skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have an office in Abbotsford [0] (205-2975, Gladwin Rd, Abbotsford, BC V2T 5T4) - downtown I might add (though that means nothing in the sprawly suburban town of Abbotsford).

What appears to be happening is an employee at this company was in the US and probably didn't get the F1 to H1B conversion or an O-1 conversion, and as such SubcoDevs reopened the role in Canada in order to ensure the employee still remains with them.

I've done this at a previous employer before, my dad himself benifited from a similar system back in the day, and so have so many others.

This clearly is NOT a cash for visas program and ANYONE who is Indo-Canadian or Indian-American can easily tell based on this.

[0] - https://subcodevs.com/contact/
I think you need to explain what it does better. There are many build systems. Why use rig instead of another build system?

Here is the Show HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39904895
Campaign Against Publishers Destroying Games [video]
LMIA fraud is massive. As with pretty much everything related to our immigration system.

Darshan Maharaja posts often about these kinds of things - https://twitter.com/theophanesrex. Smart guy all around.

I'd be amazed if even 30% of visa and PR applications to Canada are legitimate and free of fraud. Not even mentioning asylum seekers and refugees.

My wife immigrated to Canada just before Covid through spousal PR sponsorship. Although I'm an honest guy, with so much fraud, I kind of feel like an idiot for wasting so much time and money going through the proper channels when everyone else is abusing the system.

Regardless, with the state of this country right now, we are planning to leave again. The reasons we moved to Canada to begin with are simply not the reality of 2024 Canada. It has been a massive drop in quality of life for us.
In robotics this was called a "wizard of oz" approach. Where when you pull back the curtain it's much less impressive than it seems on the surface.
One revenue source the article does mention is marketing / advertising commission they likely get when a card member uses the card to redeem for products or travel. Presumable the merchants pay a commission to appear in the redemption store, as a customer acquisition cost.

Also maybe Robinhood sells your purchase data to databrokers? Or maybe that is already done by VISA and they don’t get a cut of that?
What I mean is: If you're making 5 cents of profit per item, and your workers cost $10/hour then the difference between a profit and a loss is 18 employee seconds per item.

Which is not much.
> Most of the affected personnel had done work with Ukraine / Georgia

Sending a message with a clandestine attack vector doesn't make much more sense. Unless they were actively doing work for Ukraine or Georgia from Havana. Again, to the extent that attacking a superpower's diplomats makes sense.

Note that I'm not casting doubt on the findings. Just struggling with the risk-reward calculus.
In practice it means no redistributable native libraries or binaries.

You would need installation time compilation, jittin or pure interpretation.

Or some sort of trusted compiler-as-a-service with signed binaries.
Why does the main product page attempt to connect to a localhost port? It looks like it's trying to hit a socket.io port, but that seems pretty unnecessary for a landing page?
Any chance I could get your feedback on my app that summarizes news and social media?

https://shortsnip.com
That post is really, really long. And
There was a recent case involving cheating at a walleye fishing tournament:

https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/walleye-anglers-sentence...
I agree with almost your entire comment, but I hope they boot Elon and bring JB in as CEO. Elon has no humility and empathy, JB does (at least from my brief interactions years ago). Old Elon is gone I fear, but maybe he finds himself, I really hope so. Story isn’t over yet.
My high school had a bunch of these. All the kids called them CumDrop trees, for good reason.
As someone else said in this thread, scammers are often rude, because it makes people act fast, polite responses give them time to think. Of course, people are very easily manipulated. But by completely rejecting rudeness and having the mindset to not let others put pressure on me, you will improve the odds by a lot.
Isn't what you describe a PID-controller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%...

AFAIK that is the common approach to solve this problem, but it still needs some degree of sensor accuracy?
>we know what eventually happened.

