skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A tool that would be useful for organizations that don't have superstar, ultra-competent devops people on the full-time payroll sounds pretty useful in general. There are a lot of companies that just aren't at the scale to justify hiring someone for that kind of role, and even then, it's hard to find really good people who know what they are doing.
Not that I disagree with your point, but with credit card rewards, it is actually cheaper to use the card. So there is frequently a financial incentive as well. You can still find a few oddball stores who will give you a cash discount relative to the credit price, but those are not common.
It's not an assumption, Affirmative Action along with many other requirements is mandated for the contractors working with the US. You can start from here https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/program-areas/employers/fe...
Some smaller banks upload available balances to processors and perform clearing later in a back office only. They just don't have a hook to link a notification and send it only after the actual settlement.
It should be pretty easy to list one thing then, like the fact that Teams doesn't cook bacon.
In general, H1B visas do have such provisions. At least in CA most jobs must provide a salary range. Even if every H1B is the lowest of the range in those postings, that alone means there are many many jobs which fit your criteria.
Klarna use a huge dark pattern on their payment processing (irrelevant of bnpl), whereby they store your details for future use by default, even without an account. Last time I checked you only needed a couple of pieces of easily identifiable information to be granted access to “your” autofill. - I know all the H&M group shops use it as their payment processor in the UK.
That is outrageous that two seemingly developed countries could have such a huge compensation gap. A senior aerospace engineer in the UK can make as little as 45k GBP, or 56k USD? One fifth as much as the lowest-paid American??

The take-home on that is £35k. The median rent in London is £26k. I suppose the person making £45k doesn't likely live in London, but still pretty grim.

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/10/14/the-amer...
> Home schooled students almost always are not well equipped to deal with conflict or consensus building

You imply that traditional schooling teaches this, but in my experience plenty of people never learn either skill and perhaps work is where we learn it.

I've just been a fly-on-the-wall seeing 3x 20s women trying to resolve a significant conflict - they all seemed to have a horrific struggle because 2 of them were extreme conflict avoiders.

I see the same issue in some 50s to 70s friends: an inability to deal with facts or conflicts leading to poor outcomes for themselves.

Do most home schooled children lack intuititively learned social skills? Alternatively, some friends with great social skills had lots of siblings (I think that helps too).
This is a movement based on extreme hatred and dehumanization of anyone different from them, and most of the time such movements have taken control anywhere historically, it has resulted in mass murder/genocide. We underestimate what atrocities they are capable of at our own peril. I am hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.

I feel like I - and a lot of people I know - have been in denial of what is happening for a while. It is terrifying, and I don't want it to be true, but it is undeniable. I don't want to be one of those people that says "Davon haben wir nichts gewusst" - "We knew nothing about that."
The best part of GOOG411 was that they would connect you to the phone number, free of charge, across borders.

List a business with a Google voice number and you can call in, check messages, and _dial out_ from Google voice. Free international calls!

I was in school in Canada where we had a payphone in a hallway. People heard me randomly saying "Funny Business Name, City State ... Connect me" into the phone so much, it became a running joke.

When I eventually got my own phone, I transferred the number and I still have it.
Gemini Powers Tldraw's "Natural Language Computing" Experience
Just give us untethered AI models that we can run on our own hardware.
> Yes, we pay well.

Not enough, apparently.

> No, you can't work remotely.

You'll have to pay even more for this.

> No, we don't pay as much as Meta.

So again, not enough.
Again: If you get cancer, are you going to skip treatment because you didn't avoid every known carcinogen? Cancer is an obvious consequence of carcinogen exposure, and I would bet quite a lot of money that you are not avoiding exposure to every carcinogen you are aware of. I also doubt you're "putting in the work" to educate yourself on all of the known carcinogens, either.

And no, you're not an asshole for saying that people hold some responsibility in getting fat. You're an asshole because you're wishing further harm on them vs. them having a safe and effective treatment for it. Even if becoming obese wasn't a complex and multifaceted topic (and this is well established science, not some fat-apologist bullshit), even if people just pushed a button that said "make me fat" for some reason, we should all wish for them to have as easy, safe, and effective of a method as possible for returning to a healthy body weight.

What possible moral justification could you have for literally wishing people will have negative health outcomes because they want to use medication to assist them in their weight loss?
Can confirm, having been coughing for the last week enough to do this to my eyes. Was pretty alarming actually, but turns out to be common, it's gone now.
Because I dislike interspersing executable statements at module level with function definitions. I’d rather have all code live inside functions and have one main entry point for the script. It’s just a personal preference, nothing wrong with not doing that though.
That indeed sounds strange. Was the headset charged? That’s the only reason i can think of off the top of my head

I used that lightning to 3.5mm cable from apple with my airpods max quite a few times with no issues. Mostly for the purpose of playing some ps5 games with surround sound (by connecting the 3.5mm end to the port on the gamepad).
>You're leaving out Putin's role

Putin was a figurehead of the oligarch clan from Saint-Petersburg, who happened to have KGB connections as well. Russia had moved from the Western-like democratic path already. They could've chosen another person with the same results.

