MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by awacs | 2025-07-18 17:56:25+00:00
I think you need to be a bit more explicit in your usage. I use Claude Code as the plugin in Cursor, to me the marriage of all the great, tastes great, less filling. You see all the changes as you normally would in VSCode / Cursor, but the Claude Code command line UI is absolutely bonkers better than the Cursor native one. They really have it dialed in beautifully in my opinion.
by gerardojbaez | 2025-07-18 17:56:35+00:00
Valid point! But don't you think there could be instances where this could be useful for both ends, the freelancer and the customer?

There are instances where the customer already know what he wants, could be typical maintenance, bug fixing, etc... those things can be added to a task queue, details are agreed and work is performed, without preparing quotes every time for each task

For example, I would only use something like this if I can automate as much as possible using CI/CD, etc
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-07-18 17:56:40+00:00
> The majority in SCOTUS does not seem to care (it’s ok as long as their guy does it).

I doubt they'd care if a democratic president wanted to do the exact same thing...

Their job isn't to be benevolent.

Their job is to determine what is ACCORDING to the laws. The reality is, many legal protections only apply to US citizens - and it is EXPLICITLY for these reasons that they do.

The Privacy Act of 1974 applies only to citizens. The Patriot Act opened up a can of worms ripe for abuse that will probably never be sealed.

The executive branch can almost get away with murder by saying, "Well, we thought they were a terrorist, so..." Which does appear to be the defense they're trying to set up, saying anyone in any, way, shape or form related to Mexican gangs is a terrorist.

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

They're obviously bias, and have been for a very long time, if you look at how they vote.

But the larger problem is that we have bad laws.

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

It's our job as voters to start caring about what matters.
by gamerDude | 2025-07-18 17:57:14+00:00
Rate per person does not counter neuroelectrons hypothesis.

If you have 100 people standing around for a year, they probably have lower injuries than the same 100 people who are using heavy machinery over the course of a year. And it's not like most corporations are efficient.

SpaceX may have less redundancy in their workforce causing the injury rate to go up since more people are working more often.

Or SpaceX is overworking people in unsafe conditions and causing way more injuries.

Either way, rate per person does not negate people working vs. Not.
by asadotzler | 2025-07-18 17:57:28+00:00
This isn't about Starfactory, the actual factory making rockets. It's about the whole of Starbase, a goddamned town/city under construction.

That a massive construction site with hundreds of welders and framers and plumbers and concrete workers, and linemen and ditch diggers, and survey workers and architects, and smiths and truck drivers and landscapers, and janitors and carpet layers and warehouse workers, and sewer workers, masons, electricians, and heavy equipment operators (massive cranes, bulldozers, man lifts, graders, boring rigs, excavators, etc.) most of them working outdoors in the TX weather, building dozen of homes, a rec center, factories, launch facilities, office buildings, apartment complexes, not to mention the largest ever space vehicles in volume numbers, has a higher injury rate than some ULA office workers sitting behind desks or in clean rooms building and launching a couple of classic rockets a year?

Surprise, surprise.
by kqr | 2025-07-18 17:57:38+00:00
Accounting is a huge part of it. Sometimes claims are not fully resolved for decades, and the books for that policy hypothetically have to be kept open for as long. This must be kept correct, but is not computationally heavy.

Computing total exposures and possible loss distributions are things which can be more computationally heavy. It includes grouping together similar policies which is multiplicative in complexity.
by eyelidlessness | 2025-07-18 17:58:07+00:00
I think that’s part of the problem: there’s no canonical idiom. The other part of the problem (IME) is that the biggest gap in nominal typing support is exactly what enum solves: nominal primitives.

