skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.

> ...

> Kini and two other former TCS employees who filed similar lawsuits say the company repeatedly made improper use of special manager-level visas to hire front-line workers who had no management responsibilities. All three cases, which were filed under the federal False Claims Act, were dismissed before the allegations of visa fraud were examined in court; Kini’s is on appeal. The manager visas, known as L-1As, are easier for employers to obtain and have fewer guardrails; for example, they lack even the minimal pay requirements that Congress has imposed for H-1B holders.

> Kini told Bloomberg that as Trump took office eight years ago executives at TCS, an arm of the Indian conglomerate the Tata Group, were trying to make their organizational charts match their visa applications, before any federal inspectors showed up on their doorstep.

And then further down in the graphic:

> Infosys and Cognizant, two similarly sized IT outsourcers, obtained 1,289 and 1,122 L-1As respectively between 2020 and 2023.

> During the same period, TCS obtained 6,682 L-1As, the most across all US companies. That’s over five times more than the second highest recipient of
L-1A visas, Infosys.

Note the use of the L-1A visa rather than the H-1B visa.

TCS is being targeted because they're abusing another visa class other than the H-1B visa.
To the extent that the concept is applicable, it would be the training data and the training code.
You can imagine the robot bolts the integrated motor breaking assembly to the body. And then a tech snaps the high voltage and control connectors together. That's it.
Modern fission designs mitigate meltdown concerns well enough that I'm not sure the safety & security around a fusion plant would actually be any better/cheaper, although public sentiment may be enough of an advantage. Tritium & neutron activated metals are dangerous enough to require keeping the traditional nuclear plant safeguards IMO. As far as proliferation concerns go, I don't see any reason you couldn't breed plutonium in the neutron flux of a fusion reactor, & the tritium is clearly viable for boosted warheads.
And this is the next step on the journey towards becoming a real senior developer...

> some people (myself included) often enjoy the process of learning these things.

A real senior developer knows when they're writing their own framework or library "for enjoyment", and when to just use the "boring technology" choice and work around any deficiencies it has for the task at hand.
Or more likely: reduced privacy settings, increased analytics, and in-menu advertisements.
First World Problems: Dating
Yeah but I still think it would be a great scientific achievement and should be pursued.

Fusion has better security properties than fission, so perhaps it will find some use case in the far future.
> I believe that it is a remarkably well designed language

> and just overall a poor debugging experience make async Rust a frustrating experience for rapid iteration.

> is the result of conscious trade-offs, trade-offs that I believe were chosen correctly. I don’t believe that async Rust necessarily needs to change at all, although I don’t doubt that the experience could be improved.

That's rust for you. It's a remarkably well designed language. Except for all the ways it isn't. What's hilarious to me is none of these are even deep or hard to find issues. Right out of the gate.. cargo is a wart.. and async was designed inside out.

Remarkable. Indeed.

So, _of course_, let's use it to implement a _different_ language entirely. The niche is disappearing.
Road to Vostok is probably the most relevant Godot-based 3D game, since it's a FPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atb3yFNazmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFIOmb1hseA
The UE4/UE5 source code is only available under license, but the bar to acquire said license couldn't possibly be lower. You just connect a GitHub account, click through a EULA, and automatically get access to almost* the entire source code for free.

* The NDA'ed console bits are hidden of course but all the PC code is there. Not just release snapshots either, you can see all of Epics commits in real time.
However, steelman-ing shouldn't imply a lack of object permanence.
Um. How are you measuring that productivity?
Yeah but physical computers have been replaced by holographic tablets and artificial intelligence.
The magnets in the device make the plasma be in a doughnut like shape to prevent it from touching the rest and it has active cooling, the parts that are around the plasma are made out of tungsten to dissipate heat. The sustained plasma duration would have to be turned on for as long as a traditional power generation device like a fission reactor or an oil / coal power station.
I am. Why would you assume otherwise?
I'd also recommend sleeping on the floor with a couple sheets and pillows. Sounds like it should be uncomfortable, and it is for a bit, but after a while your body just adapts with postures that do wonders for spinal relaxation and relief from some back/neck pains. IANAD.
So that’s why they didn’t challenge TF2C this time, it’s all coming together.
“Sitting pretty”, yes, that’s what I’m doing.

I’ll end this here since you don’t seem to have anything else relevant to say, and instead prefer to stalk my profile. Enjoy. It’s good reading if I do say so myself.
Don't listen to anyone's advice.

If you don't like traveling, don't travel. If you don't want kids, don't have kids.

There's no such thing as wasted time because you get to pick what you do with your time. If you choose to do it, how can it be a waste?

You'll be dead in 50 years. Do what you want to do, not some idealized version of being in your 30s.
Thanks, all of the mini usb cables I've tried are fairly long (~1m). I'll try and find a short one and see if it fixes it.
Oh, in retrospect/hindsight, absolutely.

