skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The home roofs are going to be done off the more expensive solar installations ($/kW) that we can build because they’re so small.

It’s also fascinating how quickly the Nirvana fallacy shows up when it’s time to talk about renewables. Supposedly chopping down forests for solar (which isn’t the main way of getting land) or the farmers choosing to put something on their land is top of mind. But chop those forests to make something else, or have the farmers grow super subsidized corn and there isn’t a peep.
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That's jusz, like, your opinion, man
I would be surprised if it didn't, as other parts of the immigration system also warp post graduate education. EB-2 provides a much easier immigration route than EB-3, and EB-1 is easier still: Arguably the only road you can call easy if you come from countries that hit the per-country cap. The most reliable way to EB-2 is post graduate education. For EB-1, as listed here, will be patents and publications after a Ph.D.

So now you go look at your typical STEM department at a good US university. As you go into masters and Phds, the percentage of foreign students goes up. This isn't because most international students love academia: It's because the immigration system, as described earlier, just makes the piece of paper they hand you so much more valuable that it'd be for someone that is already a US citizen. And since it's especially valuable for students from visa-capped countries, guess what? Students from those countries are disproportionally going through that route.

If we cut the visa limits, and said that a STEM degree and some STEM employment after was a guarantee for a green card in 2 years, I'd expect the number of international students that pick that route to plummet. The disparity between the demand for green cards and the visa limit is so wide, every year the incentive to study longer just increases.

If none of those numbers change, I'd expect that the patent route will just be pushed further. So just like the visa caps are a subsidy for post graduate degrees, this rule clarification will be an implicit subsidy for patent attorneys. Then we'll have yet another set of people with a lot to lose if we raise the visa limits, or stop the per-country quotas.
I will say that certain comparisons (eg. "The PC way doesn’t work at scale") are objectively wrong. Even Apple uses the PC model internally, despite not having an open bootloader or really supporting UEFI anymore. AFAIK, the XNU kernel even uses the same DeviceTree layout as Linux for supporting ARM SOCs. Apple hasn't really broken any new ground that can't be re-covered by modern operating systems.

Also, your claim that it's "not economical" is entirely unproven and arguably false. iPhones are still architecturally supported by Linux and will continue to be for a while (even longer on BSD). Other Apple products (eg. Apple Silicon) received community driver support entirely from donations and volunteer time. There's no reason to assume that iPhones lack community interest, especially since Apple has never given the iPhone community the same leverage they had on Mac.

If that's the sum of both arguments, then you're mostly just leveraging FOMO to support an unproven concept. At best you're jumping the gun, at worst you're twisting the facts to preclude discussion of open iPhone software alternatives.
VSCode and JetBrains are better overall, but many of the good editing features of Vim are available via their respective Vim emulation plugins. It is still worth it to learn and use Vim mode for efficiency (in my opinion).
Seeing the source code isn’t that terribly important and loses the main benefits of FOSS.

I think the main benefit is community involvement in submitting bugs, contributing changes, writing docs, and being part of the project. Even if contributors do the main work, this long tail of user contribution is so important.

With source available, I’m not contributing any of my work toward a proprietary project. I’m happy to spend hours researching and writing up a bug if my work goes toward a common good. Not so much if it just funds some corporation with free labor.

I think it’s a distraction to try to force this into a good/bad dichotomy. I don’t hear anyone saying that “source available” is bad. Just that it’s different than FOSS. There’s nothing wrong with selling software. I just think it’s inferior to FOSS for producing high quality software.
Unpopular opinion: did OP tried Vivaldi?
Not sure if going back to 2008 or so pre-HTML5 will prevent people from injecting kilobyes and megabytes of JS libraries or nesting dozens of divs because reasons.
Logging in includes giving the device a password.

There's no off-channel key synchronization. What means that the encryption is only as good as your password. But AFAIK no browser has it anyway, and nearly no sync service.
When I started programming at 12-13 I had no idea loops or arrays existed and implemented an absolutely criminal Tic-Tac-Toe game.

The same year me and a friend were studying for the national Informatics Olympiad and we were completely stumped when faced with a problem that required a list: "How do we know how many variables to declare if we don't know the N beforehand?".

(The problem if anyone is interested: https://neps.academy/br/exercise/384. Given a list of up to 50k distinct numbers (with values up to 100k) and another list of 50k numbers that should be removed, print the resulting list. Time Limit: 1 second.)
I'm not sure what you are getting at here. The lawyer's job is not to judge the quality of a patent -- in the same way a defense lawyer is not there to judge the innocence of their client.

The patent lawyer is just there to file the patent and help their client get past the approval process.

It is the PATENT OFFICE who's job it is to judge quality.

