skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would never have thought that the TN would be at risk but if relations between the U.S. and Canada continue down the path that we're on, then I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility. I'm not sure how long it would take for the U.S. to get out of the free trade agreement but if the U.S. were so motivated, it effectively could kill the TN very quickly, even if just by policy and practice. So yes, if you can, it probably makes sense to start looking at options to get off the TN, such as the H-1B (but subject to the annual lottery), the O-1, and the E-2.
It's odd to me that people feel worse about unpleasant things happening specifically to convicted felons than to the general public.

If you were being mean to a random jerk, and then he pointed out "By the way, I roughed up my wife last night" would you feel more bad about being mean? But you'd feel worse if it turned out he was doing time for that same crime?

Note: I know that there could be people truly wrongfully convicted included in the set of all prisoners, but I certainly don't think that's common enough that they should be treated better than the average person.

Second note: I also am not saying being a felon means one should be punished forever or anything. Just that, yeah, prison isn't meant to be fun, and being expected to work while doing time is not cruel punishment. It's what most people do outside of prison. Anyone who doesn't accept those terms, I fully support them clicking "Decline" by not commiting crimes.
You should be able to see the entire thread if you turn 'showdead' on in your profile. The only posts that don't show up that way are ones which their author deleted.

However, your comments have been breaking the site guidelines regardless of what else is in the threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343926

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298307

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298121

I know it always feels like the other person started it and did worse (and indeed, many of the comments you were replying to were bad ones that got deservedly flagged), but we need you* to follow the guidelines regardless of what anyone else is doing. Any other approach just invokes a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

* I don't just mean you, of course, but everyone who is posting to HN.
I had to stop getting Samsung Pro Endurance microSD cards after three in a row failed after a few months (write speed dropped below 2 MB/s). This was after the update to the blue and white color scheme (and higher endurance figures, hah); the older black, red, and white ones worked great and I fortunately got over a dozen of them.
To be clear my statements were all facetious with varying levels of seriousness, and that one was the least serious. The thrust being to point out the hypocrisy of the neofascists saying "reduce regulations" while they actually mean increasing centralized control over our lives.

Though I will say with all of the blind destruction going on, now wouldn't be the worst time to end up trying out those idealistic theories about larger adoption of spread spectrum...
I know those gaps are often due to the data coming from different sources and it's not always possible to normalize it and what not, but I'm always super suspicious when they do that. Also when you see results that are like 1953-1986, like maybe the results from 1952 and 1987 invalidate whatever point they want to make, so they used only the section that helps their case.
As an engineer you should be familiar with laws and regulations. Try creating health care software without regarding HIPAA, for example, should make for lots of fun and lawsuits!
Where I live all schools must provide bus service for kids more than 1 mile away, or if the route to school crosses a busy road. Some kids to get a city bus pass, but the yellow school bus is common. I know other states do it differently.
> It's self-hosted on bare metal, with standby replication, normal settings, nothing "weird" there.

I can build scalable data storage without a flexible scalable redundant resilient fault-tolerant available distributed containerized serverless microservice cloud-native managed k8-orchestrated virtualized load balanced auto-scaled multi-region pubsub event-based stateless quantum-ready vectorized private cloud center? I won't believe it.
Wait until you find out about WebWifi
They probably offer less complex dishes with simpler to cook ingredients.
This MIT article covers it a bit more (with a slightly too generic title) High-performance computing, with much less code https://news.mit.edu/2025/high-performance-computing-with-mu... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357091)
Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals: A Compact Primer on Digital Signal Processin
Just because you want to keep using old tech doesn't mean everyone else wants to.
January 6th protesters were all arrested with valid warrants and received full due process (until they were all pardoned).

Mahmoud Khalil was arrested solely on the discretion of Marco Rubio (the arresting agents thought they were revoking his visa when he is in fact a green card holder), he has not been criminally charged, he was been provided with little to no contact with his lawyers, as far as I've read he lead protests but there is no evidence he has provided material support to Hamas.

Comparing his situation to the January 6th protestors is the "falsest" of false equivalences.
Revising US MMR Vaccine Recommendations Amid Changing Domestic Risks
I understand that’s terrifying in the moment to have CPS at your door, but maybe the erroneous CPS visit is a one time cost we have to pay to change the culture, until CPS learns to ignore phone calls with no more details other than “children are outside”. If they don’t learn to ignore them - that sounds like lawsuit territory

Change requires someone that doesn’t accept the status quo

(I don’t have kids, but hope to have some in the future, so this is me talking out of turn)
> Kazakh names are typically unique planet-wide.