But in-person, when you’re on the spectrum, in the 1990s, when the senior staff put their stock in discipline - not understanding - does not build empathy on either side.
Depends if you're in Canada's "northern domestic airspace" or "southern domestic airspace":

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/dnd-mdn/images/technical-a...

Airports in the southern half of Canada still use magnetic for runways.
I don't think current costs for fusion are useful for modeling, or really anything, because there's nothing there yet. We don't even have prototypes.

But if there is not a clear and speedy path to get fusion to $30/MWh it's not going to make it. Batteries, solar wind, and geothermal are all busy deploying and getting cheaper every month, year, and decade. The grid system possible with 2035's solar and battery tech is going to be completely unimaginable to today's grid ops.
Can confirm, I had a brain MRI in my early 20s and had a number of white matter lesions that were supposedly caused by migraines. No other cognitive or neurological issues. But I'm due for another scan soon and hoping they haven't worsened :P
Ask HN: Will AI make high IQ people less arrogant?
Maybe they will have more respect for creative people?
They promoted things like "accessibility", which is woke of course.
He says, snarkily reiterating what’s already been said and ignoring the reasonable response.
> Fuck DOGE/Elon for having enough hubris so as to think they can do better.

I wonder if he truly believes he's got a giga-brain. In that respect I dare say I'm better than him because I know my limitations.

Or does he have the world's biggest impostor syndrome, which he treats with drugs? Although I can imagine he feels pretty smart, because he can do anything and he still have a legion of followers (similar to Zuck's "They trust me. Dumb fucks.").
Yeah if they were at least offering some added benefit, like guarantees of correctness, more detailed explanations, etc., then I could see it.

But otherwise it seems more like an insult.
Like there is no data sharing between OpenAI and other big tech in US....
Well, unlike Lisp & Scheme, Lua and Luajit are used in production, millions of video game consoles, embedded systems, etc.
Living in a North American city with power wires being above ground, I have had so many power outages in the last five year, it was kind of a crazy thing to get used to. My Pi would not deal well with power outages when running through the SD card and so I stopped using it.
Musk shrank Twitter until its load (technical and financial) was small enough to be carried by the resources it had available. Revenue is way down but so is traffic, staff, and technical expenses. There’s still a website and app that loads, but it’s not what Musk bought.

Basically, Twitter is sustainable now because so much of its user base migrated away.
They extracted what they could from the western team and then cast them off. This has been the Chinese modus operandi for decades.
There is waste in government. However, what I have seen so far is Musk and buddies claiming waste, but upon further inspection, is not actually amazing amounts of waste, but rather their lack of understanding (combined with a credulous media).
Haven’t really seen this anywhere tbh - most devs would rightfully not even start evaluating such a product.
which justifies even more pneumatic tools

There lies the path to madness...
There are two competing use cases for web frameworks. In embedded systems you might have one or two users for a web page, and the page exists because you don't want to put a display on the device. That's where a synchronous approach really shines because it's easy to reason about and therefore doesn't break very often. Contrast that with a traditional web site with a backend, frontend, and thousands or millions of users. In that case, async code is easier to reason about because each visitor probably isn't interacting with the same elements of your model at the same time, and if they are you can define how those interactions work and enforce synchronization using the database. So it's not an either/or, but rather two approaches that address totally different situations.
Who buys a drill not strong enough for a hole saw? What does that even look like anyways? An electric screwdriver?
Note: this is from startup founder's perspective, whose job is to "bouncing from Zoom call to Zoom call".
Migraines and epilepsy have a lot in common, including some symptoms and triggers. Drugs and things that lower seizure threshold also tend to cause migraines. Some epilepsy drugs also act as migraine prophylactics.
>AMD also claims its Strix Halo APUs can deliver 2.2x more tokens per second than the RTX 4090 when running the Llama 70B LLM (Large Language Model) at 1/6th the TDP (75W).

That if true is wild.
You may work in a limited scope at a time, but you are aware how it fits into the larger scope, and more often than not you actually have to connect things across different scopes.
I wouldn't have looked this up otherwise.

Maybe solar energy storage makes sense for storing the energy from fusion reactor stars, too.

There's also MOST: Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage, which stores solar energy as chemical energy for up to 18 years with a "specially designed molecule of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen that changes shape when it comes into contact with sunlight."

"Chip-scale solar thermal electrical power generation" (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.100789
But it’s source available, and it’s not free software, correct?

It’s just free as in beer.

