skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each integration is supported as both a source and a destination. So you can have two one-way syncs set up between systems A and B, thus moving data in two directions.
Musk: "We want our customers to be hard-core just like we are, so the Model Y will now be a home-assemble model."
Disclaimer: I'm an immigrant on a restrictive visa, so obvious conflict of interest.

The harshness of the US immigration system has little to do with how easy/hard it is to let people in. The issues arise with how restrictive the visas are, once you get in.

> He adds Google employees have often had to leave the US while waiting for the PERM process to finish and for their green cards to be approved.

This is clearly meant to point toward Indians and Chinese. Waiting 50+ years for a green card betrays the intentions of the legislation and creates uncecessary misery for everyone involved.

Bringing top AI talent to the US is easy. Do a masters, pay the $100k entry-fee to the university and get your 3 year permission to work in the US. But that's where the process becomes an anxiety inducing mess. First you have to win a 'lottery' with a 30% success rate. Then, you have to go through a 2-ish year long process through mountains of paper work to do your Green Card application. Then wait one more year to get an acknolwedgement (I-140), which puts you in a 50+ year long queue.

Now, if you want to make a minor change in job role, location, company, start a startup....doesn't matter. Do this expensive process all over again. Oh yeah, did I mention that the embassy stamping officer, the airport agent, the application form evaluator and your employer can arbitrarily drop you any day ? Now, that's fine if I'm 25 and single. But, one day I'll be 40 with kids, still on this stupid H1b/Greencard-queue and my life can get uprooted overnight.

It is the an all-too-literal instance of golden handcuffs.

If you want immigrants, then let in immigrants. If you want fewer immigrants, then then let in fewer immigrants. If you want better immigrants, then raise the bar. If you want temporary workers, then make it impossible for H1b folks to apply to greencards. All are sensible approaches. But the US system lures you in with the promise of a better life, and uniquely screws you over if you just so happen to be Indian.

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All that being said, the tech market clearly has too many unemployed citizens as of 2024. I am suspicious of more immigration being the answer. I know people from top-10 CS universities graduating with no jobs. If Google is so desperate, then lower your bar to 2020-era levels, and train up these junior engineers to your required level of competence. If Google wants true experts, then the O1 already exists.

I'm lucky enough to be considered 'senior' (whatever that means in tech) technical person now. And I thank my lucky stars for it. This is the most brutal 'junior' market that I have seen since the early-2010s.
Where do you get the data to make the claim about the first generation immigrants. People like Sam Altman were born in Chicago. A great deal of AI research began in the US in the 1970s. What have the US colleges been doing since then?
My mother cleaned people's houses in the US for to help defray living costs while going through medical school.

It's not anywhere near as common of a job in the US as in SE Asia, but it's not at all unheard of in larger cities.
Depends in which country you drive. Germany has still 2G enabled (at least for some networks) while they removed 3G. Other countries did the opposite, but many European countries will still have 2G or 3G for a few years.
its his money.
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ld-decode is such a fascinating piece of software
> It will take some time to get there and when it does it will destroy the retirements of those Tesla stockholders most active on Twitter.

Well at least there’s that silver lining: a lot less noise in the EV space on YouTube.
> tech companies were started by Europeans moving to the UK

That's true. The UK relatively speaking isn't as bad as some parts of Europe so if you're operating a business serving European customers and there's a need / reason to operate in Europe for regulatory reasons the UK (well London) is probably one of the more attractive places to have your office – especially if you're doing some kind of fintech startup (pre-Brexit anyway).
SpaceX vet's startup Portal Space Systems comes out of stealth mode
EB-5 is investment only and not related to skills, isn't it? So the applicant themselves would need to have significant savings to plough back into the US economy to qualify for this visa? They aren't tied to a company but do need significant capital.
Isn't LEO _literally_ crowded? I thought space junk was a real concern at this point, and a bunch of other crappy LEO satellite launches will exacerbate this

https://www.nasa.gov/headquarters/library/find/bibliographie...
Einstein Probe X-ray telescope releases first images taken with 'lobster vision'
The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
I think "no tech giants" is really a shorthand for "all the tech we use is non-European".