Yes, you can kinda get there with branding, but that’s a hack with a ton of footguns built in. And in many cases, you can box those values. But that can be an awful perf trade off in a hot loop, which is (again IME) often exactly where nominal primitive types would be incredibly helpful.
by proberts | 2025-07-18 17:58:22+00:00
Assuming that your wife is a U.S. citizen, you should be fine; the law forgives overstays and unauthorized employment for those pursuing green cards based on marriage to a U.S. citizen. Of course, I haven't reviewed your background but on the face of it, I don't see any reason for you to wait to file but I would recommend that you defer to your lawyer since he or she will have all the facts.
by kashunstva | 2025-07-18 17:58:23+00:00
> Do people still take his comments like that seriously?

Yes, because he has a pattern of staking out one extreme position and then doing something slightly less extreme; but both of which would have been unthinkable when laws and due process meant something.

And also, yes, because joking around is something you do on your own time and when you’re a child. Like not wanting your pilot to announce his intention to do some aerobatic maneuvers on an airline flight. Whether they carry it out or not is almost beside the point.
by foobiekr | 2025-07-18 17:58:40+00:00
HPPD and .. honestly, some people have bad trips, and while it is popular in psychedelic circles to say "There is no such thing as a bad trip just the way you interpret it" that isn't really true. Even Terrence McKenna stopped taking mushrooms for a decade after a bad experience.

That said, I _do_ recommend mushrooms to everyone I know with depression or anger issues.
by z5h | 2025-07-18 17:58:50+00:00
Apparently I'm a super smeller (always the first to detect gas leaks, food that's off, know the brand of shampoo a person uses if I'm 200ft down wind, know if you use scented dish soap to clean the bowl you used to make cookies in when I eat the cookie). And I just think the idea that adding smells to the world is absolutely insane. Can I beam my favourite colours directly into your eyes with a laser from across the room? What if I know you like that colour too?
by Lunatic666 | 2025-07-18 17:58:54+00:00
I’m using Linkwarden, it’s running on my TrueNAS and I connect their iOS app via Tailscale. Pure joy to use.

Edit to add Links: https://linkwarden.app for the self-hostable app and https://apps.apple.com/de/app/my-links-for-linkwarden/id6504... for the mobile app
by Turn_Trout | 2025-07-18 18:00:05+00:00
As someone who did their PhD in RL and alignment, it was not obvious to me a priori if, or when, or how badly obfuscation would be a problem. Yes, it's been predicted (and was predicted significantly before that Zvi post). But many other alignment fears have been _predicted_, and those didn't actually happen.

I don't think the existence of specification gaming in unrelated settings was strong evidence that obfuscation would occur in modern CoT supervision. Speculatively, I think CoT obfuscation happens due to the internal structure of LLMs and it being inductively "easier" to reweight model circuits to not admit wrongthink, rather than to rewire circuits to solve problems in entirely different ways.
by taesu | 2025-07-18 18:00:09+00:00
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this. Wife and I are both Canadians. Wife is on a H1B and I'm on TN - separate employers. My 9089 is being reviewed, while she is on labor market test. What is the best path forward to getting GC for the both of us while working? Should we keep going forward with this setup and whoever can file for I-485, add the spouse to beneficiary?
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-18 18:00:36+00:00
Your list almost exactly matches my experience and deserves to be a blog post explaining how to use LLM coding agents effectively.

However, I think the applicability is beyond frontend (and to be fair you said "like CRUD apps / frontend"). There are a lot of domains where patterns are clearly established and easily reproduceable. For example, I had a basic XML doc type and with a couple of simple prompts in Claude Code I was able to: add namespaces, add an XSD, add an XSL to style into HTML, add full unit tests. That isn't rocket science, but it isn't code I really want to write. In 5 minutes I leveled up my XML doc significantly with a few hundred lines of XSD/XSL/tests.

This example is a case where I happily pass the task to an LLM. It is a bit like eating my vegetables. I find almost no joy in writing schema docs or tests, even when I recognize the value in having them. The XSL to HTML is a nice added bonus that cost me nothing.
by _se | 2025-07-18 18:00:44+00:00
It absolutely counts as a POC app until it's production grade, deployed, being used by people, maintained over time, etc.

