MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by loeg | 2025-07-18 15:47:34+00:00
> More system calls mean more overall OS overhead [than the equivalent operations performed with io_uring]

Again, this just isn't true. The same "stat" operations are being performed one way or another.

> Also, more fs-related system calls mean less available kernel threads to process these system calls.

Generally speaking sync system calls are processed in the context of the calling (user) thread. They don't consume kernel threads generally. In fact the opposite is true here -- io_uring requests are serviced by an internal kernel thread pool, so to the extent this matters, io_uring requests consume more kernel threads.
by brailsafe | 2025-07-18 15:47:38+00:00
Well, I agree with both of you a bit. I'm mostly self-taught with a backing of a technical diploma and half a CS degree. The part I'd pull from the parent here is that I could not reconcile my level of curiosity and so on with the corporate world at all. I tried, it did not work, I just burnt out and resented programming for a while because what they actually valued was the thing other people were really good at, but what they thought they wanted were the qualities that make a scrappy startup great; namely showing up on time for the standup, wearing the right clothes, being tremendously dull with predictable ideas, endless meetings and low level risk mitigation, little agency over work.

I've since realized that it might have been the easiest job ever if I didn't have any curiosity, and didn't overcomplicate things or care about quality, because nobody did. I don't think that's the difference between a CS grad and a self-taught person, but it might be what drives a self-taught person to pursue it at all, whereas I've met many in CS who are just there because they were capable at math or made the call to do that degree instead of something else, and some of them really panic when faced with ambiguity. For me, if there's no ambiguity or no aspect of creativity, I just get bored and zone out (yes adhd). Just different alignments in some cases.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-18 15:47:51+00:00
You can go do some reading on Third Party Doctrine if you'd like.

SCOTUS ruled there are some instances where private use of a service is 1) effectively necessary for modern life and 2) leaks a huge amount of information about the person, then the government cannot utilize it without a warrant even if handed over or sold willingly by the third party.

I am suggesting that we likely need to expand Third Party Doctrine to things beyond cell tower data because 1) we don't have absolute control over how/where our images are used and associated with our names, and 2) the technology to later affiliate our always-on/always-visible identities (like faces, gaits, or fingerprints) with our names is getting better and better.

You're right that today this is not illegal, but I am pointing out that your argument for "what to do instead" is literally the precise argument for why it should be: it chills protected expression.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-18 15:47:52+00:00
As a USian I can't say anything about the UK, but here, apathy seems to be at least a big a problem as immaturity. We re-elected a traitorous felon because people couldn't be bothered to vote for a candidate who didn't "inspire them."

At some point we have to decide whether democracy is a means to an end -- a stable, peaceful, prosperous, just, and exemplary society -- or an end in itself. Lowering the voting age certainly serves the latter goal.
by Bluecobra | 2025-07-18 15:48:01+00:00
It depends on the firewall. For example, a Palo Alto can match by application and do SSL decryption in where the firewall acts as a MITM. A locked down environment would likely only allow SSL on TCP/443, and block UDP/443 to deny QUIC. An application that breaks RFC would likely be blocked. It’s also common to block unknown TCP/UDP applications.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-07-18 15:48:27+00:00
I don't code in Cobol myself anymore but I manage team who does.

We work on Phoenix, government of Canada payroll system. If you google it up, you'll see some interesting coverage. However, the underlying peoplesoft ERP itself is rock solid at every other client I've served over last 25 years. Peoplesoft uses Cobol and sqr, as well as proprietary languages stored in database, application engine and peoplecode.

Key payroll processes are in Cobol. This is because of its tight integration with database and ability to manually control database cursors. We are very database oriented when it comes to performance. Our developers need to know the programming language, but also deep understanding of client business processes, and sql optimization. They also work closely with our dbas to ensure good performance. So our developers are technically proficient in Cobol and couple of other languages, but also very very strong in sql optimization, and understand clients payroll rules and can speak intelligently with compensation advisers and payroll processors.

