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by aiauthoritydev | 2025-08-13 20:45:31+00:00
The law itself is pretty idiotic. Why would an employer give up a well accustomed well proven candidate for the sake of some random guy, waste money to recruitment and cross fingers that the employee would actually join and perform ?

It is like giving up a lottery ticket you have won for another lottery ticket.

Also, the law mandates certain compliance steps which the employers do. There is no expectation that they should actually hire someone else unless the compliance steps are violated. So everything is working exactly as intended.

This PERM process and law has harmed countless american citizens and employers both. Citizens end up applying for jobs they are not going to get and HR wastes time on resources over candidates they are not going to hire.

A better solution would be to hand a greencard to any immigrant who has worked for 5 years and has earned a certain high salary as proven by the W2.

This whole circus can be gotten rid off if you ask me.
by anotherhue | 2025-08-13 20:45:33+00:00
Couldn't agree more. The tech boom made a lot of people rich, you might call that egalitarian, and believe that you too could share in the wealth.

The financial class call that uncaptured value, and they have since altered the terms to prevent that. Naturally the company still wants to pretend otherwise so when you hear the TC you add USD to timebomb banana bucks and come out with a USD total.

If you want equity start your own business. You are not in a position to get any of theirs.

Edit: if you get RSUs and you can liquidate without lockup then that's much better. But still worse than cash.
by drweevil | 2025-08-13 20:46:03+00:00
Conservatives: "Build all the data centers you want! The rate payers will he happy to pick up the cost. What's that, water? You should have thought of that before you became the unwashed masses!"

Liberals: "The capitalists are going to build data centers. It's inevitable. Progress and all that. It's up to us to mitigate the drought by showering less and deleting the emails!"

I was going to include the far-left position, but hey, they don't have a chance in hell of breaking through the capitalist two-party system. The prognosis is not good.
by foobarian | 2025-08-13 20:46:18+00:00
There is a huge element of hubris at play. Founders are highly competitive and high achieving people, who imagine their teams to be like leading NFL football teams where there is no room for members who are not absolutely dedicated. Working a 40-hour work week is not compatible with that. As a result perhaps these kind of companies are self selecting, and it's rare to find a leader who is willing to say the equivalent of, "hey, you know, it's OK to be a loser team and not work 100 hour weeks"
by JackYoustra | 2025-08-13 20:46:45+00:00
The real thing that I hope someone is able to solve is downloading such huge amounts of unnecessary code. As I understand, the bulk of the torch binary is just a huge nvfatbin compiled for every SM under the sun when you usually just want it to run on whatever accelerators you have on hand. Even just making narrow builds of like `pytorch-sm120a` (with stuff like cuBLAS thin binaries paired with it too) as part of a handy uv extra or something like that would make it much quicker and easier.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-13 20:46:56+00:00
Your paragraph 3 is the basic theory around medical gatekeeping: in many societies, children just plain aren't powerful enough to be in a position to give informed consent, unless special measures are taken to rule out undue influence. (In this case, that'd be: a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which involves a psychologist asking you awkward questions for a few hours; and then ensuring all subsequent consent is informed, and in accordance with the psychologist's findings.) That's also why we have the "compromise" of puberty blockers (safe, reversible), but not any permanent treatment until the child reaches Gillick competence (in Norway, age 16).

The trouble I have with this reasoning, though, is it's asymmetrical. We don't allow trans kids access to exogenous sex hormones because cis kids might hypothetically be being influenced by their parents / other authority figures to make a bad decision (e.g. Munchausen syndrome by proxy), but we know there's pressure on trans kids to repress and pretend to be cis (we have statistics about it), so why do we let any children go through puberty? How can we trust them with that? (Yes, this thought experiment is somewhat ludicrous, but why is it ludicrous?)

For most people who experience it, gender dysphoria is distressing and hard to ignore. Most cis people can be put in situations where they experience it, and they report the same intense feelings of distress. I doubt you could easily influence many 12-year-olds to push through those feelings – though I'm not sure how one might test this ethically, so I'm not sure what studies to look for. Norway's current approach seems suitably-conservative to me. (And I don't see any advantage, even hypothetically, to forcing trans people into binary classifications: that seems like the "rigid gender roles" problem rearing its head again.)