Really? What kind of structure do their names have? I think even cultures that used full-sentence names tended to have some conventional ones.

And certain name ideas are very common cross-culturally, as witness Bogdan / Nathaniel / Theodore (and older Diodorus / Apollodorus / Herodotus / etc) / Dieudonné / Atallah...

Going to something I know better, Chinese names can be unique, and I know someone who tells me her father specifically attempted to ensure that nobody shared her name, but I wouldn't go as far as saying that being unique is the typical case. Some names (小丽, 国强) have an attractive meaning and are used with identical spelling by large numbers of people; other names (Xīnyuè, Sījiā) show a lot of spelling variation while always being pronounced identically.
Yeah, they're still walking/biking. I live in a state where I see kids walking to and from school all of the time.
Poking around Wikipedia a bit more (I've no good naval history book of the period handy), I'd say you're right about that incident. But serious rebuilding of the USN only started under President Arthur - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Arthur#Naval_resurge... - who only came to office in 1881. And things still moved quite slowly for most of a decade after that.

Here's the best overview I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_U.S._foreign_policy...

So, obviously: My notion that the US quickly got its ship together, after the initial oh shit moment, was 99.97% wrong. TBD if Australia can do less poorly.
>Schools can't afford crossing guards

Parents could get together and volunteer to do crossing duty or hire a private crossing guard, it probably wouldn't even cost very much.
Hills should never reduce the range, because the energy lost during climbing up is recovered when going downhill.

This is one of the great advantages of electric vehicles with batteries, when properly designed.

Electric buses with batteries are even more suitable for cities with hills than for cities without hills, because they provide greater energy savings over buses with ICEs.

While I have never used buses with batteries, I have lived in cities with electric trolley buses. Even with the primitive technology of many decades ago, they were doing great in cities with hills, recovering most of the energy when going downhill, unlike the buses with ICEs, which had excessive fuel consumption because of the hills.
'Microlightning' in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds
If I had to guess, I'd say they're coming up against the limits of LLMs where LLMs are ... stupid. There's a quality issue that is difficult to get around when you try to make an LLM do something out of its comfort zone and it can suggest you to do dangerous things very easily.

I wish they would forget the really advanced features and just focus on little ones. Like particularly with Alexa back when I used to use that, one of the major frustrations was figuring out the magical word order that would get it to do what I wanted, it would only do a thing if I said it in a certain way otherwise it would get condfused or do the wrong thing. An LLM would be great at making that not happen.

But instead of just that little bit, they're trying to do Star Trek levels of computer voice control, missing out on incremental improvements.
Maybe you're misremembering some of the details of being a kid, but I know my parents signed forms that told the school that I would be walking to/from school. That was in the early 80s.
For a lot of animals like crows, their ecosystems are "human activity" now.
Green card holders can have their GC stripped for committing crimes. If free speech becomes a crime then the GC is at risk.

Note - I don't agree with it but I think this is the logic the current administration is using.
Fat distribution, including subcutaneous vs visceral, has very clear racial/ethnic genetic associations, not to mention sex. East Asian and especially South Asian groups skew much more toward visceral fat, while European and especially African groups toward subcutaneous fat. Beyond calories in/calories out, generalized advice in this context might not be as helpful on an individual basis as with other health matters. In the context of diet & weight things are already complicated, but at least in this area we know why and can more easily predict how one person's body is likely to respond vs another. (Though, it might just come down to some ethnic groups having to put in alot more effort--e.g. much greater reduction in overall weight--than others for the same reduction in visceral fat.)
You may wish to give Guix a try. Nix philosophy, but the language is Scheme.
At the core this behavior is simply a version of social proof. Parents see what other parents do and/or kids see friends being picked up and then put pressure on their parents to do the same. Then it gets to a tipping point where it just becomes the thing that you do (and nobody thinks otherwise or wants to tell their kids they won't do this or questions it).

It's also a way for a parent to think somehow they are doing the right thing and get a little enjoyment in their head (despite the time involved or wasted) 'I am a good parent'. Doesn't involve as much effort as other things a parent does (or should do) it's simple (other than the time).
This is so infuriating, per the article "The approval comes months after devastating wildfires, and will add an average $600 a year to homeowners’ bills".
the wildfires caused this level of damage in part due to the lack of water to fight them and the lack of water was due to bad management from the city/county/state leadership that neglected the systems that supported the water network and water availability.... so at the end of the day people is paying for the negligence of these people.

My home insurance is now tripled what is use to be in 2024 and all of this without a single claim on my side.
Build Your Own Game Engine in the Browser – David Whitney – NDC London 2025 [video]
I guess this is what they call American Exceptionalism?
Sigh, another day, another consumer product without fault tolerant update systems.
SpaceX has a white paper on doing this with their satellites for Starlink.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5...

