skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working with people who use this stuff a lot has made my current job just so so much harder in every way its astonishing. I used to solve problems with code, now I feel like hermeneut or dream analyzer: absent of human intention, codebases quickly become these weird piles of different idioms, even without considering the hallucinations (those have definitely cost me a few sleepless nights now either way).

But I am just venting. All of yall have clearly won, I get it. I am just grateful I have lived a full life doing other things other than computers, so this all isn't too sad other than the prospect of being poor again.

I will always have my beautiful emacs and I will always be hacking. I will always have my Stallman, my Knuth, my Andy Wingo, my SICP. I feel it is accomplishment enough to have progressed in this career as I have, especially as a self taught developer. But I kinda want to let yall deal with slop now, you really seem to like it!

Maybe I'll get another degree now, or just make some silly music and video games again. It's liberating just thinking about being free from this "new way" we work now.

Thanks for all the fish though!
There were several console prototypes targeting HTML5 games over ten years ago, based mainly on the results of early emscripten work. It generated a lot of noise in some circles.

Obviously they dissolved/morphed into quite different things.
True, but at the same time immigrants have nothing to lose and everything to gain, thus in many cases they will work harder/longer and as result often be more skilled than an average developer.

And in general skilled immigration has many times over been proven to only benefit the country and that java developer you mention.
For Jetbrains users: consider voting for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-2402
Are they accepting them in descending order of total compensation yet?
It seems to me that there is a dichotomy between that or allowing companies to continue to snub US workers for vulnerable foreign labor.

Maybe you could escape the dichotomy by requiring H1-B workers to be in the 5% paid employees at a company or something.
For the “highly skilled” there’s the O-1 visa.
They're not out of touch they know exactly what they're doing, following orders while these centibillionaires are jockeying for position on the Forbes 100.

The strategy was and always will be bottom line: Displacement of American workers through attrition by hiring remote Asian workers -- 1 FTE = 4 Indian workers.

'Most' of these are American companies selling American products and services to Americans. If they like Asia so freaking much, leave the US and go sell your $hitty products and services over there!
I think it is very interesting how people talk about science as if it is (near) perfect, and that this perfection passes on to those who are believers in it.

I wonder what the causality is behind so many people ending up with this same conceptualization within their minds. It has an eerie resemblance to the behavior of people in other ideological groups, like religion.
How do you imagine that literature searches are conducted in academic studies?
It just reminds of Dr Raven Sable's food in Good Omens.

“indistinguishable from any other [food] except for […] the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman. It didn’t matter how much you ate, you lost weight. […] And hair. And skin tone. And, if you ate enough of it long enough, vital signs”
Isn't it well known that the main reason that most foreigners have advanced degrees is because that's how they get into the country legally in the first place?

I don't see many people getting employed straight out of undergrad from India or China and moving to the US directly. They get their advanced degree here first to get into the country then they get employed...
llama3.3:70b-instruct-q4_K_M (~43 GB, 2x 3090/4090 or fast memory cpu inference on e.g. macs)

or

qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q5_K_M (~23 GB)

or

gemma2:9b-instruct-q6_K (~7.5 GB)

and

https://github.com/bernardo-bruning/ollama-copilot

or alternatively:

https://github.com/ollama/ollama + https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim
> ... It had been setup 5 years ago and the company that did the setup didn't hand over any admin passwords. ...

> Any system so heavily reliant on a single point of failure with such difficulty to replace is a no go for me.

Not to shill for Ubiquiti here, but none of that sounds like a problem with UniFi or the idea of centrally-managed APs.

UniFi APs don't stop working if the UniFi server fails. You can't make configuration changes, but you can SSH into the AP, reset it, and associate it with another UniFi server.
No. Never even seen one, since I don't live in the US/California.
I assume you are not counting hobbyist things.
Here's an example of running Box2D physics in WASM

https://ensisoft.com/demos/playground/game.html

Still very small scenes of course so not much stuff going on. Yes, the GC pauses are a known issue in Lua.
If you extend your arm straight out to point for example, that's significantly more than ten commands sent at once to your arm muscles. It's just non-conscious. That test measures a bunch of things all together too. Visual processing, color recognition, and conscious decision to act. I got just under 240, and considering everything I had to do, that's pretty neat.
I've tried both Copilot and JetBrains AI with IntelliJ and both are awful compared to Cursor. No multiline editing, no composer, worse at writing tests etc.
The TLDR cause was:

The windshield pitting epidemic was a case of collective delusion, where heightened awareness, media influence, and misattributed environmental factors led people to notice and misinterpret existing, ordinary damage as a mysterious phenomenon.
That looks cool, thanks!
The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. A not yet explained phenomenon or even something as far fetched as "aliens" would have been a more comforting answer than "essentially we can all start losing our mind at once, and it takes very little to trigger it".
Unfortunately for me in enterprise it was impossible to convince them to allow us to use cursor since they're not well known like GitHub/Microsoft so they're afraid of what they'd do with our data.

