. It never adds up.