skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of these issues are simply unsolvable given the current web infrastructure and the way everything is designed against adversarial programs. Like nerfing the APIs, IPC handoffs and such. The only GPU workload that works well here is something that is nearly completely static, does nothing much than a single draw call and everything else is statically allocated and never changed.

Essentially shadertoy (+ a bunch of similar demos)

Edit: Must be a schizophrenic feeling to design Web APIs where you first design functionality that is useful for the web apps and then you find ways to amputate that functionality in the name of security.
There is a whole "OS" in the background that is way more complex than all of our programmed systems. I may be hyped focusing on a complex program and really not think about anything else, but my body is still constantly senses, processes, and reacts to signals. E.g. I'm not ragdoll falling to the ground, which requires holding balance and tone, which is far from trivial. I also constantly listening to every possible danger, which would immediately override my current activity. I also react to internal signals like hunger or pain.

A bit dumb, but maybe relevant comparison might be asking why can an Apple Watch stay on for a single day only on a charge, while Garmin can do 2 weeks/a month? Because one is a general purpose computer, while the other is an embedded software that can only ever do that few things it is preprogrammed to do.
Best-of-N Jail an algorithm that jailbreaks LLM across modalities
I used to walk my dog there occasionally and he hates it and was always edgy. I took my cue from him and we go elsewhere now.
> The administration, after 4 years of not introducing these changes

They might have spent the last four years negotiating what exactly the changes would ideally be. Government doesn’t work well with the “let’s see what sticks approach”.
Deep Dive on Hamilton Decorators
AT&T Hits Texas Man with $6k Bill for Using 3GB of Data
This is a very good starting list.
Liberate tabular data from scanned documents
So not the best choice for Phone-a-Friend? I was hoping to become a millionaire.
Direct link: https://merge.club/program/mergegrant
America doesn't want to be like other countries. You may remember there was a war or two about that.
Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck at ISS must delay return to Earth yet again
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I FOIA government agencies frequently. Asking for a keyword in specific mailboxes for time windows of one year is not overly burdensome, and I’ve paid a subject matter expert to provide an opinion on appeals. You can also request retention schedules and email information system data to reinforce this approach, as well as FOIA request logs to understand if others have requested what you’re looking for.

Reasonable costs are up for debate, that is what the process is for. Hourly rate * quantity of artifacts requiring review for potential redaction is a rough approximation of what cost outcome will be. As a technologist, I know what the effort is to perform discovery in Google Workspace or O365, others should be able to demonstrate this trivially.
> 1-800-ChatGPT works best in quieter environments. Background noise may be misinterpreted as prompts.

Is this still an issue? Maybe I have had too high hopes for AI.
> There is a shortage of applicants willing to work at what companies want to pay.

That and companies are just hilariously bad at finding workers they want to hire for nebulous reasons. I have no doubt even if my company hired 95% of the workers it had marked down as "no hire" they'd be able to squeeze a salary's of value worth out of each of them (well, if management is competent, which it tends to not be). I'm sure those of us who've been around long enough can all attest to some side of seeing form of this dysfunction. I'm more than happy to reject them for selfish reasons, of course, like "I don't want this person on my team" or "this person seems like an asshole" or "I don't want to teach this person their third language after java and typescript". Etc.

I mean there are terrible interview candidates out there, but the people who literally can't code at all tend to be easy to filter out.

I'm curious if there's any way to observe the salary margins that separate the top of the labor market from the bottom. Surely there are. That would probably give a big signal as to how much undue attention is given to, e.g., Senior vs Junior developers and American workers vs H1Bs. I'd put money that some of this complaining about lack of labor is actually not wanting to hire fresh grads and eat the cost of training when they'd be just fine. (Also the H1B thing, but that's already discussed to death)
This piece of misinformation seems to be trotted out every time H-1B is discussed. H-1B is not for "extraordinary ability", the O-1 is. The H-1B is just designed for regular workers in a "specialty occupation". This is how Congress designed it in the Immigration and Nationality Act.
If you want your own personalized version of this ...

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You can get your own number and customize the agent.
Have you engaged with the Card vs Borjas literature at all? We learn about the world by studying it, not by simply thinking about it from one's armchair.
Oh wow, I didn’t realize that aquafaba was only discovered in 2014. I always assumed that it was much older.
A bill to designate the bald eagle as America's national bird
> phrased differently, the goal is to help industry, not hurt workers. hurting some workers is an acceptable cost, not the goal.

The phrase "help industry" has many dimensions. The simplest of course is that by increasing labor supply and suppressing wages it increases profit margins, rewarding shareholders.

Another important function is that by having more workers overall in the US, it increases the productivity of the domestic industry itself, due to increased competition for jobs driving up the productivity of the average worker. This in turn makes the industry more competitive vs its equivalents in other countries.