Have several patents, btw.
That seems like a win-win. Hopefully remote work will reduce the need for immigration.
Yes, this is a perfect example of what DRM is really about.

I'm a repair guy and I'm always trying to protect my customers against walled gardens, and what not. Talking about this article makes explaining right repair so much easier.

My concern is the changes they're making to bios in Consumer grade OEM Desktop and Laptops. With adding UEFI certificates to anti-theft software that is enabled by default people just don't understand what's really going on.
This article explains it beautifully. Thank you Newtag!
A new programming language that tries to be safe, fast and efficient. Rivet tries to take the best of every programming language that exists and unify it into a single language,with the goal of making software development fun and safe.
How is it an odd retort? If you haven't obtained a patent then the likelihood that you've actually gone through the patent procurement process with the USPTO is extremely low on this website. It's hackernews, not patentexaminernews or patentagentnews after all.

It would be like me saying "designing your own operating system is easy" and having someone respond "how many OSes have you designed?"

And by the way, your own story bears out the same: despite working for IBM (a company where attorneys familiar with the patent process are no doubt legion), participating or being aware of these patent brainstorm sessions, and stating that everyone had one after a couple years, you have zero. So what would you know about the patent prosecution process? Certainly not enough to say that it's easy.
There is also a demand issue aside from change-hating curmudgeons. There simply isn't a large enough market for GA planes for companies to justify the cost of research and development, and even though planes aren't cheap GA plane purchasers can still be fairly cost sensitive.
Works fine on Firefox with uBlock Origin.
if you mean that ridiculous "gcc/pdf/web browser is ridiculous, use tcc/txt file/curl" bullshit page, then I can't take you seriously. Feel free to use a pocket calculator instead of your current device, I guess, that's not bloated.
It works on blackmail. You get an 'audit' and they hold it over you for life, implying buying the next level will free you when it just locks you in more. Eventually sunk cost, and the loss of family and social life are the prison, and your soul is gone.
Agreed, though i prefer in-built multiplexing like in Wezterm to tmux on macos for performance reasons.
Simple. If I fashion a shovel and sell it to you, the value I got is the $20 or whatever, and the value you got is the indefinite use of one shovel.

You do not get to clone the shovel by magic for about .1 cent and sell 50M copies of it for $20 each for the next forever.
"India was one of the first countries in the world to have initiated a salt iodisation programme 1962."
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/why-should-india-revisit...
Microsoft still release security updates sometimes for 22 years old Windows XP.
My favourite feature of Firefox is multi-account containers -- great if you have multiple online identities.
I very rarely have issues with FF and I've been using it for 10 years or so. If a site doesn't work I'll try agan in a chromium based browser I use as needed but that's it. It's easy to keep one installed for such a use case.
I see from github that you use online hosted API to transcribe voice, you should instead use offline whisper, I recommend to look into whisper.cpp
The reality of Canadian tech salaries would disagree with you.

Our immigration system targets skilled workers from abroad, and brings in a lot of them. It's a far more "rational" and less confusing system than the US, but also explicitly geared around bringing in skilled workers as permanent residents and it brings in a lot of them.

The downward pressure on compensation rates is real. Apart from exceptions in FAANG type companies, salaries here are often 1/2 of the rates of US employers, and it isn't because we're a lower quality product.

As a result a large % of us just move south to the US on a TN visa, or take remote jobs from US employers. Because the disparity in compensation is very high. And it's in large part because the market here is flooded with talent from abroad.
with the massive layoffs of American software folks the last year its a bad time to boost foreign STEM visas. yikes
For the winners?

Traditionally: slaves and loot. Or new land to settle.

Today it is somewhat more complicated, but there are still winners in war. It usually just ain't those, who are fighting in it. And obviously not those, who just get bombed to death.
But that only applies for a while, right? Today's big tech companies continue to make profits, but without great innovations. They are mostly iterations where the product is only marginally improved or even made worse.
> Ah yes, the last 30 odd years of increasing immigration has exerted tremendous downward pressure on US tech salaries.

I'm not 100% sure, so I have to ask. Are you being sarcastic about immigration not exerting tremendous downward pressure on US tech salaries?
Additionally, some of Miele's lower-end stuff is made in China, not Germany, and has been reported to be less reliable.
> their pages are supposed to be filled with non-copyrightable facts

This is rather inaccurate. A fact is Hitler invades Poland. You're right, nobody can copyright this idea, as it is just a fact.

However, if I then write a 500-word article describing the scene of Hitler invading Poland, have short quotes from some civilians there, etc. that particular arrangement of ideas and words is copyright.

