skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you're actually proposing that every possible library is listed in the ELF and loaded before the executable starts by the OS' loader, I would encourage you to try writing an AppArmor or seccomp profile that bans `dlopen` and see how many of your favorite applications still run. This is a completely unserious take that continues to misread the motivations of the RFC (it's not about security) and couldn't even be applied even to just the core of most actually used Linux userlands without an absurd amount of work (think of PAM modules and friends).

Also, have I really misspoken? I was under the impression that many corporations with interests in proprietary software (including Microsoft) are regular contributors to the Linux kernel and ecosystem, but if I'm wrong I'd love to know the details.
Nobody but developers care about the tech. People only care about what it can do for them.
Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt
Sure, or if you're being polite, or even short in a reasonable way "I'd rather not discuss this privately," that is fine.

Lori's emails are deliberately designed to goad Vlad into replying, just to act indignant when he does.
great idea. I've found setting device language for MacOS/ Windows / iOS into your practice language to be a very helpful way to learn. You can easily navigate menus thanks for visual familiarity, so you pick up technical words really quickly.

When I was practicing, I would put my devices into Spanish or Finnish.
interesting, hopefully same homonegisation will happen to gpu sphere as well :)
That sounds like the threat isn't credible because they came back.
not to be confused with the awesome chiptune cover of NIN:

https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine...
Doesn't nvlink work natively on 3090s? I thought it was only removed (and here re-enabled) in 4090.
Right. Until the schools start losing money, there is zero incentive for them to reign in costs. That doesn't mean I want to see people suffer under the burden of their loans but this program isn't solving the right problem.
The risk of letting AI decide– losing the skills to choose for ourselves
Is there evidence that any Microsoft execs are pressuring Poettering? Wouldn't other people that work on systemd and linux object to poor architectural decisions? This is a key feature of open source development, it's just not so easily subverted.
If I run a newsletter that links to interesting properties for sale, should I be charged a fee for this?
> This take feels more like being upset about one individual's (Vlad) personal opinions about privacy and politics. But in my opinion, it fails to realize that assigning one person's views to an entire organization is a fallacy. Even if they are the leader.

And Vlad didn't even say anything that crazy from a political perspective. "News should not only be about politics" is super reasonable, and I found myself agreeing with him much more than the person he was talking to.
> If you wanted to support a game up to the integer 10 you would need 10 posts with lengths from 1 to 10 units, and 10 post holes.

You’d also need a way to represent the order of the posts (the game is about a list of integers, not a set, so you can’t move from [4,5,6] to [10,5], for example)

I think a halfway decent visualization is one where you have n different cylinders of lengths 1 through n and a gutter of length of the sum of the numbers you start with (in the [4,5,6] example that would be 15). Next, place the cylinders for the starting position in the gutter in the order given, so that it completely fills it. Keep the others elsewhere.

Allowed moves then are:

- replace two cylinders that are side by side in the gutter by one of the sum of their lengths that you have available.

- replace a cylinder in the gutter by two available cylinders that together have the same length.

I think this way to visualize the game also might lead to a physical construction, but I don’t see on yet.
Bugs That Buzzed a Lot
I am actually curious if you see any indication of people leaving/emigrating from the USA? Either serial entrepreneurs who have already had some success or those who feel there are sufficient opportunities with less hassle elsewhere.
great design approach and thanks. It's refreshing to see apps that don't require continuous online access. I wish there was a badge for that
It hasn't worked perfectly though, as the vaste majority of American bisons (all but 4 herds in fact) aren't true bisons but have cattle genes due to hybridation.
Missfile: //CVE-2024-20670 – NTLM Hash Disclosure in New Outlook
Two things on this one that I don't see elsewhere in the comments.

1) This is both a grab bag of many different forms of debt cancellation (automatically applying it to people who would qualify for programs that have complicated requirements otherwise, like public service which requires a lot of documentation to prove all the necessary years that may have been overly burdensome in some cases, largely worthwhile in my opinion since I support that underlying program anyway and support simplifying its formerly crazy complicated requirements vs for instance cancelling interest on loans that people didn't put a lot of effort into repaying, since most educational loans are at much lower interest rates than other loans to begin with). Not all of these can be discussed in the same terms and part of the "messaging" of the program is that they got to large numbers through many programs and many different avenues.