We are allowed Copilot and Chatgpt because of an enterprise contract with each. Luckily copilot has been improving but there definitely was a while where it felt way behind the jumps other products have had in the past year or so.
> discussions about physics/QM

Interesting, could you share an example of this where it provides something of value? I've tried asking a few different LLMs to explain renormalization group theory, and it always goes off the rails in five questions or less.
The margin is not 0. there is a lot of $$$ in low margin disposable products (think toilet paper). However it takes great management to make money building such things and few companies are that good.
Are you speaking for the Brisk project?
There's a longer thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453341

I don't think anyone has directly answered your question, but it might be worth browsing or re-asking there.

I also haven't tried Copilot yet but looking at the free plan announcement it seems like it likely depends on how much you're doing as a hobby coder.

"Now automatically integrated into VS Code, all of you have access to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month, simply by signing in with your personal GitHub account. Or by creating a new one. And just last week, we passed the mark of 150M developers on GitHub."

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilo...

They also mention free unlimited access to Copilot Pro for open source maintainers, students, and educators if you qualify for any of those.
I learned a lot more about this discussing the PCI/DSS [0] regulation
framework here [1]. It's about to change to a new 4.0 in 2025 which
means that to use or run any payments system you'll have to meet ever
more stringent regulation. This is going to start applying to other
pseudo currencies (in game value tokens etc) if they exceed certain
value and scale. At present Visa and Mastercard have a big stake in
defining this (capturing the regulator).

Interestingly local real (non-digital) currencies like the Brixton
Pound [2] and other local paper scrip seem to escape this, which seems
a boost for paper technologies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...

[1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=36

[2] https://brixtonpound.org/
I kept waiting for the mention of how this compares to aquafaba, and since the article never mentions it, I became skeptical of the whole thing. I mean, "a legume-based substitute for egg whites" that fails to mention the popular legume-based substitute for egg whites that has been used in vegan recipes for many years?
We were the issuer. So these were probably the payment processor's extensions. But we were issuing MasterCards.
No, what needs to happen is to give workers mobility. H1B workers are preferentially hired at some firms because of their lack of mobility — they're easier to abuse than other workers. Addressing that would let everyone be on an equal footing and share the benefits of agglomeration (immigration increases supply and demand!) It would also be far more just and equitable.
Counterpoint: humans word best in quieter environments. If we're saying "...what!? It's crazy loud where you are!", you can't really expect AI to be much better?
Let's say the flat percentage is 10%.

Alice makes $10 million/year, so her tax is $1 million/year.

Bob makes $20 000/year, so his tax is $2 000/year.

Alice and Bob get the same benefits from the government so what is the justification for her tax being 500 times as much as Bob's?
The reason you would give is exactly the reason the OP gave, that Dish was deliberately not reachable for cancellation.
LLMs don't generate images at all.
We are on a slippery slope of banning everyone: TikTok; Kaspersky, ... TP-Link.

Huawei was not banned, they were bullied out of the US market, and had restricted access to US technologies.
I don't agree with any of this.

First of all, this results in unintelligible errors. Linux is famous for abysmal error reporting, where no matter what the problem really is, you get something like ENOENT, no context, no explanation. Errors need to propagate upwards and allow the handling code to reinterpret them in the context of the work it was doing. Otherwise, for the user they are either meaningless or dangerous.

Secondly, any particular function that encounters an unexpected condition doesn't have a "moral right" to terminate the entire program (who knows how many layers there are on top of what this particular function does?) Perhaps the fact that a function cannot handle a particular condition is entirely expected, and the level above this function is completely prepared to deal with the problem: insufficient permissions to access the file -- ask user to elevate permission; configuration file is missing in ~/.config? -- perhaps it's in /etc/? cannot navigate to URL? -- perhaps the user needs to connect to Wi-Fi network? And so on.

What I do see in practice, is that programmers are usually incapable of describing errors in a useful way, and are very reluctant to write code that automates error recovery, even if it's entirely within reach. I think, the reason for this is that the acceptance criteria for code usually emphasizes the "good path", and because usually multiple bad things can happen down the "bad path", it becomes cumbersome and tiresome to describe and respond to the bad things, and then it's seldom done.
American Woodcock. Just because of the funky little dance that they do.

https://tenor.com/view/woodcock-timberdoodle-american-woodco...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_woodcock
This happens all the time. See: drone sightings right now. Previously: Havana syndrome.
The largest DDoS attacks recorded are un-amplified and un-spoofed. The sources are malware (see Mirai and its variants) via legitimate internet connections.

Even the largest ISPs generally do not have enough spare capacity to just "block UDP packets," as the largest attacks are now measured in Tbps. There is also nothing stopping attackers from just sending TCP packets.

