skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose is to take advantage of the sloppiness of the debt collection industry. They are designed around tricking financially illiterate people, harassing poor people, and lying.

When they buy a debt, they rarely get comprehensive documentation.
Well, all the XEPs add up to 100s of pages, but the minimal requirements for basic chat are pretty small. It gets more complex as you add more features, but importantly the complexity is managed well. You don't have to do the crazy fragile hacks that IRC needs, because XMPP was designed expressly as an extensible protocol.
Sure seemed lifelike. I started right in on asking it about the nature of consciousness and self awareness, and then pointed out that its own behavior matched the majority of the criteria it described while referring contextually to previous statements in the conversation. Then it turned into a seasoned politician, precisely understanding but vaguely answering in handwavey directions. Either that behavior is well-tuned, or it's in one form or another backed by human workers like Musk's humanoid robot theater. If the conversation raises certain flags then you escalate it to a human to preserve the illusion? Not asserting, just speculating from my brief few minutes poking at it
Well, since you mention context, the original thread is about listeria in food, and this part of the discussion is about how the US beef cartels are too big to police and so can effectively do what they want. Thus it was plausible that the comment could have been suggesting that beef that is below US legal standards might be sold to the UK.

But thanks for your contribution :)
I think vast majority of Americans not going on to higher education is because system is so screwed up due to debt and unlimited student visas.

Debt means most Americans go "I need to enter into the job market so I can pay off these debts".

Also, alot of foreign students are willing to work/study insane hours because visa hanging over their head. I have a friend who got MS in Engineering but didn't want to continue because he looked at what's required and started talking with his mentor about his PhD. His mentor said it's 996 schedule and if you don't want to, I can likely find a student visa student who will.
I will personally say that if you ever get the chance, definitely try a Waymo. I did recently for the first time and it's a hell of an experience. You can very vividly imagine it being the future.

I'm also going to stand up for AR/VR here. I'm in a long-distance relationship and me and my partner spend an hour or so in VRChat around two to three times a week. The power that has to reduce the badness of an LDR is well well well well worth the three hundred bucks I paid for a Quest. That and some of the golf games on it are fun.
Thats perfect for jail... Simce ypu cant access the internet nut can access the phone.

An e-mail version of this would also be nice.
Talking about a shortage of local applicants is really irrelevant and at most a distraction.

It's the old 'the foreigners are taking our jobs' routine.
I love Mikrotik too and the price point, but it's for people who know network engineering or need a particularly rare type of gear (like a small inexpensive 10G SFP switch).

I tell people to jump into Ubiquiti's (ui.com) ecosystem which is much more accessible for power users who occasionally wrestle with concepts like wireless,
VLANs, subnets, and traffic rules.
You can't bet on everything (and that's okay)
I'd take out the reference to "job" -- because the only State violence where it's legal to commit violence against another person without provocation is in the Military (and even then, it's subject to Rules of Engagement and other protocols); whereas even though police have powers not normally exercised by other citizens to arrest people, both police and citizens have the right to respond to lethal force with lethal force, which can often (but not always -- "lethal" can mean severe maiming, for example, or an attempt to incapacitate) lead to the death of the person being responded to.
I'm actually shocked YC invested in this product. Who's buying a robot that they then need to sit down and program - only to do things like ... what? Water a plant? (with the caveat that the glass must be pre-filled with water and sitting in a spot for the robot to grab) I cannot think of this being able to do anything remotely useful and having the juice be worth the squeeze. Hate to be such a grump about it but really what are the real-world use cases? The website does absolutely nothing to show me why I might want or need this product. It's a scratch in search of an itch.
Yes, probably -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
I think you're ignoring the part where a MBA shows up, figures they have a valuable monopoly and starts it's extortion racket.

Realize: most of the digital ecosystem runs on whales, and thats who businesses go after. As long as wealth inequality thrives, that's the enshittification cycle.
Although this is true, using cash is getting much harder over time. Here in London it's almost impossible to stick to cash as ATMs disappear and services stop accepting cash payments. To travel on a bus now you either have to use your plastic card or top up an Oyster card in advance. Some councils have removed their street parking meters so that you either use a parking app to pay by card, or you have to find and visit a Paypoint convenience store to pay (I have no idea how to do this!). Most of the self-checkout machines in my local Aldi are card-only. If you do try to pay with cash, you might struggle getting a lot of places to break a note as they're just not used to it anymore.
The US is only 4% of the world's population, so there's an enormous number of extremely smart people who live outside its present borders. I don't think anyone believes that even the world's greatest educational system can bring all of its students up to an extremely high level of general intelligence. We should be letting very smart people born outside the US emigrate here, which is a win-win for everyone involved
I prefer to think of the inherent slowness of my organic brain as a leisurely stroll through time. I’m taking the scenic route though life.
Are you getting much interest? If so, I'd be interested in collaborating to see if any of your customers or prospects are wanting to stay on a more similar solution than the alternatives.
How is not having a per-country cap going poorly in Canada?
The row starting with 5 in your example matrix is wrong, it should look like

