skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your view on the E-2 visa for startup founders and likelihood of success (with an investment of ~50-100k for software business)?
Isn't it a problem of incentives? No one gets penalized if a lifesaving drug gets delayed, but heads will roll if an experimental drug turns out to have horrible side effects and/or financial costs - especially if the test subjects disproportionately belong to a politically-sensitive demographic.

Pandemics are an edge case: it's socially acceptable to violate political and ethical norms during an emergency.
It's trivial to remove yourself from Google search results if you have a Google account. People who don't want to do business with Google don't regard that as trivial, since Google asks for a ton of personal information during onboarding.
damn... world doesn't buys but takes..by force?
I almost feel like intuition tells you that. It literally looks like it can fold down flat. A regular truss bridge looks like a honeycomb, straining, but balanced.
What??

Then how the hell does it negotiate the power and know if it's attached to 3A or 5A?
We may have enough evidence to prove there is a change, but not how the change manifests itself?
This is not a "key architectural decision", it's a proposal for an informal standard on where/how to stick some metadata in an executable binary.
> How often have you read a headline, and then not clicked on the link? Probably a bunch.

How often did the news service that published that headline also break the story vs acquired it from AP or another wire service?

I pay for NYT, WSJ and local news because I want news companies to exist. But news companies have a huge anti-tech bias (because they compete for ad revenue). NYT explicitly had a "no good news on tech" policy for a while (still?). There is a missing business model for news because it's hard to monetize, and information is free. Society should figure this out, and establish its values - but trying to pretend that google search results (or Facebook posts) are the evil villain killing news instead of the free movement of information on the internet at large is naive.
Yeah, I know the forum dislikes LLM-posted comments but I thought it was a pretty good opportunity to show how it could improve human-to-human comms. I think if we'd like we could each get a lot more information extraction ability from the world with this new machinery.

We think about the technology as accelerating development of other stuff purely through generation: code, images, video, sound. But it could actually accelerate comprehension of text because in many cases its skill at teasing out value outstrips ours.

The future is bright!
PCIe p2p transactions that end up routed through the CPU's PCIe root complex still have performance advantages over split transactions using the CPU's DRAM as an intermediate buffer. Separate PCIe switches are not necessary except when the CPU doesn't support routing p2p transactions, which IIRC was not a problem on anything more mainstream than IBM POWER.
> Prior to the election the censorship was more or less 9:1 in favor of Lula. Who also happened to be the favored candidate of the supreme court judges.

Oh, yeah, most of them, the same judges that voted for keeping Lula jailed, forbade them of being liberated for attending to his brother's funeral... They really are Lula supporters...

But oh, one side of the election 20x more disinformation against ellections and committed much more irregularities, and they suffered 9x more penalties and condemnations... Really a very serious proof of biased judges...
Ask HN: What Happened to Noiselith
Hi folks.
Few month ago, I found a desktop local first software to generate image from prompts using my gpu. It's called noiselith. Today it has completely gone from what I can find on internet and I have no clues why. I think they were using open source image models like stable diffusion, so I don't really know why they disapeared.

Am I just not able to find where it is now? is there good alternatives (I don't find some and I am surprised), Is there some sort of legal issues with such kind of software ?

Thank you for any information about this.
You don't need a Google account. Googlebot respects robots.txt, as far as I know.
> Although Dugan, Shaffer, and other members say their union stewards on site helped press their concerns to management, they say that local and international IBEW officers who visited the facility scoffed at their concerns.

Why did their own union scoff at the safety concerns?
I love functional prop projects like this and reading through the build log.

How far are you going for the rugged vs prop aesthetic? Have you considered alternative form factor screens? Have you considered something else than an RPi that could work with a GPT/LLM such as an NVidia Jetson (yes, I know, expensive) or a separate compute module? Do you store just things like Wikipedia or a bunch of PDFs such as "Where there is no doctor?" and "Wilderness Survival Guide?" along with other disaster recovery books?

I missed this project the first couple of times it was posted so glad to see if pop up today.
Bad take. Do both. Nobody is pretending this will solve all issues. Its a step in the right direction. Both in terms of putting more units towards residents and discouraging people from speculating on the housing market by buying short-term rental properties.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014892
a) I like the language use. The title is punchy, and it makes you check it out just because you want to know what it means. Medieval hazards sticks with you.

b) there’s not a lot of money in being a commie journalist so this is probably some volunteer.

c) I live in Kentucky and had not heard about this.

d) re Kentucky, this place is wet
> Google didn't create all of that

No, they bought it in the form of Doubleclick, and its profits supported the rest of their money-losing business. If buying Doubleclick doesn't make you responsible for Doubleclick, I don't know what does.

