skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps what you view as unique, quirky human behavior is just one manifestation of a common pattern in advanced intelligence. In the long run, most J curves are S curves.
I suppose that could have been clearer. I use Windows on my desktop and Linux on my laptop.
similarly i am in this ridiculous position. I am a security engineer, wanting to work in vulnerability research. Got an EB2-NIW green card due to my skills being valuable for the national interest. Can't even get an interview because all vulnerability researcher positions require TS clearance... I guess i will just have to wait 4 more years for the citizenship, but it's a pity.
Yes, Snikket was also one of my failed attempts. Maybe it's me, I don't know.
Diversity does not imply comparison to other species. I'm still struggling to figure out how that entered the conversation. We are either diverse or not, and we are not clones, so we are diverse.

This is one of the most unpleasant conversations in recent memory. Haven't you ever heard of good faith conversation? Jesus. Absolutely rank vibes.
Hey all, I’m the author of SNAFU (mentioned in the article). I’m off to bed now, but I’d be happy to try and answer any questions people might have sometime tomorrow.

I’m glad to see SNAFU was useful to others!
So my question is - knowing that and looking at the marketing literature, is it possible to somehow recreate the signal to use on actual hardware.

It's possible to RF modulate composite sources over coax for home cable systems (think blonder tongue gear or even consumer gear) - since it is combined to the 6Mhz signal somewhere along the line could one not pipe this signal into a coax cable and then into the hardware to recreate it?

Am looking at setting up my own home analog CATV system and this would be the cherry on the cake. I guess the real question is what was the device expecting in that signal - what was being modulated out over the wire.
Why would I work in person for less money when I can work remote? For in person work on critical applications like satellites, I'd expect (spitballing here) a staff eng to be making 300k base with substantial bonus/espp on top. Consider that most midsize tech companies are going to pay staff level 200k or above and ask how the company in question compares, before pricing in the crushing inflexibility of in person work.
Related article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf
At one point in 2019, there was just 1 serious case of Covid 19.
The source code is available, so if you think this project is so important, you can do it yourself.
this sort of hackery to work with jupyter notebooks is exactly why we are building marimo (https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo). this should not be the standard
"The growth is unsustainable argument is very strange to me. We absolutely have the technology to make growth sustainable, but societies choose to go for other things because overall growth and advancement of humanity is not generally a goal at mass individual level."

Well, it is seventh grade mathematics. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

https://expatcircle.com/cms/why-the-future-might-hold-troubl...

The limits of growth are real. Very real. And unfortunately, many problems we are seeing might be the prelude to the prediction.

"It’s quite human-centric to assume that all other possible civilizations will make the same choices."

Well, there should be many and we see none. This is not encouraging. While the best idea to look for life is to look for an entropy source, I think advanced live in space may be similar to us. They would need some kind of sensors (eyes, ears) and likely they would have been predators at one stage in the evolutionary path.
Stack Overflow is now a proprietary database too. Given the choice between that, and a proprietary robot offering 10x as much clarity and quality, I'd choose the robot. Not all LLMs are proprietary in the same way as Claude. Many LLMs have their weights publicly available, like Gemma. But I can understand if you feel like a floating point numbers file is de facto proprietary tool. But if you're smart, you would look at this instead as an opportunity to invent the tools that will make this knowledge accessible. I've been working with Mozilla to build a "fantasy mode" feature for Firefox, which works similar to incognito mode, where you have a local LLM generate a synthetic version of the world wide web on the fly. This gives you the ability to explore the knowledge contained in LLM weights using an intuitive familiar browser-based interface. So far it's about as fast as 56k dialup was in the 1990s but as microprocessors become faster, I believe we'll be able to generate artificial realities of useful information we can't live without which are superior to Stack Overflow today.
It's definitely slowing down. Gemini and other models are almost at the same levels as chat gpt 4-o or claude sonnet but no spectacular increases anymore.
It does make a difference. When filing for adjustment of status, you can request USCIS to consider both you and your spouse as chargable to your spouse's country of birth, and therefore be placed in a more favourable GC queue. This is called cross-chargeability [1].

Because of this, the "100-year green card queue" problem only really applies for a couple who are both born in India/China, with kids who are not born in the US. If even one child was born in the US, they would be able to sponsor both parents for an immediate green card when they turn 21 years old. In the meantime, the H1-B beneficiary can extend their visa indefinitely and port their approved I-140 whenever they switch jobs, with a 6-month grace period. The spouse also has full working rights.

21 years is a long time, but while working, both parents will accumulate social security credits and will be eligible to recieve benefits upon retirement (if they've secured a green card by then).

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-a-chapter-...
That’s pretty common and not actually limited to H1-Bs

I know universities will do this with certain open positions where they already have a candidate in mind but are required to advertise an opening, can’t remember the specifics why though. Same with RFPs.

