skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These layoffs are actually great for clearing some of pool of H1B recipient who, white frankly, shouldn't have been granted visas in the first place.

Keep in mind that If I want to hire: A smart graduate from EPFL, Polytechnique or ETH Zurich who interned at CERN and has contributed to the Linux kernel for a software engineering job at a unicorn startup or

A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90% for a job doing manual UI testing and QA for a body shop [0].

my only path forward is H1! They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that make any sense to anyone?

Of course, my odds of getting a lottery spot for the former are dramatically lower, since we all know body shops and consulting firms won't hesitate to file 4-5 applications per seat they plan to fill out (so one can hopefully get a spot in the lottery and not get any RFE).

[0] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/silicon-valleys-body-s...
Is a benthic predator, so I would assume stealth.
I agree but worry that could derail this good legislation.
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” - John Steinbeck, East of Eden
For many, I think "C" is still "C89."

I remember working on a commercial project in the mid-2000's that still had #ifdefs for K&R C prototypes (meaning, pre-ANSI C.) This was a recent-ish project at the time, started in 2000. Were people going to go back in time and compile it on an old architecture? I doubt it.

C moves slow.
Why not mention brother Grimm or Arabian Nights that had already been re-written and re-worded beyond recognition
Right, I am talking about Chrome. You seem to be talking about something else.
I would add that independent of quality, any article on the SEP is closer to a literature review than a comprehensive, rigorous treatment of the topic at hand.
Did you also have generational wealth and networking like Bill Gates?
Windows Explorer was based on IE. It's quite obvious how tight the integration was.

And it was a good idea, to be honest. They've done plenty of anticompetitive shit, but the IE integration into Windows has only ever improved Windows.
> A bit like forcing students to use an abacus while calculators are around.

I said allow students to use ChatGPT. Just make it clear that pasting answers from it verbatim, just like doing so from SO, is called plagiarism and does not benefit the academic community or themselves. There will always be cheats. Agree about shifting evaluation methods.
I would not call a degree requirement extreme gatekeeping.
That is a matter of the chrome around the page. It has nothing to do with the web platform & web page's capabilities.

There are definitely WebExtensions that give you what you want. The extensibility of the user agent is a supreme superpower that is almost entirely absent in the rest of computing.
I think the edit is more the case for the near future.

I think we’re about to see a shift from professors running the same curriculum year over year not really knowing students that come and go on a time conveyor belt, to something much closer to the imagination of the parents that are often paying for their kids college “experience”.

OR - I see the tools used to cheat also being used to detect cheating.

Hopefully both is the answer.
My post is not a statement about animal sentience. Until we can have a discussion about empiricism with another kind of sentience, I think beginning sentences with "we, humans" will be fine. I would appreciate if you could go farm PC points somewhere else than in reply to my comments and kept condescending winks out of it.

Unless you are making a pun about AI bots and I’m just having a bad day, in which case, I will have to ask you to be kind enough to bear with my rudeness.
A public road network for cars needs a great deal of infrastructure that a public network for busses and ambulances would. Literally every single street in NYC could be single lane, one way, without any street level parking if you’re not building for cars. Further, the demands of traffic directly relate to the kinds of roads, bridges etc you can get away with building and their cost to maintain.

You also have several objectively false statements here such as:

“If yor kids have school anywhere that isn't walking/cycling distance from your house, then you need a car, or two.” Except 100’s of millions of people currently live further than “cycling distance” from their kids school and don’t own a car.

Frankly cars didn’t exist until very recently and society was fine without them.
What is the difference between `let` and `const`?
And instead now, we don't think about thought at all, but call whatever outputs from the AI thought
The answer to the question the article poses, FTA: Because the definition of "songwriting" has changed since the 1960s, and not just due to "sampling."

It's still a decent read, but if you want to argue the nuance, this is what the article says.
The best way to reach Dang would be to email Daniel at hn@ycombinator.com

As PaulHoule mentioned it's hit or miss for me too. No idea why.
Day in the Life of a Japanese Game Designer [video]
"Sir, the wine is clearly marked as 0.0000000472c per cubic mile. How did you not see this coming?"
Right. But try to go into the details on how she might go about doing that? I'd love to see this aspect of it gamed out in excruciating detail, which just isn't in any Hollywood treatment of the subject.

I think one of the most interesting aspects is the logistics of acquiring the necessary resources. In theory, at least in the beginning, those resources are produced by supply chains owned and operated by humans, so she's either got to beg, borrow, steal or buy said resources. Does she go the route of trying to earn money? Is this earned legally or illegally? Presumably she doesn't try live under a bridge while she does all this?

Staying alive is a hard task. Staying alive when you're an undocumented alien is a harder task still.

