skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just American political posturing and cancel culture. It's really annoying how pervasive black-and-white thinking is now in American political discourse that you cannot even say one good or bad thing about some American politician or policy, without every American jumping on you like you have a chosen a side you should be ready to die for!

The spillover of American politics to the internet is the saddest thing I've encountered online as a non-American because they are trying to force us into right- and left- echo chambers they've created to make us think about politics like them.

Please don't fall for this trap of "us vs them".
One thing that really stuck with me from the show The Good Place. The premise is that getting into heaven is a points-based system. You get points for doing good things, loose them for doing bad things, and when you die, if you have enough points, you go to heaven.

Spoilers for season 3 ahead

Used to be, for hundreds of years, you'd go visit your mom for her birthday. You'd be walking down the lane and see some wildflowers, so you pick them and bring them to her. +10 points.

In modern society, to do the same you'd drive to the florist and buy some flowers, then drive to your mom's. +10 points. But the PE firm that bought the florist laid of 100s of workers, and -10 points for supporting them. And the flowers were picked by underpaid exploited immigrants, -10 points. And you dumped a bunch of CO2 in the air from your drive and gave a newborn asthma, -10 points.

The show was saying that because of the choices that modern society and late-stage capitalism force upon us, nobody has gone to heaven for decades.
Would really like to know about this one as well
Become a contractor. They don’t get promotions. Or any other benefit except pay. So become an expensive contractor.
Hah. :) I thought clearing some initial consideration hurdles was implied, but, not necessarily...
I think Netlify is great but to me it's overkill if you just have a static site.

I understand that Netlify is much simpler to get started with and setting up an AWS account is somewhat more complex. If you have several sites, it's worth spending the time to learn.
This is a single offscreen fillrate benchmark at 4k. Once you move down to 1440p, it benches between a 4070 Ti and 3090 Ti.
> There are plenty of cities across America which have hip arts districts, coffee shops, great museums, nice architecture, etc. etc. but they tend to be glossed over.

There are lots of people in smaller cities who say, 'we have ____ just like NY!' But it's not just like NY. There's a big difference between the innovation, skill, production, investment, etc. in those things. If you want world-class music, where will you live? Even if you just want regular opera, there are only a few US cities to live in.

> there is also a ton of hype and imitative behavior that makes people focus exclusively on the coastal cities

The same people also say NY is crazy, too liberal (i.e., too socially innovative), things are too odd and strange there. Where the 'crazy', innovative ideas - so far out that they are strange to most people - are accepted and encouraged and loved are in cities like NY. It's not the same.
> Saying that a mine leaves behind 99.99% of the material is a misleading take.

This might be slightly overstated, but uranium at ore concentrations of 0.1% and under is mined commercially right now. Safely disposing of toxic byproducts of Uranium ore extraction and -concentration is already non-trivial in sufficiently regulated industrialized nations, situation in Kazakhstan or Africa is very obviously worse (or are you actually arguing that the operators there are gonna restore groundwater quality, and dispose of toxic byproducts in a permanently safe way at their own cost?)

> What exactly are these harms?

Again. The harm comes primarily from groundwater contamination, which is very hard to prevent because you are basically pumping some leaching agent into the ground, which is alreay invariably gonna affect groundwater quality. Even if that did not, you then need to dump slurry/brine byproducts from extraction somewhere (and the next river is gonna be the cheapest place).

> Gathering the materials for solar panels is harmful and you don't see anyone seriously sitting down to have a whinge about it. Industrial society has costs. News at 11.

People whine about environmental impact of lithium/rare earth mining bascially every single time that electrification of vehicles comes up (or wind turbines), primarily to then make bad arguments in favor of fossil fuels...
This actually puts it into perspective, knowing it's closer to absolute zero than room temperature.
Here's what the ADL's take on how those presidents should have answered:

> The line of questioning was hard and designed to box Claudine Gay and the others in, but what Gay didn’t say and could have said was that political chants are one thing and calls for ‘intifada’ may arguably also be protected as free speech, [but] they come awfully close to incitement to violence,” Steinberg said.

So "may arguably be protected" but "come awfully close" to not being protected.

And here's two presidents answer:

> Magill answered: “If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment, yes.”

> Gay said that such speech would violate Harvard’s policies if it was “targeted at an individual.” She added that “antisemitic rhetoric, when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation — that is actionable conduct. We do take action.”

So, basically the same stance as the ADL, might be protected but might not.