AP can't go and sue INS for just reporting the fact Hitler invades Poland, but if INS takes a whole article word for word and reproduces it that's still violation of copyright. The actual printed words of the news always had copyright.

The WSJ can't claim copyright on the markets going up yesterday. They can claim copyright on something like "After the bell rang in the NYSE, the tech industry ticked up 1.2% over last week. Meanwhile the whatever market took a hit of -0.5% ending the quarter slightly lower than our analysis expected. Blah blah blah..." If Investor's Business Daily wrote a different article that also talked about the markets ending up at the end of the day, that's not a violation of copyright. If they literally write "After the bell rang in the NYSE, the tech industry ticked up..." then they're violating WSJ's copyright. This was true before and after International News Service v Associated Press.
"Player psychology has absolutely nothing to do with rational thought ... the attacking unit has a strength of 1.5, and the defending unit has a strength of 0.5. So the attacking unit should win 3 times for every 1 time the defending unit wins. It's 3:1. That's just math. That's what the math says."

Wow, I liked Sid Meyer a lot more before I listened to that arrogant diatribe about how stupid his players are and about how his decisions are unarguable Math-God-Given conclusions that you'd have to be A Stupid Irrational Loser to disagree with. Fuck you, Sid. You can design your game any way you want. Don't blame shitty game design on math; math didn't make you decide that combat strength should map linearly to odds of winning. That's a shit-ass combat system and not any more mathematically pure than "biggest number always wins", or using a health system like later games did. The audacity to stand up in front of people and lament how he had to get his pure, beautiful game all dirty because of the irrationality of his stupid loser players who just want a game that doesn't feel like bullshit ... come on. So much respect was just lost for that man. Never meet your heroes, nor listen to them talk about how much smarter they are than everyone else.
The only roadblock I’ve found has been the webserial API, which enables users to flash ESP32/8266 or other devices from webpages. It’s super handy for flashing WLED or ESPHome to devices because you don’t have to install any extra software. As far as I know, it has been marked as a “wontfix” in the Firefox bugtracker as they consider it a harmful feature [0]

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336
fashion is downstream of power.
> Needs a database book (suggestions?)

Fundamentals of Database Systems by Elmasri and Navathe.
It literally is one. Look up seaorg.
No it isn’t reasonable and people not paying for that newspaper read anymore is the reason all news is sensationalist opinion pieces today.
But this admits that the more generous and open policy might also be more practical. Can’t have that, it is too good.
Was the book’s title at all inspired by or an homage to the series 1 title sequence to “Look Around You”?
I worked at a place that had a half built distributed system that we still needed to use (many bidders buying Ad space from a API based market). one great thing with tramp is that you can tramp into multiple systems simultaneously. So you are editing say files from 5 different systems (tweaking the yaml or whatever) at the same time. You could then start eshells on each of those systems at the same time. It made it really easy to adjust the settings and restart multiple apps really quickly (big screen, 5 files on top, 5 shells on bottom). I always get a kick out of people saying "you use that! you need to switch to editor X it has feature Y!" And me thinking yeah, that feature has been in emacs since before you were born. it is getting a bit crufty in its age though. Its main attraction is for people who like LISP. There a project called lem (IIRC) that is rewriting it in much higher performance Common Lisp.
> FDA confirmed through laboratory analyses that the “MANNERS Energy Boost,” “Round 2,” “Genergy,” and “X Max Triple Shot Energy Honey” products, purchased on www.amazon.com, contained the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) tadalafil; and the “WeFun,” “Big Guys Male Energy Supplement,” and “Mens Maximum Energy Supplement” products, also purchased on www.amazon.com, contained the API sildenafil. These ingredients are not declared on the products’ labeling. Sildenafil and tadalafil are phosphodiesterase type-5 (PDE-5) inhibitors and the active ingredients in the FDA-approved prescription drugs Viagra and Cialis, respectively, used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED).

So Amazon was literally selling Viagra and Cialis disguised as a supplement. Wow.
When scrolling, for example. Though it’s a lot more obvious while running an animation, e.g. http://server.kimbruning.nl:8081/~kim/baughn/snowmageddon/di...
In a decade of use, I have yet to run into sites that don't work just fine with Firefox.
I wonder how much money he actually makes, since most of his content is initially free for most listeners. I suppose it's for people who listen but don't keep up regularly or want to listen again who pay for his content.
I’d be delighted to be proven wrong but the ten year minimum experience comes from the second reference:

> Letters from current or former employers documenting at least 10 years of full-time experience in your occupation

EDIT: I see where you misunderstood. I emphasized the age to show how long someone would be waiting for a non-precarious situation. I’ll edit above.