All the websites, operating systems, devices, device components etc.

Another effect of this is that the workforce doesn't grow to gain (the tech) skills to build such products.
I'm certain they are going this way because: People on Visa's are less likely to protest or join labor unions.
There are backups (mostly). To be safe, they picked a restore date before the suspected initial entry date. This is a few weeks before the final attack. Change Healthcare is sanitizing the attacked servers, then migrating data over to the new servers to avoid losing data.
*in Shanghai

Just a quick clarification in case anyone breezes past the article.
Which is based not on your ability to produce value, but your ability to capture value and charge a cut of every unit, and is thus a massive disincentive to produce public goods.
Yes, but LD was nearly twice the resolution:

> LaserDisc had several advantages over VHS. It featured a far sharper picture with a horizontal resolution of 425 television lines (TVL) for NTSC and 440 TVL for PAL discs, while VHS featured only 240 TVL with NTSC.

Even still, there is no arguing that Laser Discs looked comically large and are an awkward dimension compared to VHS tapes.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQs29ra...
Their search is ad-riddled with subpar results. I think a lot of people are looking for alternatives.
Perhaps tires can be made less toxic, but over all, we need to prioritize driving less.

WFH means I put barely 3000 miles per year on my car. It's absurd we are not aggressively promoting WFH or hybrid WFH at the national level. It's the easiest win for the environment and it's right there for the taking.
Was he previously living in the lab, that doesn't seem good when studying human pathogens.
Especially after Brexit.
Right? Even if they did somehow take over all traditional carmakers, the margins on those businesses suck. It’d just scale a shitty business (making cars).
And your ability to not get the value of your labour taken advantage of by entities with leverage, resources, and information vastly superior in all ways to your own position.
> Freedom of speech is a protection from the government

No, that is the First Amendment. Freedom of speech is a much larger concept.
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I find that to be a clickbaity headline, something I was not expecting from Nature.

When I read it, I figured his life was destroyed, he had no money,
he lost his home and was begging and living on the street.

Whereas the article seems to indicate that he was doing it as a protest,
and as the article progresses it appears that his protest has yielded
positive results.
Cultural Arbitrage: The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste
Google urges US to update immigration rules to attract more cheap AI talent

Fixed it for Google.
Don't be so literal, it's a weak contribution. I think OP's sentiment is clearly along the lines of "disproportionate little value to humanity in regard to their economic power".
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(Polytomic co-founder)

Haha! I’ve been in this market for over ten years now. The term ‘CDP’ is notoriously ill-defined.

More generally, we move data in all directions, rETL is just one part amongst many others.
This sort of risk analysis is always baffling to me. I live in a big city. It feels like there is some near miss collision to me almost every week. 99.99% of the time it's because of human drivers, not automated systems.

It's virtually guaranteed that in your lifetime you'll have a collision or near miss with a human. And no, it doesn't take "special conditions", it could be a perfectly sunny day and a clear road and someone will do something crazy.

So that's what we put up with on a daily basis, deep threats to human life by human drivers, our safety standards on letting humans drive so low as to be utterly comical. And yet all the handwringing is done over incredibly rare situations where an AI system screws up and its human driver also screws up at oversight.
Kmyth is a simple API for encrypting with the TPM
Oh i didn't mean it (or anything i said) to be proof.
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>weaker university rankings

Really? As far as I know, the most authoritative ranking in academia is the Shanghai ranking[0], where, apart from outliners in the US with gigabudgets, most of the top are made up of European universities.
The top looks rather like that, except for a “bunch” of mega popular US universities, the rest are quite mediocre.