The average worker (whether permanent resident or temporary/H1B) who doesn't have significant investments likely doesn't receive much of those productivity gains, since they mostly go to capital owners.

Long term, it boosts returns to capital while capping returns to labor, the same trend noted by Thomas Piketty some years back.
What will Honda gain from a merger? I don’t think it is related to a specific vehicle.
You should take a moment to look up what “stateless” means
Private repos exist for a reason. It's reasonable that if you don't want humans seeing your code that machines should also not see your code.
I had been using JetBrains (Webstorm and PyCharm before that) for years now and just switched to Cursor a few months ago. I never liked the way AI copilots tacked onto the IDE worked and preferred to just use standalone ChatGPT. Been very happy with the Cursor experience, big improvement in UX from my perspective.
This comes off as very naive and contrarian, and like the author just wanted a reason to create some more javascript libraries. The lack of types in your library makes it harder to use, more likely there will be bugs where its being used, and the library itself is probably buggy. The author commonly champions bad practices, that you should "just know" how js works and then none of this matters.

There's very strong reasons a vast amount of people are switching to typescript. It can very easily compile to clean javascript, you can commit that to git, and you are much better off.
I don't think anyone is denying the existence of Greybeards, it's more that the field has exploded so much in the meantime that the probability of a random 30 year old being in it is much higher than the probability of a random 50 year old.
Stadiums don't have to be a drain on taxpayer dollars − 4 lessons from St. Louis
Exactly. You can literally buy a green card with a ~$500K “investment”. No need to jump through H-1B hoops.
All of the would be a big savings in code complexity and a win for reliability, compared to doing new untested optimizations. If memory usage is a concern, I’m sure there’s a fast C SAX parser out there (or maybe one within yyjson)
Ah, I'm thinking about EULAs etc. where people claim the right to change the agreement at any time etc.

With regard to shipping charges, don't you choose your shipping options and get to see the price before buying?
WebGPU is a big step in the right direction for graphics but that's another place where progress has been glacially slow. I think the initiative started in 2016, it took until 2023 for Chrome to ship it, and Apple are still dragging their feet heading into 2025. WebGL was already severely dated at the start of that process and we're still stuck with WebGL for portable web graphics to this day!
This is huge. Looking forward to playing with it. Based on your docs it doesn't seem like there's going to be a way to run this on a free version somewhere because of the Postgres requirement right?

Any thoughts on if SQLite would be suitable and likely to be supported in the future? That would make this really perfect getting a MVP going.
I have a personal beef with cockroaches and I'll make dam sure it doesn't beat me in a mere nuclear war.
Harvard Is Releasing a Free AI Training Dataset
It’s also designed to attract talent from other countries. You didn’t have to invest in their education, so that part comes for free.
> Why should the presence of US tech companies mean local tech companies can't compete?

That's not the right question. The correct question is:

Why DOES the presence of US tech companies mean local tech companies can't compete?

And that's the beginning of the discussion. If there is no money to be made, no market will be developed. Block US companies and in a few years you have a booming ecosystem.
Sounds impossible. Are you calling on the same phone your browser is?
M1 MacBook Pro is sufficient for a Qwen model.
> Have you examples of where it lies?

No specific prompts, but most were related to the XHR/Fetch specs and behaviors within. It would say "X.Y.Z sections defines this" but that section didn't exist at all and the answer provided was not accurate.

> My general rubric is: “would I trust someone on Reddit to correctly guide me on this”. If the answer is “yes” then ChatGPT is likely going to do well

I see. Well, I don't know if I find that very valuable but if others do, then so be it.
I have been on H1B forever now, and my salaries have been more or on par with the role. I tend to agree there is a lot of H1B misuse, especially by large Indian consulting firms. This needs to be curtailed.

But, there may be 300,000 unemployed tech workers. While I also find it hard to believe none fit the bill, I believe most don't. So many are out of random bootcamps, self proclaimed programmers who can't solve fizzbuzz. I also have not seen any H1B in my career that is good and willing to take a 60% haircut. In my own company, they are the highest paid and are grumpy we are not paying more. They are all really good engineers too. Heck, when I was looking to move to the US, I refused tons of low paying jobs. When we opened up backend programming jobs, only a handful American citizens even applied. We hired one of them, while we needed 4. The rest didn't make it through the interview process. We also rejected tons of H1bs because they didnt make it through the process. Same salary range offered to H1Bs. And we are a fully remote. So I wonder where are these 300,000 unemployed tech workers.