As consumer internet speeds grow, DDoS grows.
In the context of the fact that, according to TFA, the pits were there all along: you'll really notice how pitted your current windshield is when you go get a new, crystal-clear one. The folks in TFA just skipped the "go get a new one" step, and for the first time took a really hard look at their windshield.
Ingestion with DLT likely would have given you more connections to things. Still very cool. I saw you talking about this on LinkedIn.
What Do You Lose When You Abandon the Cloud?
260 words per SECOND? Are you sure about that? I can only assume you mean for skim/speed reading.
It's all just memes?

Always has been.
This is a big enough package that it has a lead frame, and same, I would have been using mechanical removal processes to gain access to it.
It looks like Chrome Mobile might support it soon (with some loose definition of soon).

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40418135

So you may be able to cut another step from the workflow!

Good work, I really like this kind of effortless screensharing. It unlocks new ways of helping people (helping family, etc).
Very nice! If there were still payphones, that would be a nice way to "call the Internet" :) (Assuming it has web access.)
They've said this for decades and SV engineers still pulling down $500k+/yr while someone in Hyderabad isn't making anywhere close to that.
Hehe I like that idea better! It's really just this early impulse to make the chatbots certain people that was always so unsatisfying for me. Like, don't try to make bot based off someone real, make your own characters!
I don't have statistics, but given the student visa -> H-1B pipeline changes, it would seem there are a number of H-1B holders who are educated in US colleges (either at the undergrad or graduate level). This indicates that the problem is not entirely a training gap.
> There is a shortage of applicants willing to work at what companies want to pay

Translation: companies would rather have underpaid immigrants as indentured servants to exploit than Americans who can demand higher wages
> And I can't count the number of times where "specialists" in bike repairs or plumbing told me something incorrect or outright false, so I've learned to deal with hallucinations already!

So much this. So many times I've argued with hired experts saying "can't be done" just to see yes, it can be done.
This is not a harmful medical procedure when administered to people who need it, of whom there are millions. For them, it is literally a life saver.
I would bet that almost everyone here values convenience higher than privacy - that is, privacy is generally seen as something very valuable, but in actuality, using plastic cards for all payments or point cards at the supermarket are just the two easiest examples of how we happily allow corporations to profile us, just because it offers convenience.
New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying
I don't begrudge you for trying to keep your job. I myself do things for my own job that I consider questionable. I guess it's all something we should think about.
Saw a university (like 7 years ago) H1B'ing postdocs for like $30k, maybe $35k a year, by valuing the benefits at like $20k. It was kind of a joke IMO.
You're surely right that they anticipate it being be a novelty that people share during holiday visits.

But as you can probably tell from the other replies, the idea that older people don't know how to use internet-era technology is a meme that was wearing thin 20 years ago already.

People who haven't had ChatGPT "land" for them yet are likely just people who don't find themselves asking a lot of questions they need a chatbot to answer, regardless of the medium. That probably has some age skew right now, but isn't really about the medium at all.
> Isn't it well known that the main reason that most foreigners have advanced degrees is because that's how they get into the country legally in the first place?

Yes, and ...?

I mean, if it were a requirement to start a business and employ 10 Americans gainfully, would you go and say "Yeah, but the reason so many foreign born people do that is so they can get in legally."

So?

As long as they have higher level training than most Americans, and as long as we spend money training them (via research/teaching grants), isn't it a good idea to keep them?
That's a cool idea. Going to file that away for another time. I imagine you'd maybe run your phantom voltage a little higher to overcome the ESD diode drop?
> No, not at all.

If this was true, you would be able to DEMONSTRATE that you can actually consider criticism of your claims, and take questions seriously, and answer them.

I believe that you quite literally cannot do that.

For starters, there is your base cognitive capability. But there is also now the "losing face" element in play.

Pushing back against one's cultural conditioning and the intuitions and customs that come along with it is not easy.
I can't wait for the home assistant device roll-out. ChatGPT is miles beyond Siri and Google.
'free', you code is the only price they require.
Casio A-158 sensor watch, custom firmware
Added functions:

Simple Clock
Daylight percentage
Sunrise/Sunset
Timer Face (Advanced Countdown)
Alarms (16 alarms)
Stock Stopwatch
Moon Phase
Pulsometer
Alarm Thermometer
Toss Up (rolling dice/flip a coin)
Time Left (Days passed since my birth/Days left to 90years old)
Secondary faces

World Clock (Dual Time)
Tally Counter
Save/load
Databank (Emergency phone numbers +important passwords)
Preferences
Set time
I find that diversity extremely rewarding. I learn new things, learn about other people’s traditions and learn different ways of thinking and organising. Approach the challenge with an open mind.
Not for vs2022?
How so?

