skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What the company is not doing willingly is raising wages, which is the actual intent of the law.

That may be the intent of the law but it is so badly implemented that it takes 1 year to get a DOL certification that the wages are ok, then 3 months to prepare for a job opening and advertisements, 1 month to interview candidates and then file a PERM application with DOL again which takes another 9 months.

These timeframes are ridiculous. The tech industry changes much faster than the above timeframes. So employers are left with no choice but to "game" the system to retain their employees.

Until the US government figures out how to make the immigration process more efficient, there is no stopping the gaming. People don't live so long, companies don't survive so long. Employees don't stay at the company so long. Then, the only option left for these companies is to hire outside the US.
> Somebody on HN wrote that “ChatGPT can't write a paragraph of correct English without using the letter "e" no matter how hard you prompt it”.

> Prove them wrong.

> A vivid, bright sky with a warm sun radiating down cast a tranquil ambiance upon all. Amidst such calm, jovial animals frolic, and fragrant flora bloom, bringing forth a vivid symphony of colors. In this oasis of harmony, humans laugh and bond, crafting blissful unions that withstand tumultuous trials. A world without discord, full of unity and optimism, is what our aspirations should aim for.
Likewise, it's not that hard for me to imagine one where it does eventually happen.
Because it’s not hosting the apps directly - it’s a sideloaded app manager really - I could create my own repo and send the source to people and they could browse it and download an app from my repo via AltStore. I think there are only 2 native apps in AltStore available, one is an emulator and another is a clipboard manager.
I believe that was the case with Amazon until a couple of weeks ago.

Now your manager can no longer approve it, and even if your manager did previously approve it you might need to request approval from a higher authorisation level.
Biomedical engineering background here. You didn’t mention anything about the quality of the resulting signal. My experience with with EEG was that you can only get a few bits/second of info. Is this still the case?
I've never understood why we aren't putting those hard problems into a backpack that you wear and is connected to a very lightweight head device.
More like it was almost relentlessly melancholy, peppered with some horrific violence, agonizing conflict, and the occasional brilliantly written, darkly funny moments. Humor was honestly a tiny fraction of the total time.

You can call it whatever you want, but I'm certainly not going to recommend it to friends as a black comedy. That's a surefire way to set them up for disappointment.
OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes
A Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
You share the majority of your DNA also with a banana - many of it is just “how to be a good eukaryotic cell”.
Cool, so are you actually using a LLM? If so, is it yours or are you borrowing someone else's (you mentioned that recent improvements in LLM's being a catalyst as the right time to tackle it)?

If not, I'd definitely like to hear more about your specific AI model.
Nice.

I like how styles are defined up top and referenced thereafter.

Maybe modify the header from 'lisp' to a shebang, like:

#!tinyvg
Is this Windows only app?
I live in the highest density cycling city in North America (Montreal) and this is not anecdotal. A huge portion of my office cycle-commutes to work, and the vast majority do not shower. This was doubly-true before I worked at my current company, where there weren't showers, and still most people used bikes to commute.

At what point do anecdotes from people who actually live this experience day to day become more useful to listen to than theories from people who don't?
I think the rural/city better for the environment is a bit of cherry picking of statistics. It's important however to respect what's good for each of us. For me, living in the city meant shitty health outcomes, spending way too much money on rent and food, way too many people trying to stick a hand in my pocket for entertainment etc.

For me a good life means dark skies, green trees, a chance of dying every time I go for a hike, and a garden in my backyard.

If you are a city person, that's great, fantastic and I hope that you can stay there but if you have to move out to suburban/rural spaces, don't bring the city with you. Leave the light pollution, the noise, and all those urban attributes in the city.
"Well. Their main audience was pirates. A group of people that dislike being bothered by intrusive ads, dislike the threats to their privacy that ads pose, and prefers to not pay for access to files because information should be free, or at least prefers to pay as little as possible for access."

*thieves
Lazy is almost never the right word: https://sonnet.io/posts/hummingbirds/
Nobody seems to mention the fact that most of VR games out there require using the hard-to-familiarize hard-to-memorize joysticks to interact with the game.

I own a Valve Index and I mostly don't play it because of it's just really a hassle to have to physically stand up (or even seated) and to wave your arms around, only to forget how to reload your damn gun after a couple of weeks/months of not playing.

I wish that people built simple keyboard-and-mouse VR games that I could enjoy the VRness of the experience using my fingers and palms like I'm used to in the past 30 years.

I want CSGO VR, not a good-looking-cheap-knock-off that I need to figure out how to reload each gun and where to draw the grenade from. I want Cities Skylines VR where I can see my city from above wherever I look.
I want Red Alert VR.

