skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see how this plays out from the perspective of the major App Store providers who are the ones with serious money on the line. If they reinstate the app, then they risk being prosecuted at some future date, which could even be after Donald Trump leaves office. But if they keep it banned, then they risk attracting the ire of the administration and its heavy powers of regulation.

Donald Trump is very unpredictable, but one thing seems to be clear from his behavior. Anything that serves to benefit himself or his family tends to receive his favor. And there are billionaires swirling around him ready to do him favors two of whom are potential buyers for TikTok.
Need the other way around, an eSIM emulator for a physical SIM card.
Probably not. Tech sheep tend to follow the leader.
We'll have to train a team of drillers to be astronauts. Those nerds at NASA what with all their math and charts don't know shit about drillin!
Sorry, I do not contribute to projects governed by a tribal oligarchy. However, the ROS project gives me many anti-patterns for software engineering research. Social and psychological aspects that lead to such a collective frenzy are also interesting. But you definitely deserve a special chapter on software engineering failures, where the intersection of technical debt, second-system effects, hubris, and bad governance.
I agree and this thread got me thinking about how I can package WASM in my chat app to execute LLM generated code. I think a lot can be achieve today with a well constructed prompt. For example, the prompt can say, if you are asked to perform a task like calculating numbers, write a program in JavaScript that can be compiled to WASM and wait for the response before continuing.
> The NHS is not dying an entirely natural death. Murder most foul.

I'm ignorant on this topic; do you mind elaborating?
Please fix your slow website. I'm begging you
clickbait, don't hide the truth in a pseudo-riddle
It is the setup for all companies which are not banned in China lol
Isn't that one a hoax though?
It’s been known for quite a while that most life actually generated from the deep and then seated upwards. Photosynthesis came well after these creatures.
Why 35%? I can't seem to align with you on the math here.
Short of constantly stirring a pot full of the ice cream custard, do you have any solutions for getting the mixture up to temperature without scalding the milk/cream?
> they rolled over knowing full well that democracy is over within a matter of years.

My point is why is the latter so hard to understand?

There isn't a way to resist directly anymore (especially as both Biden and Kamala are insufficient to serve as the focus of a hypothetical coup). There are other plans in place to have resistance at the State levels, where it will be more obviously beneficial.

Any most of the escalations we can do are once again, counteracted by the simple history that is the assassination attempts. It's clear that the path to violence to stop this madness is closed.

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It's not the time for direct confrontation at the federal level on this subject. It's the time to pull back and defend at the State level.

Have you seriously thought about how to stop this in any way in the past few months? Your questions are so shallow it's making me think you only have talking points to share. After an election loss like that (not a landslide, but still an obvious loss), there is no coup potential or other kind of way for the Democrats to even try to hold onto power.
I'd advise against using TS enums nowadays because they conflict with a few useful flags (such as "isolatedModule" or Node type stripping).

A good tsconfig: https://gist.github.com/cecilemuller/80fed1b963171ca4e117f6d...
OpenAI is great at optimisation - compare the cost of -4o to -4. They just haven't optimised o3 yet.
My point is that DRM is still not intellectual property.

The DMCA prohibits circumvention of DRM, even when there is no copyright infringement.

It's illegal for an author of a story who still holds the copyright to it, to download a DRM'ed version of the story and then break the DRM.

It's illegal to circumvent DRM to unlock works in the public domain.

The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 was meant "require the infringement of a copyright for a violation" when circumventing DRM, but it and others like it never passed.

