MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-18 18:51:35+00:00
Absolutely. While it was unsurprising to find that housing costs are now one of the biggest reasons for CA emigration. It's those who are lower income, and have just a high school education. Among high earners, working from home has a huge influence on emigration from California. Conversely, higher earners are least likely to move out of CA.
by RomanPushkin | 2025-07-18 18:52:21+00:00
Hello from cancer family.

It indeed decreases. When my spouse was diagnosed, they prescribed her anti-depressants. We replaced them with psilocybin. Never taken any anti-depressants.

We had a very serious case with multiple surgeries, chemos, radiations. Not one, not two, and not ten or even twenty. MORE than that.

The treatment still goes on, soon it is gonna be 5 years. With ZERO anti-depressants. And I've learnt how to grow them, not buying them.

So we don't need studies, we tested it the hard way, and it works :) I can talk about it for hours.
by vineyardmike | 2025-07-18 18:52:55+00:00
One thing that I haven’t seen widely reported on, but this article highlights is that the reversal is only for US based employees, so outsourcing jobs overseas will be more expensive compared to American talent (if salaries are equal). This seems good for the US tech industry, and I’m curious how this form protectionism compares to jobs in other sectors.

It’ll also be interesting to watch to see if this has any side-effects on the job market. In my experience in big-tech, a lot of the overseas jobs were historically supporting roles and “keep the lights on” for legacy services. I can imagine these tasks aren’t valuable enough to pay Silicon Valley salaries, and that’s why lower cost talent was used. It’ll be interesting to see if these roles move to low-COL or remote American workers. I can totally imagine that a European or even Indian salary for a senior engineer in big tech would be livable in some parts of the US.
by serf | 2025-07-18 18:52:59+00:00
>It's their call to make.

Why? Because of possession? That's a crummy reason.

Art is supposed to be upheld as on par with 'divine creation' by those that respect it. Literature, being art, isn't different.

in other words, we knew the Ecce Homo restoration was botched because we were able to compare it to the original piece.. sadly we won't ever have the luxury of knowing what kind of hatchet was taken to the memoir after the author's death.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-18 18:53:12+00:00
The original comment said they were both on the board of United Way. Those are the votes he'd be curating. United Way, at the time, was the largest non-profit in the United States and it's mission was to funnel donations to "deserving" non-profits. Many companies, including IBM, had a payroll contribution you could make to United Way. The 'service' United Way provided was doing the research to avoid scam charities and non-profits. The old joke "I gave at the office" when a person comes to your door asking for donations, was in reference to giving to United Way and implicitly telling the solicitor that if they wanted a donation to go to United Way and convince them to give some of the donated money to their charity.

As a result, being on the board gave a person tremendous soft power by giving them a direct impact on whether or not they chose to fund a non-profit. The way that expressed would be trips and junkets "for free" for United Way board members as a means of attempting to persuade them to fund a given non-profit. So let's say your kid starts a non-profit and you want other board members to advocate for it being funded. You, as the parent, have a conflict of interest and so must recuse yourself from that decision, but others on the board do not. Having someone in that meeting you can count on to make a solid case for your kids non-profit is worth a lot.

Rich people giving advantages to other rich people is frowned upon as collusion and nepotism, but when you launder that through a giving non-profit and even better you get to use other peoples money, and avoid a whole passel of tax implications. Well who is going to complain that United Way is funding this non-profit versus another? They had so much money to give away it was no doubt easy to hide the less well supported donations from things like the Red Cross or mothers against drunk driving donations.

That's the game at this level.
by emtel | 2025-07-18 18:53:27+00:00
I'm not saying you're wrong on the limitations of these studies, but I also don't think it's unreasonable for people to believe in the power of these drugs.

For many people (myself included) taking psychedelics was an immediately life altering experience. I don't need any more scientific validation that psychedelics helped me than I would need to prove that touching a hot stove burned me. It's an immediate and unmistakable effect that is wholly different from any other experience I've had.

