skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AC1200 series was originally released in 2015:

* https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ASUS_RT-AC1200_series

The V2 seems to be exactly the same except for some minor chip revisions (e.g., -DAN vs -AN), perhaps due to OEM part availability.

OpenWRT also supports (supported?) the V2:

* https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac1200_v2
I was trying to see the value of this as well, but I don't know Python well enough. Maybe there is no ASGI for python?

And I assume Python cannot handle it's own HTTP server (using threads, similar to Javalin's virtual threads)? I always cringe when a programming language needs to find another solution/language to handling its processes. I understand why you will need a load balancer, but for small, simple projects, I like to contain things.
Class action is an utter joke that has done nothing more than FURTHER commodify harming consumers for a price.

If a company sends you a $2 check ten years after they recognize a profit from defrauding you or lying to you or harming you, that's not a punishment, and is certainly not an incentive to not do those things.
That's more than what you would need if you were hiring for a prevailing wage position.
Also on the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive as F1 World Championship, and a sequel, Kawasaki Superbike Challenge.
POTS voice quality is pretty minimal (8 kHz, 8 bit, one channel). I wouldn't be surprised if a model would struggle more to isolate a speaker there vs. a higher fidelity audio channel.

Then again, local noise reduction on modern phones/earbuds probably goes a long way to avoiding that problem.
Nebraska Sues United Healthcare
> If harm was the goal, something like a STEM worker tax or cutting R&D tax incentives would be easier

These would affect all STEM workers equivalently. The H1-B program, whatever one thinks of its merits, hurts domestic STEM workers and helps immigrant STEM workers.

Perhaps the result is that the overall opportunities are greater because the larger talent pool results in more companies being formed. That depends a lot on how mature the industry is, and whether technological trends like generative AI will replace large swaths or STEM workers altogether.
Tried a few models and was extremely disappointed by how dumb the completions are. Basically useless. What local ollama-available models do you recommend?
This is not what the data shows [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Also, the efforts of many US firms recently to grow their India and LATAM presence [6] demonstrates this is for cost reasons, not a lack of qualified workforce. Companies will hire contractors from IT outsourcers and similar to launder the labor cost cramdown operation. IT unemployment is ~6% [7], why are we issuing any H1Bs beyond exceptional, highly compensated talent (~$300k-$500k/year and up)?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-cognizant-h1b-visas-... | https://archive.today/jaXNo

[2] https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...

[3] https://cis.org/North/Unlikely-Sources-Confirm-Wage-Suppress...

[4] http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2015/05/economists-h-1b-vi...

[5] https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/h1b.pd...

[6] https://stig.net/latam-outsourcing-destination-us-companies/

[7] https://www.wsj.com/articles/it-unemployment-hits-6-amid-ove...
From what I understand you also need to be able to pay yourself a $60,000 salary minimum, from that LLC. If people can do that, then power to them and let them stay!

If you're worried about people shortcutting a line to get a visa by injecting money into the US economy, again by somehow getting 60K into the LLC to pay the salary of the recipient, this is also a win.

So what is the problem here exactly?
Personally, I only decide whether to go for a walk (or not) _at most_ once every few minutes.

Just because usually the decision is 'keep the current course' that doesn't mean no decision has been made.
Having prepared a lot of beans it doesn't surprise me at all.
Pulser Pump
Mine is a senior developer with memory lapses.
I have a hard time hiring an American too, especially for backend jobs. But thats because they simply don't apply to the open positions we have. We don't disclose salary upfront, so the argument that "you pay less thats why" doesn't hold. We just don't get those resumes - through recruiters, direct channels, LinkedIn - even when we said we prefer citizens (due to legal costs).
> scraping a website or handling session tokens refreshing and see the results

Have done this task at work - taking a Java crawler and modifying it to be able to navigate saml-based auth.

It's the goddamn pervasive mutation that kills you everytime. The original author will make assumptions like "I can just put my cookies here, and read from them later". And it works for a while, until you add more threads, or crawl different domains, or someone attempts some thread-safety by storing cookies in shudder thread-locals.

(This was actually the project that convinced me that I'll never be able to diagnose or fix a race condition with a step-through debugger.)

I was so fed up with this task that I whipped up a Haskell version at home. I then used that as a standard to test the Java work crawler against - by comparing mitmproxy dumps. If the Java version didn't do what the Haskell version did, I hacked on it some more.
I mean, nothing prevents them from running their existing data through a "noisy POTS" filter in A/B tests to see how that impacts customer satisfaction.