Really easy system to defeat.
The way this is rolled out is super weird. Ultra bold - shocking - claims by a credible researcher but zero details amidst tons of documentation and even code that would hint at how these two universes (model based simulation and model free generative models) are being unified beyond a lot of references to differentiable simulation…

Super exciting!
How Did the Months Get Their Names?
What you are talking about is PERM. That's a requirement that the department of labor has established. When you want to hire an immigrant permanently, DOL requires that you take out an ad in a Sunday newspaper. It benefits the lawyers and the government greatly as this is a good source of revenue for both of them. As far as the actual job goes, that job was never open. The person is already working for the company on a visa. DOL just makes them do this dog and pony show before they can hire them permanently. These regulations are a few decades old and were never updated.
Transitioned from gnu stow to nix/home-manager and haven't looked back.

The great part about that setup is my configuration contains not just my dotfiles, but also the installation of the programs themselves.

I don't use the "nix" way of configuration though, I instead have home manager symlink everthing for me. Then I can bail on nix anytime and not have to translate all my files back to yaml.

Glad programs like the above exist though for those who don't want to sink time into nix but want to reasonably track configuration.
> I just don't seem to struggle, as others claim to, in measuring productivity.

Because you are measuring at a very broad and basic level.

Steve is more productive than Susan.

Great. How much more productive? Can you turn it into a number?

Can you still do it consistently when Steve and Susan are in different teams in different parts of the organisation trying to achieve different goals?

I've done DB upgrades that took 10 minutes and I've done DB upgrades that took 3-4 months. What changed was not my productivity but the nature of the problem. Yet from the outside they were both just DB upgrades.

If Susan had done the DB upgrade in 12 weeks could we confidently claim that Steve could have done it in 11 weeks? Steve hasn't even done a DB upgrade since he joined the company. Perhaps Steve could have done it in 10 minutes?
Rust's syntax is largely irrelevant to its purpose. If you don't see the need for it, might as well learn something else.
Pricing with credits is a breath of fresh air in a never ending land of subscriptions
It means the causality is not built into the components but instead decided once your system is defined. The point is that you can make a change to the causality without having to refactor major parts of your model. It also means, even without the factoring, that the causalization (determining what is computed in terms of what) is done for you by the compiler, which spares you from doing lots of tedious, time-consuming and error prone work.
Which statically typed language do you find most agreeable?

Same question for any language.
And if Logitech had a webpage to configure settings, HN would be up in arms about not being able to configure while offline.
Brampton is a suburb of Toronto with a large Indian immigrant population. This is leading to tensions within Brampton as different Indian political factions attempt to influence Indian politics from Canada[1][2][3].

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/canada-khalistan-re...

[2] https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/party-leaders-c...

[3] https://tnc.news/2024/11/04/arrests-brampton-surrey-khalista...
In 2014, Apple had an iCloud issue with a vulnerability in Apple's Find My iPhone API, which lacked rate-limiting, allowing attackers to perform brute-force password attacks without restriction. Apple denied that this was the cause of the celebrity photo releases, but they also patched several bugs relating to security and began promoting two-factor authentication.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/apple-icloud-brute-force-atta...
Go refuses to compile if you have an unused variable and that is the opposite of quick and nimble.
Hey, I was actually looking for something like this a while back and couldn't find anything. Really glad to have discovered it. But I couldn't get it to work. I added the plugin via Figma, gave it a prompt and spent my 1 credit to generate an illustration, the credit was used, but no image was created (or perhaps it was created and is just hidden or outside of the frames / groups).

Figured you might want to know / provide some instructions in case others are running into this issue too.
Here are some suggestions that may be of use:

* If tickets are supposed to be "done" in 3 days, you might find that people are happy if, after 2 days, you have some part completed/merged/released, and a new ticket(s) for the "rest" that is clearly described, detailed, etc. Rinse and repeat. Now, everything is "done" in 2 days, and you're exceeding expectations, and the new manager has a victory to talk about at the next meeting.

* For spacing, figure out how to configure your IDE, or some pretty-printer / indent tool that does it how the tech lead likes it. Obviously, "tabs vs spaces" or how to to format or whatever doesn't actually make any difference to the running code or anything else, so it's not worth arguing about, and no argument about it can ever actually be "won" because it's all personal preference, so if you just do it how they prefer, if that's what they want, they'll be happy. They probably regard this as being about "attention to detail" or being a "team player" as much as being about tabs vs spaces or whatever they say it's about. Start putting comments on _other people's_ MRs to follow the style the tech lead wants when they drop the ball.