P.S.: You're considerably more reasonable about this than I initially thought: thinking about the right things, for the right reasons, such that with complete information I'd expect you to come to the right decisions. I long to have people like that for political opponents.
by nemomarx | 2025-08-13 20:48:16+00:00
everyone wants access to the largest labour pool possible, to make hiring somewhat cheaper and faster. This means centralization at least among a sector (finance on the East Coast, tech on the West, etc).

if you move out to Illinois and other companies move to Kansas or Montana, how will you poach their workers? how will you fire and replace people easily? better to be concentrated for that.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-13 20:48:25+00:00
Well you can use an admin box and a script to request like 1000 different certs of different names through DNS-01. Copy the certs to the devices that need them. The big problem now is, you have ~5 days to constantly re-copy new certs and reboot the devices, thanks to LE's decision to be super annoying. If you want less annoying... pay for certs.

Installing custom CA certs isn't that hard once you figure out how to do it for each application. I had to write all the docs on this for the IT team, specific to each application, because they were too lazy to do it. Painful at first, but easy after. To avoid more pain later, make the certs expire in 2036, retire before then.
by neilknowsbest | 2025-08-13 20:48:27+00:00
To add a little more detail, ES is the e-mini S&P 500 futures contract traded on the CME. The way it works is that you put up some amount of money called the "margin", and you get to buy or sell a larger "notional" valued contract. The difference between the margin that you put up and the greater notional value is the implicit leverage that parent comment refers to.

You can find the contract specs on the CME's website here [0]. The implicit leverage is actually a bit greater than the parent comment says. The contract notional value is defined as $50 x Index Value, which is currently around 6500. So the contract represents close to $325,000 and the exchange's margin requirement is around $21,000. Interactive Brokers seems to require similar margin [1]. The margin requirement is around 6.5% of the notional value, i.e. 15x leverage. So a 6.5% decrease in the S&P 500 would wipe out the account.

Not sure why the parent comment is downvoted, I suppose it has a moralizing tone?

[0] - https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/equities/sp/e-mini-sandp500...

[1] - https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-futures...
by realityfactchex | 2025-08-13 20:48:28+00:00
Conspicuously absent from TFA is the #1 thing they could do, which would be to stop requiring vaccines for school or workplace.

Possibly, Silicon Valley (and the larger California) has had more exodus of (and lack of inbound) families for this reason than most others IMHO.

Obviously, there are other factors too, and this is highly controversial (not to mention counter to the politically-correct/institutionally-endorsed position).

But to not mention this issue seems to miss something major. Or do we not talk about that?
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 20:48:38+00:00
> Corporations can never be family friendly becasue it is antagonistic to profit and therefor in direct violation to shareholders rights.

This can be false (can, not is!). When good employees demand family live then the company that gives it to them can get those good employees. There are good employees who are willing to settle for less money if the company allows for a good family life and so the company makes more money. (hint you won't find many of them in the Bay area, but if you can expand your reach to other cities they are not uncommon)
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-13 20:49:07+00:00
Money spent on an employee to allow them to better raise a family is money not spent on a shareholder return that allows a retiree to swing on and off the course at a golf-centered retirement village in Florida.

Until you get a diversification in who holds most corporate shares (they're usually held by retirement and pension funds) you're going to see more of the same.
by pkdpic | 2025-08-13 20:50:06+00:00
Glad to see this pop-up. For whatever it's worth I was born in the Sunset (SF) and love the city in spite of all it's problems. My parents were forced out when I got a school on Treasure Island for my 1st grade lottery pick. Went back to SF for college, east coast for grad school where I met my wife from Milwaukee. We have a 5 year old now and I would love to move back to SF and raise my son there. But no matter how many different ways I try to analyze it I just can't come close to justifying the move as beneficial for him or for our marriage. I'd have to work a more intense job to make enough to afford even a quarter of the space we have now. And without knowing our lottery pick in advance I'd have to budget in private school for at least twice the price we're paying for our current STEM-focused private option.

I don't have any personal aversion to working more to pay for more expensive options but the tradeoff of time keeping my relationship with my kid and my marriage healthy is hard to ignore and seems like a really concrete deal-breaker.

We're at the edge of Land Park in Sacramento where my extended family is from. We thought it might be temporary before getting pulled back to the bay for work or schools maybe but the culture here has just been so positive and conducive to family. The public and private schools are excellent with dozens of options, everything is bikable and green, there are literally more museums and restaurants than we can keep up with and the parks / sports options for kids are amazing. And it's swarming with healthy young working / middle class families about half of which are bay area expats. The city obviously has some known issues but I'm continually grateful with the amount of new development going up in every direction and the overall feeling of being a culture / city that supports young cool people having families.

Anyway I'm just surprised and disappointed at how hard it is to justify moving to SF right now as a native who loves it there. Even as someone working in tech / AI with a strong desire to go back. If you have a family, it just seems impossible to make SF make sense right now. I could be missing something of course.

