skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If that’s your concern, why would you want TSA Precheck where you have to give the government your fingerprints and go through a background check?

I'd rather just have practically none of it because it's largely a waste of money and time and a major inconvenience while providing practically little real security.

> Not getting blown out the sky is a pretty big benefit.

Tons of other countries have far more basic security at airports. They're not constantly having planes blown out of the sky. Airlines operated for decades before the formation of the TSA and millimeter wave scanners and taking off our shoes and stereoscopic face scans and yet they were not getting blown out of the sky.
And "m4conf obviously has messy configure scripts" is not true, there are no scripts at all. Check out the examples. You cannot get any simpler.
What shaders (presumably GLSL & HLSL) do precision wise isn’t an IEEE compliance issue, it’s either a DX/Vulkan spec issue, OR a user compiler settings issue. Dropping compliance is and should be allowed when the code asks for it. This is why GLSL has lowp, mediump, and highp settings. I think all GPUs are IEEE compliant and have been for a long time.
Seems oddly politically motivated and out of character for EFF.
Canada Tech Companies Map
Hi, I have created this repository to map tech companies since I had hard time to find any even when I moved to Canada already. If it existed before moving to here, I would consider more tech provincian.
This should be simple to access and use it. Let me know how to improve it or join to contribute your improvements.
Looking forward to see new contributors ;)
> They removed foreign keys from mysql

This isn't specific to Meta/Facebook in any way. A very large percentage of big tech companies use MySQL without foreign key constraints, because they're problematic at scale.

To be clear, foreign key constraints are not used, but it's still very much a relational use-case / workload.

> using it as a column store db

That's nonsensical. Column stores are for analytics, whereas MySQL is used for OLTP. Both InnoDB and MyRocks are row-oriented storage engines.

Maybe you actually meant "key-value store", which is a more common claim, but that's still completely wrong. The query pattern for Facebook's social graph relies heavily on range scans over indexes, which isn't a concept supported by key-value stores. And there are many MySQL workloads at Facebook outside of the social graph database tier, with extremely varied use of MySQL functionality.
And waiting 1-3 years to actually get citizenship once you've applied. It was ~18 months for my wife. It also took nearly a year to get a visa for her to move here.
I've been playing Civ6 for a couple of years and vowed to keep playing it

But caved last night and got the Civ7 founder's edition
I think Cato has always held that we should loosen our restrictions on the border, so if an administration goes against that stance then they're going to oppose parts of that administration.
Unlocking America's Potential: How Immigration Fuels Economic Growth (2023)
This is what I see in that link (from Canada):

> Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

i.e., it shows both the names.
Mama Sally died when I was an infant but I have a studio photo of her. Parasol, large flowered bonnet and full length skirt. All very Edwardian from the early 1900's. As for the features, I look far more like her than my wife. Perhaps the trigger was my wife was a comforting female. She did quite a nice job of being a doting mother soothing an ailing 100 year old child...
The US can use a lot more legal immigration. There's nothing wrong with a skill-based immigration program that doesn't necessarily only select for Nobel prize winners. With another hundred million people, and improved land use, we're talking perhaps another 100 years of Pax Americana. I think American should do this for her own sake and for the sake of humanity.
Nothing reminds you of your mortality when on the weekend you feel the exact moment you were twisting just slightly the wrong way while moving something.
Those cables fitting is a mistake, not by design. Even then the users are only a bit to blame, but in the case of deliberate compatibility there's zero blame.
It has historically been solved in different ways [1] :)

Unfortunately most people would not be happy taking the same approach to their web browser.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98... where the subject post was from comp.lang.ada.
Got a good deal on Civ6 a month ago, and it's free on Netflix too with all DLC
It's not that buildings burn that much less readily today. It's that in the past they caught fire way more often. The plethora of wood stoves, lanterns for light, matches for smoking, etc, etc, had more to to with it than anything else.
What's it lacking?

purpose. value. actual users.
I assume this is the "all-in" price, that includes Singapore's famously highly car registration tax? I found these levels here: https://onemotoring.lta.gov.sg/content/onemotoring/home/buyi...
Yes, and that list includes almost no cars under $200 a month. Just go and check it.

They’re not including the downpayment.
No one uses transformers anymore. VRRs are basically mini PCs now. They run firmware and report telemetry and are crazy efficient.
My bad, I'll come back in 4 years when you lot are begging for safe alternatives.
All immigration is GDP additive and increases the market for goods and tax income for governments. It offsets low birth rates. If there is a labor shortage it will reduce inflation.

