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by InkCanon 1y ago
This, there's also another kind of "shoring" where people are imported and given salaries at the bare minimum to qualify for H1B. As per my other post, the net amount is staggering and no where near the supposed 65k cap. My o
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by InkCanon 1y ago
These jobs are being offshored to India. You can tell by how they're massively hiring there. Google launches largest office in India https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/google-la... Microsoft
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by InkCanon 1y ago
The situation now is radically different. In the late 2000s/early 2010s, most H1B applications got approved (something like 80%). For a time before that, the H1B cap wasn't usually maxed out and any application would succeed. If
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by InkCanon 1y ago
If you look at the numbers, tech layoffs are really offshoring. India is not only untouched by layoffs, they're actually hiring https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/microsoft-confi... .
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by InkCanon 1y ago
A more practical change would be bidding. It would be extremely easy to turn it into a system where the X highest salaries get the visa.
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by InkCanon 1y ago
If you actually dig into the numbers around immigration labour, you'll be shocked. The 65k cap is completely irrelevant. The actual cap is often (legally) unlimited. 1) +20k for those with advanced degrees 2) +80k L-1 visas, these are
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Ask HN: How to increase LLM inference speed?
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by InkCanon 1y ago
There was an interesting post here awhile back about autonomy and motivation. The gist was people's motivation is proportional to their autonomy. This is quite intuitive, you can see people are really motivated when they have autonomy
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by InkCanon 1y ago
It's someone I wondered, what is the point of memorizing a proof if it only ever proves something you already know. The answer is you hope it generalises. There is a possible way you can do it in SRS, being inspired by RL training. Ins
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by InkCanon 1y ago
I think the difference in recall- knowledgeable and logical-model-knowledge will be really interesting. LLMs appear to strongly be the first. But this is very hopeless on mathematics.
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by InkCanon 1y ago
This is a very big problem. Virtually all the results from research here comes from some form of simple word recall. Direct recall occupies some part of real world tasks, but IRL if you're stopped by doing something it's people no
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by InkCanon 1y ago
There's some UX problems of SRS (that I'm working on) that makes it high friction 1) Time taken to create cards 2) Need for self marking 3) Creates a one to one mapping of prompt-answer 4) If you're an autodidact, you have
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by InkCanon 1y ago
It's a common idea, all the way back to Hoare logic. There was a time when people believed in the future, people would write specifications instead of code. The problem with it takes several times more effort to verify code than to wri
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by InkCanon 1y ago
I think if your assumption is that AI is deducing where it is with rational thoughts, you would be. In truth what probably happened is that the significant majority of digital images of the world had been scraped, labeled and used as traini
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by InkCanon 1y ago
Pretty rich coming from a company that's not-so-slowly outsourcing it's workforce to India.
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by InkCanon 1y ago
Strongly suspect OAI can't afford 20B cash. Their latest funding round was 40B, and they're burning through money like it's rice paper. They could offer OAI equity, but Cursor's founders would probably be very suspicious
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by InkCanon 1y ago
Some of my relatives and colleagues actually actively encourage this. They give them an iPad with YouTube on it after meals and so on. It acts as a pacifier.
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by InkCanon 1y ago
Cool post!
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by InkCanon 1y ago
The free market (which I think people also include in capitalism) would correctly predict labour intensive jobs would be outsourced. This is very much a feature (comparative advantage), not a bug. I realized a lot of supposedly free market
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by InkCanon 1y ago
>4.1 Was better in 55% of cases Um, isn't that just a fancy way of saying it is slightly better >Score of 6.81 against 6.66 So very slightly better
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by InkCanon 1y ago
I think it is largely nature. Linus has great ability to 1) Identify and resonate deeply with developer issues (like Git, Linux) 2) Focus on executing a usable product in a very short time So combined it's a really potent ability. If h
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by InkCanon 1y ago
I believe it's some bizarre ploy so his supporters will say, "You should listen to Trump!"
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by InkCanon 1y ago
Seeing how a lot of the people in SV tech, there is an uncanny resemblance to aristocracies like the English or old money WASP types. They go to certain exclusive schools, they work at certain companies, have certain rituals, have a "t
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by InkCanon 1y ago
The second one is so delusional. It assumes you can build a moat for all manufactured products. This is true in extremely specific, high value cases like lithography machines or chips. But when you talk about screws, glue, plastic bits and
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by InkCanon 1y ago
Hi, I write as a hobby and really like Sudowrite. There's a huge gap between it and virtually every other AI writing tool I know of. The insight that writers: A) Largely only want AI when they are blocked, and not all the time B) Want
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by InkCanon 2y ago
o1 reportedly got 83% on IMO, and 89th percentile on Codeforces. https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/ The paper tested it on o1-pro as well. Correct me if I'm getting some versioning mixed u
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by InkCanon 2y ago
That's fair. But look up the recent experiment on SOTA models on the then just released USAMO 2025 questions. Highest score was 5%, supposedly SOTA last year was IMO silver level. There could be some methodological differences - ie USA
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by InkCanon 2y ago
People are really fundamentally asking two different questions when they talk about AI "importance": AI's utility and AI's "intelligence". There's a careful line between both. 1) AI undoubtedly has utility
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by InkCanon 2y ago
Frankly the overarching story about evals (which receives very little coverage) is how much gaming is going on. On the recent USAMO 2025, SOTA models scored 5%, despite claiming silver/gold in IMOs. And ARC-AGI: one very easy way to &q
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by InkCanon 2y ago
The biggest story in AI was released a few weeks ago but was given little attention: on the recent USAMO, SOTA models scored on average 5% (IIRC, it was some abysmal number). This is despite them supposedly having gotten 50%, 60% etc perfor

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