>Putin always hated the US

It doesn't matter. Professional criminals don't operate out of hate.

>the fact that Yeltsin's campaign hired American pollsters had nothing to do with that, nor do Russians in general care who Yeltsin hired as consultants

He was re-elected with very low initial public support. Had Zyuganov become president in 1996, there could be an opportunity to build the democratic tradition of transition of power. OTOH, communists could've messed up in some other way, of course. I also omitted the financial crisis of 1998, but that's another explanation of why general public wasn't so principled regarding democratic values as opposed to promise of stability, 7-10 years later.

Re: apartment bombings. Correct, that's the casus beli for the Second Chechen war and directly related to Putin's election platform.
No he ran on an explicitly racist and ANTI Immigrant (yes including legal immigrants!) platform.

See https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77l28myezko
No, but you can have an interface like

interface Func<P, R, X extends Exception>
{
R func(P param) throws X;
}

or the same with more than one exception type, and convert your lambda to that. This works. The only problem is that you can’t abstract over an arbitrary number of exception types.

In principle, one could imagine a syntax for variadic type parameters like

interface Func<P..., R, X... extends Exception>
{
R func(P... params) throws X...;
}

that would solve that problem.
a) Apple already reaches out to ChatGPT (and soon to be others) for the full LLM experience. And there isn’t much benefit to be had from building their own competitor.

b) Privacy is essential if you want to an LLM to interact with you with private information. You can’t just upload unencrypted photos, messages, health data etc to the cloud where it will be accessible by any government with a search warrant. And so it does makes sense to keep it all private and encrypted on device or used in private but restricted compute.

c) Hype is very much coming out of the AI space and so I don’t see the market punishing Apple for not doing more. If anything they should’ve done nothing rather than released the technically impressive but largely useless Apple Intelligence product.
> but sometimes, "red tape" exists for a reason.

Pretty much always. And a lot of the time, the reason (if not the implementation) was pretty good. But these things almost always grow, and interact, and are very hard to update with changing times. SO you get a mess, and you get friction, but mostly as you note, the friction is viewed as a brake on other undesirable outcomes. So people learn to work with it. I guess there aren't enough incentives for people to clean up/optimize it until well past when it becomes an obvious problem.,,
I find it hard to believe you are surprised. In disagreement, sure. Surprised? This is an enormous, dramatic issue. People on both sides rightfully perceive it as borderline existential.
I’ve heard a different version “believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you read”, variously attributed to Mark Twain, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Douglas Adams.

I guess that proves their point, whoever they were.
Genesis 2:15 ESV
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
The excellent podcast The Rest is History has a vaguely connected series of episodes on the Roman Empire and its fall that includes a lot of discussion about the evolution of Christianity. The newest cycle, "Warlords of the West" (3 episodes on the emergence of the Frankish kingdom following the fall of the Roman Empire, a fascinating period not often talked about) and "Charlemagne" (3-part episode just on Charlemagne, who did more than any other Medieval figure ensured the spread of Christianity) have excellent about the political and religious forces that spread Christianity through Europe.
I leave the negative places entirely. Blacklist sites and redact users, topics, phrases, and words/patterns.
Not particularly a vim habit but doing this:

function foo() {|

function foo() {
}|<esc>O<sp><esc>x

function foo() {
....
}

I know that I can just {<cr>}, and then o/O any time, but for some reason I want that empty indented line which I delete half of the times anyway.
The H1B fraud from places like Infosys is alive, well, and bigger than ever.

Alive and well.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/

Companies caught cheating the lottery
https://archive.ph/Ey3e8

Outsourcers rampant abuse
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2241196/proof-that-h-1b-vi...

SV companies discriminating against Americans https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/07/h-1b-visa-company-sup...
How... does antibiotics have anything to do with H5N1?
It was definitely this. Skype was already on the decline, and then COVID hit and everyone had to work from home. Meetings apps took over (Zoom, Webex, eventually Teams (Microsoft antitrust violation)), and in that business battle most had free tiers. It was easy for people to use their work account or the free version of something they already knew how to use. There was no reason to sign up for Skype for anyone not already on it. Then the social network effects took care of the rest.
There are a lot of articles recently.

“most driver assistance features are disabled, including rearview cameras, forward collision warning and blind spot warning, GPS navigation, and range estimations”

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-s-brand-new-cars-not-drivable-bec...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-HW4-computers-are-failin...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-scrambles-to-fix-ai...
Don’t let these naysayers here discourage you. I’ve used CCleaner on Windows 20 years ago, so why not finally now on my kube cluster.
Your ELI5 kinda ignores that the baking during teen years matters.