It is bad engineering on Samsung's part to even be able to brick their product with an update.
Sounds counterintuitive.

Any references?
While I agree with what you wrote

> [...] GPUs that run HDMI over DVI [...]

I thought HDMI and DVI use the same signalling (at least the 'digital part' of DVI, was it DVI-D?), just over a different connector?

In my memory only the connectors competed for adoption, and Home Entertainment industry opted for HDMI and the PC-industry opted for DVI, while the signalling was not contested (besides DVI also being able to carry analog signalling with full spin-out, and HDMI carrying audio instead).
My memory might not serve me well here though.

I never thought HDMI would win :( but it makes sense I guess - Computers/their use changed :(
> I'm sure millions of people make unregulated sandwiches at home just fine.

Very little about that sandwich is unregulated. The bread they bought in the store is regulated. Whatever they put on the sandwich is regulated.

Without the FDA, companies would put profits above food safety.
Fair enough. Many of my end users were indeed eager or at least willing to learn as you say. A non-insignificant portion were not though, and those are the ones I'm speaking of. But that was also a professional environment. Your interested users had some obligation to the company and the support of professionals like yourself to guide them.

Additionally, I don't think these people are stupid, and I'm not demeaning them. They simply do not care to know and that's perfectly fine. I wouldn't demean someone for not understanding how their car works, or even failing to get their oil changed. The computer is a tool to file taxes and shop on amazon for most people, they have a million other priorities in their lives that come before making sure windows is up to date, let alone actually considering its security. It's the job of these companies to ensure their technology can be used safely without consideration by the end user.
getgo simplifies the process of downloading and setting up Go environments on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It allows you to:

- Download any version of Go (including the latest)
- Extract it to a specified location
- Automatically set up the necessary environment variables (optional)
- Customize your GOPATH location
- Create a .envrc file for use with direnv
I used to run a bunch of Postgres nodes at a similar scale. The most painful parts (by far) were restoring to a new node and major version upgrades.

Any tricks you used for those parts?
Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command
I get why people took issue with my parent comment, because it seems like I am just whining that economists are measuring the only things they can measure. But it's like the fish asking "what's water?".

why do we pay people to measure these things? why do they measure what they measure and not something else? why is this type of thinking dominant among the technocratic elite? Especially when the view from the ground floor only seems to be getting worse and worse.
the 8 minute window is probably even better...
There's nothing wrong with it.

It's actually impressive that you can entertain yourself at 3-4 years old.

My perception of time at that age would have been such that I'd probably be very fearful of being abandoned if left alone for more than 2-3 hours.

But kudos to him.
>Walking to and from school is great if you can do it.

This. I would have let my kids walk to school, but one of the intersections would have been totally unsafe.
As if engineers actually get to make decisions about software, firmware, or hardware. Ha! That is truly hilarious.

I would rather have a bunch of mildly responsive legislators setting the boundaries of what is acceptable than a bunch of middle-managers trying to justify their salary to their private equity overlords.
And they seem to be about 10x as fast as similar sized transformers.
In order of your questions:

1. The H-1B is easily transferrable to another company (as long as the position meets the H-1B requirements).
2. Yes, she still would eligible for the TN if you changed to H-1B.
3. That's the main reason; it's really impossible for Canadian citizens born in India (or China) to pursue a green card while in TN status (without jeopardizing that status). Also, under the current law, an H-4 spouse can apply for a work card if his or her spouse is in the green card process (specifically, has an approved I-140) and is from a backlogged category or country like India.
I don’t disagree! but among Americans who do not go to church, most of them have parents or grandparents or great-grandparents who attended Christian church regularly, and some of that culture is still prevalent in subtle things like “protestant work ethic”
Why are these things connected to the internet at all?
> were restoring to a new node

Zfs send / recv or replication.

> I used to run a bunch of Postgres nodes at a similar scale. The most painful parts (by far) were restoring to a new node and major version upgrades.
Any tricks you used for those parts?

Replication makes this pretty painless :)
As others have pointed out, that's pretty much how things originally started. A more recent example I remember is the Action! programming language for Atari 8-bit computers[1], an Algol descendent for 6502 with static activation frames.

