skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CRT-like shaders made a lot of progress recently, we re getting closer! And it’s great as not everyone can have a CRT and the existing ones won’t last forever.
That's kind of the popular sentiment throughout history for all technological advancements. They said the same thing about cars, TVs, personal computers, neural networks etc. "this will probably never really be a thing".

Plato said "Writing is a step backward for truth".

Trithemius said "Printed books will never be the equivalent of handwritten codices."

Mark Twain thought that the telephone had no market and passed on investing.

Charlie Chapman said "The cinema is little more than a fad"

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
Since I've stopped eating bread I only have sinkers. No more floaters, no more stinking toilet, no more multiple flushes.

I still don't know exactly what caused it, if it was the gluten or the modern issue that industrial bread (even whole grain) isn't given enough time to rest (long-term fermentation?) so that it then continues to work inside the gut causing the problems, given a certain unhealthy gut microbiome which either can't deal with it or somehow goes crazy on it.

It was not just bread, though. Also oatmeal and cereals, so it isn't that clear.

It was always related to the amount of gas which would end up in the feces.
I don't know about judging the binary, but there are more- and less- faked luxury good appreciations. Whiskey is less faked than wine is (but, like most things, the distinctions blur as you go up in price; that makes, like, a kind of basic economic sense, right?)
There are situations where GP is correct, because there is an alternative to the H1B. Employers can outsource the entire department.

Outsourcing has risks, though. These risks are especially difficult to mitigate in "real" high tech where IP and trade secrets have real value. Outsourcing risks are also difficult to manage in cases where sensitive customer (or valuable company) data is being handled. In these cases, companies will only outsource when they really cannot find domestic labor, full stop. (Remember that >60% of CS PhDs go to immigrants.)

In these cases, H1Bs allow the job function to stay completely onshore. So then local employees benefit from the fact that they are easier to hire when companies over-shoot layoffs or lose H1Bs due to ratios.
Disgusting. There are millions of uninsured Americans. Saying this will change nothing for Americans is entirely reliant on every single person having insurance, which is untrue.

We need more regulation from the federal government, these greedy medical companies have made too much money already.
This is a huge secret across so many different markets; it's insane. The one we may be most familiar with is computers, of course - even a bargain-basement computer today is an absolute beast compared to 10+ years ago. Entire classes of "cheap foods" have disappeared because we are so rich we can make everything "good" - meaning the bargain-basement stuff is now often higher-quality than midrange stuff of 20/50/100 years ago.

Hot dogs are a decent example, they're all now "meat" and many are "pure beef" when they used to be the disastrous remains of who knows what. And even they are being destroyed by just how cheap hamburger is - the original fast food was hot dogs and that's almost entirely gone now.
Yep. Same boat. Absolutely zero interest in granting them ssh authZ; transport wrapping is all I want to outsource. Just deliver my bits and I pay you, tyvm. My suspicions have been proven correct here.

Unfortunately reading about this remote RCE vector has me wondering whether I can use the product at all without all this bloat (taildrop, ssh, etc) affecting me. Going to have my team look at zerotier this week, I’ve heard a few ok things.
Maybe happening more often with the wildfires these days
Most people will transition from F-1 student visa OPT (Optional Practical Training) which has a multi-year STEM extension to H1B. Essentially you have 3 chances to get a H1B if you can find an employer willing to go through the process while you are already legally in the country.

I have never met any current or former H1B holder who didn't enter the program through this route.

I am a naturalized citizen who also followed this path.
Disagree. The comment I replied to was about personally paying for tools. My read was that they meant for personal use. And you started the snark, not me.
Yes, it's true. Meat has always been highly trafficked on the black market.

Queues existed, this is also true, but again, those were limited to certain rare periods.
Legalize sharing of published works, in exchange for a fixed levy (2012)
Title is substituted from the original "Open Letter to the President of the Brazilian Senate, Senator José Sarney" with a line adapted from the text, which is more clearly descriptive of the proposal:

I would like to suggest taking this opportunity to go even further: to legalize the sharing of published works, in exchange for a fixed levy collected from Internet users over time.
I suspect you'll mostly get "Yes" because selection bias, so from me you get a "no".

The IT industry is huge, and you can work on so many different problems (as I'm sure you know).

I would find it hard to burn out on the whole thing. I mostly have on security. Not that I don't follow it, but 15 years ago I was deep on the state of the art front lines. But I found it too depressing to just work on preventing destruction, as opposed to actually constructing things.

I still do the occasional security work, and proof of concepts, but that computer security career is now a road less travelled.

