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by lvass | 2025-09-13 02:28:26+00:00
It's one of the best designed packages I've seen. Except 'repeat' that was horribly broken last time I checked but can be fixed by using the repeat-fu package. Manages to cleanly implement the kakoune model in an incredibly flexible manner and without interfering with anything else.

I still have my meow config, but currently disabled. The kakoune model is definitely what you're looking for if your desire is to edit text with the fewest keystrokes, it's far better than vim. I think the vim model is better, though, because motion-as-selection is fundamentally exhaustive, and in vim, by the time you realize what you're going to do, you go into operator pending mode (e.g. pressing d) and the next keystroke also feels obvious, while in meow you may have to reset the selection by doing some movement.

What works best for me is no modal editing at all. Definitely requires the most keystrokes, but that's not a limiting factor for me. It just feels nice never having to think about modes or constantly pressing Esc, and instead navigating with a mixture of default Emacs keybinds and great, joyous to use packages like Avy, smartparens, tempel and combobulate. Meow's KEYPAD is also not really helpful, it does save some keystrokes but doesn't make anything easier to remember or reach for. For the commands that it is worse, it is much worse.
by pandaman | 2025-09-13 02:28:40+00:00
I am not sure if your comment is directed at me but I immigrated to the US. In my case there were probably no more than 1000 people in the whole world willing and able to do my job. It was advertised in the industry job boards along with required by law newspapers. Very few people applied and none of them had been a US citizen or LPR. This is what EB immigration is for. You are welcome to lobby for another EB category based on data and tests, but you should not be allowed to commit fraud in lieu of such a category in the meantime.
by esbranson | 2025-09-13 02:29:37+00:00
Vendors don't need to ship their own images at all. Just let users install stock Debian, then provide a thin vendor package set (kernel, u-boot, DTBs, firmware) tied together by a meta-package. With apt pinning, upgrades become normal Debian transactions, security updates track Debian, and the vendor layer shrinks to a small LTS kernel delta plus boot bits.
by ggm | 2025-09-13 02:30:20+00:00
I think you objectify a lot of "they" in this and a conversation about that will probably descend into ad hom rapidly. Suffice to say I agree with almost nothing you have said here, except it's true an awful lot of cheap production economies have shocking human rights abuses and low to no labour laws.

You appear quite bitter towards your own state as well as mine and everyone else's. There's a lot of "everybody lies" on the table. I do not think all bilateral trade is based on lies and I do not think there is only a zero sum winner and loser outcome on the table, Implicit in your response.
by saithound | 2025-09-13 02:31:10+00:00
Oh yeah, that reminds me. the company did research on how to train a model that manipulates the metrics, allowing them to tick the open source box with a seemingly good score, while releasing something that serves no real purpose. [1] [2]

GPT-OSS is not a near-state-of-the-art model: it is a model deliberately trained in a way that it appears great in the evaluations, but is unusable and far underperforms actual open source models like Ollama. That's scammy.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pLC3bx77AckafHdkq/gpt-oss-is...

[2] https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-20b/discussions/14
by etblg | 2025-09-13 02:31:26+00:00
> Is the internal guidance you received different from what's published?

Probably, I doubt anyone in the US government has a consistent view of what immigration laws are _and_ how they're actually enforced. Whole thing feels like a giant slapdash of things thrown together and assessed in whatever way feels right that day.

Here's a fun one: do people born in Hong Kong count as being born in China for green card purposes? Used to be no, then Trump 1 said "yes" with an executive order, then as best I can tell no one in government really enforced that, then immigration lawyers tell me they're counted as rest of world instead of China, and now? Who the hell knows, whoever gets your case probably makes up what they feel is the law.
by andrewdug | 2025-09-13 02:32:36+00:00
They aren't in print anymore for 2025, but World Book is here: https://www.worldbook.com/world-book-encyclopedia-2025?srslt...

But even if it was only $100, imagine having all of that information and more in a watch on my wrist for free. That's basically what Aris does, and we are doing our best to make sure parents can control the information and perspectives their kids get.
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-13 02:32:36+00:00
Perhaps that would work, but I'm not so sure. I don't think the employers we're talking about are sensitive to a 20% price premium. And they might find the additional leverage H1B gives them over the employee to be worth the premium anyway. My proposal would give natives a chance to get a real job (not a ghost posting) that was given to a real person (the H1B person), and simply take their place.
by phire | 2025-09-13 02:32:41+00:00
If the goal is 100% carbon-free energy, then we simply can't let economics get in the way. Otherwise we will always be stuck building some natural gas peaker plants.

And one option is to mass produce nuclear power plants, get prices down even further via economics of scale and then run them uneconomically.

Uneconomically doesn't mean "at a loss", just that you aren't making as much profit as you could optimally. With enough economics of scale, we can probably still run these nuclear plants at a profit, maybe even cheaper than natural gas peakers. But it doesn't matter, the goal is saving the planet, not profit.