I personally found that to be true for most Cobol programmers - whereas typical hacker news Dev seems very technology oriented and frequently moving, typical Cobol programmer is very business process aware and integrated with corporate line of business. They don't move as much for several reasons, but that deep awareness of client is one of them.

Edit: I shoild mention, while peoplesoft can and does work on mainframe, most of my clients are on windows, Linux, or AIX. COBOL is not quite as mainframe specific as it sometimes seems :-). See e.g.microfocus Cobol for a modern multi platform compiler.
by exabrial | 2025-07-18 15:48:29+00:00
My Bank (ally) absolutely refuses to do any sort of secure authentication. No TOTP, no U2F key, no Passkey... however, they're unbelievably climbing over the garden gate to tie my account to my phone. Want to log it? yeah lets text you. Want to do anything else? Hey we sent a push notification to your phone. Seriously, fuck my phone. It's the least secure thing I own. Stop acting like its my damned identity.

Oh as a bonus... Hey want to integrate with a third party website? Oh just enter this code that we are literally telling you not to give away to anyone else. Lol.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-18 15:48:40+00:00
I remember the early IBM PC days. PC-DOS was $40. CPM/86 was $240. Both were available, people simply picked the cheaper one. I used both, and there was nothing better about CPM/86.

Due to inflation, this is like $113 vs $679 today. It was a no-brainer to buy MS-DOS instead. Kildall clearly was a businessman wanting to make money off of it.
by proberts | 2025-07-18 15:48:42+00:00
Country of birth is the most important factor. Certain countries, most notably China and India, have significant backlogs and the process can take many years. For those not from a heavily backlogged country, the ways to speed up the green card process are limited, including, during the PERM process, commencing recruitment when the prevailing wage request is submitted (and not yet approved) and using recruitment to cover multiple positions/employees. And then, once the PERM application is approved, using premium processing to accelerate the approval of the next step, the I-140 petition.
by fooker | 2025-07-18 15:49:07+00:00
There's a list of qualifying criteria on the USCIS website. You have to satisfy at least three out of the eight or so.

The issue is it's a bit subjective, a lawyer writes down how you qualify and some random government employee has to believe what the lawyer wrote.

If you receive a RFE or rejection, all your dealings with USCIS will face extra scrutiny in future. So it's a bit of a gamble.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-18 15:49:32+00:00
My charitable budget mostly goes to $50k or so of annual healthcare spending, between premiums, copays, and whatnot. I've yet to find a charity willing to cover it, which is part of why I'm pretty skeptical about scaling that approach up even further.

If you're giving 11% to genuinely charitable causes, good for you! But you're very, very much an outlier.
by chasil | 2025-07-18 15:50:35+00:00
I work with developers who code on OS 2200 and VAX VMS (running on Charon emulation).

Fun fact: the first SMP UNIX implementation ran on top of EXEC 8, the kernel of OS 2200.

"Any configuration supplied by Sperry, including multiprocessor ones, can run the UNIX system."

https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/retro...

Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20150611114648/https://www.bell-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_1100/2200_series
Show HN: I built a Buffer alternative after paying $60/mo for unused features
by hasancagli | 2025-07-18 15:50:39+00:00
built this because i was tired of paying $60/mo for Buffer and only using like 10% of it.

most tools felt bloated or built for teams with social media departments, not solo founders or small businesses who just want to post without thinking too much like me.

i run a small business and social media was taking too much of my time.

tried a few cheaper tools but they were either super buggy or just kinda clunky to use. ended up hacking together something for myself, then kept improving it.

now it lets me schedule posts, generate captions with some ai stuff, pull in canva designs (i use canva a lot), and post to all social platforms - IG, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, FB, etc.

kept it simple, kept it affordable — works for me. maybe it works for others too.
by michaelt | 2025-07-18 15:50:41+00:00
The French felt there was little evidence of Iraq having WMDs, or working with Al-Qaeda, and refused to back George W. Bush's US-led invasion in the UN.