Of course there many considerations but generally it's a good thing.
I'm very happy with my Tesla touchscreen while buttons on recent Toyota rental sucked balls - they weren't spaced apart so you are taking your eyes off road. Some older Japanese cars place bunch of buttons in a little island that takes solid half minute to figure out what you need.

People blindly reeeee'ing on touchscreens need to learn how to form a coherent arguments. i.e. they are not great for old and frail or some manufacturers don't know basics of UX.

End of the day getting pissy about climate controls is ridiculous. If you can't operate car for few minutes within couple degrees comfortable temperature then you might be a problem.
> Just because someone wants to immigrate to the US doesn't mean they should be allowed.

I'll bite.

Why not?

We let capital typically move freely. Why shouldn't people be as free to move as money?
I wonder if this will result in lawsuits that win. A lot of people have won lawsuits over bad references and preventing future employment. Facebook is poisoning the careers of these people, many are high achievers.
I assume "the right equipment" is "an oven", and "Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You" is usually referred to as just "cookies"? ;-)
More and more the majority has discovered they can vote themselves into someone else's pocket. City dwellers can also horde water aquifers, and since they don't have the firsthand experience of drilling a $30,000 well they're oblivious as to how they ruin others.
I wonder if that has a higher death rate than driving to the store to buy it?
i trust uyghur workers

uyghur workers are same as other chinese workers, smart, hardworking, diligent, reliable, and they don't bring drugs to factory

btw, we are all forced labor in the 'world factory', forced to work overtime and earn little, to serve the empire and its golden 1b people
It's my go to platform for Civ6 too - don't know how long it will take to port 7 to it

Will be playing on steam for now
It’s $8000 because it doesn’t work and it comes with free hardware upgrades until it works (for some definition of ‘works’ but currently it breaks often enough and badly enough that you’d have to be dishonest to say it works without a huge collection of qualifying footnotes attached to the statement)
It's fair to compare alternatives but to be clear I'm not saying postgres JSONB is worse than mongo. I'm not very familiar with mongo either. Im saying it can be tedious is absolute terms. I did not assume this to be universal to document dbs but perhaps it could be. Although your example does seem simpler.
If you buy a machine that prints copies of copyrighted books (built into the machine), and you use that machine and then distribute the resulting copies, and the machine didn't come with a license allowing you to do so, I'm pretty sure that you are liable as well.

At least some current AI providers, however, come with terms of service that promise that they will cover any such legal disputes for you.
> In other words, we should "promptly admit a majority of the 158 million who told Gallup that they would want to come," according to the 2018 survey.

Seems like an alarmist and selective pull.

There's a difference between having a more broadly viable path for legal immigration and instantly admitting anyone who filled out a survey. The context was just making a comparison to frame a previously established inaccurate comparison with other countries, by hypothetically inviting everyone.

> If all 32 million immigrants who attempted the U.S. process in 2018 were added to the U.S. population, it would only bring the immigrant share of the U.S. population to 22 percent—in line with Canada (21 percent). The only way to rival countries like New Zealand (28 percent), Switzerland (29 percent), and Australia (30 percent) would be to promptly admit a majority of the 158 million who told Gallup that they would want to come. On a more reasonable time horizon for natural inflows that accounted for the population growth of U.S.-born Americans, that scale would also be insufficient.
You're fixating on the name "Swatting". The technique works whether or not you get an according-to-Hoyle SWAT team called.
The website is absolutely awful to use on mobile, archived here for sanity: https://archive.is/qdSIr
I'd actually be open to a libertarian government if that's what we got.

If before firing thousands upon thousands of government workers, they say eliminated all income taxes on your first 100k, it would do something for the middle class.

I really feel like US taxes are the worst of both worlds. They aren't much lower than in Europe where most(all?) countries have much cheaper if not free healthcare.

A system where getting fired usually cuts off your health insurance sounds like a dystopian novel. Serious health issues have a tendency to stop you from working.

No matter where in the world you go as a US citizen you still owe US taxes.
This historical pattern is quite usual though right? Like Singapore did a similar thing. At the outset, before the country is rich, there's not the same incentives to immigrate as later. Price of admission rising as demand increases isn't that surprising.

But again like another commenter mentioned, these arguments never care to address why the people already there would, as a whole, benefit from others coming.

Sure, the state benefits from increase tax receipts, and the corporations benefit from increased labor supply. But all the people as a whole get is increased competition for everything.

