skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if this doesn't make it seem farcical enough: you would think that an employee who'd been working at your firm would have lots of unique skills and familiarity with corporate processes, technology etc. that are valuable, and that you could write a job description that required those.

But no - your immigration law firm will tell you that you absolutely can't do that, and that you have to pretend to hire into some kind of imaginary position that reflects the knowledge and skills of someone in the job market who would qualify but for the fact that they don't have skills that could only be acquired at your firm.
Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
The underlying technology of LLM's and stable diffusion is an interesting topic that does have some useful applications and should be studied more, I just don't see this company (or any others for that matter) GPTing their way to AGI within our lifetime, or being able to create significant value for investors after the hype fades.

This feels a lot like crypto where everyone is very excited about a new technology that very few people really understand, and are jumping on the bandwagon without asking any questions.

It's also very much like crypto where for every one person doing something useful with it, there are 20 trying to exploit the newness and low comprehension the general public have of the tech such as:

- Trying to cash out on a ChatGPT wrapper company

- Creating the nth "AI powered custom chat bot but for x vertical"

- Using it to cheat on school assignments or interviews

- Gluing together as many different "AI" services as possible to create a no touch business and sell low effort products

I'm not saying the company will go bankrupt but I'm also not buying into the hype that it's going to become the next Google or better / create AGI for us all.

What am I missing here?
Happens a lot in upstate ny too, been to a few places like this. For what it's worth.
Depends on if you ever took outside money I guess :-)
It's of course slower than real RAM, but Apple are using pretty fast SSDs and possibly a novel model of swapping, making it effectively pretty good (certainly not perfect!).
FAANG SWE and body-shop “IT” careers couldn’t be more different.
Jinx?
I admit that I'm not familiar with docker, but I had assumed their import/export would deal with images. Or is that not true?
See https://pot.pizzamig.dev/Images/
> If the PERM process at Apple is anything like what I saw at Facebook a couple of years ago, then all these “applicants” are actually people already working at the company on non-immigrant visas whom the company wants to retain.

Indeed. I really doubt Apple prefers foreigners in their hiring (it's a rather significant hassle to bring somebody in). If anything, citizens have some edge.

But once an immigrant has been hired, the PERM process essentially would require trying to hire for that position again, and employers (not just Apple) are anything but motivated to replace an experienced and qualified employee with several years' experience at the company with an untested new hire, so they treat this process as a Kabuki performance.
> Intel is also supplying Stability with an AI supercomputer that uses high-end Xeon processors, with over 4,000 Gaudi2 AI processors

Even if Stability AI ends up being a total flop, that alone could be worth it.

What Intel needs is people figuring out how to train on Gaudi, and publishing how they did it. And then customers will actually want to rent Gaudi to train on. And then hyperscalers will actually buy them.

The current situation of A100/H100 or bust is kind of insane. But no one codes anything for anything else. Its chicken and egg.
> reach the point where it is basically about to be obsoleted.

Sorry, maybe I'm a luddite, but I don't follow - what do you believe puts mobile devices on the brink of obsolescence?
Microsoft stated goal is to be cloud first, they want people to use their vertical integrated cloud services. Office, OneDrive, Teams, Azure, etc

If you are not a cloud customer they do not really care if you leave windows

At this point people should (and microsoft defacto does) considers Windows as a client for their cloud services, not a Operating system
True. The pod’s monotonic and atomic lifecycle across containers is a significant difference, but you can broadly accomplish similar behaviors with an alloc for sharing resources.
The text states that, but then in the Healing Examples section [0], the "m" in "filming" clearly spills over its left border line.

Is that just a poorly drawn/incorrect example graphic?