The US responded with a wine boycott, renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries on the congresesional cafe menu, and some WW2-related insults on TV.

At the time, a lot of people would say GWB was one of the worst ever US presidents, that cutting taxes while spending a bunch on a costly war was irresponsible, etc.

But looking back? That guy had no signs of dementia, no major convictions, hadn’t been credibly accused of rape, and nobody was heiling hitler at his inauguration. I for one now look back on his presidency fondly.
by perakojotgenije | 2025-07-18 15:51:13+00:00
My father is 75 and he still works, has his own software development company with his own back-office program written in cobol. He started a company back in 1991 with two other cobol programmers, they are retired now, and while almost all of the code they wrote has been replaced with c# code by younger programmers there are still some parts of the code written in cobol that he still maintains.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-18 15:51:23+00:00
Drives me up the wall that the same people who can correctly identify when nominal nonprofits like rich people's charity organizations universities or even hospitals are pissing away money on officer salaries, perks, facilities, etc. because "nonprofit" think that somehow being a 10% or X% profit capped organization can't do the same thing with whatever expenses they aren't capped on.
by antonvs | 2025-07-18 15:51:51+00:00
> One explanation for why this game works is that there is only one way in which things are related, and this comes from the underlying world we live in.

I think what this might be trying to say is something more like: ...there are many ways in which things can be related, but those relationships come from the underlying world we live in.

I.e. there are obviously many ways in which things can be related, but if we assume the quote is not entirely counterfactual, then it must be getting at something else. I suppose "way" here is being used in a different sense, but it isn't clear.
by stefan_ | 2025-07-18 15:52:12+00:00
This guy was accused of hurling a rock at a protester, it seems we are trying to defend the right to peaceful protest?

Like, this guy was identified off video of him throwing a rock at a protester that hit them in the face. By all accounts this is someone who is trying to violently suppress peoples rights. That he got off on police misconduct in the investigation is a loss to society, no matter how many waxing words try to twist him into being a "protester violated in his rights".
by linotype | 2025-07-18 15:52:20+00:00
My wife was forced to pay about $200 to Canada at the border because she had a DUI five years prior. Somehow those shakedowns aren’t mentioned in the news.

Edit: I’m a Democrat but for each downvote to this post I’m donating $1 to the Republican Party. Y’all are crazy if you think other countries aren’t doing this.

Current tally: $2 for downvotes $5 for a comment made without any knowledge of the situation $7 total
by mindslight | 2025-07-18 15:52:22+00:00
Oh, thank you for explaining that the real problem is caring. You're right, we're all just meat feedstock for "AI" (ie corpos) or whatever, and we should be thankful for our chance to passively watch before it's our own turn to be fed into the grinder. 


I get how the ACA is this reactionary touchstone about big scary de jure government daring to regulate the corpo-created death panels, and as a libertarian I would have vastly preferred a much different type of healthcare reform. But from a perspective of individual liberty, a national implementation of Romneycare couldn't possibly have fucked the country nearly as hard as handing more unchecked reins of power to an autocrat running on dementia fumes of ideas that might have worked in the 90's.

So no, it is not "nothing changes". Rather it is a continual escalation. Your both-sidesing is itself based on that exact partisan interpretation whereby you care less about these specific topics, making you ignore that the overall problem is increasing - with this particular step being drastic.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-07-18 15:52:51+00:00
Modern drug laws came about in the 1970s, at the height of hippies on psychedelics trying to overthrow the government.

People in power fear losing their power, and they saw these drugs as a threat.

