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Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:53PM (#49616026)
They want Buckmaster to dissociate with Alpöge in a follow-up rewrite of OpenAI's work. (They only publicly admit “Buckmaster as the lead author”, but judging from Buckmaster’s statement, it’s pretty clear that don’t want Alpöge at all.)

Just suggesting to a mathematician to dissociate with their collaborator for a follow-up work, because their collaborator “is inappropriate to author OpenAI’s work”, is completely against the norm of mathematical research. As charm137 puts it in a comment below:

> This is like a researcher from CMU saying to an NYU researcher that their collaborator, being from MIT, is a problem - this is as ridiculous as that!

Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:30PM (#49614613)
Both Sam Altman and Sebastien Bubeck admitted they only want Buckmaster to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof.

https://x.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140

https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310

A wake up call for using OpenAI models. If you discover something with their model and you work for a competitor, they “felt it would be inappropriate” for you “to author OpenAI’s work”.

Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:28PM (#49614592)
Both Sam Altman and Sebastien Bubeck admitted they only want Buckmaster to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof.

https://x.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140

https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310

A wake up call for using OpenAI models. If you discover something with their model and you work for a competitor, they “felt it would be inappropriate” for you “to author OpenAI’s work”.

Re:Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:04AM (#47612719)
How does a Jan/Feb holiday affect this year’s March number (that was reported in early April)?

I’m not talking about the Feb number that is reported in March.

Re:Wedeo – a Rust Rewrite of FFmpeg on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:27AM (#47602186)
Worth mentioning https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg, another rust rewrite of ffmpeg (apparently from scratch, not translated)
Re:YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:29PM (#47078805)
Some alternatives recently discussed:

NewPipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020218

PipePipe: https://pipepipe.dev/

As recommended by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020412

I haven’t used any of these alternatives myself.

Re:Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement on Saturday September 27, 2025 @05:35PM (#45399517)
I am also not a fan of automatic fraction.

BTW, I notice that both of your complaints will be addressed in the next version:

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/6672

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/6442 , see also https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/math-mode-problem/

Re:Vision Language Models Are Biased on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:37AM (#44177276)
I think social biases (e.g. angry black women stereotype) in your paper is different from cognitive biases about facts (e.g. number of legs, whether lines are parallel) that OP is about.

Social biases are subjective. Facts are not.

Reminds me of Yasha Berchenko-Kogan’s excellent answer to the question “What do grad students in math do all day?”

https://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-do-grad-students-in-m...

> a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

> What can you say?

> "It is a tool that does suck up dust to make what you walk on in a home tidy."

Re:How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured on Friday April 11, 2025 @06:52AM (#43652473)
Your question prompted me to look up “cost of goods sold”.

From https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cogs.asp

> Cost of goods sold (COGS) refers to the direct costs of producing the goods sold by a company. This amount includes the cost of the materials and labor directly used to create the good. It excludes indirect expenses, such as distribution costs and sales force costs.

So the $550 or $650 COGS includes the cost of labor for manufacturing, but excludes (say) marketing and auditing costs.

Re:What is up with car door handles these days? on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:37PM (#43598515)
Just these past few days, a fatal accident in China killed three college students in a car fire and the victims could not unlock the car door.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xiaomi-says-activ...

> Chinese newspaper Economic Observer earlier reported that local traffic police had told the father of one of the victims that the car had caught fire after hitting the cement pole, and the car key had not unlocked the door.

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