Yes, DRM is used as a technological means to enforce intellectual property rights, but get rid of property rights completely and it will still be illegal to circumvent DRM.
I fully expect people like Tim Cook and Elon Musk to appease the Chinese government if it benefits their business and doesn’t make them appear cozy with the CCP to the U.S. public.
I'm a Lisper myself, lol.
The difference between a failure and a success when starting a business is if you can afford (monetarily) to fail. if you can afford it just keep failing till something sticks. If you're not well off, well, too bad.
Elon definitely still has a grudge against Altman and OpenAI, so when Elon uses his new political power to bludgeon OpenAI to bankruptcy with new regulations and lawsuits, it won't be for the right reasons, but I'll still think Altman and the remaining employees deserve it.
Downside is that you have to provide root/admin access to copy the key material and also to restart the services. A big no-no for me, even in my homelab.
(And here's the output of the "pelican and the walrus in a tearoom" joke from DeepSeek's distilled 70b... Mildly better?)

<think> Alright, I'm supposed to come up with a joke about a pelican and a walrus in a tea room. Hmm, sounds like a classic setup for a funny situation. Let me think about the characteristics of these animals that could be used humorously.
Okay, so pelicans are known for their large beaks, right? They can carry a lot of water in them. Walruses have those big tusks and blubbery bodies. Maybe I can play on the idea of them trying to have a tea party but their physical traits causing some trouble.

Wait, being in a tea room, they might be trying to sip tea, but their size or features get in the way. The pelican's beak could be problematic with the cup. And the walrus's size might knock things over or make a mess.

Let me consider the flow. Maybe the pelican struggles with the teacup because of his beak, and the walrus has a comment about it. Then the walrus tries to sip but ends up splashing tea everywhere. That could lead to a funny exchange.

Putting it together: Pelican says something self-deprecating about his beak not being suited for tea. Then the walrus, who perhaps agrees, tries to sip and splashes tea, making them both laugh. That feels natural and funny.

I should make sure the punchline is clear and the dialogue flows smoothly. Maybe start with the pelican struggling, then the walrus makes a comment, and their interaction leads to the humorous conclusion. Yeah, that should work. </think>

Why did the pelican and the walrus get kicked out of the tea room?

Because the pelican kept dipping his beak in the wrong cup, and the walrus kept breaking the delicate china with his tusks. They just couldn’t “sea” themselves fitting in!
My grandfather got a lathe and pillar drill as his retirement gift from work, he also taught me how to etch PCBs and build radios.
I think open source AI has a solid chance of winning if the Chinese keep funding it with great abandon as they have been. Not to mention Meta of course, whose enthusiasm for data center construction shows no signs of slowing down.
That's not balanced though. Only a small subset of people decides to actively talk about politics on social media. So most likely you see just the opinions of radicalized cronically online left-wing people and the opinions of radicalized cronically online right-wing people. None of those represent the real world and their arguments are almost always a repetition of the same bad-faith take on the current issue, just to get easy engagement from their community. It's not really a representative (or healthy) window to society.

That's the trap of politics on social media, they give you the illusion that you get a pulse of what society is thinking, when you actually just see a very vocal minority repeating the same arguments over and over again.
Those people are wrong. Maths is wrong too but it doesn't matter so much for maths because you can hand wave syntax to do whatever you want. Guess what style of indexing formal mathematical proof systems use...

Fundamentally either work, but 1-based indexing is a mistake mainly because it leads to much less elegant code.

A simple example is accessing rows in a flattened matrix (or 2D array).

With 0-based intervals and right-open intervals it is

array[stride*y .. stride*y + width]

With 1-based it is

array[stride*(y-1)+1 .. stride*(y-1)+1+width]

Ouch. Code dealing with intervals is simpler with 0-based indexing & right-open intervals 99.9% of the time.

Take a look at the example code here:

https://www.lua.org/pil/11.2.html

What index does the flattened `mt` start at?
Definitely not H-1Bs (at least no different from non-Canadians). The TN could be impacted, however. My biggest fear is that the administration will limit TN renewals to filings with USCIS (and not allow renewals with CBP) like it did years ago to Canadian L-1 renewals. That change was a negative game-changer for Canadians in L-1 status. I am also concerned that the administration will simply make it tougher for Canadians to qualify for TN status.
Always reminds of the JWZ quote regarding regular expressions:

>Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
In 2011, we hired someone on an H1B at the startup where I worked. It was a straightforward process. The paperwork added a couple weeks to the process, and IIRC it cost $10k or so in legal fees, but for a great hire, it was definitely not a meaningful barrier.