The weirdest part of the whole thing to me is that they outlawed Cannabis, Psilocybin, and LSD, but kept cocaine legal with a prescription under schedule 2.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-18 15:53:30+00:00
what on earth would lead you to believe that i would defend anything nancy pelosi has ever done? she's a ghoul and i hope she burns in hell. are you happy now?

the affordable care act was one of the single largest transfers of wealth into private industry in the last few decades, and a massive failing by both major political parties to actually provide affordable, high quality healthcare that we're capable of shouldering as a society. you won't catch me defending any part of it, or anybody who kneecapped it during the legislative process.

can you stop acting like politics is a team sport that can be won, and start recognizing that both parties are Bad, Actually, and do absolutely nothing for the vast majority of americans with net worths under a billion dollars?
by mempko | 2025-07-18 15:53:40+00:00
This article does a great job explaining why "Number Go Up" rule is a problem. Matt is talking about inequality without saying inequality. The Number Go Up rule is why inequality is growing because it's about asset price inflation and a small group owns all the assets. Inequality rising is why housing, healthcare, and education are becoming more and more expensive without any improvement of the underlying assets or services.

We need to talk about inequality and not be afraid to use the word. I'm shocked Matt Stroller doesn't mention it once in the article even though that's ultimately what he is talking about.
by waffletower | 2025-07-18 15:53:59+00:00
It is a shame that you can't access the scanned piano rolls of Conlon Nancarrow's player piano music in an archive like this. The scans do exist apparently, but are merely documented on the web (https://www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch/en/research/1-2-Conlon-N...) without explicit download access. An incredibly comprehensive Youtube video exists however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmVJmQKdj4
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-18 15:54:15+00:00
Another positive anecdote for me

I am more empathic for weeks after doses of psilocybin. Getting there doesn't rely on any hero trips, no fractals, just maybe to the point of seeing more vibrant lights for a few hours. They used to hurt my stomach which would throw off a trip while dealing with that, and I still avoid eating stems, but it looks like I have tolerance to that now.

Nothing supremely insightful, I mostly ignore my mind's attempts at epiphanies and the false feelings of clarity, I wait till music festivals to consume them and just enjoy the vibrant lights and echo-ing sounds. Just to the point where conversations and ambient noises from further away than expected are being amplified and spliced in to things happening much closer to me.

Recreationally, I like the people I attract when I'm feeling the effects of psilocybin. I'm far too analytical in default mode, not nearly as much as when I was a bit younger, but still a far cry from where I would prefer to be. Its like I "null route" all of that and am more present to how people feel or want to feel. Its kind of crazy and obvious when it wears off, I respond to stimuli differently, or ask about things I don't really want to ask about. Less "vibes" in the moment and more "analyze" like noticing incongruences in people's lives and asking about that as a form of smalltalk, when it would be better off ignored. People respond normally, but I can tell it doesn't give them a spark of warmth like the vibes version of me does. Wasn't a goal or something I was aiming to work on, just a side effect I noticed over time.

I also use other kinds of psychedelics but I didn't want to pollute this comment with more anecdotes.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-18 15:54:43+00:00
It is fraud to move to California for the sole purpose of education[1]. Likewise, genuinely moving to California for the sole purpose of benefiting from universal healthcare is also, in my opinion, fraud.

People genuinely moving to California would presumably pay out of state healthcare fees until their residency was established. Don't you agree that these fees could be set in a way that served as a barrier to doing what you suggest?

Is there a case that isn't covered by this that you're thinking about?

1. Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 5, § 54022 - Physical Presence. "Physical presence within the state solely for educational purposes does not constitute establishing California residence regardless of the length of that presence." https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/california/5-CCR-540...
by skeezyboy | 2025-07-18 15:54:48+00:00
> I have a friend from college who smoked too much marijuana during lockdown back in India. Thankfully the insanity cleared up after a few weeks to a month clean of it, but not all are so lucky.

I would love to meet one of these people that lose their minds in such a short time on drugs. I know they exist but I just want to see the reality of it.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-18 15:55:12+00:00
> Zig encourages passing an allocator context around, where those allocators conform to a standardized interface.

in libraries. if youre just writing a final product it's totally fine to pick one and use it everywhere.