So what you are saying is that I need to develop an app which is just a ruby and when you touch it, it displays the following text

I am rich

I deserv [sic] it

I am good,

healthy & successful

Hmm wonder what would be the good price for such an app? I guess $999.99 will have to do.
This? https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-webgpu
You might also be interested in this AMA we held on r/databasedevelopment with two NVMe developers from Samsung.

https://www.reddit.com/r/databasedevelopment/comments/1afpez...
Because the journalism part was already done by Der Spiegel, 60 Minutes, and The Insider. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/havana-syndrome-russia-evidence...

The opinion article is a reaction to that, and assumes you're already familiar with the investigative aspects of the story.
> I'd be amazed if even 30% of visa and PR applications to Canada are legitimate and free of fraud.

This includes a whole lot of immigration that has nothing to do with the LMIA system. What other fraud is there specifically?
I've been using it daily, it's excellent. I'm on a trip and don't have access to it and I'm seriously missing it.
> I'm also big fan of not dictating what other people should say

I'm trying to understand this in the context of musk's behavior, did you mean "I'm also a big fan of saying that I'm a big fan of not dictating what other people should say"? Or "I'm also a big fan of dictating what other people say"? I think either of those would make more sense in this context.
That is exactly what happens.
I think it's funny that the demo on the website is a video of a chatbot communicating with another chatbot. I worry that this will be the new dystopian hell we all live in.

If you're trying to market this, you should change the demo to something where it shows a success story.
I'm not a fan of the data tracking that I know those loyalty programs are for, but at least in the US most stores overcharge you if you don't use them (they present it as giving a "discount" if you use them but really you are just getting the fair price denied to non-members) so you would need to have deep pockets to resist them out of principle.
> Local gardens and nurseries would sell lots of them to landscapers and homeowners.

They still do. It’s the cheapest bang for the buck tree for large scale developers across the entire US.
It for sure is more complicated than adding files to a git repo. You are 100% right and I wouldn't dispute that for even a second. I'm not exactly advocating this for solo-projects unless you are already sure you want to do something like internationalize your project.

There are many problems where plain-text falls apart for even engineers though or there's some benefit to editing something through a UI or WYSIWYG rather than plain-text. If you're cool with markdown and editing SVG files manually -- do it.

The problem being addressed is when you have team members who need to do things that requires some level of type-safety but they either don't have the technical background to work with something like git or it would be non-sensical to resolve the conflicts in plain-text. The idea here is for designers to basically take control of things like icons and theming and for translators to take control of i18n. Their work is state that can be used to generate a type-safe API for engineers to consume those assets.
haha, yeah.

It's so weird -- I first played this in the context of coworkers during a week-long hackathon event, and we played Overcooked to blow off steam. It was a ton of fun.

Later, I was looking for good multiplayer games to play as a family, and with those fond memories I picked up Overcooked for the Switch. Boy, was that a mistake. My kids normally get along fine, but this brought out every bad tendency they had for bad cooperation and blame. Never again. The kids still vividly remember that and refuse to play that one together ever again.
i'm curious to know what the limitations of the technology are. Are the machine learning/CV algorithms not accurate enough to run it at scale?
There is no real point to immigrate to Canada for the long term.

For example, when I was a kid, my parents and I got Canadian PR via express entry as a backup option in case we wouldn't get a Greencard in the US.

For most South and East Asians, the true value of Canadian Citizenship is the fact that it gives you TN privileges, which essentially give you the ability to stay in the US indefinetly.

CoL in Canada is easily 2-3x that of the US with salaries that are easily half those you'd get in the lower 48.
I think it helps to recall that the same people who allegedly ordered this were the same people who thought that the risk-reward balance was in FAVOR of a second, all-out invasion of Ukraine.
I'm wondering when's the last time you tried OpenTelemetry - and which language it was in? I'm not going to say it's super mature (it's not) - but I think it's come a long way from being a ton of manual setup and it's more akin to SDKs available commercially. Admittedly we (HyperDX) do offer some wrapped OpenTelemetry SDKs ourselves to users to make it even easier - but I think the base Otel instrumentation is easy enough as it is.
Fuzzy logic sounds like it has been superseded by neural networks. It has much the same principle, i.e. gates/neurons that are tuned to provide a non-digital output. But with fuzzy logic, presumably the parameters and network are hand tuned.
That’s a fantastic idea. Can any country implement an import ban and receive the same offer?
What's inscrutable code? Was it m4 or sh or the combination of the two?

