skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to add to the positive voices wishing for Woz’s speedy recovery.
There is a reason companies pay for this process: they are allowed to maintain the worker for as long as the process goes. And for many people this can take up to 10 years, depending on nationality. If they have a good employee, it is a no-brainer to pay so they cannot leave the company, under the penalty of having the green card process cancelled or restarted.
Takes more than five comments to make a dupe, typically.
Yes! It is as a direct result of that book that I now know without having to look it up that a ksec is about a quarter hour and a Msec is on the order of a fortnight, which comes in handy when doing back-of-envelope estimation more often than you'd expect. (I'd already known that a Gsec was about a third of a century thanks to Tom Duff's observation.[0]) I don't see us moving to such a system anytime soon in general (tying to the circadian cycle is just too convenient) but I'm a little surprised I don't see it more often in discussions of humans in space.

[0] "How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury." --Tom Duff
Good tip! I might try this variable width idea. Seems a bit out there.
This is so cool, definitely giving it a try!
w = keyboard button to go forwards

m1 = Mouse button 1, "fire", in case of the pyro, the flamethrower
> The echidna is embedded in the local culture, including a tradition that states conflicts are resolved by sending one party to a disagreement into the forest to search for the mammal and another to the ocean to find a marlin, according to Yongsu Sapari elders cited by the university. Both creatures were seen as so difficult to find that it would often take decades or a generation to locate them. But once found, the animals symbolized the end of the conflict and a return to harmonious relationships.

If only all worldly conflicts could be resolved so peacefully.
What makes this advice special? It's based on a single experience.

I assume you prayed over it, at least.
No need. The courier has an implanted memory device with 160GB capacity. But it was pushed beyond specs to 360GB for this run.
> The major downside I see right now is that "addresses are harder to memorize," but there are solutions to that as well.

Definitely. That DNS thing sounds promising!
Windows RG was supposed to be parody, not a wishlist.
Show HN: Hundreds of Custom GPTs
Ask HN: Extract Any Date Format
I am looking for a way to extract and transform date from any format into unix time at a 10M+ scale (if it takes 1s/record it will take ~4 months). I am using this simple task to explore how LLM adaptation capabilities can be made performant for scalable extraction.

- Oct26 3:51PM

- Nov 6, 2023 at 9:42:44 AM

- 2023-05-29T06:40:31.249-06:00

- June 3, 2011 at 4:52 AM

- Fr Nov 10, 2023, at 9:42:44 AM

- Friday November 10 at 2:20 AM

... You get the gist
I've been saying for years that I believe it inevitable there will be country specific forks/branches of iOS and Android, as countries get more and more interested in legislation concerning instant messaging, online transactions, app stores etc.

I'd go as far as to argue it's a small miracle we made it this far with a single global OS release (although I guess there are even already the minor changes for things like removing the Taiwan flag emoji in the China iOS releases...).
The next one lands on a nice round hour, since it'll be at exactly 3:00:00 AM.

@ date -d '@1800000000'
Fri Jan 15 03:00:00 AM EST 2027
It's worth noting that a bot trained on general data will be as biased, bigoted and superstitious as that data reflects.

This is a warning to those using AI for sensible advice, that any advice will be pretty warped.

Worth mentioning. Don't know if it was worth spending research money on; still it's a wake-up to folks embracing AI uncritically.
> Someone has to get paid to declare the King’s (collectively speaking) intent I suppose.

Can you elaborate on this?
I'm talking about speculators engaged in predatory flipping (and was also assuming adjusting for inflation).

Water rights speculation has apparently only been going on in Arizona for around 30 years. While some of this speculation may be net beneficial (use of recharge areas to recharge ground water), others just seem speculative and aimed at making a premium when municipalities are eventually forced to buy.
> The German law you cite about getting a password is applicable if you plan to or actually access data they are not authorized to. Which is not the case (assuming they do not).

Usually this is the case. The user and Microsoft are not the only parties involved here. The Email provider is also involved in that they provide an email account, often e.g. for work or educational purposes. In those cases, handing over account credentials is forbidden by the workplace or educational institution, providing other people such as Microsoft with access is usually forbidden as well. Other commercial email providers often have similar rules. Therefore either Microsoft is doing unauthorized accesses en masse (since they do know that the aforementioned clauses are widespread common practice) or the users are illegally providing access to Microsoft.

> GDPR deals with privacy. The user name is personal identifiable data. The password is only personal data. The emails themselves can be PII or just personal data.

There is no such distinction in GDPR. There is only personal data according to GDPR article 4. A password is personal data because it is "personal" in that it can be (and is almost always) tied to a person. "PII" is something that only occurs in US law. The definitions are different, "personal data" in GDPR is far broader.

> GDPR legally wise, the password is the least risky set of data here (as absurd as it is)

Depends on what else is in that Inbox and what else this password can access.

