skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that is really cool. Thank you - I frankly feel a lot of relief knowing the collection is still being maintained, even if I can't visit it. Maybe they need volunteers.
He was right but for the wrong reasons.

Had Intel figured out hyperthreading security and avoided all the various exploits that later showed up …
It’s not Monty Hall. Monty Hall does not open doors randomly. To think about this problem right you need to acknowledge that it could have gone the other way with some probability but it didn’t, and so that tells you something more about the state of things.

If monty opens doors randomly, and shows you a goat, you do not benefit from switching. Edit: assuming he doesn’t open your door of course
Price and tax updates for apps, in-app purchases, and subscriptions
Some pushback on your logic chain:

> foreigners with special skills that can't be found amongst US citizens

This is honestly rare, unless you couple it with a wage level that is lower than the domestic market will bear. Some individuals involved in R&D, but outside of that there are few skills that are not found in the US. I believe the condition isn't not found, but rather, in low supply?

> make the visa transferrable if another company wants to take it over after say the first two years at the same or better salary.

This would be a huge boon.
> fake looking colors

I never heard this complain before. Can you explain more?
dang's been doing this for a few years now (<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>).

I'd stumbled across him doing it within the past year or so and noted on its appropriateness, effectiveness, genius, and simplicity at some point (either via email or in a comment I cannot presently find).
Netflix feels dropping the ball. Did everybody forget House of Cards? There is no house of cards now.

You have to dig to find appealing stuff.

And all their anime and cartoons and 3d stuff are low budget although some of them have good idea, they are always clearly low budget.
Microsoft says AI is getting deployed 'at scale'
Yikes, it really is distracting. What really gets me is the screwed up, subtly M C Escher like perspective.

Also, yeah, this looks like a weird bank / accountant's tax office pastiche, not at all like a check cashing place.

It's patio11 though, all of whose writing on the nuts and bolts of finance are fascinating, so it's easily forgiven, heh

Edit: in fact I'm already 3 paragraphs in and so fascinated by the, typical for patio11, high level of detail combined with easy novel like readability, that I almost feel guilty for having piled on to criticize the awful AI image. But still, yeah, I agree AI images like this are actually worse than no illustration at all
The extreme majority of users is perfectly happy with two 24" monitors (actually, the extreme majority is happy with a single 13" monitor). "Infinite monitor space" isn't something that will sell a large enough numbers of headsets to prevent the cancellation of the next iteration.
> The first iPhone was terribly limited compared to what came after it was not in any way terrible for the time.

At the time my feature phone had much better MMS, video calling, and J2ME apps. The first iPhone was a joke by comparison looked at through that lens, and detractors generally were looking at the fact it was this hobbled 2G device missing features that were common in other, cheaper phones. Oh, and the camera was absolute garbage, too.
That fee has been $10 all along—see this from last year [0]. I don't know much about this process, but the thousands of dollars must be coming from something else—probably some combination of other government fees and attorney bills.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
How will they know?
I don't think "I just didn't see him!" is considered a reasonable explanation in court. Now, if the cyclist came out from the gap between parked cars or a tight corner...

Cyclists can absolutely be at fault. I don't see why you'd think otherwise. Humans are uniquely fallible, cyclist and drivers are both human (if you ignore Waymo et al).
We just got the 'larger iPod' version of Spatial Computing. If your primary interface is a screen, it's still screen computing, not spatial computing. They literally had everything teed up to do some wild proximity things (AirTags, Homepods, etc) - and they gave us a strap on iPad.

Whatever, it at least gives a startup an opportunity to build something unique - it's just sad to see your old friend start going senile.
Exploring C++23's Flat_map
What is more activism than love itself? Anyway, not my business! I will awkardly change the subject now ...
Have you considered monitor arms to just kinda chuck your monitors out of the way after you are done using them ?

I'm on the same boat as you, but ended up just getting a long table so I can move to the empty side when I need it.
Gah! That sounds terrifying and infuriating.