[0]: https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2023
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I am really not looking forward to systemd taking over another part of the system with how unpolished and flaky their replacements usually are.

Anyway, I have been using doas instead of sudo for a while on servers, it’s rock solid if you don’t need some of the more advanced features of sudo.
Yes, around the world electric freight locomotives are powered by overhead lines, and more occasionally by a third rail. It is a mature technology and the US is an exception among industrialized countries (China, all of Europe, Russia, Australia, Japan, etc) in that they use only diesel for freight.
Well, that was H. Beam Piper's premise in his "Terro Human Future" and "Paratime" stories --- see the wonderful novella "Omnilingual" and see the story "Genesis":

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18105
Sky-High Depreciation and Repair Bills Force Hertz to Sell 30k EVs
Teenage Engineering aren't the ones who would be acquired, they just did the industrial design work on contract for Rabbit. The same way TE designed the Playdate but it's not a TE product.
Not the right company, you're looking at the holding. Volvo Cars is 78.7% Geely...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Cars
Deepest Blue Hole in the World Discovered. Scientists Still Haven't Found Bottom
Geely owns 78.7% of Volvo Cars. Their ownership of semi truck / marine engine / ... divisions is irrelevant.
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Ironically the Governor of Texas hates Austin because he (knowingly, he was AG at the time) chopped down a row of Austins very coveted pecan/cedar/heritage trees which is a huge deal to Austinites who love and value the ecosystem of their city, and was sued.

And he has been trying to get the ordinance repealed for years.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2017/06/13/gov-greg-abb...

Austin also has to protect its Aquafier, which has been under constant attack for decades.

https://www.texastribune.org/2013/11/10/drought-abbott-keeps...

Austin has been under attack by out-of-city politicians for its entire existence. It goes back to the 1800s.

Anything Austin does, the State tries to negate.

> In January 2015, a few weeks before taking office as governor and four months before selling his Central Austin home, Abbott blasted tree ordinances as part of the “patchwork quilt” of local bans hurting the state.

> “Texas is being Californianized and you may not even be noticing it,” Abbott told a 2015 conference hosted by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, an influential think tank. “It’s being done at the city level with bag bans, fracking bans, tree-cutting bans. We’re forming a patchwork quilt of bans and rules and regulations that is eroding the Texas model.”
In college, I read all of the New York Trilogy at a coffee shop in one sitting, and it left me bent for the rest of the day. Good times. RIP.
Xi's armada is winning the battle for energy in South China Sea
To save folks the search query:

ld-decode - https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode

Also worth mentioning the fork, vhs-decode - https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode which was discussed here previously.

VHS-Decode – Software defined VHS decoder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942490 - September, 2022 (81 comments)

Edit: Thank you @LocalH for the link typo correction.
> Personally I think they're a distraction from the fact most cars today get the same horrible mileage they did 20 years ago.

You can't fight physics. A gas-powered sedan weighed down by all the modern safety requirements can only get ~43mpg on the highway.

A hybrid boosts this to ~55mpg and also greatly improves city efficiency.

Above those numbers, you're looking at engines that are severely underpowered (1.0 liters) or is more EV than gas car.

> I personally think it's because vehicle manufacturers have spent the last ~20 years not really improving the core vehicle at all, and instead convincing people that massage seats and car play are actually important.

Well, yes. To please the American consumerist mindset, you have to keep inventing new features even if the new feature is a complete gimmick or just a subscription, or taking out physical buttons (e.g. all strictly negatives).

> If someone made a car that was comfortable, easy to drive, had plenty of storage and was super cheap to drive (like 3l/100km / ~70 US MPG) I'd be all over it.

