skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H1B is broken. Most H1B's that come in are sweat shop / "consulting" workers that get paid low, worked to the bone, and don't really have a differentiated skillset to current US residents. People who actually have differentiated skills get fucked by the lottery or get forced to get a Master's/PhD to have a better chance.
It may just depend on where you live.
From what ive noticed, most people have a clique and stick to it.
If youre not part of their group, then you will probably never have a clue they exist.
whereas online, the line between cliques are scewed, so it bleeds through.
There are a lot of sources of anti-science information that shouldn't be trusted, along with organizations that promote specific misinformation (not disinformation) for profit without disclosing their financial interests. Remember that science is a process, and that new information must often displace earlier hypothesis and theories that are found to be incorrect.
Some countries have consumer protection laws that require that a factory-assembled computer must come with an OS. This whole FreeDOS thing feels like malicious compliance to me just to have something so it doesn't boot into a BIOS error.

Though I've assumed that FreeDOS runs on bare metal. This whole Linux-with-a-VM feels strange, to say the least.
I puzzle over how, out in the open source world, so much seems to have shifted from testing for a while before releasing to just releasing and acting like it was normal that there turned out to be lots of bugs. Or never releasing at all and expecting others to use whatever happens to be in git right this moment.
This is the same conclusion I came to. Bitcoin's incentive structure makes sense if the users of it gain value by being able to use it as a common medium of exchange. If you look at the money that e.g. mastercard and visa pull in, it makes sense that you could sustain bitcoin off of that indefinitely. It could also conceivable result in a relatively lower market cap if people do not in fact save money in bitcoin, reducing the threat of 51% attacks. As a store of value, the incentives no longer make sense: for the 'store of value', it must be deflationary, thus mining cannot produce new coins indefinitely. But it also cannot be too expensive: if just keeping your coins requires paying a significant percentage of the value of them to secure them on an ongoing basis, you're ultimately losing in just the same way as someone in an inflationary coin does. There's also no particular mechanism which makes sure said price is actually correct: ultimately you need to figure out how much mining is 'enough', and also realistically have some mechanism to spread those costs out evenly amongst holders of bitcoin, lest it become a tragedy of the commons where no-one wants to contribute.
The idea that there are folks who believe that people with differing opinions should be punished that I find disturbing.
But at what cost?

This [1] estimates the annual Bitcoin energy consumption at 145TWh. If the Bitcoin network were a country it would rank 25 in the world by energy consumption [2].

The cost of that electricity is hard to estimate but if you use a ballpark of $0.10/kWh that puts the cost of the Bitcoin network at almost $15 billion annually just for the electricity.

[1]: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
Can you share some of the evidence?

You've explained that you think it would be solved if it looked like what you described, but it might never look like that even if it was solved, so we'd never know. Perhaps a more useful question would have been how do we know the problem still exists? What's the evidence that women are treated worse in the game dev industry because they're women?
Important to note that the proposal is to lift green card caps on PHD holders. Certainly not opening any “floodgates”.
You should definitely read Matt Levine's coverage of the fiasco.

Quote from his newsletter:

> That contract does not allow Musk to walk away if it turns out that “spam/fake accounts” represent more than 5% of Twitter users. We discussed this last month, when Twitter admitted in a securities filing that it had (slightly) overestimated its daily active users for years. The merger agreement contains a provision that allows Musk to walk away if Twitter’s securities filings are wrong — and this 5% number is in its securities filings — but only if the inaccuracy would have a “Material Adverse Effect” on the company. (See Sections 4.6(a) and 7.2(b).) That is an incredibly high standard: Delaware courts have almost never found an MAE. An MAE has to be something that would “substantially threaten the overall earnings potential of the target in a durationally-significant manner,” the courts have said; there is a rule of thumb that an MAE requires a 40% decrease in long-term profitability. If it turned out that 6% or 20% or 50% of Twitter accounts are bots, that will be embarrassing and might even reduce Twitter’s future advertising revenue, but will it be an MAE?

There isn't a way for him to exit the deal – Twitter can compel him to go through with it based on the contract. The main question remains though: Will Twitter go through the arduous and potentially ruinous process of forcing him to honour his obligations? Is this a negotiating tactic on his behalf (Is he trying to get a better deal)? If he does want out, will Twitter compromise and take a settlement (they could ask for way more than oft-discussed $1B exit fee)?

