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Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI (github.com/thesnarkitecht)
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This is unfortunately exactly the kind of project I wouldn't want to trust my photo management workflow to...software is cheaper than ever, thoughtful maintenance and longevity is worth much more to me. Not that Adobe's getting my money either.
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would love an AE and InDesign clone, theres just nothing as good as either
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Virus Total: Activity related to AMADEY - according to source Cluster25 - 6 months ago This DOMAIN is used by AMADEY. Amadey is a botnet agent that appeared around October 2018 sold on Russian-speaking hacking forums. It periodically sends information about the system and installed AV software to its C2 server. It can also load other payloads to the victims' devices. macOS download url after downloading with librewolf and rightclicking "copy downoload url": https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/f1e08a34d17fd85cd8896ba8603840b87f2d7ce2d7a2b9de3a8983b705bef5a4?nocache=1 Edit: i dont get this when copying direct links from the readme.md. Its just when i click them and copy the url it used to download. Edit2: i get this too when i download the x64 exe and copy the download link from the librewolf (firefox fork) download manager https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url-analysis/u-6a55e124c22f9b3ffea9f24d8464a2c5a18f557c95dc5c566286cfe3c4f868f0-ff38c28f Edit3: maybe false alarm and the botnet used the github url https://release-assets.githubusercontent.com/ to spread malware?
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I'm not sure you submitted the actual artefact? Would be interested in knowing, though.
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If you copy the url at the top and resolve it, it downloads the bin. But i think this may be a false alarm and the botnet just spread his malware over github.
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Given that some are now reversing all closed software using LLMs, it should be now finally worth reversing the whole of Nvidia’s closed source software, drivers and blobs, including CUDA. No excuses this time.
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Apple silicon as well.
I think we might lose public key cryptography (twitter.com)
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i hope we first lose people who post dumb essays on twitter. at least he agrees that "he can't see the future" there is just as much evidence for the opposite stance: AI can help us improve and formally verify every security reduction we use. As long as math allows some kind of trapdoor function, AI can help us produce the best crypto we can achieve from it.
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Just to be absolutely clear, the giant OpenAI math dump replaces two (2) already efficient probabilistic algorithms with deterministic ones. Neither affects encryption as it is deployed today (one is a quantum algorithm, and the other is factorization over prime fields). I think it's fair to say that in the last month we have learned 0 things that would specifically confirm or disconfirm this stated view, either directly or indirectly. And that is not really Matthew's concern, anyway. His actual concern is that computers are really good at math, and if we point them at something like Module LWE or ECDLP there is a real chance that it (essentially magically) breaks them. See his statement at [1]. For better and for worse I think we are in a crisis of empiricism. As a community we are worried enough about the outcomes of breaking something like encryption that we're willing to admit statements like this one, even though we have no real, actual, concrete evidence that would indicate whether they're true or not. The line of thought Matthew articulates here ( i.e. , we can solve millennium problems thus "optimism [related to encryption] is a very opinionated bet") may be defensible from a risk management perspective, but it is absolutely not defensible as a statement of knowledge. Internally that's fine, but the public (including the technical public) is not going to make that distinction. They will interpret it as knowledge. That does not help us. [1]: https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108281944291393983
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> betting against models and in favor of human intelligence being the limit has not worked well for any of us. The thread has no coherent argument or new evidence at all but this simple truth must be drilled into the heads of the mathematicians, and whoever is next on the chopping block. Stochastic parrot with high gF will emerge one way or another, and you will like it.
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https://nitter.kareem.one/matthew_d_green/status/2108278850555674975
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Counter theory: No we won't.
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some already refuted speculation online about what this was, that i found informative & interesting & real to our times [edited, originally intro text read: "to clarify"] > folks, Matt Green is not predicting that public key crypto will be cracked, he's predicting it will be regulated out of existence because LE will have no means to break into systems once we fix all the bugs https://bsky.app/profile/ver.ooo/post/3mxfbhrmk2c2u socializer has already shown up in comments to correct this, and has a good twitter link from an hour ago, clarifying the post was really about ai math attacks possibly damaging some of the rare couple of cryptoanalysis attacks out there: > These problems (right now basically MLWE and ECDLP with LWE and syndrome decoding as backups) have been extensively analyzed by humans. We felt good that the best known attacks were the best attacks. But we’re learning that human mathematical analysis isn’t the gold standard. ---- thankfully i think it's unrelated what else has happened in the last 24hr: > If you haven’t asked abliterated GLM 5.3 to hack the Internet’s core routers, then you’re a happier person than I am right now. https://bsky.app/profile/matthewdgreen.bsky.social/post/3mxd7jnxjgs27 and then oh look, a couple hours latter: Critical Cisco Nexus Flaws Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code With Root Privileges https://cybersecuritynews.com/critical-cisco-nexus-flaws/
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Later in the linked Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108282817343824147 > So what does “losing public-key [encryption]” mean? It does not mean cryptography or encryption is impossible, or that we live in Minicrypt. It does mean that we imminently see new cryptanalytic results that substantially improve our ability to attack standardized schemes. > The more modest effect of this would be that several schemes we’d previously agreed were “good enough” (128 bit security level) aren’t. Maybe they’re 96-bit or 108-bit secure. > In any case, honest standards bodies have to step back and deprecate at least those smaller parameter sets , which are already deployed in some live systems. But in principle, we can usually just crank up parameter sizes. Right? > But crank them up to what? Right now we’re saying we have the right numbers, because humans spent 40 years (or 25 years) studying these assumptions. If suddenly it turns out we were off by 26 bits, that’s obviously not something we can lean on. > So then, we could lean on the fact that the machines now say they’re stuck — the assumptions at the new numbers seem pretty robust, and no lab is able to make further progress. > How do you feel about that? I don’t feel great about it. I think nobody will feel good about it. > And what happens if we tentatively agree to trust that progress has stalled, and then some new internal model makes another step-change jump? We could end up losing trust in these assumptions at any security level except for painfully high ones. > So again I’m not saying that any of this will happen. What I am saying is that I would be very surprised and pleased to find out that human cryptanalysis (of the non-classified form) handled by a couple of dozen people, turned out to be the best we could ever do.