So I assume these Cato people are in a class that stands to benefit, and couldn't care less about other classes.
It doesn't, civ4 got excellent review scores on release. This is the first one that is significantly below 90%.
No, I've not found anything that gives workable mouse follow focus. But I've not looked very hard.
How many immigrants are allowed in is orthogonal to whether the process is efficient and direct. The process is insanely complicated and takes years and no small amount of luck, or dodging arbitrary discretionary decisions by mid-level bureaucrats. Reforming the process entails nothing about whether that means more or fewer legal immigrants are allowed in, and removes a huge incentive to bypass the process.

In a previous job I helped H-1B cardholders get green cards. I kept getting applicants approaching me saying that they could get one easier with $5,000 in Chicago than waiting all this out. It was hard to argue against that.
In the US our regular outlets are more like 1.5kW (110V 15A).

There are also 30A circuits, usually for a dryer or stove. An electrician can set it up for a car, but it's not as easy as running an extension cord to a regular outlet.
Yeah, and it's much harder to get the permanent resident and citizenship status than everyone seems to think it is.

My wife was brought here when she was eight years old, and was able to apply for a quasi-legal status when Obama enacted DACA. When we got married, we were frustrated to find out that we couldn't actually apply for her green card because she was still considered "illegal".

Eventually we got an attorney and she was able to find a waiver for us to apply for a green card, but that took three years of waiting. She finally is qualified to apply for citizenship now, and she has, but we're waiting (probably another five to six months) for an update on that.

When we got married, everyone acted like I was some sort of idiot because "obviously" you get a green card automatically if you marry a citizen. Apparently people are getting their understanding of immigration law from sitcoms.
I agree. In my friend group, I know dozens of people that came here legally and are now citizens. It's far from 'impossible'.
The justice system will be overwhelmed for years, so I don't think you'll see much progress. The current presidency reveals that, with a compliant Congress, the executive branch can execute whatever it wants. By the time the judicial system steps in, the damage will be done. The situation is unhinged with or without context.
In general, poorly designed cables will use steel instead of tin plated copper conductors. The differences become more relevant at higher power levels, as energy losses within the connectors will be higher. Thus, the temperatures rise above the poorly specified unbranded plastic insulator limits, and a melted mess eventually trips the power supply to turn off.

I would assume a company like NVIDIA wouldn't make a power limit specification mistake, but cheap ATX power-supplies are cheap in every sense of the word.

Have a great day =3
Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively
Problem with 1UPT is that the AI doesn't do any of that, making wars trivial. That detracts from the rest of the civ experience since wars are no longer about power but unit movement.
Not always required. I recently built a house, I did not get anything but septic inspected.
I had a similar experience. I ordered four EXOS drives three years ago and one of them came DOA. They had to send me three more drives before I got a working one. I’m amazed they’re all still happily humming away in a Synology.
Considering the word "Mexico" comes from the indigenous people of the region while "America" was a name brought by European colonists... I'm not sure you can really say both of those share the same air of imperial possessiveness.
> Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat"

Amazing book. Made me entirely reconsider how I think about human behaviour and "how they got like they did".

Should be required reading for being a human living in a society.
Yes that's what I mean, with a well described task and a JSON schema, the tiny models are suitable (though still hallucinatory - even llama3 7B was making up phone numbers when I tasked it with extracting contact details from email signature blocks)

I was pushing back against the parent's notion that tiny models would serve general purpose needs.
It's a good thing for those classes of people you just mentioned (governments, business owners). For everyone else it's just increased competition.
I’m confused. Isn’t this exactly the same as git commands?
Given the appearance of monumental conflict of interest, why isn't this reported as likely corruption, and investigation as such demanded?
A numpadless atrocity.
The joke actually removes this connector problem though, while a secondary PSU does not.
Even at q8_0? I thought it wasn't bad just like the models itself. But very interested to hear.

And q8_0 already halves the memory usage compared to fp16.

One of the ollama Devs called the quality impact negligible at q8_0: https://smcleod.net/2024/12/bringing-k/v-context-quantisatio...

But perhaps quantifying the KV cache does not scale as gracefully as the model itself?
Milton Friedman:

> If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came benefited. Because nobody would come unless he, or his family, thought he would do better here than he would elsewhere. And, the new immigrants provided additional resources, provided additional possibilities for the people already here. So everybody can mutually benefit.

> But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I’m exaggerating, it wouldn’t go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values.

> Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It’s a good thing for the United States. It’s a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it’s only good so long as its illegal.