People wouldn't tolerate the level of online ad blight we had 20 years ago, there are ad-blockers now; the reason Google isn't going buckwild with ads is because it can't.
Color me jaded, but isn't this just a typical dig on the US that also applies to businesses acting predictably in their best interests the world over?
These projects are awesome to see, there are similar efforts for everquest. Is anyone aware of anyone trying to create different clients/renderers for these MMOs? A VR client for any of these worlds would instantly be amazing.
Of course it will be different. It is different now than it was 10 years ago, even without AI, and it was another flavor of different 10 years before that. Jobs evolve. That doesn't mean that we should be advising people to not learn. Keep learning, and be comfortable adapting as things change.
As someone who's spend much of his winter designing and developing vehicle firmware update systems, all I can say is WTaF? Sure, you've probably got software going to a central ECU, and then firmware updating subcomponents, which might be disabled while the update's running, but this is just such a bad way to handle thing.
About 35 years ago. Found a commodore PET in the trash along the roadside. It came with a tape drive and a book of games written in BASIC. I took it home, tidied it up and then started learning from the book.
Whoops: WebDAV:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417503

SeaweedFS supports WebDAV. https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/wiki/WebDAV

I'm not able to find if both/restic supports mounting backups as WebDAV, but in theory there's nothing stopping you.

It's 100% user space (expose a rest service) and supported by a bunch of file-browsers with a bit of a network aware component to it as well.
New Florida law signed to prevent protection for workers from extreme heat
This movie looks really bad!

The AI rock-paper-scissors that Corridor made is probably the best full-AI movie I've seen. TCL should take a page from their book and make some good anime, trying to make it look realistic is totally uncanny valley.
You can't just make up new definitions of freedom, that's not what freedom is.
Mohs Hardness Scale
Well... the very first coding I did was on a Bally Arcade game console. One of the "games" you could get for it was a BASIC environment, so I'd run that and type in some BASIC programs from some book or magazine or whatever. I didn't actually go very far with that though, because there was no keyboard and you had to do all the typing by manipulating an on-screen keyboard with the game paddle thing. Which TBH, kinda sucked. Anyway, all of this was probably about 1988 or 1989 or thereabouts.

Fast forward to 1993 or so, I was at Brunswick Community College, and took an "Intro to programming logic" class and some other "Intro to Programming" class. I also built my first real PC (a 386DX/40 system with 1MB of RAM, which I later upgraded to a WHOPPING 4MB so I could run Borland C++). Anyway, I bought a copy of Herbert Schildt's book Teach Yourself C, downloaded a C compiler from some BBS (I didn't have Internet access yet at this time) and started learning to code in C. I consider this the real beginning of my programming education.

Fast forward to 1995 and I'm at UNC-W and taking another introductory level programming class, and it's about the first or second week of class and the instructor (Dr. Adhar) gives us some lab assignment to code in C. I code it up and wait as he's coming around checking on people. He gets to me, looks at my code, and in this awesome sing-song / rolling accent of his (I think he was from Pakistan or something like that) he goes "Aaaah, I see you be using techniques I no teach yet. Very good. Carry on." And it's been a continual process of learning more and more ever since.

I went from C, to C++, to Java, to Groovy, and mixed in splashes of Python, R, Octave, Kotlin, Prolog, LISP, etc. over the years. These days if I'm writing code it's usually either in Java, Python, or Groovy.
There are very vibrant, massive population private servers for-profit out there that have been around forever and seem to be doing just fine - see the Warmane project.
Which defense contractor is using a sub-10nm process node for products? Every F35 chip is >90nm.

Which adversary would these chips yield an advantage against in a nuclear war?

Domestic fab capacity is ramping up slowly because these facilities are multi-billion-dollar, multi-decade endeavors. Intel's existing domestic fabs can make everything a war-fighting nation could need, capacity and capability-wise.
Many ranches raise bison. And even deer.

Just because the population was wild then wouldn't have precluded ranching bison, or even cows.
William "Denny" Pate was the engineer who stamped the drawings. After the incident he says his wife accidentally put his phone through the laundry, so he couldn't provide his texts for evidence. Hmmmmmm.

https://www.enr.com/articles/47108-bridge-designer-testifies...
The outter layer wall that was added was wood studs, rock wool insulation, then wood siding. Looks great, no drafts, even temperature year round without having to run the heat-pump much. We also have an ERV to keep the air fresh in the house.
Does anyone have a source or confirmation that Google is doing what the article says?

If I search for journalism bill I get the politico article, and san francisco chronicle in the top stories list.
Can't tell from the web site or FAQ: what is the minimum macos version required? I'm stuck with Monterrey.
Compare the use of RLF's lines in Telefon (1977) as an example of The Paranoid Style in American Po^H^HCinema:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

[that said, The President's Analyst (1967) is a much better flick]
To me the root cause was they just could not see a way to inconvenience even one single driver ever. They had to grade separate pedestrians from cars over a freeway and a gigantic parking lot. Universities should be pedestrian focused.