[0] https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Textu...
If the restaurant takes a name and checks on arrival, a third party can not reserve in advance and resell.
I mean the outcome is that it's a lot of wasted time and money. The original motivation for these policies was a pro-labor/protectionist stance in hiring immigrants, but that is completely subverted because there are no restrictions in hiring temp. immigrant workers. This PERM thing only comes up if you want to keep them permanently. The process basically subverts everyone's expectations, disappoints everyone, and just hands gov. and lawyers money.
But you're only hearing from the people who are annoyed enough to write a comment complaining about it. Many other users (such as myself) may be +1 or +0 on the functionality, in which case you can't conclude that "it causes more annoyance than it does good". You'd need to know user's preferences (if you're solving for that) or the value HN admin attributes to the feature vs. the value they attribute to the cost imposed on users (if you're solving for that)
That's a factor, but I think the H1-B lock-in is more important. Assuming no mistreatment at all is occurring, an employee who you can be fairly confident won't quit still has extra value to you. The H1-B requiring that the employee either goes back to their original country or lines up another company to take over the visa means that they're much more likely to stick around.
Do we know which conflicts were resolved by this sighting?
After the iPod, this was what really helped. As someone on a college campus in 2006, the influx of people with MacBooks (not necessarily Pro’s but the regular one in black and white cases) was astonishing to watch, as they suddenly could dual boot Windows if they absolutely had to for their coursework. Combined with a much better version of iTunes as the iPod rose to prominence (the Video one came out the year before) and it became an easy sell to any 18 or 19 year old and their parents.
I was responding to someone who was discussing the H-1B process, which matches what I said, not the PERM process, which matches what you said.
One approach is to write a blog posting about how you created your product and get it on the front page of Hacker News
Yes because Amazon used unfair practices to crush small competitors like Walmart…
It's the best one. Probably the best mass-market dark chocolate product out there.
The problem is, their cloud solutions suck.
Sure thing. Then I'm sure you can evenly distribute seven marbles to four people, or make gold with alchemy. My prejudices must just be wrong.
How to Copy Uncopyable Texts on Windows
That’s just technical capacity too. Usability is…. Rough.
I wasn't aware of that. Perhaps they never re-implemented the version from Bell Labs so they didn't have a free program (other than the GNU one) that they could release until more recently?
I like this approach - with the extra clarity added

"The trash needs to be taken out because <x>. Can you look after that <within timeframe>?"

Clarity: 5/5

Harshness: 1/5
It's not a question about difficulty, it's that nobody really gives a shit.

I'm sure everyone on this site knows that it would not be difficult at all to implement this.

Perhaps there is some valid legal concern over remembering minors' data, but if so, you can pretty easily come up with another dozen examples of sites elsewhere having similar issues with non-sensitive data.

The problem is that you usually have to have someone who is actually passionate about the product to drive all these little things home. Maybe this was a bug that was the next item on their backlog, but then someone in the chain of command said "it's good enough now, ship it.", and then everyone got moved on to the next thing.

Almost everyone at most companies, at all levels, is just doing a job. Very few people actually care about the product.
So no evidence?
I think I see the disconnect here.

You’re saying that from the perspective of the Tumblr people, having been purchased by Yahoo/Verizon, there were limited options. And maybe negotiations with Apple came into play once the CSAM problem was already so bad the app was delisted.

What I’m saying is that from the consumer perspective, it doesn’t really matter who in the company made the choice (Tumblr people or Verizon people), a business choice was made to remove a significant part of the users and use case for the platform.

Similarly by the time Apple banned the app for CSAM, maybe it truly was too late to keep NSFW content on the platform for Apple users, and maybe it was seen by ownership as too expensive to implement a partial solution. Regardless of ownership, failing to invest in effective moderation and flagging tools at every point in Tumblr’s journey was a business choice.

Maybe it was too expensive to keep CSAM off the platform. I don’t see evidence that Tumblr made those investments. An easy reporting option for users is the bare minimum. Maybe Tumblr would have bankrupted themselves policing that content - but choosing to not go down that road is still a business decision and still not something that can realistically be pinned on Apple.

In other words there are two versions of the story:

- Excuse: we had to take down NSFW content platform wide because Apple hates adult content

- Explanation: we didn’t have the resources to police an NSFW platform effectively, so we made a business decision to drop that segment of our business
Sounds like Amazon should vet the items before allowing them be listed.

Strange how easy it is to brush off accountability and still make a profit off of illegalities.
Subliminal advertising for Bunq in the header image.
> Theoretically if they find a qualified candidate they have to fire the worker who asked for PERM, and hire the candidate.

This doesn't seem like the only option to me. They could hire the newly discovered qualified candidate AND keep the existing employee on the H1B visa and try again.

For companies that are continually recruiting and have an incredibly tough interview process, it doesn't sound like a disaster to unintentionally come across someone good.
I had a 1040ST back in the day and it was great for the time. I learned me some C with the Mark Williams C, played around with bbs's and whatnot, but I'd be hard-pressed to find a reason to go back.

Of course we're all different, but I'd assume the real driver would be the ability to run specific beloved apps of yore.
Not sure if I'm reading your comment correctly. Are you implying it's hard to save up living in the bay area?
I've edited the title to make that clearer. Thanks!
It sounds to me like you're explaining Tax Deductions through Charity which is already a thing.
Yeah, windows is a hydra of weirdness, where some things fully support longpaths, but random things will come up that don’t, or fail to properly check and handle things, because no one ever got around to fixing it.

But even the linux kernel will quickly start having problems if one starts having long filenames with multi-bit unicode characters, that 255 bit size max can go fast. Many filesystems for linux actually support larger filenames than what the kernel does.
>Equal to an American in legal rights perhaps, but there is no right to competitive pay.