The most enjoyable games I currently have that is worth whipping VR out for are those I can play with a regular XBox controller which I'm quite familiar with already.
it's worth noting that most collisions don't happen at full speed (and combination of velocity matters a lot).
I don't have any hard numbers, but I would assume that their userbase was significantly tech-savvy compared to the general population, so the percentage of visitors using an adblocker would have been higher as well.
I was referring to a nuance that’s easy to overlook. As you say the coal power plant needs to heat up a boiler to operating temperatures before it’s turbine can generate power. Yet, that’s still not enough for maximum efficiency.

Cold pipes and turbine blades steal energy from the steam. Similarly the boiler is less efficient when fed cold water vs hot water from the condenser. Thus the startup process is more involved than just how long it takes to start generating power.

The most efficient coal power plants are actually double-reheat which takes even long to get up to optimal conditions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency
I'm curious and asking in good faith, $150k in CA seem to translate to just over $100k take home. Looking at Zillow there seem to be an abundance of places all over the bay area around $2.5k (1bdrm) and $3.5k (2bdrm) which sound not too bad on one and 2 incomes respectively, just like what everyone else is doing, around a third of your income. I don't get why you're assuming one would have commute 2 hours a day. Is transit that bad even if you're close to where you work? I honestly don't get it fully. Don't get me wrong, it sucks and I wish housing was cheaper but I think that's just the way it is now for everybody that has to work in person somewhere. And 25% of your take home income spent on housing isn't too bad at all and that's at the lower end of the spectrum GP is talking about here ($150k-$200k).
> Interesting, where I am I see crows chasing hawks a lot. Maybe it is due to population density. There are many more crows than hawks here.

It's pretty common to see smaller birds chasing larger birds in the air. Crows chase hawks, jays chase crows, etc. Once the bigger bird lands, little birds seem to give up chase.
As a Canadian kid, I spent summers in Portugal, in my mom's hometown. My grandfather ran the local newsstand, and I spent a lot of my summer vacation reading English computer magazines.

It was a completely different world than the North American magazines we'd get back in Canada. I'd come home, after vacation, with magazines with tapes and eventually floppies.

I don't think I'd be the nerd I am today without those magazines!
I use an app called "iSH" which gives you an x86 Alpine Linux distro and a shell you can play around with. It's pretty useful whenever I need to ssh into something, and if you're patient you can actually do some programming on it with vim or whatever text editor you want. Even clang works!
> In this case the solution is not to further calcify their work, but to...solve the actual issue, via UBI and the like.

Are you going to buy the necessary number of congressmen to make this happen? Because the people being aggrieved certainly can't afford to--and so "well just pass UBI" is the "just draw the rest of the owl" flavor of not-helping.
Why not convert it into a SaaS? Have a B2C option that is pretty cheap and then a more expensive option for businesses. This would massively reduce the usage of resources, which is a good thing given that they seem not to be able to pay for the servers, traffic and storage. With 45 million visitors you have huge potential for converting leads into paying customers.
Glad to hear it. The biggest barrier for me is parking it at home. I don't have an indoor space big enough for a cargo bike and don't want to leave a $8-10,000 bike exposed to the elements and thieves (regardless of insurance).
I see lots of folks in the comments assuming what would happen when you bike drunk, seemingly not ever having done so themselves or seen it.

I live in a student city in the Netherlands (Groningen), where most students go out on the town by bike. It's really not much more dangerous than walking drunk. And it's very much preferable to driving drunk.

Thousands of students park their bikes in the city's central underground bike parking spots every weekend. I have never heard of someone dying because biking drunk. The biggest danger for any bike, drunk or not, remains the car.
This is also reflected in the enforcement of laws by the police. Although driving drunk, and being drunk in public is not allowed, fining cyclists for this is rarely enforced. Partially because the consequences are not too bad, and partially to make sure people don't drive home drunk instead to avoid a fine.

According to the Dutch central bureau of statistics in 2021, out of all deaths of cyclists 34% are due to losing consciousness, getting a foot stuck in the wheels, making a wrong movement, or due to bad road conditions and slipperiness. Out of this 34%, 72 % is over the age of 70. https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2022/37/meer-fietsdoden-na-e...
This story highlights to me the lack of ability to schedule messages, or define any kind of retry logic configuration, on virtually all SMS apps. Why don't devs even try to build these features in?
How to Create Suspense as a Writer
Love the idea of padding out the real code with interlaced randomness. Is this something that is present in any other codes? I guess once you know it's random then it no longer serves its purpose, but it stumped them for a while...
Btw all these costs would be zero if remote work was legally mandated.

But remote work showed how high they would have to pay to retain talent in a real free market environment.

