skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's right, for H-1B purposes, you can qualify based on a combination of education and experience (or even just experience) evaluated to be the equivalent of a 4-year U.S. bachelor's degree (in a field related to the H-1B job). There also are a limited number of TN occupations where a bachelor's degree isn't required or an unrelated degree can work.
It’s true that root can disable user crontabs but the cron that’s shipped with all popular Linux distributions does have built-in support for them.
I agree in spirit. I just don't know how else to quickly make a group expose itself for how uptight and stodgy it may be. When I was young I was a member of an amazing group that was down to earth, intelligent, well spoken, rational, well connected and they ruined me.

Now I find most groups to be fake on the outside and once one joins the true faces start to show. So I guess I like to see those groups exposed for who they are to prevent people from mistakenly joining them unless of course that is their thing.
Not a bad article, all things considered. Interesting, given the overall message, that the author manages to spin the worldly engagement that is still present in stoicism (as opposed to Epicureanism etc.) as somehow a suspicious thing. In Republican times the dominance of stoicism in Rome wasn't so pronounced, I think, and the elite followed all kinds of philosophies. And soon, under the Empire, the political engagement became more of a theatre anyways. Patrician families declined. So the whole idea of having an excuse to stay in politics is weaker that one might think. There was more of an incentive to shut off in your villa as much as you can, and just try to avoid displeasing the emperor.

Graeco-Roman world also created more patterns of radical political engagement than people tend to give it credit for (regardless of what you think of its legitimacy). Plato with his speculatively constructed vision of ideal republic. Ideologically motivated coups, like one of the Spartan king Cleomenes. Generations of social radicalism had looked at Gracchi. We are just too far removed from classical education to see and appreciate it.

The idea that you somehow have to pursue universal salvation as a part of and precondition of your personal happiness, I think this is extremely wrong-headed. Maybe not OP, but many people think you are morally obliged to be permanently depressed and want to ideologically control your every waking thought. In actuality, I'd say it is better to have internal calm and contentment to be able to achieve whatever you are able to achieve for the world.

As for popularity of ancient philosophy, I think some of this is it having more practical outlook and being less complicated, in a way, than most modern (meaning post-medieval) thought. Note that wide popularity of Enlightenment in 1700s also stemmed from it being more accessible to the masses in many ways. While also ancient stuff has enough of a "base lore" to be somewhat insulated from completely freewheeling "philosophical" crankery. That being said, I would encourage anyone to also look into Epicurean, skeptic etc. thought alongside stoicism. Cicero was somewhat right in trying to peruse and combine all this stuff.
Ask HN: What are your fun tech anecdotes?
It's Friday and I'm hoping for your fun tech related anecdotes!

For example, I once came into the office to see the entire team standing around one computer, chuckling.

The guy at the keyboard said "now watch this!", hit some keys, and the group erupted in raucous laughter.

I went around to see what they were laughing about.

It was an assembly dump on Godbolt.
So you picked traits you feel are associated with that label and checked how much they apply?

... so still subjectively?
DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue in contrast to Silicon Valley
Huh. I kind of thought that batteries had comprehensively won in this market, tbh.

I still can't quite get used to the electric buses. A 20 tonne double-decker bus should sound like it might explode at any moment; it is unnatural for them to move around more or less silently.
> unless you're talking about companies that have recently been taken over by private equity where the new owners intend to gut the place and sell off the parts.

Off topic, but this is starting to feel like the rule rather than the exception. This practice should not be legal.
This is actually quite easy to achieve, as long as you cannot realize your own mistakes.
This is one of the reasons why my home theater system is built from discrete parts (not an all-in-one soundbar), with a high quality receiver that never talks to the internet, doesn't have an ethernet cable and has no wifi access (it works fine as a bluetooth sink when I want to play something from my phone into it), separately purchased 5.1 speaker system, and roll of 16awg stranded copper speaker cable from monoprice.
Wouldn’t radio silence increase damages to customers and result in increased liability?
I was a staunch Stoic, and a hollow disassociative mess is exactly what I became.

Think of the end goal of the Stoic and what it takes to achieve it. At every misfortune, you rationalize and deny your natural emotions. If you do it well, you're an all understanding guru of life, sharing oneness with everything, and becoming nothing in particular.