> And these properties are not mentioned in the consent but just are part of the process. This is nothing else, just that we are very worried about that the property is a password.

Interesting idea, and yes, GDPR allows for not informing the user about what the user already knows, i.e. a kind of implicit consent. However, the surprise that even experts on HN show about this news demonstrates that the average user doesn't know. So this doesn't apply, Microsoft should have explicitly informed and asked about permission to use username and password.
Incentive: you already have an employee on a visa working for you. They are a solid proven employee that you already invested money and other resources into (hiring/recruiting costs, onboarding, training, visa paperwork, time of other engineers helping them out during onboarding, etc.). The employee understandably wants to continue working here or, at least, remain in the country. You, as the employer, can either sponsor their green card and go through PERM or risk losing them in the near future (either to a competitor who is willing to sponsor it or due to them leaving the country voluntarily or them getting hit with some visa issues further on). The incentive here is clear.

So you decide to sponsor their green card process (as it makes sense in pretty much every aspect). Part of the application requirements is documentation proving that the employee that you are sponsoring isn’t displacing local workers and is truly high skill (given that H1B visa to green card conversion is intended for high-skill workers). The way that a lot of employers seem to be doing it is posting lowkey ads in newspapers and other places that technically would qualify, but that are unlikely to catch interest of potential candidates and are way more likely to go unnoticed. Then you wait some period of time. I don’t remember how long it is more precisely, but i remember that it is somewhere between 1-6 months. In the end, you got the document required to go forward with the process.

My guess is that for large tech companies like FAANG it wouldn’t work like that, as their job postings are everywhere. But i think the fact that their interviews are notoriously difficult to pass (relative to most jobs outside of tech, where getting an interview itself is usually way more difficult, but once you got it, you are more likely to pass), that might work as a documented proof. Not sure, as I have never observed how those companies handle it, but I have seen some small employers do variations of the dance that I have described in the previous paragraph.
I'm as pro-Linux and anti-Windows (and anti-Adobe for that matter) as it gets but even I'll admit that Gimp and Kdenlive are not in the same league as Photoshop and Premiere.
How do you turn an iOS app into an apk file?
But a country specific fork would make things easy! I'd just purchase an iPhone from Europe.

Instead, it looks like Apple is going to dynamically enable/disable sideloading based on location.
Bombing missions are about destroying targets, not meeting some quota of explosives dropped. Precision bombs require far fewer units and a lower mass of explosives to destroy a target than dumb bombs.
Study probes risks to power plants from electromagnetic pulse
The same states that just purchased the Pegasus software from Israel and breached the iPhones anyway? O.K. I'll tell them.

Meanwhile there are real wars happening in Europe and the Middle East, people are hacking phones to fly drones, trigger devices or detect enemy. It would suck badly if you are the one who has no access to an Android device, and you have to wait for Apple reviewers to approve the app that can use the seismometer to detect and rely the tank positions in your neighbourhood.

It's 2025, the war still goes on and Trump decides that Putin is right, to de-escalate the situation orders Apple to stop providing services to users in Ukraine because people are using their phones to film and locate Russian soldiers, prolonging the war. There you have it, someone on the other side of the planet just cut your communications as they see fit so you can be exterminated without causing much trouble.

Very dangerous stuff. These devices are expensive, people can't just get something that will work at whim.

Unfortunately, Apple's walled gardens can't protect you against tanks or missiles.
Sure. I wasn't commenting on colloquial speech, I was commenting on Amazon's listings.
That’s the thing. You have the “unassociated” scammer admit to it otherwise they don’t know to come get the shipment (and pay the fee).
Yeah, that does seem to be the legal definition of the term. It just seems problematic for the taxpayer in markets with strong speculation.
Easy at least until you have to install an OS update, and the exact same location feature switches the fork...
My understanding of the article is that for the purposes of the cherry-pick, it "pretends" that the parent of Y2 is the base of the merge. Contrary to what the post says, git only cares about contents, not patches or diffs.

The effect of this operation is that it compares what it would take to go from Y1 -> X3 with what it would take to go from Y1 -> Y2 -- it doesn't care about the path. If Y1 added a new function, for example, then when computing the three-way diff it would say "well, clearly in the X3 side of the merge that function was removed".

This is astonishingly clever.

If conflict-free, it will have all the content from X3 and all the changes from Y1->Y2, but none of the changes from B->Y1. Once again git has blown my mind.
Your comment is simply pretending that the manufacturing cycle/production process for wind and solar, utility or otherwise, doesn't involve the production small scale power generators produced at a massive scale.

Such that over years of successive improvements, there is an active downward pressure on price and upward progress in features / improvements / utility.

The promise of the SMNR is really the closet-sized ORNL reactor. Of course that doesn't involve lots of chemical processing support systems, but the reactor wasn't that big. And yes getting a Brayton cycle turbine attached and combined cycle generators to max output won't fit in a closet.