Anecdotally socially inappropriate teen behaviour seems to be part of a subconscious learning process. But maybe pushing boundaries matters at all ages?
Apple inference is on their own GPU. Apple training is on the cloud with Nvidia.

There are plenty of use cases e.g. Apple Maps, News etc which are public and don’t need their Private Compute Cloud.
They don’t create any other code paths than RuntimeExceptions.
It's one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard on this site frankly. For how "meritocratic" HN claims to be, they are totally fine with basically eliminating all competition in their own job sphere.

Imagine how quickly business trust in the government would go down if the government mandated a $200k head tax on H1Bs. It's absurd and only here would anyone hear it and think it makes sense
Feels like an in-between library that I'm not sure has a great fit in the current Python BE environment.

It's not as batteries-included as Django, primarily because Django's the incumbent and the ecosystem is vast.

It's not as modular and independent as Flask, which it's taking a lot of inspiration from.

It doesn't seem to bring enough to the table to be flat out better all-rounder than FastAPI.

I'm quite unsure where I'd use it instead of one of those 3.

From searching through the documentation and trying to find it out, the primary "secret sauce" seems to be Dependency Injection, quite a hard sell for a Python framework.
I believe what you're describing is "orans": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orans
I think a majority of these cases can be easily handled with awk. It's a neat idea in that it rolls up the logic that would have to be added to make such an awk script, but I don't know how much it actually does beyond awk's capabilities.
> The idea was to make owning an iPhone like subscribing to an app — with consumers paying monthly fees and getting new phones each year — but Apple recently wound down the effort, according to people familiar with the matter.

Isn’t that pretty much what Apple Upgrade program is, when it comes to iPhones? I’ve been using it for the past 4 years, and I am not sure how that proposed subscription service is materially different.
Data aside, neither are ideal. I can’t sleep with the Apple Watch because it needs to be charged while I sleep to get through the day, and the Fenix is too heavy for my wrist at night. I use an old Mi Band, which tracks approximate data that suits me.
> This is why H1-B visas should have a minimum salary requirement equal to 20% over [median]

The requirement should be at least 2x top of band.

A mere 1.2x of the median is absolutely absurd.
They’re saying that they would rather pay a consultant because they would have control over fixing things that don’t work the way they want. Compared to the alternative of buying a SaaS product that is “rough around the edges” where you’re not able to directly control whether and how the product is improved over time.
I gotta find a new trade
> What company can manage the H-1B process but can’t remote to Ukraine or Colombia? Or capitalise their dev expense, inefficiently, granted, with AI?

All of those are also happening, plus H1-B competition. Offshoring to low-cost countries is more common for maintenance work, or work that is not core to the business or its product innovation.

H1-B workers are often very good at what they do, every bit as good as permanent resident workers, which is precisely why they are competition for permanent resident workers, whether in office or remote.
> Some thought that the Navy’s new million-watt radio transmitter at Jim Creek near Arlington was [absurd theory deleted]

There actually is a problem some Washington residents occasionally have from powerful navy transmitters.

Every so often in Bremerton many garage door opener remotes and car keyless entry systems become very unreliable for a few days to a week or two. This generally corresponds to when aircraft carriers visit the Bremerton naval shipyard.

There are often multiple kinds of use allowed on a given radio frequency band. The different allowed uses will be grouped into different priority classes and the general rule is that (1) lower priority uses are not allowed to interfere with higher priority uses, and (2) if a higher priority use interferes with a lower priority use it is up to the later to deal with it (move to another frequency, use better shielding to keep the interference out, etc).

Many garage door remotes and keyless entry systems use frequency bands that overlap with bands used for Navy radar and communications and as you can probably guess the Navy's uses are the higher priority.

So a carrier comes in to the shipyard for maintenance or upgrades, and as part of that they test the radar and communication systems and so for however long that takes you've got ridiculously powerful transmitters blasting out on the frequencies your stuff wants to use.
I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that this is a genuine widespread hate movement, and the average person that supports it deeply feels this hatred, and personally blames their problems on anyone from another country, culture, or skin color- and doesn't believe those people deserve to be treated as human. I couldn't be more disappointed, angry, and terrified about what comes next.
Consider a kg of eggs is substantially more nutritionally dense than peas and has nearly double the calories.

Enjoy your processed pea foam baked goods, I'll stick with eggs.
Half My Life with Perl
How have you only worked with 50 or so H1B in your career? It's either not been long, or you didn't work at any large tech companies (the ones who use this visa the most)
Ironically I had the exact same experience in school.
If you need a specific specialist degree (like a PhD in linear algebra), then that's just the professional baseline knowledge I already mentioned.