This is Musk being Musk, and personally I hope if he does try to back out or renegotiate, he gets punished severely.
This worked for years for whatever entities bought the brand Samsui, same for modern-day Marantz brand.
This is exactly me
Why is low-risk minor gene editing such a big deal? Much higher-risk breeding is allowed. Parents with genetic defects likely to produce rejects are allowed to breed, and the babies are not culled. It's not like humans have a breeding quality control program.
I thought US immigration system is not geared toward helping US competitiveness, but diversity and family reunification.

Besides, PhDs in other countries like say, Indonesia for example, won't be as good as PhDs in other first world countries.

The second/third order effects would be that these opens up for immigration/education fraud from countries which populations really want to go to the US. I can already imagine.

Can the US job market absorb for these PhDs?
Yeh, unfortunately you're going to have to spend some bucks for quality. I'm still using my fathers 50 year old ESS Model 5's in my upstairs office and they sound amazing. Original woofers too! I just refoamed them, easy. I love the sound of the HEIL air motion transformers.

Downstairs is all Totem I bought 20 years ago.
I use `taskwarrior` every day and greatly enjoy it. There's a number of other terminal TODO management solutions that I've dabbled with but `taskwarrior` is just so feature rich and can be adapted to suit your workflow quite easily.

There's also `timewarrior`, which complements `taskwarrior` pretty well.

I'm not affiliated with the `taskwarrior` project, but I wanted to say that if you like the project and are interested in contributing, one way you can do so is by donating to their GitHub sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/GothenburgBitFactory. For something that I use every day, I don't mind throwing a few bucks their way, and I figured others might feel similarly so I thought I'd share :)

PS - If you are interested in `taskwarrior`, you may also like `taskwarrior-tui`: https://github.com/kdheepak/taskwarrior-tui. It is a terminal user interface for `taskwarrior` that I built in my spare time. The goal is to have an auto-refreshed view of the output of `taskwarrior` where the presentation of the content is as closely styled to `taskwarrior` as practically possible with a "vim-like" interface to interact with `taskwarrior`.
After updating Macos to Monterey

That sounds like a breaking change to MacOS by Apple.

Apple has strong financial incentives to have its headphones be the preferred option across its product lines.

Considering that Jabra is getting the blame here, Apple has little financial disincentive against breaking changes to its software.

Good luck.
The companies could be located in an area where electricity is too expensive to turn a profit (and they might be relying on the fact that the end users are individuals, and distributed, so maybe they expect the end users to slip between the cracks and find subsidies not intended to go to bitcoins).

Also, if one company was making the majority of bitcoin ASICs, they'd be at risk of gaining the ability to do a 51% attack, right? Which would reduce confidence in the network I guess.

I don't own any of this stuff because bitcoin seems fundamentally bad for the planet and a pain to manage, but I don't think we should assume these things are necessarily irrational purchases just because we don't like them.
Wow, that's a horrible way of thinking about the user experience. And honestly, I'm not surprised. That's why companies that really care about the user experience will always steal market share from those that don't.
> voluntarily giving it up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
For low-latency workers like that it might make sense to just run them on the same instance as the web servers.
This made me think: After you train yourself to always use the correct shift button, you could remap the "wrong" one (e.g. the left shift button + "A" on a querty keyboard) to something else.

Anyone here doing this? If so: what are the downsides to this approach?
I agree. In fact, some cryptocurrencies like have implemented constant "tail emission" block rewards. The problem is that this scares off investors and speculators because there's not as much scarcity.
GPUs are pretty good at the algorithm (certainly much more than CPUs), just nowhere near as good as ASICs. Mostly this was because the proof of work function wasn't really designed with any such target in mind, and the basic cryptographic primitives available tend to lend themselves to ASICs dominating everything else unless you explicitly design it otherwise (like ethereum's PoW which is intended to be memory bandwidth limited and thus best suited to GPUs with ASICs offering minimal benefit, or Monero's algorithm which is designed to be extremely branchy and thus best suited for general purpose CPUs).
>If bitcoin miners are chasing cheap power... then it shouldn't be possible for miners to increase the price of power in a fixed area, as they would immediately migrate elsewhere where power is cheaper.

If that logic were sound, I struggle to see how the price of any fungible good could ever increase in response to demand. There is some energy price at which the profitability of mining becomes marginal. Won't the amount of mining grow until all the electricity cheaper than that is being wasted calculating hashes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
The article provoked a thought:

Only when you slow down to a thought speed of a tree, you can fully enjoy the beauty of this world.
The biggest problem is being treated like a criminal rather than a customer. I’ve dealt in the small business space for a long time and we never deprive a user of their data even if we end up hating each other.