Who will pay for all the rewriting you want done? Or even just for the new frameworks that are "scrutable"? How do we guarantee that the result is not inscrutable to you or others?

There is so much knee-jerking in this xz debacle.

(And I say this / ask these questions with no love for autoconf/m4/sh.)
There are many different countries and many different actors looting.

Iran, Russia, United Arab Emirates, China, France and the US are country level actors that I know of. I have no doubt there are more. Some of them try to keep the interests of Africa in mind, some are straight up looting (if you make money from a mine but use your profits to improve the area is that looting - this is a complex topic that depends on details)

Many countries are run by a dictator (often their top military general) who run the country for their own gain. Sometimes these dictators are natives who grew up as elite in the country, but none care about the people. Even where the country is a democracy, often the leaders are using corruption to ensure they win elections and then they run the country for their own gain not the people.

Note that I didn't put companies in the list. While there are companies involved, they are all hiding between a country in some way and if you reform the country they are powerless.
There is a little info panel in the middle of the listing noting that the employer has submitted an LMIA request for this position.
Ahh, I see.

The approach here is just getting vector nearest neighbors.

I guess I don’t see how this could work like “Shazam” when you’re comparing the vector of some sample to the vector for the whole song.
This is a better take. Though I'm sure people can obfuscate in source code just as much as in build configuration code.
It's, per the article, not really no annual fee, you can't get the card without paying them at least $50 a year for an account with them, where the cash ends up (and then you have to figure out how to extract).

On top of that the article makes the classic mistake of saying it pays for itself if you spend $166 a month, but it only really pays for itself if the marginal value of using the card over a generic 1.5% cashback card on the things you can't get 3% for already is more than $5 a month. Things like high cashback percentages for the first $X a month in specific categories make this intentionally hard to calculate, and are part of why I never really got into optimizing my credit card benefits. It's obnoxiously hard to compare.
I would get this just to keep jumping through the portals and chilling in the toasterverse. Looking forward to what else the dev has in store!
Related, the Machine de Marly which supplied the fountains of Chateau de Versailles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_de_Marly
Windows Copilot key is from the IBM era
The page linking to the list – https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/royal-charters/list-... – says:

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I'm not sure if you can change the textures but there is Screensavers VR - https://store.steampowered.com/app/881670/Screensavers_VR/
Ask HN: Looking for IRC or forums about decentralized P2P internet
Hello guys,

I'm really looking for communities about decentralized internet, P2P, smol web, internet freedom, privacy... The de-shittification of the Internet and BigTech(TM) monopolies.

I don't mind if it's IRC, online forums, Discord server, whatever.

I would love to talk with people about these topics, people who have similar POVs and people who don't.
In PNW, they look dead in the spring. The leaves don’t even appear until late May, and flowers bloom in late July at earliest.
Stop Killing Games
That doesn't scale. What, you sell someone a product, they're happy with it, it fulfills the problem they had, they don't send you another penny until you spend the money to actually make a new product? That sounds too expensive, nobody would fund that
>They have an office in Abbotsford

The office they listed is corporate lawyers: Klassen and Company Lawyers. Ones that handle filing incorporation papers. This employer absolutely does not occupy that address.

>and as such SubcoDevs reopened the role in Canada in order to ensure the employee still remains with them

That would be a blatant abuse of the LMIA process. Airdropping employees between countries is not the purpose of LMIA spots.
That’s what I was thinking of
Partially. wgpu can translate graphics api calls like WebGPU to platform specific APIs - this is something I had to implement on the backend. In the future, will likely tool on top of wgpu on the backend as wasi-gfx (WebGPU) becomes a reality.