Now, proving that these drugs would be beneficial at a population level may be an unanswered scientific question. But, to quote you: "trying to prove psilocybin works for psychiatric illness" - well, that's been done. The people who have been helped have all the proof they need. I think the issues you've raised are more properly targeted at the question "should we recommend psilocybin treatment to depression patients more broadly" which is in fact a much higher bar than "do they work?"
by 9dev | 2025-07-18 18:53:33+00:00
Yet at the same time, they also have a long history of very successful policy, such as the USB-C issue, but also the GDPR, which has raised the issue of our right to privacy all over the world.

How long can we let AI go without regulation? Just yesterday, there was a report here on Delta using AI to squeeze higher ticket prices from customers. Next up is insurance companies. How long do you want to watch? Until all accountability is gone for good?
by rhelz | 2025-07-18 18:53:38+00:00
You are quite correct that the overhead of most government programs is relatively very small.

But look at your numbers....12% of the population on SNAP, 20% of the population on Medicaid, etc etc.

What would it really cost us to just pay the equivalent cash to everybody, and then raise the taxes to offset the costs on people who don't need it?

We are already paying for--piecemeal and very inconveniently to be sure--much of what we'd want a UBI to give us. It probably would cost us more in taxes than what we are paying for now, but it wouldn't be an apocalyptic increase. The delta of spending is not as big as what one would initially think.
by LakesAndTrees | 2025-07-18 18:53:56+00:00
The first time I tried them, it was like I peaked behind the “curtain” in the Wizard of Oz, and knew even in that moment I’d never be able to unsee or forget it. It was the equivalent of being a child and realizing Santa didn’t actually exist.

Life as I had known it, the things that then animated me, were “shown” to be a pantomime - a joke. It was tremendously sad, and - for better or worse - I’ve never been the same since.

Maybe it was a coming of age experience - something I would have more painfully experienced later anyway. But it cost something significant. It changed me. Still, some 25 years later, I don’t know if it was for the better.
by valrama | 2025-07-18 18:54:11+00:00
> and lo, an hour after connection I get a message, that due to strange activity on my account, I need to enter code sent via sms.

It's interesting you got that message (via email?) one hour after you successfully signed in on your iphone. Are you sure it was not some phishing email or something? Also are you still logged in on that account or did you get logged out?
by gpm | 2025-07-18 18:54:19+00:00
In addition to the point about "not being expected to do a full malware analysis"...

Assuming the malware doesn't clean up after itself, `pacman -Q firefox-patch-bin librewolf-fix-bin zen-browser-patched-bin` would tell you if they are installed... but if it did clean up after itself... how are the maintainers supposed to know what steps were taken to clean up given that it's a rat that could be running different steps on different computers...
by somat | 2025-07-18 18:54:19+00:00
Recipes are a sore spot for me. holy smokes is it a seo spam wasteland, I mean as far as our modern search engines go the whole web(statistically) is seo spam wasteland. but recipe sites are a specific particularly bad biome in that wasteland. they all follow the same infernal formula, about 5 paragraphs on how the recipe makes you feel, then the over specific formulation.

I know there are good recipe sites out there, you just will never find them, unless our search engine overlords slip and let one through.

The good web still exists, it is just that the search engines(our gateway to the web) are unable to find it under all the trash. My only solution so far has to been to start manually curating a list of good sites. A big part of the problem as I understand it is the search engines heavily prioritize new content over good content. To the point if I see a date in the current year next to the search result, I instantly reject it as seo garbage. If I were a better person I would sign up for Kagi, as I firmly believe a large part of the solution is to fix the business/customer dynamics, that is, you want to be the customer, not the product. But I am reluctant to sign up for another service so I am stuck shoveling slop to get through the web.
by autoexec | 2025-07-18 18:54:22+00:00
> With Windows all updates are automatic and require 0 remote support.