* If your fiance is sick, take proper time off when needed, give as much notice as possible, ask people to take notes / record meetings for you to catch up on. Don't let it seem like an excuse / card you play _after_ you drop the ball. Don't be available / working at 80% of capacity/expectations because of this at all times, be 100% capacity / totally on the ball when you are there, but sometimes be away / 0% present when you need to be, and then they'll miss you when you're not there, and appreciate you when you get back.

It's possible you are too far gone at your current job, but maybe not... in any case, you'll find these suggestions apply anywhere. Obviously, deep down, we all know these metrics and tabs vs spaces and stuff are silly, but this is how companies work. These things can be gamed, so be the best at gaming the system, and everyone will be happy. If you fight it, you'll lose. If you don't like it... figure out how to start your own company :) 4k users is impressive, maybe you're closer to that than you think.
It is pretty wide spread in automotive. I think nearly all F1 teams use it (hard to know for sure since they are quite secretive, but it is very common in my experience)
The thing about Chevron deference is, it was already limited on its face: it only operated at all in places where the statute is silent or ambiguous, and only commanded deference to "reasonable" interpretations.

If the interpretation in Loper Bright was not "reasonable," the Supreme Court already had the tools it needed to reverse the agency without breaking any precedent. If on the other hand it was reasonable, why should the courts be getting involved?

Removing Chevron simply allows the courts to select their preferred policy outcomes more directly.
Money is just a means to obtain goods and services. So no... money isn't really the goal.
It’s down to 30% in the US; it was over 40% twenty years ago:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/642548/church-attendance-declin...
Thanks for your kind words.

These are google location review links. If you don't want to click them, you can search the name of the place and you would reach the same place.
I have been using the python sdk on ubuntu and it's been working well, so far at least!
That's very tricky thing to quantify, especially with "unsung heroes". If my work is in preventing problems, the guy that fixes problems will be seen as the one that contributes more to profit, since impact is directly observed/measured.

This is something that one of the orgs I worked for eventually realized. The people f'ing up, and then fixing their mistakes, were the ones getting promotions/bonuses/raises, because they were the ones interacting with all the execs.
Joe Lonsdale – The AI-Driven EMP Weapon Built to Destroy New Jersey Drone Swarms [video]
I agree with you. If we have more data, it can definitely be more cost-effective.
Yup, I’m in Canada as well, and I was quite a bit thrown off by the redirected Canadian pay range.

For anyone curious, the Canadian pay range is:

Base pay $66K - $95K/yr

$79K/yr Average base pay

The low end of that base pay ($66k CAD) converts to $45k USD.

While the U.S. pay range is:

Total pay range: $266K - $463K/yr

$346K/yr Median total pay

Pay breakdown
$137K - $223K/yr Base pay
$129K - $240K/yr Additional pay
I think this is just a semantic quibble based on a narrow interpretation of the word "produce".

Because it also means:

"cause (a particular result or situation) to happen or exist."
Economic growth, in our current paradigm, requires the production of ever more goods, which in turn requires ever more energy and natural resources. That is unsustainable, because nature is finite.

My personal theory is that any advanced civilization that is capable of interstellar travel must have conquered their animal instincts and realized that growth for the sake of growth is pointless.
In Australia Linear Algebra was straight out of high school first year university basic STEM common core math course work for Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Medical, Biology, etc. streams.
> But Shiftkey doesn't guarantee that you'll get work on any of those shifts – in other words, nurses have to pledge not to take any work during the times when Shiftkey might need them, but they only get paid for those hours where Shiftkey calls them out.

> The less money you have in your bank accounts and the more you owe on your credit cards, the lower the wage the app will offer you.

I guess nurses are being sold on the flexibility of working when they want to, but this is horrifying.

It seems sort of like the catch-22 of loans - you should only borrow money when you don't need to.
You can compress 10Gbit/s down to 10bit/s but then you can't do the reverse operation... Yeah, we know.

To me it's like saying "I've summarised this book to 5 words, so why would you even need a few days to read it entirely?".
The situation at large is even worse if you consider how Discord moved a significant portion of discussion away from the indexable Web.

I thought of mailing lists as archaic, but maybe we just regressed from there.
I don’t imagine anything Canada does or doesn’t do will change Trumps mind on this, but hopefully it will ironically reduce the flow of drugs and guns into Canada from the US.

Also I imagine most of it comes in smuggled in vehicle traffic at regular border crossings due to volume and ease, not random bush in the middle of no where.
The Java developers coming over on H-1Bs are often bottom of the barrel.
Get a kale phone
definitely useful, for me personally, the use case is using it to write on lambda as the obsolescence of the old editor while the new one is still useless for me as the vim emulation is not usable. thanks, mate.
From Nov. 2, 2024 in Ars Technica:

> Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service, the company warned Thursday.