Curious what other SF or Sac tech parents have to say about all this. So much of this has had to be hypothetical on my end because I know so few parents with young kids in SF...
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-13 20:50:28+00:00
If it were highly effective, it already would have replaced importing the workers, since it's cheaper to hire them over there. But I've seen multiple companies go big on offshoring and then scrap it after a few years and hire domestic again because it went poorly. There may be a new surge of interest in it if importing people gets harder, but I don't suppose it will go much better than it did before.
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-13 20:50:30+00:00
Yeah, but hear me out: What is "US-centric" here?

Astronomy research?, Radio spectrum?, LOE?, Starlink operations?

All of this is global. In the end it'll be about geopolitics, although it should be a field that urgently requires global governance and consensus.

Next time it could be interference between Starlink vs. a Chinese for-profit. It would be good if there's a commonly agreed way of handling such matters in place...
by eldenring | 2025-08-13 20:50:37+00:00
Its interesting because the value is definitely there. Every single python developer you meet (many of who are highly paid) has a story about wasting a bunch of time on these things. The question is how much of this value can Astral capture.

I think based on the quality of their work, there's also an important component which is trust. I'd trust and pay for a product from them much more readily than an open source solution with flaky maintainers.
by awesome_dude | 2025-08-13 20:50:52+00:00
Lets be honest here - whilst some experiences are better/worse than others, there doesn't seem to be a dependency management system that isn't (at least half) broken.

I use Go a lot, the journey has been

- No dependency management

- Glide

- Depmod

- I forget the name of the precursor - I just remembered, VGo

- Modules

We still have proxying, vendoring, versioning problems

Python: VirtualEnv

Rust: Cargo

Java: Maven and Gradle

Ruby: Gems

Even OS dependency management is painful - yum, apt (which was a major positive when I switched to Debian based systems), pkg (BSD people), homebrew (semi-official?)

Dependency Management is the wild is a major headache, Go (I only mention because I am most familiar with) did away with some compilation dependency issues by shipping binaries with no dependencies (meaning that it didn't matter which version of linux you built your binary for, it will run on any of the same arch linux - none of that "wrong libc" 'fun'), but you still have issues with two different people building the same binary in need of extra dependency management (vendoring brings with it caching problems - is the version in the cache up to date, will updating one version of one dependency break everything - what fun)
by louthy | 2025-08-13 20:51:06+00:00
> Why would any company encourage that?

I used to tell my employees to go home / not work late, because working longer hours doesn’t produce more output. You may get an initial uptick in output, but then it falls away as people get burned out/sick of work. Long hours also equals higher turnover of staff, which is expensive in many ways.

There’s nothing good over the long term that comes from long hours. It’s bad for morale and it’s bad for the business.

Respect your employees, consider their needs and you’ll have a more committed workforce with higher retention and higher quality output.
by bluebirdhh123 | 2025-08-13 20:51:16+00:00
> My peers in tech who are reluctant to have children often express fear that it will interrupt the arc of the careers they've worked so hard to build.

I mean...When you spend your entire life up to that point focused on personal development and skillsets (all that studying, exams, interviews!), it feels like a "downgrade", or at least a significant pivot, when you become a parent. And most tech workers grew up in an academic-focused environment with few opportunities to learn parenting skills. There were no lessons growing up about basics of childcare or household management!

It's not surprising to be reluctant.
by ackfoobar | 2025-08-13 20:52:07+00:00
> The moment you start ripping cases as distinct types out of the sum-type, you create the ability to side-step exhaustiveness and sum-types become useless in making invalid program states unrepresentable.

Quite the opposite, that gives me the ability to explicitly express what kinds of values I might return. With your shape example, you cannot express in the type system "this function won't return a point". But with sum type as sealed inheritance hierarchy I can.

> C#/Java don't actually have sum-types.

> They're pretty much the same

Not sure about C#, but in Java if you write `sealed` correctly you won't need the catch-all throw.

If they're not actual sum types but are pretty much the same, what good does the "actually" do?
by cpach | 2025-08-13 20:52:59+00:00
When placing the order, you get a funny text string from the ACME provider. You need to create a TXT record that holds this value. How you create the TXT record is up to you and your DNS server – the ACME provider doesn’t care.

I don’t believe DNS-over-HTTPS is relevant in this context. AFAIK, it’s used by clients who want to query a DNS server, and not for an operator who wants to create a DNS record. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)
by woodruffw | 2025-08-13 20:54:02+00:00
I might not be following: what would that protocol entail? pyx uses the same PEP 503/691 interfaces as every other Python index, but those interfaces would likely not be immediately useful to PyPI itself (since it already has them).