This hasn't been my experience with windows update. They are automatic, but since MS isn't very good about making sure their updates don't break and fail to install correctly, or cause endless reboot cycles, or even cause data loss at some point you're likely to get a call when grandma's computer stops working or all of the photos she had of her grandchildren are suddenly gone.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-18 18:55:11+00:00
A huge uptick / reversal, I'm not sure, that's ultimately far more driven by actual profit / market than taxes.

But as pointed out in the article, US devs now have a tax advantage vs foreign devs. That may lead to some "nearshoring" especially from foreign markets where dev salaries have been jumping up (India, Europe, etc.)
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-18 18:55:36+00:00
Back in the early days of my career and supporting end users, I used to constantly get people say:

“xxx doesn’t work. I just get an error”

They would never tell me what the error message actually was. And when I asked, the reply often was

“I don’t remember. I’ve closed it now”.

It used to wind me up rotten. I can forget non-technical people not understanding the error message. But common sense should have kicked in that the error message is important to share with the person trying to fix said error.
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-07-18 18:55:55+00:00
What? I'm talking about the netherlands, like is extremely obvious from the context. Read the thread you are replying to...

And I said politicians are talking about changing the laws. There are upcoming elections. Why are you talking about the current laws? Completely irrelevant. I very clearly said:

> There are plans for making mortgages more expensive by removing tax deductions and for taxing inheritance a whopping 75%

You could just google it, but I'll do it for you: https://www.metronieuws.nl/geld-carriere/belasting/2025/07/7...
by chha | 2025-07-18 18:55:55+00:00
Fines are based on a number of things; the type of data (PII or Article-9-PII), number of people affected, amount of data, previous violations, and as far as I know also the country issuing the fine. 6.5M might be a small fine by some standards, but if fined and nothing improves the fine is likely to be a lot higher the next time around.
by mzajc | 2025-07-18 18:56:46+00:00
The PKGBUILDs are not archived, but the package page does helpfully list its sources, one of which is https://github.com/danikpapas/zenbrowser-patch.git (same for all three packages). I would assume that's where the malware is, but I couldn't find an archive. Does https://www.gharchive.org/ keep this sort of data?

ETA: According to a Reddit post linked elsewhere in this thread, the payload was a binary file downloaded by a python script in the repository. It has been uploaded to VirusTotal, but downloading requires a premium subscription according to their docs: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d9f0df8da6d66aaae024bdca...
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-18 18:56:47+00:00
> It’ll be interesting to see if these roles move to low-COL or remote American workers. I can totally imagine that a European or even Indian salary for a senior engineer in big tech would be livable in some parts of the US.

I think they will, Indian salaries for the top top eng are already comparable to decent eng from MCOL or LCOL US, so I could see this happening.
by seeyebe | 2025-07-18 18:57:07+00:00
Windows search is slow and painful for developers. Even tools like Everything or PowerShell Get-ChildItem can crawl on huge directories. I wanted a CLI tool that feels instant—so I built rq, an open-source file search utility in modern C17 that leverages parallel directory traversal.

rq is typically 3–7x faster than common alternatives, supports filters (size, date, type, regex, glob), and streams results as text or JSON. It’s designed for scripting and developer workflows.

Why not just use existing tools? • Windows Explorer: slow, not scriptable • PowerShell: Get-ChildItem is painfully slow • Everything: fast, but GUI-first • ripgrep: amazing, but focused on text content search

rq focuses on metadata-based search for files and directories on Windows.

