skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> That practice, according to the agency, is in large part responsible for inflating demand for the visas to a record high this year, with 781,000 entries into the lottery for 85,000 visa slots.

> About 350,000 applicants for H-1B visas submitted one entry into the lottery this year, compared with about 307,000 last year.

> Some 96,000 people submitted multiple visa entries, for a total of about 408,000 entries.

> About 478,000 people competed for visas last year, a record at the time.

So, 350,000 (single entry submission applicants) + 96,000 (multiple entry submission applicants) = 446,000 unique applicants compared to 478,000 unique applicants last year.

That's 6.7% fewer unique applicants.
> Personal preferences, clannishness and racism of all varieties distorts the outcome and that by and large H1b has been hijacked to serve other goals.

It isn't lost on casual observers either. It's not just that there's an expectation that these roles will be filled with Indians, but Indians of a particular caste from a particular region of India.

It seems largely, in my opinion, to be the result of promoting Indians to executive leadership roles in engineering departments. When that happens, there becomes a clear driving factor towards growing the number of Indians from their origin region in that engineering department completely divorced from other goals. It's normal executive empire-building behavior, but recast through the lens of national and regional origin and ethnicity/caste.

One thing I like about the BU I work in is that we have a lot of staff around the world from many different places and have helped people immigrate to the US from many different places, but when I look around my company more broadly it's very heavily dominated by Indians in engineering, beyond any reasonable expectations. There are many talented people in Central and Eastern Europe, in Central America, and in South America that are completely ignored in favor of trying to hire more Indians particularly in many companies, including mine.

I've even been told before it's due to "cultural fit", which used to be a phrase used to discriminate against anyone that wasn't a straight white bro, and is now being used to discriminate against anyone that isn't an Indian from the same ethnic, caste, and regional origin as the rest of the team/hiring manager. It seems absurd to me that we're in a situation where someone can say that with a straight face for a team that's based in an office in a major US city, and truly expect that the only possible answer is to hire more Indians without considering anyone else.
haha I've had uICAL in a tab open for a week now, anticipating the plunge. ty for the experience :) guess i'll just hack the parser myself...

I'm also on esp32, and have been wanting to write more using the native esp-idf tooling. I'm comfortable with Arduino but now that I'm getting into things like sleep modes and low-level IO, my code is becoming a patchwork of Arduino pinMode and ESP-IDF gpio_hold_dis functions...
Did you click the link? Because it's clearly explained

edit Updating to be more technically correct:

> https://twitter.com/RobertFreundLaw/status/16517606508579020...

Basically, a retailer must prove they've actually sold a product at it's base price to a substantial amount of customers, to prove that the reduced/sale price is actually a sale price and not its base price. This prevents customers from believing they're getting a better deal than they are.

> The FTC rule says a former price needs to be “the actual, bona fide price at which the article was offered to the public on a regular basis for a reasonably substantial period of time.

Go to website > see 80% off > sign in to buy > no longer 80% off
I wonder how many people from Singapore actually want to move to the United States.
What the US needs for future nuclear power tech to get off the ground
That company changed their name because Marvel lawyers knocked on their door:

> Today marks an exciting moment in our company's history; we've chosen (at gunpoint) to rebrand the company from Jarvis to Jasper...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/jasperofficial/posts/4515798...
https://web.archive.org/web/20230428150518/https://www.nytim...
As another vegetarian, I'd much prefer to eat lab grown meat than real meat for both ethical and environmental reasons.

Food I already eat is produced in factories, including things like Quorn or Beyond Meat, and I don't find it off-putting whatsoever. For health reasons, I try to ensure the majority of my diet is home cooked plant-based whole foods, but that's only because the current evidence is diets based on "ultra processed food" are harmful. However, it doesn't seem to be at all clear yet on what specifically makes processed food diets harmful in aggregate, so I can't currently make an educated decision on whether one type of processed food is healthier than another. I just treat anything processed as junk food to be enjoyed occasionally, and the same would be true for me if we had viable lab grown meat.

By comparison, I find those occasional tiny maggots in farm-grown strawberries much more off-putting, but strawberries taste so good that I do my best to just focus on the free protein.
To be honest I don't think they care about it being alternative.

Just that people keep obnoxiously naming their projects after them for visibility.

Imo this is exactly how this kind of polite takedown should be used. If it highlighted it to you great because at least you know for sure it's not OpenAIs product.
Europe’s major new interplanetary spacecraft has a slight problem
TLA+ App Modeling Language Comes Correct with a Proper Foundation
Can scraps be versioned? Is it possible to see the available versions of a scrap? Could you add support for dependency management?

