MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hdivider | 2025-07-18 18:27:01+00:00
Hi Peter,

Asking for someone else: is the NIW category still backlogged? If the goal is to get a green card within the STEM-OPT extension timeline of 2 years, for someone who has very high achievements that fit either NIW or EB1A categories, which of these is likely a better option? I'm hearing some rumors that NIW can happen faster these days.

Thanks!
by Spartan-S63 | 2025-07-18 18:27:15+00:00
Your point about opposing right-to-repair is true.

The one about battery throttling is missing a lot of context and is extremely disingenuous. Apple noticed that aging batteries couldn't provide the voltage and would crash the phone, so they reduced the speed at which the CPU could reach full frequency so they wouldn't crash the device. It didn't throttle the peak speed of the CPU, but rather how quickly it would increase its clock. It wasn't done maliciously or for planned obsolescence reasons, but rather to provide existing iPhone owners a better experience on their aging device.
by nucleardog | 2025-07-18 18:28:07+00:00
Pretty much the same boat as far as "a single experience sealed the deal".

Had been having this recurring weird behaviour with the Apple TV. Every time it happened I'd spend a little while trying to search for it and figure out what was going on. The results were consistently completely irrelevant and useless. This had been ongoing for months.

First time it happened after I started my Kagi trial I tried looking for an answer with Kagi. Second result nailed it. Understood what was going on, pressed one button and put it back.

Then knowing the answer I went back and tried the exact same search with Google. I did find the answer... somewhere at result 50+ well past a link to Google Books offering me an article in a 2008 copy of Men's Health Magazine.

Didn't even use up the rest of my free trial. Subscribed right there and haven't looked back.

I don't know that Kagi's always better, but I've yet to run into anything where it's substantially _worse_. I haven't had a single instance where I've exhausted Kagi and tried Google and found a result there instead.
by IceDragon200 | 2025-07-18 18:29:02+00:00
As one commentor pointed out, in Arch it's the user's responsibility to review any AUR packages BEFORE installing them (and I say this as an Arch user and AUR package maintainer).

This particular issue is with a binary (i.e. pre-built) package, normally in Arch it's expected from an AUR package that you will build it yourself and most if not all packagers prompt you to review and or edit the PKGBUILD before it does anything.

Basically you could spot something suspicious in a source package, not so much in a binary package.
by jmbwell | 2025-07-18 18:29:11+00:00
I’ve run through a bunch of ZXplore and it’s more fun than I expected.

They have it hooked in to VS Code now. It’s weirdly modern. And you get to play on a real z machine.

Recommendable summer/holiday tinkering project. It’s amazing how much and yet how little has changed in computing and transaction processing.
by mhitza | 2025-07-18 18:30:00+00:00
There seem to be 3 chapters of this "AI Code of Practice" https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-c... and it's drafting history https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-code-pr...

I did not read it yet, only familiar with the previous AI Act https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/ .

If I'd were to guess Meta is going to have a problem with chapter 2 of "AI Code of Practice" because it deals with copyright law, and probably conflicts with their (and others approach) of ripping text out of copyrighted material (is it clear yet if it can be called fair use?)
by nabla9 | 2025-07-18 18:30:03+00:00
Stablecoin Q&A:

Q:What is Stablecoin?

A: Stablecoin is a clever way to add extra layer of counterparty risk and fees over regular assets.

Q: Then why smart money is involved?

A: There are two sides to market: the sell side and the buy buy side. All smart money is on the sell side? They either make the product and collect the feels, or they sell. The stupid money is only one who buys. Hype it and sell it, do not buy.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-18 18:30:29+00:00
Don't forget the third option: let people die from treatable conditions if they can't pay, which includes you if you ever end up unconscious without proof of insurance on you.

Of course, this is so heinous that Ronald Reagan outlawed it and there's zero discussion of repealing that law. We've had universal health care in the US since 1986. All subsequent debate has merely been about how it should be done.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-18 18:30:37+00:00
>Is it worse than in the United States? Each state has those, too.

1) How many official languages are you mandated to speak and write in order to be allowed to legally do business in each US state?

2) How much difference is there in the regulation between US states versus between EU countries?

Spoiler: There can be a bigger difference between doing business between neighboring EU countries than between California and New York.
by rsp1984 | 2025-07-18 18:30:43+00:00
A bit "off topic" but this is called AMA, so why not:

To which degree do you see your own profession (law practice) changing with AI? As an outsider it looks like most of the legwork, research work or basically anything a non-senior attorney would spend their time on could soon be done by LLMs. How accurate is that impression? What future do you envision for law-related professions?
by sp0rk | 2025-07-18 18:30:56+00:00
Announcements like this typically contain information that will help users identify if they were compromised, such as the name of files that are dropped or modified when the malware is initialized, startup entry names, etc. Obviously the person with remote access can get in and manually start doing things on individual machines, but that doesn't mean there aren't indicators present from the programmatic actions the malware took before that point or on machines that weren't manually accessed.
by jewayne | 2025-07-18 18:31:13+00:00
> I doubt they'd care if a democratic president wanted to do the exact same thing...