But since you get your news from propagandists, you think giving an answer in a hostile cross examination on a complex topic which is broadly in line with what the ADL says in a later written interview on the topic is a signal to destroy American universities and illegally imprison their students because they are run by out of control anti-semites?

We're well into "those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" territory now.
At least on YouTube, you can pay Google and not see their ads at all. Doesn't help with the ad reads YouTubers themselves do, but it covers Google's.
We are a group of 3 founders. One with J1 Visa, one with H1B and me (outside the US).

We would like to incorporate in Delaware and I know this is no problem for me, but we are trying to figure out how the other two founders can legally work on the company when established.

Any advice?
Thanks Peters.
Do you have a source for this? I've been thinking of moving my domain names from Porkbun to an EEA company, but this would cinch the need to do that
Hmm, a six-necked guitar called the Beast on the Altar. That's a little on the nose.
S3 is great for being able to stick files somewhere and not have to think about any of the surrounding infrastructure on an ongoing basis [1]. You don't have to worry about keeping a RAID server, swapping out disks when one fails, etc.

For static hosting, it's fine, but as you say, it's not necessarily the cheapest, though you can bring the cost down by sticking a CDN (Cloudflare/CloudFront) in front of it. There are other use cases where it really shines though.

[1]: I say ongoing basis because you will need to figure out your security controls, etc. at the beginning so it's not totally no-thought.
Never. It is just a fancy MMS in new disguise. Carriers / patent holders will hold to it forever while praising it as the new best thing.
Google as well
> And the stack is (usually) tiny

This is sort of amusingly backwards. On embedded systems where I live, stacks are huge. Thread stacks of 4-16k are routinely the largest single objects the kernel sees in Zephyr. And yes, lots of RTOS apps disallow recursion (Zephyr doesn't, but does gate its use in the core system behind build-time config that can be turned off) because in that world it's hard to provide the guarantees you can get with a 64 bit mmu environment.

But if you are on a modern 64 bit OS, no: stacks are enormous. Many megabytes of mapping is routine. Obviously that's not all going to be faulted in, and most threads won't ever use more than a few kilobytes. But the region reserved for recursive use is extremely large, and unlikely to overflow except in a well-crafted deliberate attack (and even then it generally requires a few bugs in the code; most recursive algorithms are bounded by e.g. maximum tree height or something that is O(logN) and thus can't overflow).
Are you paying money for this forum?
state & local are always options
You are physics. Everything else it's delussion.
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This is exactly what the leads in my team not only thought but said to my face gratuitously. I'd be in my 69th hour of work on a Thursday and they would pass by my desk and say stuff like "what's important is not the time you dedicate to a task but that you complete it".

The board decided to promote these people who negotiated a 4-days week; after all the team had never missed a deadline, and gradually I was given more and more tacit responsibilities without explicit status recognition. This creates a double-bind situation for both sides. While I could never be satisfied because of this lack of trust, you have to understand why they approached me with suspicion while being dependent on me.

A 10x engineer (or any Nx engineer with N > 1) has to interface with the rest of the team and this necessarily implies more work. In my case, resentment grew because of the increased workload this led to for them, and my colleagues felt more impacted by this than by deadlines being not met. As for management, since deadlines were already met, they felt more compelled to listen to the negative feedback they gathered about me and develop suspicion. And yet, they had to rely on me for any impromptu problem they had.

What's this article is discussing is not engineers with bouts of outstanding performance but engineers with that symbolical status. It's attacking the myth, and the attribution of that label, not a reality with measurable outcomes. The article doubts that such a measure exists, however the departure of an employee can have destabilizing effects on an organization. The delta won't exactly measure this employee's worth, but an organization can put itself in such a configuration that it will unknowingly rely on a few key individuals for its financial strategy and use the added value these people bring against its competitors, to win investors attracted by this differential in efficiency or proceed to acqui-hires. This leads the company to bind itself to commitments which pushes it near to a dangerous threshold.

Once crossed, when one of the cheap keystone employees leaves, this excess of work can cascade to other keystone employees, and cause more resignations, and the company won't be able to make up for it because its finances are already engaged elsewhere.
Once in a while you get a municipality that has some sense.

In 1984 there were not a lot of cities that wanted to host the Olympics after the Munich disaster so Los Angeles was able to cut a good deal with the IOC, did not build a bunch of stadiums and other structures that would later go unused, made a profit and put on a great show that the world loved. I am thinking about going there for 2028.
Mag is the inverse of log10. e.g. log10 ^6 = 6. We have no current shorthand for inverse log10 except "tentothe" which might be serviceable but is not as punchy.
All startups that I worked paid very decently, just not FAANG level.

