skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the activities of founders are limited, then it's possible to spend a significant amount of time in the U.S. as a business visitor but more often than not, a work status/visa is required and the timing of getting that must be managed so that that it's possible to remain and work in the U.S. But it's possible and done all the time. (There's no $100k investment rule by the way unless you are thinking of the E-2 investor visa, which requires a substantial investment and is another type of work visa.)
GoEx: A Runtime for Autonomous LLM Applications
My son loves the app and for once I don't have to force him to practice.
If you drive through a lot of small towns in the American west (east of California, such as Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Northern Arizona/New Mexico) you can often find some real fascinating relics of time like this. Depending on the area you get a little different era. In the southwest you can find a lot of cool stufef from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Up north is more 80s and 90s and early 00s.

One I really enjoyed seeing is a little ghost "town" in Southern Idaho that I had a blast exploring a couple years ago. It was a gas station, a restaurant, and a couple of houses and a small warehouse off the interstate a bit. It went out of business decades ago and was abandoned. It's remote enough that vandalism has been minimal (though certainly existent), so some things look fairly "pristine" the way they were last left. Seeing the desk in the office, with filing cabinet and desktop corded phone was a real nostalgia kick. There was a box that had clearly been picked through that I'm sure would have contained a lot of treasures. I found a barely readable instruction manual for a dot-matrix printer that would have been neat to see. You do have to be very careful because there are lots of sharp object galore, especially broken glass.
Local "wildlife" has also been in and out once the door stopped staying closed, but for the most part it is just scratch marks (that could have been done by dogs or cats). The bathroom is a toxic bio-hazard though, so don't go in there. People clearly kept using for many years, long after the water was shut off.... Overall was a really fun experience. If you decide to explore though, be aware of where you go because a lot of old-looking stuff that might seem abandoned, actually isn't (it just hasn't been maintained), and usually the owners aren't too welcoming of trespassers.
Thanks, I'll take a look at QWant.

Limited ability to change Chromes' settings at work? Sounds fancy :P
If you do, you definitely should blog about it and promote it. I'm very interested in knowing the results.
That’s not the context of the original comment.

The subtext with which to understand both of our comments is the clearly recognizable generative image from an LLM.

For some reason it is completely acceptable on these forums to trash talk people who use LLMs, or even more problematic, to disparagingly accuse someone of sounding like an LLM.

I assume because it is based on the idea that using an LLM is low effort which is why I mentioned different kinds of low effort images that are not often criticized.
Some package managers have "features" (e.g. Rust's cargo) or "extras" (e.g. Python) which might be what you are talking about.

Of course another solution is to make smaller libraries in the first place, so your users don't feel like they need to break it up.
I absolutely agree this kind of nontrivial work can be done in a way that is woefully inefficient/impractical. My EWI, approx 85m2 of graphite polystyrene with an embedded CO2[1] of ~15kg/m2 is equivalent to approximately 1.5 years of CO2 emissions (combined electricity & gas), or ~9 months of CO2 emissions before I replaced windows and old kerosene boiler that came with the house.

Actual installation and other materials excluded (adhesives, mesh, silicone render, 450 hot beverages, getting the neighbour's car repaired after the scaffolders hit it, etc.) excluded.

I don't have a full year of data yet, but all in it's looking like CO2 emissions are going to come in at well under 40%. This is in line with the independent assessment I needed to clear a grant for some of the costs[2].
It seems to me "carbon ROI" is about 1/4 the financial ROI (est 8+ years).

Now if it was PU instead of EPS that would be a different cost (10x the CO2 of polystyrene). Sadly I also ended up with some PU (PIR) in a small area of low-pitched roof void, I don't know if there were better choices there.

There's also a hidden cost in living in a cold, damp building - now there are winter days when I don't even turn the heat on at all.

[1] https://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/embodied-carbon-...
[2] https://www.seai.ie/publications/Your-Guide-to-Building-Ener...
100% agreed. I was disappointed when Kagi launched their AI thing but I had hoped it was just a small side project or something. If it's truly a major focus for them I'll be ditching my subscription. Also not jazzed about their browser and email etc.
I think that does vary a little bit. There are some where it is very much like this, others that are more spontaneous. And it is almost always the case that at the very least neighboruing elites have to look the other way, as otherwise they can usually easily quash revolts.

And of course a lot of violent takeovers are 100% directly done by the elites, such as military coups or outside conquests.
Thanks for this, very interesting.

PS I wonder why the original blog post was flagged here on HN. It was also very enlightening.
My reply was in the context of the parent comment.

> China’s famously industrious workforce is shrinking, its property boom has ended and the system of free trade that helped it grow rich is disintegrating.

Unsurprising, using capitalist interpretations of what's "good" and "bad" as reported by capitalist media, but those are increasingly ridiculous things to value in a human sense, particularly with the rise of complex automation and who should benefit from it.