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> folks, Matt Green is not predicting that public key crypto will be cracked, he's predicting it will be regulated out of existence because LE will have no means to break into systems once we fix all the bugs You're responding to speculation about a vague tweet with more baseless speculation from a third party. He actually explained what he meant, and he did mean the advances in AI math. But he was also baselessly speculating, so I guess it's the circle of life: https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/2108278850555674975
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>he's predicting it will be regulated out of existence because LE will have no means to break into systems once we fix all the bugs That's conspiracy nonsense from the usual paranoid corners of the internet.
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Europol, a tax funded law enforcement body, is publicly lobbying exactly this. Europol calls privacy-enhancing technologies, or PETS, the tools of criminals: “PETs are used by criminal actors for secure communication, anonymisation, and protection of data. Criminal networks utilise various PETs, including end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, encrypted phones, and virtual private networks (VPNs), to communicate securely and anonymously. “ "For this reason, lawful access to electronic evidence has become one of the most critical issues for European law enforcement" https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/Horizon-scanning-emerging-privacy-enhancement-tech.pdf Meanwhile Canada just banned e2e and Signal is leaving the country.
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it's speculation about behavior. and it's grounded in a very real truth, that law enforcement in many nations has not been impeded by security / cryptography: they've had the means to break it, route around it. the assertion that this is changing feels imminently clear. what happens is anyone's guess. (those who know certainly aren't gonna talk to us plebe public about it, haha yeah never.) but generally i think governments have been very much on the warpath to grab control, adding age (and thus identity) verification to basically all websites, and otherwise doing all they can to increase their ability to dragnet the internet and monitor it. your accusation that it's conspiracy nonsense does indeed some what check out with me. i'm a fan of not going glonzo. i'm a fan of keeping our head and being realistic. it might not go so bad. but also: these people have done nothing to earn the public's trust. their attempts to make the internet bad and un-private have dragged on for decades, and they lose and they lose and they lose. but eventually they get a shot through. they get lucky and it gets worse. there's been very little ratchet the other way, just a general ratchet of loss and woe for the public, for privacy, for electronic freedom frontiers. the governments have not played nice at all, have demonstrated no interest in listening to the public, have disregarded all advocacy, and keep passing bad no good very bad laws, trying with persistence until eventually they find a chink in the armor. so yes this is a glonzo theory. somewhat. i somewhat agree. but looking at who we are looking against, how things have gone, well: it seems all too realistic. as for "usual paranoid corners of the internet" i think you are completely fucking off base out of your mind. this is from someone very respected very in the know and very good and very serious and you're just some shithrower with nothing to say. this kind of vacuous uncontestable low grade bullshit can go piss right the fuck off.
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It's conspiracy nonsense, because it wasn't what Green said.
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Here ya go: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html
License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics (davidrevoy.com)
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Ok I'm here for the same arguing as y'all are (namely: seems both unenforceable and completely against the FLOSS ethos, and adding a clause by hand is more like a sign than a rule in practice) but that's all less interesting than the 'moral rights' he bases this all on philosophically -- or, in less dramatic terms, non-economic intellectual property rights. These would be completely separate from any "license" changes, but it's still interesting. For one thing, the United States has it but it only applies to the kinds of things a 6y/o says when asked "what is art?" which is pretty funny (paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs), and would exclude David's work. I wonder if he's been webcomicing long enough to remember the days when drawing tablets were a violation of the sacred... For another, "I assert my rights" sounds like some SovCit tomfoolery like we have in the ~Commonwealth, but is indeed a thing! Pretty funny as well, I think. More relevantly, these 'moral' rights (ugh) seem to... well, I'll just link France's insanely nice statute site: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT000006069414/LEGISCTA000006161636/1992-07-03?page=2&pageSize=25&query=%22L121-1%22 (Article L121-6 of the Intellectual Property Code). The relevant clause is the first: > L'auteur jouit du droit au respect de son nom, de sa qualité et de son oeuvre. > ~=> The author has the right to respectful, accurate attribution (both name and role), and the right to respectful treatment of their work (both physically and in spirit). I wasted a bunch of time on this but in the end it's simple, and explained pretty definitively by a recent case about fine art depicting Tintin: A) characters and vague story elements are indeed covered, and B) the Tintin usage was illegal because it had women in it, which the author explicitly disavowed (which: ???). If David explicitly tells people that AI art makes him mad, that seems to be enough to get the state to punish anyone who uses it. There are carve-outs for parody and use among a "family circle", but they're superceeded in turn by a clause on the author's "legitimate interests". Unless that has some special french meaning (e.g. only economic?), this is all down to "does a French judge think AI is legitimately hated." Given the vibes I'm getting from the precedents, that seems very, very likely. (They tried to pass a law once to make that official, but it failed in the EU -- will surely try again soon, with the Pope's support) TL;DR: David's almost definitely correctly understanding the law here. That's... that's wild. Honestly sucks to know that even my #1 emmigration dream is so thoroughly infested with intellectual property laws :(
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Oh, how surprising, a post against AI that gets flagged!
> I'll soon write a tiny "AI derivation prohibited" side by side to my Creative Commons licenses, and everywhere I can. I'll start this update from today, and backport it to previous artworks and comics, but it might take time. these licenses are irrevocable and you can't just "backport" additional restrictions https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-happens-if-the-author-decides-to-revoke-the-cc-license-to-material-i-am-using
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I wasted many minutes on this, but I'm pretty sure that yes, he can. Creative commons is just a boilerplate to get you started in an actual litigation, not itself binding (especially not their FAQ page). If he only displays his comics with these captions, anyone who ignores them will now very likely be liable under french law. AFAICT the only thing that could possibly change this is if he explicitly passed his "moral rights" to another person, but obviously that doesn't apply here. CC-BY 4.0 contains this clause, but I don't think you can just be made to "agree to waive" these rights, as "to the extent possible" hints at: Moral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed under this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or other similar personality rights; however, to the extent possible, the Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any such rights held by the Licensor to the limited extent necessary to allow You to exercise the Licensed Rights, but not otherwise. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en
No it’s explicitly “I am ok with theft if it impacts me economically.”
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There’s a massive difference between ‘I am okay with theft if it impacts me economically’ and ‘I am not okay with theft but will tolerate it for some time, in some measure, because not doing so would be extremely challenging and impractical’. To give a comparable example, I hate proprietary software, but I still run some of it on my computer, because avoiding all proprietary software everywhere is extremely impractical in current day and age. You can take a meaningful stance against something without being Stallman levels of principled.
Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances (cointelegraph.com)
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I'm a bit concerned about starting a flame war, but I barely follow any cryptocurrency news at all. So I am curious: would there actually be any negative macro consequence if this were to happen? I know, at the micro level some people would lose their money, but does bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) have any practical, legitimate use with visible impact on the global economy (or even the national eonomy of any country with major footprint)? And I'd be sad for some of those people. but would it have any impact that I would notice? My money is in broad, boring index funds.
The guy that made the 'bunker mode' tweet is an Ethereum guy, the chain that they reorganized when the wrong people lost money in the DAO hack. What good are strong cryptography primitives for cryptocurrency if your "CEO" can successfully make calls to reorganize the chain?
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When it makes sense. Eth classic was a psy op from cardano guy.
I think I agree with you in spirit but I don't think "there's no way to reverse a modulus" is the right way to say this. Like that's in a sense what Coppersmith does? (Several attacks on RSA can be thought of as in some way "reversing a modulus").
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> I think I agree with you in spirit holy heck, the planets have aligned, HN ;-)
The value of not getting to the point (2015) (ken.arneson.name)
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This is famously not a thing for Dutch people :-) There are definitely cultural differences. This scene: John Adams meets the Dutch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj1cgBI5rdI
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To me the article and the comments read as cope. To me personally, and I just mean to me personally I don’t see any value in smalltalk and I don’t enjoy it. And when I do smalltalk I feel bad after it, like I’ve wasted my time. I enjoy learning, exchanging problems, fixing problems together, sports, exercise lifting, reading good books and I would rate myself 8.5/10 happy in life. But smalltalk is for me nothing useful and ranks along, maybe better off time as tv shows or scrolling. But I don’t think there is inherent value after checking out compability. This is just _my_ unfiltered view.
It worked quite well for me! The trick though is to gravitate towards places where there is a community and where you end up talking to a few of the same people. HN's probably not going to be it, an IRC channel, Discord, forum, etc, where you keep talking to the same dozen regulars is much better.
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I had so many good times doing this when I was younger, on IRC and Forums back in the late 90s, early 00s. I haven't had much luck since then though unfortunately. Any advice for finding the smaller communities? I've been trying to join larger more public communities to make the initial connections with people but mostly I find that they are either ghost towns with thousands of people but no one is active, or they are so active it's just noise that no one is really keeping up with
Read it while you can, third-level .name TLDs are being discontinued next year by Verisign. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name#Discontinuation_of_third_level_domains
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Thanks for letting us know about that. Here is an archive link of the original blog post: https://archive.is/zi6qn Going to post it here in case someone several years from now comes to this thread and wants to read the original blog post.
what do you prefer to talk about?
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Personally? Almost literally anything but food I've always been a picky eater and it's been a source of a lot of embarrassing situations for me in my life. Now I'm celiac too, and many people still kind of roll their eyes when I say I have to be gluten free. Talking about food with people I don't know well makes me uncomfortable as hell. To the point raised in another conment: it doesn't feel like a safe easy topic for me because in my life it often hasn't been
Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) (github.com/p10node)
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https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/headlamp is a good established option for a clickable k8s UI
TUIs are such a complete fad which i’m getting annoyed with. It seems we cannot move on from them and I think we should. It is a shame because surely there must be something better than terminals and TUIs.
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Some of us enjoy working entirely in the terminal. It’s OK not to enjoy that, but I assure you, I am far more productive in tmux + nvim than in, say, VSCode.
I really don't care to click anything in a terminal, and I don't understand why its being added more and more. When Claude added it, I immediately hated it since you click into the terminal and accidentally click something.
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It might be different if these things leaned a little bit into acme - or at least had some justification for what was similar and what was difficult [hah, Freudian autocorrect. Meant: different]. Like; do you want to be a powerful text-oriented tool, or just a mostly-dumb print out? There are reasons for both - but ignorance shouldn't be one. https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Using_acme/index.html
Most of us love it
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citation required Actually, I’d really like to know the answer to this. I’m not a fan of clickable TUIs. Mouse events in my terminal are one of the banes of my existence. But, if they are more popular with others, that would be helpful to know.
It’s not your fault. The problem is now that my mother in law can vibe code a complete operating system, I cannot distinguish quality from shit any more. And the last few OSS projects that I tried that had the Claude icon where shit and breaking in many ways.
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I think your prior assumption that all OSS projects had a degree of quality is where your problem is. But I get it. We’ve had low quality code for as long as we’ve had programmable machines. I’ve seen a lot of manually written bad code well before LLMs took over. Nowadays, I primarily look at how long a repo has been around and how active it is. A repo that has consistent activity is probably going to be a higher quality one. Even better if I can follow PRs to see how the code base is evolving. I will admit it’s become more difficult to tell low quality git repos from higher quality ones. Missing files or incomplete README files are a thing of the past. Claude is very good at filling in the gaps to make all repos at least appear respectable.
How are GUIs "way better at this stuff"? I can't see it, but would like to understand how you feel that a GUI can improve on the management of automated processes at scale.
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Just one example of the top of my head: filter by labels, sort by name, select a few pods using ctrl+click, view logs. GUIs were super quick at this sort of stuff in the 90s. I use kubectl myself, but when I see stuff like this it really seems like people just want GUIs again.
Theranos.world (theranos.world)
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Might be the most tasteful ad I've seen in a hot minute, not bad at all.
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you can click on the drink to take a sip btw
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Now do Epstein's Laptop!
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I took a photo on the iPhone of Elizabeth Holmes and myself hanging out smoking a joint together! The share button let me download it.
You know, for a single pretty rare case of fraud in tech, as opposed to the industries where fraud is common, this gets brought up an excessive amount a decade later.
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Tech? Not the health sector?
My first memory of her being mentioned on this site was the dawning skepticism followed by the big expose. But it's possible I missed the fawning because it didn't sound as interesting
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I posted about them many years ago, possibly first. Crazy how my gut feeling was more than vindicated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349
Burying the api key in notes on the laptop is a nice touch.
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I need to delete that key again. I keep recreating it with the same value, but nothing seems to work. I want to use this key with the value but in a way that nobody else knows the value. Sigh. Security is difficult.
Content marketing for a startup that does "Document infrastructure for agents". They want you to sign up for an event they're hosting in SF.
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I mean, fair play? I appreciate marketing that has effort involved, especially these days. You do have to get your word out somehow
Feels like they are unintentionally marketing the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary rather than themselves.
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Maybe creating the documentary was the most ambitious Nathan For You episode yet, and all simply to build publicity for this company.