> or is one simply paying for access to Astral's particular server that runs it?

pyx is currently a service being offered by Astral. So it's not something you can currently self-host, if that's what you mean.
by generalizations | 2025-08-13 20:54:21+00:00
> So your belief is that for-profit companies should not be required to comply to regulation put in place after they start business in any field.

Interesting that was your takeaway, when all I actually said was "no double standards pls".

(i.e., hold astronomy and for-profits to the same standard, insofar that they have to just 'deal with it' when new regulation shows up - or not.)
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 20:54:23+00:00
Also, if you live in a small town how will you meet a girl (or guy - I'm just going with girl to make this easy but adjust to your situation) - there are only a handful and you may not get along with them. Even if you do meet that girl, there are only so many jobs in the small town - if you work for the same company if there is a downturn you may both lose your job at the same time. In a larger city it is more likely you won't work for the same company and thus if one loses a job you can just "tighten your belts" for a few months while looking for a job. The larger city also means more jobs, so if you lose your job and your girl doesn't you have a chance to find a new job without giving up the girl (or forcing her to quit and find a new job)
by pmdnawaz1 | 2025-08-13 20:54:37+00:00
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by grafmax | 2025-08-13 20:54:43+00:00
I think family is a worthwhile value, and I like remote work, but I become skeptical with this politicization around family. Often it’s a code word for Christian, hetero, cisgender, divesting women of economic power, and/or censorship. None of these should be forced on people, but often is, under the aegis of family.

I trust it even less coming from these people. Boyle presents family is essentially anti-authoritarian, and praises Marc Andreesson’s supposed opposition to authoritarianism, despite Andreeson’s well-documented support for oligarchy.

What we’re actually seeing here from Boyle is more likely increased convergence between the tech oligarchs and the Christian Right.
by andrewla | 2025-08-13 20:55:16+00:00
In the US there is pretty fierce opposition to the idea of giving political parties any legal status. In the US they are private companies that help candidates satisfy the legal requirements for candidacy (which are party agnostic) and politicians are voluntary members that can pool resources and engage in voluntary collective activities on behalf of their party. But the party itself has no real standing. [1]

There are a variety of systems for doing proportional representation with parties, but the preference in the US has been to vote for people, not for parties. When I vote for my local candidate, I'm not voting for the local party bigwigs to decide who will be my representative in cigar-smoke filled back rooms whilst sipping brandy and complaining about the poors.

Maybe this is a hopeless dream as more and more politics shifts to the national level, but I still like the idea of it.

[1] There are some exceptions to this procedurally; there are majority/minority systems in various legislatures. And in presidential elections the nature of electors is kind of strange about this.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-13 20:55:31+00:00
The more I think about it the more incoherent it seems. We don’t know what the person’s immigration status is, we don’t know if they have a passport, but if they did the bouncer/bartender only cares about your birth date, not your visa. Is the author asking for the abolition of all border controls? That’s something different from patriotism.

Before 1920 there were no passports or standardization of border controls but there were also no international human rights. If your state wanted to do you in they could just do it and not face any consequences. “Genocide”, “War Crimes”, and “Crimes Against Humanity” were all introduced in the next 30 years. Any formalization of your rights requires that the state “see like a state” and document your existence. In a lot of places, like China, there are restrictions on internal migration because a rapidly industrializing country faces challenging problems in development.

Today there was a great podcast episode about the origin of human rights as we know it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
by johannes1234321 | 2025-08-13 20:55:43+00:00
Not that I'd really use it, but the integration of ZFS with the package manager on the one side and things like NFS on the other side made it really nice to use.

If a package update failed for whatever reason one could simply revert to a previous boot environment and configuring permissions on NFS exports worked directly integrated with ZFS. Really nice.

On other platforms there is a lot more fiddling around required.
by breckinloggins | 2025-08-13 20:55:57+00:00
I road trip frequently and it’s astonishing how much space there truly is.

Unfortunately our national attitude around population growth would need to change.

Adding on to existing cities in any direction other than “up” is frequently denigrated as “sprawl”.

New cities seem to be the sole purview of idealistic libertarian billionaires… which would be fine except they’re the only ones who even talk about it. Not that these ever get built.

Getting citizens and then the government comfortable with the idea of building nice new places would really help - in addition to all the heroics already being done in existing cities around zoning, transit, and housing regulations.