When I last read Strang's, my course included a lot of spectral theory that was decidedly not introductory regardless of what the title says. Either way, the point is that most non-specialist practitioners don't need that. How often have you truly run into determinants mod N or stochastic matrices in real life?

It sounds like our linear algebra classes were somewhat different though. No one received an A in mine. I had one of 3-4 B's.
Leveraging LLM for Automated Ontology Extraction and Knowledge Graph Generation
Parallax relative to the clouds doesn’t tell you anything unless you know how fast it’s moving or how far away it is.

Given all the rest, I have to say I’m not super confident in your estimate of angular size.
Starvation would hit other demographic first and harder. The very young and very old would be heavily represented instead. If you're gonna kill people for food teenagers will be the last people you'll kill due to resources invested in them ant potential future yields. You're gonna kill 5yos or something.
The thing is: if Congress thinks executive branch agencies are interpreting laws in ways they didn't intend, they can change the law to clarify their intent. If they fail to do so, I have to assume the agencies are doing what Congress intended. But the supreme Court evidently disagrees.
Carlos Watson Played the Wrong Game and Lost
The boilerplate around a main function is 10 units of load. Everything else you have to know to write a simple program is 500-600 units of load. The boilerplate is a rounding error, and just does not matter.
A DoS might be the better option vs. say, data exfiltration.
Decide.Quest
I don't consider a video to be an essay, and yet it is perfectly capable of improving someone's writing and thinking.
Low-interest electric vehicle loans for workers earning less than $100k
In this thread: typical jobs, nothing really that interesting…
Not to pile on, but if linear algebra is really a part of the day-to-day job and not some manager’s mistaken idea of a proxy for more general talent, then you’re hiring specialists and the pool will not be that large. People who remember all their math and enjoy it and can also code, are also very employable at all the AI companies and departments, including at Meta.

And how do you know if someone’s eligible for security clearance without applying for it? (Other than the obvious “be a US citizen, don’t be a spy” part.)
A type of USB wireless receiver: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/logi-bolt-usb-r...
https://archive.is/5SmVg
I’ve applied to a variety of your positions each cycle for the past 3 years. New grad, clearance-eligible US citizen from a mid-range state school with a historically strong defense/gov. connection. I have multiple internships, a math minor, and my standout project is a rendering engine with a physics/collision system. I’ve never had or expected a remote option, and 70k (outside of the extreme-COL areas) sounds fantastic.

Your company has never offered me a phone screening. Seeing claims that Northrop is in sort of qualified candidate crisis when myself and many applicants I know of similar profiles are lucky to get so much as a rejection email is borderline infuriating.
I don’t get it. Cursor looks to me about the same like VS Code + Copilot. What am i missing?
Imagine being that guy though, so few humans will ever have such an awesome portrait
I had an Excel class 20-25 years ago where a teacher explained click and double click every class, and emphasising "DOUBLE CLICK" out loud every time she did the action... There were a few facepalms.

The next class was assembly programming, where the teacher didn't bother to show for 4 months and then resumed the class as if we "self-taught up until this point". We were utterly lost in that one.

I imagine things have changed greatly today but back then it was a complete roller coaster.
You aren't wrong but it's not an argument you're going to win. A bad restaurant or a dumpy hotel, etc won't kill you either, yet most people rely heavily on crowdsourced reviews. It's just a part of the culture today, given how prevalent ratings are. This isnt 1940, so suggesting, out of the blue, "just go watch the movie regardless if it is any good" isn't going to convince someone to do so.
Funny how congress members are calling for transponders when drones over 250G have remote id which broadcasts the a unique ID for the drone.
What city or state?
I don't understand why you're using diversity in this comparative manner when I was clearly not. I was just pointing out there's a lot of genetically distinct humans and this genetic distinction follows geographic trends. It's your choice to interpret it as a comparison to other species and frankly I'm bewildered why you decided to take the conversation there.
Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics
Wouldn't you? Why not??
Ancient DNA suggests syphilis originated in Americas before ravaging Europe
Veering off topic a bit, but I wonder what would happen if a company required that for any new hiring filter for Role X, it must pass everyone currently in Role X or above.
http://archive.today/Ns4hb
IMF Reaches Agreement with El Salvador on Loan Arrangement, Curbing Bitcoin
The median American is not smart enough to do complex software engineering, just like they're not smart enough to be a doctor or college professor. All cognitively demanding jobs compete for the same (probably single-digit) percent of the workforce. Better education could certainly prepare more people to do these jobs, but it's not a given that there are enough smart people in the domestic workforce to do all the cognitively-demanding jobs.

If thousands of the smartest people from the rest of the world want to move to the US and fill these gaps, doesn't that make America better off overall?
I regularly end up using Jshell when I’m analysing things like profiling data. Partly because I have access to libraries that parse those formats, but also because typing and autocomplete make it really effective for this sort of interactive thing.