We have to accept that we too are a part of nature and flawed imperfect beings who can be unreasonable, hate unnecessarily, be selfish without ultimate good reason, etc. It makes us the individuals that we are, and gives us the will to care and have something we intrinsically want to live for.
I'm not familiar with this product but it would make a lot of sense if it supports direct streaming for Chromecast/Google Cast.
No matter of era, age or social status, people do seek ways to cope. That is why stoicism seems to be so popular.
Transit agencies don't have the technical expertise to distinguish truth from lies in cleantech marketing. They aren't the only ones, see the over-inflated valuations of both Nikola and Tesla as two (very different) stories of companies successfully lying to investors and the general public about the magical capabilities of their novel transportation platforms.
I knew I'd seen something, but I just searched for for it; Fedidevs have something like that - https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/
Cultivating stoicism probably increases one's power and riches on the margin, because it emphasizes emotional stability which is correlated with higher incomes. Hedonism probably works in the opposite direction on net, even though hedonists would probably get more direct pleasure out of the extra cash.
Came here to write this. Relieved to see someone already wrote this.

Only someone who has never actually taken the time to study the Bible could possibly claim that it teaches “things are secretly good underneath”

The Bible teaches that things are so broken, so bad, and so irredeemable that God himself had to humble himself into the form of man, dying a physical death, to redeem it.

It’s only pop-Christianity that teaches that people are mostly good and make mistakes. The Bible teaches that man is a wretch, incapable of redemption within his own power, and deserving of damnation.
See the Hands That Shaped the Clay of Hardened Beings
http://archive.ph/d5l3T
Scrum Fatigue: Why It Happens and How to Fix It
Should be codified by law:

- If a firmware can be updated, it must keep a minimum ROM feature so it can be recovered.
- No device should be updated without the *owner* explicit intention to do so.
- Full docs must be released if the vendor stops supporting it.
>Easy to prove, can you think of an engineer that adds negative value?

Yes, i have many examples. Two of them I personally fired. One of them, I should have fired much early. I let this engineer basically add negative value by trying to make his peers (other engineers) finish the work it was delegated to him, thus creating negative value by preventing the other, highly productive engineers, to do their tasks.

I warned him not to do this, but he didn't heed. Sadly due to Human Resources the firing process took way too long. I should've acted earlier.
True, the other Good Emperors - Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius didn't set up their children as their successors. They each adopted someone who would be good at the job. But there was one difference between them and Marcus Aurelius - none of them had biological sons. Their adopted son would be their only heir.

Marcus Aurelius' decision can be criticised in hindsight because Commodus was terrible at his job. But I'm not sure I could have done differently in Marcus' shoes. Parents find it difficult to view their children objectively and feel the need to protect them. Even if he was aware of Commodus' faults he also knew this - if he adopted someone else and crowned him Emperor, then it would have led to civil war after his own death. Either Commodus and his other sons would kill the adopted son or vice versa. Having all of them alive and at large would be an unstable equilibrium that could only be solved with war.

Come on man, this guy ran an Empire pretty well for a couple of decades despite challenges like war and plague. Maybe he knew what he was doing. Give him the benefit of the doubt.
That depends entirely on what you will be doing when in the U.S. While you can't work in the U.S. as a visitor, there are lots of activities that you can engage in as a founder while in the U.S. as a visitor. See one of my responses above regarding permissible activities as a visitor.
Well, for that specific question, I'd skip all the bro-nonsense and just note that Stoicism is at least superficially quite like the implicit life philosophy that many men acquire from their families and the culture, but organizes that into something more coherent and with a fairly long past. It provides a positive explanation of why something vaguely close to what you already do could be a good thing. The appeal of that seems fairly obvious to me.

Note that I don't seek to demean or reduce Stoicism to "what men do anyway". It is a much more carefully thought out philosophy of life than that would imply, and contains far more insight and potential than "keep doing what you already do". But the fact that it is somewhat adjacent to the pop-stoicism associated with masculinity doesn't hurt its accessibility.
I do agree that software is by far the most complex things humans have created and much of that complexity is hidden.

Case in point - more than one Mars mission has failed due to software errors.

However you could argue that the best way to deal with that complexity is not to have a brilliant mind that can grok more of that complex space, but by simply taking good engineering practices to minimise and manage it - ultimately the complexity is beyond us all if not managed.
> They just don't attach their happiness to whether those attempts succeed or fail.

Doesn't that seems bit pointless?
No, still false. Anything that recurses more than once cannot. A Fibonacci series, done by recursion, cannot be done by tail recursion (without memoization). A binary tree walker that visits all the notes (as opposed to searching for one node) cannot be done with tail recursion. And so on.
See also: https://github.com/nucleic/kiwi
Hi Peter, thank you for your time.

On an L1-A visa, can my company file my perm while I return home to get a new L1 visa (my visa is expiring and the date on I-129s is the same as the visa expiration date)?
I’m the developer of crontab.guru and Cronitor.

We have a free tool called CronitorCLI that includes a cron-like shell. You can run and test your scripts in an environment that matches how they will be run by cron itself.
This reads like a sponsored article promoting xAI, without clear ethical disclosure. While it appears to be about AI-generated games in general, it focuses solely on Grok-generated content.

