MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neogodless | 2025-07-18 16:53:18+00:00
Simulated "immoral" activity could be considered a moral gray area. If nothing else, morality is subjective.

So I think it's reasonable to argue for private, individual consumption of morally subjective material (not least of which is the logistical difficulty of preventing such things), as well as the right to create and sell such things. (You or I might approve of or oppose those things, but that's a different argument from what I make below.)

Aside from that, I don't think Valve or a payment processor is obligated to be a neutral party. Whether it might come from collective consumer backlash or whoever makes decisions for an organization deciding what they will or will not allow to flow through their system, I think they too should have the right to allow or ban things. If publishers and consumers want their morally gray content, so be it, but don't feel entitled to have Steam and VISA along for the ride if they don't want to be.

Hypothetically, Valve might prefer Steam be neutral, because money. But then they have the option to fight their payment processor or look for alternatives, rather than "forcing" their payment processor to be a part of something that the payment processor opposes.

TL;DR when a morally subjective issue involves a lot of parties, every party should have the right to "opt out" if they are morally opposed. (in my opinion)
by Symbiote | 2025-07-18 16:53:21+00:00
Denmark has seen a trend where their national card network (Dankort, operating at the equivalent level to Visa and Mastercard) is seeing reduced usage.

They're aiming to reverse that trend.

https://cphpost.dk/2025-06-28/general/new-political-agreemen...

Not all European countries still have these independent networks.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-07-18 16:53:25+00:00
Australian who's been in the USA almost a decade in 4 different roles, each requiring a new E3 as well as multiple E3 renewals;

I've found that companies are pretty eager once they hear that you only need an E3 visa. Unlike H1B the quota for E3 visas are never hit. Companies view it as a very straightforward and guaranteed process.

Assuming the company files their side of the paperwork in a timely manner, From accepting a role you can be working in the USA within 2 months end to end. The consulate appointments in Syd/Mel are the biggest pain point. It takes some refreshing since they are booked out for months at a time and you need to look for cancellations each day. That's literally the biggest pain point though, everything else is painless.
by gs17 | 2025-07-18 16:53:25+00:00
I'm not sure I buy the chargeback angle. It's commonly trotted out as a reason card companies would enforce censorship, but it doesn't make sense with the actions they take. Chargeback fees are paid by the merchant regardless of the chargeback's success, and are supposed to cover the costs of administering it (and then some). The very selective rules applied here are pretty odd from that angle too, if adult content chargebacks/fraud is the issue, then all of it should be the issue, not small niches.

Fraud is likely more realistic of an issue, but that's probably an issue with games in general, not just adult titles.

There are already high-risk merchant accounts with higher fees and cash reserve requirements, but AFAIK companies like Valve aren't being given any options other than comply or be destroyed.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-18 16:53:25+00:00
Just FYI.

I have several pair, because I thought the batteries were going too quickly.

Turns out, I should have just not left the case on the charger, all the time.

Nowadays, I just let them charge for a couple of hours, every few days, take them off the charger, and leave them in my coin tray.

I haven’t had a single battery issue, since; even on the ones I thought were “dead.”

But I think it’s a big design error, that this happens. Everything else has”smart charging.”
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-18 16:53:41+00:00
That's not true, anti-sex work and anti-porn activists have specifically been pressuring payment processors to assume these policies. The processors as the critical control point of this whole thing was identified decades ago and conservative christian think tanks have been pursuing this path since then.

This is part of a long-term plan to de facto ban lgbtq content without having to deal with first amendment protections. First have the payment processors ban explicit content, then have queer content categorized as explicit.
by saratogacx | 2025-07-18 16:53:41+00:00
I think architecture needs to evolve as well. Up until now the primary audiences were human comprehension and build tools. We may need to have more context embedded into software architecture and make systematic segmentation easier for an LLM to sus out as part of the concerns involved in our designs.