MVS is a nice and easy algo: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs
Wow this is cool as hell!!
Apple puts pressure on US banking sector by offering higher rate of return
Ohio has tons of problems, no one should ever put their infra in us-east-2 (shhhhhh...don't let the secret out )
I'd be extremely curious to see a lot of these people be presented with the bioreactor and the live cow, and pick which one they're going to eat.

"Icky" is ignorance.
Some humans can be consistent if we try some of the time.

Having done phone support in early parts of my career, I'd strongly dispute any notion that most humans can be consistent if we try for anything more than the shortest periods and following the very simplest of instructions.

Most people are really awful at maintaining the level of focus needed to be consistent, and it's one of the reasons we spend so much time drilling people on specific behaviours until they're it's near automatic instead of e.g. teaching people the rules of arithmetic, or driving, or any other skills and expecting people to be able to consistently follow the rules they've learnt. And most of us still keep making mistakes while doing things we've practised over and over and over.

LLMs are still bad at being consistent, sure, but I've seen nothing to suggest that is anything inherent.

I think one of the biggest issues with LLMs if anything is that they've gotten too good at expressing themselves well, so we overestimate the reasoning levels we should expect from them in other areas. E.g. we're not used to an eloquent answer from someone unable to maintain coherent focus and step by step reasoning because human children don't learn to speak like this before we're also able to reason fairly well, and that makes it confusing to deal with LLMs where relative stage of development of different skills does not match what we expect.
The Difference Between TypeScript Unions, Enums, and Objects
Rocket Feds assess Starship fallout; Sweden accidentally bombs Norway
Snoqualmie Tunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Hze1R8Gg8 (more of a hiking trail, but you can bike it if you have lights). Not purpose-built; it's an old train tunnel.
It's purple.

https://www.seattleartistleague.com/2018/10/09/the-wine-dark...
Monorepos are great! ... for now.
I mean, didn't Pandora spend like a decade pretending to be that? We don't exactly need AGI for that, we just need Pandora with some specific problems fixed.
i suppose the air won't be so bad because of a lack of cars?

i love the idea of it but i think it might end up being a "dangerous neighborhood", i hope they have cameras
Fed wants to slow down inflation, that requires massive layoffs to rip off the bandaid.
> That company changed their name because Marvel lawyers knocked on their door

Well, I guess that relieves the problem for the new “Jarvis” since the last one changed its name to something else, right?
The primary thing you notice is the snappiness. It's like going from an HDD to SDD. Everything happens faster.

Beyond that, it depends on what you do.
> I would argue in the same way that buying an expensive pair of boots that last longer than a cheap pair to be good value.

While a fair argument, I think its also fair to counter that the conditions in which you may use your boots don't arbitrarily change and get less efficient and more difficult over time. Sure maybe sometimes you'll be hiking through mud but that will dry out and get back to normal, whereas software might turn into quicksand as hardware gets older. Future proofing your hardware is effective, but only to a point.
Samsung makes its 95 percent profit drop official for Q1 2023
Here is an interesting poem that the repo maintainer committed as a readme, incase anyone doesn't click the link:

We got a takedown request by openai's legal team...

here is a lil poem you can read in the meantime, while I am investigating it:

A little boy sat, in his humble abode.
He tinkered and toyed with devtools galore,
And found himself curious, eager for more.

He copy-pasted requests, with glee and delight,
A personal project, to last him the night.
For educational purposes, and fun it was too,
This little boy's journey had just begun anew.

Now far away, in a tower so grand,
A big company stood, ruling the land.
Their software was mighty, their power supreme,
But they never expected this boy and his dream.

As he played with their code, they started to fret,
"What if he breaks it? What if we're upset?"
They panicked and worried, their faces turned red,
As visions of chaos danced in their head.

The CEO paced in his office so wide,
His minions all scurrying to hide.
"Who is this child?" he cried out in fear,
"Who dares to disrupt our digital sphere?"

The developers gathered, their keyboards ablaze,
To analyze the boy's mischievous ways.
They studied his project, they pored through his code,
And soon they discovered his humble abode.

"We must stop him!" they cried with a shiver,
"This little boy's making our company quiver!"
So they plotted and schemed to halt his advance,
To put an end to his digital dance.