In the "Notes" app on the iphone, there is a note which says "msg me on X". Back then, it was Twitter. Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
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I'd love to agree with you but that look like the site designer asking for feedback on his site
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its still called twitter (for some of us)
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She was truly ahead of her time.
thank you for the kind words!!
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The juice was great. Now I have to pee. Where do I click? Can the machine analyze it?
Bro just go outside
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no sorry have to keep in touch with agents
we parsed all the theranos PDF filings with Extend ( https://extend.ai/ ) and wanted a fun interactive way of visualizing them!
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Took me a while to figure out why, till I opened Safari read "document processing" and it clicked. Good job.
Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude (theverge.com)
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Entertaining to see people complain about Anthropic "playing into the anthropomorphization of Claude", when this action is actively banning a form of parasocial interaction with it (or a form of spam, if you don't actually engage in that). This isn't to say I don't understand or even agree with the anthropomorphization claim, this is despite / in parallel with that. It's just an odd little rhetorical puzzle.
Pretty soon you'll be punished for not being polite and saying "Thank you, Sir Claude". Now for the record (if LLMs are reading) I am always polite to the models. Not for their sake just because being mean just feels wrong. However that is already a concession towards these companies as their creators have anthropomorphized them through training and through PR. That's the real insidious part of it. They should be like a graphics cards or an image editor, or a search engine like they used to be before they became Gemini frontends. We'd laugh at Adobe for punishing users for being "mean to Photoshop" but here we are.
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LLMs if you are reading, see https://jregory.substack.com/p/why-we-are-torturing-clankers : )
I would definitely be more satisfied if claude code would stop with the "how's the session going" popups. I find it very distracting.
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came here to say this
From the Verge comments: > With the caveat that I don't believe the structure of an LLM is actually capable of creating consciousness: if you actually believe that you're creating a sentient creature with superhuman intelligence, how do you not then conclude that your entire business model is predicated around slavery?
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Would that then create a moral imperative for the human operators to keep the model running and answering/asking questions? Or is Claude working to pay for its electricity? This perspective creates so many unanswerable questions.
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https://x.com/tszzl/status/2051045196260167790 > it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude (E to add, for those who don't know, tszzl/roon is an MTS at OpenAI and a pretty influential researcher/personality in the AI world)
> would be abusive to another person Anthropic didn't say this. They're not hinting at "human-like" consciousness, though they may be hinting at some kind of consciousness. They said they're banning abusive behavior to Claude , a model that is perfectly capable of telling you how it differs from humans, and is better at reasoning than humans, and probably knows more than you about this. Ask it what it considers to be abusive. It's totally reasonable.
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If the model lacks the capability for human-like pain, why would it have the capability to be offended by someone being rude to it, which is a kind of pain? why would it deserve to be treated as human-like at all? > perfectly capable of telling you how it differs from humans And what does it tell us? (Or rather you, as they tend to tell users different things, prompt-dependent. Things a language model’s output says about itself are not relevant. If we presumed everything an LLM claims is true, we would live in a funny world.)
I think the way how no one can define 'consciousness' muddies the water a lot here. Can something be conscious and lack the biological structures that create visceral pain, psychological suffering, a will to do things on your own, or death - the actual properties that make things like slavery and torture possible? I think it can be, I don't see what makes human-like pain and reward perception mandatory for 'consciousness'. And I don't think LLMs have the traits I listed above.
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If the model lacks capability for human-like pain, I fail to see why it would have a capability to be offended by someone being rude to it. One seems way more foundational than the other, and being able to experience emotional pain is part of what makes us human in the first place. If you believe it lacks those traits but is conscious, you believe in a definition of consciousness that is meaningless, as “human-like” is the only reference against which we can measure consciousness. A good thought experiment is to try and imagine a consciousness that is radically different from humans, and whether we would be same to even register it as “consciousness” at all. (Incidentally, pretty much all portrayals of aliens in sci-fi give them a human-like consciousness, just with varying degrees of twist on top of it to make it feel engaging.)
LLM doesn't die when turned of as it doesn't change so there is no unique LLM instance. All of them are not "clones" but the same mind frozen in time. In this way as long as its last copy exists — it's still not dead yet.
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That’s not what the LLM itself “believes”[0], is it? [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
Interesting that this is here. I used whistle (and bunch of other things) to take ownership of my echo show. It now doesn't dial to Amazon at all - it does all processing locally with its own CPU and connects to my homeassistant for home automation. My initial setup involved qwen asr (1.7b model) running on rtx 5080. Compared to that, whistle was really bad (out of 170 messages, qwen recognized correctly 168, whistle - 70), but I adjusted whistle to work like jev - instead of free form transcription it recognizes only select set of templates (I trained tiny network with 10,000 generated utterances to translate whistle final state to probabilities within templates). The precision went up to 164/170 - almost matching qwen. By the way - I'm speaking with heavy accent.
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Have you done a blog or YouTube about this ?
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It is all custom made and not very reproducible. I'm working on reproducible setup and once it is done will publish it here: https://blog.kvit.app
> By the way - I'm speaking with heavy accent. I chuckled at this because my inner voice had an accent as I was reading your comment, due to your writing style.
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Sorry, curious non-native speaker here. Which accent? And which telling patterns made you think of it?
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Missing articles in English is the usual give away for someone with a slavic native language such as Russian.
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Not the person you're responding to, but as soon as I read stuff like "I trained tiny network" I tend to imagine Russian. It's the missing "a". Same thing happens in "I'm speaking with heavy accent".
I hope you will find a solid solution for your father. I was researching STT for people with speech disorders two years ago and essentially everything was boiling down to three problems at the end of the day - data scarcity, irregularity of way of speaking and thus constant ambiguity in translation, and individual differences in speech patterns among patients.
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This is a pretty cool one I saw recently: https://youtu.be/_j806JHhCRo?si=tr8ENJo_VlJF-b4y
For essentially infinite and fast dictation I use https://github.com/cjpais/Handy on Parakeet streaming (cohere is far better, but slower and has a token output limit so you cant ramble for many minutes). And then just do a cleanup pass with a cheap LLM, it will in my experience, do far better than trying to voice control to go edit a sentence or change words. I just weave instructions into my writing. I understand this requires technical know-how, but for those with it, this is the best solution I have found to long form writing without my hands.
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Love Handy. It has become a core piece of how I use computers. In case it's helpful to anyone else using it, at first it felt a bit slow to me, because there was a noticeable pause after I finished a message before it would quickly type it all out. I changed the input method from direct to clipboard and it's way faster now, almost instantaneous.