“Click through EULA” is the mammoth in the room.
With that level of nihilism/skepticism why would paying for the privilege give confidence you are not a product? Only a similar pile of words keeps them from double-dipping and making you both customer and product.
op exhibited a point where if we do not know what we do not know--the estimates are always off by many order of several magnitudes.

if op consulted an experienced plumber--the estimates would be off probably by an addition hour.

if a junior dev estimates, yup, I can change the API endpoint in 10 minutes, he'll be wronged by the nuances of several intermediate steps:

- code

- review / merge

- deploy to qa

- qa testing

- deploy to staging

- deploy to prod

likewise for plumbing: "mom, i plugged the leak with a band-aid."
Sounds useful - do you still practice samatha meditation? If not then what made you stop?
Alright man, here's your time to shine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055471
Or the Manilla-based Thinking Machines Data Science, which also seems to be focused on the AI space: https://thinkingmachin.es
It's like tiktok, but entirely ads. Who would ever want to use that product?
Intel principal engineer bemoans potential TSMC takeover, touts 18A advantage
First, Musk is a liar and is often wrong or stretching the truth. You can find out about that here: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-1...

Second, even if he is telling the truth, that is .000001% of the US budget. An extreme waste of time to hunt after it.
> The alternative is itself a wasteful mindset that cares more about punishing evildoers than it does about stretching tax dollars or providing for those less fortunate as the law demands.

Yes, I've encountered a person recently on this forum who had taken the position that even a single case of fraud is unacceptable; it's better to waste an infinite amount of money to catch all fraud, than to have a program at all if the alternative is to tolerate any level of fraud. I tried to engage them on the futility of this but they insisted it was a matter of morality to stamp out said fraud, because not doing so encouraged it.
Western Civilization in the Intelligence Age
This attitude of theirs is why I'm never going to recommend or use AWS. When we first decided to evaluate if AWS would be a better fit for us over GCP, they never let our company get past their account verification.

We're a small US based company, just a few people. They required verification documents, business registration all a real headache. After all of that we couldn't use a single thing to run, not even cloud shell. It's as if the account was disabled in some very obscure way. We spent 2 weeks arguing with support to please reinstate access to our account, and after 4 false "it should work now" responses they told us to start paying for premium support.

PAY PREMIUM TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR A SERVICE THAT WE NEVER GOT ACCESS TO OR USE.
If login.gov is scrapped, I would imagine the guys who are best positioned to take over would be id.me (who already have the irs.gov contract and more).
EU isn't "third world".

Kenya is, and at current exchange rates the range in this citation is $558-$1876/month:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/kenya-software-engineer-s...
Maybe I am. Maybe I should.
Thing is, here, therapist are not very good.
I heard from some friends about their experiences and their friends and relatives experiences. Most of the time the solution is to take antidepressants.
Thing is, chemical solution to your life problem is not real solution. Well it helps the same as alcohol I guess. But does it solves anything actually?
Right now I am just working on something that I think would be possible to sell, or make money from. Being my own company, on my own terms and make money from it - that would help.
Maybe I will show it on HN at some point, though I am a bit afraid people telling me that I worthless.
This has always seemed wild to me. New tech always always sucks. In complex problem spaces it takes years to effectively identify use cases, edge cases, and bugs and get all that shit ironed out, and yet the enthusiasm you speak of is pervasive.
Both sides are bad, that much is obvious. If that's all you gleaned from my comment, you completely missed the point being made.

I'm also not going to argue with you about which party is more controlled or hurting the country more. That is a terribly uninteresting online discussion to have.
Workday is an example.

And I don't believe you can download the Z-Wave specification without paying a membership.
> What about physics?

Source 2 dropped Havok in favor of their in-house Rubikon physics engine.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Rubikon
PyCharm does this well
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"Just use Postgres" is as useless as any other "Just use X".

You're trying to compare using SQLite which is stored in a file on the system... with using Postgres in a container via kubernetes on the same VM? What happens when you need to move that Postgres container somewhere else? How do you scale it? If you don't, then you're just using a solution orders of magnitude more complicated than SQLite to get the same functionality and locality as SQLite.
They're already using Source 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_2
The majority of the cost in fission is in the massive construction build, change orders, logistics, massive concrete pours, welding, etc.

I've looked a lot into this in terms of how to get a project like Georgia's Vogtle to have cost less, or Olkioluoto in Finland, or Flamanville 3 in France. Big complex construction projects are expensive, and it's not clear at all to me that fusion would be simpler or smaller, or escape the rest of Baumol's cost disease that has been plaguing fission in highly developed economies.
Quake 3 with LLMs: bots fragging and talking
Sorry to parse words, but I said prison “market.”

Most of the customers are states that need to put a prisoner somewhere, and most of the sellers are states that have a spare cell somewhere.

It’s mostly government to government sales.

I agree concern over private prisons is overblown. The very idea conjures up Dickensonian workhouses. Not quite the reality.
A lot of custom optimization solvers (e.g. Ising Machines) these days benchmark on XOR problems. It's a bit useless in practice because solving a bunch of XOR clauses can be done in polynomial time with Gaussian elimination, yet the solvers all show exponential scaling, but it works as a good way to gauge performance.