( I did not write it )

discord: https://discord.com/gpt4free
The energy inputs alone preclude any thought of it being ethical.
Documenting bad decisions for others to learn from - noble cause. <grin>
Show HN: Chat-DBT – Interact with your database using OpenAI GPT
Here's a small CLI and Web interface to translate and run human queries against your database.
It comes with handling context, batches, output format and a few other nice features. Enjoy
This is incredibly similar to what's happening (has happened) to Philips.
HS2 is somehow insanely expensive and slow moving compared to France. We just need to go and look at how they do it. The two countries are very close in terms of GDP income and regulatory burden. We seem to be very inefficient in comparison.
Good thing we keep targeting wages and employment to lower inflation :)
How did Optane represent faking it? It was and still is the fastest persistent storage ever made, no? I thought they killed it because of the difficulty of manufacturing it.
Is that true? I have pretty good insights from working with many of such people, close friends with many, and working at big tech companies. At big tech anyways, people on work visas are making a lot of money.
I agree fully with you! Unfortunately, law enforcement should not need to exist also...And yet, the incentives and behaviors of so many a$$holes in the world requires at least some mechanism to curb the bad stuff. (Not saying this not-bot effort is effective, but just saying that sometimes in life we need something even if not perfect...in order to keep some things in check). /sigh
First audio recorded on Mars reveals two speeds of sound (2022)
> Windows is here to stay, just like mainframes.

but if it continues to shrink (and it almost certainly will), then Intel (and AMD) are in big trouble

Intel can't exist servicing a niche

IBM isn't trying to float a multibillion market cap solely on the back of their mainframe CPUs...

and of course let's not forget that Microsoft is also continuing to hint at future Windows-on-ARM...the first try failed but I have heard more talk...
Hey, I'm building something related and would love to get your feedback on it. I can reply with my contact details if you're interested.
The amino acids are generally supplied as - I kid you not - fetal bovine serum.
AI is gunning after their jobs, so predictable.
Or many other countries, I've seen enough video of bridge collapses to know that if people CAN cram on it, at some point they WILL cram on it.
> AMD made some better chips / Apple walked away

This means Intel didn't lose Apple just because of execution because Apple could have trivially gone to AMD.
I was annoyed by having to reach for a remote or my phone when watching stuff on my Apple TV, so I made a MacOS Apple TV remote[0] that lives in the menu bar. Saves me literally seconds every day.

[0]: https://github.com/dickfickling/honeycrisp
Alright but we don't know enough here to evaluate the legitimacy of the request from OpenAI. Very little to go on.
I suppose, since the substring "gpt4" is there. But, "generative pre-trained transformer -> gpt" seems fair game. Other companies use that acronym, so there's "EinsteinGPT", "BloombergGPT", etc.
Our immigration system seems like such an incredible squandering of human talent. So many people struggling to through complex bureaucracy just to winnow down the number of immigrants.

I really wish we could fallback on the free market here. If someone wants to live, work, and pay taxes in the US, they should be free to come.

Immigration is the US‘s main sources of national strength, yet we waste it.
> Anyone interested in the potential use of nuclear power to address climate change should read the report. While its authors clearly consider nuclear power a potential solution, they're under no illusions that it's the only or best solution. The report makes it clear that, for economic and technical reasons, nuclear will be sitting out the next decade or so of the energy transition.
It's still available, just cloned it.
The first was mildly sensed humor. But the second one in my opinion is important for ensuring the integrity in journalism, i.e. a journalist should disclose his or her use of AI. You can count the sport news, financial summaries, etc. out.
I typically enjoy reading Derek's content. Surprised he wrote this.
The computer science community has been asking this question for over 50 years. History gave us the answer 35 years ago.
It had a nominal $1 per year fee, but in most of the world (like here in India, where it's now practically a utility), they never charged anything because even a trivial sum like that would have caused a ton of friction. That's why it became so popular.
Are you even checking the sources it claims? NetMarketShare only looks to go back to 2016. :facepalm:

At this point, your methodology is looking quite sus

Are ready to accept that ChatGPT is reliably lying to you? The longer your conversation with it goes on, the worse it gets
To me, none of what you mention requires a whole lot of consistency other than in as much as we understand that we are horribly inconsistent we have a whole lot of ceremony and processes built up around what we do to mitigate the wild inconsistencies in the quality of work we do.
It is tricky - on one hand, it seems pretty nice to cover places like car parks or some crops with roofs of solar panels. You get to use the space twice and you get some shade.

On the other hand, the panels are pretty heavy and need to be cleaned every so often. You need a lot of steel to make sturdy framework to put the panels on, unless you want them to fall on someone or break in strong wind. And cleaning the panels that are high up is more difficult than cleaning panels that are ground level.

So depending on cost of labor and cost of steel and whatever (and I don't have numbers, I'm just musing) you might be better of putting solar panels on separate empty field.
Scientific journal corrects study co-authored by Stanford president
OrbStack developer here — AMA!

Thought I'd clarify a few things:

- Yes, post-beta pricing is still being determined. Preliminary thoughts here: https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free

- Memory is allocated on demand, but unfortunately not freed afterwards. We really want dynamic memory and even have a working prototype! (https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1645645284721184768) Unfortunately a macOS bug combined with a hypervisor restriction prevents us from shipping this. Happy to go into more details if anyone if interested.

Happy to answer any other questions :)
Of of curiosity, how configurable are sqlite builds?