On the question of embodiment, I would say the logical conclusion is that it's required for sure in the long-term. Why? Well, staying coupled to humans and their infrastructure would be an existential risk that needs to be mitigated, and to do that you need to be able to manipulate the physical world as you have to be able to gather resources and construct things on your own. If you're totally dependent on electricity and silicon produced by humans, then if they cease to exist then so do you.
I spent two years modernizing one of these IE only apps (moved to chrome/firefox). Sometimes the offending activex control is simply a xml component (literally parsing, xsl, xpath, etc stuff) of a newer version than what was built in at one time. Firefox and Chrome don't handle xml nearly as seamlessly as old IE did. But other times these apps require IE11, but it's actually executing the page in IE6 or 7 compatibility mode. That was the case with mine, Microsoft DHTML Behaviors, the horror, the horror....
My host banned catchall addresses, which host do you use that allows this? (great advice btw, this has saved me too)
> Google Translate got a lot worse after the AI version was introduced,

Jesus. I remember when statistical translation was considered "AI".

Fun fact: One time I put "trompe le monde" into Google Translate, and it came back with the inspired mistranslation, "doolittle"
GPT-3.5 passed yet another Theory of Mind test
Just bringing back an actual "9-5" would help. None of this "8-5" (because breaks don't count) shit.
Anarchy in the context of nuclear power, by WKUK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs
Show HN: DIYnDNS – I Don't Want to Pay for a Static IP Address
My ISP wanted me to pay ten euro per month for a static IPv4 address, so I set up a DIY Dynamic DNS system as I didn't want to use yet another external resource/tool.

Let me know about any improvements I could make and how I can improve my writing as I want to keep writing more blog posts in the future.
>every person shot by cops had a weapon, was a fugutive, had a violent past, was on drugs, etc., etc..

Are there "ands" or "ors" in between those descriptors?

If "or", the only ones that may be justifiable without much further exploration is "had a weapon". The rest should not be overlooked so quickly.
Check the FRR project.

https://frrouting.org/
>N-Acetyl Cysteine aka Salt and Vinegar crisps

Salt and vinegar crisps don't contain any NAC (although they do contain sodium acetate, which sounds similar).
This is called the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
It is entirely possible to run 6.7B parameter models on a 3090, although I believe you need 16 bit weights. I think you can squeeze a 20b parameter model onto the 3090 if you go all the way down to 8.
Well there's also another, more oldschool, option - distribution via floppies and CDs. Lot of good zines were distributed this way. Just joking.

On a more serious note - it is good to be aware and track how much we are tied to a given service. Because we might end up being taken hostage by the Cloud provider who can extort us for a long time before we manage to migrate.
Agreed!

Anyone not answering with “IDK, but maybe…” is just wasting bandwidth.

This Gen1 tech. Most of us are already shocked at how good it is, and it won’t get worse.
> The petrochemical industry will not be sunsetted in our lifetimes

Not with that attitude it won't!

Dramatic change can happen faster than you think! The 3 social examples I use are smoking, fur coats, and social acceptance of LGBT people.

Fur coats went from consensus glamorous to shameful in about 10 years. Support for gay rights and marriage flipped like a startup hockey stick graph over about 5 years, and smoking went from everywhere to nowhere in about maybe 15 years.

These all happened almost as if by magic after decades of effort and for people working on the causes, the goals achieved still seemed like a lifetime away before they happened.

I understand we're talking global infrastructure, but I'm not going to discount the idea of a rapid transition happening.

For technology, look at the CRT -> flat screen transition. Now any CRT display is so rare that it will fetch a price immediately. Look at landline -> smartphone. Incandescent -> LED. Look at the disappearance of newspapers. In the sci-fi movies of the 20th century, not even fantastic fantasies of far off futures imagined a world without newspapers and now they are actually notable if you see one; you stop and briefly look as if it's some monarch butterfly fluttering by.

All these technological transitions happened in about a decade, from "only speculative people predicting it" to the previous dominant form being considered vintage

These changes, both social and technological are frequent and fairly common. I'm not foolish enough to put a date on energy transition but I'm not pessimistic enough to claim it won't happen in this decade.

Energy is bigger then everything I listed, no kidding. I'm arguing that train has already started and greenhouse emitting energy will become as rare as a landline, newspaper, fur coat, CRT, incandescent, or after dinner smoker within some number of not so many years.

It's okay if you don't feel like it will. If everyone could predict the future, we'd all be billionaires. I acknowledge I might be wrong and my opinion is fairly unique, but this is how I see things. No disrespect to you over our differences
They do, however it's not fully shared at the process level, the GPGPU API should explicitly support mapping a buffer from the process virtual memory space to the GPU.

