skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same applies to SBCL (a fork of CMUCL) which has more active development now. The funny thing is that the name of the compiler is Python. But this Python actually produces fast programs :) .
Good to know, I would still like to see it become defacto successor though.
Or OP could post it on GitHub with integration tests around eg memory footprint.

There’s a mindset shift between “senior engineer” and “tech lead” that OP seems to be struggling with…
> It’s a perfectly logical (if not humane given current immigration law) position to hold that companies should be required to lay off visa holders first

Elon Musk didn't get laid off in the 2000-01 tech bubble presumably because he was good? But maybe it should be perfectly "logical" to send him home.

Incredibly short sighted take, the US have doubled the population in the past 60 years, are we running a 50% unemployment rate? The selective immigration have hugely benefited the US and its native population.
So, who would call emergency services if no one had a phone because every parent followed his parents' example?
Yes, the LLM will give you an answer. Are you verifying that what the LLM tells you is correct? How would you even know?
That seems so rare it is not worth worrying about
Slightly off topic;

> But I'm very thankful that the original author just posted his code to Github to make this possible.

That does not make forking possible. There are many projects on GitHub that are not open source. One should be thankful for the author for licensing their software using an open source license.
The actual value of crypto as a technology seems to have receeded past visibility. At its origin, it promised enduring new forms of interconnected computing. But overwhelmingly, there seem to be no contemporary applications of any note, just endless cryptocoins of unremarkable note as far as the eye can see.
> Any image file or an executable program[6] can be regarded as simply a very large binary number.

So ... 1?
That makes them compliant with American law. Your company may still not be in compliance with local law (which can differ significantly in the liberal interpretation of what the us thinks a contractor is), and that can cause serious issues.
That is the requirement. The law applies standards to ensure that domestic workers aren't adversely impacted by the hiring of foreign workers. This includes putting essentially bogus ads in newspaper classifieds, and requires that they're paying the same to H1-B workers in the same role as a domestic worker, among other comical things.

The program has defacto evolved to one in which the US can tap into a skilled global labor market to increase competition for roles, without paying too much attention to the actual legal requirements.

Sources:

(Like many here, I've written a few H1-B role requisition documents - which are often designed to be so ludicrously specific that it would be almost impossible to find anyone to fill that role, save for the one person applying for the visa)

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b

[1] https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/the-h-1b-vis...
Now there's a pithy title that vastly understates the case. There was an article on here earlier about how the Secret Service take on crypto that pretty much utterly destroys all of the crypto hype mill talking points about decentralization, anonimity, etc. I'm glad that I've lived long enough to see that particular arc of bullshit run it's course.
In the Oreilly days if you wanted to learn about a language there were 3 options.

1/ Learn the language with exercises - Fun book but you only use it once
2/ The definitive reference guide - that was the book I had on my desk with post its in.
3/ The cookbook - solving real world problems with examples

Mostly I got the 2nd and 3rd options and didn't bother with the 1st. I think this concept was the best.

Even for example command line tools. I read it once but I re-read it occasionally. You forget what is possible with the tool when first learning it. The next rounds will create a-ha moments and you pick new stuff up.
When I was at Google, I remember hearing that this experiment was done on interns once. It wasn’t completely random, but they let in people who failed the standard Google interview to validate the effectiveness of that interview. Since interns were hired for a limited time, there was a lower cost to a false positive hire compared to an FTE.
It's a square peg that fits very nicely in the round hole I use it for, so Imma continue to use it as I see fit.
You have to caveat “faster than C.” It is basically impossible to beat C with sprinkled in assembly or intrinsics as appropriate.

Most people, even good C programmers, don’t write that kind of C, though.

The point of Fortran is that you can write Fortran code that is almost as fast as that nightmare C, but you can do it and still get your degree on time.
It was entirely a grift, a reverse robinhood that shifted swaths of money from retail investors to a select few.
I wasn't the one who insinuated that twitter was full of, and I quote, "neo-Nazi propaganda". And the comment history of the one who made that claim suggests an axe to grind.
Seems like clickbait + disinformation.

The title + "Just one month later, Pichai’s firm filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to America and take highly specialized tech jobs." almost suggest that the company is firing high-pay American citizens to bring in low-pay immigrants, and the post doesn't mention anywhere that most of the layoffs were probably immigrants to begin with anyway.
Sorry, the number I had was 51% from New Scientist - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294549-female-african-...
Impressive. I would have first tried (perhaps naively) to put the unlimited query in a sub query and the LIMIT on the outer. Still, nice to know there are ways, however awkward.
can a dinosaur live in our less oxygen rich air
So asking Congress for a competitive advantage?
I don't think you are. Not sure why I am reading this either.
Agreed. There's a difference between systematically studying a subject for 4 years and reading the equivalent of "Learn Java in 14 days". Or even attending bootcamp for a couple months.