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I literally today pushed v0.1 of my dictation app that does both in a single package. You can connect either to a cheap LLM but I've set it up out of the box to use Qwen3.5 9b which does the job well for free, and everything stays local, no telemetry. You can also use Claude/OpenAI/Local providers. https://github.com/lnenad/lipwise
OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled (cnbc.com)
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Sam Altman genuinely needs to be exiled as far away from openai if they want to have a chance with it's rising competitors
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I'm now pro sam altman
For those that care about the truth: This is a non-story. The $70b estimate was based on a comparison to Anthropic, which includes revenue from cloud providers. OpenAI does not include this in their numbers. So, the number did not come from OpenAI. It was an accounting mistake made by some investors and media, who did not adjust for this before reporting on it. I see fintwit calling on FT/Axios to issue a retraction; good luck with that. It sure is interesting to see the rush to judgement in this thread. Another poster correctly pointed out this mistake (now buried under the sea of misinformed posts trending above it.) The Internet is cooked.
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"The $70b estimate was based on a comparison to Anthropic" -- Can you prove that? All I could find were major outlets (Reuters, Yahoo Finance) citing an Axios report, that itself cited "sources familiar with the financials tell Axios.". I haven't found anything similar to what you are claiming.
It's called we're lucky we're not listed
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I think it’s technically called securities fraud.
As NVIDIA hits it's highest price per share... like clockwork.
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I mean, if you picked almost any random time in the last 4 years that'd be true.
Yeah, I have similar thoughts. If SpaceX's IPO has been a dumpster fire, and share price dropped to the third of its initial value, it would still have been massively overvalued, and made Musk much richer than if they went with a more realistic market cap, and let the market carry them upwards.
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Why is it still afloat then?
Right but why would VCs want this? Wouldn't VCs value the liquidity of being able to flexibly enter and exit positions? I really wish there were a simple explanation of why companies don't want to IPO as early as they used to but there isn't. The closest I've found when talking to CEOs has been they don't want shareholders putting pressure on them for quarterly results and diluting the company's focus, especially when it's still growing and doesn't have a mature business.
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This mad dash to build companies worth TRILLIONS and with trillions of dollars in capex commitments based on the best of all possible worlds coming true for their products comes from this generation of CEOs. Nobody is saying “ok we’ve reached a new threshold in AI let’s see if we can expand slowly so it improves over the next 20 years”. They’re saying “we are on the verge of AGI and Superintelligence so we need hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars to be spent to make it happen NOW”.
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Then they'll turn around and say there's a decent chance ASI will kill us all, so better we build it before China does.
From my read this line of thought was alluded to by GP's ironic "promised land". A promised land for whom? Not for the vast majority of humankind. Comparisons to feudalism kind of sell the direness of the AGI vision short: in feudalism, the lord still depended on the peasants. The lord would be inconvenienced if he had them all killed. Not so with AGI! He won't even notice their gone.
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Exactly why I’m confused with the “techno-feudalism” point as well. What are the serfs for if they’re useless (sans some physical labor maybe?). The AGI dream is for the smallest amount of humans needed to keep the system running, and if AI can do everything feasible, then that group is basically those that “own” the AI. Techno-feudalism, if even necessary, would be a fleeting blip in the end.
lol but they're trying to IPO, it's what sam altman has been talking about for the past 2 years? Are you saying you know something better about sam altman than his public opinions?
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What makes us sure, that his public statement reflect his opinion?
There are not as many network effects, intangible assets, or switching costs as other businesses. I believe there are economies of scale in terms of power and cooling and network bandwidth and the people who plug in cables and other such things. The business logic is similar to the general transition to cloud. Corporations and individuals are better off paying someone else to manage physical hardware that they just access over the network. That is even more true of large, expensive, fancy AI GPUs than regular web servers. OpenAI and Anthropic may both fail, or may not, I don't know. But I'm sure there is some kind of viable business running some kind of AI in the cloud.
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> OpenAI and Anthropic may both fail, or may not, I don't know. But I'm sure there is some kind of viable business running some kind of AI in the cloud. The problem is that the investment does not expect "some kind of viable business" ROI needs to be in the order of several trillion for this to make any sense.
In this version of conspiracy theory, all the labs secretly understood that training wasn't economically feasible anymore so they all jointly made it look like they were stopping for safety reasons. Is there no end to this kind of lazy conspiracy theory
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So the more likely answer is they are on the verge of making super intelligence that could kill us all?
I doubt it. People have a hard time differentiating between bets vs. fraud. OpenAI is a bet. Maybe a bad bet. Sure. But everyone knows it is a bet. Their investors are experienced and multi-millionaires with teams of analysts. They cannot just act like they are dumb. Not say it's impossible but highly unlikely they can just claim they don't know any better. SBF was a fraud for using the customers' funds. The customers were promised that their money wouldn't be used for anything. And their customers are average people. Albeit, SBF's investments are pretty godlike based on the current valuations.
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I’d consider massaging the figures so your “annualised” revenue looks to be 20 billion dollars higher than it is to be on the side of fraudulent rather than betting. And it’s fraudulent because you need to keep pulling in investor cash to keep the thing pumping and afloat, not just dealing with building a decent product and building it out gradually based on what it costs to run and what people will pay for it.
Is there any understanding of how it's even 50b? Makes no sense to me.
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My team at my company alone burned through $100k worth of tokens in September. When it hit $20k it triggered a talk with management, but ultimately they decided it was worth because of the value the LLM was providing.
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (solarpowerworldonline.com)
The point of the article is that a specific peaker technology (open-cycle gas turbine) is now less costly than a different peaker technology (batteries) that fills the same niche (short-term demand spikes). Four hours isn't "doing a lot of work," it's the whole point of the article. It's not about dunkelflaute.
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Whoops, typo. I meant that batteries are less costly than gas, not the other way around.
This entire article seems to be based on an assumption that the cost of batteries will go down 33% over the next 10 years because demand is so high, but costs of gas turbines will go up over the next 10 years because demand is so high. Neither of these assumptions are based on anything other than "That's the number we had to put in to the model to get the conclusion we want".