A second interesting implementation concerns the McEliece system. It's a public key cryptocipher from the 70s that is enjoying a renaissance these days due to being quantum-resistant. The decoding attack involves finding a solution to a set of XOR equations (again, polynomial), but where the Hamming distance is equal to some number (given, part of the public key).
Yes it's source available, not true free software. Kvirani never said it's free software though.
Could quibble about sub-speciation of trains and boats but this marvellous. A great day out. Shame we can't all get stuck on a Boris zipline to round out the day.

Well done!
If the bag is this essential, then it should be carried at all times and not in an overhead locker or similar.
These forces made spam accounts that spammed threats/insults in issue trackers and pull requests on projects that collect facts and resources against hate and discrimination and advocate for human rights, trans rights, etc on Codeberg. Some of the same spam accounts were behind the spam notification emails.

Also, because of the timing of the DDoS attack, they are likely be behind the DDoS attack as well, although that's not for sure. So we know they're far-right forces because of what they said in their threats to Codeberg users. The blog post mentions this but doesn't explicitly list the projects that were threatened so they don't continue to get spammed.
It's a real issue! But only for people who built the habit of typing in address bar, clicking the first stack overflow link and copy paste the first answer. Maybe break that habit first?
Using Alpine.js is not preventing you from also using vanilla JavaScript in the same project. Combined with alpine-ajax it‘s absolutely enough for progressively enhanced semi-dynamic web experiences. An example: https://filter-munich.com
IMHO, dislike of masks is built into us as a social species that place significant value on facial expressions. Makes sense from an evolutionary game theory perspective for societies to discourage them.

Easy to find research showing the detrimental effects of masks on communication, etc:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10321351/
The energy to run the refrigerator in the truck
Very few people get real value from an LLM. They're useful for minor grammatical checks, and idiot-level summaries. Maybe for entry-level coding. Outside of that, they're basically just gimmicks. You can't trust the output at all; literally everything an LLM outputs must be verified before it can be used for anything important, so you end up doing all of the work you thought you would have avoided by using an LLM.
The only insight I got from reading this is that the author doesn't like the president or his administration. Big whoop.
Congrats on the score (why don't I ever stumble on those), but I suspect the ratio of 'yard sales with good stuff' to 'retiring from machine shop and everything must go cheap' is pretty skewed.
> return on the initial investment.

It's not only initial investment. Half of the fusion fuel is tritium, which is one of the most expensive substances on Earth (a google search finds that the price of tritium is about $30k per gram [1]). For comparison, fission reactors need enriched uranium, and that costs only about $4000 per kilogram [2]. People have the idea that fusion produces many times more energy than fission, probably because fusion bombs have a higher yield than fission bombs. This is not true. The most typical fusion reaction involves one deuterium and one tritium and yields 17.5 MeV from a total or 5 nucleons. A fission reaction involves one neutron and one atom of U-235 and yields 190 MeV from 236 nucleons. So fusion yields about 4.3 times more energy per nucleon. That's respectable, but in the popular imagination fusion yields 100 or 1000 times more energy than fission, so the fuel cost can be neglected. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=tritium+price

[2] https://www.uxc.com/p/tools/FuelCalculator.aspx
You are correct, in a large number of fields the PI (principal investigator) goes at the end, the big boss of the lab who manages it and often handles funding and the likes. Similar to the C-suite in a company.
I feel like it depends highly upon the nature of the project.

I've worked with (and for) consultants and we typically billed by the project for things with well-defined scope, work, and outputs. (Maybe a small business website, or PBX system.) But we billed by the hour for things that were unfamiliar territory for us and forced us to learn as we go. Like migrating a bunch of data from an ancient proprietary database to Postgres.
We pay for stories all the time. It's entertainment. Your beverages are also a form of entertainment.

I'm OK with paying more for a wine that comes with a good story. It does have a different effect on me than one without, even if the chemical makeup is identical. I probably won't buy it more than once -- but I might, if the story resonates especially well.
Just reporting back for anyone that needs to know this: Would've been nice to know in advance that it's an SFO only position. That's a very different standard of living.
I bought a book on Amazon recently and when it got delivered, I was too lazy to get off the couch to get it and I just downloaded it. Now I have the physical book and a copy that's convenient to open/reference whenever and wherever I am.
Most of my LLM experience is pulling off the mask with a label of "AI" only to find another mask underneath labeled "information retrieval".
In case you're not aware, CSGO was replaced by CS2, which uses Source 2.
Any meaningful metric.
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Ethan literally wrote "a far-right President" won, so I wouldn't consider 18F non-partisan.
RedHat does this with their kb which famously have really high-quality answers.