It's not so scary here; mostly 20-somethings with no life beyond "car culture", AFAICT.
A thing about cash, though, is that another problem with precisely those occasions when "trust is gone, where there is unequal power relationship" is that cash can be forcibly taken away from you.

At every scale from muggings to home robbery to retail store robberies up to bank robbery and knocking over armored cars, cash handling imposes a security and risk management burden, with a particular component of risk of physical violence that is much less of a factor in electronic security risk models..
One of the lecturers at my faculty has his academic website on an .xyz domain.
Not a problem when you can ask your friends to rewrite the rules.

My favorite story:

FedEx doesn't allow BoD/executives to pledge stock for margin loans. But they will make exceptions on a case-by-case basis. They only made on exception, (then) CEO Fred Smith.

How it started:

"In accordance with our policy, Mr. Smith has established his financial capacity to repay the loan without resorting to the pledged shares. In the unlikely event such a sale were necessary, based on the 30-day average trading volume for FedEx shares as of August 4, 2014, it would take two days for the pledged shares to be sold in the open market. Furthermore, Mr. Smith’s unpledged share ownership is very substantial and would likely be able to prevent any margin call."

How it went:

"As a result of the stock price decline during fiscal 2020, Mr. Smith was granted approval to pledge additional shares in March 2020."
The whole point was someone claiming that we should see large fraud as equivalent to violence. I don't think anyone's denying that a large fraud is worse than a small fraud, but that's not the point in dispute.
I think this is easiest to see if you imagine the urn is filled with three balls. You draw one, and it's red. The possibilities are that the urn originally contained:

1. Red, Red, Red

2. Red, Red, Green

3. Red, Green, Green

(The Green, Green, Green case is impossible because you drew one Red.)

Drawing a Red from urn configuration (1) was a 100% probability; from (2) was a 66% probability, and from (3) was a 33% probability. If these configurations were equally likely, then the probability of Red and Green on the second draw would be the same.

However, and this is the crux: we are more likely to be in a configuration which shows us what we have observed with a higher likelihood [1]; so we're more likely in configuration (1) or (2) than (3), and as (3) is the only one that favors Green for the next draw (and only by as much as (1) favors Red), the next ball being Red is more probable.

[1] Imagine, for example, that you have 100 coins, and 99 of those coins are biased so that they only show heads once every trillion tosses, while the remaining one coin is fair. If you pick a coin randomly and flip heads, which is more likely: that you got a biased coin to show a one-in-a-trillion event, or that you picked the fair coin?
I checked a couple of those old reviews and a couple things that seemed to be a common take with the iPhone that definitely aren't holding now:

- incredible amounts of hype

- loving the design

- loving the touchscreen and input (directly contrasting folks worrying about the eye tracking now)

- a sense (at least from cnet and pcmag) that it's really just an overgrown iPod so they keep comparing it to an iPod (compared to the vision where folks get that it's a new category for apple and have good comps outside anyway )

There are definitely similarities in terms of complaining about missing features that apple's probably going to add soon anyway (keyboard showing up in portrait and stuff). Lots of complaints about not supporting flash but we know how that went. Also apparently the headphone jack position was annoying.

What I'm not seeing in the current vision reviews - and maybe it's impossible to see this in real time - is some feature that has the chance to change literally everything that people arent able to comprehend just yet. These reviews being relatively dismissive of this web browsing on your phone thing is absolutely hilarious in hindsight. The only similar thing in the vision is - the passthrough eye thing maybe? Nothing else seems particularly baffling.

I'm glad I read some of those reviews. The vibe I'm getting is - the iPhone was doing something fundamentally weird with this whole smartphone thing that reviewers just didnt get, so they kept reviewing it as an iPod with really bad voice calling and a browser and being confused by all the hype. The vision though? It's a vr/mixed reality headset, we know what those are like, and apple didn't throw any real curveballs.
Oh, so this looks like it's correcting for that thing where companies were essentially using multiple contracting companies to all apply for a visa for the same person? e.g. double (triple? n-ary?) dipping in the lotto?

