skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imperial militarism is disgusting, regardless of who is president. I really hate that we have an aged and propagandized population who gets excited about literally destroying humanity and the earth. We can't move on from the cold war era generations soon enough.
Do you think nonimmigrant worker petition adjudication is stricter at land borders, pre-flight inspection stations by CBP as compared to a filing with USCIS?

How common is it for CBP to deny entry / readjudicate a petition if a worker has an approved USCIS petition and an approval notice?
Though I'm not sure of the point in the parent comment, here's a story about how discovery of writing works:

Beowulf is the greatest discovery in the history of English. It's the earliest epic poem in any Germanic language, and by itself it is about 10% of known Old English poetry. The date of the story's creation is unknown, with estimates ranging from 6th-8th century CE. The manuscript we have today is thought to have been written (not printed, of course) in the south of England, maybe between the 10th and 12th centuries CE. And at some point after that, the story and manuscript were lost to time.

The physical document reappeared from oblivion, sometime before 1563 in the collection of Laurence Nowell. Nowell, unfortunately, didn't know (or didn't reveal) what they had. The document was there, but Beowulf the story and that manuscript were still lost.

And that continued to be the situation for over two hundred years, as the manuscript passed through at least two more hands, and still Beowulf was lost to time. In 1731 the manuscript was caught in a fire (!). Almost, it was forever consigned to oblivion before it was even discovered, but the fire only charred it around the edges, costing us a few words here and there, and drying the very old pages to make them even more fragile. Many other manuscripts were lost.

Finally, around 1790, Danish scholar Grimur Thorkelin read it and realized what he had. (Thorkelin then sat on it for another 25 years before finally publishing in 1815!)

Are there records we haven't discovered? Yes. Are they lost to history? Not yet.
looking at how it thinks, it can help bust you out when you write yourself into a corner.
> to each and every individual

Not to each one. I'm willing to pay more (within my means and within reason) if it pollutes less and/or produces less CO2.
Moral hubris - where one believes all of one's positions are morally correct - is the shortest path to becoming a monster.
This is one of the better whitehouse.gov iterations I’ve seen in a while. Kudos to the engineers.
Glad lives are back, I was actually inspecting the traffic using my PiHole from when my GF's US tiktok was browsing and when my European account was attempting to connect. Both of them his a CDN within the US but after that it looks like we had traffic going to different versions. Her's was routing to a tiktokv.us while mine was sending traffic to tiktokv. I'm not sure if this has been in place before or if I'm just realizing now but I believe a split-brain scenario is pretty likely.
Not in this case.

No one can convince me thst 0-based indexing is worth more than widespread editor syntax -highlighting support, working LSPs, lots of blog posts, books and more vs a new niche language whose marquee feature seems to be it is easier to embed in rust.

Again, I don't want to put down the authors, making languages and tooling is fun and awesome, but I wouldn't pretend this is a rstional replacement for Lua.
I can't find data for it but my prior would be that the overwhelming majority of "normal" users use Twitter primarily through the smartphone app as opposed to the web interface.

The only person I know who regularly uses Twitter says she has never visited the site in a browser and is quite sure that everyone in her circle uses the app. But that's just anecdote
Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy
Double this. If I don't type the command that I want, I never want my computer guessing and acting on that guess. Favors like that are why I hate Microsoft Word ("Surely you didn't mean XXXX; I'll help you by changing it to YYYY. Oh, you did it again, and in the same place? Well, I'll fix it again for you. High five!")
It's important to realize that busy cities (and large organizations) are the way they are because many people can tolerate them and some people thrive in them. (Nothing wrong with deciding you personally can't, or just that you don't want to.)
tbf, "high touch B2B sales" is very much something a quite ordinary hacker doing quite ordinary B2B stuff is likely to want to figure out unless they're already quite good at it or know someone else that is, and I'm sure some of the suggestions are "hacky" in ways with both positive and negative connotations.

But yeah, he's always ultimately been an outspoken advocate for the most optimistic outcomes Silicon Valley ecosystem, because that's where his startup funnel leads. See also his article from 2004 in which he suggested that a startup was a way to work at a high intensity for four(!) years instead of forty[1]. Wonder what proportion of YC alumni retired happy after the four year work life?

I'm sure if you actually met PG in office hours he'd be realistic enough that your most realistic exit strategy almost certainly involved a lot more than four years of hard work and that yeah, your chances of success probably aren't high enough to impact the Gini coefficient, and I'm sure if you were trans he wouldn't take the side of people that send death threats to Budweiser for featuring people like you. But most of the essays are about positioning Silicon Valley. In a sense, he's a low touch, very high stakes B2B salesperson

[1]https://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
This is true. People associate a safety net with healthcare, but young and healthy startup founders are more worried about making rent or mortgage payments if their startup should fail.
I want to do scratching by pushing a button on my laptop keyboard (instead of dragging the spinning record with my mouse-cursor).