> That’s an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it’s no good. Why? Because as long as it’s illegal the people who come in do not qualify for welfare, they don’t qualify for social security, they don’t qualify for the other myriad of benefits that we pour out from our left pocket to our right pocket. So long as they don’t qualify they migrate to jobs. They take jobs that most residents of this country are unwilling to take. They provide employers with the kind of workers that they cannot get. They’re hard workers, they’re good workers, and they are clearly better off.

Why is there so little legal immigration? Because American policymakers wanted more illegal immigrants. It was a good deal for everyone. You have cheap foreign workers contributing to the economy, but not qualifying for social services or legal protections. Previous politicians didn't mind looking the other way about how the sausage got made.

Of course the age where politicians would make unappetizing Faustian bargains behind the scenes for the benefit of their constituents is probably gone.
>Or you know...

Strange to think of it as an either/or choice.

All those services block things I want to block for other reasons anyway, and on fast internet they make it even faster.
I think a lot of the problem here is that all of the forward looking design is looking at the 787 dreamliner where the air conditioning is done electrically rather than with bleed air. It seems entirely plausible to me that this situation arose due to a descoping halfway through the project, where an initial version of the design wasn't going to use bleed air, they then decided that doing that much design work would be expensive, and put the bleed air system back in "because it's exactly the same as what we've been doing for the past 100 years" and no one realized that in the meantime, someone else on the engine team had designed a system that would dump a couple gallons of oil into the bleed air system if there was an engine failure.
Which Economic Tasks Are Performed with AI? [pdf]
> The Financial Times just ran an article about how trump might defy the supreme court on his way to burning down the republic.

But that is arguably a mixture between conjecture and hyperbole which would not be surprising from a newspaper that is clearly quite left-wing and often aims to make right-wing people look bad. It's like a right-wing newspaper writing an alarmist piece about Kamala Harris. Would you expect a fair appraisal?

> Musk supported AFD while tweeting about the great replacement and throwing a nazi salute. He's supporting the wrong political party in much the same way Goebbels supported the wrong party.

So what he actually does is he supports two parties which are against low-skilled immigration. A position which is completely mainstream in countries like Japan, Norway or Switzerland. Comparing that to literal Goebbels is trivializing the actual Nazi crimes.
How many years have you been saying that for?
Not just this, but your skills can degrade if you are working with the same systems for years at time. This happened to my cousin. He got laid off last year and couldn't find a job in tech. He now works in retail making 50% of his previous income.
> is busy playing video games

Funny thing, he faked that too. For a guy with so much money he is weirdly insecure about some absurd stuff
That site is propaganda. Ukrainian forces have fascist battalions (azov), but you probably support them.
I worked in the US for about a year before moving to Europe.

I would love to go back. The process of migrating to a new country with nothing but an H-1B visa tied to your job is extremely stressful.

Some people find it worth the effort, but I believe in going where you’re treated best. That said, I made some good friends there, and living in an English-speaking country makes many things much easier.

However, legal immigration can only function without making the host country unbearable for locals if illegal immigration is completely stopped. Every Mexican person I knew had several family members living in the States illegally and not contributing to the economy in any meaningful way. Meanwhile, I know a bunch of STEM postdocs who had to leave due to visa complications.

The country needs to choose whom it wants to let in. As long as illegal immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are allowed to stay without proper scrutiny, legal immigration will push away many of the best people you’d want in your country.
Absolutely, this "impossibility" is a dishonest exaggeration with propaganda intent to loosen immigration further.

In the same vein as the "shortage of engineers" ("we want cheaper payroll please") articles that circulate from time to time.
It really isn't very hard to get a temporary O1 Visa, which can turn into a permanent E1/E2 visa. You just have to be extra-ordinary in your field. Pretty much every country wants to import people they know will make their country a better place—even North Korea lets Americans ("the enemy") teach at their universities—and it's not hard to demonstrate this.
Sir, I am not going to keep links whenever I see this rhetoric in some online news site or local newspaper.
I'll guess that was in a rural area in the US West?

The further east and urban you go, the more rules you have to follow. This is, ultimately, sensible.
Any number of automobile manufactures should fire a bunch of staff and hire you. How we got to touch screens to control things which previously didn't require taking your eye off the road continues to amaze me.
That's the point I think. It should be possible to require orders of magnitude less data to create an intelligence, and we are far from achieving that (including achieving AGI in the first place even with those huge amounts of data).
We don't ask of every baby that is being born in the US how they will make the country better. But if given the option to bring in a fully grown adult, who already saves us the cost of an education, is of prime working age, and wants to be in this country, we suddenly care?