I still think a lot of the more wanton abuses in the H1-B system could be resolved by requiring the employee be a direct employee of the company they're actually working for (e.g. you can't get a contracting company to provide you with engineers), and to require compensation be - say - a minimum of say 20% above the average wage for the job they're doing, relative to other employees at the company, other workers doing manifestly similar jobs in the same geographical area, etc.

If nothing else this will apply upwards pressure on wages even in shitty "we're abusing the h1-b process" contracting companies, because every new h1-b employee they have necessarily increases the average wage at that company, which increases the minimum wage for the next h1-b, etc. The reality is that the set up of the h1-b program allows employers to abuse h1-b employees with relative impunity (including notably lowering wages), so a mechanism by which simply increasing the number of h1-b employees you have forces the wages up counters their ability to use h1-b supported abusive practices to undercut local workers.
You can get a lot of the emotions back when rewatching, but I suspect this is extremely specific to the individual
Not the same but all galaxies billions of light years are part bare many similarities. I fathom the way things seem to mirror each other in the universe, civilizations will also be similar to our own. Given they all have exact rules of physics and math.
> So why not just grant H1-Bs to the companies that are willing to pay their talent the most?

Because industries pay differently. Unless you argue H1Bs all go to big techs.

The problem with H1B program is, no matter how it is structured, it WILL be gamed.
Are you aware of the recent developments in AI at all? This isn't an unsolved challenge, video multimodals would likely crush this problem.

However, the advanced, LLM based systems with tons of world knowledge (and therefore can easily tell if a pedestrian is abnormal) take tons of processing power and latency, so cannot be deployed in the current AI driving systems. So it'll take 5-10 years for this to be solved.

Also hope you know that Germany isn't the center of the world. Its not even the center in terms of cars anymore. German regulators don't get to dictate the progress of self driving.
The thing you're "missing" is that it absolutely is, in practice, about laundering low-wage foreign labor. It's not actually complicated. It's obfuscation of exploitation. Same as it ever was. You're just not supposed to believe that your country is doing that.
A billion dollars isn't a lot of money any more. We could start seeing trillionaires appear on stage in about 25 years; which would imply "billionaire" being what millionaire is now.
Changes in Windows to Comply with the Digital Markets Act in the EEA
Dell Terminates Agreement with VMware After Broadcom Acquisition
Email notifications are gone too, by the way
I had never even considered it was deliberate. In hindsight, doing it deliberately seems pretty smart, at least from a “let’s juice the intro” perspective, but that would have been a really big bet.
yeah ... i regularly do Workrooms meetings with avatars and i have to say it looks and feels much less creepy - safely outside the uncanny valley but still conveying all our natural expressions. It's actually quite weird when I think about how much I forget we are avatars and just talk to the other person as if it is really them.
the experience of being in other countries
I think with a binomial the tilt is perfectly offset by the tilt you get from taking the ball.My math isn't fresh enough to write a nice dense statement showing why.

If you change their simulation formula to pull from a binomial instead of uniform... it looks 50/50.
It's a modern article though
Maybe, however, the GPU market was not considered so incredibly valuable at the time (particularly by eg politicians in the US, Europe or China). Today it's a critical national security matter, and Nvidia is sitting on the most lucrative semiconductor business in history. Back then it was overwhelmingly a segment for gaming.
Students only get a visa after getting interviewed by a visa officer at a U.S. embassy/consulate. So they've already been vetted by a government official.
The lottery ticket price has always been low; you pay the full price once you win the lottery. They're de-duping applications this year (stopping people from buying multiple tickets), and the ticket price will go up next year (to somewhere in the ~$200 range). Raising the ticket price for a lottery is an ass backwards way to solve anything.
Firstly, your assumption seems to be that it’s broken but I don’t think uscis or most other participants actually share that opinion. What they need to fix is fraud and you can have fraud in any system including the one you proposed.