That said, the indoctrination of liberal arts degrees is a thing IMHO. I would very value the opinions of those who have, after obtained the degree, are able to recognize and critically comment on the indoctrination. If they're just paraphrasing the textbooks I'd lose interest very quickly.
"The unicorn is a legendary creature" ... wow, you're right. that was disappointing.

https://www.amazon.com/TrueRNG-V3-Hardware-Random-Generator/...
https://tectrolabs.com/
https://comscire.com/
https://onerng.info/
https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/product...
I think the way engineers help open source projects is to send a PR. ‘Offering to help’ without contributing anything seems somewhat suspicious.
Will any news media organisations publish this story. If not, then one might wonder why.
This is an application processor, a Cortex-A series. Your comments do not apply to this core.

ARM does have a Cortex-R series which is for real time computing tasks.

There is no excuse. It's ghastly that ARM's track record is significantly below 2 cores/decade.
Mixers are going to be fun for the IRS.

All that money sloshing around and untaxed.
Stable Diffusion is a key example of how quickly the public can innovate with true collaboration on open models. I hope OpenAI changes it’s name soon.
Can anyone guess how this will be reinforced? can they make legal action on every guy who decides he wants to throw it off a cliff or harvest the panel and speakers?
> This includes putting essentially bogus ads in newspaper classifieds

> Like many here, I've written a few H1-B role requisition documents - which are often designed to be so ludicrously specific that it would be almost impossible to find anyone to fill that role, save for the one person applying for the visa

Both of these things have absolutely nothing to do with H1B visa requirements. You're just proving my point in the comment you're replying to. Please read it again.

Also read your own references to see where they require ads in newspapers or needing to tailor H1B "requisition documents". Spoiler, there's none.
Thanks! I've put 1978 in the title above.
I probably heard it already; very likely my mistake. Thanks for the links!
It's like saying the promise of beanie babies has not lived up to its initial excitement, I mean OK what did you expect. People were excited about beanie babies. Was that bad? No, it's OK to be excited about things you like.

EDIT: everyone is downvoting me you guys must really hate beanie babies

EDIT 2: oh maybe they don't like my username. it's a joke name, people.
OP created wt.social
I think it is pretty definitively good for their competitors. This is different than all labor or all local workers. If you're one of a few workers that do X and everyone wants to do X, this is a good thing for you.
We’ve been over this over and over again. Tech is valuable. Alternative currency is useful in some countries. Speculation sucks. Electric usage is silly. Blah blah blah.

My bet is that crypto is going to disappear eventually.
You know how many times I thought I came up with a good idea... and then realized I was actually vomiting up something that flashed by me for a split second, but my subconscious picked up on? Hm.
Probably because there never was any actual value to be had in the underlying technology. If there was someone would have found it at some point in the last decade.
The hardware required for training foundational models is tremendously expensive, specialized, and needs to be colocated in the same facility.

You can't do this kind of math without these multi-million dollar facilities and the government licensing that will eventually be required to run one.
> Additionally, fast track the green card process for whom said exemption is granted.

This could easily be done by not having a per-country quota for green cards that seriously sanctions H1B holders from India and China. As in:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/migrate/democrats-i...

Republicans probably won't let it happen, however.
And since we both agree that it has nothing to do with freedom, why do you think it is justified to talk about it as "being allowed to"?
You're standards are to high. The kinds of mistakes native speakers make are often technical -- not using commas correctly, dangling they're participles, switching affect/effect. And that's because they're transcribing the voice in there head. Annoying to grammer prescriptivists but the meaning ends up being clear and understood.

A'int gonna end up being authors or technical writers for sure but it doesn't get in the way of actually communicating.
That's basically what the article is saying, though, isn't it? The author wasn't deceived by an offer and didn't suffer a setback, they're just commenting on the fact that offers of help always carry some kind of cost. In this case the cost was compromising on their goals for the project. It goes in the same basket as any other unsolicited opinion on the internet, including this one.
> These creators have not asked for a return, so what makes training an AI any different?

Is every work in the training set licensed in a way that allows modification and redistribution?
Yeah, pretty sure I know exactly the issue you're talking about. Tablet support isn't perfect and you still need a separate keyboard, and yet I'm tolerably happy with it all.
OK, I stand corrected. Thank you. I clearly don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not really an X-man fan.
There have been similar schemes, like those privacy phones that were directly ran by the government.
yes like how the biggest decimal number is 9
I agree with your point, but most of the contents of STEM education aren't that controversial. You can't really disagree with the AM-GM Inequality for example, and most of undergraduate level laws of physics are well accepted by most people. The meta-philosophy of STEM subjects does carry certain amount of indoctrination, but they're usually not explicitly taught as-is.
>you’ll never be able to cash out

P2P dexs dont care about mixer usage, you can always find a way to cashout if you have the private keys.
> It’s a perfectly logical (if not humane given current immigration law) position to hold that companies should be required to lay off visa holders first and for there to be a “cooling off” period between layoffs and hiring of visa holders.