Cut the fraud and it automatically becomes a decent program. Now, if one is entirely against the program of attracting foreign talent, thats a different discussion.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, huh?
I think the GP meant it's not controversial to make the fees more transparent or even ban them. The dish employees (C-suite to be clear) and investors are the only ones who like it.
> Actually in my experience running physics (Box2D) is relatively harmless since it's purely in WASM and doesn't need to interact with any JS API directly.

I see! In my case the actual scene graph is in JS too, and I've seen enough people struggle with both approaches to wonder which one really comes out ahead in the end.

> Your game runs quite smoothly, didn't get the logic but it didn't jank much. :)

Good! These assets here are not remotely optimal, but the core loop going on is not too bad given the complexity of what it can through around before having problems.

The whole separate worker thing introduces inevitable continuous timing problems, but I've seen too many webgl games where they run perfectly smoothly for a bit, then stutter like hell, and repeat. It's got to be GC gunk.
My friend and I used to build a cross platform UI library in OCaml called… brisk. We didn’t make it production ready so i am sure the naming is a coincidence https://github.com/briskml/brisk.
That is correct, but tangential to the original point of extraordinary abilities.

But it's also possible to say that one hasn't been able to find a skilled-enough Java developer.
I've wanted to do something like this for years. I might have to actually stop fiddling with the idea in my head and give it a real shot in 2025.

I'm curious - how does the design process go? Do you propose a design, do they usually have a pretty complete vision or do you have templates that they can take inspiration from?
Isn't sexual assault and rape very different?

If you kiss someone who doesn't want to be kissed then you've sexually assaulted them but you've definitely not raped them
I was paid between 400 and 600k a year while on an H1B.

> I am a fan of charging 2-3x the normal tax rate for H1Bs so companies have to actually justify hiring "talent you can't find in America".

This is extraordinarily racist if you spend more than 5 seconds thinking about it, and honestly you should question every one of your choices that have led to this point. It is time for you to re-examine your entire worldview.
I always interpreted it as the pig liking getting dirty, not necessarily the fight.. And before reading your comment I never thought there could be another way of interpreting it..
Wondering the same. Aquafaba is now a staple of vegan recipes and already popular exactly for this use case.
Why taking in foreign students raises the cost of tuition? Aren’t they paying full price for it?
I'm not understanding your argument.

In your first post you said that computed statistics are there "to make advertisers feel better about themselves". I pointed out that those computed statistics are still very valuable, even if they're based on probabilities and not on tangible data. Of course that with more real-world data the statistics are more accurate, but the reality is that real data is likely unavailable for most users. If the only available data are a few pictures and behavioral records (what they liked, who they follow, etc.), then those computed statistics are still much better than nothing.

Besides, advertisers mostly care about demographics, since that's how companies define their target markets. And most of this information can be gathered from just a few sources, so the type of advanced data analysis in your example is not even required in practice. Whether someone is at risk of having a car accident would be more valuable to insurance companies, than for advertisers to decide what product to show them.
And in reading your comment, I just realized there's a difference between casual conversation and writing something down.

I can easily say "Hey, let's meet next Wednesday!" and you may reply with "Oh, great, I'll put it in the calendar, the 8th it is!" and you reply with "No, I meant the 15th" -- and this reduces the ambiguity. This kind of thing would be happening in "real time", so being perfectly clear isn't as important.

However, if you write "next Wednesday" in a contract, and then complete it on the 15th instead of the 8th, and it's taken to Court ... it's a lot harder to figure out what the the original conversation was like, that led to the writing of the contract!

Hence, it makes sense to use as unambiguous language as possible when writing a contract.
Yes, but the prevailing wage threshold would be lower than the investor visa, as will the commitments. The investor visa you have to show a plan, hire people etc.
Back to basics: the onset of skin effect in circuit board traces [pdf]
> Nor would they encourage smartphone manufacturers to better sandbox users from profiling by apps, nor would they pass laws placing restrictions on the seedy data broker industry, nor would they pass laws preventing telcos from selling your data to the data brokers.

Even with this legislation, the Chinese government can just buy similar data from data brokers who aggregate it from Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Twitter and other social media outlets. Hell, they can probably just buy TikTok's data from data brokers too - the law doesn't block TikTok selling their data anymore than it blocks Facebook et al.

So... it's pretty clear this isn't really about surveilling U.S. citizens. That's just a convenient excuse. Per the WSJ's article today:

> "Lawmakers received classified briefings in which intelligence officials warned that China could use the app to spread Chinese propaganda and surveil Americans."

The other cited reason is "Chinese propaganda". But foreign governments already massively plant and promote propaganda across U.S. owned social networks - both overtly with paid ads and covertly with highly sophisticated astroturfing campaigns which manipulate social media recommendation algorithms. I'm not really sure the Chinese government theoretically having direct control of TikTok's algorithm vs indirectly manipulating the same algorithm from the outside is that big of a strategic advantage. Any manipulation has to be subtle because the TikTok algorithm has to remain highly optimized for retaining viewers as the highest priority. Pushing government favored propaganda has to be strictly limited so it doesn't nerf retention or become obvious.