Apologies if I’m unclear, I mean getting the H1-B in the first place requires a lottery. People who graduate with US undergrad degrees can start on OPT or the like but must transition to something else when that’s exhausted. One friend just went through exactly this where she exhausted her OPT, lost work authorization, but missed three attempts at H1-B.

What else is wrong?
Because we don’t want an unlimited number of foreigners moving into the country? Like it or not that’s the reason Congress won’t touch the issue, right?
> Putinists explain how Russia was forced to put people in prison for their opinions.

Only if those poor people did not have opinions - said heartbroken krenlin apparatchik

It boggles my mind how people can come up with victim narratives for a conquest war, but here we are.
I read it as a collection of stories from on the job.
One of the things that I like about Firefox is that it lets you right click on websites that disable right clicking by holding down shift. Reminds you that the browser should be the user's agent and not the website's.
This isn't an issue with training, it's an issue with usage.

Production open access LLMs do probably need a front-end filter with a fine tuned RAG model that identifies and prevents spitting out copyrighted material. I fully support this.

But we shouldn't be preventing the development of a technology that in 99.99% of usecases isn't doing that and can used for everything from diagnosing medical issues to letting coma patients communicate with an EEG to improving self-driving car algorithms because some random content producer's works were a drop in the ocean of content used to learn relationships between words and concepts.

The edge cases where a model is rarely capable of reproducing training data don't reflect infringement of training but of use. If a writer learns to write well from a source is that infringement? Or is it when they then write exactly what was in the source that it becomes infringement?

Additionally, now that we can use LLMs to read brain scans and have been moving towards biological computing, should we start to consider copying of material to the hippocampus a violation of the DMCA?
Nothing can go wrong? In that case, the government should create a public social network as a utility alongside other social media services too.
Many more addons are now available on Android, and any extension can make itself available there (as of this month): https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/new-extensions-youll-lov...
hypermetropia and astigmatism stack on top of each other, with astigmatism it was always blurry, and then on top of this you get the hypermetropia or myopia. So, I never had a normal vision because of astigmatism, but if I didn't have it, I guess so ? But like anyone has a normal vision until they have myopia. What shocked me is that it developed so quick, after being grown up.
While I'm well aware I'm being pedantic, me and my brothers would share the comics together while my parents kept the news, up to 4 of us consuming 1 paper at a time. Realistically, the reading limit was due to the physical properties of the object and not an inherent property of information to be consumed through one avenue at a time
Yeah but this might make him the Patient Zero for modern tech influencing and blogspam.
Classic BBC film about chip manufacturing, featuring footage from Intel. Alternate sources:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x64ng4h
https://archive.org/details/BBCHorizon19771978NowTheChipsAre...

Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down
AI labs are working on and largely already have generative ai that can be actively updated. The generative ai scoops real journalists stories by watching their feed. This isn’t very different from the current status quo, it’s just a continuation of an already shitty situation for news organizations. If their revenue decreases even more than it already has they will cease to exist. Niche journalism barely has any demand today, it won’t take much more reduction in demand for it to not be worth the cost to produce. Just a few more people using big tech products as their news feed instead of the news organizations themselves is all it would take.

You can say that the people getting their news from the tech products will switch to paying news organizations in some way if the news starts to disappear but I highly doubt it seeing how people treat news today. And if it that does happen they’ll switch back again to the ai products as the centralization it can provide is valuable.
This is great... but it's at the wrong level.

The LCD itself should ideally be a nice HDR LCD, but if it isn't, it should apply time-dependant error diffusion dithering. Ie. if you took a photograph, you would see a 6-bit or whatever error diffused image, but that dither pattern changes at 60fps. That should happen entirely within the firmware of the screen, and is actually easy to do (some types of dithering require no RAM, others require 1 line of pixels as a buffer).
> The US is and always has been a country of immigrants.

This is a platitude not an argument about whether hiring tech workers from foreign countries is good for them or for US citizens.

I also don't think the value you're expressing is historically supported.

> Profits tend to fall so they want to suppress costs to maintain profits. That's it.

We have internal emails from major tech companies showing that the CEOs are conscious about how these decisions affect the labor pool and their control of it (as well as competitors). So we already know there is a plurality of motivations going on in backroom discussions.

Why the lack of curiosity?

> Restricted immigration actually lowers wages. Why? Because it allows employs to pay undocumented workers less

You just said it lowers illegal immigrants pay, not the citizens. Also this example is from the bottom of the labor market, not Electrical Engineers.

> This filled an economic need.

Yes, farm businesses would prefer to pay cheaper people without rights or benefits. That's the need it's filling.

> Unions increase non-union wages.

Being pro-union seems incompatible with the rest of your post. you think unionized companies would be with hiring some illegal immigrants on the side who aren't protected by the union?