Core challenges: 1. Handling Windows quirks like MAX_PATH and Unicode (rq uses \?\ paths and UTF-8 internally) 2. Efficient parallel traversal without burning CPUs 3. Adding powerful filters without making everything slow

Design highlights: • Custom thread pool built on Windows Thread Pool API • Directory traversal is fully parallel: each worker processes directories and queues subdirectories • CLI filters: size, extension, date, regex, glob, file type

Example usage: rq D:\ “*.png” –glob –min 1M –after 2024-01-01 –threads 8

Performance benchmark (1.2M files on NVMe SSD, Windows 11, Ryzen 7): • rq (8 threads): 3.2s • Everything CLI: 6.8s • PowerShell Get-ChildItem: ~40s

Lessons learned: • C17 is still great for high-performance tools • Windows APIs are powerful but painful for paths and Unicode • Thread pools beat raw threads for scalability • Avoid syscalls in the hot path for speed

Source: https://github.com/seeyebe/rq
by Aspos | 2025-07-18 18:57:32+00:00
I understand there are some exceptions made for academic institutions so these companies employ people into a "participating university" for a token number of hours per month, person comes in and once they are in the country they can pursue different opportunities to get employed and change their status.

This cap-exempt H1B bypasses lottery, can be obtained in about 3 months any time during the year.
by msgilligan | 2025-07-18 18:57:45+00:00
> We need more of comparative posts

The article focuses on a comparison between GUIX _system_ and NixOS. It would be interesting to see an equally thoughtful comparison that just focuses on GUIX vs. NIX as package managers used on another Linux distribution (e.g. Debian.)

In this case, GUIX might fare better as you won't have to worry about the complexities introduced by binary blobs needed for boot, etc.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-07-18 18:57:48+00:00
You have an idiosyncratic definition of "compiler" then. Many BASICs, including the MS family of BASICs, did tokenize keywords to save on memory storage.

But 99.9% of people take "compiler" to mean translating source code to either a native CPU instruction set or a VM instruction set. In any tutorial on compilers, tokenization is only one aspect of compilation, as you know very well. And unlike some of the tricky tokenization aspects that crop up in languages like C++, BASIC interpreters simply had a table of keywords with the MSB set to indicate boundaries between keywords. The tokenizer simply did greedy "first token which matches the next few characters" is the winner, and encoded the Nth entry from that table as token (0x80 + N).

When LIST'ing a program, the same table was used: if the byte was >= 0x80, then the first N-1 keywords in the table were skipped over and the next one was printed out.

There were also BASIC implementations that did not tokenize anything; every byte was simply interpreted on every execution of the line. There were tiny BASICs where instead of using the full keyword "PR" meant "PRINT", and "GO" meant "GOTO" etc.
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 18:57:51+00:00
Rewriting "any software" is an extremely high bar to begin with. I think, we can agree that smaller utilities and libraries can be rewritten by anyone.

Another comment [1] even references the "Bram's Law". It basically says that any piece of software that's easy to rewrite will be rewritten countless times (and most rewrites are going to be bad)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606219
by Ancapistani | 2025-07-18 18:58:49+00:00
Yep.

They've colluded with the US federal government in the past on those issues as well. "Operation Choke Point" was ostensibly about fraud, but included transactions related to firearms in its scope. As a result, several major banks and payment processors dropped legitimate firearms dealers. For a while it got to the point that I was helping a couple of local gun stores contract with "high risk" payment processors that also serve the porn industry and get set up.

To this day if you're on a gun forum and mention that you use Bank of America, people will pile on to tell you horror stories of both companies and individuals having their accounts closed and funds held for weeks or months after completely legal transactions. In one case in particular, they claimed it happened after buying a backpack at a gun store.

Again, these are 100% legitimate and legal businesses. Federally licensed (FFL) gun stores had trouble for years even keeping a working business account. It was clearly not about fraud, at least not in practice.

Politics completely aside, the financial landscape for gun stores today looks a lot like the cannabis industry: a few institutions are quietly known in those communities to allow them to operate, but many choose to do business only in cash and most prefer it if given the option. The porn industry is similar from what I can see.
by chuckadams | 2025-07-18 18:58:50+00:00
> definitely didn’t see a lot of suggestions that we lock people up.

