skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in the F1 + OPT category (second category from above) are really the most unjustly treated by the current process.

Oftentimes, these are people who have come to the US aged 18, lived here through a four-year college degree, maybe a masters; have subsequently been employed for up to two years (for STEM grads) for their OPT; and then have to compete on a like-for-like basis with candidates who are living abroad.

It's ridiculous. You've spent your entire adult life in the US and you have to participate in a lottery to keep your job.
It might be my naiveity, but, shouldn’t highly-skilled and in-demand professions be the highly valued ones? Something’s gone terribly wrong if there’s few teachers, it’s hard to get new teachers, but the price of teachers remains the same. It makes no sense from a labor standpoint.
Once again, missing the point of unit testing. Unit testing is about improving the design of the software, and allowing the design to evolve through refactoring (which is effectively impossible without unit testing). E2E or integration tests are for catching bugs
"in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name"

What is there to misunderstand?
Is this the same guy that hacked the PS3?
I automated renovate PR into its own branch. Then twice a month I automatically create a PR through GitHub actions for me to review all changes at once.

I also added a cooldown period that Renovate should only add updates that are out for at least 14 days.
You really set up your development environment using microservices? How is this subject relevant to development environment setup?

If you are interested in my job history: it includes two of the top-ten largest US s/w companies. My area of expertise is storage (more in the direction of SDS as this was a fashion when I got into this field) and more recently HPC. I'm less familiar with the aspects of modern programming s.a. making Web sites for example, and somehow, I have a feeling that programmers who make Web sites really like talking about microservices. So, maybe this will explain my lack of understanding of how you set up your development environment using microservies.
I am surprised that nobody mentioned Kagi Maps so far. To me this is the largest waste of energy possible, building an Apple/Google Maps competitor is a project too ambitious and time consuming for a 12 person company which is also developing a search engine (and a browser, and AI assistants, etc.). Kagi should nail their search engine first and only then start side projects like that.
Your unit tests should be contravariant to the code its testing so that way your code can be refactored and your existing unit tests can be used AS-IS to test the refactored code.

The Fragile Test Problem arises when your unit tests are covariant to the code its testing, such that a significant refactor breaks the tests - not because the code is necessarily wrong, but the structure of the code is no longer what the unit test was expecting.
Eh, a founder that effectively says 'we don't care if we give away the identity of our users if they are criminals' is not totally in line with my definition of an organization focused on privacy.

At least not a definition of privacy I really care about.

It's very Mark Zuckerberg 2004.
"You are going to be blue checked and you are going to like it!"
It is very hard to build a browser from scratch. Yes Orion is still in beta and buggy, but there are hundreds of people who paid $150 for a lifetime license for this browser, which makes me hopeful that there is a space for a browser we pay for and is built with users' best interest in mind. That is incredibly important for Kagi's mission.
My neighbour has a heat pump and it's kind of annoying when running because the 180hz hum is audible in most of the rooms in my house. This in the UK and our houses are detached, but fairly closely spaced.
And? IRC offers me the lack of bloat I prefer, it lacks the features they want, but I specifically want to merely be modules and plugins that you can opt out of if you don't want the overhead of having to bother with them. It also offers me access to the bots that enable me to get out in front and join the BitTorrent swarm early so that I actually build ratio on private bit torrent trackers. The whole problem with discord's approach is that if I disagree with the preferences of these users, I cannot meaningfully opt out. Discord is just one big blob of features and if you want to strip out unwanted ones you can't because it's a complete package.
I wish management knew this... It's a nightmare when some manager that hasn't coded in years thinks it's a good idea to push unit testing into the CI builds so that it fails if it doesn't meet code coverage criteria etc.
I scrolled through more of this than I was expecting to and listened to several of the songs. Very well done. The writing and imagery really pulled me in.
They want to be able to control-direct the narratives that people see - where if they can't fully control it, as part of the censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus Facebook is party to toeing the line for - they will try to get ahead of the wave and inject what they can.

If you know you're beginning to lose control then having people use the "wild west" that is more disordered makes it easier to flood to prevent truths from surfacing as easily or in as high of a concentration, being able to add noise vs. people learning to associate with and use more truth-seeking systems - something like Community Notes being a good start for this.
There are wealthy people on both sides of the equation. The braindead mouthbreather contingent is much larger on one side of the spectrum.
JetBlue is not priced like a low cost carrier, their service over all is much better than United’s and they don’t charge for wifi. I’m a fan of their SFO <-> NY/FLL routes.
a 2019 mbp runs on intel though? it has massive power draw. that’s why you get 2 hours of battery life
When I was traveling in the "third world", I noticed that although it was bad to be poor in those countries, it was often very good to be rich.