Western governments need to start acting on behalf of the people. Break up big tech and bring the hammer down on companies that usurp a persons lifelong data archive and refuse to give them a copy.

I have Google Workspace Legacy accounts, so my family has stayed with Google for far to long. That’s ending this month. Even if it sucks and we lose some data, purchases, etc. right now, the long term benefit of abandoning Google is better for everyone IMO.
Elon used to say almost all would soon be disconnected from the grid. And he also said every charger affected by California blackouts would get a megapack installed long before that.
If you listen to what the Fed says, it actually does. It thinks unemployment is too low.
I don't know who to attribute this to, but these certainly aren't my words, but they have been the words to help me re-center myself when I'm having "one of those moments" and my lizard brain is running the show:

"It all works out in the end, and in the end, we're all dead."
Not only is there no way around it, but it's actually impossible to start new networks from scratch based on proof-of-stake due to the "nothing at stake" problem. If attackers don't care if their stake gets burned (because the value is low) then there's no longer an incentive for attackers not to validate on multiple chains at once (which is what staking is supposed to prevent). All new networks must go through a proof-of-work stage of evolution.

Further, the existence of proof-of-stake coins at all means that decentralized exchanges exist, which makes it impossible to ever kill proof-of-work in a legislative sense. Even if you killed fiat exchange for $SHITCOIN entirely, once there is a coin that has sufficient value, people will be happy to have bitcoin instead of USD, or trade to Bitcoin and then over to USD. You can either ban them all entirely, or you have to live with both PoW and PoS together.

Unfortunately, crypto is a memeplex, it's like a corporation, it's a self-reinforcing living entity that supports itself (maintains homeostasis) through a series of rules and incentives, and now that it's been created it can't be easily killed. Every individual is financially incentivized to keep playing their part, so everyone would have to collectively agree to not make money by taking part, and as people fall out the incentives become steeper and steeper to participate. Would you mine on your card for $100 a day? $1000 a day?

We will just have to live with destroying our planet, because now that it's been created it's virtually impossible to kill. That was the whole point. With apologies to Alien: it’s biologically engineered to be a survivor... the perfect predator (of certain other memeplexes - meaning, states and state-backed currencies, which are also self-sustaining memeplexes with their own rules and incentives). That was the stated goal of the design, and it works! There's no "off button", otherwise it would be trivial for "statists" to push it. There is no "oops we forgot to add a limit to the paperclip maximizer" or "don't kill the people who try to stop paperclip maximization" button either. People whose livelihoods depend on crypto are highly incentivized to come up with ways (like PoS) to keep it going even if the outcomes of the overall system becomes undesirable. The day it became legitimized by the SEC, it certainly became impossible to stop it. Now you will have Wall Street money fighting you too.

You wanted an unstoppable decentralized cryptopunk future with assassination markets, that's exactly what it does. It wouldn't be unstoppable if individual or collective action (like that of a state or other group of individuals) could stop it, and it was designed knowing that people would try to stop it. All according to keikaku.

(cue the gif from dr strangelove of general turgidson's horrified realization of what he's just said)
Yes, but I predict people will cease entering the market once the hype dies down and people learn how flawed bitcoin is.
Sure, but there are areas where it is not economical to actually make use of that power. For example, you could place a bitcoin mining solar powered installation in the middle of a desert where there would be no need for desalinized water and where there is no rail or road access needed for something like aluminum smelting. I think the evidence of bitcoin mining being powered by methane flare gas is irrefutable evidence of that: The methane flare gas just been being burned off for decades, it wasn't until bitcoin mining that there was a marketable use for this energy.
I'm using a 7-year old Onkyo 7.1 surround sound system right now. It sounds great, but when you use the menus (like browse a DLNA server) or switch inputs (or something cuts out), there's a second or two lag on everything.

I wish that AV receivers had USB inputs for PCs.

"But Andrew," I hear you say: "Go to $store and search for receivers with USB ports. There's hundreds!"

Those USB ports are for playing MP3s off a flash drive. A PC isn't a flash drive. Do you have a receiver like that? How do you connect a PC to it with USB?
> My photos since I was a baby till nowadays (23 years of images), my niece's photos since she was in her mom's womb, my essential files, ALL passwords, reminders, and google login accounts. Everything is gone!