This no-in-between you describe is for founder only, I believe.
> I am not aware of any platform that doesn't have a decent C++ compiler

Plan 9

> I don't see what makes the CMake "harder to implement" than make/mk

If you can't use the existing codebase, then you have to implement cmake from scratch, which is orders of magnitude more difficult than implementing a mk interpreter.
Let me point to two things

1. China (they don't care about your copyright)

2. No single entity controls internet access. (thank god)
Project I'm working on v1. Would like feedback if anyone cares to.
What if everyone started responding with aggressive encouragements, "Escape!" "Run from that place," "Murder your overlords, you outnumber them!"
My company is very big too but if you want to be a good developer and you are happy with your normal salary increase everyone else gets, people will be happy about it because there is no budget anyway to give you a higher position.

I don't think this is a real issue if you are not wanting to make a lot of money.
> I imagine Tesla has to follow the rules and regulations

Is that a new verse of John Lennon's song?
Can a TN classification denial result in immigration detention? If so, how can I mitigate that risk?

For context, a Canadian woman recently tried to enter into the USA from Mexico and get TN-1 status. Instead of refusing her entry, officials detained her and she's been stuck for 10 days waiting for deportation.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadian-woma...

It's unclear to me how big of a risk this actually is for the average "Canadian goes to the USA" story because of her specific factual scenario. Presumably I don't want to enter from Mexico, but is it advisable to take flights from a TSA preclearance airport in Canada so I'm not actually in the USA if the classification is denied?
Why move at all when you have no tax or medicare liability signing w8ben?
GitHub engineers learn new codebases – The GitHub Blog
Yep, I'm a federal contractor working in NIH as a data scientist, and completely agree with the above comment.

Before November, I would have said the same thing as the parent comment. After January 20th, everyone who is left is currently looking for backups in case they get laid off.

Gov and fed contractor positions used to be the most stable jobs you could get. Now, they are just as uncertain as industry jobs. It's extremely unfortunate.
If you had bought gold in the late 1970s you are still down in real terms. Gold is a meme, not an investment.
Woodworking is very far from my world, so I don't really have any grounds to judge how comparable the two things actually are. I'll say two things instead.

First, right now presumably the reason a few people still become master woodworkers is that their work is actually better than the mass-produced furniture that you can get for much less money. Imagine a world where instead it was possible to cheaply and automatically produce furniture that is literally indistinguishable from, or maybe even noticeably superior to, anything a human woodworker could ever make. Do you really think the same number of people would still spend years and years developing those skills?

Second, you've talked about business logic and "math experts at the company" a few times now, which makes me wonder if we're just referring to different things with the word "mathematics". I'm talking about a specific subset, what's sometimes called "pure math," the kind of research that mostly only exists within academia and is focused on proving theorems with the goal of improving human understanding of mathematical patterns with no particular eye on solving any practical problems. It sounds like you're focused on the sort of mathematical work that gets done in industry, where you're using mathematical tools, but the goal is to solve a practical problem for a business.

These are actually quite different activities --- the same individuals who are good at one stand a decent chance of being good at the other, but that's most of what they have in common, and even there I know many people who are much more skilled at one than the other. I'm not really asking anyone who doesn't care about pure math to start caring about it, but when I'm talking about the effect of AI on the future of the field, I'm referring specifically to pure math research.
Cocomelon rightfully gets criticism, but this is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Bluey is a scripted animated show intended for older toddlers with parents as a secondary audience. Cocomelon is animated songs for younger toddlers with simple, conflict-free situations that do not provide examples of bad behavior. For a relevant comparison to Cocomelon, see the Ms. Rachel or Spanish-language Luli Pampin videos that provide similar content but without the negative aspects of targeting engagement metrics.
I guess that show has been over for nearly 5 years, but it might still be a good idea to spoiler this reveal for folks who haven't gotten around to it so you don't lose 3 points.
I would love to know too. Finding decent vectors for stencil work was difficult before “AI”, now every site is full of AI slop.

If you know anything about flowers or botany, every search result for a given plant is full of AI generated amalgamations of different species that no actual artist would call what it’s labelled.

If I were able to somehow generate my own and ensure accuracy that would be amazing but I’ve yet to find a suitable tool or workflow that doesn’t involve going back to school to learn illustrator or back in time to develop artistic talent.

