skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> after seeing everything that has transpired, I would be worried that the offer is just a lie, a way to out the detractors

I expect that even Matt is aware that that is not an unreasonable assumption. Purportedly, via Bullenweg, an email went out yesterday re another offer, and it included this, from Matt:

> You have my word this deal will be honored. We will try to keep this quiet, so it won’t be used against us, but I still wanted to give Automatticians another window.

I mean that would have to be a first. "We're offering voluntary resignations with these benefits" followed by "and I promise we'll actually offer those benefits" - shows you how low trust seems to be at Automattic.
I didn't use Gamespy but did use "The All Seeing Eye"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All-Seeing_Eye which was sold to yahoo.

Yahoo was a powerhouse back in the day and one that google offered to sell to. The world would be so different if it had.
People who have become homeowners almost never want to go backwards.
The microwave UI I really like is sharps small commercial microwave. One control to set the time. It is like perfection in UI design.

https://shop.sharpusa.com/medium-duty-commercial-microwave-o...

"Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Some people really hate to give up their power control, which is understandable, however I note that I never use the power control on my microwave and could easily do without it.
Finally more AI tools for vectors!

With bitmaps you get a blob of pixels but vectors you can be edited and refined much easier.
It will always be infinitely amusing that Musk has gone from a walking-on-water Nerd Jesus to a mustache-twirling Bond Villain on this site in the course of a year.
Wow!! This is very very cool! Are you planning on adding Llama support for people that want to use a self hosted model for privacy reasons?
Here's the podcast: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/52350e74-f4b0-42d9-a1...
old fashioned systems really shine for functionality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
God, if we're only now going to accept "Built British" IT, we're not going to be going very far.
Funny how lot of conflicts can be traced back to "Great" Britain:

- Israel Palestine.
- India Pakistan.
- Apartheid in South Africa.
- .. anything else?
There's a pho restaurant near where I work which wants you to scan a QR code at the table, then order and pay through their website instead of talking to a person. In three visits, I have not once managed to get past their captcha!

(The actual process at this restaurant is to sit down, fuss with your phone a bit, then get up like you're about to leave; someone will arrive promptly to take your order.)
As someone who currently works in GenAI and analytics but paid their way through college doing design (for print media) and still keeps around old copies of Illustrator and Fireworks (running under Wine) as well as using Affinity Suite, this is STUPEFYINGLY more impressive than any LLM.

Still not enough to make me pay for Adobe Creative Suite (I just dabble these days), but the target demographic will be all over it.
Great question.

We only need to provide the sitemap (with custom paths, not publicly available) in a few specific places, like Google Search Console. This means the rules for managing sitemaps are quite manageable. It’s not a perfect setup, but once we configure it, we can usually leave it untouched for a long time.
That's really not true. There was some slight truth to this (but really just slight) years ago before the AC21 legislation, which allows those in the green card process to change employers without having to restart their green card process. Again, to be clear, lawyers used to say there were issues leaving soon after getting a green card, but that really was never true and with AC21, there's really no risk. All this being said, it's still good to have a consultation about this to rest easy.
> Amateur math prodigy? Bored puzzle enthusiast? Aspiring Troll? Who knows.

Who knows, indeed.

> will that have the effect of increasing or decreasing government/big tech ability to control and manipulate people?

I'm so confident that you don't have this that I would bet literally any amount against (if I was a betting man.)

The real answer is that there would be chaos. There would be some wars, there would be some pockets of stability, and the most entrenched powerful people would carry on as a new order re-formed below them. Old money and vertically integrated megabillionaires would watch from perfect safety as it all unfolded.

For most people on the planet, they'd be plunged into a well of uncertainty, chaos, and violence, find a new normal in the end eventually for whoever survives the upheaval. Then a new generation will be born whose parents will tell them what tiktok was like back before the bombs fell.
Next up

> Harris says Ursula von der Leyen called her to tattle-tale about Tim Apple
There are also the programmers that do get that, but just don't have the ability to change it. I'm no artist, but I can tell you when something looks bad. I'm constantly playing with CSS to learn new things to make things look better. I'm now in that category of "it looks like someone tried but just didn't achieve, but better than most" level of design.

