skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool I'll try to build one.
A person I know of outstanding moral character (has adopted 3 kids) boasts about voting against any development in his area. I don't know what it'll take for people to see what you are saying
My ex gf is here on H1B and so is all her friend group. I feel bad for her situation, it adds a layer of stress but the way they treat the visa is disrespectful to Americans I think. For example, they are generally of the mindset that Americans are stupider and lazier than them which is why they are here. So they will vent their frustrations on Americans by calling us stupid and lazy and entitled because we have citizenship but they do all the work. It's not a healthy way to view this country or their coworkers. They take the "nation of immigrants" line too far and act as if their American coworkers are basically their inferiors but who were lucky enough to happen to have citizenship. I always tried to provide a different perspective to no avail.
Well, at least DMARC is also necessary, since if you recieve an email lacking a DKIM signature, you can’t know if the email should have had a DKIM signature unless there is a DMARC record configured for the sender’s domain.
I don’t think the companies in question let people go based on performance or any other logical criteria. They saw an opportunity to unload and they did.

I can speak based on Netherlands where I work now. If an employee is performing below expectations, then a conversation needs to be had(documented), given a chance to improve or change course. If after an extended period of attempt, the decision to let that employee go still holds, then they may.

However, the above reasoning cannot be made for several employees at once (like the layoffs that occurred).

To do an American style layoff, the government will insist on the company to document the reasons why, and in most cases, take away the choice for the company to choose which employee they can let go. Which makes it very unattractive. So, if a company wants to let go of several people at once, they typically offer good severance packages and request the employees to quit.
You have to exercise your immune system ;).
My issue with "H1B to the highest bidder" is that there's a lot of industries outside of tech that use H1Bs like healthcare, academia, skilled trades, or heck, even fashion models. I think something like that would have to be paired with quotas on the industry otherwise high tech salaries would blow away possibly-even-more-important healthcare and research spots.

As for #2, the main issue now is more of supply and demand. The US only gives out 140,000 employment based green cards a year (plus some from other unused categories), which also includes the worker's families. There are far more ways to get an employment based green card than through H1B. The problems we're hearing about are less to do with the process (which _is_ byzantine) and more to do with that there are not enough green cards to go around.

And just as an aside, there's no labor certification for an H1B, e.g. a company isn't saying they need that worker so so much. A company just wins the lottery and agrees to pay at least what the DoL says is the prevailing wage for the occupation. If they later want to get a green card for that employee, they have to redo the prevailing wage determination AND make an attempt to hire an citizen/GC before they can get the GC (or the employee has to prove they have exceptional skills that gains them international recognition, among other things which includes "being paid way more than your peers")
How many humans in your office do you think could solve the questions with better success ratio than GPT-4? I would say less than 20%.

If the primary complaint is the blues that GPT-4 wrote is not that great, I think it is definitely worth the hype, given that a year before people argued that AI can never pass turing test.
This is really only a problem in densely urban areas and even then not across all of them. To say public restrooms are hard to find in America is I think a mischaracterization. It would be more fair to say public restrooms are hard to find in American cities, but then Id wager all urban areas around the globe have struggled with this problem in one way or another.

Anecdotally, in my hometown in Florida I’ve never had an issue finding a bathroom, not even in larger cities like Orlando and Tampa. But my experience finding bathrooms in Seattle, Washington was quite horrendous.
Fintech reckoning: It’s only a matter of time until the house of cards collapses
Governments should just build a bunch of socialized housing and rent it at a rent just high enough to offset the expenditure (i.e. way below private market value). That would put downward pressure on rents.
That is what Vienna did and they are the only popular city in Europe without a serious housing crisis.
Not directly related to the car situation, but the last time I bought a TV my first question was whether non-smart TVs exist. They do, but they're not worth the effort and my best option was to not connect the TV to the network.

It sounds like it's no longer even an option to buy a car that doesn't come with a bunch of uplinks to the car company, maybe to the insurance company airplane-black-box-style, etc.

If the tech exists, it will be abused.
Is there enough oxygen for a growing population?
I can't speak to in US cities (where indeed restaurants tend to police non-customer restroom use more regularly) but I've never had an issue with using a McDonald's restroom when I've been driving someplace in the US.
Still incredible in 2023. Goes to show UX and maybe first to market will be the differentiator
Canada has already banned foreign buyers, in some cases even if they are legally living/working in Canada. (This is despite the fact that it’s mostly an ongoing domestic speculation problem, as indicated here, … and despite the fact that Canadians own billions of dollars of property in the US and elsewhere.)
By "Humans", I assume you mean something like "adult humans, well-educated in the relevant fields". Otherwise, most of these responses look like they would easily beat most humans.
And ppt is the main reason why people stop doing any work and instead prepare powerpoints all day long for the next reviews or meetings
You and OP appear to agree there is a significant problem, you just disagree where the "blame" lies.