Edit: To be clear I don’t mind paying for graphics at all, but it has become 100x harder to even find what I’m looking for to do so because of the torrent of crap!
Hey Peter. Is there any way to confirm whether a request to USCIS to bump a case from F2A to IR was recevied or acknowledged?
We haven’t received any 797-C or any other confirmation.
Thanks!
Money can fix most of the issues for most of the persons out there, IMO. Sure it's not magical, but it is as magical as one can get in the real world.
Geese have also been employed for security including by military forces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose
Government adjacent jobs with NGOs that are not federal government funded might also be options.
Web Discussions: Flat by Design (2012)
They don't want Greenland for it's eggs?
Indiana's House of Representatives Once Voted to Change the Value of Pi
yeah... There is always a niche in government. Plus, I haven't heard of many layoffs affecting software teams in government. Some people are so deeply rooted in their specific concerns that taking them out of a codebase is borderline like cutting the wrong cable on a bomb.
NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024
> Guarding against unbounded recursion requires both compiler support and runtime environment support

I feel like this is similar in spirit to saying "guarding against infinite loops requires both ...".

Where resource consumption is concerned, as you pointed out you can track that manually. Presumably you have to do that anyway, since the iterative case will also need to give up and fail the task at some point.

I really don't see where recursion itself introduces an issue here. I guess if you expect to pass through a great many nodes that don't otherwise trigger resource allocation except for the stack frame, and the compiler can't optimize the activation records away, it could be problematic. That's pretty specific though. Is that really the case for a typical parser?
The ones I worked at paid me decently in terms of cash except for the one I tried to start myself. In those cases I was wanted for special skills and experience and not being a generic applications developer.

It's not unusual for people, in the case of an acqui-hire, to get a payout of $250k or so.
Space applications of all sorts are screaming out for mass production approaches. With so much design work and verification the actual manufacturing cost tends to be trivial by comparison, the work readily adapted to concurrent manufacturing processes.
I perceive physics.

Physics is perception.
I would love to learn more about this too.

I don’t really know what you’re talking about, and have a hard time imagining how ideas from relational algebra can be applied to all APIs.

For example, many database-like things already use relational algebra and an actual query language, for sure. But how does this apply to, say, a GUI toolkit or an audio device driver?
PW;DR: Pay-Walled; Didn't Read. But...

Will this be the stuff of the housing of tomorrowind?
When you say "VAT" I assume your are in Europe? Aren't there ETFs in Europe that allow you to own gold that wouldn't required VAT payments?

In the US we have GLD and others that let you do this.

Also apparently in Europe and the UK there are "investment gold" coins that are exempt from VAT:

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/932...

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/investment-gold-coins-and-vat-no...
Your dental offices needs an hour for a routine teeth cleaning.

Mine does it in six minutes. 10x, baby. I can't afford to waste my own precious 10x engineering time on sitting in a chair dealing with such a mundane affair. 10x all the things!

Rather painful, though.
In the UK, at least, gold coins and gold bars benefit from a special tax status which means that they are exempt from VAT

Certain coins, such as the Gold Sovereign in the UK are classed as legal tender and as such are exempt from capital gains tax
Sorry to hear... I hope this situation gets sorted sooner rather than later.
>Why are the embedded GPU:s always so stunted?

Because gpu want a lot of silicon. 5080 is 300 mm^2. Meanwhile ryzen 9xxx is 50 mm^2.

Meanwhile CPU wants to use that wafer space for themselves. And even if you use 100% of the wafer space for GPU you will have a small gpu and no cpu
I don't know the absolute answer to this but this one looks pretty good https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v2a
Perhaps there is an app that makes using one-time pads simple. It is really the only way to be reasonably certain that your communication is protected. With storage so abundant it is feasible to share a 100MiB pad for each contact which should be enough for a lifetime of messages.
As a USA-ian, I'd be happy with a US-based cloud, but not run by a spyware company (Amazon, Google, MS).
Absolutely. He trolled the general aviation crowd pretty hard. He also does some good once in a while like getting the cops to leave a high-school kid alone. [1] People may not like his style but I would like to see him troll more communities. Too many people take themselves way too serious in my opinion.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uzYsRbukw [video][18 mins]
Maybe just job-hop. Sure, you're a senior for 10 years at one company, then be a senior at another company for another 10 years. I know that's easier said than done, and could run into ageism as you get older.
Avoiding Porkbun because of politics and going to... Namecheap?!

They suspended all Russian accounts because of politics. This means they use the emotional rather than logical part of their brain and have no place anywhere near critical infrastructure. Full stop.