skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story is missing some details about L-1 visas - most notably that you have to work for a year in an overseas office for the company that has a US office before they can use an L-1 to transfer you.

Wikipedia is useful on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa
I don't understand, how does this correspond with the 60 minutes video of the German prosecutors saying if you insult someone you will be prosecuted? It would seem their comments conflict with the constitution.
New features aren't usually considered breaking changes, only modifying existing ones so that old code doesn't work.

The rust compiler never strives to never introduce breaking changes (by the definition I just described). It doesn't quite succeed (because some things like correctness are considered more important), but it fails

a) Very rarely, not once every 3 months.

b) In very small ways, that only break a tiny portion of code.

c) In ways that are very easy to fix.

d) Usually the rustc-devs will go offer patches to the entire open source ecosystem before any such release.
I went through this with gemini-1.5, using it to evaluate responses. Almost everything was graded 8-9/10. To get useful results I did the following.
1. Created a long few-shot prompt with many examples of human graded results.
2. Prompt it to write it's review before it's assesment.
3. Prompt it to include example quotes to justify it's assesment
4. Finally produce a numeric score.

With gemini-2 I've been able to get similar results without the few-shot prompts. Simply by prompting it to not be a sycophant, and explaining why it was important to get realistic, even hard scores, and that i expected most scores to be low, on order for the high scoring content to stand out.

In a recent test, I changed to using word scores, low, medium, high, and very high. Out of about 500 examples none scored very high. I thought that was pretty cool, as when I do find one scoring high it will stand out, and hopefully justify it's score
> Removing the network latency is a massive gain, especially for small/medium apps, which is most sites.

No it's not. Network latency is negligible, assuming your database isn't halfway across the world or something.

And as soon as you have to scale to just two webservers, you've either got to implement a client-server network layer on top anyways, or else the complexity of a replication layer.

Just start with Postgres or MySQL in the first place. It's just as performant, just as easy to set up, and can actually scale as you need it. Don't be "brave" when there isn't even any payoff involved.
They are quite corporate and probably very cautious for that reason, but they do invest a lot in customer service. Their products usually cost more than elsewhere though, but I'm pretty sure it's because of extra investments in the service. I would've thought they had some contractors that they could suggest or use along with their service though at least.
This administration is that clueless and paranoid manager who is too dumb to ever operate effectively / micromanages everything beyond reason.
You can’t name one single lie. If so, please do.
If you're using the term "Linus & co" to refer to people who are discouraging devs from contributing, then FirmwareBurner is not "Linus & co" either, yet you included them in your accusation, saying FirmwareBurner was among those discouraging devs from contributing.

If there is no "I" in the people you're accusing of wrongdoing, then there is no FirmwareBurner in it, either. That's the mistake. It's the one you fixed.

When you're referring to a group of people, "you" is only appropriate to use when the person you're speaking to is a member of that group. I don't see any group here, of which they're a member and you aren't.

But hey, on the plus side, we're all in the same group when it comes to being human, so "we" is totally fine, too (I personally prefer language that brings us together).
There is a reason why the H1B exists

You are trying to kill the reason make it exist
This would not be quite that easy to circumvent.

The main appeal of H1B abuse is cost effectiveness. If you ruin that by forcing competitive salaries (to even get the H1B in the first place), then that ruins the whole point (and companies are going to engage less in it, i.e. only when needed/"intended").

There is also a huge difference between dealing with a consultancy agency that you suspect engages in "creative visa workarounds" and straight up comitting fraud (=> higher risk, possibly even personal, makes for a much stronger incentive).
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085957
Compare this crash to the Emirates crash in Dubai (EK 521, 2016). In the Emirates incident, the passengers stalled the evacuation in order to grab their carry-ons. Many were seen on the tarmac dragging roll-aboards. Here the passengers chose life over property and efficiently evacuated the aircraft.
So Pete here uses Bryan's marketing notoriety to draw people's attention to his own marketing services, one of which is being a LinkedIn ghost writer. Colour me amused, there's a clever remark buried somewhere in here. But time is running out, so I will leave thinking what special kind of tool hires a LinkedIn ghost writer.

https://www.petecodes.io/linkedin-ghost-writer-for-hire/
People that care have it on hand. Option+Shift+dash on mac.
Generative AI only really helps (a meaningful amount) developers where writing code is actually the bottleneck. I have not been in a such a position for years and years.
This suggestion assumes that all H-1B applicants are highly paid technologists. While that is the majority of them, there are French immersion teachers ( https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=french+immersion+teac... ), accountants ( https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=accountant&city=&year... ) and so on that have rather average wages for where they work.