5 4 7 6 1 0 3 2
> It's a visa. The whole point is that it's not permanent and you are ultimately expected to return home permanently

probably do not have to tell you this but not all visas are created equal... this one is particular is a dual-intent visa so what you are saying applies to SOME visas, just not this one :)
I find it useful, and it brings value to me (literally: I exchange valuable money for API access), even if it doesn't for you. Many other people report the exact same thing. Just because you don't find value in a technology, doesn't mean that others don't.

In the past week I have used it for helping write a script in a framework I'm not super familiar with (OpenSCAD), I was able to finish a project in 5 minutes that otherwise would have taken me hours. I have used it to help make movie recommendations (none of them were hallucinated). I have used it to translate a conversation with a non-english speaker, etc. There are other tools that can help me do all of these things, but none quite as fast or painlessly.

It might not be useful for your use case of asking questions related to specific web specs, but that doesn't mean that the technology has no value. Horses for courses...
This looks great - congrats on launching it and getting it to where it is today. I launched a personal financial forecast tool a few years ago with a primary focus being to help people understand the draw down plan. This is not an ad for my product as it's now abandoned (hosting moved to my personal domain).

But I wanted to share it with you and see if it's a feature you think makes sense in ProjectionLab. Most tools show charts but I wanted more fidelity and accompanied the chart with a table.

Here's what it looks like: https://fiers.jmathai.com/forecast/6020f254b4e8c

Here is the logic: https://fiers.jmathai.com/article/how-it-works

Happy to chat more if you're interested - find my contact info in my profile.
> I feel like this whole issue could be solved short order if we agreed that not being able to find qualified applicants at a given fixed price does not a shortage make.

It could be solved by realising that letting immigrants in, especially highly skilled ones, is good for the country (and for the immigrants!), independent of anything like a 'skills shortage'.
Part of the hangup is that startups are shit at dealing with enterprise privacy contracts, whereas Microsoft probably has a whole department for that.

A product can work however it works, good or bad, but if you can't wrap contractual guarantees around it that are palatable to your enterprise customers, you're not going to get enterprise sales.
Modern C++ has something like sum types, but it's so clunky and un-ergonomic it's ridiculous :(
Okay, I have interviewed hundreds of people in the last decade, and I can tell you that most are not good enough. There are companies that are downright abusing H1B for wage suppression, but as a startup founder, I will try my hardest to avoid hiring people who I have to squeeze their salary's worth and still get mediocre results (nothing to do with citizen or not - I had this experience with a Canadian contractor - just not worth it).

I have been successful in liberating money from VCs and create jobs, and I want the best people that money can buy. Turns out, there are great American and non-american candidates who are willing to work for the money I can offer. Also in my experience, I hardly even get resumes from Americans for backend jobs. Frontend is different and I get a LOT of American resumes. Our frontend engineering, PS, CX, Sales and Marketing is all-american, and backend is a mix of american, greencard, H1b - because thats all I get in the resume pipeline.

If I have to cut costs, I will have to cut the team in US and move the jobs to a low cost region regardless of their citizenship status.
Vultr valuation makes no sense. Looks like their ARR was $150MM in October 2023
Without directly addressing your question, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_number and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_supercoil

Note that math knots are always circular, while DNA is often not.
generally speaking when a country is #1 in the world order and another country is hellbent on claiming that spot, the latter is a threat to the former. china has repeatedly pushed us militarily, economically, and diplomatically. we must regard with animosity any nation with conflicting values and a desire to outstrip us in power and influence. America is not safe until the current regime is deposed and the strength of china is crippled.
Most people don't know what airplanes really look like or what lights they have on them. To most people, any flying object is unidentified and any aerial phenomenon is unexplained. We use pennies more regularly than we see airplanes, but how many can pick the right penny from this lineup? https://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/groups/cognition/tutorial...

It gets easier to believe when supposed trustworthy sources: news outlets, the government as a whole and even specific senators/ex governors, fan the flames of conspiracy instead of common sense.
I think this is precisely why exceptions model particularly well - well - exceptional situations.

They let you install barriers, and you can safely fail up until that point, disallowing the program from entering cursed states, all the while a user can be returned a readable error message.

In fact, I would be interested in more research into transactions/transactional memory.
Yeah there are linters that force you not to implicitly discard errors, but that should really be a compiler error. Still, that's not a problem inherent to the Go's error-handling model.
> when I look for more elsewhere I can't find anything.