The bridge could have been designed correctly. But the fundamental issue was the bridge didn't need to exist.
Is... that a residence?! In "Utopia, FL" (wow, what a place that must be!)
How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class – by Cory Doctorow
network effect for example: lots of advertisers are deeply integrated into google Ads infra.

But there is competition in this space.
I'm very surprised they didn't do this over a decade ago.
Disagree heartily. Banning AirBNB is about saying "these people don't deserve to stay here" which is the same attitude that says "we can't build housing or the wrong sort of person might get some" which is the core problem in Hawaii and other NIMBY areas.

The core land use conflict is: do only a tiny number of benighted souls get to the use the land, or does the land belong to all?
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that got confused about why someone made a movie about the programming language. And a machine-made love story at that!
It doesn't. The entirety of my comment is that they're representing the wrong thing.
ROCm is a whole ecosystem. HIP falls under ROCm.
Serfdom became the dominant form of relation between Russian peasants and nobility in 1649, and was abolished in 1861.

Ivan IV became the first Tsar in 1547.

Kievan Rus ceased to exist in ~1240.

>nothing has meaningfully changed

Khruschev was born to poor Russian peasants.
Brezhnev's father was a Ukrainian metalworker.

Nicholas II's cousin was King of Great Britain.
Catherine the Great's native language was German, with her cousin being King of Sweden.

Pretty sure a thing or two changed, and you're oversimplifying things.
It's probably a bigger problem that afaik #respond_to? will return true for an "abstract" method. Which is a bit awkward.
This is called a "strawman argument."

"Widespread criminal negligence" or not, these incidents are mathematically insignificant using highschool-level statistical analyses.
We should have the same for email.

But we don't. And while we don't, users have a reasonable expectation that they can send an email and the other person can read it.
Could you expand on this? Where is the line? What's work and what's business?
Hi, I entered USA with H4 visa as spouse (my wife owns an H1B), I have Italian passport. I understood that I cannot work on US soil with an H4 visa, even if it is for a foreign company. Hence, I requested and obtained ESTA. Now, shall I go out of the country and re-enter or else there is a way I can change my status without exiting the country?
Aliens must have built it. See? I told you.
Ask HN: Stripe or Ayden for collecting money from users and then distributing?
Do you need a money transmitter license to be able to create a bounty website with stripe and ayden:

- Collect $$$ from users who create a bounty

- Distribute it to multiple users who complete the bounty

I was using the Stripe Connect demo but that seems like its intended for a marketplace where users are selling items and clients directly buying from them (with platform taking a cut)

I'm looking for a much more simple and shorter onboarding for non-marketplace cases like bounty posting and payouts?

It just sucks having to onboard people with so much information where my users arent running a business in my case: Some users put up bounties for a problem fix and other users complete it for payout.
Wrote something similar a decade ago: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1359

Hope things have improved over that time.
Horrific, but salvageable. Put on a wide overhang flat roof, so rain no longer streaks down the wall, and wash/paint it. Then, it will just be a large no frills classroom building. Not great, but no longer offensive either.
Replace "calm" with "privately owned". Investors that aren't actually invested in the company for the long term are ruinous.
Yep, as I mentioned in another comment, the two-party system is not by law, but a side effect of a badly set up election scheme.

I wonder if it was the intention of the founding fathers, as they were all wealthy land owners. Would they have wanted the workers to be able to set up their own party to compete against them successfully?
DIY Wi-Fi thermostat from scratch with ESPHome and Home Assistant
To me that was obvious satire of the crypto scene.
I see with completely different eyes here. This is a sort of manifesto that tells me where the heart of the founders is.

It also inspired me to do better and look at my own company and myself as a fellow founder. I agree with almost everything he said and I'd like to see my company as being a "Calm Company" too. It's a great opportunity to measure my ideas against other's.

I wish more entrepreneurs would post like that, even if it's not 100% selfless. I think the trade off of getting more eye balls for sharing his vision is totally fair.

Time and again I keep seeing articles like this in HN and it's the reason I'm so addicted. It's such a good filter on all the chaotic crap it's out there.
Thank you for doing this! Is it hypothetically possible to switch jobs after your employer has filed for your H1-B (but before receiving approval from USCIS)? I've heard differing opinions online. I'm currently on the F1. I can potentially work for a very early startup that I'm excited by.

Thank you for doing this!
Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
Hey folks,

About a year ago my wife and I, both closing in on 40, quit our jobs at Red Hat to start a games company and learn game development. Many things happened along the road, and about a week ago we released our first (small) game on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2816120/Mazelit/

The demo is free to play up to level 8 (the final game plays up to level 80) and we'd appreciate any feedback you have, whether it's for the store page or the game itself.