But being able to blame the user's phone line probably goes a long way to avoiding unhappiness due to testing :)
20 years only if you're born in India married to someone born in India. Not great either way though, but it's really affecting the Indian community because of their particular norms.
Timely, given the "lights in the sky" fever.
Why would you get downvoted for that?

That’s the simple truth. They do that for all types of visas. My mother had to do it, until she finally (reluctantly) became a US citizen, and she lived here, most of her life.

I think she had long-term visas, though. I only remember her doing it a couple of times. I think I went with her, on one of the trips.
The bald eagle seems the natural choice but if for some reason that were not an option would would the next best pick be for national bird?
Those two persons fixedly looking to the other person reading some teleprompter that announces this feature -- likely written by ChatGPT -- is the weirdest thing ever.
I added cost estimates to that this morning, though I'm not yet 100% I'm getting the calculations right.

https://tools.simonwillison.net/openai-webrtc
And once a team reaches that point, less citizens will want to work on a team where they're the outsider anyways.
I take it, sotto voce, that this is about the New Jersey drone sightings?
If Cursor remains successful, they’re likely to turn into a slow elephant enterprise as well eventually. That’s rather the rule than the exception, unfortunately.
When I was in the US with visas for my four-person family, we FedExed our passports to Finland where my parents put them in a different envelope and mailed them to the US embassy. Ten days later the embassy mailed back the passports with the new visas attached, and my parents FedExed them back to us in New York.

Yeah, seems like this re-approval concept makes a ton of sense. FedEx at least got some business.
Honestly, WebGPU once available will become a total security disaster area, and that is contributing to the foot dragging.

What was/is needed is a WebGL 2.5 that enables async access to the GL context.

Arguably both of them should require permissions.
The dating of the fossils is quite secure. So in this dimension all is good. The DNA sequence is as good given the number of closely related individuals.

Your comments do not apply with any force to this particular study.
Yeah, all the discussion went there (132 points, 2 hours ago, 52 comments)
The title is clickbait and the suggestion to never forgive is useless, too. Instead, the author should have pointed out numerous existing solutions, like Mastodon, GNU/Linux phones and other thing relying solely on free software.

A better title might be "We should pay more attention to the damage of the enshitticiation/Rot Economy on us and people around".

I find the author's reasoning very similar to the one by Cory Doctorow about enshittification, however this goes more into precice details how users suffer.
I second that. I used Dash for a while. Although it's nice to have everything wired up for free, the code quickly becomes a mess as soon as you try some more complex things (or you put everything in one function and got a big super nested structure, or you build a lot of small components and quickly get lost in a sea of small functions).

I'd rather build the HTML myself.

[1]: https://dash.plotly.com/
LLMs have been a personal tutor to me for the last year, able to explain anything and everything I've been curious about professionally and personally. I changed jobs to new technologies in large part because I effectively had an assistant able to help cover any gaps in knowledge I had, train me up quickly, and offer ongoing help on the job.

They can make stuff up, but saying "60% of the time they lie to you" hasn't been true for years.
There is that. And the idea of trying to retain new grads would already have worked 30 years ago and yet here we are.
Have you created an issue in their github?
The screenshots are a blast from the past. Outrun, Space Harrier... Those were really good games back in the day (1980s)
It's a visa. The whole point is that it's not permanent and you are ultimately expected to return home permanently. You may also be asked to leave at any time. It's reasonable for the host nation to want to ensure that outcome is still available and that someone hasn't actually fully emigrated here with no options for return.

Ultimately it's known to anyone who applies for a visa that this will be the requirement, and so, if they don't want the economic opportunity of working in the US, they're free to avoid the stress and just stay in their home nation.
Oh, this format was fun. You could see history unfold when parsing it. The messages I parsed were ISO-8583 with ~EBCDIC~ no, BCD. But one field contained XML. And the XML had an embedded JSON. The inner format matched the fashion trend of the year when someone had to extend the message with extra data. :-)
No, the unspoken of motive behind this is to put more money in investor pockets while centibillionaires jokey for position on the Forbes' 100.

This is complete bullshit!

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!
And basically said that the palestinians deserve to be exterminated

By "basically said" you mean that this is your hyperbolic/moralistic interpretation of what he said.

But not what he actually said.
Ask HN: Are you paying electricity bills for your service?
Hi HN, We are an early-stage startup working on OS-level AI energy optimization. Our goal is to revolutionize the way systems manage power consumption at the OS level making AI and compute more energy-efficient and sustainable. Our initial prototype has demonstrated significant saving (20%+) without application/model changes.