The project's official sites:

https://www.ivlv.org/en/project/legufoam/

https://www.ivv.fraunhofer.de/en/food/pastries/project-leguf...

Strangely, no mention of aquafaba anywhere.
Another complication - H1Bs are valid for 6 years. However, the physical paper stamp given on passports is only valid for 3 years at a time. So if I chose to stay in the US (and not travel internationally) I'd be fine to continue working without renewing my physical visa paper stamp. But to get a new physical stamp, I have to re-enter the country every 3 years. How does that make sense?
> I'd be surprised if more than 5-10% of H-1B positions are ones where the hiring company has even looked for US applicants.

But H1B employers are required to certify that they took good faith steps to recruit U.S. workers for these positions and were unable to find qualified candidates to hire.

You really think a business would do that? Just go to the government and tell lies?
A software developer's time is much more precious than wasting time on sub-optimal models.

Open Weights models has it's place (in training custom agents and custom services), but if you are knowledge worker, using a model even 5% less than SOTA is extremely dumb
Chip manufactures have very different business from car part manufactures. The car parts manufacturers would love to sell me a new ABS controller, but the chips that go into it are not made anymore and they don't have the ability to get them made in many cases. Most often because they just bought some common part like a 16 bit CPU - when they have their own custom chips they can maybe find someone else to make them (though sometimes this isn't possible)
I dunno, "collective delusion" sounds worse than a simpler "we weren't paying attention to the Thing, then media/memes sprung up and made us pay attention and we freaked out".

This happens all the time in our current media landscape. "Yeah health insurance denies claims sometimes, that's normal" to "wait actually health insurance denies claims routinely to increase its profits!?"

There are tons of things that we decide to ignore to go on with our lives. It's exhausting to freak out about all the things that deserve to be freaked out about.
No. Because it still floods the job market with off short talent that is willing to work for 30% less. Construction workers arent tied to a single employer (usually) and that drops the price of labour across the board even in union dominated markets.
That wasn't my experience at school.

I learned that people don't think the way I do, that my peers can include sadists, that adults can make mistakes or be arses and you can be powerless to change their minds.

Which was valuable, but it wasn't telling me anything about "the system" being flawed (unless you count the fact it was a Catholic school and that I stopped being Christian while in that school as a result of reading the Bible), which I had to figure out gradually in adulthood.
Explains MAGA
Yes, but which of those things would you not have resolved just as well 10 years ago? All those possibilities were added by the maturing web itself, as a genuinely novel change from having to source books or experts/friends in the days before.

I'm glad ChatGPT didn't lead you astray, but I'm not seeing what it's added here besides shuffling up the user interface in a way that you presently and subjectively prefer?
> lead people to believe that humans are getting nastier over time, even when they’re not

Most people aren't nasty or getting nastier but nasty people are likely over represented in those with power and there seems to be a current swing to having more such people getting into positions of power.

Added to that is that modern technology and weapons make it easier for a few "bad apples" in power to cause more grief to more people than before.
Interestingly enough, it answers the question "Who is Jonathan Zittrain?". An oversight?
The website is nauseating.
they aren't masked behind national security, that IS the issue. China was asked to host data on US servers, so it garunteed they couldn't access the data, yet there's evidence Chinese employees were accessing the data. That's strike one. Now they have an app that can sway the public opinion of ages 8-30, by feeding them content that presents a certain perspective example: during the tiktok hearings in the past, on tiktok there were memes (probably boosted) that purposefully made lawmakers look stupid, even if they had reasonable questions. This swayed public opinion in itself. Also bonus, it gives access to some user data too. That's not to mention China doesn't allow a US based app like tiktok to exist in their version of the internet.
Calling it now: Google will ultimately lose this consumer battle. How? By doing what they've always done: building better tech. Gemini will be faster/better and it will have more features; but they will continue to fail to productize or explain it to consumers.

Google's offerings here are still a huge mess. OpenAI is crushing them right now at building products that people want, and making them accessible.
What should be done for the high-school freshman dropout who goes on to get a commercial driver's license, and then goes on to get an endorsement for transporting hazardous materials?
> ...when they do it should be domain/IP whitelisted only.

In practice, this will work very poorly. Your whitelist will end up looking like "All of Azure, GCP, AWS, and CloudFlare, plus some one-offs"... which doesn't really stop anything.

I work at a BigCo that tries to do what you're proposing and it works so, so badly. Thankfully, we can turn off the "security" software that does this on our workstations. Unfortunately, cannot do the same for our software that runs on datacenter-hosted hardware that IT manages.

> Clients shouldn't connect to the Internet by default...