> std.heap.page_allocator

strongly disrecommend using this allocator as "default", it will take a trip to kernelland on each allocation.
by testing22321 | 2025-07-18 15:55:24+00:00
ESTA is just the authorization to apply, nothing to actually get you into the country.

With an ESTA in hand, an eligible visitor must get an I-94 visa waiver at the border for $6. Even with a valid ESTA this can be denied.

Source: at this point I’ve had 4 dozen of them over the last two decades.
by WalterBright | 2025-07-18 15:55:29+00:00
Um, it is necessary to compile a program before being able to interpret it. I don't know how early BASICs were implemented, but the usual method is to compile it to some sort of intermediate representation, and then interpret that representation.

D's compile time function execution engine works that way. So does the Javascript compiler/interpreter engine I wrote years ago, and the Java compiler I wrote eons ago.

The purpose to going all the way to generating machine code is the result often runs 10x faster.
by spacemadness | 2025-07-18 15:55:32+00:00
The two groups I see speaking to massive productivity gains are CEOs of AI related companies, for obvious reasons, and software engineers and influencers that want a piece of the pie or to show their bosses they’re learning the technology. I think it’s important to understand what productivity means as well. Auto generating a document isn’t a productivity gain if it contains a bunch of falsehoods or ignores data that an expert in the field might catch.
by pxc | 2025-07-18 15:55:49+00:00
I assume that on subsequent runs, it's less offensive, but every time I start a blank VSCode setup, I find myself repulsed by a series of pop-ups, persistent tooltips, extra tabs, etc., that are at best uninteresting and unwarranted. It definitely has strong Windows-y my-computing-environment-is-an-obstacle-course vibe.
by hermitcrab | 2025-07-18 15:55:58+00:00
You probably don't want to be standing between 2 people swinging swords on a battlefield. A spear (or polearm) is a better choice for massed infantry. The extra range of the spear is also useful. Spears are also much quicker, easier and cheaper to make than swords.

Some of the allure of swords perhaps comes from the fact that they are the shape of a Christian cross.
by vunderba | 2025-07-18 15:56:07+00:00
That's because they're leveraging BFL models (almost assuredly Kontext) - it's mentioned in the release notes.

The input image is scaled down to the closest aspect ratio of approximately 1 megapixel.

I ran some experiments with Kontext and added a slider so you can see the before / after of the isolated changes it makes without affecting the entire image.

https://specularrealms.com/ai-transcripts/experiments-with-f...
by proberts | 2025-07-18 15:56:47+00:00
We handle a lot of E-3 visas and it's arguably the easiest U.S. work visa to get both from a company standpoint and an applicant/employee standpoint. The company requirements are minimal. For example, startups with limited or no revenue and limited or no funding can sponsor an E-3 visa. That being said, there is a prevailing wage requirement so a company - while it doesn't need to demonstrate to a U.S. Consulate its ability to pay a specific wage - in the end has to be able to pay a specific wage.
by tombert | 2025-07-18 15:57:23+00:00
So, I have a wife who just got her citizenship. We're very happy about that.

Concerning, though, is the current presidential administration's talk of trying to do large-scale denaturalization of citizens.

I know you don't have the ability to read minds, but would you care to hazard a guess to much of this is the president just blowing smokes or how worried I should be?
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-07-18 15:58:23+00:00
It’s a legal requirement to carry your green card with you at all times. INA 264(e) has required this for as long as I’ve been in the US (which is since 2004).

To be more specific:

>> (e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

Where evidence of registration is an I94 or a green card or whatever.

I’m constantly surprised how many permanent residents don’t do this.
by piva00 | 2025-07-18 15:58:51+00:00
> Edit: I’m a Democrat but for each downvote to this post I’m donating $1 to the Republican Party. Y’all are crazy if you think other countries aren’t doing this.

That's an absurd amount of butthurtdeness coupled with pettiness, lol. Sucks for your wife, she could've chosen to not drive drunk though.