Other models often perform better (https://web.lmarena.ai/, https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/) - I have yet to meet anyone who uses Grok as their primary programming assistant.
Similar to Crowdstrike failed auto update incident.

What was the need for the global instance 0->1 rollout of the firmware over the air ???????????????

could they perhaps test it on a small subset? perhaps on Samsung CEO's home system, not the customers'?
I'm guessing you're young. Those are all behaviors you can get away with < 40 that catch up with you in a hurry.
Yes I like it, one of the big criticisms of the fediverse was that it’s “quieter” than regular social media because “friends” didn’t move off the lock-in platforms. To bring new community together is much needed. Though I do get a quicker high from eating a doughnut than making a friend.
Yes as are all artistic opinions. But in fact I can have hard objective data in this, if you look up the normalcy of concrete as a building material worldwide. By this standard wood is weird and concrete is the normal thing. In any case there is no knee jerk aversion to the material. Perhaps its a thing in former communist countries and countries which defined themselves as hating these countries to see concrete as "cold".
I strongly disagree about Netflix. It came out when I was in high school without a car. Being able to get whatever DVD I wanted without having to bum a ride from my parents--and also never have to pay late fees--was a major game changer.
Can you open a business in USA without being there, living there? Greetings from Kosovo!
My understanding here is block size can be arbitrarily large, under similar constraints as diffusion models. Is that not the case?
Hi Peter, Thanks for doing this. I am a Canadian citizen born in India and ~ 6 months ago moved to work for a FAANG company on a TN visa from Canada.

The company applied for H1B visa lottery this year and awaiting the results for that.

My question is if I get through the H1B lottery

- How does it impact my options to switch employers in the future? Would I be able to work on H1B for future employers?

- My partner (Canadian citizen) is currently on a TD visa (which does not allow work) but actively searching for positions eligible under the TN categories. If my status changes to H1B, would she be ineligible for a TN visa?

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)
Also the vendors increasingly push you to put them online to use devices. Samsung tries really hard to make you think that your TV setup needs a mobile app on your phone running in the background with high precision location tracking, and 99.9% of buyers are going to leave that setup so they’re not blamed for problems in the future.
The UK had the Aberfan disaster that led to better awareness and enforcement of above-ground tip management be it mine or combusted slag or ash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
Annual shot might protect against HIV infections (lenacapavir)
Not enough of an atmosphere.
The electric airplane is another myth. There is no known battery technology, or one on the horizon, that can provide a large enough power/weight to make them practical.

The investors are getting bilked.
Show HN: Surf – Open-source computer use agent
Deploy your stack's test data easily
GP is lamenting the apps ship an entire self-contained, often outdated, browser one must run and update separately for each app because they are desktop apps. Web apps just run as a page in your browser like any other site. Not everyone who has an issue with a former has an issue with the latter.
Any word on putting that in a mobile device? So far there’s only a hp business laptop and a gaming tablet… none of which appeal to the “MacBook crowd”
Dubs and I upvote.

>Like all recovered edgelords who came of age in the early 2010s, I somewhat miss the heyday of image-boards like 4chan. They were the final bastion of the wild-west early internet before the nazis ruined everything.

Extremely true. I don't know anywhere like those times these days. Where do the young people/trolls hang out and push to the edge of acceptance these days? Or is the culture of "getting right to the edge of getting banned but not crossing the line for lulz" and "act in a way nobody knows whether you're actually trolling or not" dead?
Few things over the past few years have infuriated me as much as tracking and advertising being introduced at the OS level, especially on TVs. I'm looking at you, LG! I will gladly pay more for a TV that doesn't try to advertise Roku's streaming service to me or track my kids' watch history. Seems like they are few and far between, though.

The best thing we have been able to come up with is leaving the TV itself disconnected from the WiFi and using an Apple TV for smart features/streaming. I'm sure they're still gathering data but it's at least not as blatant. It's a real crapfest for the consumer at the moment.
Hey Peter, thank you for doing this!

Is it possible to build a successful o1 case for a founder, who's been digital nomading for years and can't build his case based on achievements from one specific country? Any tips?
I used to be mean to scammers and ask if their mother was ashamed of them etc., but I recently tried another tactic and told them I loved them. It works a lot better. One told me his name and where they were located. It costs me nothing to tell them I love them. Maybe they need to hear it.
Isn't the answer always "bugfixes and increased stability"? :)
Hi Peter, I have a few questions:

1. I currently do consulting for US clients through a Canadian corporation. If I accept a full-time job in the U.S. (e.g., on a TN or H-1B visa), can I continue consulting for other clients?