The Old Country has a similar vibe, and I think (in any country) the young are far more likely to be (economically if not culturally) poor than rich.
When Is a Side Hustle Worth It?
Amazon adds AI heavyweight Andrew Ng to board of directors
> We're told some consultancies tap up foreigners to work for clients illegally using the identities of legit citizens or green card holders.

"That's where the true scam is and the real money is at,"

If they are really doing this. It’s outrageous. And out right illegal.
Yeah I've heard a joke phrased a few different ways like "you only master your first language when you learn your second one." It's a common experience.
What we need to take away from the XZ Backdoor
I prefer "mixed" > "paper" > "electronic", but a few year ago we had elections with only "paper" in our national soccer association:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Football_Association

> With 75 presidents of different Argentine clubs voting, on election day something went wrong when the final count resulted in a draw of 38 to 38 (76 votes in total). The explanation given was that one of the electors put a double vote and that mistake was not reported. As a result, the executive committee decided to postpone the election.
the miniLED on the 14” and 16” is honestly better for laptop purposes anyway
> is mostly related to website information, not PHI or PII

If you are looking for an oncologist or abortions or whatever else, that's PHI. We know well that the industry has profiles on Americans and probably can identify you.
You seem to assume IPv4aaS implies charging for access to IPv4. That's not the case here. (...And where did you get the impression?)

The term is hinging more on the on-demand aspect of "X as a Service".

To use an analogy, IPv4 was like the harddrive of a computer. Removing it rendered the computer inoperable. But nowadays some ISPs are moving towards an IPv6-only core (much like how modern PCs are moving towards solid-state drivers) and IPv4, becoming IPv4aaS, (like the HDD becoming an external HDD) is no longer an integral part of the ISP network.

IPv4aaS simply means that: IPv4 is now removable.

We haven't removed IPv4 because right now, the HDD still contains a lot of stuffs so although unplugging it does not render the computer inoperable, it'll still create a giant headache. That's the on-demand part of IPv4aaS. Doesn't mean it'll be plugged in forever, and don't expect it to be when half of the Internet is already on this analogical SSD.
Yes, that's him.
My parents have always had an "outdoor fridge" that is a stainless steel equipment box that my dad salvaged from the junk pile at work. They put food in there that is less prone to spoiling, and use it through the fall/winter/spring months.
A really beautiful design, from back when HP still did world-class engineering. I can still recall being blown away by the 64-way Assist Cache - which was just about a "Santa Claus and magic" cure for cache thrashing.
Privatizing and moving to for-profit hospitals has been a boon for PE. All this attention on patient outcomes is just slowing down the inevitable transition. /s
From my observation the number of highly qualified H1Bs is a small share of the total number. Most are average or below average that are held captive by Infosys and friends.
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Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

Please read guidelines link at bottom of page. So many of your past comments are simple anti-capitalist opinions that are not gratifying intellectual curiosity. Not a mod: just hoping for better discourse here.
When I tried it with Elixir around a year ago, it was pretty bad. Issues seemed to be caused by the fact that it parses the lockfile format, which is in Elixir, with Javascript. Dependabot doesn't have issues that (can) stem from that because it parses with Elixir code (so it doesn't have to reinvent reading Elixir maps).
I wonder if there is some isolation dampers that could be added to the mounts (sounds fancy, but think rubber or silicon grommets).
https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...
Yes, and?

I'm of the opinion empathy and consideration is finite, so when you spread it to larger and larger collections of people it becomes too diffuse, and the ones most closest to us (friends, loved ones, people in the community, etc.) do not receive it sufficiently.

Likewise, none of us are in any position to do anything at all about this issue, but armchair theorize and feel moved by it for a few minutes -- as well as have our perception of the world tilted negatively (for what purpose?).

I should really go for a walk, instead of absorbing this junk food.
> programs that pay £3 per kWh reduced demand.

That much? How do I get in on that?

My energy supplier's demand reduction scheme only pays £10/month total.
Paints and Pesticides Linked to ALS Risk
You'll never find a developer on casino slot machines.
I don't know exactly what success looks like in social networking and comms. I suspect it looks a lot less like Facebook/Instagram, and a lot more like WhatsApp/Telegram, anecdotally, I enjoy chatting with friends and family on WhatsApp because the conversation is the whole product. I enjoyed Path too when it was around, although never got enough of my family on it for it to properly stick.

The problem with social networking is that the only viable business model so far has been ads, and without the high-intent you get from (e.g.) search engines, you have to instead optimised for engagement and keeping people around to make it up in volume of ad delivery. At least with services the revenue isn't ads based, or is less so. There are some things in the middle like Netflix/Spotify who want you to consume more, and have some ads, but I suspect most people don't want to reduce their music listening, and are happy enough with the amount of TV they watch (at least relative to social networking where I think it's very common for people to want to consume less).
I agree wholeheartedly, and sorry about losing your sister. It's too bad we won't see the results of Florida's new law for several years to come.
Maybe a little off topic, but regarding Orion: Can someone explain to me why every search engine feel like they need to build their own browser, and by build I mean jiggle the handles on Chromium a bit?