We were already incorporated as a C corp. I would imagine that some sort of incorporation will be pretty much a requirement.

(IANAL)
I'm saying the GP's claimed causal relationship between advanced civilization and writing might result from advancement causing more evidence to survive. Certainly there are undiscovered caches, of course.

Plenty of people lived in agricultural civilizations that were not the "most highly developed societies". Also, I'm not sure hunter-gatherers couldn't develop writing, though I know theories and could imagine reasons either way. How do you tell your compatriots, coming in the next few weeks, where the good food is?
NASA: Never a straight answer (Hebrew for beguile, deceive)

They never got any from the moon, all the ones they claimed never passed testing.

http://crn.hopto.org/archives/flat/moon-landing/
no because if there was ever real armed conflict, the list of higher priority action items would make this app banning nonsense look exactly as silly as it actually is today
Of course, as EU nations are barely assertive they make poor allies.
> For example, say I’m in traffic on the highway. Searching 401 might in this example surface tweets from other drivers on the highway talking about traffic and/or posts about an accident they came across.

The problem I have on Twitter now is that folks hijack that and post tweets about totally unrelated stuff (usually crypto). Take you example that there is a huge wreck on the 401 and you want to find out what's going on. Go on Twitter and the top post will be something like:

"Get your Airdrop to $NEWCRYPTO Today. iPhone 12, 401 Crash, Cute Cats"
The Two Sides of the AI Coin as a Developer
Apologies if this answered in the readme but does this support other languages than English?
I haven't said that every Muslim area in the world was converted by the sword.

But Muhammad led a lot of wars, in which thousands died. Which is fairly untypical among the founders of currently widespread religions, though the Old Testament heroes like Joshua can be categorized into a very similar slot.
First paragraph is unnecessarily personal.

It's also confusing: Did you think it was AI because of the "regurgitated talking point", as you say later, or because it was a "unhelpful excessively long-winded repl[y]"?

I'll take the whole thing as an intemperate moment, and what was intended to be communicated was "I'd love to argue about this more, but can you cut down reply length?"

> Ok, provide specifics yourself then.

Pointing out "Everyone does $X" is fallacious does not imply you have to prove no one has any incentive to do $X. There's plenty of things you have an incentive to do that I trust you won't do. :)

> If citations are so important here, cite a few dozen that are peer reviewed out of the hundreds.

Sure.

I got lost a bit, though, of what?

Are you asking for a set of journal articles, that are peer-reviewed, about AI, that aren't on arxiv?

> Why is that unjustified?

"$X doesn't follow traditional academic structures" does not imply "$X has no rigor at all"

> OpenAI is not a major research lab.

Eep.

> "all manner of problems in science in terms of ethical review. "

Yup!

The last 2 on my part are short because I'm not sure how to reply to "entity $A has short-term incentive to do thing $X, and entity $A is part of large group $B that sometimes does thing $X". We don't disagree there! I'm just applying symbolic logic to the rest. Ex. when I say "$X does not imply $Y" has a very definite field-specific meaning.

It's fine to feel the way you do. It takes a rigorously rational process to end up making my argument, but rigorously is too kind: it would be crippling in daily life.