Depends what you mean by "logical". Blindly preferring citizens over visa holders is bad for the company, bad for the visa holders, and bad for the economy in the long term, but it's good for the citizen workers in the short term. I guess logic is defined by your priorities.
Smells like regulatory capture. Also, how are the same dinosaurs that fumbled the other tech hearings going to comprehend (let alone robustly define) “AI”?
Malware turns home routers into proxies for Chinese state-sponsored hackers
It would be better to spend less of your comments expressing frustration with people who don't understand, and more explaining what the difference actually is. I read both of your comments and while I have no reason to disagree with you, I can't tell what you're actually saying.

If you respond to incorrect information with correct information and show us how it is correct, your comments will be more persuasive as well as more in the intended spirit of the site (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

It can be easy to take this for granted when you already have the correct information mapped out in your head many times over—but the rest of us don't have access to that!
This is like real-life r/WallStreetBets but for avoiding prison.
"My gut says we're going to see a bit of a meat space backlash to the world of automation, remoteness, anonymity, and modern conveniences".

don't forget to add surveillance to the list
DO YOU WANT TO USE BING? HOW ABOUT NOW? OR MAYBE NOW? HAVE A NEW DESKTOP BING SEARCH BAR!

Windows 11 on a small touchscreen sounds like an awful idea to me.
Speaking of nepotism: on LinkedIn via my network, I saw a senior manager in a Bay Area company asking publicly for internships for his university age daughter.

I shook my head in amazement, then felt absolutely mortified on behalf of that poor woman.
At best, she is living in her father’s shadow. At worst, she is being denied valuable life lessons of the feeling of being allowed to fail and get back up.
wow this looks really cool!
Yet I can still send censorship free bitcoin and store it on a napkin.

My choice quote from the article is that they consider a $1.3 trillion market to be "only".

That's just under $1 million for each copy of The Economist sold this year. Perhaps they have a distorted sense of size.
You forgot the most important part: $275 processing fee. $750 for expedited service.
I'm a proponent for highly trained visas, but I don't think it's disputable that they are bad for their direct local competitors. They might be good for the economy at Large, and they might be good for consumers in general, but those are different factors.

As a minor note to babies comment, a baby isn't going to reduce the salary of the delivering nurse the day it comes out of the womb. If you let a million trained nurses enter the country, that would be a different story.
In many jurisdictions, the US included, whether or not you are a contractor is not up to you and the company you do the work for. E.g. even if both parties think it’s a contracting relationship, the IRS can decide otherwise.

The nature of the relationship, and the work you are doing determines whether your employer is a regular employer and what taxes they have to pay. In Canada, for example, certain taxes (GST) are applied to the contractor relationship based on whether the product the company sells is available within the country, and the distinction between contractor and employee is much less fuzzy than it is in the US (if you have to ask, the person is almost certainly an employee).

It gets complicated quick
I worked for a large health insurance company. The development team switched to macbooks and could install their own tools. Corporate laptops where shitty and no one had local admin. The installed a tool like that on the macbooks. In the end they just used to check if the OS was up to date and your virus scanner was running. No one checked anything else.

Now this could be a slippery slope. A new manager finding out what is possible and demanding reports on the "dangerous" stuff could change this quickly.
Absolutely, and by opening our minds to the broadest definitions of theft, we may see that nearly everything we say or otherwise express is "stolen" from earlier work, including your comment here.
The loneliness epidemic threatens our health as well as our happiness
I don’t understand this argument. It seems to presume that if the US has no regulation then the danger from other countries is lessened more than the danger from within is raised. This does not seem obviously true.

If I wanted AI to be regulated everywhere and I was Sam Altman, I’d probably start with convincing the US.
My company is asking those stull near offices to go to 2 days a week. But given that well over half the workforce either moved away or way hired full remote, the whole thing feels like a sham.

I changed teams & went from being the only person on my team to report in (1x a week because they closed my in-city office, as opposed to this suburban HQ), to now having 1 other person in office. Most of the manager types have filed various exceptions, which none of the workforce is keyed into; we simply see empty desks which look like they should be part of this absurd corporate whip cracking.

It's hard to imagine these RTO attempts going anywhere.
Sunny Balwani has more money but is already in prison.
I don't know many people who were waiting for the AI. But I would consider christianity if I saw some dude walking on water. That does not happen. A creative logic puzzle solving chat bit just did though.
I think the author is taking a bit of the wrong lesson from his experience.

One of the challenges of coordinating a group of people is getting everyone to buy into the same vision. Fact is that other people see the world differently and may have different goals. Here the author is attributing that to narcissism and maliciousness when most of the time it isn't that.