Of course they would. They literally blocked Biden's student loan relief, calling it unconstitutional. These people are not there because they are exceptional legal scholars or because they established themselves as outstanding judges in their previous appointments. The six majority justices are there to help their side wield power, pure and simple. And they understand that part of that job is making it difficult for the other side to wield power. Because only their side is legitimate, you see.

> The Supreme Court doesn't really seem to be exceptionally awful.

The are exceptionally, extremely, extraordinarily awful. When the DC circuit court ruled on presidential immunity, legal scholars across the land pointed to the ruling as the probable last word, given how sterling the ruling was. Many were shocked that the Supreme Court even took the case up afterward. After all, what more was there to say? To have the SCOTUS overrule two centuries of established precedent in making the entire Executive branch above criminal law shocked just about everyone - this entirely for the purpose of keeping a single man out of jail.

> It's not the Supreme Court's job to override laws passed by congress because they're terrible or anti-American.

That is exactly their job, if said laws are unconstitutional.
by BeetleB | 2025-07-18 18:31:15+00:00
> In any given year, there are only 85k new H1B visas.

Minor nitpick, but if you get an H-1 visa to work at a university, it's not part of that 85K limit.

But yes, your point is valid. And the headline is editorialized - they cherry picked the year 2011, because it's the lowest. It was the lowest because we were knee deep in the financial crisis, and many companies suspended/reduced their reliance on foreign labor precisely because they'd have a hard time convincing the government that they couldn't find a qualified local.
by everforward | 2025-07-18 18:31:21+00:00
I think theoretically the IRS is happy because they don’t have to build this. Private firms are happy because they get to charge people who are above the AGI limit but still file basically a 1040EZ. The AGI is like $80k, there are for sure people above that who still have basic taxes.

The private firms just got greedy because the IRS hasn’t reeled them in.
by nozzlegear | 2025-07-18 18:31:29+00:00
"Illegals" can't use full Medicaid, they can only receive emergency care which hospitals are required to give by law. That's what that $4.5B figure is – emergency care, labor, delivery, etc. Furthermore, undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes each year, including the payroll taxes that fund Medicaid and Medicare. Taxpayers aren't on the hook, because these immigrants are already paying in for services they can't even use.
by darth_avocado | 2025-07-18 18:33:10+00:00
They were not because in a layoff you cannot prefer a specific protected category like race, gender, age AND nationality.

The 9000 number is also a global number which includes layoffs in countries all over the world.

The argument “9000 US workers were fired and X visa applications were applied for” is also very reductive. The layoffs were in gaming, sales and other divisions, meanwhile the visa applications were for people who either already are on visas in other divisions like engineering and are continuing their status or for people in newer positions that have nothing to do with sales or gaming.
by lm28469 | 2025-07-18 18:33:38+00:00
If you want to frame it like this it's out of the definition of virtually any legal definition of self defense.

Self defense usually implies a "reasonable" use of force, what's happening there hasn't been reasonable for more than a year now.

If someone points a gun at you you can kill them, that's self defense, if you burn their entire village down, track and kill their family members 3 generations up it's not self defense anymore
by trhway | 2025-07-18 18:33:41+00:00
thanks, i see. So, MS can't get them really.

https://www.nafsa.org/professional-resources/browse-by-inter...

"AC21 [codified at INA § 214(g)(5)(A)-(B)] exempts the following petitioners from the H-1B cap:

Institutions of higher education

Nonprofit entities related to or affiliated with an institution of higher education

Nonprofit research organizations

Governmental research organizations
by FredPret | 2025-07-18 18:33:47+00:00
Every point you make is fair but the point still stands: you had to find this stuff first.

And if I did not know about him and typed "rear delt exercise" into Youtube, there will be an endless amount of slop before I personally would run into this guy.

I'd gladly pay for this guy's app if I were in the market for a new workout plan. My point is that free content does not eliminate the market for paid content.
by Henchman21 | 2025-07-18 18:33:58+00:00
Definitely over-simplified for the drug landscape, but I still think that users roughly sort into these two categories.

I also think its incorrect to define this sort of escapism as escaping to something. IME people escape from something — the “to” doesn’t matter as long as the “from” ain’t there.

I’d further agree that it has nothing to do with interracial marriage — not sure where this point came from?

The “War on Drugs” as Nixon named it isn’t the beginning of the story.
by spauldo | 2025-07-18 18:34:00+00:00
Spend a bit of time talking with tradesmen and you'll change your mind on that.

