skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was your point in asking this "question of social status"?

Nothing in this thread points to lack of workers, but to over regulation.

On a personal note, I'd prefer many less lawyers, especially the ones who argue against the one energy source that works.

I'd prefer many more trade workers, much less in academics.

I'd prefer people to not view jobs as a social status and appreciate the contributions people give to society.

A plumber can make quite a bit of money, work up to their own business, not have to deal with huge amounts of debt, and actually provides needed services for society.
I didn't get from the article or their vision https://www.ltaresearch.com/our-story that "New York to London" is their mission.
I last went to Vegas in 2014, and in the hotel pool bar it was $16 for a small bottle of Budweiser. I had a rather dry trip at those prices.
Employment agreements are at will. Its highly unlikely you can fight this. You need agreement with your employer to continue.
A bunch of synthetic benchmarks, regurgitating press-releases, with 0 actual personal review, 0 real world usage... and Apple really sends test models to do this?
An oven in summer and stealth at night?
Naming issues aside, the type of t shouldn't matter, in the same way that the type of a.b() doesn't matter. What matters is how t relates to the code around it. What's the purpose of t in the context where it's used? What does it store? If you don't know whether t is an iterator over a sequence, the timestamp of an event, or the measurement of a sensor, knowing whether t is an int or a string won't help you much. If you do know that, knowing the specific type of t will probably not provide much more additional information, since in any given codebase for almost all non-primitive types there's at most two different types with comparable purpose.
For those like me who don't know what a self organizing map is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map

A self-organizing map (SOM) or self-organizing feature map (SOFM) is an unsupervised machine learning technique used to produce a low-dimensional (typically two-dimensional) representation of a higher dimensional data set while preserving the topological structure of the data.
Errors/Exceptions by value isn't that important in isolation, but it makes functional programming styles work a lot better (monads).

I think there's still an argument here that this is just a symptom of trying to force functional paradigms on python, which is happening more and more, which I like but am sometimes worried about how pythonic it is... For a one odd script it works well, but when I want to maintain something and have to manage many dependencies and onboard new devs it becomes quite challenging.
There seems to be something somehow wired into (at least some) people’s brains that makes trains appealing. You don’t see, e.g., BusFan forums to correlate with the RailFan forums. Heck, I can entertain myself for extended stretches of time just following the path of railroad tracks on Google Maps.
I've wondered this as well..

I think Netflix, Amazon and Apple were sort of that for a while, with all the deals they were cutting with production companies..

But in the end it was just Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..
Humane launches $699 Ai Pin
Or "The Sky Lords" trilogy [0]

[0] The story is set in the future, after the 'Gene Wars' have turned the Earth into a blighted wasteland. The inhabitants of Earth live a tribal-like existence and offer tributes to the Sky Lords. The Sky Lords live in giant airships and are the rulers of the people below.
Definitely not ChatGPT, even if you put in a thing that any code it ran would be tested somehow for correctness.
> One of the problems is that people assume that Microservices "should be as small as possible" when they should be "Small enough that a small team can own them"

I don't know what people should do. It is named as micro service after all.

It is same with Agile cult with endless sprints, stories, epics, sagas, daily scrums, scrum of scrums, scrum master of ceremonies, and what not, people are then told "Do what works in your situation, silly." I mean yeah, it is so simple and straightforward now why didn't everyone think of it before.
I guess you need SVD to figure out that if you have two emotional trajectory states (rise or fall) that these can only toggle (since "rise, rise" is just a bigger "rise" and "fall, fall" is just a bigger "fall"). So you pick the initial emotional state and then toggle however many states are in the story. If you have at most three states then you get 2*3 trajectories.

1. rise
2. fall

3. rise, fall
4. fall, rise

5. rise, fall, rise
6. fall, rise, fall

Sorry, I don't find this particularly insightful. The insight would have been if certain sequence lengths were more important or excluded. Or other parameters about the states.
He gets a paycheck.
I have been part of many online communities. To name a few, the old Usenet, Slashdot, IWETHEY, Perlmonks, and HN.

I long ago accepted that all die at some point. And something new will be created. The new will never be the same as the old. But the fundamental problems are social, not technical.

Your mirror platform is an idea that I've seen tried multiple times, and I've only seen work once. That was when the InfoWorld Electric forums broke, and the core participants moved to IWETHEY as a replacement.

But, generally, the technology isn't what breaks, it is the social dynamics. Usenet, Slashdot and Perlmonks are still out there. They just don't have the same social dynamics that they used to. People enter, others leave, and the community changes. Those who are motivated may agree to meet over there when this goes. But they are always more motivated to be here here now. People who leave here, don't go there because there is nobody there to attract them. And they don't want to form a community over there for a future mass migration because they (probably accurately) project that the people they don't like here will just be part of that migration.