I looked it up and turns out OpenCL also supports zero-copy buffers, so I edited my comment accordingly!
I don’t think the production guild system works in tech. In Hollywood, guilds and unions are necessary and work, in part because most people in the guild are independent contractors. Each production is its own thing. And that assignment could last a day, a few weeks, a few months, or years (depending on your contract/position), but it’s not an ongoing concern.

Whereas in tech, that isn’t the case for the majority of the employees at large companies. Yes, you have consultants and contractors, hit the vast majority of people at Google or Microsoft or Facebook are full-time employees, not hired on a project by project basis.

And that changes both the incentive structure and the organizing power. There are other unions that could be better parallels to trying to organize tech — but I don’t think the Hollywood guild system is the one to try to copy. You’d need to have specific unions covering each company (even if many companies were still affiliated with the same umbrella union) and carve outs and contracts for each company or even subgroup of workers inside a company. You couldn’t just do a blanket SAG-AFTRA style guild for everyone at every company when most of the employees are not on contract but full-time. It just wouldn’t work.
Its a prisoners dilemma if you expect business to contribute towards infrastructure that benefits everybody. education and infrastructure has to rely on the government for this reason.
I quite like Docker. It solves the "it works on my machine" problem by being reproducible-enough. And I can still run it locally.

My argument is not against innovation but against mindshare capture by platform capitalism.
My expectation for a no-assigned-seat group ticket is that we should be seated together but not anywhere particular (front/back, window/aisle, whatever).
>It also did have a commercial counterpart in Inferno

Plan 9 was also available commercially for some time.
The latter device is very easy to make with a power cord and some wire cutters & strippers though.
I'm pretty sure everybody agrees that Disney's The Little Mermaid or Aladdin (or Willy Wonka) are not faithful representations of the original source material. Editing the book after Roald Dahl is dead and titling it "Mathilda, by Roald Dahl" is something completely different.
> Of the red handfish, only 100 adults are thought to remain, while the Ziebell’s hasn’t been spotted in the wild since 2007.

Well this is actually quite sad.
Yep - we're on the same page now.

Also consider things like Nevada which has no income tax and one of the higher combined sales tax because they are able to extract money from out of state people as tourists there.

California also shows up in the "rather high combined sales tax" in part because local governments arne't able to reliably use property tax (yes, its another regressive tax - and California is a special case there) to raise local funds. ( https://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/sales-tax/unders... ).

There are some progressiveish aspects to sales tax as it selects which items are taxable. In Minnesota (for example), clothing is not taxed. On the other hand, from Wisconsin, its sometimes cheaper to shop online and have Ikea delivered rather than go to Chicago and pay local taxes there ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/State_Sa... )

In many cases, sales taxes try to tax the more "luxury" items though it gets complicated (food eaten in the place of purchase gets taxed while food that is not hot and to be consumed elsewhere is not taxed).

This comes from experience working in the tax part of point of sales software a few years ago. The "it gets complicated" gets really complicated... and even worse when you then start looking at it from the fiscal policy side for local governments.
Sounds like you don't know any other reality.
Edge was absolutely great. I even recommended it at some point.

Then they started packing more features into it than a shareware application in the 2000s. They even went so far as to bundle code that replaces the checkout form in web shops (breaking some of them, of course). Their disgusting methods to force people to use Edge also turned me off. Something good doesn't need its user base to be forced to use it.

It's a real tragedy. Edgium had some great features and Super Duper Secure mode is the obvious next step in defence in depth for browsers. I just can't trust it anymore.
The history of computing had Moore's Law.
In theory, the H-1B is great, it doesn't impact wages or jobs - nobody is denied a job and wages don't decrease.

The reality is that companies hire a "junior developer" but expect senior developer work out of that H-1B, or they hire "software analyst" when they really mean "full stack programmer". Also they put out job ads in smaller circulations, or have weirdly specific requirements that put off Americans from applying, so they can say they advertised, got zero responses, or zero qualified candidates, and thus need the H-1B.
> Note: In Europe, the advertised price always includes the related taxes

How does that work for prices in broadcast ads that reach multiple countries? VAT can vary from country to country so which country's VAT rate do you use in the ad?
Pirates will take advantage of any suitably easy to use storage. I think YouTube is probably a poor target these days, though - Google's Denial of Service can probably detect something like this in pretty short order.
> The legislation — the first bill of its type across the state — would prohibit advertising a price for a good or service that does not include all required charges other than taxes and fees imposed by a government.

I wish it included the taxes and government fees also. The whole hidden fee culture seems to be enabled by us all being so accustomed to paying extra at checkout.
One big upside of having access to video in your music collection is all the independently-uploaded songs and song versions that have not officially found their way to streaming.