It seems pointless. I can sort of see why Microsoft would do it, but that's Microsoft wanting a modern browser for their operating system, not DuckDuckGo, Kagi or Ecosia wanting a browser for their search box.

Why this is pretty much just a weird rant about Kagi, I do agree with the questioning of the investment in maintaining a browser.
FSRS is one of the most accurate spaced repetition algorithms in the world
You can watch this happen on the weekends, typically, sometimes, for some very long sessions, sometimes. https://www.twitch.tv/georgehotz
Video game devotees are much more likely to be working-class than middle-class
> I have no trouble saying what I think online

Well, sure, you're just dealing with software. What trouble could there be?

The problem with the 'Redditization' of the world is that people fail to recognize that software and people are not the same thing, and start treating people as if they are software. That leads to social issues, just as treating people as if they were dogs leads to social issues.

And here we have proof positive of this happening: You weren't even able to recognize that the world and the internet are not the same place.
It is important, and I thought it'd be amazing. So then take it seriously. If you need more funding then find a better pricing model. But it is a shame that a project so attractive feels like it's abandoned.
'Made for Advertising' Websites Are the Industry's Latest Messy Situation
This is actually becoming an important point. In parts of the world where energy ratings matter, they have an impact on house value as well. They unlock incentives, etc. A house that is up to modern standards is simply worth more because any new owner does not have to do expensive renovations to modernize. In the Netherlands house flipping is pretty common. Buy something old, modernize it, live in it a few years and make a profit. The lower energy cost is both a nice bonus and a key selling point.
Why Panning and Zooming in a Web App Can't Be Perfect
I read this a few times and am really struggling to see how this scam works out.

Crudely speaking, are these agencies just finding existing green card holders and American citizens with names that they can use to put down on paperwork…then hire the foreign worker who happens to have have the same name…and this somehow bypasses some sort of legal checks somewhere? What’s the point of a SSN?
It would be silly not to first ask your interpretation, given that you are a college student.

Since this is about quantum computing, real world effects are very likely to be none except an exorbitant amount of grant money.
Turns out the tiles showed up always, but couple minutes later.
Yes - but why do it is the main point?

Why not focus on doing one thing properly?

Although you seem to obviously be attracting enough money so it's up to you how to spend/burn it :)
> Good luck getting answers on those questions other than "read the source code" and then followed by "no, not that source code, this branch here".

I experienced a similar situation last week with git-hooks.nix[1], a pre-commit integration for Nix.

I wanted to run biome[2] checks on my repository during pre-push so I wrote a custom hook because git-hooks.nix has pre-defined integrations with prettier and rome, but not biome.

Or that's what I thought. I eventually found out that the rome hook is actually referred as "rome" everywhere but calls biome instead[3]. This wasn't documented anywhere, so I opened an issue[4] suggesting to rename the hook to "biome" and keep the former for backwards compatibility reasons.

As of today, this has been acknowledged by one of the maintainers, whose sole feedback has been to "thumb down" the issue.

TL;DR: It's not just the documentation, but also the code not doing what you would expect. It also seems there's no means to improve the situation other than just forking the project since there's also clearly some kind of communication problem.

[1] https://github.com/cachix/git-hooks.nix
[2] https://biomejs.dev/
[3] https://github.com/cachix/git-hooks.nix/blob/40e6053ecb65fcb...
[4] https://github.com/cachix/git-hooks.nix/issues/428
DDG was certainly privacy oriented, but for various reasons in recent years I was not able to maintain conviction on the alignment of revenue sources / financial incentives with that mission. (It's still the one I set any time I help someone with their machine, unless they're willing to pay, then it's been kagi.)

The latest all-in-one privacy subscription may be a course correction to have more revenue directly from those who care about their own privacy, to better align the incentives.
I get where he's coming from, but I don't really find those arguments to be a huge problem. Probably because my "ideal" search engine doesn't exist. I have to choose out of the offerings on the market, and Kagi is the least objectionable of them for me.

In terms of letting me find what I'm looking for, Kagi is the best search engine I've tried. At worst, it's no less "private" than the alternatives.

The AI stuff is irrelevant to me until it starts degrading the search results I get. I just ignore their AI-related features. No big deal, and certainly no worse than others.

All the other criticisms (t-shirts, etc.) don't matter at all to me. What matters is search quality.
>Original Research: The findings will be presented at the 32nd European Congress of Psychiatry [April 6-9, 2024]
What do you mean by that exactly and why would it be 'dynamic programming' ?
Have you ever monitored the air quality levels in various rooms?