If I did FIRE I would spend most of my time on opensource coding and such, which is not by day job. Which means even if I started hating my current job I'm not sick of the whole industry. But that's me.
> The code wasn't standard C, and it didn't just "happen" to work

Thanks, that makes sense.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, you did say using nothing but C99 or C90, implying use of standard features only.

> You probably wouldn't want to build an atomic compare-exchange in
> standard C, even if it were possible; you find out what the
> hardware provides and work with that.

Agreed.
Where are you planning on buying the merino goodies?
I'd consider 20 years a good run and then move to something else. That excitement could still be in technology though. You could try digital art of some kind (2D or 3D) or get into hardware or embedded development. Maybe you need to find an unknown-to-you software niche and deep dive into the state of the art and start putting things together. Business software produces endless ennui because most of us aren't stakeholders and won't get early retirement money for putting in long hours, so maybe that kind of direct benefit can revive passions.
> Personal tragedy used to be unbelievably common for humans. Just consider the sheer number of childhood deaths before the year 1800.

While the troughs of that sorrow are undoubtedly deeper, childhood deaths in your family weren't a 24/7 stressor.

I think the issue is that people can log in to Reddit, Twitter, or even any news website and receive a constant stream of tragedy, bad news, and worry. It's no longer an exception, it's the everyday experience available on demand.

I see this come up in extremely online young people I work with: They're always invested in a new tragedy or catastrophe or drama or concern somewhere in the world, but those worries disappear and get replaced with a new one as soon as the news cycles shift. They weren't actually invested in it, they were just reacting to what they put in front of their eyes for hours per day.
Seems like SEC is more reasonable with series 65. I'm in Canada. There is no non-wealth way unless employed by advisor/dealer.
> The trifactor of the Origin-Private FileSystem, WASM and SQLite is the missing link to make so many progressive web apps possible.

FWIW, that's exactly our sentiment within the sqlite team. People have been using sqlite with browser-side JS since at least as far back as 2012, but availability of OPFS was the catalyst which piqued our interests in jumping on the WASM bandwagon.
That's a good idea. I'll look into this.
Applications of Quantum Annealing in Cryptography
Trusted Hart for Mobile RISC-V Security
Python Type Hints: case study on Parsy
Improving Robustness of TCM-Based Robust Steganography with Variable Robustness
Over the pandemic I could closely observe three junior developers.

One was hybrid remote / on-prem with on-prem menotring and sadly they turned up not to meet our standards. I don't think the work arrangement impacted them.

One was fully remote with their mentor fully remote as well and we hired them full-time.

One was fully on-prem as much as they could, with a mentor who was almost fully remote. They were also hired full-time.

So my experience is that there is no correlation between bringing junior developers up to speed and exactly where they work from. Communicating face to face and communicating remotely are different and require different skill sets, but that is down to the abilities of the individual mentors assigned to the individual juniors. Or put another way - every combination works best for some people
Above $60, you’re mostly paying for name, provenance, or prestige rather than taste.
Our users and their use cases vary drastically....they can be asset managers with acute financial risks, freight carriers protecting against dry van rates dropping, traders looking for alpha, SMBs in Florida worried about a hurricane disrupting their operations, everyday people looking to hedge against inflation, and so on.
The supposed post-Twitter situation is entirely imaginary and typical of Twitter culture: hysterical, performative, not really rooted in any fact whatsoever.

But for the sake of argument, let's go along with the idea that a major shift is happening. The thing is, everything people found great about Twitter, they will not find in alternatives like Mastodon or Tumblr.

Those networks are organic, more personal and bubble-like, and relatively peaceful. Which is healthy, but entirely the opposite of Twitter which is algorithmic amplification of hot takes, outrage, division and the many engagement farming tactics that come along with it.

On an organic reach platform, that behavior doesn't work. Which is a steep change. To a Twitter user, such a platform will feel broken. It's quiet, peaceful, and they're not ranking up followers or influence with low effort hot takes.

Not only that, the hot takes may get them banned. Twitter users have been using toxicity as a tool for so many years that they've normalized behavior and language that is widely unacceptable outside Twitter.

Twitter users escaping Twitter do not want something completely different. They want Twitter but without Elon Musk. Which is largely performative. But you can't replicate the Twitter experience outside of Twitter.

Note how none of the big accounts are leaving. A true departure means deleting your account. Nobody does it. They keep rambling on about Mastodon yet fail to get even 5% of their followers there. They keep coming back to say how great Mastodon is, but never actually leave Twitter. Some may deactivate their account but never delete it. They know very well that a big following on Twitter cannot be recreated anywhere else.