These people aren't stupid - far from it! I work with electricians all day and they're sharp as tacks. But most of 'em have been lied to so long they buy it all, hook, line, and sinker. Quite a few of them get drawn in by the social conservative outlook and then just go along with the rest of it.
by marcusverus | 2025-07-18 18:34:12+00:00
This is a ruling that allows the Trump admin to deport people to third countries when they are not able to deport them to their home country--either because their home country refuses to facilitate their return, or because they have specific legal rulings preventing their deportation to their home country. It doesn't apply in the overwhelming majority of cases. Pretending otherwise is deeply dishonest and is obviously intended to instill fear for political gain, which is just gross.
by nzach | 2025-07-18 18:35:19+00:00
Aider is in large part written by AIs, they even have some stats here: https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html

Besides that, I think your best bet is to find someone on youtube creating something "live" using a LLM. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW6PhVdq9R8
by serf | 2025-07-18 18:36:09+00:00
ABSOLUTELY AGREED.

In fact I think all now-dead authors should have their work as-is protected to a fair degree.

Dollars to donuts that the anecdotes revealed something either embarrassing or personally connected to the family members, it's just easier to posthumously blame the drinker.

I absolutely agree that shining light onto the subject of alcoholism is nothing but good for those seeking to avoid the horrible problem.
by yongjik | 2025-07-18 18:36:10+00:00
In many other countries, people would be asking "This is horrible, how can we bring down this leader, and how can we ensure that it never happens again?"

But here in glorious America, people are asking "This is inevitable, how can we starve the government more, so that it cannot hurt us when it eventually tries to?"

It's telling that, every time there's an election, we keep hearing complaints about who can vote, because its citizens decided that the government shouldn't keep track of who are its citizens and where they live. In most other countries it's the government's job to issue a photo ID to every citizen, but no, here in America that sounds too convenient and it must be some evil big-gov agenda.
by pvtmert | 2025-07-18 18:36:44+00:00
I think it highly depends on your architecture and the scale you are pushing.

The other far-edge is the S3, where appending has just been possible within the last a few years as far as I can tell. Meanwhile editing a file requiring a full download/upload, not great either.

For the NFS case, I cannot say it's my favorite, but certainly easy to setup and run on your own. Obviously a rebooting server may cause certain issues during the unavailability, but the NFS server should be in highly-available. with NFSv4.1, you may use UDP as the primary transport, which allows you to swap/switch servers pretty quickly. (Given you connect to a DNS/FQDN rather than the IP address)

Another case is the plug and play, with NFS, UNIX permissions, ownership/group details, execute bit, etc are all preserved nicely...

Besides, you could always have a "cache" server locally. Similar to GDrive or OneDrive clients, constantly syncing back and forth, caching the data locally, using file-handles to determine locks. Works pretty well _at scale_ (ie. many concurrent users in the case of GDrive or OneDrive).
by mti | 2025-07-18 18:36:57+00:00
Good point. Note however that PIR is a rather restricted form of search (e.g., with no privacy for the server), but even so, DEPIR has polylog(n) queries (not log n), and requires superlinear preprocessing and a polynomial blowup in the size of the database. I think recent concrete estimates are around a petabyte of storage for a database of 2^20 words. So as you say, pretty impractical.
by mrlongroots | 2025-07-18 18:37:09+00:00
It could, but important to keep in mind that the filesystem architecture there is also very different with a parallel filesystem with disaggregated data and metadata.

When you run `ls -l` you could potentially be enumerating a directory with one file per rank, or worse, one file per particle or something. You could try making the read fast, but I also think that it makes no sense to have that many files: you can do things to reduce the number of files on disk. Also many are trying to push for distributed object stores instead of parallel filesystems... fun space.
by BeetleB | 2025-07-18 18:37:53+00:00
> Democrats are too skittish to use executive power to do anything revolutionary with it. Even when they had a trifecta during the first Obama term they barely did anything with it.

This.

A lot of the focus these days is on SCOTUS, but most of what Trump is doing was already permitted by law for the executive branch well before he came into office. The real question is: Why didn't past presidents utilize that power that they clearly had?
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-18 18:38:00+00:00
> The bet isn't only because I can afford it, but because I am so familiar with the data I know I'm right.

I mean, same position here. I just don't have $10k to sit in escrow for years. I've similarly got plenty of first-hand experience; one on Medicare and one on Medicaid in the family due to disability, and even with those and a reasonably well paying job we'd absolutely consider moving for a program as described.

Data-wise, we've already got quite a bit demonstrating that California's better-than-average social services are more attractive to homeless folks, to the point where they have ~25% of the country's population of them.

I'm also for universal healthcare. I just don't think doing it unilaterally at the state-level is likely to work very well with freedom of movement between states, as with gun control.
by a_commentator | 2025-07-18 18:38:27+00:00
> If you're doing eastern style sword work, don't be tempted to get a metal sword, you'll never be able to train with it, and they are almost always poor quality. (unless you know what you're doing)

This is so wrong. Metal is fantastic. Just buy a sparring quality Jian (metal), or wood. "Keep it real" so to speak, for weight, handling, etc. Get the Rodell Sparring Jian.