We are looking to connect with individuals who have exposure to energy costs, energy purchasing or a strong desire to optimize them at the server and datacenter level. Whether you are working in data centers, telco, AI infra, or any area where energy efficiency is crucial, we would love to discuss potential challenges, solutions, and opportunities in this space. We're eager to learn from your experiences and explore ways we can collaborate to make a meaningful impact. Drop us a note at scottcha@live.com and we'll connect up.

Thanks Scott & Chad
Education. Learning. Expertise.

As Asimov pointed out, "[t]here is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been." American culture is profoundly anti-intellectual. Every Dunning-Kruger rando thinks they have something valuable to contribute to every discussion.
There’s also the easier financing, but yes - I’m sure the outcome is dominated by the network effect of having denser talent. That’s one of the reasons Silicon Valley is so hard to replicate elsewhere.
Musk's Alleged Russia Contacts Worry Air Force's Kendall
>It's much much better for America if tech companies hire workers in the US, regardless of whether they are citizens. Americans are eligible for those jobs, and that money stays within our economy. Versus employing workers elsewhere, where American's can't easily be hired, and those resources leave the US.

I want to pick on this point, because it's the general refrain about this topic. If there is some thing that American workers can't do in an in-demand field, and the government sets up a system to allow non-citizens to do those jobs, most people will say that this "helps" America. But does it? If the education pipeline is inadequately preparing Americans for being competitive in this in-demand field then perhaps that is the problem that should be addressed. Right now it feels like we have a (highly suspect) "labor shortage" that is addressed via immigration, which doesn't send a signal back to the educational/training infrastructure that they're doing something wrong.
Thanks, me being naive then. My recommendations still stand as that is what I'd do as all 3 of them have stimulant-like effects.
"Around five times the size of the notorious Books3 dataset that was used to train AI models like Meta’s Llama, the Institutional Data Initiative's database spans genres, decades, and languages, with classics from Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Dante included alongside obscure Czech math textbooks and Welsh pocket dictionaries. Greg Leppert, executive director of the Institutional Data Initiative, says the project is an attempt to “level the playing field” by giving the general public, including small players in the AI industry and individual researchers, access to the sort of highly-refined and curated content repositories that normally only established tech giants have the resources to assemble. "

^ this is pretty cool and interesting. The collaboration they're doing with Boston Public Library to make articles similarly accessible also sounds pretty exciting.
My use of word "appear" was deliberate. Whether humans say those words, or whether an LLM says those words - they will look the same; So distinguishing whether the underlying source was a idea or just a language autoregression would keep getting harder and harder.

I don't think I would put it in the way that LLM has no "ideas"; I would say it doesn't have generate ideas exactly as the same process as we do.
My experience with code completion tools (i.e. single line/method snippets) has been positive. But, anything more complicated seems to fall apart rather quickly.
I think the idea is that one day you too should found a startup that will provide services that are difficult to cancel.
For that matter, is Volvo popular in China? Does Volvo advertise in China?
Does "The US" siphon that money off? Or Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. siphon that money off? And where and to whom does it go from there?

The major benefit of reducing or eliminating the H1B visa program is that those companies can continue to do well, and Americans can do well along with them.
God forbid any of that corrosive communist ``free software'' touch our pure American companies.
Fascinating, I don't think I've ever seen an XML field! Do you remember which network that was for?
This argument is kind of “I’m going to extract all your blood, but it’s not to kill you, but to increase my profits”.

You can’t really separate the two sides of the same coin.
What if we are living in a simulation and the new pitted glass texture was rolled out, but our collective memories weren't updated?
Microsoft bought nearly 500,000 Nvidia Hopper chips this year
How do you get a prescription for that? Is that an ADHD med?
IMHO it's expensive and not at all better than IRC, plus it helps kill IRC which was a core part of the public internet, open source culture, etc.

I also find it annoying that the creators of slack pretend they invented something original.
Good news: the USCIS makes this data available! [0]

Google, Microsoft and Meta definitely look for (and hire!) US applicants. One can reasonably have a gripe with the consulting companies on there (Infosys, Tata, Cognizant, etc.) but they don't represent 90-95% of H-1B issued.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe...
I've asked it for things like book recommendations and gotten:

- completely made up books
- real books that were only marginally related
- real books with really bad reviews

I'd estimate that only 30-40% of the time did I find the results at all useful.
The right idea? These companies have no problem outsourcing American jobs -- outside of the US!

RTO my a$$, the strategy was and always will be displacement of American workers through attrition by hiring remote Asian workers -- 1 FTE = 4 Indian workers.