A clear warning sign, for me, setting aside the personal attack opening, would have been when I was doing things like "arXiv has April Fool's Jokes!" -- I like to think I would have taken a step back after noticing it was "OpenAI is distantly related to group $X, a member of group $X did $Y, therefore let's assume OpenAI did $Y and conversate from there"
I literally program in Lisp for five years now, and I ain't going anywhere.
Seven planets are lining up in the sky next month. This is what it means
https://archive.is/4WItO
You could put a lot of time and effort into getting your own firmware for CDJs .. or you could just connect them via USB to an pi running mixxx.
Of course they work, I use this in JavaScript all the time. But why would I do that when I have real enum in TypeScript?
Where I've worked in hardware dev, the biggest bottleneck is software.
That's a point too!
Capitalism is still necessary, we just forgot what it took to save capitalism from itself during the great depression and have opened ourselves up to turning into modern Russia.
It would be very expensive to take a taxi (of any sort) out of London to a scenic place, but it's easy to take a train to plenty of them, or hire a car for the day through an app.
What I don't get is why anyone would want to allow the automation. Is it really that difficult to use the up-arrow key and correct the mistake? Doing something automatically when it's sort-of correct is a recipe for doing things you didn't intend to do.
Hi Peter,

First of all, I wanted to thank you for taking the time and offering your help for the community! I had a couple of questions. For context, I'm Iranian and I've been a green card holder for the past 10 years, 5 of which I've been residing continuously inside the US.

1. I'm planning to apply for my citizenship this summer. Do you think there would be any complications with my naturalization given the current political climate and that Trump's now in office? Since my green card is also expiring around that time, would you recommend that I request its renewal separately or would I be fine waiting to apply for citizenship right away?

2. After obtaining my citizenship, I'm also planning to petition a visa for my fiancé (which is also an Iranian living inside Iran). Do you think that request would still be processed same as before during this new administration? Would requesting for a spouse visa be any better if we were to get married sooner?

3. Would it be any better if my fiancé were to apply for a college/university in the US instead? I'm asking this because I've heard rumors that Trump would be much easier on student visas than immigration visas.
It is somewhat quaint, but the truth is often in the middle and compromises work the best.

Which is something that doesn't really resonate with the social network era, which rewards wild posturing and extreme views with attention and clicks.
I am glad I asked the question. This little chat sortes it all out nicely.
Hi Peter! Thank you for doing this.

I'm a software engineer with 3 years of experience and a MSc degree in computer science. I'm currently working in a big tech company in the UK and I would like to move to the US in the near future. At the moment I'm more leaning toward an L1 because I don't have to go through the lottery but I'm exploring other scenarios. Would you recommend trying to move to the US with an L1 or an H1B? Does an L1 provide a path to a GC? What are the cons of an L1 visa compared to an H1B?

Again, many thanks!
Quite mindblowing to be totally honest.
Living there for 5 years. Unless you are in finance and live in city, it’s a shitshow.
> the loophole is a part of the law

That's not a loophole. It was intentionally designed the way it's been written to be used the way Trump is using it--to give the President leverage and the ability to save face for Beijing.
Don't really need WASM for that - have you tried Claude Artifacts?
David Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist, so of course markets are the solution. For marriage, fire brigades, national defence, everything.

But don‘t write him off so hastily. He has genuinely interesting articles [1], and his text book „Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life“ is a more rigourous version of Freakonomics, the Landsburg books etc. This book explained to me the little economic theory I know.

[1] http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...
Yes, it is designed for Rust, so the actual interop with Rust is very good. You can pass Rust types in and out with very little work, and they are represented in Rhai in a logical way.

Even something like a `Vec<u64>` is likely to be a right pain with Lua.
It's an incredibly short-sighted, and might I say, such a European question.
I am on a TN visa and recently got a promotion which elevated my title but largely kept my responsibilities the same. My old title had the name of my TN profession in it, the new one is adjacent but does not. Could this cause issue? I travel with the form I received from USCIS through mail-in TN renewal.

Related, I’m waiting in the green card backlog with a completed PERM. Will this title change affect that?
Just apply for jobs, and the immigration attorneys hired by your prospective employer will figure it out. U.S. immigration by employment is sadly almost entirely based on petitions filed by your employer. The choice of which visa pathway to pursue is not up to you.