Programmers making things for other programmers will always be forgiven as long as it works. Programmers making things for the general population will not be forgiven to the same extent if at all. As soon as someone releases something that is polished, it will be used even if it doesn't work as well.
He could also just be lying. It's been known to happen.
What does that have to do with a bill of lading needed for goods shipped by sea between states? Which is what the article is about.

North Dakota and New Mexico are land-locked. And I don't think U.C.C. applies to interstate commerce.

Edit: https://www.saul.com/insights/alert/digital-assets-and-ucc-a... says as of 11/29/2023 'thirteen states plus the District of Columbia have adopted the Article 12 amendments' with more in the future, but it seems those only apply to digital assets, not a bill of lading ('A CER excludes any digital assets that are not subject to “control” as well as those that are already subject to other commercial laws')
Ah yes, but "banality of evil" is still evil despite being banal.
As the EU becomes increasingly irrelevant, expect this sort of "fine piracy" to become a regular occurrence.
If your site is vulnerable to SQL injection, you need to fix that, not pretend Cloudflare will save you.
I'm a Canadian looking for remote work in America. Is there any downside risk to the employer if I work a W2 remote job from Canada? As long as I pay taxes, is there any risk to the employee?
The Kew Herbarium (2019)
How common is it for companies to skip over a minimally qualified US worker during the PERM labor market test process?

If a minimally qualified US worker is found, are they under a requirement to hire the worker or can they just reapply for PERM later and conduct another labor market test?
A new, large retrospective study of patient health records shows a 40% drop in opioid overdoses and a 50% drop in cases of alcohol intoxication among people who received GLP-1RAs (typically for diabetes or obesity).
How do you engage emotionally over Zoom? I prefer WFH actually, but every time I try anything else it feels really empty. It's fine if there is no alternative (e.g. talking to friends abroad), but I really can't imagine how to have a dance party over Zoom.
rewdew
Well, I already run my setup through a kilowatt. I don't see a difference with Python, which you can argue should be 10-100x less efficient:

import time

while True:

time.sleep(0.001)

also the script itself it bounces between 0% and 1% cpu usage
What has been -- in your personal experience as well as in the experience of some of your lawyer colleagues -- some of the 'hardest' cases wrt employment authorization for US-based startups and YC? And why?

Also, how are you anticipating the immigration landscape to change especially if President Donald Trump returns to the White House in January 2025? I'm asking this in the context of the 2017-2021 Trump administration's massive clampdown on Specialty Occupation visas through executive orders. [0]

[0] https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/tr...
valeu por compartilhar.

good video. now i have two excuses for the flight bloody Mary.
A couple jobs ago (pre-pandemic) I was at a remote company that put some effort into 1 & 2 that I've become big proponents of.

Allocate $300 per person to get everyone a podcaster mic and a pair of open backed headphones to plug into it as a monitor so you hear your own voice through your headphones. It removes the feeling that you need to speak loudly to be heard, which is a lot of the fatigue.

And if both parties are using this setup, it greatly reduces the "only one person can speak at a time" feeling, allowing you to use more natural vocal interactions without feeling like you're interrupting.

Together it makes a huge difference. I have audio processing and sensory problems and used to be so drained after a 40 minute zoom meeting. With this setup I can spend 4 hours a day pair programming and be appropriately tired but not exhausted.

Your 3-4 and large meetings with executives screaming into their laptops from coworking spaces I have no solutions for however.
How do you hold it comfortably? It's so heavy my weak pathetic arms got tired after half an hour or so.