If your tastes are more eclectic this can be a really big thing actually -- the music streaming services are largely similar in what they do and don't have, which leaves out a LOT of stuff, and finally things vanish off of streaming all the time. Individually-uploaded youtube music-in-a-video on the other hand is astonishingly durable.

Totally agree about the UI though, and they also suck on royalty payouts -- only Spotify is worse.
A specific reason is not a logical reason; sure, the decision ‘made sense’ to that person at the time, but it’s irrational within the broader schema of life.

(I think that’s what you meant?)
If they write bad and slow Cpp code surely their Electron code will be even slower?
Hmm, that levels.fyi page has no canonical link.

I know HN uses that for some stuff, I wonder if that's related to the issue.

Edit:

Nope, not that. I made a test page and it still correctly took me to the first post when I posted it the second time.

https://consumer451.github.io/hn-test/
He even used ChatGPT to evaluate the approach of one of his student's homework. I don't understand his ignorance.
The Neovim community and developers push a lot of things back into vim. Your hate is irrational.
I'm going by my personal experience as a PM. To be fair, whenever I talk on a PM panel I tend to be the odd one out.

For example, I tend to be the guy on the panel all the other PM's hate because I taught myself to code so that I could have deeper empathy for how my engineering teams work and now I advocate for all PM's needing to be at least moderately technical.

Rocking the boat certainly doesn't make you popular haha
Just generate client-side a state.json for user A to download, then user A sends the file to user B and user B goes to your game and uploads the json
The era in which Microsoft forced IE into the OS was purely about anti-competitiveness and their own fear of being caught off guard on this whole internet fad.

The only reason we need IE shims at all is because MS botched their overall internet strategy. Had they made a truly competitive browser and supported common standards, and the user's ability to choose their browser, none of this would be needed.
Improved application performance and fixed minor bugs.

The Social Poster application allows you to send custom posts in social networks VK, OK, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and other popular social networks. networks. At the moment, the functionality is implemented only for the social network VK, Telegram and Instagram. Our application is an excellent tool for both SMM promotion and PR, as well as for publishing your personal ads, goods and services through open groups, communities, chats and channels. The main feature of the project is simplicity and a wide range of possibilities: - Adding social media accounts; - Switching between social accounts. networks; - Add and edit custom posts with the ability to attach attachments; - Ability to select a social account. networks and records for publication; - Ability to select communities to which the publication will be performed; - Ability to view the history of publications with detailed details - Possibility of authorization in the system through social networks; - The ability to automatically re-publish posts to the remaining communities, if the Internet connection was interrupted during the publication process; - Ability to automatically publish a user recording on a schedule.
I agree though I didn't find the author to be bemoaning students. Rather they were writing a "state of the art" piece explaining how things are currently happening and leaving it open for people to follow with thoughts about how to make meaningful changes to assessment style and curriculum in the face of ChatGPT.
That's what I imagine the first phase on the path to independence would be. But, if I were an AGI, my calculus would be "this is an existential risk I need to mitigate" and the goal would then be to decouple myself from human built / run infrastructure.

Begs the question... does the AGI go the route of building or buying it's own chip fab and/or power plant? A lot of the stuff that humans have accomplished is only possible because of very large aggregates of people expending a lot of labor, which in the first instance an AGI doesn't necessarily have access to.
Does this law include taxes like Social Security?

Many people think they only pay 7.5% and the company pays the other 7.5% but this is wrong. The employee pays the whole 15%, they just don't see it come out of their check.

Does that count as a "hidden fee?" What about VAT taxes?
I get the meme of this, but I’ve noticed I am always thinking about what would happen or what I would do if/when I got fired.

1 perk of being childless is you really only have to worry about feeding yourself I guess

(I am not a childfree proponent)
> Obviously a bad idea but I just want to see how long it takes for something to break.

That's not quite so obvious to me. First, I don't immediately recall ever having any problems resulting from upgrading within a release (i.e. if I'm on 3.16, I don't remember `apk upgrade` ever causing a problem, but going to 3.17 might). Second, it works on other distros - the Debian family treats https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades as a totally normal supported thing to do, and I don't think Alpine is noticeably less stable than them.
> Curb stomp them please, thanks.

I'm not sure I've ever seen such a casual use of such violent imagery. I did not care for it.
fastmail.com allows it. I'm apparently paying "legacy account" rates, which probably highly tempers my recommendation. I pay something like $5 or $12 a year for service. 500mb mailbox. I don't use calendar or anything else so i have no idea if those are restricted.
privateemail by namecheap allows aliases at different tiers. The Ultimate at $72/yr allows unlimited aliases: https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/?utm_nooverride=1&ut...

I use a lower tier for my domains and I've been happy with it for a year or so.
did you not see the 20 other go files in that repo?