'Most' of these are American companies selling American products and services to Americans. If they like Asia so freaking much, leave the US and go sell your $hitty products and services over there!
I don't understand what you're getting at. If performance is a concern, integrating a different parser written in C isn't desirable, as it would probably be slower than the existing parser for the reasons I mentioned (or at least be severely slowed down by the conversion step), so you need to optimize the Ruby-specific parser. If performance isn't a concern, keeping the old, battle-tested Ruby parser unmodified would surely be better for reliability than trying to integrate yyjson.
I’m interested in the phenomenon that no matter how messed up (or absent) my sensory input becomes it doesn’t seem to impact my “inner observer”. The only thing impacting it is sleep or loss of consciousness, yet even then there can be moments during these states that this observer can become lucid.

It’s like the science of the soul and one notable implication is dementia, when people become unable to function and recognize things, I wonder if that “inner observer” is still just as in-tact as it is on a huge dose of LSD?
Off the top of my head, and just for the last couple of months, and only outside of work (where its value is even more immense), it has saved one of my indoor plants, told me how to handle a major boiler problem that would have left us without a working boiler during a weekend in the winder, with the next "emergency" repairman only available on Monday, advised me to use Kopia as backup solution for my personal files instead of Syncthing, helped me choose the right type of glass for a painting frame, answered a couple of questions about bikes and helped me when I was stuck in an harmonic analysis of a piece of music. All of that are extremely valuable to me (if only for the time not wasted googling answers), and in none of them its potential hallucinating would have been an issue. And I can't count the number of times where "specialists" in bike repairs or plumbing told me something incorrect or outright false, so I've learned to deal with hallucinations already!
I think it would be fun to see if it is possible to get the very popular notion that the Wakefield paper is the only source of all concerns about vaccines and autism out of the minds of "rational" Normatives.

I would be surprised if anyone could do it.
Is there any solution that is 1- fully local 2- open source 3- fast on CPU only 4- provide reasonable good results for smart auto complete ?

I don't want my work to depend on proprietary or even worse, online, software. We (software engineer) got lucky that all the good tools are free software and I feel we have a collective interest in making sure it stays that way (unless we want to be like farmers having to pay Monsanto tax for just being able to work because we don't know how to work differently anymore)
Ah yes, don’t accept retaliation against whistleblowers unless a redditor finds their tone to be Childish and their motives Vain.

I recommend reading the article, not just the post.
At some point it becomes “couldn’t obtain the required talent at the prices the business was willing to pay”.
Discussion (49 points, 4 hours ago, 47 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451848
> The per-country caps also seem like a throwback to the early 1900's era immigration exclusion policies.

Canada does not have that and it is going very poorly. Lots of people are calling for the implementation of the same policy.
CDC confirms first severe human case of bird flu in U.S.
Yeah a lot of the WLB complaints seem to be team based with around half the people I talked to seem to have acceptable WLB (40-45) whereas others are working 50+ hours
Ask HN: If you had to expatriate, which country and whats the plan?
All of the above. It is even worse than crypto.

The AI proponents that support this have no serious solution to the mass displacement of jobs thanks to AI. They actually don't mention any alternative solutions and instead scream about nonsense such as UBI which has never worked at a large sustainable scale.

> Society needs to slow down and find alternative, more sustainable solutions. AI is aligned with short-term economic efficiency and that is detrimental.

I don't think they can come up with sensible alternatives or any sustainable solutions to the jobs displaced as there is no alternative.
That's correct. Why am I paying them for the privilege of cleaning up after myself?

We all know it is a scam fee. People wouldn't be as mad over a hold on some amount (usually returned) insuring the host against an egregious sloppy mess.
I find that discussion very tangential to the article, practically distracting from the topic (which is against the HN guidlines).
LLMs do not know about their own capabilites because it's not in the training data obviously.
https://archive.is/UVWCL
Our core belief is to make only a few features that are incredibly accurate. People have tons of complaints on past AI wearables: UI is unclear when its recording, battery life only lasts a day, button is incorrectly placed, transcript fails to detect more than 2 speakers. All things that we've put a lot of thought into and have fixed.
Surprised by all the negativity here.

The USA benefits enormously from skilled immigration:
"doubling the size of the US H1B visa program increases US and EU growth by 4% in the long-run"

From a recent paper here: https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10...
> someone who was 20 in 1995 is too old to be comfortable with computers

I know people who are in their 20s and 30s who seem to be uncomfortable with computers, cloud technology, and especially AI.

In some ways I'm one of them. I will never let an always listening AI helper be in my home. And I'm <40.