I'll cry a tear if HN falls apart to the point I don't want to be here. But I'll also accept it as just how online communities work. Maybe I'll see people I know in my next community. Maybe not. I'll keep a few personal friends, and I'll move on.

This is just how things work online. And there is no technological solution for what is fundamentally a social problem.
Hi Peter, generally speaking, what is a route to consider for Canadians who are currently Software Developers and want to switch fields (ex. Product Manager) and work in the US for at a startup? TN NAFTA visa looks good although the "NAFTA Profession list" criteria is narrow (ex. doesn't include Product Manager)
Well it depends, if you plan on grinding your semiconductors into dust and inhaling them, then yes its a problem.
Could you advise on when it's appropriate/advisable to contract an attorney for assisting immigration?
Even if you don't fully trust them, it's still just a better way to live - if you have the luxury. I left money - change from a grocery run on my coffee table, and then had some friends over. It's not the remnants of a high trust society that let me not worry about that money being out, but financial privilege. That the < $100 wasn't worth my time to worry about. If one of my visitors took some/any/all of it, I wouldn't have gone hungry. I might not even have noticed. Just thought, huh, that's weird, and gone about my day. Others I know don't have that luxury, and would go hungry if it was their money that had gone missing. They're much less trusting, because they have to be.

If the latest shipment of crap from Amazon/Temu went missing. Annoying, but you'd just tell them the package got stolen and get a replacement sent out.
Former Apple execs launch wearable AI Pin that uses ChatGPT
Wonder if it's worth digging into why that's the case. It seems like it's a lot more than just the cost of materials + labour that's the problem.
Perhaps, companies in which employees can pursue hobbies/personal projects. (kodac & digital camera[0] being an interesting case study))

Companies arise out of diverging from 'parent' company goals/objectives.

Also a side project grows beyond original intent.

How to pay for US college education / research ...

* side jobs/projects that superceeded 'getting a degree': Dell, Nerf, Microsoft, facebook, netscape.

* While doing research .... microwave, transisor, antibiotics, digital camera, c/unix, bsd, alto & apple Lisa, etc ...

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera
Yup, that repo is mine! haha

The cool thing is that I don't intend to take it down now that I built a SaaS around it. I'll keep both open source and SaaS versions of it live, and try to upsell the service to those who don't feel like self-hosting it. Plus, the SaaS version comes with features not available in the open source version (such as support to Android) :)

Thanks for spotting and sharing this!
What a wonderful and heartwarming story! Until that last sentence… I’m so sorry. At the risk of sounding too personal, I imagine many of us here can relate to that with someone in our family.

Coming from someone of a similar age who also started with QBASIC, I hope your dad realizes soon what a talented kid he has.
One does not simply leave. You need permission from your destination to reside there. Tourism is different.
For this reason I put bwbasic in https://www.exaequos.com
I'm originally from Texas. I reserve the right to call English a mess. Y'all should see how Texans pronounce Spanish words.
> Sometimes you want to swallow exceptions and sometimes you don't.

You capture `Exception' in your examples which is a serious anti-pattern in nearly all cases. One of the rare places you'd want to do that is at the top level of a service that has to clean up safely before bailing out. None of the contrivances in your example demonstrate that requirement.

If you need to capture an exception, you capture the narrowest one that matches the business/technical requirement you have. The rest should bubble up and get handled by another part of your code or, indeed, cause your app to crash if it's unhandled.

Exceptions don't mean "error" either; they're just exceptions.

> If they propagate down the stack then you lose context

I cannot think of any instances where you 'lose context' by propagating them. You should raise Foo from e if you're re-raising, though, which you clearly did not bother doing. That does preserve context.

Passing an instance of an Exception object around? What is this madness... are you building a debugger? No? A complex framework or tool like pytest where you may want to manipulate the stack frames to benefit the end user? No? Then don't pass exception objects around and raise them somewhere else.
I'll say the same thing I always say when System76 hardware is posted here. A 1080p screen should be a non-starter in 2023. How they are still selling these with low DPI screens doesn't make sense to me.
It is linguistically related to the (plus, int) monoid; the fact that it conforms to some algebraic/categorical interface is irrelevant in most contexts and just a distraction.

(A “Result” is Rust-speak for a sum type which is either A or B, where (say) B is conventionally an error)
Is there any path for a founder from Canada to move to the US by being employed by their company under a TN visa - especially if they don't believe they can prove O1 requirements? Why is the O1 preferred (other than permanence)?
To get quicklime you have to burn at high temperatures, which is currently done using coke, so concrete is actually as high as 8% of carbon dioxide emissions.
What’s your take on O1 visas for company founders (from European Union) wanting to move to the US for 2-3 years, possibly opening up a business entity of their company there?
Or you lose, as Tumblr is figuring out.
> If they propagate down the stack then you lose context. You also may not have all the data you need to properly recover (e.g. still write to a table but make the errored field null).