Nobody had to suggest that, it was the law of the land already. Hyperbolic argument is hyperbolic ("iron cages" was a bit of a tip-off) but consequences short of imprisonment were typically some other state-run means of destroying one's career, family, and/or life. Pointing out that this isn't a good thing and isn't actually working somehow made you into The Enemy Of Decency. And while there's still lots of Drug Warriors out there who still think that way, I'm encouraged at the increasing avenues for actually productive discussion. Seems to be the one politically-charged topic that isn't getting more toxic these days.
by kccqzy | 2025-07-18 18:58:57+00:00
The so-called wage control mechanism is never the intention of H1B. Workers with H1Bs have to meet prevailing wage standards before the H1B is approved: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages

I get that there are probably loopholes in the law. But then the solution is to fix the loopholes and tighten enforcement. Give DoL access to IRS data. Improve the definition of prevailing wages. A lot of things can be done to fix H1B so that it behaves like how it's intended.
by toolslive | 2025-07-18 18:59:06+00:00
I encountered the situation where one company had the data, and considered this to be really valuable and did not want to show/share it. Another company had a model, which was very considered very valuable and did not want to show it. So they were stuck in a catch22. Eventually they solved the perceived risk via contracts, but it could have been solved technically if FHE were viable.
by lbotos | 2025-07-18 18:59:18+00:00
> so outsourcing jobs overseas will be more expensive compared to American talent (if salaries are equal).

I think this very much depends on how companies are "outsourcing"/hiring.

Like, if the devs you are outsourcing to are delivering you a "project-based app with ongoing support". Did you hire "developers" or are you doing business with a development company?

For many large tech cos, they also have local entities or PEOs, where people working for Facebook work for Facebook Ireland, or Facebook India.

So I'm not sure how much impact it has -- probably mostly for smaller shops that might hire 1 guy directly in a different country?
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-18 18:59:30+00:00
SCO was suing on two grounds. First was the claim that they were the corporate heirs of the AT&T copyrights, and they claimed that Linux infringed on them. Second was from a joint development agreement with IBM - they claimed that code from that had been contributed to Linux by IBM, and that IBM didn't have the right because it was half SCO's code (or rather, Novell's code that SCO inherited).

That second claim could not have happened until IBM was contributing to Linux. That part of the lawsuit could not have happened in 1993. (The first part was similar to the BSD lawsuit.)
by proberts | 2025-07-18 18:59:43+00:00
The NIW (EB2) category is still backlogged and the standard as applied by USCIS has changed significantly and I would argue now isn't much easier than the EB1A, which used to be one of the reasons to pursue an NIW. With the changing standard and the worsening backlogs, the EB1A is the much better option, although a higher standard, and probably worth aggressively pursuing.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-18 18:59:56+00:00
The current iteration of SteamOS (the one shipped on Steam Deck) is Arch based. So a lot of non-linux users got exposed to it as their first linux distro. Especially with all the emulation guides and other random guides for doing "advanced" stuff to your Steam Deck by dropping in the Arch-ish desktop.

Also anyone who wants to try "Gaming on Linux" needs bleeding edge kernel which is Arch's default setup compared to other distros.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-07-18 19:00:17+00:00
That was on my company office network that had a stable IP address for I think a decade. Thing is, Google is now known to randomly become very paranoid and protects you from yourself, and, coupled, with complete absence of any support, often results in full account loss: you have better chances of speaking with the Prime minister of Estonia by calling their office than reach someone from Google.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-18 19:00:42+00:00
I don't know for sure but I personally doubt that hotel wifi has the same strength as a suspicion signal that VPN exit nodes have. Some normal users use global VPNs. Every criminal uses a global VPN. That is the problem.

Also, just to point it out, logging in at all is a bit suspicious. Normal users rarely do it. You authenticate to Google on your mobile and that's it, you never do it again.

All lot of these other comments are talking about policy and principals but I am just trying to help the OP by taking their question at face value. Their goal seems to be to login to Gmail.