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/chinas-nex...
Modified surveillance bill clears House hurdle after failing earlier this week
No, they are not that far behind. You're thinking of Longsoon I guess, but they have a 7nm process at SMIC and Hisilicon designing ARM-based server processors on it[1]. Sure, ARM is western, but guess what, they have the IP anyway, as they required ARM to do business through a subsidiary in China.

China is serious about semiconductors. Hisilicon is competitive in many markets.

[1]https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/huaweis-new-...
I'm guessing something along the lines of 1 Samuel 13:13 ;-)

https://www.bible.com/bible/114/1SA.13.13
I'd imagine for many developers, the probability of something like Google's Hosted Libraries (https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries) going down or being hacked is far, far lower than the probability of their own site hosting having a problem.
Nix builds suck for development because there is no incrementality there. Any source file changes in any way, and your typical nix flake will rebuild the project from scratch. At best, you get to reuse builds of dependencies.
It does say something that they were interested enough to want the opportunity, but specifically chose not to exercise it.

Thought it was a nice addition to the piece.
Every job in my 30-year career has been at companies that manufacture something. I have to say that what you're planning is a really big ask. I mean, you could make an entire career out of any one of those areas you mention. e.g., Supply Chain Management is a pretty popular Master's degree program.
It might be better to choose one and learn what you can.

But first, why? What's your position at this company? It seems like you're trying to improve something, but perhaps first spend six months at the company and understand how and why they work before looking at areas to improve?
Hey, what is this script called? And where do you have the results?
Then you have to keep going back, as poor parents were likely neglected as children also and so on
[9,8] -> [6,3,8] -> [6,2,1,8] -> [6,2,9] -> [8,9]
Washington State uses fill-in-the-bubble and that seems to work fine. We vote by mail so voters even provide their own pens!
I took it more as a dig at the way Microsoft offers its products. You want to spin up a new VM and deploy an app? Mindlessly click through these menus until you see a green checkmark.

It works well enough most of the time, but it also eliminates the need to think, so when something doesn't work as expected, ClickOps engineers are lost.
So many people, every day. Pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers, airline employees and their families with travel benefits.
It makes sense if you assume they are planning to invade Taiwan by about 2027 like some foreign policy and military people are saying. That's supposed to be the year at which they're at maximum relative military strength after which they'll decline relative to the US.

As does their massive investments in renewables and nuclear, they need to get off imported natural gas if they're going to invade since natural gas imports from middle east will be blockaded.
Actual street furniture on a street should probably be put in a museum, as streets are absurdly cluttered with posts, lights, cables, signage and adverts, each of which is terribly important to someone, but which adds up to oppressive distraction.
I disagree. I have used Alexa and Google Assistant a lot and also developed an Alexa skill for controlling Dyson's robot vacuum cleaners, so I'm pretty familiar.

The problem is that the set of supported operations are always MUCH smaller than the set of operations people randomly try. You might develop a skill with 200 commands or whatever and think you've covered everything, but people can up with thousands of possible commands just by guessing.

This means if people just do "I'll try asking this..." then probably 80% of the time it won't work. That's an incredibly frustrating experience. You quickly give up and just stick to the features that you know work, and never try to find any new ones.

But I also disagree that OpenAI has the same problem, because LLMs means you don't need to manually add thousands of possible commands, so any random request that people make is MUCH more likely to work.
Sure. With my comment I want to expant on the thought, not necessarily contradict it.
Same here actually. Funnily enough to find uncensored info about the world we have to go to Russian sites. Crazy.
Homes have a 100+ year service life? Where? I see the median age of housing stock varies heavily in the US. Quickly scanning other markets, I see EU has older housing, in general. Even there, though, they don't talk of 100+ year old houses as being that common.

Scanning websites on this claim, I see that "properly installed, with no damage" some types claim up to 100 years of service for insulation. I strongly suspect that that is a claim that will not hold for the vast majority of homes. More reading also strongly suggests that if your house was built prior to 2005, you probably need to get the insulation redone.

Worse, from my experience, the older the home the less likely you are to have subfloor/walls to actually install insulation. Heaven help you if you do one of those container homes. And if you live in an environment where you have heavy rains or hail, expect damage to creep in rather quickly.

Don't get me wrong, I support the idea that adding insulation is almost certainly a good idea where you can. I just can't bring myself to trust claims of 100 year service life.
No, it was routed directly to the jet engine's bleed-air system. Interestingly, jet engine was said to be a tad bit more efficient because of it.
> Meanwhile, SMIC has increased its current 7 nm production capacity to make more Kirin chips and AI GPUs, said two people familiar with the matter.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/china-close-to-shipp...
Comcast has no vested interest in not sharing/re-selling my data. also it provides a stable IPv4 with geoip tagging that both serves to de-anonymize me and make it easier for third-parties to track me.