LLM's won't make it on their own because there isn't enough data with their concerns in mind for them to learn from, just a few happy accidents where an LLM can excel in that specific code base.
by tootie | 2025-07-18 16:54:05+00:00
It's politics and optics. But as someone taking a schedule 3 medication that is really a schedule 1 in disguise (sodium oxybate) I wonder why they couldn't use the same tap dance for psylocibin or MDMA. Slight chemical modification to adjust absorption rate but same active ingredient. I think we only get away with this because it's prescribed so rarely and out of public consciousness. It's incredibly effective at treating a pernicious condition.
by brianfitz | 2025-07-18 16:54:32+00:00
I have:

1. Lost a pair 2. Lost one bud from a pair 3. Washed them 4. Swam in the ocean with them 5. Had a pair generally degrade

So I know once I buy a pair, I'm good for about a year until I need another. That's also when I tend to notice the new features. :-)
by khaki54 | 2025-07-18 16:54:41+00:00
Yep use syslog server or similar in conjuction with this, which basically gives you something like immutability since the data is on a remote server with hopefully different security controls. You really don't want to be trying to sort an attack out after the fact on attacker-controlled machine. They could of course turn off network links or syslog eventually, but you'd at least have the early stages of the attack and or perhaps be able to detect it before they actually get full access.
by mindslight | 2025-07-18 16:54:49+00:00
I was just skimming my threads for replies, and feel the need to clarify:

>> Did you vociferously condemn what Biden enabled in Gaza?

> Honestly, it seemed like Biden was doing the best he could given the Israel lobby. But I'll admit to not really being invested in that situation any longer.

I responded to your question in the context of being about Biden's policies, in line with the thrust of your other questions.

Regarding what was and is going on in Gaza (regardless which US politicians and policies may be enabling it) ? Yes, I certainly condemn that! It's fucking genocide.

As I said, I'm not super invested in the situation any more, growing older and not seeing any real angle to personally affect it. I had a few weeks after Oct 7 of writing off the situation as FAFO (but still realizing that this was unfair to the Palestinians who did not support that attack), but Israel burnt through that goodwill quick. I'm old enough to have become more conservative such that if Israel had occupied Gaza and implemented martial law with the (stated and apparent) goal of keeping the peace until a civil non-Hamas government could be sustained, I just might have accepted that. But they didn't. What they are actually doing is straight up take-no-responsibility genocide.
by mikece | 2025-07-18 16:55:11+00:00
One of the first things I do with all of my Google accounts is set up TOTP authentication and not with Google Authenticator. So far I haven't had any issues getting into an account after not logging in for a while (because my gmails all forward) but I wonder if Google will disable standard TOTP in favor of requiring Google Authenticator (which will be a problem because then I would need to get a separate handset for each account).
by plopilop | 2025-07-18 16:55:16+00:00
> As I understand it right now, HME is a weaker form of encryption, but perhaps still strong enough to be a worthwhile tradeoff for the use cases being discussed.

Exactly. Homomorphism was first seen as a weakness in encryption, since it implies malleability. For instance, in the one-time pad encryption where you XOR your message with the secret key, flipping a bit in the ciphertext will result in same bit being flipped in the decryption. The attacker does not know what the end result is, but knows that the bit has been flipped, hence OTP encryption is malleable. This is enough for some attacks. With FHE encryption you have a bit of the same, from Enc(a) and Enc(b) it is easy to create Enc(a+b), hence is malleable too.

Cryptography uses several security levels. The top one for encryption is NM-CCA2 (non-malleability under chosen ciphertext attack). For instance, RSA-OAEP is NM-CCA2 secure. Since FHE schemes are malleable, they are not NM-CCA2 secure. However, a slightly lower security notion is IND-CPA (indistinguishability under chosen plaintext attack). FHE schemes are IND-CPA secure. Furthermore, IND-CPA security is shown to be equivalent to semantic security, which means that given a ciphertext the attacker cannot know any bit of information about the underlying cleartext.