If you're curious: the vast majority of Europeans currently moving to the U.S. for tech jobs typically do so on L-1A or L-1B visas. To qualify, you must work for at least 12 months at the European subsidiary of a U.S. company before being transferred to a U.S. office. There are the occasional O-1 cases but you need significant work experience and recognition to qualify. Lawyers will definitely ask you questions to determine whether you are a good candidate for it.

In the past, H-1B was a way more common route, especially when there was no lottery or at least when selection odds were higher. However, with current lottery odds at just 10-15%, many companies now prefer hiring you abroad and then going for an L-1. As long as you satisfy the foreign work requirement, you are more or less guaranteed approval for an L-1 and there is no uncertainty.

Companies also love transferring employees on L-1 because unlike H-1B it is an employer-tied visa. This means you cannot switch to a different employer, effectively locking you in for the duration of your employment until you obtain a green card, if and when that happens. Keep that in mind if you are offered an L-1: you should carefully consider the green card pathways offered by your employer before you move.
Thanks. The law never has explicitly prohibited founders from qualifying for H-1B or TN status but there have been challenges and the changes mentioned above will make it easier for founders to qualify for H-1B status and I think make it easier for founders to qualify for TN status. In fact, we recently had a founder obtain a TN through CBP and her status as a founder was front and center in her application.
> why does it need an executive order?

It doesn't. That's Trump being Trump.

> doesn’t “certify” mean more than just “claim”?

Not to my knowledge.
I've never heard of any of these things (~2k mobile devices at work). I've had a hand in writing some policies for our company for our mobile devices and with Verizon, ATT, and T-Mobile, 0 issues with esims.
Parinfer was instrumental to me learning Clojure. Paredit felt like operating an airplane cockpit, and Parinfer took that experience and made it much closer to just writing prose, for which I am forever grateful.

I remember people, including Rich Hickey, scoffing at it when it came out, which seemed like kind of a snobbish reaction to something that lowers the barriers of entry.
While EUV lithography machines are surely a contender, the most complicated machine every made is likely the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A 27 km tunnel in which protons (with cross section about 10^-28 square meters) collide head on. Hard to imagine this amount of alignment is possible.
Zork 2 and 3 actually contain a lot of new material, which is the origin of the tonal shifts. The original mainframe Zork was basically a larger version of Zork 1. Zork 2 took most of the rooms that had to be cut for space, weaved them together into a new map, and added a lot of new things as well, including all the sillier plot elements, like the wizard. Zork 3 was almost entirely new, except for the brief endgame which was the original endgame of mainframe Zork.
It also models pumps in a pretty exaggerated way. Two pumps will prevent this basin from ever filling up despite constant rainfall, to the point of creating a concave water surface: https://imgur.com/a/PrYFJtP
NC Language Design
There's no requirement to maintain a valid H-1B visa but under certain circumstances having a valid H-1B visa stamp can make it easier to change H-1B employers.
Taelin is insane
folks over at r/LocalLLaMA
I was terrified to look up through the comments after reading the article, but HN truly surprised me today.
Well, it's all based on my experience. In two Lisp companies I worked in, colleagues complained or even were trying to fix how I indent things. So it's not just some anxiety whatever, it's experience that needs explanation and justification.

I'm aware of arrow-macros/diamond wands, and am using them myself. But I often have to write dependency-less libraries for moderately complicated algos, and that's where indentation style is the only thing I can rely on.
If everyone has destruction of the competition as their primary goal, everyone suffers. The voting system itself incentivizes that, and now competition is going to be driven underground and emerge destructively just as it did in the USSR.

Extremes of left and right-wing politics both require excessive force to implement.

We need a voting system that will overcome the nash equilibrum of mutually assured destruction by assigning weights to the outcomes of collective responsibility for our interactions, not just "be selfish or not" on an individual level or "stay in the frying pan or put some people in the fire" politically.