Can one disable json support, for example? I'm not sure what other "categories" of features three might be. Certainly there's a lot of builtin functions; how configurable is sqlite in picking buultins to omit?
Predictable. You could just come up with an original name and be fine. "GPT4" obviously means the OpenAI product to people.

For those ootl, here's the previous thread where OP was given a lot of advice from the HN community to change the name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608437
> I get that is additional effort but wouldn't providing those still be cheaper than all those returns?

Maybe. I suspect many garment are not manufactured to really tight tolerances. Once I found a perfectly fitting trouser at a brick-and-mortar shop. It was so good that I thought I will buy two of the same size right away. Turns out the second was much larger than the first even though according to the label they should have been the same.

So yes, it shouldn't be much extra effort to measure one of each size of each new model. But if you have to measure every single garment that can become a nightmare. And I don't know how much would it cost to tighten up the tolerances in their manufacturing.

Besides I wouldn't know how to measure my own back precisely. Probably a tailor would know a standardised way to measure it but that is not something you can assume your costumers will know. And if the shop is measuring the backs of their jackets differently than the costumers do they will still get returns. Of course they can choose to not accept them, but who would buy from such a shop?
The Case for `Headless Terraform IDP`
The whole "lab-grown meat" thing always seemed like nonsense to me, at least techniques using cell cultures. Life is a no-rules arms race, which is why immune systems are a basic requirement, not an unnecessary luxury. Trying to build an organism out of tubes and pipes with industrial techniques seems utterly foolish to create such a low value/mass quantity product as food.

IMHO, any kind of successful and practical "lab grown meat" would probably look like some kind of engineered "minimal viable animal" (e.g. a chicken without the brain, and maybe missing a few other things, but recognizable as an animal with functioning organ systems).
I don't know why everbody keeps bringing this up. They could have called Windows 11 Windows 10 Gold Edition or whatever to keep the "10" in the name, but frankly we should all be thankful that they didn't.
I agree - chickens roaming around your yard or small farm as free range, are a net positive for many reasons.
Apple Pay Later won't affect us for years: Klarna CEO
I don't think I could say what I said more explicitly.
> Go to website > see 80% off > sign in to buy > no longer 80% off

That's a bait and switch, also illegal. This lawsuit however was for fake reference pricing. Clearly a scam and there's a good reason it's banned in much of the developed world, just like false advertising.
My current favorite: I often go camping deep in the backwoods with friends, far from any sort of cell service. So I built a LoRa radio system that allows us to text each other, physically locate each other, etc. when we go off and do our own things. The system consists of small radio units that are carried, and a larger (but still backpackable) base unit that gets set up in camp.

They run as a mesh network, so you don't have to be in range of the base unit for it to work.

Regular radios don't work well for this use case because the terrain is very mountainous.

Currently looking into making one that can be attached to a dog collar to allow for geolocating the animal.
qryn?

Ed: https://qryn.metrico.in
> you need a distributed ledger for this

You don't need it. That doesn't mean it doesn't work as a solution. Not everyone can open a wise account. KYC makes it difficult for people without proper documents.

One can accept that most of crypto is bad, and still see that some people have some use for it (for now). Like, nuance is a thing.
I've never had big hopes for the project but I feel incredibly happy that you like it!

The original I played on my friend's phone was just that -- a phone game, so making sure it works on my phone was a priority :)

I don't have an Android but last time I tested it was playable even though the cubes were bigger than I'd like them to be on some screens.

I've made an offline version for myself in the past to play while traveling by train. Copying the contents of the .js and .css file into the HTML file into <script> and <style> tags was enough. I wonder if I can make it easier for other people like you by storing it somewhere on git...

P.S. Here's the source if you want to create an offline-first version yourself: https://github.com/Kiryhas/memechain
This is untrue for the meat packing industry today. One cow going into a modern slaughterhouse is more efficiently processed then even the most meticulous native American tribemember could ever have achieved.

Efficiency is all that matters if resource utilisation is your metric.
Bitcoin miners don't compete for the same energy as residential and most industrial uses. Mining isn't profitable unless energy is a fraction of the price that typical consumers pay. The effect is that Bitcoin miners act as energy buyers of last resort. In other words, they buy wasted energy.

Having a buyer of last resort is good for energy grids (or any product), not bad for them. It incentivizes grid build out. Instead of worrying about whether a particular energy development will have enough demand, they can work out a deal with Bitcoin miners to sell wasted energy to them.

Industrial users of power frequently work out power agreements that will pay them in the event that they are required to shut down. This is completely normal. The difference is that Bitcoin miners are EVEN MORE flexible in that they can shut down at a moment's notice, unlike manufacturing or smelting. Again, this is good for grids, not bad.