I pay Claude/ChatGPT trivial amounts of money for metered API access to their models, and they in turn provide it to me.

Middlemen/marketplace models like "Uber for x" or "Etsy for x" or "Betterhelp for x" is a totally different business model.
God forbid somebody says that every dog has four legs and a hacker hears it...
The last few pages of the report summarizes the issues and mitigations. One mitigation is to use GPT-NL.

To be frank the report is exhausting to read and I gave up.
I dont think there long term impacts are so clear or cynical. the question is less about productivity, but network effect, number of jobs, and quality of jobs.
Have you tried Qwen 2.5 coder? I've only done very little testing, but it seemed to work pretty well. I used the 14B version.

https://ollama.com/library/qwen2.5-coder
That assumes the recovery mechanism is definitely going to be a greater risk than phishing. In a corporate setting recovery could require intervention from IT support if alternative methods don't exist. That adds obscurity and natural rate limiting. Where as phishing could be as simple as a fake login page.

Another factor here is the number of logins that a user is required to perform. Anecdotally this seems much higher in a corporate setting than personal. I might login to Microsoft SSO 15+ times per day for different services. Signing in to apps on my phone is rare.
Give us some examples of gigantic "winning" companies that haven't been engaging in cheating or unsportsmanlike behavior.
A problem solved if visas are not associated to employers, because then an employer couldn’t hold onto the employee like this.
FWIW I thought my EdgeRouter X died a few years back, power light would blink but wouldn't boot up - turned out to be a dying wall wart. Swapped it out for one I had lying around that happened to match voltage/current/connector and that was maybe 3 years ago.
On a market with free pricing there are, pretty much by definition, no shortages or surpluses.

Instead prices go up or down until supply and demand meet.

So talking about "shortages" in this context doesn't really make sense to me. Yet that's the terminology in this field, and the resulting confusion is unavoidable.
Python has had threaded, multiprocessing and such web servers for 20 years now e.g. in the form of Apache's mod_wsgi.

The async movement is recent, and optional in Python. There are benefits for async, but obvious downsides line coloured functions.
Sure, there is nothing non-americans can do about it. But want!=deserve
After a day of work at the office I would never have left the kitchen as dirty as a day of work from home.
... and they aren't concerned with what microsoft is doing with it?
OMG! Try calling from Microsoft Teams :D You will end up with, "Thanks for calling Agenta".
Did OpenAI outsource and release this implementation with some of the company's internal phone numbers?
The story completely misses that this period coincides with a temporary expansion of the habitat of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

The devil of the trees and terror of all loggers, forest rangers and apparently windshields.
What a terrible century for texting.
The weird thing is the word monad and the technical formalism. Practically speaking, I really don't see why I decent junior can't understand

x = [1, 2, 3].flatMap(el => if (el % 2 == 0) [] else [ el ]) // x = [1, 3]

vs

x = []
for (i = 1, i <= 3, i++) { if (i % 2) == 0) x.push(i) } // x = [1, 3]

or some such. There are advantages and disadvantages to either style of programming. I actually don't like pure functional or imperative style because of the respective tradeoffs each make (functional style requires either significant runtime overhead or heavyweight compiler optimizations and imperative gets messy very quickly and is typically difficult to reason about as program size expands).
How Electricity Works – For Visual Learners [video]
I don't get why someone would see lights in the sky and jump to anything other than "domestic/commercial aircraft". Why would aliens or foreign powers light their vehicles up for easy spotting?

I would really start to worry if I spotted an aircraft at dusk/night with no lights on it.
Best example: A whole town thinking Bigfoot AND aliens were invading at the same time https://medium.com/@weirdones/the-pa-ufo-bigfoot-invasion-of...
There was a time, long ago, when libertarians opposed initiation of violence and fraud.

That was probably before the internet was invented. These days, a typical online libertarian opposes all government action as violence, but when you mention fraud, it's like: "but who decides what is or isn't fraud? if the customer signed a contract, it was their revealed preference to get scammed..."
To be fair: Those values are also incompatible with Catholicism.
This is so shockingly normative, it almost feels like you (or someone else) are putting me on.

Have you wondered why it is so incredibly easy for LLM's to emulate Humans?
While foreigners definitely are a cash cow, I think you'll find in STEM fields most foreign PhD students are not paying tuition, but are instead funded by US grants.

As for the cost of tuition, there are many, many reasons, and I suspect if you did a PCA, you'll find "raising tuition to milk foreigners" to be of minimal impact.

In my state, for example, a local university publicized their finances going back decades, and the increase in tuition has been mirrored by a drop in state support per student. Overall the university is not making more money per student than they were 30 years ago - the only thing that changed is the entity making the payments.
Another ASGI web framework mimicking the Flask API: https://github.com/pallets/quart/
GitLab is only open core, and people choose it.
Deutsche Bank building layer two chain on the top of Ethereum