This doesn't mean that it's not useful, or that you shouldn't be happy with what the LLM built. I also had Claude Code build me a web app for my own personal use in Rust this week. It's very useful to me. But it is 100% of POC/MVP quality, and always will be, because the code that it created is abjectly awful and I would never be able to scale it into a real world service without rewriting 50+% of it.
by beefnugs | 2025-07-18 18:00:58+00:00
There can't really be any other person recommending AI tools other than people with products to sell, can there? Anyone paying $3000 a month to a third party, coding and trying to wrangle this stuff, has got shit to sell for sure.

The one thing we dont see news stories of is how open source has finally crushed that big evil corp because ai-multiplier times many open source contributors is Unlimited Power (tm)
by jdietrich | 2025-07-18 18:01:08+00:00
>the war on drugs has effectively eliminated the ability for legitimate researchers to do significant research on these criminalized drugs

That's not true any more. We have a substantial body of data already from clinical trials and a huge number of trials currently in the pipeline. The results from completed trials are quite equivocal - while psilocybin does appear to work as a treatment for depression, anxiety and other common psychological disorders, we have no evidence yet to suggest that it is meaningfully more effective than current treatments.

We have good reason to believe that psychedelics may be useful for some patients in some circumstances, but the widespread talk of a revolution in psychiatry is pure hype.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=psilocybin&filter=pubt...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?intr=psilocybin&aggFilters...
by asadotzler | 2025-07-18 18:01:27+00:00
It's not about the rockets built. It's about the city being built. It's the welders and the framers and the roofers and the concrete workers and the jackhammer guys and the linemen and the plumbers, etc. that are leading the injuries, not the guys on the line building the actual ships and boosters. Starbase is a city, not just a factory.
by darth_avocado | 2025-07-18 18:01:48+00:00
I think every time the topic of H1B comes on HN, a lot of people have a lot of opinions, but don’t fully understand the immigration system. Like you correctly pointed out, the increase in H1Bs in the country is mostly contributed by the fact that country caps force some nationalities to permanently stay on H1B while others can naturalize faster. There are hundreds of thousands of people who come into the country every year through other visas (and also on H1B from other countries) and naturalize and take up jobs in the country. But that doesn’t matter because they are now US citizens.

If people from India/China were allowed to naturalize as fast as other countries, you’d not have the chart of number of H1Bs grow in the country.
by onepremise | 2025-07-18 18:01:50+00:00
YC does try to bury this topic, but it needs to be discussed. Developer and engineers need to be aware of the intent some of these corporations have in mind for their temporary employment. I say temporary as they intend to automate away the whole workforce and build utopias in their name. This isn't secret or a "deep state", they've plainly stated this agenda publicly and have written material online selling this agenda to other billionaires. Look at https://www.praxisnation.com. This is also referred to as Freedom Cities in Trumps presser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJA_GBhCGgE Many people will die in the pursuit of this :/
by TheJoeMan | 2025-07-18 18:01:59+00:00
My dance instructor, who has won an international championship, is here on an O-1B. However, his 3 year initial eligibility is coming due, and the processing times for the 1-year extension is looking like it's going to take longer than 1-year! According to Wikipedia, Justin Beiber is here on an O visa, I wonder how his gets processed.
by echelon | 2025-07-18 18:02:08+00:00
Maybe they can normalize for number of launches. I'd be curious if the number/rate is actually lower when adjusted for activity level.

I just skimmed the article, but it looks like the rate is based on headcount, not productivity:

> TRIR topped out at 4.27 injuries per 100 workers in 2024, when it employed an average of 2,690 workers, according to the data submitted to OSHA. Injured Starbase employees were unable to perform their normal job duties for a total of 3,558 restricted-duty days, plus 656 lost-time days where injuries made them unable to work at all.