The other thing the alternatives cannot replace is Twitter's news factor. Whether it is sports, coverage of war, whatever is happening in the world, it's happening in real time on Twitter. Absolutely never on Mastodon.
I would say it's because they are stressed about problems that are much too big for them. A single person has essentially 0 influence over politics, climate change, and social issues, yet people spend hours a day getting fed news and hot takes over these issues, on any side of the political spectrum. Surely ingesting so much of this content will impact your mental health. If it turns into some sort of productive action, that's great, but that may not be the natural response for everyone.
One of my professors in grad school was really into wine and every couple of years he would put on an after-hours wine tasting class for a semester. One of the points he made was that there are absolutely wines which are objectively better and worse and that experts can reliably tell them apart. He had met enough experts who could identify a vineyard and vintage blind to know there was something to it. But sitting on top of that there is a frothy market that is driven by fads, speculation, and hype.

He was of the opinion that generally speaking the quality of a typical wine increases monotonically with price up until around the $40 range with the big steps around the $5, $10, and $20 price points. But above $50 or so, you're no longer paying for higher quality, per se. It's more that you are paying for a unique flavor profile and reliability. But unless you're seeking out that particular flavor profile, you can get a bottle that is just as good for $30-40 (and occasionally even cheaper). And above a few hundred dollars it's all just fads, speculation, and hype. (He liked to say that the people who buy those wines have "more money than sense.") They're good wines, but you can get a bottle that is just as good for a fraction of the price.
A friend of mine from uni was really into wine. Won the varsity wine tasting competition. He bought a case of Italian reds because he knew it was his weakness. You absolutely can get good at wine, but not from casually drinking a glass every so often. Like all disciplines it takes practice.
Your understanding seems to be based completely off the agitprop the media passes off as "news" and the politicians push for donations. Provoking fear and anger is the preferred way to capture your attention. It's time to get out of the echo chamber and stop falling for it.
In the case of "S" and "M", those wages are below median for the country and in some cases not even livable for the first 6 years of a career [1, 1a], and people struggle with rent well into middle age [2]. For better or worse, Science and Mathematics are case studies in "limitless immigration" and the result is wage suppression to the point of not being able to afford rent on a shared apartment and food at the same time.

NB: this isn't an argument against immigration. We should welcome all. But we should also truly require reasonable prevailing wages, no matter what. Otherwise everyone loses.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03478-x

[1a] graduate students are often instructors of record on courses and conduct funded research. These are jobs.

[2] https://www.science.org/content/article/professors-struggle-...
It remains to be seen if this is the beginning of a new century of US dominance thanks to the US's relatively good demographics or if the iceberg has hit the titanic and we don't know it yet. Your reasoning may contribute to convincing some top talent to skip the US but my bet is that if the economic winds change due to an empire in decline then those scenarios you listed become magnified.
It really depends a lot on the region. For example, price and quality don't correlate that much in Burgundy. It's easy to spend a few hundred dollars on a mediocre bottle.
Likely TurboTax 2022, it's the only thing I'll really need.
It is a tradition there? What is the name of that wine?
Curious if you'd say the same about Microsoft Windows. They never show banner ads anywhere in the product but they do advertise their own apps and services (and like the App Store on iPhone, they advertise apps you can install from their Microsoft Store).

IMO, both Microsoft and Apple are showing me ads I don't want to be shown.
I am someone on an H1B visa myself. FAANG lobbies for things that make it easier for them to control H1B's in any way they can, while showing that they're all for a better experience for visa workers.

Few instances were FAANG lobbied against immigration proposals or supported proposals which would give them a bigger advantage:

1. The Republican sponsored immigration bill in 2007, proposed to let applicants be able to apply for green card themselves, and that corporations would not be permitted to apply for green cards for their visa workers. Big tech objected, with their real motive being that if visa workers didn't require them for filing their green card applications, then that way they couldn't keep these workers for long enough in the few years that it takes for them to finish the application part of the green card process and for the worker to get their green card.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Immigration_Refo...

2. The infamous S-386 bill, which proposed that the country of birth quota be not applied to employment-based green card applications. FAANG heavily lobbied for it, not because it would make things a lot easier for the tons of Indian H1B visa workers (who form 75% of the H1b workforce in the US).

A congressional study had proved that if this bill were to become law, then this would only provide temporary relief to the many, many Indians in the green card backlog. In less than a decade, Indians and all other nationalities would be back to waiting for green cards for a few decades; currently, non-Indian and non-Chinese applicants get their green cards within two years of starting the green card process. FAANG supported this bill, because if it were to become law then they'd be able to keep their visa workers around, irrespective of nationality, a lot longer than usual.