Secondly, h1b is not just a working visa - it’s officially a “dual intent” visa meaning it’s also a path to immigration. If we do what you are suggesting then 99.99% of applicants will be senior-principal sw engs from china/india. Which, i assume, is not the intention of this program.

Besides, companies already have to pay over prevailing wage for the role in the area. I don’t think you can just conjure up expert professionals out of thin air by raising wages despite what folks on hn/reddit seem to believe. We tried that in 2021 - didn’t work too well
I've started my nerves journey w/ my (older) raspberry pi 3.
It's my first time working on anything IoT, but I have to say how easy it was to start. Currently have a few sensors attached (is this the proper term?), and I was amazed at how easily you can update the firmware w/ mix upload or just burning it.
I like using "resource names" defined by Google's AIP (https://google.aip.dev/122). For example, the name "users/1/projects/42" is a nested project resource of a user "users/1". TypeScript type could be "users/${number}".
check or cheque?
Penn talks about it here: https://www.cracked.com/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to...
> The future of chips is security on the chip. I was like no, no its not!

Putting aside whether the statement is considered true or not, buying McAfee under the guise of the kind of security meant when talking about silicon is... weird, to say the least.
Dart is great. Shame the ecosystem outside of Flutter is so poor.
I've read my fair share of these "x is actually innocent" stories, and usually I can at least understand why some people may see the person as guilty. I may disagree, but I can see that there is an argument against them.

This case seems atrocious. I don't understand how it even went to trial, it getting a death row conviction is astonishing.
Montenegro: .me

I assumed it was a domain created for personal sites, but it turns out its for the country.
Soviet Union (.su) it's still around. Even if Tuvalu disappears (it won't) someone else would take care of the TLD.
My guess is that apes with similar interests started socializing because it was enjoyable and more stimulating than hanging out with apes who could not/would not perceive the nuances of the world the same way.
I never use cheques, but had a strange cheque related situation a few years ago. For some reason an empty bank account that I never use had gone £100 overdrawn, supposedly due to a cheque that had been cached, and was racking up fees.

After hours of phone calls, I learnt that bank account numbers are recycled (!) after accounts are closed.. so the previous owner of my account number had tried to cache a cheque using a legitimate chequebook that they still owned.

Still amazes me that the system could be so insecure!
Everything was based on everything back then and if the Wrights hadn't flown, someone else would have within 5 years. Many teams were very close.
"Don't [Stop] Be[ing] Evil"
I may be missing your point but it seems to me that cash and paper checks are at opposite ends of the spectrum wrt who has most control over the outcome in case of disputes: with cash, the payer has to go to court to get their money back; with checks, the payer can just refuse to pay and the payee would have to go to court to get their money.

Or perhaps you're saying which one to use depends on what you want? But if there's an unequal power relationship, the person with more power (probably the payer) will usually choose. So to fix that, it's not enough for cash to be an option, checks need to not be an option. (Electronic transfers can be an option, as long as they're set up so that the payer can't unilaterally take the money back.)
I don't know Nostr, but why can't you moderate anonymous forums? HN is anonymous. Or is Nostr literally non-censorable, in that I can't get an undesireable message or user off my personal feed.
Not so for Clojure, there's great integration for both the Vim family and VSCode.
He sued the same year as the pay package, it just took 6 years for the case to complete. From the judgement:

> Plaintiff Richard Tornetta (“Plaintiff”), a Tesla stockholder, filed his complaint on June 5, 2018.
WhisperKit
I don't think it's unusual to have to fill out a timesheet for salaried jobs. Most of the places I've worked have required employees to do that ritual. And I say "ritual" because it's basically just writing "8" in the "hours" field for each day and signing it, regardless of how much you actually worked. I remember once getting a talking-to for writing anything but 8 into my time sheet.