2) Notice that most of the wording of this press release is "if implemented", "if implemented" because this isn't a program that _has already happened_, it's a bunch of programs that have to individually go through Administrative Procedures Act notice-and-comment rulemaking. Interestingly, notice and comment has a lot of trivial pitfalls that block implementation, lead to litigation, etc, so on average for programs that do get implemented it takes something like 1000 days to implement (most of a presidential term). Further, there's a special period at the end of a legislative term where APA rules can be summarily overturned or cancelled mid-process by the incoming new Congress, and routinely are, particularly when there's a change of party either by Congress or in the Whitehouse. Which is all to say, this is a fun press release amounting to vaporware until 2027, assuming Biden gets re-elected and doesn't have a much stronger Republican majority in one or both chambers of Congress.

I approve of parts, I disapprove of parts, it's all very complicated, but I expect a very small part of this to actually happen, and that to mostly be the easier parts that I like more. shrug Bureaucracy delenda est.
I wonder if these media conglomerates think the same laws should apply to them. If your news article has any linked information in it, you need to pay money to the owner of that link every time your article is opened. Seems only fair.
> I mean aren't you really asking "What should I be doing X years from now"?

For a person to answer what they should be doing X years from now, well, they first, need to be able to answer what they should be doing right now, very well.

> Is part of your great plan in making things better just unaliving these people?

That is quite a stretch.

Let us simplify things down a bit: on an individual basis, these subsidies are a few hundred dollars a month - which means that while that's nothing to scoff at, the recepients already have something else going on and making a living already. It might not be a great living but this subsidy isnt going to, for example, take someone destitute and homeless and put them in a position to become financially independent.

What would have stopped destitution and homeless would have been a better education. Now yes, there are well educated people who due to bad luck have become destitute and homeless but those are the exception, not the norm for well educated people to end up in.
EU citizens always had an option to come and work so work visas only apply for non-EU. Also, the debate in Germany is mostly about asylum seekers and not skilled migration. I haven't heard the thesis "less people, more pay" but instead "more workers, more taxes". https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAGerman/comments/178iy0w/questio...
I worked at Google until October 2023, the blog post is in bad faith.

This is a good comment that gets at why[1], TL;DR: the hedge fund thing is a complete nonsequitur. The programs are the equivalent of Google Cloud grants, and Google actively disinvested from News[2] just because that was an easy place to get your mandated Sundar cuts for Wall Street.

They're not a good steward of anything other than their stock price.

I don't like the idea of a link tax but I do know, 100%, that blog post is slanted and mealy-mouthed on everything I know first-hand about.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015572

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/technology/google-layoffs...
As someone else mentioned in this thread, it is not possible to understand how everything you purchase works. That is also incredibly infeasible. What you are asking is to effectively revert back two hundred years of technological progress (a rough estimate for the last time people were actually self sufficient at a local level).
A B-1/B-2 visa would not allow you to work for the U.S. company while here or your Indian startup while here. It might seem like overkill but possibly get an O-1 through the U.S. company. There's no minimum amount of time that you must spend in the U.S.
well, most users generally have a small set of operations they want readily accessible with a pointing device at all times, or status information they want to be available at a glance, without obscuring or interfering with window layout.

a persistent window, aka panel, is the conventional way to provide that.

it's simply a conceptual extension of the 'prompt' into a gui environment. nothing has surpassed the panel concept in the past forty years that it has been dominant.

i expect the 'panel' is the primary feature vehicle of any desktop environment - they are nearly synonymous. nearly every window manager also contains support for panels, even if they are not part of a desktop environment that specifically provides them. what do you use?
The muppet show was huge in the UK in the late 70s/early 80s.
Hi Peter,

I'm a pure mathematics PhD student (from SE Asia, studying in the US) graduating at the end of this year. I expect to work at the intersection of finance and tech.

I have heard that the standard for O1 visa is a bit lower these days. Do you know if ~5 publications with ~20 citations is enough to qualify for O1? This is low compared to CS people but is pretty respectable in pure math. If not what are my options beside H1B? Thanks!
To some extent, certainly. In the US and Western Europe, there was a period of class collaboration or class reconciliation that lasted from the end of WWII to the early 1970s. Labor unions were strong, but were also willing to settle for fairly limited demands and avoid open conflict. The existence of a strong Communist bloc meant that capitalist countries had to treat their workers well enough to win the propaganda war. This detente started breaking down in the 1970s, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, all bets were off, leading to the enshittification of capitalist society we see today.
It should if your 3090s have Resizable BAR support in the VBIOS. AFAIK most card manufacturers released BIOS updates enabling this.

Re: 3090 NVLink, that only allows pairs of cards to be connected. PCIe allows full fabric switch of many cards.
It's amazing how uninformed the comments are on the .NET ecosystem as of the time of this comment.

The OP states this is intended as an update to a 2016 question, but the responses are largely stuck pre-2016, full of nonsense complaints that haven't been true for the better part of a decade (including imagined OS dependent lock-in, imagined lack of CLI based tools, and etc).