But ... still, it would be the path forward to the biggest challenges to nuclear:

1) actual cost

2) reliably delivering on budget

As the comment above you points out, the ship sailed on nuclear ten years ago when the window of it being competitive with wind/solar was open. Now it's been buried.

As it stands, we are left with China to possibly figure it out.
> Second, do the retailers know they are selling counterfeit products?

Everyone selling 2tb thumb drives knows they're selling counterfeit products, yes.

They will of course strategically claim ignorance if confronted - a lie only the most naive would believe.
The main issue with ontologies, and the reason why they're not popular besides a few niche cases, is that they try to solve a fundamentally unsolvable problem: getting (a large amount of) humans to agree on a "correct" modelling of something non-trivial.

When you narrow down the domain to something where a consensus on representation can be reached, then sure, reasoning is a plausible use case... except for the fact that it scales very poorly, and making it work on a set of data large enough to be interesting requires a disproportionate amount of computing power.
But then you would have issues with how to evaluate the immigrant. You may say degree, work history, other achievements, etc but those are already being used as qualifiers in the current system, in addition to the job requirements. So any attempts at decoupling immigration from employment would be seen as "open border" by many politicians and their bases, i.e. not going to be a reality ever.

If even a law trying to let US-educated PhDs getting an H1B easier (just to work, not GC) get blocked, you know how anti-immigration the current political climate is.
> . You only have this problem when your restaurant is in such high demand that it’s worthwhile to be targeted by bots.

Why wouldn't bots buy up every table in every restaurant everywhere no matter how busy they normally are? It costs basically nothing. That way you'll be forced to pay money to some app just to get a table anywhere. Restaurants that don't want to be exploited this way will have to either stop accepting reservations or spend a bunch of time and money fighting bots.
For a non-citizen, becoming a citizen is a long process (Generally more than a few years). To actually stay in the US and move the process along employer sponsorship is key.

This long process incentives non-citizens to do work at below market rates and to put up with less than ideal employment treatment. Which is great for most businesses as they can get a dev for cheap that they can work for long hours and hold their current residency in the US hostage (it's not a simple process to switch employers).

However, the law has on the books for programs like this and H1B that a company has to have first failed to fill their position with a US citizen. Apple is not unique here in fudging the "tried to fill the position" requirement. I suspect there's more than a few big name company's HR departments seeing this news and getting a little worried.

I should note, the law also says PERM employees should be payed market rate... but market rate is a flexible thing and PERM employees are much less likely to complain.
EB2 has separate sub categories. Regular EB2 does not require papers or citations. It just needs an advanced degree or equivalent in experience. The categories that benefit from papers, citations etc., are EB2-NIW and EB1A/B. Those don't require PERM as USCIS takes on the role of the adjudicator there. PERM is handled by Dept. of Labor.
> with basically no change to the routing, DNS, NAT, etc.

Except you're wrong on all of the above.

We'd still need a completely different "v4.1" routing layer, because a /32 could never be a subnet while also being a distinct endpoint, so we'd have to treat any routes smaller than a /33 as being the old IPv4 world while a /33 and bigger would be v4.1. So we still end up with the exact same split, except now our address space is an even bigger fucking mess instead of the clear break v6 is giving us to make a more hierarchical network (eventually getting rid of the ludicrous routing table bloat we currently have, though we really need to come up with a better solution for multi-WAN failover in small networks to avoid everyone and their dog needing an ASN and BGP session to have a HA setup).

DNS would still need changes, because the struct for an A record still contains a 32-bit address.

Nothing stopped us from using NAT with IPv6, but it sucks and broke end to end connectivity so while we already had to break the world to make the switch why not deal away with the ugly hack while we were at it.

There is no world in which any successor to IPv4 did not have a long transition time without government mandates, and that's basically what it is taking to get ISP's and cloud providers to adapt it (the whole reason AWS, Azure, GCP, et. al. are slowly getting their shit together is the US government is mandated to go single stack).
Color me underwhelmed.
>"Yes we confirm," a representative for Lockbit said when reached on their contact address via the messaging platform Tox.

This is the most LockBitSupp reply lol. I'm even more impressed they were able to get a reply from them so quickly.
Has the article been updated? I was thinking “West Papua” might refer to the province but I can’t find the term in the article at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Papua_(province)
I've found the Deck quite uncomfortable to hold, with the rear buttons being the lowest point. Lots of pain in the curve of the palm, plus the stock plastic is slippery which makes you try to squeeze harder. Propped up on a stand with an external controller is my preferred way personally.
> I'm gonna shit on scientific and technological progress, because I can't have a career as a sci-fi writer if the -fi parts become real too fast

This is not a fair characterization: cstross wrote several novels about singularities or set in post-singularity universes decades ago - before the current LLM hype. I suspect he has thought more about a/the singularity than those he is criticizing in TFA. He even wrote blog posts about why he doesn't write singularity-related stories anymore (six[1] years before Transformers, and the "Attention is All You Need" paper). Those timelines do not match your interpretation of him being salty about tech moving too fast.