> The malicious network, made up almost entirely of TP-Link routers, was first documented in October 2023 by a researcher who named it Botnet-7777. The geographically dispersed collection of more than 16,000 compromised devices at its peak got its name because it exposes its malicious malware on port 7777.

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/micro...
While you're right, I suspect having the price of meat increase 2-5x will mean that whoever pushes for the elimination of factory farming won't be in power for long enough to "make it stick".
I don’t know if you’re making a joke or not, but getting NHS isn’t worth $200,000 USD per year.

Most Americans get employer-provided health insurance, which costs money (the amount specified in the DD section of the W2), and its often in the $1500/month range. That DD amount isn’t part of your income or the salary Glassdoor mentions. It’s an added benefit of top of that.

In the UK and elsewhere, around $500/month/person in taxes pays for your healthcare. That’s essentially subtracted from your income. So the uk income is even lower when you subtract the taxes the NHS costs.
This is fictious btw, or logic as follows is delete all code, deploy nothing, all bugs fixed, and achieve infinite productivity.
229ThF4 thin films for solid-state nuclear clocks
Does this program allow linking the same file to different locations on MacOS vs Linux? I have a few config files like the vscode settings.json that end up in different paths but have the same content. (I see it allows for files that are OS specific but not clear if there is a way to keep them in sync if they are the same, but just need different paths)

I use stow at the moment and it is almost perfect but I don't believe it can do that without multiple symlinks or something messy. Didn't like home manager and other dotfiles solutions seemed too bloated for my case
CDC Confirms First Severe Case of H5N1 Bird Flu in the United States
Consider that you are uninformed about the UAP phenomenon.
that does bring a really good point! would it be allowed (that is assuming the show knew it was not a real human)?
Probably not, but Apple and NVIDIA collaborating on anything is news. They’re two companies that both want to be the ones wearing the Big Boy pants in any relationship so when they did anything together in the past, it hasn’t worked out for long.
Anecdotally, nearly every time I’ve had a change of manager, replacing the one I originally interviewed with when joining the company, I ended up quitting in less than one year, typically because I couldn’t deal with their management style. It always seemed silly that, after working my ass off, now I had to prove myself again to a new manager. Might as well jump ship and get a good raise for it.

So no advice but you’re not alone.
Also the default speed is useful for Gen X or older. Gotta max out pointer speed and keyboard repeat rate when you buy a new Mac.
> what did you expect?

Something like electrodes stimulating the tongue to create the sensation of flavour. I wouldn't call this "virtual taste" for the same reason I wouldn't describe Glade as "virtual scent".
Original report (gift link): https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/us-ban-china-...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449503
> I just got a Pixel Watch 3 and find it impossible to understand how they have such an advanced monitoring on so many health aspects, including sleep cycles

The Fitbit integration with the Pixel watches is not great. The Fitbit support is even worse - it actually makes Google's support look decent by comparison, which is really saying something.
Developers aren’t fungible, and are hard to hire. Try getting a bunch of people to sling some boring Java or mainframe code. They don’t exist.

The trap with the older worker is a guy wants $250k, but will perform at the level of a $75/hr body shop guy. Skills don’t align - that’s always the risk of engineering.
Experience on earth that they eventually evolve hands.
Bullshit. Nature evolves through small random mutations. Random mutations can't build structures like Aeroplane or a Watch. That requires thought and creativity. Advanced civilizations would continue to use creativity. And hence making them distinguishable from structures that are present in Nature.
the voices are even able to speed up their own delivery on command! it's great
Clearly if you screw up it’s because you weren’t good enough/not trying hard enough. (/s, but I wish mgmt was sarcastic when they said shit like that).
To be fair, it doesn't. I have Logitech mice and I have never once installed an app for them. They work great just with normal USB HID drivers.
I think it would be better to make two stories to avoid the possibility of an inattentive reader concluding this severe case could have been avoided if only the dairy flu had been responded to sooner.
Function point analysis works well enough for measuring software productivity in most domains, provided that quality is held constant. Like other software productivity metrics it's only meaningful at the level of a complete product team and worse than useless for evaluating individual team members.

https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/32.44364

So you can measure productivity with a reasonable level of accuracy and consistency, but then what? For most organizations it's not actionable so calculating that metric ends up as another form of waste.
They're still trying. I mean, not succeeding, but they're making some sort of effort. (On which note... If anyone's figured out how to run ollama/llamafile/... on any of the apparently numerous libraries that supposedly accelerate AI on Intel hardware please share any hints because supposedly I've got the hardware but I can't make sense of any of the docs...)
Cryptographic proof that the model you’re using is the one you think it is along with proof it was not trained on biased or copyrighted data is the main feature here. Think certs when looking at webpages or ssh when looking at servers.