The .NET Core variant doesn't even exist anymore, and hasn't since 2020. It's just .NET, after a difficult planned multi-year effort that .NET core was a part of, to unify into a single cross platform .NET
“Cybertrunk will be amphibious”

I don’t know how people give credit to anything that comes out of this guys mouth. He is like that one guy in our broader cycle that is desperate for attention so he comes up with whatever bullshit story he can to join the current conversation.
Zoozve – The Quasi-Moon of Venus
I moved from e3 to green card. There is a no-travel period between petition and granting, but it’s possible
Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalate
I'm maybe in a similar situation as OP so let me clarify what I would ask -- might be the same as them.

Citizen and resident of an EU (Schengen) country, de facto working for a US company, though the employment contract is a standard employment contract with the local (EU) entity.

Interested in moving to the US to become a permanent resident and eventual citizen, and I expect that the current company would be interested in sponsoring. What's the best path?
The comparison was specifically to the last attempt which was just scattershot. Radiologist who just paid off you loans: no soup for you! Radiologist who still has loans but will soon also be rich: have a bunch of free money.

This new loan forgiveness (which as a loan-less dropout I’m not crazy about either) at least seems directed as a handout to poorer loan holders. If I’m going to be screwed, it’s slightly nicer knowing it’s not to a give-away to the tax brackets above me.
Hi Peter, thank you in advance for considering the question.

I'm a Canadian citizen, living in Canada. In the past I've considered moving to the US to work there.

I don't have a university degree. I attended university for ~3-4 years, did not complete my degree, and then enrolled in a 3-year college program which conferred an Ontario College Advanced Diploma. I've worked full-time as a software developer since then.

I think my expertise is comparable to my coworkers, many of whom have completed university degrees (albeit in a variety of disciplines, not specifically related to technology).

Could I move and work in the US under a TN visa? I'm concerned that, because I don't have a degree, I would not qualify. Though I do have specialized training (diploma + work experience).

Or am I looking at this backwards? i.e, if a US company were interested in hiring me, they would handle the visa requirements (I'm unsure if this would be TN or otherwise).

Thanks!
> More smart people leads to better outcomes for everyone

smart people don't typically land themselves in a situation where they cannot respect their financial commitments.
One of my fun projects was compressing all community levels for SRB2Kart (based on the Doom II engine) into a single archive suitable for WebGL rendering of map previews.

I was able to get all 220MB of the default SRB2kart maps down into 12.9MB, and could even get down to 5MB with heavy texture compression. LZMA alone could only do 37MB, so I was pretty pumped.

One of the harder parts is compressing the vertex data and adjacency information (which linedefs connect which vertices). I never figured out a satisfying way of doing that, but this makes me want to try again...
'Delve' Is a Giveaway ChatGPT Wrote That Email
Perhaps a fort with a couple of additions.
I'm looking forward to the "Power BI issues" that are caused by someone looking at the wrong part of the screen the wrong way.
A friend of mine did the "fiancee visa" in Europe at the local embassy there. It took something like 3-5 months to get the visa approved for travel to the US. Once there, he could start working immediately.

But this was a long time ago, I have no idea what the processing times are today? Are they listed online?

And above all, since his spouse did not work in the US, so they needed a US based citizen with "not bad" finances to sponsor him.

If you're an independent contractor based in a different country, it'll be fun times figuring out the taxes for the year that you move to the US. Both your old country and the US will want a cut.
Curious if you've seen any E-2 visas granted to people from Grenada, etc. to people not born in those countries (i.e. naturalized) after the 2021 (?) NDAA/Portugal friendship/etc. legal change. to E-2.
Be intellectually honest. Show me a single front page post "vilifying America's natives." You won't find it, but you'll find plenty in the other direction, because a large portion of HN's user base has a shameless anti-American slant.
Indeed! That was almost a decade before the founding of Nintendo, absurd.
The original perceptron machine built by Rosenblatt used self-rotating potentiometer knobs to visualize and change weights for a perceptron that used a cadmium sulfide "pixels" camera.

I believe you could use LEDs and if you were really clever, you can use the fact that LEDs are also light sensitive to adjust the LED "weights".
which is to say, this isn't the first time he's done that.
I am in a similar position with a priority date of June 2022 and have been current sin Jan 1. I would love to hear Peter's advice here. The endless checking of the application status is tough.
Second greatest south African to have ever lived, only after Mark Shuttleworth.
Damn, Im sure Elons empty promises will prevent SpaceX from lapping every countries launch record combined.
$700k assumes only USA/USD sales, but its anywhere from 20% to 60% cheaper by region. Also the developer could be inflating the download count, different steam analytics sites put sales between 20-50k. This very easily pushes total sales down from $700k to as low as ~$100k.

