skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CTO actually makes sense for an h1b though, it’s a high paying job that can depend greatly on the technical and creative skills of the individual and how they mesh with the company.

The problem is when it’s someone pumping out code, or doing tech support for half the cost of the local competition.
> Just like with a calculator - it's important for candidates to know _why_ something works and be able to demonstrate that as much as them knowing the solution.

And this is why I never give coding-puzzle interviews. I just have a chat about your past projects (based on resume). We'll go deep into the technical details and it is easy in such a conversation to get a feel for whether you actually contributed significantly to the things the resume says you did.
No, because most places don't want to go through the hassle of sponsoring a visa.

Though once a place does want to go through the hassle, it seems to be the only kind of work they hire because they get a huge discount on labor. Of everyone I know IRL on work visas, almost all of them work in companies/teams that are 99% work visa.
> FWIW it's illegal to require "US citizenship" in a job description.

nonsense

tons of jobs advertisements required "US citizenship", because there is a security clearance attached
> There's no obligation for a hobbyist to fix the stuff they publish online.

Correct, but I didn't say there was. The onus being on them to fix it is predicated on anyone having such an obligation at all. If anyone has an obligation, it's always the vendor, not the researcher.

But keep in mind this situation involves an IBM-funded open source project under the Red Hat product line. The hobbyist remark is tangential to the story.
As anecdata, I’ve worked in recruitment, both as a recruiter and as CTO of a very well-established recruitech firm, and basically have never heard of this outside of people complaining they think it happens. Posting jobs you already know who you want to hire for it, sure, but the signalling success and luring in candidates for later thing wasn’t really something I saw. To me, it feels like when people used to claim that antivirus firms were the ones writing viruses.
Honest question: how so? The Onion has always billed itself as a "news" source, and parodied both form and content of traditional newspapers and TV news. The Babylon Bee seems to just put out jokes, without much of a unifying thematic framework.
The Shags rule. You just don't get them.
Yes, just like "Data Engineer" for knowing how to use Tableau or doing OLAP queries.
Trump is about to change everything for tech startups
> Economic arguments almost always apply strictly to idealized worlds where each individual calculates the pennies for each action etc. The degree to which such deductions apply to the real world varies.

But the assumption that individuals actually make that calculation is not necessary for economic models to be useful.

For example, players who act in a game theoretically optimal way in some game will, over the long run, dominate and displace players who don't.

This is true even if those players don't actually know any game theory.
Somehow I managed to protest the war in Iraq despite war never being declared.

Ill let you figure out the details.
I think you're missing the point. WBtC is a "bad" song in exactly the same way that Swift's songs are "bad". It's unashamedly pop, aimed at tastes that sophisticated listeners try to escape, and critically: is so good that those sophisticated listeners find themselves listening to it anyway.

It's basically a bouncing, bopping reminder that we aren't as smart as we think we are.
Is this a serious comment? Use your intelligence.
You're largely correct, as I understand it.

You cant discriminate in favor of citizens vs permanent residents unless the job legally requires citizenship.
Theres like a million well qualified applicants, they arent getting hired. go read any jobs forum, people are struggling
The P is silent
All of those games are different kinds of games. Hover isn't exactly the same game as Reversi. So, I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Lots of these pack-in games were developed by outside studios and were sometimes published by different companies as well, so that it's a King game instead of something developed in-house by Microsoft also doesn't seem different from the past. Microsoft had already included games with social networks and online aspects such as Internet Hearts and Internet Backgammon. Those bundled Internet suite of games even pushed people to make an MSN account.
I am writing 38 blogs for 38 days leading up to my 38th birthday. This is day 2, but the first "real blog"
The video is really well done and interesting, and makes you think the right way about sub-pixels. Though it does seem a little amusing to me that the process Japhy used is basically exactly the same process the display is already using for antialiasing fonts, he’s just doing it manually. We already have sub-pixel art, pretty much all the time. ;) I haven’t tried, but in theory the hidden message thing at the end can be done purely by reducing your font size to sub 1-pt.
There's a new mode of programming (with AI) that doesn't require english and also results in massive efficiency gains. I now only need to begin a change and the AI can normally pick up on the pattern and do the rest, via subsequent "tab" key hits as I audit each change in real time. It's like I'm expressing the change I want via a code example to a capable intern that quickly picks up on it and can type at 100x my speed but not faster than I read.

I'm using Cursor btw. It's almost a different form factor compared to something like GH copilot.