Can Mixxx do this?
"Seamus Blackley apologized on Twitter to the AMD engineers who worked with Microsoft to create the prototype Xbox consoles that the company used in the lead-up to the OG Xbox's release in November 2001. To AMD CEO Lisa Su, Blackley said, "I beg mercy."

"I was standing there on the stage for the announcement, with [Bill Gates], and there they were right there, front row, looking so sad," he said of AMD engineers in the room. "I'll never forget it. They had helped so much with the prototypes. Prototypes that were literally running the launch announcement demos ON AMD HARDWARE."

"I felt like such an ass," Blackley said."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/20-years-later-xbox-creato...

Wow. I mean there's a colloquial "last minute" but that sounds like a literal, last minute.
For me, it was better sleep, a healthier diet, and regular weightlifting nearly every morning.
It's not considered a public health emergency because the suicide claim is bullshit and is only trotted out by activists to try to manipulate others into accepting their demands.

Anyway it's better to listen to gender critical feminists on the left, rather than anti-trans reactionaries on the right, because the former have a principled and humane opposition to the ideology of trans, that is based on women's rights and safeguarding of children.
I don't know how I feel about this. I hear your frustration about this. OTOH, Bambu is a walled garden approach. I also know the Prusa Core 1 is going to be less open to keep the cheap aliexpress knock-offs at bay. This could be an issue with Bambu labs as well if cheap knockoffs start appearing using reverse engineered P1Ps with modified P1P firmware.

https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/with-core-one-prusas-open-so...
I believe handling interruptions is a skill that is learned. Isolating yourself prevents you from learning it.
> You may want to become concerned when the president can unilaterally contravene laws passed by congress and validated by the Supreme Court.

It seems prudent to say given this seems to the prevailing narrative: this did not happen. The law is still in effect and Tiktok is still banned[0]. The service shutdown that many experienced yesterday was one Tiktok performed voluntarily, presumably in protest of the ban. Tiktok's decision to restore the service was one they could have made at any point after the shutdown, regardless of any statements made by the then-President-Elect.

0: If you don't believe me, uninstall it from your phone and re-download it. ;)
Not really.

I don't want to have a type for an integer in seconds, a type for an integer in minutes, a type for an integer in days, and so forth.

Just like I don't want to have a type for a float that means width, and another type for a float that means height.

Putting the unit (as oppose to the data type) in the variable name is helpful, and is not the same as types.

For really complicated stuff like dates, sure make a type or a class. But for basic dimensional values, that's going way overboard.
"Maja R was sentenced to a weekend in jail after her comments because she had a previous conviction for theft and had not attending the court hearing for the case."

Whatever you can say about the suspended sentences, merely "given harsher sentence than rapist for calling him ‘pig’" is not true by your own article.
> they rolled over knowing full well that democracy is over within a matter of years.

This point. The point I've been quoting specifically.

I've stated why this is an incredibly shallow perspective on repeated occasions. I'm not going to repeat myself.

> As a country we have spent the better part of a century moving a large portion of powers to the federal level.

Tough shit. Democrats lost the Executive, both branches of the Legislative, and the Supreme Court. Democrats have literally nothing in the Federal level anymore. Or have you forgotten how this election has gone?

Its all Republicans here on out at the Federal level. The ONLY plan is to fight at the state level to protect those close to us.

The Federal level has been completely and totally lost. The ONLY plan that makes sense is to build bulwarks at the state level, and if that isn't enough then maybe even at the municipal / city level.
Gears of war, anyone ?
I agree with that. Does not make the threat less credible, in my opinion.

In fact the credibility of the threat is what makes the de-escalation so much more likely.
This is exactly the Kremlin's rhetoric behind invading Ukraine. "Oh, the Evil West made us go to war!" As if you couldn't just, you know, not go to war.
> Kamala-voting pg

Oh! I didn't know he spoke out against Teump and endorsed Harris: https://x.com/paulg/status/1851200055220306378/photo/1

That's a pretty strong statement. Hats off!

Since then, PG seems to have gone silent on Trump. Instead he decided to post that essay about wokeness, right after major SV players publicly sucked up to Trump. Didn't he - or the people who read the draft - realized that it would make people believe he joined the MAGA camp? What happened there?
> I wonder if the 13 hour “outage” was for a larger scale data migration for a separate US version

First I've seen this theory and it makes a ton of sense in light of the new discrepancies between what US and non-US accounts can see and search for.
It’s all word of mouth but we’re not inclusive just low key. Since 2018 on Slack and transitioned to Discord in 2021.
I assume L1B because you mentioned “engineer” instead of “manager.”