The theoretical factor that's supposed to depress pay for workers on non-immigrant visas is that they don't have easy job mobility - the bar to hire an H-1B is much higher than to hire a US native worker. Once you have an EB-2 (an immigrant visa, that entitles you to a Green Card), that no longer applies - modulo national-security type positions that require citizenship you're just as hirable as a US native.
They need to retrofit those things to support longer addresses, but I mean the existing data and rules don't change. The DNS records and IP routes stay the same. And no, you don't introduce special v4 vs v4.1 routing. For this phase, everyone is still using /32s.

Then once basically everything is speaking v4.1 and ok with longer addrs, it's trivial to split up /32 blocks as desired. And yes, NAT stays for most people. That's fine, you'd still be free to disable it and give your devices public IPs if you want.
No, at that time Google issued an announcement that at some future time they would stop doing that. However, Google did not modify their terms of service [1] to prohibit them from doing that.

"The activity information that we collect may include:

Terms that you search for
Videos that you watch
Views and interactions with content and ads
Voice and audio information
Purchase activity
People with whom you communicate or share content"

Google does write "We don’t show you personalised ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail or Photos." That's a narrow exclusion. That info could still affect your YouTube selections or search results.

[1] https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB#infocollect
A guitar.

My first classical guitar, which I bought 20 years ago, cost 50 PLN (~$12) and it kickstarted my love for playing a music. Not only that. I spent thousands of hours practising and now music accompanies me all the time. There's always a song stuck in my head these days, or I'm whistling or humming or singing or tapping my fingers or stamping my feet. It's exhausting sometimes.
There was a webcam demo a little while back that was pretty cool. It's mostly that the right-hand side seems to only mildly follow the patterns drawn on the left hand side. It still seems sort of useful but once it's running GAN speeds (30-60fps) and adheres more strongly to the input is when people will find it both useful and a joy to work with.

Based on my general experience with text-to-image stuff, I assume this lack of adherence isn't always the case? Maybe another demo could show what it's like under ideal conditions.

edit: Webcam demo

https://github.com/radames/Real-Time-Latent-Consistency-Mode...

It does however exhibit similar issues but the realtime constraints of live video make it quit interesting.
Even then, we'd be able to breathe without helmets. Mars is already like the Gobi, without oceans, precipitation or the breathable air that Earth has. It's not close to being the same thing
AI is indeed kinda like crypto, and all the OpenAI wrappers are doomed.

OpenAI itself will be fine though. Their lead has a snowball effect with all the training data they get. And I'd guess they will succeed at their regulatory capture attempt, and create some horrendous pseudo monopoly. Meanwhile, they can just implement what the most successful wrappers do themselves.
US has ~4K tanks in storage. US send 31 Abrams, let that sink in.

Ukraine cant win before election night, crisis would be wasted.
Does Amazon do literally anything to pro-actively prevent the selling of counterfeit goods?

> Prior to the deal, Apple sent “hundreds of thousands of take-down notices” to Amazon to reduce counterfeits, and the company conducted test purchases on Amazon that “consistently returned high counterfeit rates
That is crazy...

I just always wonder how many millionaires have been made simply via FAANG employment.
One of my pet peeves is that online "journalists" have given up on the inverted pyramid format in favor of click bait. There is no pride in the craft anymore. shakes fist at cloud
Has anyone done modeling on what capabilities for which frequencies it would have if it were an antenna?

Has anyone gone back to reimage it?
The length of the article seems to be there to hide there's very little. Oswald was weird, and events around him makes little sense. Still a mystery.
I’m pretty sure it also has additional limits of which characters are valid. I tried it long ago, and quickly dropped it because of that nonsense.
Building bombs is not protected by the first amendment as expressive speech. You're making a false comparison there. Building a replica of a bomb is protected by the first amendment having AI draw you pictures of bombs is protected by the first amendment.

Using those resulting images as credible threats to someone is not protected. The violation is not the picture the violation is the threat.

You should look up case law on drawings for child pornography. It is considered art and it is considered protected. Which is why having an AI do this for you raises a first amendment question.
Compared to what.... and what services.

Office is still king in the US business world, I bet they have close to 70%+ businesses in the US on Office 365 in some manner.

Compared to Google Apps I would prefer to use Office 365 every single day.
I've noticed this at companies I've worked at. Either at the team level, org level, or even the company level. I've observed it from White, Chinese and Indians. I think there's just a human tendency of in group bias.
So I understand, but I don't classify it quite that way. Note that I'm talking about "we onboarded right as the pandemic hit" -- like we chose to road-trip to California to bring our animals along and on that road trip there were hotels telling us "well you're lucky you came today and not tomorrow because as of tomorrow we have to shut down!", that's how fresh it was. It makes sense that a company that was always focused on in-person interactions was raw while onboarding. Some of the rest can be attributed to just "I was working on the wrong team for me, I'm very extroverted and everybody else except for this dude in Singapore was more introverted and used the newfound videoconferencing barriers to just focus on their own work" etc.