Ended up selling my Deck and using a much lighter handheld instead.
Even with 25% down, the monthly mortgage payments for homes in the area are aggressive. Typical 4-3 homes in the area are hiting the 800+ threshold.
That's what I meant with "Being lenient in the hope of free brand awareness will bite you."

Hoping for free publicity by letting your trademark defense slip was never a good idea. The rules might have seemed reasonable but they were asking for trouble from the get go.
> How long will it take for a photon emitted by A to reach B? Well, it won't reach it because it will hit the start that's in between.

Now imagine that it's not a star, but a black hole with a small radius to make arguments easier. You shoot a photon slightly off the axis, and it gets deflected.

You can try to treat a photon as a moving object, and integrate the forces acting on it. Taking Lorentz transformations into account, of course.

But the thing is, your calculations will be off, and the experimental results won't match your predictions. You will need to take into account that the lightspeed near massive objects is _slower_ for distant observers.

Another example, suppose that you have a star surrounded by a massive cloud of fog. Somebody shoots a laser beam from one side of the fog bank to another, while you are far away from the star. The fog is there just to allow you to see the beam as it moves, it does not by itself slow the light.

But you will actually see the light moving _slower_ than lightspeed!

Or equivalently, you can take a clock that ticks every second. And if you lower that clock to the surface of a planet, you will see the clock ticking slower. And this is a very real effect, we have to correct for it in the GPS satellites.
Companies/teams/whatever should just decide if they’re in person or not. Trying to be both and neither isn’t going to work.
Could a married couple each get their own individual E2 visas and then sponsor each other on the dependent visa and then both have open work authorization?
The article is clearly about why standing birds don't fall while they sleep.

An interesting and somewhat related fact is that flying birds also sometimes sleep: https://www.audubon.org/news/scientists-finally-have-evidenc...

The short story (at least in the case of the frigatebirds they studied) is that they do hemispherical sleeping, where only one half of their brain is asleep. And also it seems they only sleep while climbing in a thermal updraft. The theory being that "gliding up" is the safest portion of their flight.

Relatadely there is a famous videoclip of a paraglider colliding with an eagle mid-flight. https://youtu.be/g8_hyqlQXpk?si=alAvnt4Xva4RGYw3 (The clip is quite scary, but both the pilot and the eagle seems to be fine at the end.)

It is speculated that the incident happened because the bird was "dozing off" mid-flight in the updraft too. Of course this is difficult to verify.
Discussion (24 points, 23 hours ago, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41861818
The "right to privacy" includes the right to medical privacy and privacy over your body. It's not the government's concern to dictate what and how you can treat your own body. The natural extension being that it violates the 14th Amendment for the government to surveil intimate medical decisions.

This puts the cart before the horse. This assumes abortion is already a fine thing to do. Think about the other applications of privacy. Here is a pretty extreme hypo (we could get into a more subtle one maybe but this is the first thing that came to my mind). You are entitled to privacy in your home. In your home you can abuse your spouse and you can drink orange juice. Abusing your spouse is obviously wrong so we would never say privacy covers it. Drinking orange juice is obviously fine so we would say you are entitled to privacy from others to know if you drank orange juice or not. In both cases the police may never know you did either but that has no bearing on their legality. It seems to be the real central question and where a right would need to be grounded is if it is your body or the child's body. A lot of people disagree on this. If you don't think it is your body than the privacy argument makes no sense.

In terms of the history I have not dug into it but there seems to be conflicting arguments based on your priors. It doesn't seem cut and dry enough to just say it was a right then so it is now, if it was why not just do that instead of the whole privacy deal?

From Dobbs majority opinion: "English cases dating all the way back to the 13th century corroborate the treaties' statements that abortion was a crime."

I am also skeptical of origionalism. I don't know how much bearing 13-18th century common law should have on modern day law, especially when there was assuredly a diverse set of opinions on abortion just like today. Why shouldn't the 20th century have the same amount of weight as the 18th?