I’m currently on an L1B visa, which is a three-year dual-intent visa extendable for another two years. This should provide ample time to initiate and complete a Green Card application under Employment-Based 2nd preference.

However, I would consider choosing the H1-B visa for the following reasons:

It’s getting harder to get L1-B because USCIS are asking more questions about if a candidate has specialized knowledge to meet the requirements.

The processing times for Green Cards and PERM are increasing and five years might not be enough in the near future. In that case you would need a very cooperative employer to allow you to continue the application via Consular Processing from the UK.

My own Green Card application began in 2022, and I’m not likely to receive it until 2026 due to the substantial backlog for applicants from the Rest of the World (ROW) category, which includes British-born individuals.

On an L1 visa, you’ll be tied to your current job until either your Employment Authorization Document (EAD) arrives and you have portability under AC21, you’re approved for an H1-B visa with a different employer (which will reset your Green Card application timeline); or you’re approved for a Green Card.

If you switch to an H1-B visa, you have the flexibility to change jobs before your Green Card is approved. You can also retain your Priority Date (PD), which represents your position in the Green Card queue, although you’ll need to restart all the steps of the process again. Additionally, your H1-B visa is extendable indefinitely after receiving an approved I-140 petition.

This immigration system here is a mess and it’s getting worse. Not to discourage you but this is the worst time for Brits to move here.
The author is saying that he is not a failure, despite his business ventures failing.
Obligatory mention of the CPU meters on the front of the BeBox.
Thank you so much! I will definitely add those ideas to the roadmap in the README (pointing out this comment).

I believe the spaced repetition feature must be prioritized because that's the most important thing in this app. I mean, what's the purpose of seeing the words over and over again if I already have confidence with them?

For the pronunciation feature, I had similar work before and there are great open source tools and libraries we can build upon that analyze your pronunciation and spot where you made mistakes. We can use open source TTS libraries to pronounce the correct version.

I also would definitely want to see audio questions in exercises similar to Duolingo, and it would be great to work on those features.
The corollary to this is that the more people replaced by AI, the fewer customers that exist. There was a reason the Ford Motor Company paid its employees well; they wanted them to be able to afford to buy Ford cars.
The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone
Yet Another AI Code Debugger
Hi Peter,
Thank you so much for doing this.

I just moved to the USA as J2-Dependant. I have already submitted form I-765 to get a work permit (EAD) but this can take between 3 and 4 months.
A European company that just opened an office in the USA would love to hire me but might not want to wait that long. Is there anyway to speed up the process by them sponsoring me?
This is a great piece, and the comments here are part of the learning - the author has hit the nail on the head of the growth opportunity for most engineers. Frustration is an internal issue, managing it is difficult, and being told you need to is uncomfortable.

For a mid level engineer, learning to do so effectively is worth a lot more money than any other marginal skill improvement.
So few…..
Correct. Also the economics of a mechanical patch are favourable for something in the M$ range with a fix costing in the 10k$ to 100k$ range
Because when I ask questions like that in this forum, I get great answers (as you've seen). And, other visitors with the same interests can benefit from those answers.
Which is funny because ChatGPT was sort of a random experiment and not like a planned attempt at a huge product launch.
Sure, if your future boss loves idiosyncratic applications, the HR department is really keen on running strange programs from outside (and their IT policies even allow that), and then nobody ever wants to pass you resume around, it‘s all fine.

In short: nice HN submission, never use it for real.
They seem believable to me, as a graduate of the same university.

I have friends from Imperial College who now work at ESA, Los Alamos, quantum computer research etc, but also others working in banks, hedge funds or adtech.

Top of my computer science class is working at a hedge fund, number two is working at a fintech startup.

It's on their website, even specifically for electrical engineers (since that's the topic)

- 22% working in manufacturing

- 16% in IT

- 25% in finance

- 16% professional / scientific / technical

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/administra... via https://www.imperial.ac.uk/careers/plan-your-career/destinat...
lol - are we going to see a larger echo post? :)
From the abstract, "Diversity of terrestrial microbiomes decreases with depth..."

Decreases. Gets smaller.

That is a copy and paste from the abstract of the paper.

Exaggerated by the ignorant tech press and the legacy media; misinterpreted by the public who probably did not read the article, let alone the paper it is based on.

Are we actively trying to become morons, or is it a passive process?
FiiO is a great recommendation! I used to have one of their players but the firmware was buggy and I resold it. These players look like they have high quality construction though.
Does this also apply to Mexican's wanting to get a TN as well, I've heard the process is slightly different?
My feedback:

1) the internal sdk client does not respect golang's context so will not terminate gracefully, most tf providers fail to respect golang context, so this is not out of the ordinary.