While we're often focused on technology careers here, this approach puts the new hire at Tata on uneven footing with the French teacher.
No- but the main issue is that all reasonable ones I can conceive lead inevitably to the Singularity technologically, and pretty quickly since we seem determined to throw as much silicon as possible at the problem. Hopefully the final step is intractable.
I only started really using Firefox as a daily driver probably two or three years ago so I’ve been lucky to have my compatibility be like… 99.9%. Little snitch and my VPN break far more sites than Firefox does. But I keep brave on hand just in case.
Criminals won't need to be intelligent to not get caught anymore, once AI is capable enough.
As a moderator of /r/kindle, I can reveal that in January 2025, less than 1% of our visits were from users still using Old Reddit.

It does mostly attract users who aren't as technically minded as users on HN.

iOS Apps - 36.65% |
Mobile Web - 24.85% |
New Reddit - 24.37% |
Android Apps - 13.30% |
Old Reddit - 0.82%
Also, these systems are much more difficult to diagnose if they fail to function correctly. This means you are going to pay for 5 different things to be replaced, each after replacing the previous one didn't fix the issue. And you are going to pay big time for every replacement.
what a person needs to make a decent living is an input into the supply part of supply and demand. Thus it puts a floor on prices. Pay me $500/hour and I'm installing washing machines not writing software thus increasing the supply of labor to do that. (but of course nobody will pay that much)
Interesting solution. Have always used HTML & CSS for my resume found it a much better fit than LaTeX.
I believe foreign key constraint validations are also disables by default.
Interesting. There's obviously been a precipitous drop in the sticker price, but has there really been a concomitant efficiency increase? It's hard to believe the sticker price these companies are charging has anything to do with reality given how massively they're subsidized (free Azure compute, billions upon billions in cash, etc). Is this efficiency trend real? Do you know of any data demonstrating it?
Now we need AI to color them in so that we don't have to do it ourselves to increase our daily productivity.
Glow in the Dark Bunnies Coming to a Pet Store Near You... Finally.
It's not much better than DeepSeek's old slogan "Unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism."
I was thinking this, and also if the airframe had warped enough to prevent the doors opening (maybe this is impossible?).
I think the answer is that open source made developers more valuable because they could build you a whole lot more functionality for the same amount of effort thanks to not having to constantly reinvent every wheel that they needed.

More effective developers results in more demand for custom software, resulting in more jobs for developers.

My hope is that AI-assisted programming will have similar results.
> What will happen if you do an entire woodworking project using a VR headset?

You will have less fingers when you finish than when you started.
I'm one of the 17 people that has Alt+0151 memorized
I've seen changes like this drag out over a year because the product had so many permutations that thoroughly testing any change was an exercise in futility. I've also seen changes like this fail to happen just due to a lack of cultural desire to make things happen.

The first one is more forgivable - sometimes that's just the problem space. But neither of them are conducive to fulfilling working environments.
stumble was the algo sweet spot. an endless feed of things that are slightly better than being alone with my thoughts, but no parasocial "community" with concomitant toxicity.
It was a 777 (much more room) and not upside down, though.
If you use any of the conventional tests that exist of theory of mind (most famously the Sally-Anne Test [1] but also the others) then SOTA reasoning models will get near 100%. Even if you try to come up with similar questions which you expect not to be in the training set they will still get them right.

In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, this is convincing evidence in my opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E2%80%93Anne_test
https://litesync.io/en/ is a mature way of distributing SQLite with arbitrary topologies and no modifications to client code. Supports multi primary write and DDL replication.

It’s a paid solution, but that follows the model of all commercial SQLite mods (one time license fee).

I use it, though just for a simple case of having a live replica of a production server running SQLite so I can try out migrations and generally work in an isolated copy.
It probably depends on the benchmark you choose; according to Chatbot Arena, Deepseek-R1 ranks similarly to o1-2024-12-17; and Grok3 is just 3% above these models in "Arena Score" points.
In the 'old days' goths made their own outfits. Then Hot Topic came along and homogenised things.

I also experience culture shock when I moved to the UK. I left Australia which was still "pre-emo", and arrived in the UK and was confused as to why goths were running around with fat pants, pokemon backpacks and riding skateboards. It took me a little while to realise there was a next generation subculture already established.
The writer is a journalist, runs a media firm and podcasts. His job is to get attention. You get attention by being outrageous. The “AI will kill us all” take is covered by too many people, so he’s taking the “AI is doomed” path. No one is going to engage with a reasonable middle-of-the-road article. He’s got no credibility on this subject, but he knows how to turn attention into dollars. Everyone here keeps falling for it.
In Germany Insults and similar things are not seen as an opinion. They hurt the dignity of an person.
Non-syndicated source:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/doge-administrator-...
> There are plentiful capable US engineers available to be hired

An anecdote, for what it's worth:

My brother graduated from Berkeley last year (CS/Math), and has absolutely struggled to find jobs. His friends have struggled; everyone he's talked to has struggled.