I've also worked at a place where I had to physically clock in and clock out (even for breaks and trips to the bathroom), and it was a salaried software development job. Not unheard of at all.
Because the major donors for both parties support illegal immigration.

Republican donors enjoy the labor of illegal immigration which is much cheaper than domestic labor. Any crack down on unauthorized workers in agriculture or hospitality, for example, would disrupt lots of big donors.

Democratic donors have openly stated that demographic changes would help them win more elections. These are the "demographics are destiny" folks that noted that increasing hispanic populations are good for them in elections. (If you're not winning enough votes, change the voters.) There was a lot of truth here -- just look at California, New Mexico, and Arizona elections from the 80s and 90s vs today. Recent polling suggests this may be changing.

So you end up in a strange situation where policies supported by the vast majority of Americans from all political stripes is (mostly) ignored by the parties.
You’re gonna love this — Motorola was bought by Google in an attempt to jumpstart their hardware business but it turned out to be a failed acquisition. They ended up grabbing the patent portfolio and selling off the rest of the biz fairly quickly.
After watching, that has to be a kernel bug, since the documentation says "accesses" will cause repopulation, not "writes".

Edit: nevermind, I mixed up MADV_DONTNEED with MADV_FREE
The Beeper debacle perfectly captures the walled garden of the Apple ecosystem. Kinda poetic given the name too. Stay inside this little block of paradise but don't you dare eat the apple.
> Is the problem "working in VR" or is it "with a headset on", though?

IMHO both. As for form factor lots of people already opt for contacts over glasses for comfort. I think ski googles are right out for anything that's not recreation or industry/application specific.

As for being in VR people really do like the real word lol. Going in and out of VR is a bit of an ordeal. Anecdotally I like taking small breaks from looking on my screen during the work day. Frequently. I look outside at the trees, at my cats, stuff on my desk, and etc when I'm thinking. If I have to "go in and out of VR" to do that or just not be in VR I'm going to just not be in VR.

For it to catch on mainstream for productivity and day-to-day it's gonna have to be like eye or sunglasses with seamless AR. Via something like retinal projection perhaps. I feel like Google was onto all this hence the Google Glass.
I have no stake in the discussion, but "pay their talent the most" could be among comparable job titles, or something like that?
No, but the ways landlords go about trying to maintain that margin are.

This isn't hard to understand, are you a landlord or something?
I have an iPhone 6s, just looking for something in the ballpark to replace it.

I've seen this Librem before but thought the company's approach was impractical. As in perfect is the enemy of the good. They seem to be focusing on things like secure supply chains and local manufacturing—resulting in one/two thousand dollar+ devices.

Don't get me wrong, sounds nice... five to ten years from now? I need a mostly working mobile today at a reasonable price. Something like an updated Pinephone Pro at $400 and I'm willing to throw in an extra ~$200 for R&D.

Believe they would be much better served by the common mobile strategy of, get a shitty phone out, sell them, reinvest profit, and improve every year. That probably means hardware built in Asia first.

But on their site I see a four year old phone at $999 with lower specs than the Pinephone Pro.

Maybe someone would like to start a company reselling Pinephone Pros with various value add, and capture that two or three extra hundred dollars per device? Might get a discount in bulk.
Multitouch was a huge deal because it allowed a usable Web browser to be offered. That was something no other phone came within a light year of providing.

There was a "cult," all right. It consisted of people like Steve Ballmer plugging their ears, shutting their eyes, and denying the obvious.
>There should be no cap for people who have received higher education degrees in the US.

I'm ok with that, if it comes along with the death penalty for diploma mill operators including major universities. Otherwise its not a loophole - its an open barn door.
I've used this to develop GTK applications in the browser using VS Code + GitHub Codespaces. It works quite well:

https://alnvdl.github.io/2023/11/18/a-cloud-based-vs-code-wo...