Source: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46291

Pages 10 and 11 are of particular interest in the congressional study.

As an Indian H1B myself, S386 was a piece of shit proposal, which would only help Indians who applied for green cards between 2011 and 2017'ish (no wonder they were and still are the most vocal supporters of that bill). Everyone else would still have to keep waiting for a few years to decades, including the ROW categories that have no waiting period at all.
There are zero subjective calls there, however. My choices are objectively correct and laid down by God Himself, all others are ontologically evil.
There's this really interesting dynamic here, I would never buy an Alexa- why? Because it's an Amazon machine in your home optimized to bankrupt you. We all kind of know it, the aim is for Alexa to figure out ways to monetize you. But having said that, a smart speaker should make money! It's a bit of low margin consumer tech, massive volume. The only way you lose money on that is by.... hiring a load of AI engineers to figure out how to exploit your customers. It's also kind of funny, you sold all these devices at cost.... but why? Apple's homepod sucks, and you (hope) you're clearly differentiated against Google. So why not actually just make money selling it.

I'm just mad once again, that I didn't get the benefit of venture subsidized consumer products.
It is interesting you say this. While I have never been diagnosed ADHD I have been diagnosed with anxiety and was on SSRIs for about a year, which did help tremendously, but there were side effects and ultimately I decided I was in a place I could manage without the medication and so far have.

I am interested in if you could elaborate on how ADHD medication helps you with anxiety.
Perhaps more like... 'engagement fatigue'? When it's truly rote or mindless work your brain can disengage and be somewhere else. With knowledge work you don't have that luxury, even when the work itself isn't what we could consider 'engaging', you nevertheless are obliged to be engaged mentally to carry it out. Do that long enough without deriving any satisfaction, it seems a perfectly sane reaction to want to escape the situation, or just plain shut off. It makes sense for our brains to realize we're spending a lot of brain focus and time on something that isn't activating any reward centers, and insist we stop doing that. That really seems like a fundamentally sensible and healthy response from a brain functioning properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164
I don't have synesthesia to any notable degree but what you're describing kind of makes sense as being it. Not tastes for me, but sounds can elicit such responses eg. a sound having graphite steel I can well imagine. Or other things that would baffle another person.

Frankly, "notes of blue and a hint of graphite steel" sounds too remote from normal experiences to be consciously made up - I mean, who's going to relate to that anyway?
Really love the idea of single tasking! All this talk about how to multitask more efficiently gets old pretty quickly
You only have to look at the relative scarcity of EV L2 chargers at Disney properties to see this first hand. How many Earth Day commercials have they run over the years? But a few bucks to support their own customers is too much?
Sterling (aka the GBP) is used outside the UK.

The United Kingdom also allows some regions to issue bank notes that are considered currency but not legal tender (i.e. then can be refused for payment of a debt in favour of currency issued by the Bank of England).

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterl...
ninja poops
Great to hear that they are working on this issue. Who will host the mailbox though?
I have not been active on chat groups for 20 years now, give or take, but I have been an anonymous user of both this website and of reddit for 15 years now, with varying levels of success. Were these 2 websites to ask me for my real identity I would just ditch them (even though, if one looks close enough, one can get to my real name by following some links to my projects I posted some time ago)

> If you really didn't care, there's a forum out there that works like that

I'm not really interested in the identity of people posting here, the same goes for reddit. As I said, I have been quite happy with this state of things for 15 years now. They might decide to change it going forward, but, then again, there's always other anonymous forums somewhere on the web.

Related to this, interesting how things have changed compared to, when was it?, 2012-2014?, i.e. when Google was pushing for the "real identity" stuff for their Google+ users. I remember the backlash from back then, almost none of it has remained.
While these groups are certainly present, they are a such a small tiny fraction of a percent, that you can live a happy life without seeing or worrying about them.

I lived in a small town that was known for white supremacy and in practice most people there could care less.
Some people say you can't tell the difference between Pepsi, Coke, and the diet versions of both, but I certainly can.

I've no doubt a sommelier can tell differences between wines.

What I do suspect is that you can enjoy moderately priced wines just as well as many more expensive ones.
It is true if the employer is considered H-1B dependent[0]. For employers with >51 employees if 15% or greater of the employees are H-1B workers then they must attempt to hire US workers first[1].

[0]: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/62o-h1b-recruit...

[1]: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/62c-h1b-depende...