I have a couple of VLANs on my LAN that don't provide Internet access just for this reason.
Hi Kyle,

I'm a big fan of projectionlabs and have recommended it to a few people. It's the best tool I've found in this niche. You've done a great job on the UI to keep it simple while being extremely powerful and I love moving milestones around and seeing how things react.

The Tax side is where things get interesting/complicated. In my case, I'll be retiring in a different country to where I'm working and so the tax for drawdowns doesn't really work
ImGui doesn't have "components" like a traditional toolkit. If you want a custom component you just make a regular function like:

MyCustomThing::MyWidget( "name", whatever_value );

And it gets the current rectangle from a global context, can allocate some of that rectangle space for itself, draw things, react to events, etc. It's more complicated when the widget needs to store state, but ImGui has pretty well established conventions for how to do that, which basically boils down to hashing the widget name or ID and storing your state there. And when you try, you find you need a lot less state than you might expect. Of course if you have custom data that already has state (e.g. an object passed into your widget), you can use and modify that directly which is great.

It's a very different way of thinking, and it does have some challenges but it usually ends up being a lot simpler and more robust than a "retained mode" gui.
The yap factor is there, but they seem to be prompting this phone version to be more brief. I asked a few basic informational trivia questions and each response was 3 or four sentences. Less than the app or website version imo.
Same here.

How ironic that it's not actually Apple delivering that despite being in the perfect position to do so (they have a deal with OpenAI for ChatGPT using Siri, have all the contextual knowledge they could ever need etc.) – my iOS 18.2 Siri + ChatGPT experience has been extremely disappointing so far: It seems to completely forget all context between questions, ignores me for follow-up questions 80% of the time etc.
If you're "wealthy", you can immigrate by officially starting a business with just an $80000 investment (E-2 visa).

Or you can just buy a green card for a $800000 investment (EB-5).
There is plenty. FastAPI, Starlite and Flask are all ASGI.

Yes, Python has its own ASGI HTTP Servers, Uvicorn and Hypercorn are two most common.

I agree, I'm not sure what this project aims to fix over other more established projects.
Puppet and Chef are still broadly used, but much less so in younger companies, and they're Boring Technology now -- so they'll be underrepresented in the kind of companies that HN likes, that give conference talks, and so on.

Overall I think the declarative nature of Puppet and Chef lend themselves more to still automated, but longer-lived, nodes. Not quite pets, but things that stick around for more than one deploy.
There's https://www.freecodecamp.org/. https://www.codecademy.com/ has some free stuff but there's also paid stuff.

Google also has a few free courses: https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/paths/new_to_cs/#sequenc...

Also see the getting started guide from r/learnprogramming: https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/wiki/faq

Personally, at least, I don't learn very well from these resources. I had more luck either learning from community college professors or from videos like LinkedIn Learning (paid). Also heard good things about frontendmasters.com (only for web frontends, not for generalist programming).
slippery slope? i think curtailing china's access to US networks and data, as well as crippling her tech sector, is a great goal. this is one step along the path, not another foot downhill.
If Jesus does come back, he's gonna be pissed!
> This is how science gets discredited - by allowing idiots do “science”. Here Raoult does not get kicked out, but is Director of the ACME - this is how entire field of medicine research gor tainted.

It should be noted that a few months after Raoult's paper was published another one contradicting his was

* https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022926

It's just the contradiction may not have been as widely known, especially by those that aren't involved in the field.

Isn't this how science is (at least partly) done? Claim (which is falsifiable) and counter-claim (verification/repudiation).
Can you point me to the book that says that "Booleans" are encoded in the human brain just like in a binary computer and they take exactly 1 bit to store? I mean, why not assume error correction, while we are at it, or some kind of compression algorithm that reduces the size further?

If that sounds ridiculous to you, you are beginning to get it. Every single brain cell works on electric potential (a continous value). Not a single one of them can be said to be in the "zero" or "one" state (a discrete value).
Not outsourced, I worked on it myself.

This is the old owner of the number. Some carriers are still routing it wrong.
Start eating keto and get good sleep. Stay quiet and dont admit to lowered productivity, let the mistakes happen and be friendly.
The working conditions for Americans suck due to this fucking program. People come here to live subservient lives and bring along a toxic culture of submission. The level of ass licking that I see on the regular is akin to a well known Korean airline going into the side of a mountain. It is insane the level of deference you will find.

All this hype about the "smartest, brightest, etc." is nonsense. I've worked with hundreds of engineers in SV who are all on H1B. They are no better than anyone else. My main complaint with them is that their work is fine but the culture they bring is insanely toxic and does not allow for any psychological safety at all. I know enough people in industry for a long period of time to know that it wasn't always this way. There were always problems but it has hit a level that is insane. The fact that an American is a minority nationality when in almost any US tech company is bonkers.