Chinese Swordsmanship is undergoing a renaissance. Yes, it is dangerous. Buy protective gear (especially your eyes), and work with a teacher.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-18 18:38:32+00:00
I will go a step further and suggest that you, an HNer, were probably even a world class talent back then who mogged your US cohort so badly they offered you 15% more to snap you up.

It's just evident that's not what's happening across all H-1B positions in the US, and those are the ones worth talking about here.
by rtollert | 2025-07-18 18:38:55+00:00
Original blog post by LibreOffice is here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artifici...

I mean… sure? When I saw this headline I was imagining that Microsoft added a brand-new ultracomplicated format. But no, the article is solely about OOXML. Why is the blog post re-litigating a fight that LibreOffice already fought almost 20 years ago?
by troebr | 2025-07-18 18:39:24+00:00
If we're going to give anecdotal data, when I lived in NYC I was hired as an H1B, and every single other H1B I knew was paid way more than the median wage. But these were companies not trying to abuse the system. I do not doubt that there are bad actors.

I do agree that there should be minima to prevent abuse. I do not agree that every H1B hire was to abuse the system.

In the early 2010s there were hiring shortages, the startup that hired me would have probably preferred saving on the attorney fees and the 6+ months it took between the offer and the start date. For a new H1B you have to prepare the paperwork in March at the latest, apply the first week of April, for a start date of October 1st. And not only that, but with the quotas and the lottery you're absolutely not guaranteed that your hire is going to make it. All things being equal without a shortage or the ability to underpay, it is not an attractive solution.

H1Bs do push salaries down, because there is more "supply" of workers, so it should probably only be used for hiring for areas with shortages, but even then you can have downturn like what we're having in tech, and some companies may keep their H1Bs over FTE because they are less of a flight risk and can't negotiate their salaries as well. Even with a shortage, this means that employees with that specific skill will be paid less, now it's more of a matter of which one is better for the economy/society.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-18 18:39:28+00:00
My dad kept a diary during his combat tour in WW2. Decades later, he read it and was shocked to discover that it did not quite line up with his memories.

When I prepared a "history of D" for a paper a while back, I went looking through all my documents and emails and the D forum history looking to pin things down. I, too, discovered that my memories didn't match the facts as well as I wished it did.

Memory is a funny thing.

One should always be skeptical of accounts written long after the fact. I sometimes wonder how much of our written history is false. I support statutes of limitations because of this.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-07-18 18:39:45+00:00
Colleges and Universities charge the non-local rate for international students which is considerably higher than the domestic rate (example from Georgia Tech:

In state $30,154 Out of state $53,638 International $54,814

This incentivizes them to keep more slots open for those high dollar students making it even tougher to develop a domestic workforce.
by mdasen | 2025-07-18 18:39:53+00:00
I think that the SCO threat to Linux also came at a time when Linux was pretty immune from such a threat. If it's the early-90s and there's two options in their infancy and one had AT&T (one of the 5 largest companies) threatening it, you'll go with the other. In 1993, you're not using BSD or Linux and making a choice between them. The legal threat weighs heavy there.

When SCO sued IBM, people were already using Linux including one of the biggest and most trusted names in computing (at the time): IBM. Migrating away from something is a hard choice. Likewise, Linux had IBM's army of lawyers defending it (yes, BSD was defended by UC Berkeley, but the school could have easily folded over a project that wasn't part of the school's core mission). SCO also wasn't much of a threat - they were a dying company trying to win a case against the biggest names in the industry.

It's a lot easier to spread FUD against something no one is currently using that has a viable alternative. In 1993, Linux and BSD may have been equal, but AT&T's legal threat carried weight. People choosing one or the other weren't already using one. By 2003, 25% of the internet was powered by Linux. People were already using it and weren't going to be scared away by the claims of a dying corporation while powerful companies were defending Linux.

You say yourself that if something wasn't Linux compatible, it wasn't valuable and so everyone had to be chasing and reimplementing Linux compatibility. But if BSD had been established for a decade and Linux was chasing BSD compatibility in 2003 and then SCO sued BSD, BSD would still have maintained dominance.

When a company claimed ownership matters. Which company claimed ownership matters. "How big" the OS was when the challenge came matters.

Frankly, reset Linux adoption to 0. Have everyone use BSD for 2-4 years. Then reintroduce Linux. You won't end up with Linux dominance. You'll end up with BSD dominance. Linux had a multi-year head start. As you note, once you become the dominant target, everyone else is chasing you. If BSD had a multi-year head start, Linux would have been chasing BSD and the roles would be swapped.