You dismissal sounds a little shallow: there's more to sci-fi than AI, and he doesn't just write sci-fi - his Merchant Princess and Laundry Files books are fantastic.

1. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality...
what does it take to impress you?
Because they don't "knowingly sell counterfeit goods". Amazon employees don't create these listings, other people do.

Someone that "knowingly sells counterfeit goods" is humanly aware that a specific item they are selling is counterfeit, and decide to sell it anyway, which is not the case here.

These listings are taken down whack-a-mole style as Amazon is made humanly aware of their existence.
> PERM has charming and quaint requirements like taking out an ad in a Sunday newspaper so that applicants can apply and other nonsense.

Well, that certainly explains why I saw Lucid advertising in a New Orleans free newspaper and applied and got nothing but a rejection.
He paid $2000 but doesn’t seem enough to make the scam worthwhile. Maybe the “happy path” is a multimillion cargo and a disinterest conglomerate that will just claim on insurance. Having a low value cargo and a very interested one man band is not worth the risk of getting caught.
Until this point in time I've been extremely sceptical about chat bots. But LLM is changing the playing field. Chat bots often don't make sense but I do think there are a lot of cases they can do things other interfaces would struggle with.
Oh I knew somebody who bought the cheapest thing in the shop when it comes to electronics every time and would only upgrade if he absolutely could not make it work.
look at all those offices/conference rooms!
I hope to arrange an extended tour of Iron Mountain for early 2038.
> run. For instance, if you are building an app that uses OpenAI to book hotels and flights by chatting with a bot, chances are someday either ChatGPT or something by Microsoft or Google will do that and make your puny little business totally obsolete.

How many times have we been down the path of “travel website making it easy to find the best deal and book your flight”. I don’t see how AI will do it any differently and how AI won’t inevitably run into all the same constraints.
> And I do believe it is because consumers aren't stupid and recognize that the new Macs have planned obsolescence built-in with their soldered RAM and SSDs

I guess this is a factor, but the main reason I haven't bought a new Mac is that they quit making the 27" iMac. Turning that beautiful screen into a paperweight or strictly-retro computer, only to turn around and buy a Mini and Studio Display, seems silly. OpenCore Legacy Patcher has kept me up-to-date so far, but there's an end on it. It doesn't help that my office is part of the "fancy" part of the house and so having exactly one cable (power) running into the computer is a nontrivial aesthetic benefit. It really does look sleeker, because it is.
TrustZone doesn't run on a separate processor like the x86 TPM. It's more like a hypervisor-level ring fence than a coprocessor.
Thanks for Lockitron, I still use it! Probably one of the few. At least Chamberlain has kept it running, which honestly I'm surprised at. I have been looking at other ones, and with this news I think it's time to do that.
It's a pity that the article never mentions why they thought imprisoning the girl was a lifesaving and necessary treatment.
This is not just a Windows thing. Plenty of Unix software struggles with long paths as well.
The default assumption of innocence is for the default case, i.e. where nothing notable happens at all.

Beyond that, there cannot be such a presumption, enforcement action in many scenarios need to be taken well before the timeframe necessary for a formal court judgement to be delivered.

e.g. Airport baggage screening, where even if you mistakenly pick up someone else’s lookalike bag full of prohibited substances, you could still suffer quite severe consequences
Or more relevant to this, Apple wanted to retain the employee that had been working for them for 3-5 years instead of replacing them with a completely new hire because of bureaucratic legalese.

The PERM application was almost certainly submitted for an existing employee, who had most likely been employed with Apple for somewhere between 2-4 years. Thanks to bureaucratic nonsense they were then required to open up that position to outsiders instead, and if they found someone else who could be hired fire the person that had been doing the job well enough that Apple was willing to pick up tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to go ahead with their PERM application.
I’m confused - why do you multiply number of chips by sequence length? Shouldn’t the total batch size be 50k x6?
Welcome to the world of consultancies!
“society.tf”
Easy to find out since half are still at the warehouse....
No, it's that chat bots have no actual power to fix most issues. They exist to make it more difficult to escalate up the bureaucracy where there is staff that can actually problem solve, issue refunds, give credits, etc. Chat bots are merely a filter to get rid of easily pacified pushover customers and those who refuse to read instructions or documentation.
I think you are focusing on the wrong part of this story. Here is the more juicy part

> There were thousands of accident reports and other internal Tesla communications that Handelsblatt used as the basis for stories about flaws with the company’s Autopilot driver-assistance software.