It's not the only option, you can also build massive amounts of wind/solar/tidal and pair them with massive amounts of battery storage.

The third option is to build way more hydro power plants. Hydro tends to get overlooked as a form of green energy, because while it might be 100% renewable, you do have to "modify" a local ecosystem to construct a new dam. But hydro has the massive advantage that it can work as both baseload and demand load, so they can pair nicely with wind/solar/tidal.

I'm not even talking about pumped hydro (though, that's a fourth option to consider). Regular hydro can work as energy storage by simply turning the turbines off at letting the lakes fill up whenever there is sufficient power from your other sources.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-13 02:32:49+00:00
> Last I checked that salary range is not Chelsea or Belgravia money

Jeez, that's horrid. I thought you could rent a 1 bedroom flat for around £2,000-£2,500/mo there?

> average not anywhere near £90k

Agreed, I thought I mentioned £50k-£60k but might have made a typo.
by EnPissant | 2025-09-13 02:33:27+00:00
It makes absolutely no sense to do what OP described. The decode stage is bottlenecked on memory bandwidth. Once you pull the weights from system RAM, your work is almost done. To then gigabytes of weights PER TOKEN over PCIE to do some trivial computation on the GPU is crazy.

What actually happens is you run some or all of the MoE layers on the CPU from system RAM. This can be tolerable for smaller MoE models, but keeping it all on the GPU will still be 5-10x faster.

I'm guessing lmstudio gracefully falls back to running _soemthing_ on the CPU. Hopefully you are running only MoE on the CPU. I've only ever used llama.cpp.
by jaidan | 2025-09-13 02:34:02+00:00
I’ve never used a palm pilot, but I do have a Furi FLX1. If you don’t run the android container in it, then you aren’t exposed to the duopoly.

It works as a phone. It works for documents, contacts, calendars etc. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse work, as does a USBC dock (but no DP).

I like it a lot.
by skydhash | 2025-09-13 02:34:34+00:00
I have god-mode installed, but I've basically forgot about it as Emacs have a different model of editing than Vim.

With Vim, text editing feels like playing the piano. For every action, you compose a sequence of bindings and execute on it. It is really a language of editing.

Emacs feels more like blacksmithing, hammering the text into a proper shape. There's no composition, you just select the correct tools and applies it. And emacs have a lot of those tools.
by calmbonsai | 2025-09-13 02:36:15+00:00
This is an absolute waste of weight and nothing more than a presser tech demonstrator.

Given induction's fundamental (physics) limitations, there's zero chance this will make it into a production vehicle.

The energy storage requirements and practical charging speed of a car are not remotely the same as for a portable electronic device such as a phone.

Human passenger EV charging will always be through a direct cable connection.

If you want something even faster, just do an automated physical battery swap and design the car's physical safety envelope and grounding systems around this additional access affordance.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-13 02:36:26+00:00
The job adverts that are being talked about are part of the PERM process that is required for the “pathway to citizenship” for workers that are already here for an extended period of time.

What is also part of the process, is the requirement that you pay more than the median wages. Undercutting wages will get this petition denied and the process itself costs thousands of dollars on top of the thousands of dollars it takes to file for the underlying visa.

Again, the immigration system doesn’t work as you think it does. Yes there are abuses and those need to be addressed and I’m fully onboard with reforms that fix it. But the first step would be to understand the system and how it works.
by fy20 | 2025-09-13 02:37:45+00:00
One thing to bear in mind about Europe is that to go carbon neutral you need to be able to deal with winters.

First of all they are darker than the US due to latitude, so solar during winter is basically a no go in half of the places where people actually live. I have rooftop solar and November - February it might as well not exist. One January it generated 20kWh for the whole month vs a peak of 70kWh per day in the summer. Wind is an option, but NIMBYism makes that hard as Europe doesn't have as much empty space as the US.

The other thing is heating: in Europe around 64% of residential energy use goes to space heating Vs 42% in the US. And the majority of that comes from gas. So to go carbon neutral, you actually need to greatly increase electricity demand. This is why Europe is pushing for new homes to be really well insulated.
by SomeHacker44 | 2025-09-13 02:38:29+00:00
Not so sure. When I first started wearing glasses for astigmatism, it turned rectangles into trapezoids. Totally destroyed my depth perception. After a while I got used to it and stopped walking into curbs and buildings. Later in life I moved to progressive lenses. The straight lines then became curves. Adjusted after a while again, but the curves never fully went away. Regardless, I have to take the glasses off for sports that require good depth perception like ping pong or tennis.
by ggm | 2025-09-13 02:39:37+00:00
People's understanding of the long term is often weak. The short term would be horrid. The medium short term would be torrid. The longer term, 100+ years out, is mostly unknown.