To me it seems that even if you believe abortion is morally right Roe was legislating from the bench. These things should come from congress not the supreme court.
Not sure what Trump could do about it. Go to war?
Firm hacked after accidentally hiring North Korean cyber criminal
I mean, I do. I've written some GPL code that actually runs on Boox devices, and I'm quite annoyed they refuse to comply to share back their changes.
The Voyage was a neat device, though its haptic buttons pale in comparison to real buttons. There are a lot of options outside of the Kindle, but if you want to stay in the Amazon ecosystem, you might be in for rough times.
i personally cant take it seriously, when someone tries to be professional, using adolescent methods like webcamming.
The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends
I don’t understand why voice chat isn’t more popular at work. It’s the top choice for talking with friends and family (phone calls and VoIP).
SpiderOak announces open-source initiative for zero-trust cybersecurity
PMI is brutal, but it does change a down payment from 20% to 3.5%.

>A home costs ~25% of the down payment on the day you buy it.

I think this is related to the conventional wisdom that you shouldn't buy a house unless you expect to live there for ~7 years (I think, I can't remember if that number is right). I think they're referring to the costs associated with the sale (pulling permits, mortgage costs, real estate agent, etc.).

So on a $500,000 house, a traditional down payment would be $100,000, making closing costs $25,000. Sounds like it's within an order of magnitude.
It took me a while to understand that the second picture is actually a muted video with hidden controls.
Not specific to Alpine: Cummins has a 2022 article addressing their view[0] of internal combustion hydrogen vs fuel cell. Short version: fuel cell + battery works well for peaky loads. Hydrogen internal combustion works better for heavy, consistent loads.

[0] https://www.cummins.com/news/2022/01/27/hydrogen-internal-co...
They don't turn Alpinesque ecologies into tidal pools if you don't build them in Alpinesque ecologies.

The truth is that we are developing a lot of land every year for different purposes, from industrial to residential. The question is whether we will develop it for everyone's benefit, or for some yet another tax exempt monopoly's warehouse.

We could even build these plants in place of abandoned industrially exploited land, such as quarries, which conveniently already form quite large water reservoirs. We could reclaim a completely dead parcel of land and once we stop using the reservoir, it could blossom into a set of new natural ecologies.

Don't take the worst case scenario and present it as the only one when there is a world of possibilities.
I would expect that the people who came up with this meaning know exactly what the original slang means, and did it intentionally. Though yeah, I'm sure there are people who use it who don't know what it really means.
They are probably looking for LGMs - Large Generative Models which encapsulate vision & multi-modal models.
CogVideoX seems to be the best offline model so far
I personally use a single over the ear [headphone with directional] mic because I want to hear everything around me normally (and myself). They are super cheap, and for jitsi/zoom/teams I don't normally need directional sound. It's also easier on my ears than earbuds. Esp if someone is too loud. I just tip it back a bit.

*inserted [] for clarity
> the definition of open source up to this point was more for the software, the data, the art.

LLMs are software. Not releasing the data sets or training code is the same as "open sourcing" an application as an executable with some of its source code but not providing the proprietary/secret compiler required to actually compile it. It's useful, to a point, and keeps users dependent on the good will of Facebook.
We're really used to thinking of cheaters as being effectively gods within their games, and that playing with them is no fun whatsoever.

But if the anti-cheat is able to advance to the point that a cheater can merely rise up the ranks by 10%, then, if you think about it... in a lot of ways the problem is solved. When I'm playing in a match, and one of the players is in the 80th percentile by their own merits, and another is "naturally" a 60th percentile player but is cheating their way up to an 80th percentile player somehow... and if they can't see through walls or insta-headshot across the map or do anything other blatently violating the rules, they just play a little better... what's the actual difference?

There is some. It's not zero. If you can't get those cheaters under control in tournament play the situation will normalize to everyone using a cheat just to keep up in a Red Queen's race, and that's still bad for other reasons.