Also, despite the massive resources foreign (and domestic) governments have dedicated to propagandizing social media, most experts think it hasn't been all that effective. It can occasionally shift broad public opinion a tiny bit but, like overt political advertising, more meaningful movement tends to be limited to partisans who already agreed anyway. The overall predictability, repeatability and ROI are falling while the costs of adapting to game the system and avoid detection continue to increase.

So, let me try to 'steel man' the government's case here... if the Chinese government actually does control TikTok's algorithm and data in a meaningful way, and assuming this actually gives them a significant effectiveness advantage and/or cost discount, maybe the true purpose of the U.S. legislation is to force the Chinese government to pay the same costs the U.S. government, U.S. political parties and foreign governments have to pay when trying to manipulate social media? Even assuming all that to be true, it doesn't sound important enough to be worth trying to tiptoe around the first amendment. Maybe the primary driver really is just political grandstanding and appearing to "do something" on an issue that naively appears 'important' to most voters. (As usual, it doesn't matter that the "something" being done won't change much. The important thing is appearing to do it.)
Harpoon: Trace syscalls from user-space functions, by using eBPF
I had chatgpt read through my recent bloodwork results and helped me understand it better than my doctor.

50+ are going to be so addicted to this thing its not even funny. My parents are not reaching for AI immediately yet, but thats just a yet. This is the wave that could come at any moment.
It will make Trump look great reversing a policy that steals good paying jobs from Americans.
So in other words, yes, for whatever reason tech is this special case that doesn't apply anywhere else and supply shocks don't matter.

An odd claim, wish there was more evidence for it being true. As in, what is the "artificial constraint" for front end web developers?
Well we have human ancestors on both sides of that barrier, so clearly it's not insurmountable in absolute terms, either from taking the souther route or migrating with herds or some other thing I haven't thought about (I'm not sure waterways would get you the whole way, but it'd get you from the urals to either side). The question is why this would pose a barrier to some populations and not others.

EDIT: also, I forgot that a lot of the steppe is forested. Surely that would make it significantly less of a barrier.
I am happy for your launch and wish you a good deal of luck.

Personally I am really disappointed with the idea of requiring a subscription for a home robot, though. When I was younger I envisioned a home robot to have a brain inside itself, or at least in the home. Alas, it seems the world is developing in another way.
Thank you for your reply.

I am currently having a ride with chatgpt allowing me to write applications at 3 times the speed compared to before (where before may be "never" for some technologies) and I am happy for everyone contributing to this.

But all your points are well grounded, I will have to figure out a way to think about them, while keeping my day job.
This is complete shit!

The strategy here is to displace American workers through attrition by hiring remote Asian workers -- 1 FTE = 4 Indian workers.

These companies have no problem outsourcing American jobs -- outside of the US!

'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!
FTA:

He reported the "extremely concerning" incidents to colleagues at Tata Technologies Limited (TTL), the consultancy's UK division

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He escalated his concerns to senior executives at TTL and VinFast

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Mr Denli asked Tata Technologies to reassign him to another project but senior managers refused.

Unhappy to be associated with the VinFast car, he says, in May last year he resigned.
Yeah, I think the weekend nomenclature is definitely trickier.

> If it is Monday, and I say "next weekend", I'd wager there's a greater proportion of English speakers (at least) who would understand that to mean the two day period that starts in roughly another 4 days.

To my ear, this is wrong, but I think you're right that it's more common. I think 'this weekend' and 'next weekend' are fuzzier than 'this Tuesday' and 'next Tuesday' because of that misalignment I pointed to before, where 'the weekend' is thought of as a thing that comes at the end of a week, but how we write it most calendars where I live is as a thing that bookends the week on each side.

But I couldn't take up the usage you describe even if I moved to a region where it was predominant, I think. How could I abide a situation where 'this Saturday' occurs during 'next weekend'? That's simply madness. :D

(It's amazing how much we humans manage to communicate with something as messy as natural language-- perhaps especially amazing to programmer-brained people like me, who take some comfort and ease from the simplicity and neatness of the artificial formalisms we work with every day.)
There's a shortage of applicants with the skills that companies need. Engineers, like most qualified workforce, aren't interchangeable.
Stephen Miller does not approve this.
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's the same with the "fast food shortage," I bet the shortage would dry up real fast
at $50/hr so all we're really doing is haggling over price. If in order to hire a H1-B at a salary of x you had to offer US workers 2x with say a $100k floor on x then I bet Americans would show up.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453341