As a child like many others of the boomer cohort, I lived the belief "protect and survive" was futile. I am no longer sure that's healthy, any more than risking the outcome is.

I've been led to believe the North and South hemisphere weather systems are more coupled than people used to think and so assumptions transport of dust and radionuclides would predominantly lie in the north are probably wrong. Also, given Pine Gap in Australia, and the likelihood of SSN being in southern oceans, some level of strike in the south is inevitable.

What's often missed is that the big megatonnage weapons were passed over for smaller delivery systems in MIRV. Not that no high yield weapons exist, but many many more tuned yield weapons exist, as well as neutron dense weapons which would do less direct damage and just leave a lot of dead people around. Not a pretty world, but 200 years later..

The smoke blanket assumed entire forests went up. Self sustaining megafires. Lofted dust would reduce surface temperature significantly and food production would drop off. But, and forgive me if this is naieve, would persisting radionuclide levels in the ocean actually kill all marine life? Would transport of dust into the soil as we've seen in Pripyat not mean we had a more complex tainted surface? One with toxic mushrooms but also with quite high sustained wildlife levels, in some chaotic adjustment.

Also, EMP effects are confusing. Valves survive. As do magnets. Find enough old cars and you'd get magneto and batteries to do cooking and run spark gap radio in Morse until you find a golden ears stash of pentodes, and discrete parts in an old radioshack hut. It's not like we didn't make relay logic work when we had to, so losing vlsi doesn't mean we're back at vellum and gall ink, until all the ballpoint pens dry up.
by sparkie | 2025-09-13 02:39:41+00:00
We can do better than one branch per byte - we can have it per 8-bytes at least.

We'd use `vpmovb2m`[1] on a ZMM register (64-bytes at a time), which fills a 64-bit mask register with the MSB of each byte in the vector.

Then process the mask register 1 byte at a time, using it as an index into a 256-entry jump table. Each entry would be specialized to process the next 8 bytes without branching, and finish with conditional branch to the next entry in the jump table or to the next 64-bytes. Any trailing ones in each byte would simply add them to a carry, which would be consumed up to the most significant zero in the next eightbytes.

[1]:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...
by lefstathiou | 2025-09-13 02:40:31+00:00
Father of three here, I like the premise and execution of this a lot. I don't let my kids use iPads or iPhones and we only watch movies (not shows) as a family on weekends.

What resonates with me: - Dead simple interface - Zero risk of ads - I like that you can ask follow-up questions

Some ideas - Using this on Web, the cursor should autofocus on the text box - A log / audit trail of questions asked would be fun to review as a parent - One of my biggest concerns about AI is the lack of guardrails preventing them from generating answers rather than using the technology as an amplifier of knowledge. For example, if my son asked "what is 142 + 47?", I would feel better knowing the response explained how he could approach the problem 100 + 80 + 9 = ? rather than answering the question -
by hibikir | 2025-09-13 02:40:35+00:00
Because fast to deploy in theory fights quickly with permitting systems and NIMBYism. You need more permits, because a typical solar or wind farm doesn't come close to a nuclear plan's output, so the per-project bureaucracy multiplies. By needing more places, you also have more groups opposing projects for typical NIMBY reasons. You need battery facilities too, and more updates to the grid to deal with having less inertia, and the updates cost money, and the battery facilities themselves face more NIMBYism: Minimum distances to places where people live and such. So when you put it all together, slow bureaucracies just move at glacial paces, and the equipment you would have bought when you sent out the permit is already different than what you want to use when the permitting is approved.

Then we have the tariffs, as Europe puts tariffs on Chinese equipment that change the price quite a bit.

A country that took this very seriously and decided to put renewables as a top priority could go quite fast. But if there's anything one should learn about the last few decades is that modern democracies care too much about vested interest and NIMBY complaints to actually get projects like this done. Just look at charts showing power waiting to go online in most countries: You'll find very long lines, even after dealing with the rest of the the bureaucratic gauntlet.
by pandaman | 2025-09-13 02:40:44+00:00
>Would my point B not limit that fraudulent behavior as now the brought in migrant would be free to compete for a better position with higher pay and/or better benefits to the detriment of the company that paid an entry fee?

I don't see how. As I understood, you mean that you want H-1Bs to be able to change jobs, not to hang in the country unemployed? It is already so. Of course, H-1Bs are not the only way foreign labor is imported, L-1s, for example, cannot change jobs and there is no limit on them and every big corp in the US has an office in Canada, where they hire foreigners from all over the world and move them on L-1s to the US, it's much easier and cheaper than H-1B.