Meanwhile, job postings in the Indian job market (we're both Americans, but are Indian by origin so we tend to keep up with things there) are damn-near overflowing. It's a frustrating position to be in, and it doesn't look like the current administration is going to fix anything.
> the /completions API

> I do not need a dumber-than-intern agent

two tells that you have not updated since 2023
The solo plumber also needs to put a lot of time in the office doing book work, scheduling jobs, restocking their van with parts, driving from job to job. If you are thinking about going into business for yourself either charge what your competition does - don't undercut anyone. If you can't figure out what your competition charges figure out what you need to live on and double it for a starting price and then get an accountant to look over your books in a few months. (though if you have no competition that is generally a sign that you have a bad business)
> MySQL and Postgres are larger than Sqlite by more than an order of magnitude.

But they're still small, since you can run them on the smallest available cloud VM's and have plenty of memory/CPU/disk left over for webserving.

> What do you get in exchange for all those lines of code? Do you actually need the extra functionality?

The ability to scale beyond a single webserver.

It's just as easy to use Postgres as SQLite, but by choosing SQLite you've made life much more complicated for yourself if you ever need to scale to two servers. Why would you inflict that headache upon yourself?
To clear things up: the throttle used to be a physical cable, like on an affordable bicycle with rim brakes. It is still a cable on most motorcycles.
Not sure I share the same takeaway from their marketing video.
I never understood the rationale behind TimescaleDB — if you’re building a time series database using row-oriented storage, you’ve already got one hand tied behind your back.

What does your testing strategy look like with bigquery? We use snowflake, but the only way to iterate and develop is using snowflake itself, which is so painful as to impact the set of features that we have the stomach to build.
In my opinion, AI only really helps you (a lot) if you are bottlenecked by the actual code-writin. I have not been in a such a position since... I dont even know. Maybe In my 20s, 15 or so years ago? Even if AI wrote my code 100x faster it would not appreciably change my working days.

If it could test and verify things though... ideally physically since Im in embedded and pulling SD-cards etc is a thing.
Is DOT5.1 as corrosive now?

I agree that routing hydraulics everywhere is not nice, but this is the last component that I want to have a cliff failure mode profile, which is usually the caee with electronics - they work until they don’t. Hydraulic and pressure systems usually fail somewhat gracefully.
For Deepseek, I'm not saying otherwise, quite the opposite.

But Grok hasn't shown anything that suppose the level of talent that Deepseek exhibited.
Chances of me putting a computer screen between my eyes and a lathe are exactly zero.
BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired
I am reminded of the Mercedes-Benz Sensotronic Brake Control (SBC) system that was developed by Daimler and Bosch. It was in two mass-market models, the E-Class and the CLS-Class, and it was so unreliable and expensive that it was replaced with a traditional brake system during mid-generation refreshes for both models.

Mercedes-Benz USA has also had to give the brake system components an extended warranty to not lose goodwill with its customers. I believe every single Mercedes-Benz with SBC in the USA is still under warranty with no mileage limits?

Definitely not worth the headache despite having a backup system if (or rather, when, as the control unit had a fixed lifespan) the system fails and a separate auxiliary battery just for the brake system. I believe back in the day it was several thousand euro to have the SBC pump replaced when it gave out?
I don’t understand what this is.
> That's not worth billions. It's definitely not worth trillions.

That is a problem for the VC’s that bet wrong, not for the world at large.

The models exist now and they’ll keep being used, regardless of whether a bunch of rich guys lost a bunch of money.
Apparently not. Apparently xAI can catch up in a year. And we already saw what happened with DeepSeek.

What does the scenario look like where everyone else gets eaten alive?
Yes, it is a columnar DB. A lot of things feel pretty familiar as it has a SQL like query language. The data model is different though.

The nice thing is, once you understand the data model it becomes very easy to predict if it will fit your use case or not as there is really no magic to it.
There's also tons of benefits for DYI if done in a correct balance. It allows you to later communicate with professionals more efficiently and figure out who is actually a quality professional, debug issues with the setup you have, make better decisions in the future. I think when owning a house, if something does not pose a significant long term risk health or damage wise, it's wise to at least try and spend few hours on figuring out the DYI. Unless you have serious FU money where you can hire a single, trusted person to just orchestrate everything for you.
That is not the point at all; We're not talking about a spring rate that increases as you push on the pedal. In a proper braking system, the driver can feel through his foot what the tires are doing, because there is direct mechanical feedback through the brake lines. This is an important safety consideration, and manufacturers are throwing it out for... what?
Everyone who uses a compose key has it available (via ---) — I do. You mean the em-dash though, not the en-dash, and Davidzheng is using hyphens for approximation, not en-dashes.
If you put black tape over the light, it will not allow you to turn on the camera, however, I believe someone found a hack that said if you started recording and then put black tape over the recording, it would allow you to continue to record, but only for 3 minute increments.
That's discomforting. My practice of sprinkling em-dashes like salt on a salad dates from my early days on various video game communities' forums. They comfortably mimic interrupted speech in writing. I hope I won't have to soon defend myself against accusations of AI usage just because I belong to the minority that read The Punctuation Guide[0] or a related resource.