Hence, FHE schemes guarantee that for all the ciphertexts they receive, the attacker cannot know anything about the underlying cleartexts. You can run a ton of operations on the ciphertexts, let's say run a homomorphic LLM, the attacker will still have no idea about what the final output is. Hence, in the model where you consider that the attacker has full control over the LLM, will behave honestly but will try to learn your secrets, you are fine. However, in the model where an attacker runs a MITM and just wants to disrupt the numbers you get back from the LLM, then you are not fine, since this encryption is malleable (in theory we could add some verifiable execution proofs but that is another topic).

As you say, everything is a tradeoff.
Show HN: Toy LLM Daydreaming
by shahahmed | 2025-07-18 16:55:19+00:00
After reading gwern’s post two days ago about LLM Daydreaming [0], I wanted to just see how it would behave. I grabbed the top vital article titles from wikipedia [1] and made a simple next js app to try the prompt in a loop.

It was pretty interesting to see the connections made between concepts. Happy to host this if people find it useful!

[0] https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles
by ryandrake | 2025-07-18 16:55:32+00:00
> I wouldn’t be so dismissive: “force multiplier” means job loss unless there’s a large amount of work which isn’t currently being done.

I think there is a massive amount of work that's currently not being done, industry-wide. Everywhere I've worked has had something like 4-10X more work to do than staff to do it. The feature and bug backlogs just endlessly grow because there is no capacity to keep up. Companies should be able to adopt a force multiplier without losing staff: It could bring that factor down to 2-5X. The fact that layoffs are happening industry-wide shows that leadership might not even know what their workers could be doing.
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 16:55:51+00:00
> The fact that very large corporations are willing to spend tens and hundreds of millions of dollars to replicate software is exactly why the GPL is not irrelevant.

No, it's the opposite. The premise of copyleft is forcing the dependents to contribute back to the community. If the corporations are writing proprietary replacements instead of contributing, copyleft has failed to deliver on its premise.

In practice, permissively-licensed projects get more contributions back and benefit the community more. Simple as that.
by anon6959 | 2025-07-18 16:56:04+00:00
Exacerbation (and possibly development) of mental illness like psychosis, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia is entirely possible.

Along with two other blokes, I got interested in psychedelics in high school. Took one medium high dose and wasn't right for a few months. Never in my life did i ever experienced paranoia, delusions, or hallucinations that are genuinely hard to separate from reality, but I did after that.

Intense psychedelic experiences can fracture what you once knew as "reality" allows all sorts of ideas to float into your mind, with equal possibility. This might be helpful and give you more flexible thinking (helpful for depression) but it also leaves you incredible vulnerable to all sorts of garbage ideas that you never would have considered otherwise. ie conspiracy theories or straight up delusions about the supernatural. Remember: It's not paranoia if you genuinely believe they really are out to get you!

Fighting these garbage ideas is a lot of work once they take hold, but you'll only know too late if you were vulnerable, and worse, if you can successfully align your understanding of reality with most other people.

I got extremely lucky that I stabilized. I'm convinced part of this was only doing it one time. My two co-experimenters took many trips with various doses are still in and out of mental hospitals years later. Psychedelics are incredibly potent and nobody really understands them very well. A lot of what is written on the internet ignores, downplays, or denies the very serious risks to your philosophy of mind and mental function. Its like playing with fire when you don't have heat sensation in your hands.

Several other comments on this page echo these warnings. One even claims there is an 18% chance you could go from depressed to schizophrenic. I have no idea where that figure came from, but the risk is certainly not 0%
by glitchc | 2025-07-18 16:56:55+00:00
> I think generally activists more don’t want billions to die from hunger, war and displacement and for the beauty we find in the world not to be spoiled.

If you think that, then you experience the same cognitive dissonance that they do. The best way to despoil the world is to live like cavemen, which requires experiencing the hunger, disease and displacement that they did with far lower population counts from what we currently have.

Conservatism is the antithesis of science and progress. Tree-huggers are anti-science and anti-progress.
by codybontecou | 2025-07-18 16:56:55+00:00
Interesting. Thank you for the response. If this is true, that's amazing!