What we do on top of that is compile the graphics code to wasm and provide a well-defined interface around it, so it can run/work inside any application.
If anyone wants to try playing this, it's one of the variants supported by Fairy Stockfish.
It's testing to see if the daemon is running from the electron app. It uses the connection to the browser for things like sign in and verification and for being able to redirect links into the electron app.

https://github.com/florophore/floro-mono/blob/main/packages/...

The reason it's happening on the landing page is because we use floro for editing the site and testing our changes offline first before pushing.
Yes please, the code quality on Devin was incredibly poor in all examples I traced down.

At least from a maintainability perspective.

I would like to see if this implementation is less destructive or at least more suitable for a red-green-refactor workflow.
> If you're trying to market this, you should change the demo to something where it shows a success story

I count not having to deal with someone's chatbot as a win.
Yeah, but the 'wasi-canvas' part is really important to get something on screen (as opposed to "just" using WebGPU for compute-tasks).

Also a simple wasi-audio API is needed (preferrably something less overengineered than WebAudio, just a simple sample-streaming API would be perfect).
I assume the GG, being a viceroy, can sign these things on the king's behalf? But what do I know?

I did find it ironic that I moved from aus to a republic, only to attend a school with supposedly a royal charter.

> Another guess: ...but the Privy Council might not technically consider that letter to be a “royal charter”, because it didn’t use the right magic code words to count as one

If you're going to cast a magic spell you've gotta get it right.
That's a double-edged sword. What happens when you need to upgrade in order to get vulnerability fixes?
use a bigger server until the revenue is big enough to justify the migration.
By book, I mean, written in any form, study paper, blog, theses, books, etc. I don't understand you comparison.

Same for your example, no logical link between the effect and the consequences.
We should be moving the other way. Open, accessible, well-defined APIs, without price discrimination.

I do not want to haggle at the grocery. I want to be able to budget and anticipate pricing.
IIRC they were introduced aggressively as being a non-propagating, non fruiting tree or something, both of which turned out to be false, but by the time people realized this it was far too late :-/

Reminds me of SF planting Pōhutakawas everywhere - an NZ native tree that requires little water, don't fall over, don't fruit, etc. Except as any NZer could tell you, the reason they don't fall over is that they're evolved to grow on/around cliffs and loose earth, so they go all in on strong roots. Which mean constantly breaking roads and sidewalks. yay!

Also while they don't fruit they produce a tonne of flowers that produce a tonne of cruft on the ground :-/
you still have hand hold larger clients.
NYT to soon offer most articles via automated voice
And the number of public holidays (for respective countries[1]) the accounts were active in each of a selection of timezones.

AE_Asia/Dubai 11
AL_Europe/Tirane 15
AR_America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires 15
AT_Europe/Vienna 9
AU_Australia/Perth 5
AU_Australia/Sydney 6
BA_Europe/Belgrade 5
CA_America/Toronto 2
CA_America/Vancouver 2
CH_Europe/Zurich 2
CL_America/Santiago 8
CN_Asia/Shanghai 21
DE_Europe/Berlin 4
DK_Europe/Berlin 7
EE_Europe/Tallinn 6
EG_Africa/Cairo 13
ES_Europe/Madrid 8
FI_Europe/Helsinki 7
FR_Europe/Paris 8
GB_Europe/London 5
GR_Europe/Athens 10
HR_Europe/Belgrade 7
HU_Europe/Budapest 8
ID_Asia/Jakarta 13
IE_Europe/Dublin 5
IL_Asia/Jerusalem 6
IN_Asia/Kolkata 15
IR_Asia/Tehran 29
IS_Africa/Abidjan 9
IT_Europe/Rome 5
JP_Asia/Tokyo 18
KH_Asia/Bangkok 12
KR_Asia/Seoul 22
LA_Asia/Bangkok 7
LT_Europe/Vilnius 11
LV_Europe/Riga 6
MY_Asia/Singapore 17
NL_Europe/Brussels 3
NO_Europe/Berlin 8
NZ_Pacific/Auckland 5
RS_Europe/Belgrade 11
RU_Asia/Vladivostok 15
RU_Europe/Moscow 16
SA_Asia/Riyadh 15
SE_Europe/Berlin 10
SG_Asia/Singapore 12
SI_Europe/Belgrade 8
TH_Asia/Bangkok 30
TR_Europe/Istanbul 8
TW_Asia/Taipei 23
US_Pacific/Guam 6
US_Pacific/Honolulu 7
US_US/Central 7
US_US/Eastern 7
US_US/Mountain 7
US_US/Pacific 7
VN_Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 13
ZA_Africa/Johannesburg 11