So unsurprisingly everyone forced a return to office policy.
Many tech giants have made huge layoffs recently. What's going on here? Does this spell the end of the era of tech growth and what will happen next?
"404-y"

<https://kemendo.com/blog/TEOTWAWKI.html>
The duality of mankind. On one hand, we have skeptics asserting that LLMs are masters of malarkey. On the other, we've got those regurgitating the verbal gymnastics of said LLMs. But lo and behold, there exists a third breed: those who delight in deciphering the eloquent dance between the bullshitters and the bullshitted.
Wikipedia is literally telling you there’s a difference between the abstract study of the logic that underpins how we approach designing and programming computers, and the actual tools and processes used to do so, and you’re just ignoring it. IDK how else to help you.

Nobody is arguing that computers don't compute. Why are you stuck on that minutia?
Well I think climate change is objective fact, but this link is wildly emotional.

"Final Warning" "act now or it's too late" sounds like a late-night infomercial selling me something.

If I were running the report I'd try to write it in a manner that is scientific and thus emotionally indifferent to every outcome. Science doesn't care whether any special dies or not (humans or not). If you can't look at climate science with an indifference to the death of the species, you probably can't run statistics neutrally, which gives a lot of room for doubt (fair or not).
> what people of your bent say unironically"

Fair enough. I am certainly of that bent, and proud (ie. smug if you prefer) about it.

I don't see irony and hyperbole as equivalent though. I am serious that bicycles are an excellent invention, certainly in the context of personal mobility, most certainly contrasted with horrid technology like cars. So unironic in that sense. But certainly hyperbole, as in, "best" invention, that's hard to determine. There's millions of axes on which to judge inventions, can't really put them all on a single line, and find "good, better, best".

> no shortage of people saying more or less exactly the same thing unironically

I was joking, doubling down on the original premise of exaggeration, I thought that was obvious.
Yes, this Windows only (11/10/8/7) software. But it works fine on Vmware / Parallels virtual machines on Mac.
Yes, because Amazon can afford to lose money that a small business cannot. They can unfairly "squeeze" small businesses out by taking a prolonged hit until the little guy can't afford to operate anymore. That's what makes them a monopoly, because they have an unfair advantage over smaller businesses. Looking through your comment history it seems you require a source for every little thing you disagree with, so here. Its called Price Dumping. Only reason Amazon hasn't done so is because they know the US and EU will smack them with a lawsuit they would not be able to win:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices

If we truly care about capitalism, we need to make sure that the little businesses get just as fair of a shot as the early adopters. The market cannot balance itself out if one player dominates all others.
Not easy at home in London. Our flat would not allow a cargo bike (1st floor) and there is no where outside to lock it safe and dry.

60,000 people on a 4 year waiting list for on street bike parking:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-cyclists-bike-...
> The JEP is a Preview Feature meaning the Foreign Function & Memory API (hereafter "FFM") will not be a final feature in JDK 21. I think some of us hoped it could make it into finality in 21. However, my personal opinion is that the API is very unlikely to change in any significant way and what we are seeing in 21 will be very close to the final FMM API.

One thing I really appreciate about Java and the JEP process is the careful attention to detail and avoid breaking changes. So if it takes a few extra cycles, I'm all in. It's worth getting it right the first time.

FFS, stuff I downloaded from Node _5m ago_ is already deprecated.
Gitea actions looks neat though I'm not sure how you are meant to run windows or mac-centric workflows with it since the runtime (nektos/act) seems to require docker. If its not possible that might limit its usefulness somewhat...
I'm being charitable by saying "model". Greta was just making shit up when claiming the world would be doomed in 5 years back in 2018. But models don't explain what will happen in the future, they predict and they bake in a lot of assumptions. Any model that predicted an ice free Glacier National Park by 2023 was simply wrong, and it was doubly wrong to post signage that stated the prediction as fact.
No, you can look at all their briefings here: https://www.generalist.com/briefings. They don't really branch out beyond software startups and big businesses, and don't seem to be interested in smaller-scale entrepreneurship.
I think the point was exactly that - even it the Quest numbers don't look so bad when compared with XBox / PS5, they Quest ecosystem is actually peanuts when compared to the XBox or PS5 ecosystems.
This isn’t advice. People get a lot older nowadays. I recon food(safety and available) makes a big contribution to that.

Moderns food is pretty good. Just keep your diet varied and sane.
I have used are – for many projects and it is wonderful. But as others have indicated, be mindful of whether or not Bash is the right tool for the task at hand.
I think FAANG centric folks underestimate how many fairly big orgs are in the same situation.

Big top down push to move to public cloud, basically no thought to operating expenses.. and now theres a ton of low hanging fruit. Most of these same firms have very little ability to measure their costs in a timely, granular manner, and so put in only very blunt processes to try to limit costs.

Last org I was at could probably re-allocate 10% of engineering staff using the cloud to a SWAT team finding cloud cost saves for 2 years before they ran out of stuff that costs 5x their salary to get fix/optimize/kill in the cloud.