However, the fraud here is: a) committed by a US business, not a foreigner and b) is not related to any non-immigrant visa such as H,L,or O are. It's a fraud in immigration process. And the immigration is the expected perk of working for a company on a temporary visa. If companies stopped filing for immigration then they would not be able to hire as many temporary visa employees.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-13 02:41:20+00:00
SB 79 is just the latest in a long sequence of pro-housing bills to get passed in California in the last 5-6 years. I’d rather them do one or two small winnable battles per year than bet it all on a giant do-everything bill which might galvanize more opposition.

Frankly, this strategy seems to be a good one considering what a winning streak CA YIMBYs have been on.
by nilsbunger | 2025-09-13 02:42:45+00:00
This law (and other recent CA YIMBY laws) don't create much surface area to sue or slow a project:

* The approvals are designed to be "ministerial", meaning there is no discretion on whether to approve or not. If the project meets the objective criteria spelled out in the law, it must be approved.

* If the city doesn't approve in a limited time window, it's deemed "approved" by default.

* Ministerial approval protects the project from CEQA lawsuits. CEQA requires the government to consider the environment when making decisions. When the approval is ministerial, the government doesn't make any decisions, so there is no CEQA process to sue against.
by ux266478 | 2025-09-13 02:43:06+00:00
> US corporations ran labor arbitrage by shipping $20/hr jobs to China that was paid ~$0.20/hr and pocketed profits

You have to consider two things in addendum to that:

- Those $0.20/hr jobs come with major financial burdens. Firstly, you now have to organize your supply chain around it as a labor base. That means your logistics are now many orders of magnitude more complex, and more expensive. On top of that, you have additional overhead because you're doing business across international lines, which raises organizational headcount and the kind of bright minds it takes to do that don't come cheap. Quite a lot of money is dumped into making maritime shipping cheap. It's not just subsidies and tax incentives applied to the maintenance and operation of container ships where even the fuel is a tax write-off and heavily subsidized. You need to also consider how much do those ports cost to operate? How much does it cost to maintain shipping lanes? Government attention, influence and dollars are spent at every single step of the way to ensure that foreign labor forces are affordable. A very, very large amount. It becomes apparent when you realize the end to end cost of building a cargo ship, loading it to the brim, and sailing it across the pacific is less than a nice house in Manhattan.

- The disparity in labor cost is also primarily driven by policy which exploits the 'decoupled' nature of local economies driving different costs of living. While this is traditionally framed as only working within the context of underindustrialized people being exploited, you can compare the cost of living in Taiwan with the US, as well as the relative prosperity of the two nations. Large picture, broad spectrum economic comparison is a bad joke because it's simply too lossy to support logical inference, but it's not a mistake that the dollar goes quite far in other places. The inflation of the US dollar was intentionally positioned as the oscillating circuit of the global economy, this way the US would be able to deflate it's currency to prevent bad exchange favorability when needed without suffering long-term economic damage like what happened to Britain in the 1920s.

It's a system of pulleys and levers which were carefully put together to make means to an end. It's not actually cheaper, think about it in a thermodynamic sense. It just looks cheaper because it was structured that way. Costs are hidden by opaque mechanisms that exist in plain sight, all at such a grand scale you can hardly conceive its orchestration. It works because men with a lot of power want it to.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-13 02:43:38+00:00
Similar case, I recently migrated from @mozmail to SimpleLogin and wondered if I made the right choice.

I heard using your own domains solves the migration issue but that makes your email pretty identifiable just by looking at your domain.

I wonder whats a suitable replacement candidate after Mozmail and Simple Login? One of the reasons I migrated away from Mozmail to Simple Login was that you can't initiate a email sending, which made it difficult to contact support if needed. Plus Mozmail are on Amazon SES.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-13 02:43:51+00:00
EB system is pretty broad. If you really were in a position that only 1000 people in the world were able to do your job, you should’ve applied through EB1, which is designed for such people and also does not require the PERM process and therefore the job listings. EB2 and EB3 are designed for labor gaps in the industry which isn’t the same as extraordinary talent such as yours, and requires the PERM process. EB3 in fact also allows completely unskilled workers to file for permanent residency. Like I explained in the parent comment, the congress put a system to evaluate labor gaps, which is flawed. Following the rules set up by the system isn’t fraud.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-09-13 02:44:19+00:00
> absolutely relevant

It is not. We’re discussing what coal is being replaced with for electricity generation. But let’s talk about it.

> high electricity prices

Let’s ask the obvious question: are high prices caused by wind/solar? No, they’re caused by the extremely volatile prices of fossil fuels: “high fossil fuel prices were the main reason for upward pressure on global electricity prices, accounting for 90% of the rise in the average costs of electricity generation worldwide (natural gas alone for more than 50%).” [0]

So building out more gas plants won’t eliviate prices when the gas is responsible for them in the first place.

> heat pump sales

From your own link: the lengthy and public political debate about the legal framework and subsidies for heating buildings has caused people to lose confidence”

None of that has to do with electricity.

[0]: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-global-energy-crisis-pu...