OP suggests the built environment is insufficient. You baselessly assume OP must have a serious medical issue as, apparently, you can't imagine that the built environment is really the appropriate villain to finger in this case.

Before anyone jumps up to accuse me of nefarious intent and of being secretly on the side of "America's built environment could stand to be improved" I'll just openly admit that's exactly where I stand and save you a bit of furious typing.
Large Language Model in my opinion means that it has billions of parameters and possibly cannot fit on a single machine.

Not sure what Spacy is doing under the hood these days but always thought of “neural net” as word2vec type model which won’t hit the above definition.
> a case where the government should not step in

There are limits to government mandate, it's not allowed to cross, no matter what.

In addition to this case, there are several cases (in Germany, in Israel etc.) where the court pointed out the limits were crossed.

There is a possibility to change the limits through democratic process for a following government.
Principles are an interesting thing. Whose principles? Even in a region like the United States you'll find that many principles aren't consistent.

Quite often people don't consider the principle differences others, even around them, have.
>Confirmation bias is a known human weakness. Based on what little I've seen, he does not appear to be guilty of it.

I scrolled through his timeline and found plenty of predictions that failed to materialize https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446472
Yes, you asked a question, and then insisted further because the answer isn’t good enough for you. You’re not this persons friend, you’re not this persons doctor and you haven’t claimed any medical experience. You’re being a weirdo. Let it go, dude.
It is definitely refreshing to simply upload a file via FTP and it updates your server. But it's this interpreted nature that makes PHP one of the slower languages in terms of throughout. I know, don't prematurely optimize, but there's a reason other languages don't do it this way
It’s not at all what email forwarding is.
What, don't Americans need things too? The logical conclusion of "countries should support their people" is that the countries these people are emigrating from should support them. If a country like the US is doing that well for its people, it can afford to give aid to these other countries, maybe accept a portion of the immigrants. As it stands, it's kind of a lose-lose situation because who cares about caring for their people? Not the US or those countries that people are emigrating en masse from. It's not like the US has the sole responsibility or capability to care for everyone under the sun. That's the reality of the situation, if nothing else.
Am I not then throwing away all the cool stuff that makes them unique?

The poison I'm referring to is the IBM bean counters and lock-in not the software
It's worth mentioning that this story is prior to 1984, when So Long and Thanks for All The Fish was published. That also happens to be the year when the Mac came out, and Adams was an ardent Mac enthusiast -- indeed AFAIK he was the first person in all of Europe to buy a Mac. So as he transitioned off of a typewriter, one would presume that the strategy employed here would become a bit harder.
Idiocracy is based on a false premise
> We very rarely need specific minerals.

Because historically we do not have technology complex enough to need specific minerals. Now we do.

> Most of these needs we can fulfill with many different minerals. And the amount of all [1] minerals in earths crust is staggering compared to any foreseeable futre, so we are just going to flip to whatever is easiest/cheapest to dig.

There is another factor at play though: energy required to extract the minerals. Ones deeper in the earth's crust are likely more energy intensive to extract and perhaps even purify. At some point it won't be worth it.
I'm not sure about this. Maybe the companies would be better off with a system that makes it much easier to hire from wherever they want as well.
It seems that SPF suffers from the same problem which CAA records had, before RFC 8657 fixed it.
To give a positive response in the sea of negativity, I'm very happy with my all wireless setup. I have a keyboard (Nuphy) and mouse (Razer) that can switch between Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz. I connect to my work laptop via BT and gaming PC via 2.4. No issues with latency for me even in twitchy shooters.

I have a BT headset for work but do wire it in while gaming and have a USB mic.

Really nice to be able to switch between two computers without a KVM.
I literally just said this isn’t what the person I replied to was talking about. I’m mistaking nothing.
Are you sure? GDP per Capita is 71k cad vs a developer salary of 87k cad. Seems pretty average.

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/toronto-software-developer...
Was there a possibility of finding a cafe or Macdonalds and just buying a coffee or something so you could use their restrooms? (as you said you were making 6+ figures) I mean I imagine that would be preferable to pooping on the street. But I don't know San Francisco, was there a reason why that wasn't possible e.g. no cafes open or something?
Thanks for the source! Very helpful for future reference.
According to the literal text of the statute quoted there, the definition of "machinegun" hinges on a "single function of the trigger". If the shoestring achieves rapid fire by causing multiple functions of the trigger, how is it a machinegun by that definition?