Do you know where the 6-month requirement (rumor?) is from? Reading over https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter... section C states

"...there are two ways outlined in the statute in which the continuity of residence can be broken:

The applicant is absent from the United States for more than 6 months but less than 1 year; or The applicant is absent from the United States for 1 year or more."

Is this only for citizenship/naturalization and not to maintain a green card?
by rendaw | 2025-07-18 16:57:15+00:00
It is not so important that the fire marshal has facial recognition, because the police department chose to ask the fire department because access was then free of charge and a mere handshake to them. If not the fire marshal, the police department would have chosen some independent 3rd party. This is a known trivial loophole to facial recognition bans. (Former lead dev of globally leading facial recognition system.)
by eitally | 2025-07-18 16:57:27+00:00
I don't understand the point of this chart. It essentially shows linear growth -- all 65k H-1B visas were allocated every year, until the past two years where layoffs have started impacting this labor pool. The entire tech industry has expanded by far more than 65k FTEs/yr so unless the OP does the leg work to figure out whether a disproportionate fraction of new jobs are being given to immigrants vs eligible Americans I don't see how this is useful.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-18 16:57:28+00:00
How would you prevent people from getting an H1-B visa for a job just for the sake of moving to a different job in a sector that doesn't need a lot of workers? And if they are going to start a business, they could start a business in tech that is actually successful, and then fill a few extra positions with friends/family/contacts/people willing to pay, and then those people could move on to other jobs for which they are more suited.

Fact is, immigration systems in all of the richest countries are already bursting with abuse from certain countries with very ingenious schemes and you gotta have some ways to protect it unless you want a free-for-all.
by taeric | 2025-07-18 16:57:36+00:00
I am not entirely sure I disagree. I think context is often a big factor in semantics, though? The problem with interfaces is often that people think they do all of the work by themselves. But, that is only true within the context of how you use some data. And people tend to accidentally constrain themselves too heavily.

You can make the same argument for numbers, for an easy exploration. Just look at all of the tools that you can have at your disposal by thinking of things as numbers.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-18 16:57:52+00:00
The libraries that started to get popular using decorators years ago were using an --experimental compiler flag and should have known better than push that into production usages.

There's a Stage 3 decorators that now compiles in Typescript (>5.0) out of the box without an --experimental compiler flag, but it is subtly incompatible with that old experimental dialect and it will take some time before all those libraries catch up, if they catch up.

It won't run in Node (or this TSX) just yet because I believe Node waits for Stage 4 before enabling language features. (Deno has an experimental flag for it, as Deno supports Stage 3 features behind experimental flags.)
by superxpro12 | 2025-07-18 16:57:57+00:00
Ive been directly exposed to the H1B candidate pool. The answer is no. It's 90% candidates with very similar sounding resumes. It's unnerving how templated all the resumes are.

You really have to have solid, engaged recruiting and screening processes in place to filter the wheat from the chaff with H1B's.

I would interview 10 H1B's, and then one domestic candidate, and the domestic candidate would outperform every time.

This is obv anecdotal, but I would not be surprised if this pattern exists across the entire H1B pool.

We do hire some H1B's, and there are some incredibly talented candidates, but only after great expense and time invested in screening and interviewing.
by AnonC | 2025-07-18 16:58:01+00:00
The article says that this fee will be refunded after the visa expires. For many people who have had B1/B2 visas, they usually get a 10-year multiple entry visa (during subsequent applications). For this group, it means they may get the refund after the 10-year period. That’s a very long interest free loan to the government of another country.

As stated a few times in the article, most of this money isn’t getting back to the people who paid it.
by kragen | 2025-07-18 16:58:11+00:00
From Wiki:

http://found.ward.bay.wiki.org/view/good-enough-to-criticize

> Alan Kay described the Macintosh as the first personal computer good enough to be criticized. It was a serious step toward Kay's Dynabook. Not perfect, but in the right direction. In this 2017 interview Kay explains how he came to his vision and how it has been completely lost in mobile devices since.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-ab...