I think that the way they offboarded us was awful; the fact that I know that as of 1PM the day prior my immediate manager had no idea (because like I said, he was at this workflow meeting super-excited and asking questions, whereas if he'd known I'm sure even if he had to be quiet he's a very honest man and he'd have been like "uh, Chris, I appreciate your enthusiasm but let's come back to this topic next week...") ... and the fact that the business was doing well revenue and cashflow wise, it's hard to not be salty about that. But again that's kind of a separate issue.

The Perf culture is one big thing, and is the reason that Google's reputation is as "we will cancel everything:" that is what their old perf culture incentivized. And I cannot emphasize how bad it was to have to devote like four weeks twice a year to doing performance reviews, right, those quarters were just like "you will only have two thirds of your scheduled time this sprint, and also this work you spend making it easy for your manager to present your achievements and your team's achievements to the faceless committee, is not going to be rewarded by the faceless committee." But that procedure was canned because the managers complained about how long they spent perfing. (Also the four-weeks thing is dependent on how much your manager keeps apprised of the team's work and progress, I happened to have, at least at first, a very hands-off manager who needed the whole 6 months of work collected and summarized.)

I think the big thing I was missing was just mentorship. This was not for a lack of trying to find it, but I mean in terms of jobs where I've had really good mentorship, I think I've only had one (and maybe one or two jobs where I've succeeded in providing really good mentorship) so maybe I'm not criticizing that strongly enough, but I think "that's a problem everyone has", it was just much more visible in this case because I was aching loudly for it and still not getting it.
Always nice to dig below the surface for such tools. Makes me wanna read a lot more (clean c codebase and/or other tools abstractions)
Well that route is comparatively barely impressive. And you haven't even taken into account inflation.

In contrast, I have the impression that some FAANG employees make it within 5 years or less, considering some of the salaries there...
Booths supermarkets to ditch self-checkouts in north of England stores
Was the patent technically nonobvious? The concerns in this seem to be saying it can be hard to overcome organizational and legacy friction instead, as far as I can tell.

I never heard of anything nonobvious at the time either.
It occurred to me though that it could also be a “double-dipping” scam. The fake shipping company supposedly “loses” the merchandise, an insurance claim is filed, then the Kit Kats are quietly retrieved and resold. In that case, even if the insurance company refuses to pay out (as they did) it's not a total loss, as they're only out a few grand in storage fees. It'd be fairly low risk as well, as there wouldn't be any tangible evidence of fraud, and in the worst case it wouldn't be hard to recover the Kit Kats and pretend they were miraculously found.

It still seems sort of unlikely to me that Bokksu was attempting to commit insurance fraud, but it's hard to deny that the facts seem oddly to fit. Why would the scammer take the truckload to a cold storage facility, rather than, say, just abandoning the containers somewhere? Why would he admit to being a scammer, if not in order to provide a basis for an insurance claim? What possible benefit was there to the scammer, when he didn't even get any money for his role in the scheme (at least, not from the trucking broker)? And why would Bokksu not disclose until well after the fact that they owned the company that was responsible for releasing the containers to the trucking company?

For a company valued at $100M, $110K does seem like a trifling amount of money to commit fraud over, but stranger things have certainly happened.
Show HN is not really for serial writing or most types of online reading material. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Before World Leaders Arrive, San Francisco Races to Clean Up
If you played the game Scribblenauts, its "database that contains literally every object imaginable" is (as best I can tell) probably a bespoke ontology. Everything you try to stump it with references a factory of classes you can spawn instances of.

The properties of a near-infinite number of classes need to be edited and managed somehow. Doing it in an IDE where every class is discrete is a pain in the ass. It's easier in a database- or filesystem-like interface. Hence, ontology editors.
GDPR can apply extraterritorially but not to the extent you're suggesting.

For example, I am an EU citizen living in Canada. GDPR does not apply to any company interacting with me. However, for a US citizen living in an EU country GDPR would apply to every company they interact with. Even US based companies.
I agree with the author that this is a reasonable way to indicate their intent. But I've seen so many accidentally ineffectual code snippets that if I saw this code I'd be inclined to delete it unless there was also a comment expressing its purpose.
You exaggerate, but maybe you can instead articulate the differences?
There is a Target in my area that I sometimes go to that only has self-checkout machines. I go to the person supervising the machines and ask them to operate it for me and hand them the money. I know it seems dickish but I have never once used a self-checkout that I didn't hate and which didn't have some weird issue (for one, I always have a bag I am wearing or else I shove the things I buy into my pockets and the machines hate that).

Absolutely just refuse to use the machine. They will accommodate you. If enough people do it then they will get rid of them.