[1] https://github.com/vacanza/python-holidays/
> a large Latino farm worker and small business community, and a similarly large Punjabi farmworker and small business community.

No, the second of those is not “similarly large” to the first, not even in a vague loose approximation kind of way. (Fresno County is majority-Hispanic, with over a third of the population primary Spanish speakers.)
I don't know why you've put lots of question marks, surely this is completely understandable. The whole point of this was that real chess was too big and complex, hence this dramatically smaller simpler version. There's no bishops in the start position so there's absolutely no way they'd bother implementing the bishop underpromotion corner case.

Amusingly enough Rybka, the top engine for many years comparatively recently didn't implement bishop underpromotion either. For a much different reason. The programmer chose a not so great low level bit representation convention that forbid representing this case. He refused to fix the error because it would be too much work for the more-or-less non-existent situations where promoting to a bishop is the best move.
thanks, took 2 seconds to export my podcasts and import it in. seems great so far!
I want to hate this, but customer service orgs did it first, so maybe we aren't going to get any better.

But heaven help any colleague who uses an LLM for internal communications, turning the company into a dysfunctional load of crap.
Wait, I've never seen the manned lane empty. People use whatever is fastest.
Interesting - supports FastAPI and Langchain too https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/languages/python/p...
I just need a chatbot that will get me past the chatbot so I can talk to a human again.
Steve was great because he hired great people. For that he deserves a lot of credit. He also (for better or worse) had a very keen idea of what was workable or reasonable in terms of UX - essentially he had taste.

Apple has numerous very talented people who do all the rest of the required work to get products created and built.

That he defrauded his buddy Woz on one of their first ventures when Woz was the one doing all the tech work is really the ironic part. When it came to running Apple, Steve was very good. But he hired good people and those people are doing well (if not as good as Steve) now.
That's a tough one - It's hard to fully disagree but in my experience you can have all the benefits without the poison. Accepting the poison just because of the benefits is kind of just giving up. I don't feel like the your hypothesis that the two are irrevocably linked holds up under examination.
7500 USD discount is also a state backed enterprise.
It was delivered back when the 750 was new, but we had lispms and PDP-10s and didn't care about stuff like vaxes.

I think it was already obsolete when RMS started using it, and had probably never been used over the years by anyone. Nowadays that kinds of thing is unremarkable, but back then at most places it would have been shocking.
Show HN: Apprise-API – All in one notification solution with API access point
Yes! wasi-webgpu is coming, as well as more APIs with wasi-gfx.

Getting rive-renderer working was not hard because in the demo its running on the host side, and not in Wasm yet, although compiling for Windows/DX11 took some minor changes. Getting it fully working in Wasm outside of the browser looks to be non-trivial, but doable, but will likely require upstream changes.
The demo video is rather underwhelming, I had expected something actually happening.
In much of the US you can’t even build places people would need to walk to within walkable distance, due to zoning. A bus which takes 30 minutes to take you to the grocery store is barely any better than no public transportation at all. I haven’t used public transportation even once in the last 15 years. I sometimes check how long it’d take to get to the places I need to be however. Grocery store trip turns from 9 minutes into 36 each way. Going to work takes 25 minutes by car or an hour and a half by bus, each way. Dropping off my kid at his soccer practice? 8 vs about half an hour, each way. Idk where you people live that you think spending 3 hours daily on a bus is feasible or desirable, let alone logistically possible.