But I don't understand the appeal. Many algorithms and data structures are most naturally expressed with recursion. Not allowing it forces the programmer to create and maintain their own manual stack data structures which brings us to square one in terms of statically-guaranteed upper bound on memory usage since they can grow indefinitely. At best, stack overflow errors will be replaced by array out of bounds errors which is the exact same thing anyway. In fact, it will be even worse: Manual stack implementation will come with its own complexity and source of bugs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action!_(programming_language)
Many prompters don’t practice hygienic reversal by rolling the outcome of a conversation back up the thread as input. If 10 comments are spent coming to some clean code, go back up the thread and include it as the status “back then”.
Brillant rant.
Promoting a declared terrorist organization isn't a gray area. Nor is abusing schedule 1 drugs but the felon seems to want his African buddy to slide on that one.
What a colossal waste of money that could have went towards tackling bugs, improving the Siri we have now, etc. I know many consumers want new shiny, but so many of us just want them to improve testing/bug hunting. For a while I almost thought they wouldn't get baited by the hype, or at least have their product actually working before announcing it to the world with the dumbest name possible.
Not at all; the job just needs to be related to the employee's education.
And, that shit works for you on the first try every time?

Do you practice daily?
> county engineers claim it is an enforcement issue,

They are probably professional engineers who can lose their license if anyone discovered that there have long been known road designs that prevent this. It will take some research, but the law is on your side to have them dismissed for cause if enforcement is all they are relying on.
TrolleyBuses vs. Battery Electric Buses (2020) [video]
Even better: I have some sort of Useless Machine[1] bug where turning on the TV will power up the PS5, which then puts itself to back to sleep.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
Dyspeptic flamebait and generational slurs.
> Are there any obvious advantages of H1B other than eligibility for applying for a green card (which is a loooooong wait for people of Indian origin)

Was your partner also born in India? If not and you get married you can use their country of birth for the green card, even if the green card is being sponsored by your employer. Maybe you're aware of this but just to say if you're not.
I would so much prefer an hour on a rural highway over an hour stuck in city traffic!
Is calling out a right wing military state for bombing and killing over 14,000 Palestinian children terrorism? Just talking about it makes you the bad guy, huh?
The video's title is "Why TrolleyBuses are vastly Superior to Battery Electric Buses!", which I have attempted to de-editorialize.
Beta Technologies is already shuttling cargo between bases/depots for the US military with their eVTOL aircraft.

Demonstrated range of over 300 nautical miles. Significantly higher reliability than helicopters previously used for the same task, and much cheaper.
But then at least have backup firmware of the one you want to update, so you can go one step back in case of errors.
That kinda defeats the point of having a device. Sure it works in some cases but we're talking about a soundbar here and that has to interact with other devices. It's whole purpose is to interact with other devices.

Even if it doesn't need to contact the internet you're still going to want it to connect through cables. There's good reason to connect through bluetooth.

But why should it contact over the internet? Well it sure is nice to be able to stream music from my NAS. There's utility in that. There's also utility in the parent company updating firmware to support new audio codecs. Or to support new algorithms. If my device is gaining more utility, that's a great thing! And of course, if it is connected wirelessly in any way (including bluetooth) I sure as hell would like updates with respect to security.

Without this, the thing becomes e-waste. The environment moves. Time marches on. No thing can exist in isolation, no matter how hard you try. Again, software rots, not because the software changes, but because the world does.

But that's not the problem here. The problem is abuse of that power. It isn't for the benefit of the customer. The problem is managers pushing to release before things are ready. The need for speed with no direction. To not even consider in the calculus of decision making the tremendous costs of when things go wrong. And how this lesson is never learned despite facing the problem time and time again. Issues like this now cost tons of engineering hours, tons of lawyer hours, and ultimately will cost tons in rebates and refunds. How many weeks of work is that equivalent to? Sure, it doesn't always result in catastrophic failure like this, sometimes it results in smaller failures, sometimes small enough they can be brushed off. But those are still costs that no one considers. That's the problem here.
Choosing a Language, from a Rails Rustacean
That's a good point, you can definitely optimize. I'd be curious how far you could go using static analysis. Assuming no recursion, function pointers, dynamic linking, etc; can you optimize to the point that you use as little memory as a stack approach would? I think you ALMOST can! The only blocker would be specific call patterns that would require a lot of memory, but are unreachable. That's where the halting problem hits.

You just make a call graph where the nodes are functions and directed edges indicate which function calls which. Without recursion function pointers and the like you can compute this exactly and this forms a DAG. Each node is given a weight, which is the amount of local memory that function needs. Start at the entry point function, and compute the longest distance path (using the node weight).
Cool game. Tutorial is easy, but difficult to progress.
I am an MLE not an expert. However, it is a fundamental problem that our current paradigm of training larger and larger LLMs cannot ever scale to the precision people require for many tasks. Even in the highly constrained realm of chess, an enormous neural net will be outclassed by a small program that can run on your phone.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04494