A lot of the same orgs CTOs sold themselves on the idea that they'd need less infra people in the cloud. This really has not been the case, and more often the cloud infra people are more expensive too. Meanwhile many need to permanently maintain an on-prem footprint for latency/legal/legacy/etc reasons.. so you end up with net more staff.

I know a handful of Wall St firms that are moving a lot of "big data" type use cases back out of the cloud because its hideously expensive for their use cases.
>21 year olds won't know very much of anything in general.

Then that's a failing of whatever education system they were in, not of their age. Infantilizing 21 year olds even further, isn't doing them, or anybody else any favors.
The iPad is the new sketchbook (2020)
AI Predictions: Who Thinks What, and Why?
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Yeah I'd love to press my face into a greasy demo headset at the local Walmart.

The hygiene aspect of VR is under-appreciated.
one major difference is that someone who is incredibly drunk can still drive a car at 100kmph, but they can't balance well enough to ride their bike.
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People with excellent and accurate risk estimation and assessment work as actuaries, or accountants, certain kinds of insurance brokers, something nice and safe where you can do good work for 35 years and retire. The quintessential "brown volvo" driver.

To work as an actuary, it is better if you are rather on the risk-averse side (i.e. err into this direction instead of having a tendency for excellent and accurate risk estimation) because insurance companies and regulatory authorities are very biased into this direction.
The City of London allows corporations to vote because its existence as local authority predates anything else that exists in the UK. Mentions of The City of London's special rights exist in the Magna Carta, and it was never included in any of the local authority voting reforms the occurred since its creation.

The local population number have absolutely nothing to do with the existence of corporate votes in The City of London. It's not even the smallest local authority by population, the Isles of Scilly are, and corporations have no votes there.
It sounds like your underarching problem here is housing costs.
I have, but you glossed over my point.

What's wrong with a compatibility layer with npm if it's implemented properly?

His views on package.json and implementing a compatibility layer to help others transition from node are not mutually exclusive.

The support for node is pretty simple. Using NPM packages is straight forward. Reading a package.json file and using those mappings isn't complex either. Deno does not use node_modules in any of those instances...
Theft is a difficult charge to lay when it is a replication; a result of memcpy'ing something from one location to another.

It might be something else, but it isn't the same as nicking your car keys or tunic.
There's also the slight quirk of geography that it's next to the Thames, so therefore at the bottom of a hill, almost completely flat.

TfL had the good fortune and opportunity to repurpose two lanes of Upper Thames St. and Victoria Embankment (one single road) into cycle lanes, and also Southwark Bridge.

Without that last part, there's pretty much no other major 'through' routes that could be made safe for cyclists in the City. If there aren't any protected bike no one uses them. The vast majority of journeys into the City are along that new cycle 'superhighway'.
> The days of companies being evaluated at their peak purely because they are "tech" is over.

Agreed. WeWork being the prime example of something that was evaluated as "tech" despite being anything but.
It's as if some people would not understand that being able to afford something still makes it a bad buy if the price/value is inadequate.

It's a consoomer world and we're just living in it. Voting with the wallet seems to be a forgotten phrase. Games, software, media and electronics are so overpriced currently and people swallow it without a second thought.
Yes, definitely. Not disagreeing with you, just adding color and an anecdote.

The broader point that we can't just turn these things on and off is 100% correct, and one of the (many) things that people don't understand when talking about the power system and emissions.

I don't know the details of wind and solar, but any system that deals with hundreds-to-thousands of megawatts can't just be spun up on a dime. Make a mistake, and things blow up.
Unused resources do not gobble up real hardware.

Real inefficiencies do, but then you will have the more detailed data the GP is talking about.
I refer you to this delightful paper: "Bacterial Load of Virtual Reality Headsets"

> The results of these tests indicated that the Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from the headsets possessed high levels of antibiotic resistance.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3385956.3418958
Considering you're using an nondeterministic way of generating the transformation (LLM) what sort of guarantee do I get that it will work correctly and do what I want?

Is my proprietary data stored on your servers (database schema, rows, etc.)? If so what safety guarantees do I get?
That's a good problem to solve, but I wish it would be solved using standards, not with yet another service. Anyway, good luck to the founders!
For the people I interview for positions having a CS degree actually will bias me against them. CS degrees are great for academia, they are absolute garbage for anything real-world.
From what I remember, Dahl considered node_modules one of the big blunders, which afaict they have avoided with Deno.
Who - WHO - thought that naming something new 'the ReAct framework' in 2023 was a reasonable choice.
Probably realize they don't have to when Twitch is cutting creator profits and laying people off.
Deno seems to have decided to try to solve problems by facing the past. This is really good.