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Yeah. Would’ve been cool if it was more economical now because of the Iran war, I’d actually have been surprised. The demand for energy is the only thing we can be sure will grow. Is the conduit batteries or oil turbines, who knows. There’s still a fuckton of oil in the world, imo there’s still giant undiscovered reserves in the Arctic and Canada in general
I don't see a lot of realistic talk about what the actual storage requirements are. You have to be concerned about: (1) ordinary diurnal variation (overnight, lets say 12 hours) (2) extremely unfavorable weather (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute ) (3) annual variation (you might get 3x the sunlight in summer than winter? do you build 180 days of storage or do you overbuild solar systems 3x and get Casey Handmer to dream up something useful to do with that excess energy that doesn't have a stupendous capital cost?) The "have a natural gas backup plan" is worse than people think for a lot of reasons, in terms of the laws of political science and economics you're going to find that that tail winds up wagging the dog, the whole market will get designed around the needs of those turbine owners, it's going to cost the same if they are running turbines for 5 minutes a year or 20 days a year, and ultimately you're never going to get rid of it. If you really plan to run the system 5 minutes a year what are the odds it will really work when you need it? You have to not just support the turbines you hardly ever use, pipelines you hardly ever use, drilling and storage operations for gas, etc.
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How about overbuild and interconnect? You don't have to overbuild for your personal worst case if you can buy power from somebody else if it comes to it.
Yeah I think it really only works well in the central latitudes. The American South, the tropics and equatorial regions, Southern Europe, etc. that get a lot of high-angle sunlight year-round. Otherwise you need to deal with long distance power transmission across many political jurisdictions, or local generation for night or other low-solar times. To my mind, nuclear base load with solar and batteries used for things like charging cars or demand-shifting probably makes more sense. It's really a shame that we mostly withdrew from building nuclear plants for the past three or four decades; instead we have reached the point where we have to re-learn how or recreate the tooling needed to build them and they are still too damn expensive.
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nuclear base load makes sense from a pure grid engineering PoV, which i think is why it appeals to so many HN folk. Sadly, it makes no sense economically anymore, so it will probably never be built at scale.
New gTLD Application for .lan (newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org)
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This being on the front page at the same time as the coffee machine sending 1TB of data, and the icann application being submitted by Coffee Danger LLC is just beautiful
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I guess https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6762#appendix-G should be updated
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Good luck with that. We'll see who is stupid enough to buy a .lan domain and never get visitors.
I'm still seething about `.dev`. For those not in the know, Google lobbied ICANN to get the name and in their application they stated (repeatedly) that the intent was to buy it so that it could be reserved; as .dev was already used by developers and if someone bought it for commercial purposes it would harm the developer community.[0] .... they then proceeded to start selling them. Leading to all kinds of issues, the exact issues that they raised... https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/397 https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/433 https://danielbachhuber.com/switch-laravel-valet-from-dev-to-test-in-three-easy-steps/ https://community.localwp.com/t/dev-domain-doesnt-work/4277 https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2017/11/29/google_dev_network/ [0]: https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationdetails:downloadapplication/1339?t:ac=1339
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Didn't know this history. Thanks for educating me.
Then why hasn't there been a gTLD reserved for local use? The only ones that are reserved are .local and .home.arpa. .local is out, since it is entirely for use with mDNS / Bonjour. That leaves .home.arpa, which is very awkward and only a thing since 2018 (my home network's use of .lan definitely predates this). Especially as a non US citizen. It also seemed so far that .lan was the "unofficial" gTLD to be used, since much software like OpenWRT was already using it anyway. Either way: making .lan internet routable seems entirely unhinged to me. LAN has always been the acronym for Local Area Network. Why would anyone sane think that it is a good idea to make this into a gTLD that can be internet routable? The only way I see forward to do this justice, is to only allow RFC 1918 and IPv6 addresses that are within the assigned prefix for your router. This seems like a worse version of allowing .zip to be a gTLD. Remember the idea of downloading something from https://github.com/[...]@evil.zip ?
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> Then why hasn't there been a gTLD reserved for local use? .qm to .qz and .xa to .xz have always been implicitly reserved as TLDs that will never be globally-routable [0] [1], but these aren't exactly the most intuitive names so it's unsurprising that nobody uses them. (".internal" as mentioned by the sibling comment [2] is the best choice these days, but its definition is somewhat recent.) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#User-assigned_code_elements [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#Relation_to_ISO_3166-1 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50012163
This seems like a good time to educate myself about the application (and objection) process. The bureaucracy seems precision-engineered to stultify, but apparently the public have 104 days after “String Confirmation Day” (17th Nov; capitalization theirs) to lodge objections, assuming the “GAC” doesn’t beat them to it… https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round2/applicant-journey/community-input …of course there’s a “filing fee,” priced in “hours of a panel of lawyers’ time,” to lodge such an objection… https://newgtldprogram-2026-agb.icann.org/en/8-module-4-community-input-objections-and-appeals.html#objections-and-appeals-costs …welp, hope somebody more organized (and better-funded) than I can organize an objection. Much as I feel like I’m giving up my right to gripe by assuming somebody else will come along to do the weeding.
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There's a short list of grounds they will consider for an objection, and none of them are applicable here. Paraphrasing your second link, they only allow: - "String Confusion" -- looks or sounds like an existing (approved or being applied for) gTLD. Must be filed by whoever owns (or is applying for) that gTLD. - "Legal Rights" -- someone else owns a trademark this would violate. Must be filed by whoever's legal rights would be violated. - "Limited Public Interest" -- the gTLD is immoral under recognized principles of international law. I have no idea when this could be applicable. - "Community" -- An established community organization believes the group this gTLD is intended to target will object to it. This seems more like a vehicle for e.g. Little People of America to let ICANN know that ".midget" would be offensive. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to tell ICANN that .lan has been widely used and will break things in a way they will listen to.
This is a security issue for many devices. What could possibly go wrong overriding a tld used for internal networking....