> Starbase is classified by the U.S. government as a space vehicle manufacturing operation. The injury rate in this sector has fallen dramatically since 1994, dropping from 4.2 injuries per 100 workers to 0.7 injuries per 100 workers in 2023, according to historical data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (BLS calculates these rates through its annual company surveys, which asks for the same information found in OSHA’s worker injury forms.) But despite major changes in safety processes across the industry, Starbase is closer to the rates of 30 years ago.
by vintermann | 2025-07-18 18:02:17+00:00
Filling out some form won't help if someone finds out they're not doing what they said they will do. The data protection agencies will sue if they find that out. And they did find out that Grindr was selling data it wasn't allowed to.

Fines are scaled according to revenue. That's the reason for the monumental fines leveled at Google and Facebook. They don't mess around.

I believe Grindr's fine was just based on their revenue from Norwegian users. Probably plenty hurtful enough to make them implement data protection in the jurisdictions which demand it.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-18 18:02:21+00:00
> and high unemployment.

I didn't see where that was shown in the chart.

All I see is an assertion that "often at the expense of recent American CS grads.", and while I do believe I saw reporting that new grads are facing higher unemployment, I didn't see anything related specifically to CS grads, and, further, I haven't seen any data pointing out that H1Bs are taking entry level jobs. At least my experience has been that H1B are often in more senior roles and entry level jobs that require advanced degrees.

I'm not saying that it's not the case that there is a misalignment with the number of H1Bs and the current employment situation, but there doesn't seem to be enough data here to fully flesh out this argument without some fairly major assumptions being applied.
by tnthrowaway | 2025-07-18 18:02:26+00:00
Hi Peter!

There's a lot of confusion and uncertainty around a June policy update regarding TN visa (some related links in https://www.reddit.com/r/tnvisa/comments/1lerikw/nonengineer...). At least one big tech (my personal anecdote that I don't feel comfortable sharing) temporarily paused new TN applications for software engineers with a CS degree, citing this change.

This seems to have always been a fuzzy area on paper, and some people in this category apparently still got their TN in the past month after this change. Is this a material change in your mind? If so, how are employers responding to it?
by hobbyjogger | 2025-07-18 18:02:33+00:00
This vastly oversimplifies the notion of what is "good" or "fair" in a given situation. Just because we can generally agree on classifying simple objects like a boat or a house doesn't entail that we share a universal notion about the virtuous thing to do in a given situation. Humans (even in the same society/environment) have wildly differing ideas about moral issues like abortion, assisted suicide, medical testing on animals/stem cells, etc. Consider this chart from a 2010 Gallup Poll: https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro...
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 18:03:16+00:00
Compared to permissive licences (from the user's POV), GPL is merery a guarantee that a proprietary fork won't left you behind in the dust overnight. That's a rather strong guarantee that most people (including myself) don't need. I'm fine with a "plain" guarantee to fork the last free version. In exchange, I usually get better, well-supported software with more corporate contributions.

> Apple has famously used a lot of time and money to rewrite GPLd thengs. This is the goal.

As an aside, that's a terrible goal. Rewriting the same projects over and over is a waste of human potential. We could be solving unsolved problems and actually making the world better, instead of pursuing this weird and misguided notion of "fairness"
by pphysch | 2025-07-18 18:03:21+00:00
> all humans learn roughly the same concepts representing words like "dog", "house", "person", "boat", and so on, even if those people grew up in different places and never had any overlap between their observational experience.

This "roughly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting to support the "Plato was right" thesis. The fact is we inhabit a shared reality with shared laws of physics and evolutionary pressures and so on; there are only so many ways to float a boat.

That doesn't necessarily mean Platonic Forms exist and that everyone arrives independently at the same Form.

Indeed you will find that people have fundamentally different ideas of what words like "freedom", "economy", "government" mean, despite using the same syntax.
by ndiddy | 2025-07-18 18:03:24+00:00
The problem is that over time, traditional economic measures have ceased to accurately model the average person's quality of life. What use is a growing GDP when most people can't afford to buy a house until their mid-thirties? What use is the S&P 500 reaching an all-time high when daycare costs $2000/month?