- Does the answer depend on the visa type?

- Are there any restrictions on self-employment or side income?

2. Can I set up a corporation (LLC, S-Corp, or C-Corp) in the U.S. while on a work visa?

- Can I be a shareholder?

- Can I take dividends?

- Can I actively work in the business?

3. What legal structures allow me to maximize flexibility while working in the U.S.?

- Would an O-1 visa allow for more flexibility?

- If I move under a TN visa, can I later transition to an E-2 investor visa to run my own business?

4. What are the best options if I want to move to the U.S. while keeping the ability to do high-paid consulting?

- Should I aim for a Green Card as soon as possible?

- Is there a specific visa category that would allow this?

Thank you for your help!
What you could do, I guess, is write up 5-6 implementations of it yourself first, then feed those into the training set for the model, and then it should have a decent shot at understanding that particular problem. (maybe /s?)

I guess my question is if you had a good solution you'd done before, and also a good understanding of what kinda changes it needs, why bother with hours of AI prompting?
I'm glad they wrote several more comments. The first comment was intriguing, but the more the wrote the more wild it got. Especially the part about being connected to life like a person in a fall airplane.

I think they've mixed up Stoicism with some other philosophy entirely. They think Stoicism means feeling nothing, doing nothing. Almost like the Hindu concept of sanyasi.
how about working for state govts like IL or CA. I have friends in both but they are not worried (yet).
If you are against heavy handed regulations I think supporting the DMA is only logically as those regulations are now coming from gatekeepers such as Apple or Google so limiting them in what they are allowed to do is fully compatible with this mindest I believe.
Indeed a golden factory firmware version that will be booted automatically if all else fails and that provides minimum connectivity is crucial.
Only if you connect the soundbar via Bluetooth /s
If you think about it, keeping them offline is a huge security improvement even without the risk of bricking update, so in ways an automated update regime that convinces you to keep your device offline is giving you peace of mind. In a way.
If you are applying for a family-based green card while outside the U.S., then the main challenges are timing - these take longer than U.S.-based applications - and travel to the U.S. - while travel to the U.S. is fine while in the I-130 process abroad, you should expect to be questioned when you enter the U.S. about your plans; CBP will want to make sure that you are not trying to circumvent the process abroad while entering as a visitor and then applying for a green card when in the U.S.
Big discussion on original source (619 points, 1 day ago, 381 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351137
L5 and chill
You missed my point completely.

That dam was built to prevent and mitigate damage during floods (besides producing electricity).

Was it built to insufficient specifications? Absolutely! But building less dams does NOT lead to less victims during flooding, because the flooding then just happens completely uncontrolled. Spoiler alert: "Just not build any dams" doesn't do shit against flooding if you get 1m of rainfall within a day, and the people just die from starvation/infectious diseases instead (which is the source of >50% of the victims in the Banqiao incident, too), possibly in even greater numbers, because you have flooding everywhere.

> Just in 2018 the Oroville Dam failure caused the evacuation of 180 000 people. That's more people than were evacuated due to Fukushima.

Are you suggesting that we would have to evacute less people during rain if we did not build dams? Because that is the critical flaw in your argument that I'm pointing out.
Since it's about addons (and not https connections) the same approach as with code-signing certificates could be used. For code signing it only matters that the certificate was valid at the time of signing, not when the signed resource is used.

E.g. when the certificate expires, any resource signed with that certificate while it still was valid continues to be usable, you just can't sign any new releases with the expired certificate.
There are a few things about S3 that I find extremely powerful.

The biggest is, if I need to store some data. I know what the data is (so I don't need to worry about needing to in a moment notice traverse a file structure for example, I know my filenames), I can store that data, I don't need to figure out how much space I need ahead of time and it is there when I need it. Maybe it automatically moves to another storage tier to save me some money but I can reliably assume it will be there when I need it. Just that simplicity alone is worth a lot, I never need to think later that I need to expand some space, possibly introducing downtime depending on the setup, maybe dealing with partitions, etc.

Related to that is static hosting. I have ran a CDN and other static content out of S3 with cloud front in front of it. The storage cost was almost non existent due to how little actual data we were talking about and only paid for cloudfront costs when there were requests. If nothing was being used it was almost "free". Even when being used it was very cheap for my use cases.

Creating daily inventory reports in S3 is awesome.

But the thing that really is almost "magic" once you understand its quirks. Athena (and quick sight built on top of that and similar tools). The ability to store data in S3 like inventory reports that I already mentioned, access logs, cloud watch logs, or any structured data that you may not need to query often enough to warrant a full long running database. It may cost you a few dollars to run your Athena query and it is not going to be super quick, but if you know what you're looking for it is amazing.