So yes, as you add more people it gets more challenging to get everyone rowing in the same direction. This is why setting a clear direction and clear communication is key, but the increase in communication overhead as the team grows is always going to be difficult. In this case, as others have said, he could've just open-sourced his code so the people who had a different idea were free to run with it.
It's such a scam to pretend that H1B workers are, on average, high performers in key positions. That isn't the reality, has not ever been the reality, and will not ever be the reality. H1B is about cost of labor, has always been about cost of labor, and will always be about cost of labor.

disclosure: have worked for large h1b heavy shops my entire career, and while there has been the very occasional exception, the bulk of the h1bs are hired entirely for cost reasons.
Are you a pragmatic or idealistic developer?
Stable Diffusion != Stability AI. In fact, Emad from Stability has had his share of controversies. https://sifted.eu/articles/stability-ai-fundraise-leak
Now is the time for Valve to release the Arch based SteamOS 3.0 officially so that it can be easily installed on non-SteamDeck hardware.

Proton was the missing piece that makes Steam Machines viable. Valve should be making SteamOS 3.0 available to hardware companies like ASUS. The Ally should have been a SteamOS device, IMO.
So, this is a free PvP version of Marble Circuit by MindWare[0], cool.

[0]: https://roadstoeverywhere.com/marble-circuit/
> Is like trying to regulate cars to save the horse shoe industry.

Which was quite common in the early days of automobiles. There also wasn’t quite the massive bureaucratic regulatory system back then.

The big difference is these AI doctors will need to be certified by, wait for it… current doctors. Or, at the very least, the training data (haven’t RTFA so that’s the example being thrown around the comments) will need to be certified.

Judging by how the EU countries deal with labor issues I think there’s little chance robots will replace human doctors for a long, long time.
I kinda refuse to believe the US gov doesn't undertake astroturfing for its own needs
Isnt it in the book? https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch20-01-single-threade...
In common usage, counterfeit connotes a sort of fraud, where the work is presented as genuine in some way. Piracy on the other hand is just unauthorized duplication of all kinds.
ChatGPT Plugins: Data Exfiltration via Images and Cross Plugin Request Forgery
Also, if Kissinger is involved, it’s a bad idea.

That’s been true for half a century
Can you help me understand? It just seems that when we're talking about nuance and middle ground that rejecting one side seems a little biased.
This is true - even if we remove the cap on what people pay into it, it won’t resolve the fundamental issue. It’ll just keep the door open for the last of the currently retiring generation to enjoy it.

I have no expectation of receiving anything worth counting when I’m retired - I don’t think it’s ridiculous for the French to be rioting over the change in retirement age because they likely see that they’re paying into a system they will not enjoy.
first opportunity I've had to pull out the 'nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program' Friedman quote from the 80's.
you are falling for the most basic marketing tricks in the book. just because something calls itself "trueRNG" does not mean it is. there's no possibility of those devices outputting an irrational number.
It's worse.

He's there & watching like a vulture the employees every move. If you don't also commit 48 hours a week you are considered bad.

He is exactly the bad boss personality that isn't hypocritical, just expects total & complete commitment all the time.
I think it’s more of the spirit of the thing than it is the law, specifically.

The fact is, I’d imagine a solid 90% of people using Switch emulation are using it for piracy of games that are usually still available on the shelf - or worse, brand new.

As a homebrew developer for, EG; the SEGA Saturn and Atari Jaguar - I absolutely do get that there are a few of us that legitimately use emulators for legal purposes.

I also download ROMs all the time of even mainstream titles that have never seen a re-release. (Here’s looking at you, ‘Knuckles’ Chaotix’ for the SEGA 32X…)

But the issue with Switch emulation is that, yes; I’ve got a few friends who simply downloaded and played all the way through the new Zelda title released just recently via emulation, and it’s just kind of…it’s easier to understand why that isn’t really ‘okay’ to me.
Key takeways from OpenAI CEO's Senate testimony
Wemo won’t fix Smart Plug vulnerability allowing remote operation
This is a mild hope, if office space prices undergoes the critical absurd crash they certainly are undergoing: offices & doors.
> Americans like to think they have a monopoly on skilled programmers.

Almost no American in the tech industry thinks that, given how many of our co-workers aren't (or at least weren't born as) American.

> But the reality is that most countries have them and they will do the same work for a fraction of the price.

At the high end of the tech labor market, it is actually a world market for talent, meaning the talent goes where they can make the most money, and bargains are hard to find because people are not so immobile (e.g. due to H1Bs).

> Everything is done over the internet these days so it doesn't matter that much where you are located.

This is true, but top talent is still going to demand top dollar, even if you let them live in a LCOL region, since they can just move to a HCOL region otherwise.