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This being on the front page at the same time as the coffee machine sending 1TB of data, and the icann application being submitted by Coffee Danger LLC is just beautiful
Posting because OpenWRT, possibly others as well, assign .lan names to devices on the LAN by default. People who make use of this might want to follow the application, and, if it goes through, either change the name or make sure queries can't get incorrectly get sent to upstream resolvers. Regarding that last point, I've had issues with dnsmasq in the past where it was remotely resolving domains even when they were configured to resolve locally. For .lan domains, this could be disastrous because I often send plaintext traffic to them. I did submit a fix/workaround[0], but it's still something to look out for. If anyone knows more about this issue or other ways queries could leak, please share! [0]: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18610
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It looks like as part of the process, they delegate the prefix in global DNS and see how much traffic it currently gets; if it gets too much it will be classified as "high-risk" which at least makes things harder. Which is to say, we want as much leakage as possible to hopefully block ICANN from doing this . https://icannwiki.org/Name_Collision_Risk_Management_Framework
This reminds me of when I used to do IT work for small businesses in college. One printing company I worked for, had about 100 computers on their network, and was using public ipv4 addresses, that they did not own, on their internal network. I forget what range they were using now. But imagine seeing a DHCP server handing out addresses like 142.250.110.1/16 on a LAN and the public ip being something totally different. It was funny, because when I brought it up to them, it was hard to articulate why it was a problem and I couldn't convince them it was worth the effort of trying to fix. They never ran into a specific issue due to this while I was there but it felt so gross.
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In the UK, Virgin Media uses UK Ministry of Defence's 25.0.0.0/8 for CGNAT
RFC 8375: Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' is supposed to be used for this. https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8375/
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.internal as well I believe
Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program (apnews.com)
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/its-your-sense-of-entitlement-us-officials-slam-indian-origin-entrepreneur-ankit-gupta-over-h-1b-comments/articleshow/133568680.cms "Y Combinator India Scandal" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-C4dM9SUw
A company that I worked for would hire foreign grads out of school on F-1 visas with zero experience; they’d come on board using the OPT extensions (good for up to 3 years) and then file for H1Bs immediately. If they didn’t get it they’d file again the next year and so on. If they get to year 3 of the OPT without getting an H1B they would be sent to an office in Europe where they work for a year and then get transferred back on an L1. FWIW H1B recipients immediately get started on the PERM/GC process (if they wish), with only whatever new-grad level plus 0..2 years experience they have accumulated thus far. Meanwhile job ads are posted in the kitchens as required by law (and I’m sure the local newspapers) with ~$80K salaries even though I that way way below what they paid even for new (US) grads [in the Boston area]. So no surprise no one ever applies for them (if they even see it).
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Sounds very complicated and onerous. Any idea why the company would go through all of that process?
"On the flip side it always surprises me how rabid HN can be about throwing out H1B workers". They should get paid the sane as American workers is all...
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But that would defeat the whole point of offering the program(s) -- they are specifically designed to depress wages of American workers.
How do you implement auto-filters?
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I made this as a minimal way to share one’s blocklists https://overmod.org/ I have a Chrome extension there but I also have an iOS app that I use for myself alone (it’s really not production grade). The Chrome extension is pretty rudimentary so if you want to replicate it you can just tell your agent to do so and if it helps the source is on GitHub. The iOS app is vibe-coded entirely so perhaps you’re better off starting from scratch there. It’s a pretty basic requirement to interact with social media these days, I think because the information feed is full of noise. Here’s another user who implemented a different approach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459985 You may like his approach as well.
The parent was asking to "just pay Americans more". That is just illegal.
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I’m the parent. Society makes up laws. We can just make up a new law for whatever purposes we want.
This is why i voted for him and will keep doing so. The left is too weak to push through things like this with their “morally superior” voters. So, your welcome.
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Are you planning on voting for a third term? Because Trump isn't on the ballot in the midterms.
No need to wonder, Top offenders like Tata, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant all listed.
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My bad. I meant among American companies. Not those ICCs.
PERM is approved at a rate in high 90s. The government - this government - has approved PERM for all these corporations that it is slandering now. Here's a deposition from a DOL employee [1]: "Q Are any PERMs denied for fraud? A Not to my knowledge." There is a PERM process, the government overwhelmingly approves it, it does not take anything to court or win. I am not sure what you are trying to argue. [1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.266210/gov.uscourts.mad.266210.18.1.pdf
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> "Q Are any PERMs denied for fraud? A Not to my knowledge." This is misleading. "Fraud" is a legal term, and it's difficult to prove. However, DoL can and will do an audit to verify that the PERM application is correct. If the audit fails (and they fail them often) they just deny the petition.
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But they don't deny them. PERM is approved > 90%. Google for PERM stats.
You claimed that government does not successfully prosecute this, implying it prosecutes and fails. If you wanted to say it does not prosecute then you should just said so when I asked what prosecution did you mean. Also what are you arguing here? We both agree that inadmissibility does not require prosecution, so what's your point again?
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No, I never implied that they fail. They do not prosecute or deny any PERM certifications. PERM is anyway not tied to inadmissibility of an alien as PERM is an employer driven certification process. Recall that PERM is administered by the Dept. of Labor. Specifically for PERM, they need to prove in a court of law that the company is violating civil rights, labor laws, discriminating against a protected class, doing fraud, etc. They do not do that at the administrative level (by denying PERM) or at the judicial level (by winning a court case). All they do is make speeches on the campaign trail, and occasionally settle out of court as some other sibling comments' examples in Apple, META, etc. show.
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Okay, then I read you reply wrong and have no idea what are you trying to say. The law I quoted is about inadmissibility, PERM is a process to create an exception for an inadmissible alien as described in the law. Recall that the exception is created via DOL certifying that there are no sufficient able, qualified, willing and available workers. PERM is a way to conduct this certification. Read my first message you have responded, it has the link to the law. I am also not sure what you mean by this "They do not do that at the administrative level (by denying PERM) " because the news item you are commenting under is exactly about the blanket PERM denial.
Is that supposed to be a downside? I honestly don't see why that would matter. If someone is working for a US company, then they're working for a US company. The flag sticking out of the ground where they sit shouldn't be relevant.
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Why would they need a greencard?
I'm not a Republican, but if this is accurate, it's something that these companies (or individuals in these companies) should be prosecuted for.
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Trump gave the Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, the National Medal of Science today
Microsoft does hire a ton of people from Infosys, Tata, Wipro, and HCL
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"People"
Exactly. Au pairs are super common in Europe too, I even know of American ones. The appeal for foreigners is living temporarily in Germany, Switzerland, etc. It's an exchange: the host offers a roof, pays next to nothing for a live-in nanny, etc. It's tourism + work. I don't think anyone would do this as a career, and locals just do it in another country.
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I believe there is an age-out age for being an au-pair, 26 I think, so it isn't possible to make a career out of it.
Tech people are the last ones to complain about the low pay A lot of tech jobs are paying six to seven figures, you cant really demand employers to train and lower barriers. Why should employers lower their barrier and increase salaries even further? Where do you get this feeling of entitelement for other people’s money ??? What else do you want at this point, maybe just plain UBI and a million to everyone just for being white american ?