Curious if getting rid of those drafts may be unknowingly affecting your health in other areas.
They work okay in my area for -1C to 46C, imagine for your range maybe you just get a model that has improved heating over a basic one, whether that means ground source, more stages, or a heating element.
> unless they are criminals, in which case we don't care they don't have full anonymity (nor we want them as customers)

People helping other people escape slavery were criminals.
With this sort of work let the HVAC guys do the research for you. Call 3 of them get quotes. Then research what they are offering. Pick the one you like. Last time I did this around 2008 it was about 5k-15k I was quoted. I asked all 3 for a small, medium and large systems. For me it was mostly an in place replacement. The ducts were already there. The refrigerant lines were all ready in place. The biggest cost was the unit themselves and some change out of the controllers. The labor was about 1 days worth of work for 4 guys.

You can also gain quite a bit by just fixing drafts and putting in proper insulation. Which can be much cheaper to do. I also had the guys go thru and fix an leaks in the duct system. That way the air was coming out where it should. It is amazing how badly that is installed many times. I also had them put in an attic fan which vented the attic when it got to about 110F. Insulation would have helped more there and I screwed up and put it off. If your house is older than 2000. I say go thru and review the existing insulation and look for drafts first.

It trimmed my bill from about 350 a month to 200. My new house has excellent insulation the house is slightly bigger and the power bill is in the 80-150 range (less because I got solar, but I figured out the actual cost anyway). It has one unit and an air valve to switch between the floors. So the total cost is lower but the one unit will run longer. That savings I am getting is mostly because of better insulation.
I just started using devbox for basically the same thing yesterday. Its very easy to work with. Any particular reason why devenv won for you?
I wonder if Niantic would ever open up some API's to gamify this by tying it into Pokémon Go.
Why do they all keep saying H1-B workers are underpaid? The government determines minimum pay for each application. My experience has been that this number is quite high.
Because no one involved in the policy making cares about what’s actually best for the people involved. It’s money all the way down.
But it was working already - the alternatives then were

- landline

- landline + cell coverage in certain locations

For most people a "regular" cell phone was not an option at all. So this hybrid landline phone could have incrementally gained traction and out competed analog cell phones, but for a tiny watershed moment in history.

Also, this digital handset was light. Pretty cool tech. I think dense places like Singapore and Hong Kong could have ran with this tech.
Indeed, and one of the best advertising campaigns I can remember even though their claims of a wire-free future were somewhat optimistic.
I have this outdoor unit https://cooperandhunter.us/product/ch-hyp36lcuo. This past winter the temperature dipped into -20C (-11F), had no issues maintaining temperature in the low 70s in the house. I was running them in heat pump only mode (resistive strips were not used).

In the summer our temperature regularly reaches into 90s (above 30C) and the house is very comfortable on those days as well with the same heat pumps
If you need an abortion or IVF, you don't need a second passport and definitely not a private jet.

You just need 10 mins worth of googling and a regular airplane ticket to one of the many places that will perform those procedures on foreigners.

People are crossing the border every day to get crazy dangerous esthethic surgeries in Tijuana.

I'm more worried about living in a country where 50% of the citizens hate the other 50%, where the media keeps pushing everyone to hate even more. That has been the downfall of many countries. It has real potential to make life very difficult fast, especially if you have kids.
SaveChandra (X-Ray Observatory)
Depends on the installer. A lot of noise results from units that are not properly mounted or mounted at a slight engine. The fan then starts getting more noisy and wears out earlier. There are other problems to not installing units properly.
That's 50k if you already know the exact architecture you're going to use, and the exact training data you're going to use, and nail it all on the first try. Multiply that by however many failed attempts it takes while experimenting with new ideas, especially when the corporate players stop being so eager to publish the finer details of their research, and that 50k could very quickly turn into millions.
UK competition watchdog has 'real concerns' over big tech AI dominance
Sort of.

An imperfect analogy: a small neighborhood of ~15 houses is under construction. Normally it might have a 200kva transformer sitting at the corner, which provides appropriate power from the grid.

But there is a transformer shortage, so the contractor installs a commercial grade 1250kva transformer. It can power many more houses than required, so it's operating way under capacity.

One day, a resident decides he wants to start a massive grow farm, and figures out how to activate that extra transformer capacity just for his house. That "activation" is what geohot found
I know from inside that quite a few tech companies already have some form of this. A paid version of ChatGPT for internal use where they have a legal agreement with OpenAI not to ingest the data put into the app by employees or the data which is RAG'd so that the internal version of the app for enterprise employees isn't leaking confidential data to OAI & MS
That’s just bad data storytelling. What’s more likely, that these people were planning extravagant vacations that they had to cancel? Or that they simply cannot afford vacations, and when asked if they “skipped” vacations “for monthly costs” they said yes.