While I think the implicit equation of Uxn with the 128KiB Macintosh is reasonable, the implicit comparison of me to Alan Kay is not.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-07-18 16:58:40+00:00
We have no data on how much has not been contributed back due to corporations forking code or just copy pasting it into other projects. For all you know permissive licenses have dramatically reduced contributions back.

We only know when they contribute, we have no data on when they don't. Stories like LLVM are good evidence for what you are saying, but the linux kernel is good evidence against it. Dozens of companies are forced to work together for the common good at a scale and level of resources that is unprecedented. Without the GPL this simply wouldn't (actually from an economic / game theory standpoint it couldn't) happen.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-18 16:59:09+00:00
> I have multiple 80+ year olds in my life and they just use them. Never asked me a thing about pairing. When things go awry they go to the apple story and pay $75 for the replacements.

This. AirPods made wireless earbuds usable for the general population. They made it friction free. You'd be surprised at how "difficult" something as simple as pairing a bluetooth device to a phone or computer is for a lot of people.

It's a tax I'm willing to pay too. Yeah, there are much better products out there, both for quality and durability, but the convenience and friction free experience if you are in the ecosystem can't be beat.
by colechristensen | 2025-07-18 16:59:25+00:00
If it's actually top talent, sure.

But if it's a replacement for supporting domestic education and a source of cheap skilled labor, no thanks.

If FAANG were screaming at Congress about their inability to hire and the solution was better primary and secondary education programs for people at home to create that skilled workforce, we probably wouldn't have such an aggressive urban/rural political divide in this country.
by blibble | 2025-07-18 16:59:40+00:00
certainly not explicitly mentioned in the article

and I very doubt it's the case, the card networks simply don't care, given you can buy adult entertainment from millions of websites

the acquirer will care if it pushes up their chargeback rate, but this is normally solved by the merchant by paying a couple of bps more

it's a negotiating tactic, nothing more
by roryirvine | 2025-07-18 16:59:43+00:00
UEFI's equivalent of the CRL is the "forbidden signature database" (or DBX) - but as far as I can see, it only has 658 entries (the source appears to be https://github.com/microsoft/secureboot_objects/blob/main/Pr... )

Another potential use is to facilitate managed deprecation of obsolete crypto functions / protocols / hash suites / etc.

That fits pretty well with a 10 year rotation period, and is probably more valuable in the long term than minimising DBX size.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-18 16:59:52+00:00
> He also locked me into the Apple ecosystem, and I've been trying to escape since 2020, but no luck so far.

You made a choice, you could have made different choices. You can still make different choices. You have agency, exercise it instead of complaining that Tim Cook is locking you to an ecosystem that you can freely leave at any time.
by basiccalendar74 | 2025-07-18 17:00:04+00:00
curious how much of the growth is solely due to renewals since the cap on first time H1-Bs has stayed the same at 85k per year.

the green card queue is severely backlogged for India (and to some extent China, Mexico). this causes people who would usually get a green card after 3-5 years be on a continuous H1-B renewal cycle every 3 years.
by wpm | 2025-07-18 17:00:51+00:00
Similarly, I once copied a shell script out of Slack and saw a bunch of red errors from my IDE when I pasted it in. The errors were on every line that had a new line on it. The error was "â: Command not found", despite there being no such character on the line.

Pasted it into a hex editor, tracked down the bytes, and while I can't currently remember specifically what the encoding problem was, it was something to do with going between UTF-8 > ISO-8859 > UTF-8 again.

I've since aliased `pbpaste | xxd` (macOS, linux has similar CLI tools for working with the clipboard depending on your distro/DE), because weird shit like this comes up more often than I'd care to admit. Last rabbit hole was discovering that in macOS 15, Apple changed one of the the "space" characters in the default Screenshot file names, but only if your Mac is set to use 12-hour time from a normal ASCII 0x20 space, to a Unicode 'U+202F NNBSP' "non-breaking space" between the time and AM/PM, which was causing S3 uploads to fail.