My VPN provider has a vested interest in not sharing or re-selling my data, if caught doing so it would cause a major loss of business for them and potentially permanently tarnish their reputation. Additionally they provide a stable IPv4 shared with many other users. Tracking is still possible, but is far less trivial and not so easily correlated with a county/state.

So I use a VPN. It keeps me safe from script-kiddies who might discover my IP when I visit their website. I provide free help for people having trouble with HTML/CSS, so I visit a lot of strange places.
I have been happily using my Raspberry Pi 400 as my main home computer for years.

The tooling for light software development and hobby embedded hardware development has been great so far.
Try out SoftMaker Office or WPS Office.
They're down to 7nm albeit with low yield and questionable legalities [1].

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3256321/chinese-c...
Is that not the point of discussions like this? To talk about when each one makes more sense.
At the very least, France's neighboring kingdoms decided to let this play out.
no, it's actually a suggestion for adults that grocery shop for themselves and their families.
Update: I've been playing around with Xpra, and it's pretty nice. What a pleasant change compared to VNC hell!

https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra
The bar is low. It's presumed that the sponsoring company will be able to pay the sponsored H-1B worker so the focus actually isn't on funding but the existence of basic corporate requirements - that is, the company must be incorporated, have an FEIN, have physical commercially zoned office space, and be authorized to do business where it operates. So, the long and short of it is that new small companies can sponsor H-1B workers.
Agree and every topic they list is an entire discipline/career in itself!
Can someone knowledgeable in the past 20 years of NetBSD chime in how things developed from that point?
Vulkan "But Why?" FAQ
I honestly thought that Barnes & Noble didn't exist anymore. TIL.
It's a great book and very terrifying!
Never has.

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The V8 engine is written in C++ not JavaScript. Building high-level languages/tooling in lower-level system languages is a very common (and sensible) practice.
I like Rye but missed virtualenvwrapper's workon. So I made one: https://www.garyrobinson.net/2024/04/bourbon-like-virtualenv...
> All the alternatives I can think of are extremely time-intensive - you'd have to go back to everyone who already scanned in and check their id against their boarding pass. That would add significant delays in taking off, which could cost the airline a lot of money in ripple effects throughout the day and will certainly cost the gate agents a lot of hassle and ill-will from customers.

I've had to do exactly that before. Whole plane: deplane, re-scan boarding passes, re-board.

Somehow we had one too many people on the plane on a full flight, exactly like this scenario. Of course it was the one guy that was making so much noise about "who gonna get in trouble" and "this [is] like a reality show."
Curse the time limit on editing. Impossible for it to cause cancer. Not "cannot to cause". Ugh. Why does HN have that dumb time limit anyways?
So you think a List[Function[Unit]] all does the same thing?
Oh I absolutely interact with products that I'm not 100% aware of how they're made or packaged. I do try to limit this heavily though, especially when it comes to food and chemicals I put on my body like soaps and detergents.

I don't see it as a process of people having to know everything so they can opt out. As you said, that will never happen in such a complex society. Instead, people can focus much more on opting in when they do reasonably know they trust a product. That can't always be done for sure, but touching the door handle at a store is much less likely to have serious consequences than the food I eat every day.
Attend an industry conference and network until your feet are swollen, voice is gone, and you have a notebook filled with everyday problems.

Someone at your company probably knows the best conferences for your particular niche. Also, talk to the sales people in your company because they spend most of their workday talking to people in manufacturing.

Here's an example of an industry conference (3D printing / additive manufacturing): https://www.rapid3devent.com/
Show HN: I made a small website about the Monty Hall Problem
I learned about the Monty Hall Problem recently. I thought it was so interesting it inspired me to make this small interactive website about it.
> You really set up your development environment using microservices? How is this subject relevant to development environment setup?

If you are working on something that involves microservices then you might have several different projects with different development environment needs, all checked out locally. It doesn't mean you're "setting up your development environment" using microservices, it just means that's literally what you're developing.
Ahhhh... canadian nourishment, eh'guyz!
Orion is based on WebKit, not on Chromium. The Mac version of DuckDuckGo's browser is based on WebKit too.
Neural Net Using LEDs?
Has anyone created a neural net where the weights are expressed
as varying brightness of LEDs? That would make it interesting to
watch how the net learns and how it responds to queries.

When the net used 4 bit weights the LEDs would be in one of only
16 difference brightness levels.

Instead of LEDs, which would draw a lot of power for a 1M array,
it would be useful to use one of the huge screen TVs.