Is this not solved by using raise from?
“bad resolution”??? 35mm film can deliver 87 MP, more than any ff digital camera i know.

https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/film-resolution.htm#:~:text....
No. Hacker News is a distraction, nothing more. It shouldn't define your life or identity to the point that you need to plan for its absence like the death of a parent or sibling. Go touch grass, nerds.
Hi Peter,

Could you shed some light about what kind of profile could apply for (and get) an O1 visa? Specifically, if I have a tech company set up in the US that's pulling some decent revenue, is it worth applying for an O1? What other circumstances come into play against/in favor of this?

I've seen a lot of advisors and "influencers" all over the web saying that it's "easy". I don't think that's the case because nothing in US immigration is easy, unless your net worth is like 9 figures, maybe; but if it's not that far-fetched I may consider applying for one.

Alternatively, could one sponsor its own H1B visa? I guess the actual underlying question is: if I'm an entrepreneur with a real, solid company based in the US (but I'm not in the US and not a US citizen), what is the best way for me to move there and keep working at my company?
No American media company wants to touch the EU now.
The result package in the article: https://github.com/rustedpy/result

There's a pretty decent explanation in the readme. If you're more interested in Monads, I am not sure I'd cover that in a HN comment very well, but I would encourage you to take a look.
Seems odd though that other cities can largely figure this out. Seems like a zoning failure, but nobody is talking about that. Maybe there is bias here since the zoning threads are always about increasing density, which this problem seems to largely be based (and coupled with old infrastructure and politics/cost/union).
Don't overshare at work. It's always used against you and you gain nothing from it. Keep that trap shut!
No, it was a long time ago (late 90s?). The hotel was cheap (Excalibur!), and other than seeing the Blue Man Group, everything else was very cheap. All you can eat breakfast was $10 and I ate so much I didn't eat again for 24 hours.
Uhh hello airplanes? It’s blimps, you win, goodbye.

https://youtu.be/vzYLTnI7TUI
Can’t be much worse than this one.
This problem isn't confined to nuclear energy either. Just about the only thing our society is still able to build quickly and cheaply are roads.
QB64 has taken on the mantel of modern reimplementation, its worth seeing if there are any extensions from there that are worth implementing.
I have my doubts that we'll soon see genetically modified elephants charge those springs.
For people running a small business that is remote/can be done anywhere (a small SaaS company for example). What are their options for operating in the US?

To give a specific example. An indiehacker runs their own business, and wants to move to the US, potentially with the view of trying to become a citizen at some point. They have plenty of income, don't need a job/so don't really have a visa sponsor etc.

What steps should they look to take?
Reverse engineering the Intel 386 processor's register cell
It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs
Hi Peter!
I am an ML postdoc with ~200 citations and a few papers at top ML conferences. I would like to apply for the EB2-NIW and I am wondering if it is really necessary to go through a lawyer. I have heard from a few people online who have wrote the petition themself, but from what I have gathered, most people go through lawyers. What would you recommend?
Thank you.
Congratulations on building something! The muscle memory you have built will serve you well.
> The current relatively low price of rhenium (relative to its rarity) is simply due to low demand.

For stuff previously needed in low quantities it's usually the reverse - price goes down as more is needed. Initially prices are high because manufacturing equipment has to be maintained even if idle, wages have to be paid, and because of logisticical overhead for the small quanitites. A second price drop occurs as we get into mass-manufacturing and better processes are found.

Rhenium is a byproduct of mining and refinement, but I suspect it is often not captured because the small quanitites needed don't make it economically interesting - you would invest in infrastructure to extract it and immediately crash the price. That would change if there was a stable demand of higher quantities.
Why bother? Radiocarbon dating is only good up to about 50k years. Longer than that and you would use longer lived radioisotopes which are in the construction materials anyway.
Are you talking about this? Interesting read and caused by one of the unsafe+transmute the sibling comment is talking about.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/7227
It’s an controversial topic I know…

Where I am there are broadly two types of cafe. Places that sell coffee and maybe/grudgingly three or four food items in a cabinet. You shouldn’t buy these items as they may be old and you are slowing down the coffee queue. These coffee shops survive on the quality of their coffee. More or less like a bar, but serving coffee. They are often small and grungy. They might have some limited seating. They are usually closed by about 3pm.

The other sort of cafe has a kitchen and makes food to order. They open until late.

Phrasing it carefully, British cafes didn’t make coffee anything like what I’m used to, and were pretty much a tea shop with a coffee machine. I want espresso with a dot of milk. Short, hot and the stronger the better.

I wish we had decent pubs with beer gardens.
The insularity isn't behind that, in my opinion.