I think it's also worth noting that I'm using TypeScript with a functional programming style. The state of the program is immutable and encoded via strongly typed inputs and outputs. I spend (mental) effort reifying use-cases via enums or string literals, enabling a comprehensive switch over all possible branches as opposed to something like imperative if statements. All this to say, that a lot of the code I write in this type of style can be thought of as a kind of boilerplate. The hard part is deciding what to do; effecting the change through the codebase is more easily ascertained from a small start.
Total eclipse of the heart is a fuckin banger.
Unlikely. "Staple a Green Card to their diploma" is what Trump had to say about students from other countries that graduate from US universities. Since out of country students pay the highest tuition rates, universities love them and give them preferential admissions. Though not as bad as elementary and high schools, universities suffer from grade inflation and are reluctant to kick out paying customers, especially those paying the highest tuition. As a consequence, academic standards are being reduced at a rapid rate.

If you want to come to the US to get a professional job, attending a US university instead of a domestic one is going to be worth the extra cost when it guarantees you a Green Card.

There might be a reduction in the flow of low skilled labor, especially for those looking to hire workers without legal status, but up the middle class portion of the labor market, expect the system to continue to favor cheap imported labor over domestic labor.
I refuse to believe in any conspiracies except that The Onion took over The Matrix and is running a Truman Show program full of unreal absurdities to see if I'll go insane.
>> The paper doesn't distinguish between what is the expressive capability of the model, and the finding the optimum of the model, aka the training procedure.

They do. That's the whole point of the paper: you can set a bunch of weights manually like you suggest, but can you learn them instead; and how? See the Introduction. They make it very clear that they are investigating whether certain concepts can be learned by gradient descent, specifically. They point out that earlier work doesn't do that and that gradient descent is an obvious bit of bias that should affect the ability of different architectures to learn different concepts. Like I say, good work.

>> But you can probably train multiple formal languages simultaneously, to make the counting feature emerge from the data.

You could always try it out yourself, you know. Like I say that's the beauty of grammars: you can generate tons of synthetic data and go to town.

>> You can't deduce much from negative results in research beside it requiring more work.

I disagree. I'm a falsificationist. The only time we learn anything useful is when stuff fails.
Hang on a minute. There is absolutely nothing in this research that measures the accuracy of this approach. A user saying "I was ghosted" is not, to my mind, proof of anything.

Job seekers almost never actually know if the job was real or not, so it's hard to see how Glassdoor reviews can ever provide the insight this work is looking for.

I do believe that "ghost" jobs exist, often for H1B purposes, but I don't think this work proves it.
That's how it works in sane environments; unfortunately those can be quite rare.
Just wanted you to know that I've been looking at a lot of your blog entries for Tiny Pilot over the last few years. This is the first one I've skimmed to the end.

Great writeup!
I wouldn't count on it. But there will certainly be tons of new part time jobs with no benefits and no health insurance.
> Less nodes doesn’t really mean “faster”. The most important is the height of the tree.

In isolation of a single access yes. But when frequently accessing an index overall size can be very important for cache hit rate.
If you're comfortable with microcontrollers (esp32/arduino), I can definitely recommend Inkplate. I found them when I was making a similar setup for my parents, and they have various sizes up to 10" and up to 6 colors they can display.

You can either just get the module, or buy with a battery and mountable case already attached. I think all of the models are also available via Digikey and Mouser if people don't trust random websites.

https://soldered.com/categories/inkplate/
Helmet author here. This is a similar project, but not the same.

Helmet covers HTTP response headers, and that's it. This project seems to have a wider scope, covering things like auth and error handling.
The auction included all of the InfoWars and several associated corporations' assets, including the studio and the supplements business. At one point the settlement administrator was trying to get Alex's Twitter handle.

I believe he's been doing some half-ass scheming to create essentially the same company but in his parents' name, and I doubt he has a problem getting listeners back.
Are there good alternatives in 2024 to Keycloak + FreeIPA for k8s-native environments?
The maps are only used when resolving a 3 bird fix. As soon as you lock a fourth bird you can solve 3D directly rather than leveraging an onboard spheroid. Many receivers refer to a three bird fix as a 2D fix for that reason.
I'm not even joking, this is literally the most plausible explanation I've ever heard.
It seems like this entire thread is a counterargument to your claim.
Yes it is hitting a wall. This article is complete cope.

AI model progress is hitting diminishing returns, even as the large AI companies have said and as predicted by Yann LeCun.

I guess the AI LLM grift is about to run out of road and headed into a new AI winter.
> My only worry is that this acquisition makes Global Tetraeder so large that it attracts the attention of those pesky EU bureaucrats, who will want to split it up into multiple imperfect solids.

Based on what previous in-real-life examples is this a realistic worry? AFAIK, "EU bureaucrats" haven't broken up a single US-based company before so seems like a weird thing to be worried about.
Yep. Insert little-known stories that are documented conspiracies that aren't hypotheticals similar to the fine content of DamnInteresting. Be sure to use lots of graphics and editoralizing/clickbait headlines.