Even more interesting would be the ability to see how the various
"expert" subnets interact.
Your dryer may have screw terminals at the other end of the power cable: those are often sold separately and installed when you take delivery of the dryer, because there are multiple types of outlets your home could have for an electric dryer.
See related reply

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015029
Photoshop: The First Demo [video]
Maybe when the website itself doesn't actually have to make money, or even try, that could be one of the things that make it more worthwhile to visit.
What an excellent write-up. Very clearly explained, and the use of gifs and visuals to illustrate concepts was spot-on. I'm only a software engineer with a limited understanding of this field, but really enjoyed reading this and learned a lot. Well done and congrats on the PhD.
>If I save 60% on energy for heating every year but then require all the energy needed to build a new heat pump every 5-10 what am I really doing?

>As good quality as your normal store bought air conditioner. That is to say, as soon as something goes wrong with them, they are garbage.

Sounds like you're still saving 60% on energy because the status quo is also disposable appliances. It absolutely sounds better than nothing to me, but I am also hopeful for more maintainable and accessible heat pumps in the future. I haven't heard about any efforts for an open source heat pump, but I'm definitely interested in something like that myself
It’s true that there is nothing which should work in theory, and yet mostly does in practice.
Your grasp of personal information management under GDPR seems to be lacking, particularly regarding the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and what personal information are under GDPR. If you're operating within this jurisdiction, I would strongly recommend consulting with a GDPR expert. Non-compliance can lead to significant fines. Additionally, if this user were located in Europe, and he already sounds salty, were to report this to a privacy watchdog, there's a high likelihood it could result in a penalty. It might be beneficial to revisit GDPR guidelines to ensure compliance and avoid such risks.
The Internet Hasn't Gotten Worse: Just Your Outlook
And with more complex ballots with preferential numbering.

(Aside: it’s actually pencil and paper since pencils are more reliable. https://www.aec.gov.au/faqs/polling-place.htm#pencils)
I think 1 year is a lot of time in the industry for a blanket ban. If apple wants to get out of building a car but pivot into building AI (which is what they’re doing) or if a different company wants to reduce its sales and marketing footprint while increasing its dev efforts (a lot of tech companies are doing this), then these blanket bans are unreasonable and detrimental to everyone (customers, existing employees, shareholders including people’s retirement funds), including citizens.

However, say Apple fires 600 car engineers and then files for 400 H1Bs for 400 car engineering positions after 6 months, then they need to be held accountable. Which to a certain extent already happens. USCIS will often deny H1B petitions in such cases and green card processing (PERM certification part) is usually paused at a company level after significant layoffs. As of today Facebook and other tech companies that had significant layoffs last year, are not filing PERM applications for their current employees and they won’t for at least a year after the layoffs.
20% time was also killed by Google (even if not officially)
What strategy do you use for conflicts during the rebase of renovate_updates? (which most of the time would occur because you eagerly updated something on dev)?
GraphQL is one of the most annoying developer inventions ever made. I have never found a good use for GraphQL even at huge scale.

I'm sure Facebook has some use for it, but even then, you can still add filters with good ol' RESTful APIs.

And the fact that you can never just get back the entire response, you have to purposefully specify every item you want is beyond annoying for practical use.

It's useless added complexity. I wish it would go away. Unfortunately, technology ebbs and flows in hype cycles, where when something gets popular or is made by a giant technology corporation, the herd of developers and PMs and tech leads think they must follow suit. No one is asking "why are we doing this?" They want to look good by using the "latest tech" and are too timid and too inept to understand why adding shiny new technology to everything might not always make sense.

Luckily GraphQL is starting to go out of fashion. Now I have to deal with PMs wanting to add "AI" to everything. It's like trying to appease cattle.
If it glitches just ask for photo ID. Why add all the complexity and inconvenience of taking a photo of every passenger when they’re already all required to have photo ID?
You are right, banning foreign equipment in your telecoms are the sign of authoritarian regimes.

2020: Telecoms providers must stop installing Huawei equipment in the UK's 5G mobile network from September, the government has said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55124236
Or at least within your sphere of influence, e.g Mexico.
> questionable legalities

"Questionable" is an interesting euphemism for massive IP theft over many years.
> No need to install a separate VPN app. Once you sign up for Privacy Pro, you can install our VPN right in your DuckDuckGo browser

> we use the open-source WireGuard protocol

Any info on how that is implemented?

Did they build some plug-in, where a user can enter VPN details/credentials?

Asking since I'd love to have something, where I can add my own self-hosted VPN details to have browser only (not the whole machine) connected through VPN.
Tech stacks, languages, libraries come and go. No company has demand for more code. Employers want people who add value and solve problems. The software tools are incidental.

You find jobs with the same skills that have always worked:

- Good communication.

- Business domain expertise.

- Can solve problems and add business value.

- Understand software and infrastructure fundamentals.

- Work with legacy code.

- Relational databases and SQL.

- Effective right away.

I've seen demand for cloud infrastructure, system administration, and security expertise. Find a niche that doesn't attract a lot of people chasing the money with the same small toolbox.