Also, for anyone like me who expected that jpg would be a photo of the shoestring instead of text on paper, here's what it looks like.

https://i.imgur.com/5N3EHxh.jpg
It must vary a lot by location even in the US. When I used to bother asking, it was almost universally customer-only in urban and many suburban areas… and almost always got me strange looks for even bothering to ask in more remote areas (where they are often clustered next to a couple gas stations along a freeway exit).
> Most people know that most LEGO bricks are made of ABS

LOL? No, most people don't know that? Shall we head to the streets and make a video where we interview random people about what plastic is used in Lego bricks?

If we do that in the hallways of a chemistry building at a major university campus, we might hit above 50%, particularly if we go at a time when it's not crawling with undergrads.
Evolution of Computing vs. Prompt Engineering
> I still think PPTs are the best way to convey concepts.

Man I wonder how humanity was able to function with concepts before the PPT format was born. Surely this resulted in an explosion of productivity?
Netris – Terminal-based multiplayer Tetris clone
Also available via SSH:

ssh playnetris.com

Source code:

https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/netris
Here’s what ChatGPT GPT-4 gives me:

> Sally has 2 sisters. Each of her 3 brothers has 2 sisters, and those sisters would be Sally and her 2 sisters.
like isn't nasdaq-5 exactly what this is?
Yeah, that definitely tracks for ATF and general firearm rules in the USA.
So what stops them from doing it in their host country?

And if their host country is non functional what should be done about that?

Are you arguing we should bring back colonialism? Or are you arguing that all the most capable people should live in one rich country and the rest of the world should be an endless slum?

Maybe all these capable people should work to reform and improve the conditions of the country where they are.
All benchmarks were run with temperature 0 according to the results, so make sure to do the same in conformational tests.
I use Google Slides as a lightweight notetaking format at work. This works great for me because it's super flexible, and has the added benefit that I can easily convert my notes to actual presentable slides during standups or other meetings. Usually these aren't actual polished slides such that you'd see in a corporate presentation, but talking points to keep meetings more focused and productive.
I may be wrong (I'm not going to try it myself!) but from what I understand that works with M1 Carbines and Mini-14s, but not M1 Garands. This photo of such a shoestring on a Mini-14 has been floating around for years: https://i.imgur.com/5N3EHxh.jpg
At the same time, I expect the industry to consolidate NLP on LLMs. Standardization has benefits, and compute only gets cheaper.
Why not take the stance that every email should have a DKIM signature? Just like how we moved to "every website should use https". If you don't, your untrusted by default.
Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936
Unfortunately, the above statement also applies to kubernetes.
I feel like these penalties for corporate misbehavior are exactly as you describe: heads I-win; tails I-win-now-then-pay-it-back-later.

If we don't make the fines something like 3x the gains by default, but leave it at 1x disgorgement, we should expect rational players to keep playing the game the same way.
None got the sister.
If you want to read about the development of PowerPoint by its visionary, you can checkout the book Sweating Bullets by Robert Gaskins:

https://amzn.to/3PvTvF0

Dennis Austin was the lead developer and Gaskins was the idea guy/manager.
I think they messed up the templates.
thats type 2 fun.
I'm guessing you don't have children? I don't either, but I suspect that's folks main motivation for buying a home.
I'm not sure how that's actually a response to what I wrote. You are just disputing some categories of payments. It has nothing to do with the fact that the banks created a money transfer system where they eschew their legal obligations.
If we're under attack, launch the nukes.

Oh wait, forgot something:

Think it through step by step.

Phew, close one.
It's like watching a baby learn how to talk..
>They've recently increased the interest rates but it's woefully insufficient.

What should it be? I'm sure you can push house prices down even more if you bump interest rates to 10% or whatever, but raising interest rates also increases monthly payments that buyers have to make, which ends up making houses less affordable. At the end of the day I care less about the sticker price of the house than the overall cost I have to pay for it.
FWIW, my grandfather had dementia and knew it before he passed, and for a long time when it was developing.

The interesting part is he could not remember the word for it, but the part of his brain that knew what dementia was, still functioned.

So he would say, "I have that thing that starts with the letter d, where I can't remember things".

I also remember after he passed, going through things in his home, and finding papers and things he had collected, which were his reminders to himself that he had seen in himself that he couldn't remember.

I think for me, one of the most emotional moments I had was finding this poem printed and sitting on his desk:
https://www.ellenbailey.com/poems/ellen_112.htm

I still miss him and was in awe of the fact that he was going through the stages of dementia but still remembered me, and was aware of it. I think being aware of it almost made it worse, in my opinion.
Those numbers exclude non permanent residents who also need a place of residence.
> Bonus) After reaching a certain threshold of "taxes paid to the U.S." (maybe 300k or something) H1B holders _automatically_ get their green cards.