It's more that almost all of Google's features are ad-funded, and the company has chosen to make lots of (apparently) free, but poorly supported and uncertain products, rather than a smaller set of well supported products. It's a tradeoff, and Google has made a good tradeoff for both themselves (who collect more data and have more ad supply) and the majority of their users (who get a wide variety of "free" services), but it has downsides, of course.
> Killing trees for short term gain is just hatefully stupid.

Like any other kind of poaching. Killing elephants for their tusks, or killing sharks for their fins.

People are fucking selfish, short-sighted assholes.
should it be an app on apple watch? :-)
Do people like the fake truffle oil or just pretend because it seems fancy and exotic? I can't stand it, way too strong.
What AI architects fear most (in 2024)
"Open AI and other creators of artificial intelligence technologies are close to releasing tools that make the easy — almost magical — creation of fake videos ubiquitous."

"One leading AI architect told us that in private tests, they no longer can distinguish fake from real"

"This technology will be available to everyone, including bad international actors, as soon as early 2024."
> "At the California plant, workers heat limestone to 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit in a kiln powered by renewable electricity. Carbon dioxide is released from the limestone and pumped into a storage tank."

Yes.
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Perhaps, but unlike truffle oil, which people eat for the flavor (and prestige/faux prestige), many people choose olive oil for health reasons. If you make some other kind of oil taste like olive oil, those people would not buy it.
The irony of having to dismiss no less than four pop-overs to read the text..
Weirdly right on the heels of the Tustin hangar fire. How many of these hangars are, um, hangin' around out there?
"How we made a non-idiomatic Python SDK for our app that Python devs will hate"
Clevo is one of System76s suppliers, many of the newer ones aren't as far as I understand. Not sure about the Lemur specifically.
What do you mean by "image faster than light"?

How is an image not light?

Or do you mean a captured image may show items from different points in time?

But that's only relevant after the photo has been created, not during the window of time that a sensor is capturing light.
What's so great about tunnel man?
i still use postman but as vscode extension
That entire website is going on about seed oils being evil... do you have a legitimate (peer reviewed extensive study in a reputable journal) source?
Peter helped us many times over at getstream.io, appreciate it.
Unexpected Baskerville: The Story of LoveFrom Serif
Yeah I was just musing.
Wozniak seems to be a terrible salesperson.
Yep, I got intellij to work with python/rust/scala and it's frustrating to see it pulled out like that. Not sure why they need to sell so many IDEs that are almost identical. Would've been happy with some upcharge for a "premium" plugin but I don't want to install three IDEs like they apparently want me to.
> The vague questions I have - how would a nation with mostly elder population maintain the infrastructure, deal with increased need for palliative care, coverage of labour intensive jobs?

It would work just like now; old people keep working until they die and younger people can't get jobs because old people are taking all the work. The infrastructure doesn't get maintained, just like now, the palliative care is given only to the rich, just like now, hard labor is done with tools, just like now.
I don't remember if it was Rogue One or another of the SW franchise, but they actually backed their way into the plot but first picking scenes from other movies and then stitching them together.
Nah the west could (will?) just grow them in vertical farms. Less pesticides, more water efficient, and fresher fruits and veggies: https://richmond.com/news/local/business/plenty-unlimited-ve...
The strip itself is roughly Palo Alto prices at small town truck stop quality. Small town truck stops are consistent and that’s a great thing, but McDonalds restaurants are always consistent too. You can find a very expensive smoky old fashioned (or whatever the fashionable cocktail is) pretty well everywhere and you won’t always be able to tell where you are.

Off strip is a lot more attractive both in terms of price and quality. But it’s harder to access unless you have trusted friends who live in Vegas. Locals seem to avoid the strip and seem to try to keep the strip away from their trusted spots!
Same thing came to my mind, when zsnes became open source in early 2000s and we were able to explore its thousand of ASM lines in NASM dialect.
"and (shudder) pop-up ads"

I had to close 3 or 4 pop-ups, before I could read the article. This is sadly pretty normal nowadays, and I don't want to know how bad it would be, if I wouldn't use ublock origin.

The web is utterly broken and I can't believe that the masses are able to migrate to the fediverse (which is the proposed fix of the author).
> Ctrl+F -> spiders
> Phrase not found

Either AI architects the bravest people on earth, or I have my reservations.
No, it's smoke gun or 2in1 becouse RIGHT NOW Commision is preparing papers to change EU law and all nations status and rights in EU.

Btw. this link to Twitter/X kill my desktop both in ff and chromium...
I found the last sentence confusing
Just a point of clarity, we need demand resources, which means variable at our command vs not variable or variable based on wind/solar input out of our control.

The economically viable mass storage options (i.e pumped storage) are basically all deployed. Batteries are getting there but they still need some shenanigans in the ancillary market where they get paid for not running for complex reasons to make the economics in most instances. As the shenanigans price out nat gas in those markets it will be interesting to see how offer strategies of nat gas change to recoup the lost economic viability and if that makes batteries less profitable.