- Radium girls

- Eugenics experiments

- Forced sterilization

- ~600 Tennessee sober "drunk driving" arrests
Looks like he’s putting a lot of his body weight on his wrists while typing? That sure is gonna summon the Carpal Tunnel Fairy.
There are many analogous questions! One of the most interesting challenges in life is trying to observe when the presentation of reality is fundamentally dishonest for some reason. The well poisoned, as it were.

I didn't know the hiring market was one of these situations, but I could see that being the case. Seems like a lot of hype and noise, but is anything really going on or is it just hollow?
As someone stuck in JavaScript hell, I think you have a great point. How nice it would be to not touch a project for a year, come back, and not have to rewrite it just to upgrade dependencies.
Show HN: Easily Upload Files to Claude Projects
I've really enjoyed using Claude projects to help generate code drafts. However, one thing that's been painful is uploading new files versions after changes. I'd have to separately go through each folder in my project to upload the files again so Claude could have the most recent versions. It only took a few minutes each time....but it was a bit annoying.

As a result I built a file organizer for Claude projects. It selectively copies files based on extensions and .gitignore rules, organizing them into a target folder for easy uploading. It commits all the files in that folder to a git repository so they're not lost, deletes them, and then copies the updated files to that folder. This allows you to upload your latest file states to a Claude project without having to manually click through all your folders to select and upload specific files.

Hope y'all find this useful!
SpaceX has been through the wringer on this one, so just copy & paste from their listing:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Yes, this was serious.
If someone says:

> This isn't ethical. It shouldn't be legal. But it is.

It actually means „ok, it actually is illegal, but it’s not properly enforced“?
Oh now this is some good news in the post truth world of Trump 2.0
I like how he still tries to sell his merchandise until the very last moment.
I'm already there with the monthly HN hiring threads. Not one of those companies over several years ever responded to me, even the ones where the listing felt tailor made for me, even the ones that literally said they respond to all applicants. They're a total waste of time lol
Can you elaborate? What was the offer? They won a judgement over $1B.

Also, I don’t think their agenda is political, it is personal.
> Maybe they won't pay a higher salary immediately than to a 30-yr-old, but they'll give you a reward later if they can see how much you helped them

I don't think most companies behave this way. Maybe at one point they did, but I find the reward for doing great work is "That's why we hired you"

Yeah maybe you get a yearly raise and a bonus but it never is big enough to make up for taking a lower salary
Strong gatekeeping vibes. "Not even wrong" is perfect for this sort of fixation with labels and titles and an odd seemingly resentful take that gwern has being an AI influencer as a specific goal.
>for some reason you insist on putting a space before each comma.

Oh boy I have just realised this being an issue sometimes because I really write very freely and thus I overuse both comma and space which is an issue
Those niche features are exactly what allows us to move beyond C and C++, safely.

Naturally there are those that would rather keep the status quo.
I didn't know who that was until googling before replying, are you sure that's going to hit better with an American audience?

Either on Hacker News or as an "own the libs" choice for Trump?
If the P is silent, how can you "Prompt"?
Can't help but drop these--

For easy listening jungle/Drum N Bass, excellent for work, search for "atmospheric drum n bass" or "liquid drum n bass". Artists: Photek, LTJ Bukem, DB (some), etc.
Best atmospheric mix w vocals ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXnFZ3anlE

For a tour of jungle over time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgK8h9xRFls

For a famous jungle dj/vocalist pairing: AK1200 moonshine over america
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqRNrhQvYEc

Also, you may recognize Goldie, a pioneer of the genre, who turned actor, turned model, and more recently launched a record label
I'm about a year into a mid-effort level job search. I work in a somewhat specialized technical field and am fairly senior (I think in FAANG-ese I'd be an maybe an L7 if I understand their levels correctly). So this means I'm looking for management, director, deputy CTO or CTO positions depending on the company. I have a track record making my company lots of money, and opening up new opportunities worth many multiples of that. So the deck is already stacked against me as most positions are for jr or mid engineers, but I have a proven track record of growing responsibilities and (in my market) fairly recognizable success stories.

The search has been absolutely atrocious. Unlike anything I've ever seen before in 30 years of working in tech.

* I used to be able to simply pull on my network and get a position within 2 or 3 tries. Total job hunt time, under a month.

* The last time I had to go through this was pre-COVID, and I used a mix of my network and cold applications (around 50). I only heard back from 2 of the cold submissions and my network pulled me in to where I am today. Total job hunt time, around 4 months.