At that point why not just wish for a magic horse that flies or something. 70 MPG is an EV number. You'll never get a gas car that gets that mileage.
Sam Altman does not have an AI background. OpenAI exists because of Ilya Sutskever. Anthropic's founders (Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei) are immigrants, as is Clément Delangue (HuggingFace), Aidan Gomez (Cohere) and upwards of 70% of new AI startups in the country. And Jensen Huang, Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy, Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Shane Legg and pretty much the entire list of who's who in AI today. Demis Hassabis and a good chunk of his DeepMind team is British. Elon Musk himself would likely not have been able to clear the immigration process had he shown up to the country today. Despite what people here like to believe, the USA doesn't have a monopoly on talent. It has always relied on immigration to maintain supremacy.

As for the "what have US colleges been doing" question – take a look at the nationalities of research departments at any major university in the country. The smartest people come here from all over the world to study, and are now promptly sent home with all the knowledge they gained because we don't let them put that knowledge to work here.
Ask HN: Building a GoFundMe for Legal and Medical Funds for Protesters
Hi HN community,

I'm exploring the idea of creating a crowdfunding platform specifically designed to support protesters with legal and medical funds. This platform would focus on transparency, privacy, and partnerships with legal and medical professionals to ensure protesters are supported without compromising their safety.

The goal is to provide a reliable and secure way to fund legal defenses and medical treatments for those engaging in peaceful protests. I'm particularly interested in insights on:

1) The legal considerations for such a platform.
2) Tech recommendations for secure and private fund management.
3) Any potential ethical concerns.
4) Examples or case studies of similar successful platforms.

If you have experience or interest in this area, or if you're just willing to offer some advice, I'd love to hear from you. Feedback, ideas, or direct collaborations are all welcome!

I believe in the right to protest (idc which side people are on for an issue, it's important to express discontent, else what is even democracy?) but every protest that conflicts with a government's political goal is met with crippling involvement of police and legal hammer. Both republicans and democrats can't seem to protest without facing the wrath of the government if the protest doesn't align with the government's immutable policy decisions.

And that's sad.

Thank you for your time and thoughts!
Yes, employees should be fired for trespassing.
You don't say... reminds me of the Nokia dude... Elop was his name?
Got to maximise the supply of cheap labour flowing to YC start ups now interest rates are up.
If the plumber wants to write such a contract and the customer wants to sign it, sure. In many big cities, there are toilets that are pay-per-use. So, in essence, the market has already embraced the idea you mock.
> “He drove that collaboration but there is nothing to collaborate on now; he hasn’t been able to get any data,” says Holmes.

> Holmes believes the lab closure is part of an effort to sideline Zhang for unauthorized sharing of data. “It is heartbreaking to watch,” he says. “It is unfathomable to me to have a scientist of that calibre sleeping outside his lab.”

> But Yanzhong Huang, a specialist in Chinese health policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, says the true nature of the dispute and protest are “shrouded in mystery”.

I guess we're supposed to infer that he got in trouble from the University and/or the CCP for sharing data in a way they deemed unacceptable, so they punished him by making it hard for him to get access to data. And that this lab closure is part of that larger punishment, if it's not just a coincidence caused by incompetence (which does exist at both the University and Party level, to be sure).

Sleeping outside the lab is almost certainly a form of protest. He won a $1MM prize a couple years ago, and is a respected researcher anyway. He must have either money, friends, or grad students who would let him sleep on the couch.
> 2g was shutdown

On T-Mobile it's still operational, they cancelled the sunset indefinitely. (3G is shut down though)
I wish systemd would die or just be just an init system. This whole thread is people suggesting vague and non obvious solutions to things that people already knew how to do with just linux utilities now with some weird other binary.
For me pretty much any query such as https://www.google.com/search?q=time yielded 502 for a while (both logged in and not), but seems to be fixed already.
> 2. Crime is down regardless of source;

You left out "Since 1990's" ...
Circa ~2013-2014 i don't remember ubuntu had a windows installer you'd downloand then reboot after installation, no usb drive needed. It's how my gf at the time, no wife, got her torrenting partition on her pc. Idk what happened but that's not a thing anymore :'(