We made the game in Godot 4.2 in roughly 3 months and I was working full time next to it. Since we ran into a bunch of roadblocks, we decided to also offer the entire source code up as a DLC in case someone wants to go look how we implemented the game, mod the game, or compile it for a different platform. The only thing we can't redistribute with the game code is the Steamworks SDK, which is available for download from Steam. (The game minus integration is fully runnable without the SDK, though.)

Cheers and happy weekend!
I see, it's slight and deliberate misrepresentation/under-presentation. Google did talk about it in https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-pres...

Specifically:

To prepare for possible CJPA implications, we are beginning a short-term test for a small percentage of California users. The testing process involves removing links to California news websites, potentially covered by CJPA, to measure the impact of the legislation on our product experience. Until there’s clarity on California’s regulatory environment, we’re also pausing further investments in the California news ecosystem, including new partnerships through Google News Showcase, our product and licensing program for news organizations, and planned expansions of the Google News Initiative.

You could of course say it's tit for tat, as this is also somewhat misrepresentation and misleading.
I hadn't read this far so went ahead and used it on Safari for iPadOS. Performed, scrolled, threaded, etc. smoothly enough I forgot it was a web page.
Sure, but that doesn't translate into people telling the truth online.

And to be clear, I'm not even talking about being intentionally dishonest. AdTech workers likely believe the pro-ad propaganda they spout because they have to in order to live with themselves.
To be honest, no. It does not look like a game 50k people would buy in early access to me. I would assume it has to be with some streamer playing his game [0].
Regarding your other question, I think that yes, you might have a high conception for what it takes to actually sell some games. Not to disparage on this other dev for example [1] because it sure looks like the games are well polished, but these games definitely look very unappealing to me and I'm pretty sure a lot of people as well. IIRC he talks about how people really have a fondness for specific topics in games and how one can leverage that.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16p3v95/an_unexpec...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmwbYl6f11c
You have more pictures on the Norwegian Wikipedia page: https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tretten_bru#/media/Fil%3ATre...

The old one wasn’t wide while the new one had two lanes and a normal sized sidewalk.
They did on Oahu, for most places outside Waikiki.
"Silencing" in this case means following the law. Brazilian law allows content to be removed from Internet in case of crimes, hate speech, unbased defamation and for benefit of ongoing criminal investigation.

Given that recently Bolsonaro supporters tried a failed coup and that the former president actively was trying to keep himself in power with fraud, but this failed, it is very strange saying that "biggest risk to democracy in Brazil is the supreme court". Here in Brazil these arguments come from the far right Bolsonaro supporters, that indeed are making a lot of noise, but they are the same ones that supported the coup attempt and supported the past military dictatorship in the country. Their objective with this discourse is showing political strength to avoid criminal investigation and condemnation for Bolsonaro coup attempt.
To some people that's what StumpWM offers, and easy molding is what attracted me to IceWM back in the day.

I'm more of a 'install i3wm, change a few things in the config, done' kind of person these days.
It also explains why people have it out for him.
Are you seriously proposing that we do not have enough economic capacity to build the most basic life necessity of life, housing?

As Keynes said: is we can do it, we can afford it. We can build more housing.
The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star
Calabi–Yau Manifold
Kind of. I should have thought the engineers involved would have been good enough to design a bridge that would have lasted more than a decade, even if the regulations weren't as rigorous.
I err on the side of making grammar suggestions anyway, because my foreign friends seem to appreciate it.

I think they're especially helpful in this case. Grammar mistakes on a language learning app may undercut someone's confidence in what the app is teaching.
The article directly says the opposite, and reinforces what GP comment was saying about the union not being helpful:

> Although Dugan, Shaffer, and other members say their union stewards on site helped press their concerns to management, they say that local and international IBEW officers who visited the facility scoffed at their concerns. Dugan says a local officer refused to file a grievance on his behalf about the mold in January. One worker requested to stay anonymous out of concern that union officials might withhold his future job placements if he spoke out.
Which is cool and solved many challenges for me in the past. But nowadays you have WSL2, modern windows builds that support graphical apps from WSL2 (you can just run Firefox in WSL on win11 and it will just display it) by default and excellent integration in VScode for instance.

It makes it the need for such tool narrower each day.

A proper terminal and decent openssh client config file does a wonderful job. It allows all kind of customisation per server/group/wildcard like custom user, aliases, injecting any connection options.
Where does Christ's teachings tell people to do those things?
Fighting Alert Fatigue
House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program
Apparently TCL is a media company? I was wondering why a niche programming language was getting into AI generated movies...

The trailer looks so bad, so aesthetically and technically artless, that I'm afraid it might actually be cognitohazard. Just having seen it may have damaged by brain like prion disease. And this is what everything, everywhere, is going to be like soon? This is the future?

Kaczynski was right - we need to burn it all down.