* I'm almost exactly 1 year in now, over 700 applications, people in my network can't even get responses for referrals. I've made it to 4 interview funnels, including stupidly exhausting FAANGs, for positions ranging from CTO to consultant filling a contract slot. 2 solid offers, both at least 40-60% below my current market rate. One executive recruiter ghosted me after we started discussing Total Compensation Packages.

I even had a friend post a position at their company, using my resume as the hiring template. Then they personally referred me to that position. I never received a call, and they never received any candidates.

It feels like being personally blacklisted, but it's affecting everybody I know.

The furthest I've gotten has been by hunting down corporate and executive recruiters directly, but I've had two recruiters get laid off halfway through the matching process. One FAANG recruiter has even contacted me hoping I could help them find a position.

Something is broken somewhere. Companies are starving for talent, and talent is starving for companies. The online applications sites are clearly filtering out people, but there appears to be massive churn in the recruiting side as well.

/r/recruitinghell is very representative of things I've seen.

I did notice that hiring activity has picked up since the rollover of the FY. Several 6-7 month old applications stirred somebody to contact me in the last month or so with a "great fit" that turned out to have nothing to do with my skillset.

My story is finally drawing to a close however, I've just negotiated a good position at a new firm and am setting a start date.
There’s no way to tell the difference.

RGB light does actually ‘combine’, physically, before we ‘perceive’ the color. It’s because we (most of us) have 3 sensors each with specific wavelength response functions. The physical output of those sensors is the same for a red+green combination as it is for a yellow combination, and therefore the color has been combined as part of measuring the color.
Meanwile, Macron chooses to ignore a left victory, then refuses to accept their prime minister and instead co-opts the election to instant the same center-right government that was broken up a few months prior. :+)
Thanks for the idea, travel dates could be useful information! Also, I had not seen BokenMap before, so thanks for sharing it.
ghost jobs are analogous to (the now illegal practice) of spoofing trades in equity markets, where they exist to manipulate the market to get an information edge about price and availability of the commodity (talent).

even though I think it's wrong, and in a consistent regs regime it would be illegal, like spoofing in other markets, it's the artifact of incentives created by outdated regs and conventions that didn't keep up with the scale of tech.
Dawg, not every sentence someone says is 100% literal all the time.
Is PyTorch genuinely so good that most people have stopped using Keras/TF?
How do they still influence Austrian politics? Do you have any links or sources? I'm genuinely curious!
Just trying to play devils advocate here but have you considered that your lack of “coasting” could be part of the problem? If your resume looks anything like this post then that is something to consider.

Your side projects could give the impression that you are more dedicated to those than to your primary employer.

For the roles I review resumes for and interview I want a well rounded individual who seems like they would stay in the position for many years. Someone who is studying on weekends and taking extra university courses on coding does not necessarily give me that impression. Again, just a devil’s advocate position.
> The h1b program is supposed to be for people at the top of their field so they can skip the normal visa line, but it is commonly used to save money through exploitation.

Incorrect - such people already qualify for green cards under the "alien of extraordinary ability" criterion. At least in theory, anyway.

There is no "normal visa line" btw, unless you mean the green card diversity lottery, which people from eg. India and China don't even qualify for.

> A long time ago I read an hn comment that suggested h1b visas should go to the highest paying jobs, with the logic being that if they are such a rare talent they should probably be getting paid more.

This is in principle a good idea although I suspect that if actually implemented employers would figure out how to game the system just as they do now.
IME, it’s been a crap system for decades. 7 of my last 7 jobs (over ~25 years) have been obtained through “my network” - ie former coworkers who enjoyed (tolerated?) working with me and were happy to make referrals, reach out, or in other ways help when I was looking for a new job. And often when I wasn’t looking.
Ah, i thought the multiple posting in different locations was to be able to show or hide the salaray range depending on U.s. state-level legislation related to that...also, in those cases where maybe if the role is remote, maybe they only want to hir candidates in a somewhat near/adjacent area to one of their offices.
> I will literally leave a store if this is playing.

Me too. But, in fairness, that's my instinctive reaction to any Christmas music being played in a store.
> I looked it up, and it was added in iOS 17 last year.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph9b4106303/io...

Sort-of - but what Apple actually did just reinforces my position: iOS does not let you provide your own pre-made ARGB images, it only lets you use their own photo-subject segmentation tool - whatever sticker image Apple Photos generates is at the behest of whatever their image-segmentation algorithm thinks is best: i.e. you lack full creative-control.

(To be clear: I'm not decrying the sticker-from-photo feature, I think it's nifty - I'm just miffed that there's no way for me to simply provide my own raw images).
this is also incorrect, EDM has multiple meanings over time and space - are you being annoyed at the contemporary American use of it to mean "inoffensive dance music"?

wikipedia has a whole section on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music#Termino...