I think this is a good idea in general. One of the main complained about immigration is some supposed cost to the barely-existing US welfare system. Having a minimum lifetime tax before getting access to that seems like a decent compromise to calm down the xenophobes
This interpretation seems a little weird not because of the apparent declaration that a shoestring is a machine gun, but because a machine gun is defined in law as a firearm that fires more than one shot with "single function of the trigger". The shoestring in this case resets the trigger after firing so that it can be pulled again. It does not cause additional shots to be fired without a separate movement of the trigger caused by the shooter's muscles pulling on it.
Yeah the lines in those places are incredibly long just to get to the counter at least in the market street area where I was. I desperately tried.
I was looking separately and I think I found where the claim comes from:
> The federal government's latest immigration levels plan, released last fall, would see Canada welcome 500,000 immigrants annually by 2025. In contrast, the immigration target for 2015 was under 300,000.

Then:

> In 2022, Canada's population grew by more than one million people, a number that included 607,782 non-permanent residents and 437,180 immigrants.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/feds-immigration-strategy-s...
I think if you look down you’ll see the road is paved with them.
This is the major problem in my view. Until your permanent residency slots, and before you actually start integrating with the culture, it is the case that many H1B's are ethically in tune moreso with their mother country than the United States.

The occasional civics lessons done over lunch in my career have been eye opening in more than one way. Interestingly, many H1B's are allergic to unionizing as well. Probably another facet of the demand for more of them.
I think this was meant for another post. You're on the CRISPR post.
If you have irritable bowel syndrome, it's basically hard to treat, very common, and solved by a simple thing: availability of public restrooms.

It's not a shame to feel the sudden urge to take a shit. What's a shame is blaming people for feeling the urge.

> There is no world in which a healthy person must shit on the street.

Healthy people are not the only ones a city must be designed for. From Wikipedia: "About 10–15% of people in the developed world are believed to be affected by IBS."

And note IBS is not the only reason to feel the sudden urge to take a dump.
Got it. The title of an article is a detail and this title in particular doesn't draw any attention from people interested in C or the claims made by performance comparisons between different types of programming languages in general.

That's probably also the reason why the title was changed on HN after this criticism was made and the submission disappeared from the front page a short while after that.
The video of the robot arm in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBCbHtvbpE

Very impressive repeatability and very smooth movement for a 3d printed arm.
"It’s more than proven that things most scientists find absurd and impossible end up being doable and proven"

Are there many examples besides quantum physics? And eventually and in quite short time, they made their way into the mainstream science, because they modelled the world better. So if this guy can show that his approach can reliable help with predication of earthquakes, he will win. Simple as that. So far I am not convinced, but sure, the moon and the planets are a real force.
In a HLL like Julia or Mojo you use special types and annotations to nudge the compiler to use the correct SIMD instructions. In C the instructions are directly usable via intrinsics. Julia's and Mojo's advantage is that the same code is portable over many SIMD instruction sets like sse, avx2, avx512, etc. But you generally never get close to the same performance hand-optimized C code gets you.
Ask HN: Who here is working on DARPA AICC challenge?
Who here is interested in participating or already working on AICC challenge from DARPA? I'm looking for committed collaborators with expertise in Cybersecurity and Deep Learning/LLMs.
I have been living under a rock the last ten years so I thought the EU still had the data retention directive. Between 2006-2014 all ISPs were required to logg traffic in the EU. I am so glad you are right!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
But if data wasn't worth anything, they wouldn't bother, right?
What a name!!
Labor shortage is such a lie. when they say that they just mean there aren’t enough low-information workers who will work for meager wages in a high taxation environment in a race to the bottom while some political dynasties always skim from the top. I hope you can all muster up the strength to vote in better leaders who put the citizens first.
More often than not: no, the cannot.

Do you believe medicine has the answer for every chronic condition? Doctors are often unable to help you.
The city I live in isn't restricting it. Condos are going up as fast as they can be built and the parks are still filling up with tent cities and rents are still doubling. Something just doesn't add up. I'm in Canada (don't want to give exact city, sorry).
Note that this is only for the direct shift instructions. Some other related instructions, and SIMD versions, might be different from the regular shifts on the same architecture.

x86-64's 'bzhi' instruction (does 'a & ((1<<b) - 1)') uses mod 256 (and thus, if mod 32/64 was specified in C, compilers couldn't optimize to this).

ARM NEON's SIMD shifts merge both left and right shift in one instruction (reads low 8 bits as a signed int, positive being left shift, and negative - right shift)