Of course if you're looking at things purely from a logical, calculating, "lesser-evil" perspective Harris is the better candidate, but a lot of people can plainly see that their quality of life has gotten worse compared to how their parents and grandparents were doing at their age. A large amount of people who see things getting worse and feel like they have nothing to lose is how you get political extremism and candidates like Trump winning elections.
by ck2 | 2025-07-18 18:03:49+00:00
They are deporting babies born here and have never lived anywhere else, some taken right out of the hospital

There are kids sitting right now in cages at Alligator Auschwitz without an adult for days and days and have never known any other country

Your parents were born in this country? How about their parents?

Because now they've run out of "criminals" they are putting people with legal status ("green cards") into the concentration-camps and when they run out of those next year who do you think they are going to keep busy with?

US Citizens have sat for days in prison before even given the chance to show citizenship, why don't you think that's going to happen to you eventually?
by PaulKeeble | 2025-07-18 18:04:03+00:00
Its been Microsoft's strategy since its formation to make a lot of proprietary technology when it moves into any space and do so in a way that locks customers in such that if and when it is no longer the top product the customers can't easily leave. They do this in every single product and market they operate in. Where they can't ultimately win they buy their competitor and integrate the product then slowly kill it.
by huhkerrf | 2025-07-18 18:04:28+00:00
No, no it wouldn't.

Undocumented immigrant is far from a neutral term. They haven't just forgotten their documents, or oops! the government hasn't gotten around to documenting them. They are in the country when they aren't supposed to.

If you really hate the term "illegal immigrant", fine then call them unauthorized immigrants, but the "no person is illegal" slogan is just a motte and balley.
by benreesman | 2025-07-18 18:05:06+00:00
This is fantastic stuff. I'm doing a C++ project right now that I'm doing with an eye to eventual migration in whole or in part to Zig. My little `libevring` thing is pretty young and I'd be very open to replacing it with `ourio`.

What's your feeling on having C/C++ bindings in the project as a Zig migration path for such projects?
by renewiltord | 2025-07-18 18:05:25+00:00
Sure, that's one way of looking at it. But the truth is that there is only one force for civilization in the World today and that is America. The end of USAID illustrated something: America stands alone against the entropy of nature. She is humanity's only vanguard against ruin. The Chinese are dedicated to their own advancement, the Indians are currently bootstrapping out of poverty, the Europeans are primarily concerned with wine, cheese, and luxury goods. Fair play to all of them - may they live in peace.

But one nation, alone, fights Humanity's cause. Trump et al have cast off the mantle, but it's only another 3.5 years and we have a shot at donning it again. The nation is not for the people - or we would simply rapaciously consume its resources to feed the present. The people of the nation are not for the nation or we would consume them to fuel the engine. The nation and the people are both there to advance the principles of the group into the future. And I believe America's principles deserve to exist into perpetuity so long as they adapt to meet shifting weather.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
by RickS | 2025-07-18 18:06:21+00:00
Love orca, and that's a really nice example. Messed with it a bit when it came out, and one toy project I'll share in the hopes that someone does it before me: an orca GUI that uses a larger grid with representative images in place of single char glyphs. I found that writing orca is fairly straightforward — you look up the sheet, find a thing and do it. It's reading that's the hurdle. An 8 char chunk that made perfect sense when I wrote it takes just as many lookups to read later. This probably gets easier over time, but I still think it's a cool design opportunity.
by indigodaddy | 2025-07-18 18:06:34+00:00
Obviously this is awesome, however a bit tough to read as the quality/resolution of the text is pretty low. Wonder if someone could clean it up and provide the new file to the hoster? Anyway, will try to clean it up for myself/local copy...

EDIT, nevermind someone already did it. The epub looks great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44603066#44605221
by DragonStrength | 2025-07-18 18:06:52+00:00
That's a great point: immigrants are great for the existing voting populace. They count for the census, but if you keep them on a program like H-1B, they'll live their whole lives without being able to vote. The existing voters have their votes count more and more with H-1B population growth. A great gig when you've got something like Prop 13 making sure the newcomers pay most of the taxes too. What a racket!