[0] https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/em-dash.html
Then you should probably stop using most applications today, specifically those that have been iterated upon in the past two years.
Aviation A2Z reporting that this was a no-flap landing due to a flap actuator failure. Hard to tell in the videos posted if that is the case, but would explain the hard landing.
Completely agree. I'd be tempted to put up some Rust code if the contribution pipeline wasn't such utter crap (yes yes it was good for it's time, but that was decades ago).

But I won't be putting up any code either way until the culture moves on from little kings calling things they don't like (and that don't really affect them) "cancer". I'm not holding my breath.

I've started wondering what's next after Linux because it doesn't feel sustainable long term any more. There's a small trickle of fresh blood but not enough to keep the kernel project healthy IMO.
You can have as many connections from as many processes as you want.
> At some point we are going to have a conversation when AI is going to contribute to the Linux kernel.

If you can get an AI to produce useful patches for the kernel then you can submit them right now. No conversation needed.

If you think AI is going to replace all of the human interactions, research, physical testing, and navigation of the companies and communications required to make this work then you either don’t understand what goes into writing drivers or you have an extremely unrealistic idea of how AI works.
Mamba-Shedder: Post-Transformer Compression for Efficient SSMs
>Which cultures completely restrict their infants from attempting to walk?

The ones I mentioned in my comment.

>Did you read the paper you linked? It describes all the immense amount of learning that actually happens.

Again, as I said, there is a degree of fine-tuning but the core mechanisms are innate.

Some examples:

> In particular, the core premotor components of locomotor circuitry mainly derive from a set of embryonic interneurons that are remarkably conserved across different
species

>Detailed EMG recordings in chick embryos during the final week of incubation showed that the profiles of EMG activity during repetitive limb movements resemble those of locomotion at hatching

> In addition, human fetuses exhibit a rich repertoire of leg movements that includes single leg kicks, symmetrical double legs kicks, and symmetrical inter-limb alternation with variable phase.

I don't think you read the article, or else you think that "development" means learning.

>Have you actually seen a foal walking? They are very visibly learning how to do it!

They can walk right away, but they get better at it. It's innate, but you can fine-tune it. Like I said.

Another (impressive) example of an animal innately walking, this time to avoid predators immediately after hatching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3OjfK0t1XM
Indian IT firms made about $100-120 Billion in revenue last year. That's just handling Corporate Americas IT/BPM ops. Add the rest of the worlds IT stuff and it doubles. Why will this happen if it benefits no one? This story is 30 years old now. And its not the first time the Visa system is being gamed.
If you assume Corporate America saves 40-50% in salaries (usually the conservative diff in avg sal level of Indian vs American Engineer) through this route, then someone has to pay that diff to make this stop. Otherwise the incentives have not changed and there is no "easy fix".
and Gemini's Deep Research
Lowering costs is pretty valuable. People will pay for that. Everyone will pay for that. It may be that margins go razor thin but outside of running your own instance locally (which is increasingly viable for mid quality & requirements on modest HW) people will pay. I’m not surrounded by early adopter types at all abd there’s still a small but growing chunk paying $20/mo right now.
You are polluting every variable signature with `readonly`. This also can create cascading effects where making one function accept only readonly variables forces you to declare readonly elsewhere as well. Quite similar, in a way, to Rust.
My brother in law, aviation firefighter, said after a crash you have 15s to egress, that's it. There's not a lot of air in the metal tube you're trapped in, it'll fill with smoke and everyone will be disoriented. It's also a long way to the exits, and the average person in the exit row probably will be in shock and likely not operate the exit door immediately.

Absolutely incredible the fireball was put out in the flip, these people are so lucky.
The U.S. government can't enough stop China from Acquiring the latest Nvidia GPUs; they go through back channels. It's easy to make claims that the government knows everything and yet somehow terrorists still successfully shoot or blow up places from time to time. The number of times in Europe I've seen a bad guy be "known to police" or "on a watch-list" like what does that even mean, and why wasn't anything done about it? Because what it really means is that they've created a list due to some profiling which due to obvious flaws, can't be leveraged due to the number of false positives.

It's a weird situation because I want the government to both be up in all of our business to protect us and yet not such that we still have privacy - impossible, really. If anything AI will hopefully increase the Gov's capabilities to detect nefarious shit without intruding upon privacy. Technology usually does its job perfectly, it's just misuse by us dumb humans that always causes problems.