But it isn't the same impact as playing with Sir Snipes-A-Lot who headshots you through three walls the instant your spawn invulnerability wears off, either.
expensive catalysts required for fuel cells?
I miss remote work when we didn't have to go on video all the time. Seeing myself/other people in a video chat is exhausting, and the non-verbal cues are often delayed so they lose meaning entirely. Just give me low latency voice again, please.
Thanks for this, never knew it existed. Wondering now if there's region specific current events.
To the downvoters: I am well aware that Linux can run modern games. In fact my gaming rig is a KDE Neon 6.2 install with all latest mesa, amdgpu, etc. I play the latest dx12 games just fine on it.

But the original point wasn't whether Linux could, but whether it's different from Windows.

And as someone who compiles DXVK from git: dx12 won't work out of the box; it is different from Windows. Not particularly difficult, but different...
How much of a fuss is it for a start-up fresh out of YC to hire someone on an E-3 visa (the one for Australians) ? i.e., time & cost of the process including legal advice & applying for licences if any
While better in many ways, broadly speaking this could mean no more throwaway accounts?

Passkeys that require embedding on personal devices like cell phones means direct affiliation with your identity, no? Seems like a shadow benefit to industry is perfect ad targeting across the web.
I love Starlink, and it is a great way for many people who live outside of where it is profitable to run broadband to have a high-speed Internet connection.

What is concerning is how much direct control Elon wields over the service. I wouldn't be surprised if he disabled access to BlueSky, or other forms of censorship.

If that sounds ridiculous to you, keep in mind this is the same man who disrupted a live Ukrainian op that made use of Starlink: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/musk-stopped-ukraine-atta...
I won't be excited until its live in an app, company demos are always exciting.
> tailwind is a cock sucker

Lol. Of course we all write comments like that, but it's better to keep in the code repo, instead of the prod server
Like I said - with or without TMD, Clojure does not lack tooling for DF, anything JVM/JS can be used and even Python libs, if you're inclined to do so. You can always ask in Clojurians Slack for guidance, people are incredibly nice and always eager to help.
They verify signup emails now. At least for me.
Must be why there are apps that make you solve a math problem or take a picture of your bath room to turn off the alarm.
Thanks for sharing! I too have looked at the Palma, but without it also being a phone, I can't go for it, because I'd have to carry it and a LCD-screen phone.

Colour e-ink works by having a colour filter over the screen, and every third pixel being dedicated to each colour (please correct me, people who actually know the details!).

Therefore they inherently have lower resolution, and are also by nature around 2/3 less white in the pixels not displaying anything.
When reading text, most pixels are uncoloured, meaning in most cases you significantly lose screen resolution, compared to b/w e-ink.
Thus, with colour e-ink screens, unless you're out in sunlight, you'll need backlight most of the time.
This is my reason to keep using the black and white versions, and it might be something for you to keep in mind when you select your next reading device.
What false flagging campaign are you referring to? I am not familiar.
Yes... I think the trend of "raw dogging" a flight is a response to the constant need to do something - scroll through a phone, listen to a podcast, read the latest NYT story... Doing nothing, on the other hand, is pretty much what meditation is, which has been shown to provide a lot of amazing benefits for the brain.

Idleness is then just a religious (Protestant Christian?) spin on a perfectly normal thing, much like masturbation.
A Theory of the AI Market
ahah where did I write it? and why are you looking the sources lol
It's from talking too much - many many companies plaster over their poor planning and decision-making by constantly meeting and talking.

They need to cut out some of the yapping by deciding, writing things down, and sharing this info.
OUR society? Who do you mean by we/our? Who do you think built this country? Immigrants, as free men or slaves, from all over the world.
Related:

The opponent-process theory of emotion (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24493479 - Sept 2020 (9 comments)
Good morning Peter! I don't mean to get political, but do you anticipate any changes in the H1b process based on whoever wins the upcoming election? I've heard there were significant difference between the past two admins and that could play out again.