> my google play account with my apps, my google extension developer with my extensions, my google AdMob with all of my unpaid revenue, firebase, google analytics, and google search console...

I’d like to apply this algorithmic ban to Google employees’ private Google accounts so they too can experience the joy of getting punched in the face without recourse.

I “only” have my emails left at Google. Starting July they want to take my money for what they promised to be a free service forever. I actually look forward to migrating away from them so I find inner peace again.
> I get that we can't open the flood gates

Serious question, has this ever been shown to be a concern. If we would open for free migration, is there seriously any reason to think that migration would be so intense that the country wouldn't be able to handle it?

I ask because I seriously doubt it. Historically migration has been pretty liberal, and there are place which offer free movements of people (e.g. the EU) where opening up the borders (or the flood gates if you will) has turned out to be a great success.
PayPal to increase fees next month
No. Was the Egyptian civilization (which lasted for 3000 years until the time of the Romans) prehistoric because we could not read the Egyptian hieroglyphics? Did it only cease to be prehistoric once we deciphered the language?
Of course they haven't read the article and even if they did, most people won't discuss the details of something if they object to the fundamentals.
Very few companies have uptime requirements so critical they can justify this. Small companies with limited ops resources may struggle to make a multi-region setup work more reliably than a single-region one.
Honestly, I just wish syncing was easier to setup than having to copy keys to my phone and other devices.
Can it be that between 2000 and 2022 there was a shift to Linkedin and other resources as a primary place for the commercial job ads?
> Also, if it's as simple as that, why haven't we simply moved to PoS for everything?

More modern blockchains do use PoS for the most part -- Solana, Cardano, Polkadot, Cosmos, Avalanche, NEAR, etc. Just Bitcoin in particular is unlikely to make such a major change.

> PoS ultimately is a rich-gets-richer scenario is why.

In well-designed PoS systems, anyone can stake (perhaps with delegation) and access the same rate of return. If everyone stakes, noone is actually getting richer after we adjust for dilution.
GDPR applies to residents of Europe.

That said, I've never had a problem using it from the US.
Alder lake so far hasn't been anywhere near the efficiency of the M1.

> The half prescion fps are obviously aimed at ML but how on earth are the hoping to compete with gpus on this front? Where is the use case on this (genuine question).

Sure, it's not GPU competition, but still helpful, after all a fair chunk of the computers on the planet to do not have discrete GPUs.
But how tall of a tower do you seen to see it?
Why? That used to be the US's exact policy. It's even carved into the Statue of Liberty.
Have you considered running "untrusted" code in a worker? That way the code can not interfere with the global scope.
>darkening of the moon's face probably won't register against the rapidly brightening sky

Full moons are always directly opposite the sun. You'd be more concerned about it disappearing beyond the horizon.
>Compact speaker systems like Sonos (that don't need a separate AVR) simply got good enough.

I don't like em. I am not the stereotypical smug audiophile but the sound on most of these new systems, soundbars, headphones, etc... is absolute trash.

Any pair of moderately-decent bookshelf speakers blows them out of the water and you can get them for ~300USD so they're actually cheaper than "high-end" speakers from brands like Bose, Sonos, etc... which sound terrible IMO.
I’ve read this article before. As far as I remember he didn’t create a software configuration for a Space Cadet keyboard. His setup isn’t full-featured enough.
What makes them “better immigrants?” Until the mid 20th century America took the poorest and least educated immigrants and it worked out pretty well. It’s not clear to me that importing other countries’ elites is a better tack.
IIRC US citizens are still required to pay income tax to the US even when working and living abroad, which definitely stops some money from flowing outwards. There's probably a way to complete renounce one's US citizenship, but given how it likely would be hard to reenter the country to visit family or friends once you do that, I think the tradeoff ends up being a lot more than people are willing to give up compared to simply moving abroad.
Wouldn't you just block all of Texas then? Remove liability and stop servicing them.

Users will then pressure for a repeal
In my experience on a pi - SD cards don't fail, they get corrupted.

one solution is to use an OS that isn't constantly writing to the SD card, like openwrt. I have a pi running openwrt and it is rock solid. The filesystem only gets written in very specific cases, for example there are no logs writing to the sd card continuously.

Another solution is to set up an overlay filesystem for raspbian

And you could use a USB drive like a samsung fit instead - that has been very solid for me.
eureka!!!