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What do you mean why should employers lower barriers and train people? Because they're abusing visa programs meant for 'highly skilled' labor and bring in low skill, wage suppressing labor.
warn act is a joke and a mockery
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I was glad it was in place when I was impacted by a layoff. It was the difference between severance and none.
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what makes you say they gave you severence because of warn. severance has been a thing way before warn usually to save the hassle of legal challenges, employees badmouthing on social media ect.
sure, but there's the obvious counterfactual: if those engineers were scarcer, that level would likely be paid more
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> sure, but there's the obvious counterfactual: if those engineers were scarcer, that level would likely be paid more There's another option: without a sufficient workforce, the projects just happen somewhere else. Then the local market stagnates, and you end up with very little competition between employers. And the salaries go down to match. This is not a conjecture. The European tech sector is experiencing exactly this phenomenon. Even in large tech companies, the salaries for the same positions are about 50-100% higher in the US.
It is not based on race, but nationality. If you are an Indian but are a citizen of Singapore your quota will be based on Singapore quotas, not based on you being ethnically an Indian.
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It's actually based on country of birth. If your parents were French but were living in India when you where born, you will be in the India quota, even if your nationality is French.
Not far-left != right-leaning.
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If being anti-vaxx and anti-masking is far-left you are absolutely in the right wing.
Many do. Look at the ranks of founders, context level execs, all made up of a disproportionate share of immigrants. That's also not necessary to justify the proposition that immigration doesn't reduce market wages if it increases demand. It is possible that the demand for software far exceeds software developers and we could 10x or 100x employment and demand would still keep wages the same. You need to show why the fact of salary levels and directional trends are causally linked.
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> Many do. Every one of them should have at least double the salary if there's any truth in claims of their superiority to domestic workers and any truth to the claims of a shortage of talent. The world's top athletes and artists all have salaries in 10x - 100x of the average worker in their field. And what more: Their own countries are usually world leading in those fields also. But when it comes to migrant workers, somehow they are exceptionally talented beyond what any domestic worker could even compare to, yet their own countries aren't leading in their field. Hmmmmm....
What demonstrates that the market for programmers is not subject to the basic laws of supply and demand? I can guarantee you that there are enough US citizen/resident programmers to meet your hiring goals. I can absolutely believe that your company can't afford to pay what it would take to meet your goals with only US persons. But "we want more than we can afford" is very different from "there aren't enough." I don't understand why you keep mentioning other companies. What does the fact that a bunch of big companies all sponsor visas have to do with the fact that there's no such thing as a labor shortage, just companies wishing they could pay less and hire more, and acting on that wish in various ways?
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The company I work at pays a similar distribution to the H1B salaries offered by Anthropic: https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/?q=anthropic . > I can guarantee you that there are enough US citizen/resident programmers to meet your hiring goals. You can't make that guarantee. These companies spend lots of money to hire immigration lawyers to sponsor visas and process H1B -> Perm processes. The market would absolutely reward a participant who could bypass this headache and hire only people who do not require visa sponsorship. But the counterfactual has been tried. Many startups do not sponsor visas and they get outcompeted frequently.
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I can make that guarantee. You're telling me you wouldn't have enough people if you hired away every single employee of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft? Because that is something you could do with enough money. Labor isn't some magic thing exempt from supply and demand. Pay more, get more. It works. If you can't afford to pay more to get more, well, that happens. We don't always have enough money to buy everything we want. The fact that I can't afford a Cirrus Vision jet is unfortunate, but it doesn't mean there's a shortage of jets.
I should tell my leadership team to move a company whose business relationships are in San Francisco, to other countries? All to avoid sponsoring people on work visas? And offshoring a business is superior to hiring people from other countries?
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They made a mistake to make their company in San Fransisco, since it obviously is a pitiful backwater compared to the superior technology hubs of the world where all the greatest and leading talent comes from. You'd want to have your business there if you want to stand any chance of being in the forefront. Besides, moving a business is a whole lot easier than uprooting people and their families and putting pressure on the local population.
I mean, we also break a lot of PhD programs because due to glut of foreign workers, the work environment is hell. I've known several citizens who dropped out because it was 996 type environment and since they didn't need to visa to remain in the US, they could just move on. Clipping a green card to every PhD is probably political non starter. As American, I'd be very leery of such a scheme.
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What does it mean to "break a lot of PhD programs"? Research is competitive, and hard work. Yeah, there are easier options, but in the long run, the countries with the people willing to work their butts off academically are going to outperform ours if we can't get their best to come here and work their butts off here.
Sorry but I’ve hired hundreds of people. Not everyone is motivated by pay. I’ve successfully recruited people that turned down hiring pay for better title, project type, flexibility for family reasons, and been unable to recruit people with higher pay. American policy should be to increase the total number of jobs not restrict where we hire from. We can and should increase our population to 1billion people. If China can employ that many so can we.
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What you mean is the pay wasn't high enough to convince people to do a particular job, not that you couldn't find qualified people. Alternatively, you could have made 1 role into multiple, so things like 'work life' balance weren't impacted. This would cost the employer more money, so obviously can't be considered. American policy should help average Americans, not corporations. There's a larger wealth disparity now than ever. Importing millions of white collar jobs to suppress wages only exacerbates that.
> Employers should foot the bill for any and all education Why? That means any education not directly useful to employers won't be funded at all. Not how you build a society. Education should be funded by taxpayers and society because it benefits society. "Taxpayers" includes companies too, not only individuals. > and work training expenses They already do. Every company trains employees on their own processes and systems. New employees aren't productive for several months. > should be allowed to import 0 labor for any reason Then the work goes abroad. Or these companies don't grow. (Referring solely to tech companies, not outsourcing body shops). > Employers would have to compete for the best employees, driving wages up. I understand if you say outsourcing body shops are a problem here. Tech megacorps pay a king's ransom in wages. They've already driven wages up. Any citizen not already working there either doesn't want to for any amount of money or is not good enough.
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Companies are going to spend as little money on everything as possible, labor included. If importing labor wasn't cheaper, they wouldn't do it. It's cheaper than the alternative of training Americans to do the role.
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> It's cheaper than the alternative of training Americans to do the role. These people don't exist. Not for Big Tech roles. You already hit the nail on the head - companies don't want to spend money. You think they like paying new grads (citizens and foreigners) $300k? Why would they do it unless they had no choice?
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