2) thank you for not saving environment credentials to state, 99% of tf providers fuck this up.
IMO could synergize well for higher end celestia navigation - there are optics sensors for day time tracking, but daylight sensitivity is limitation, perhaps much less so when fixed to starlink. So maybe feasible $$$ hardware can make daylight celestial starlink navigation workable.

Bringing component costs down seems like it would be much more useful for increasing capabilities / proliferating of lower end loitering munitions. You can already pack redundant navigation systems in more expensive platforms that gets them to area of operations. But being able to replace $20,000 inertial navigation system with $200 board + IR camera makes a lot of somewhat cheap smart munitions much smarter, and mitigates a lot of expensive electronics warfare platforms.

Starlink ubiquity does seem to open a lot of indirect strategic applications, i.e. research using starlink transmissions as bi/multistatic illumination source to detect stealth flyers.
The rationale mentioned was it was under the subheading of people interested in strong encryption, people who care about being unobservable might have something to hide. Maybe it's a good list? People who you might want to ramp up a new Bletchley Park? Probably not.
Ask HN: How to try out AIML finetuning on a laptop?
I want to try out AI/ML finetuning on a laptop.

Nothing too involved. I just want to see the output of the model improve in a couple of hours as I finetune it.

Is there a pre-trained model out there that is small enough to do this? (Ideally something that can be installed via a single Docker-Compose command.)
>And he wasn't an immigrant, he was born in Cardiff!

Minor children of immigrants count as immigrants as well IMO.

>Rather than casting vague assertions about the role of the authorities you can go read why people were jailed as it's public record

I've seen enough examples of BS to not trust your system, the reporting, or even most court records. I also don't have time to go read a ton of legal transcripts in other countries. The fact that many people that have been arrested for being perceived as rude online or in person is all I need to prove my point.
Exit to community is a form of exit specifically for coops. The exact structure of that is variable, but it can be something like a loan paid to the founders/stakeholders and paid back over time or just a crowdfund from workers and customers to take full ownership of the enterprise
Stupid and vapid. Tech is already full to the brim with people with zero moral convictions aside from the things that get them paid. Those are the real monsters
By the way... as helpful as you've been here, I thought I should let you know you come off as rude and arrogant, in case you aren't aware of it. I'm not personally offended at all, but the "naive" and "fortunately for you" comments are the type of thing that can make people ignore the substance of what you're saying, which I doubt is your intent. I know this sort of interpersonal navigation can be a pain in the butt.
Could you tell me what you're referring to with this:

> Biden removed anti lgbtq discrimination rules
ROCm Device Support Wishlist
My understanding of Twitter is that it is or was like your official personal Gazette[0] where you could broadcast what you are up to or whatever is on your mind at the moment. It has definitely different use cases for regular users and so for celebrities and government entities.

Also you can think of Twitter as a standalone spinoff of Facebook status updates user behaviour but with hashtags. I actually find Twitter more compelling than Facebook but somehow Twitter's management was able to ruin Twitter. Now we have not only Twitter but X, Threads, Bluesky and Mastadon. It is way too fragmented but imo they should all interop and work as an one ecosystem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazette
Sure I can support that. The difficulty as always comes with the grey area in defining "great". There are truly reprehensible people in the world, but they're the exception not the norm. I see you did address that in your comment with "in general" so I was a bit strong in my wording, but I do believe the in general case covers >99.99% of people.
From the essay:

> This was not the original meaning of woke, but it's rarely used in the original sense now. Now the pejorative sense is the dominant one. What does it mean now?

It's early in the essay, too. Pretty near or above "the fold".
Hi everyone! I'm Bart, the creator of Hologram. First, I'd like to thank whoever shared Hologram on HackerNews. I appreciate the interest and discussion it generated :)

I want to address some of the concerns raised in the comments:

Hologram is currently in early alpha stage. I released this version primarily to let developers experience Hologram's programming model and architecture.

The mobile navigation issues that several users reported were caused by a bug in Hologram's DOM patching mechanism (which is responsible for updating the page content during navigation) - this has since been fixed. However, you may still experience some lag on mobile devices. This is due to an early, temporary bitstring implementation that is very inefficient and causes performance issues with large templates (which are essentially huge strings). This is one of the areas that I'll be working on improving soon.

Some comments correctly pointed out that documentation is incomplete. You're absolutely right - I'm currently focusing heavily on improving the documentation. A more detailed explanation of what Hologram is and what to expect can be found in the announcement post on ElixirForum: https://elixirforum.com/t/hologram-an-isomorphic-elixir-web-...

Despite the issues with navigation and missing documentation that were highlighted in the discussion, many visitors still chose to star the project. Thank you very much for your support!

I'm committed to improving Hologram and addressing the concerns raised. The current version is just the beginning, and I appreciate both the criticism and encouragement from the community :)