Games like this are also a big risk. Years of work could easily hinge on if a few big streamers decide to play it on a whim, or if you are selected to be on the front page.

https://steamdb.info/app/2205850/
Sure, Nix is one of the few package management systems that makes a credible attempt at being good for all three major package management roles (the system; user applications; project-specific packages)
Interesting take. It is valid and don't take my alternative interpretation as suggesting otherwise.

I owned a business for 18 years. For 15 of those years it was my primary source of income. I valued feedback, tried my hardest to solicit as much of it as possible, and always took it to heart (though I had to always try and glean statistics from the sum of all feedback so that I was never spending resources on minority opinions).

What I read from the user was that the company created an optics problem. It wasn't whether the company was losing money or not, it was just that the user is choosing to support that company because they want a really good search engine, and the optics of divesting the company's resources into multiple projects makes it appear as if it could be the case that not enough focus is being spent on what really matters to that user.

What I read from the founder was that the optics issue went completely over his head and a complete dismissal of the user's concerns and feedback, along with a doubling down of the decisions made.

It's not a good look in my opinion. Even though the founder was polite and didn't say anything inappropriate, I would NEVER have responded to a customer of mine like that.
Yanis Varoufakis on X: we now live in the age of technofeudalism
"listen the pronunciations" should be "listen to the pronunciations"
Just imagine those bison’s carbon footprint.
The GPIO pins give a reasonable point of interface for a LoRa module. Or you could interface it with one of the Lilygo offerings and have a programmable LoRa/Meshtastic/disaster.radio compatible device.

(https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-echo?variant=42306295857333 or https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t3s3-v1-0 maybe?)
They came back after the law was repealed.
There is a great saying nowadays: Customers are not kings anymore. They are dictators.
> Referring to land the natives had inhabited for something like 15,000 years as "pristine" and "natural" is somewhat erasing their accomplishments, no?

Erm, no? Seems kind of racist to say otherwise? The plains indians entire culture revolved around preserving and respecting nature. And I'm pretty sure it's only theorized that the paleo-indians wiped out the mammoths, and I'm not sure how that's the problem of the white man or even the native americans of the mid 19th century.

Extending your argument to its logical absurdity, no environment can be considered "pristine" unless it's the literal primordial sludge the first life emerged from. Very odd nitpickery.
I wasn't advocating for a position -- I also think this law will have unintended negative consequences.

My point is simply that this is more than just linking. It's a full-on parasitic relationship, where Google (and Meta, and others) take the reporting that others are doing and build their own traffic off of that, while draining the people doing the work dry. News orgs are then faced with a terrible choice -- cut off the source of traffic or give it away for free. That's different than a dev deciding to open source a project.
Crypto mining could make use of lots of GPUs in a single cheap system precisely because it did not need any significant PCIe bandwidth, and would not have benefited at all from p2p DMA. Anything that does benefit from using p2p DMA is unsuitable for running with just one PCIe lane per GPU.
finally we see some relationship between Golang and AI?

I'm tired about the hype of python and rust. I would really appreciate if we saw more AI project written in golang.

for example:
https://github.com/tmc/langchaingo
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39328684
Secretly hoping to take advantage of Cunningham's Law?

"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
I was under the impression that many large corporate actors with interests in proprietary hardware and software make regular contributions to the Linux kernel and ecosystem.

Also, why does the person making the change matter? If they're not a vexatious time waster, then who cares who they are as long as the changes are coherent?

Finally, I'll note that the GitHub issue linked is against systemd/systemd. It's not a binding change to the entire ELF format, it's a request for maintainers of distros to comment on whether or not adding this optional field might be helpful to them. They can just say "no", and who published the RFC remains irrelevant.
> Just like Open Source is though: you do all the work, companies make money off of your work without paying a dime 95% of the time, etc. Would that justify a law forcing companies to pay for the open source software they use? No.

I do think there should be some laws around funding certain open source software that has become critical to the functioning of society -- whether or not that's paid by tax payers in general, or by the companies using that software is a different question though.

Government funded open source strikes me as something that can very much make sense, in certain cases. Some software very much operates at utility scale, and yet, doesn't have a funding model beyond the good will of volunteers. This is dangerous, and also the type of situation that the government exists to solve.

So, yes, companies probably should pay for at least some open source software, maybe indirectly through tax, maybe through some other mechanism.
There's a help page that gives you all the code you need to do this. https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/js
It's not a hit piece, it's someone's personal experiences on their own personal blog.