MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattnewton | 2025-07-18 17:01:39+00:00
Feels like a real life shiri’s scissor[0] in how many different factors collide to stop rational discussion and “shortcut” thought to existing worldviews past nuance.

To engage in this discussion, you have to avoid falling into at least 4 major schisms where you can assume the other person is wrong about everything and dangerous to you, from Israel/Palestine, US privacy rights, US first amendment rights to protest, and US attitudes on policing.

[0] fiction about ml writing controversial news stories that tear communities apart https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
by noisy_boy | 2025-07-18 17:02:10+00:00
Reminds of me of a TUI Banking software that ran on Sun Solaris. It could keep up as fast as you can navigate - few months in and you could fly through the screens. Then it was "upgraded" to a web-based version and all of us were up in arms, it was like being downgraded to a tractor after experiencing a racecar.
by eitally | 2025-07-18 17:02:31+00:00
Day-to-day, no value at all (I have it on my Garmin). Only in combination with respiration rate + HRV + RHR does it become a useful signal, and frankly, if all four of those are out of whack then the odds you feel sick or run down and don't need metrics to tell you so are very high!
by mertleee | 2025-07-18 17:02:34+00:00
It's beyond a joke. Recently spent some time at an accelerator and the partners of the VC firm were very open about purchasing "fake" research or presenting investments as if they were from more than one "investor".

I still fail to understand how Dwarkesh Patel managed to "self-sponsor" an O-1 with a... tech podcast...
by jfengel | 2025-07-18 17:02:49+00:00
And it will probably work. The faithful are pretty faithful.

They really, really wanted the Epstein files because they're convinced that a lot of their enemies are in there, and there's a pretty good chance that they're correct about that.

They'll hate to lose that, but they don't really care that the reason for it (that some of the people they support are also in it) is obvious. It has nothing to do with the victims; it's solely about punishing their opponents.

So it was a useful political tool, and it's not as hard to jettison as you might expect. It doesn't stir up cognitive dissonance because the claimed reasons for interest are not the same as the real ones.
by dzaima | 2025-07-18 17:02:57+00:00
A property of the initial XOR trick for 2 different elements is that it guarantees finding a way to partition in one pass (and with very trivial code; no hashing involved!), which is lost by replacing that with hashing. (the original trick does take two passes - finding the bit to partition on, and doing the actual partitioning, whereas hashing is 1+ε passes, but the first pass in the original is just an xor-fold, and the partitioning really only needs to be a "accumulator ^= (current_val & mask) ? current_val : 0" (other partition is just xoring the results of both passes), both of which can be trivially parallelized and SIMD'd with O(1) extra memory usage)

The approach in my comment achieves guaranteeing finding partitions, and still avoids actual hashing or anything strictly-probabilistic, but does still lose the extreme triviality and mechanical sympathy of the original approach.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-18 17:02:59+00:00
1) Code sharing between backend and frontend is very useful sometimes.

2) JS is "trusted" in more places (or at least considered far more easily "sandboxable"). There are several large "serverless" or "cloud-native" hosts that will let you run all the JS you want at large scale, but have far more hoops to deploy/run other languages, and sometimes if they do support it they support only when compiled to WASM.
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-18 17:03:16+00:00
That's not actually all that unreasonable, despite how it sounds on the surface. High COL areas are high COL because people working there are more productive. If it's worth it to import an H1-B worker even in the high COL area, they're contributing that much more to the economy than someone in a low COL area.

If this still sounds crazy, I think your objection is more to there being a cap at all. If there is going to be a cap, it makes sense to order it by total comp even notwithstanding the COL.
by m99coder | 2025-07-18 17:03:56+00:00
Switch AWS Profiles with Ease — Now with Tab Autocompletion!

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by JohnMakin | 2025-07-18 17:03:57+00:00
I've maintained a large multi-cloud architecture in the past. The problem is they really hit you hard on egress costs. Of course the motivation is obvious, they want to keep you locked in to their vendor. I did like that it gave a stronger leverage in contract renewals, but that was about it. The IAC was much more complicated and required more people/areas of knowledge. So it's definitely a tradeoff.

You are correct that it's "better" though if your goal is to have as many 9's of uptime as possible.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-07-18 17:03:58+00:00
"Abused by both parties" is not a valid argument. Republican's use of EO are blatantly unconstitutional and they gloat about how it's unconstitutional, whereas usually Democrats' use of EO are deliberately designed to be within the rule of law or at least arguable as to whether or not it's legal. Republicans are pushing through whatever EO they want right now because they have a majority in Congress, which is at a historic level of dysfunction and corruption and will let the executive branch rule like a king.
by alwillis | 2025-07-18 17:04:12+00:00
> 8GB RAM is not enough for a semi-decent model IMO.

Apple's ~3 billion parameter on-device model is about as good as it gets on a smartphone, especially for the functions it was designed for: writing and refining text, prioritizing and summarizing notifications, creating images for conversations, and taking in-app actions.

Every Mac comes with at least 16 GB of RAM; while every iPhone comes with 8 GB of RAM, some models of the iPhone 17 will have 12 GB.

Remember, an app using the on-device model can seamlessly shift to a much bigger model via Private Cloud Compute without the user having to do anything.

If the user enables it, Apple's Foundation Model can use ChatGPT in a privacy preserving way. By the fall, Gemini and Sonnet/Opus could be options as well.

Again, ChatGPT is used in a privacy preserving way; you don't need an account: "Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence on iPhone" [1].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-chatgpt-with-appl...
by QRY | 2025-07-18 17:04:14+00:00
Their work has molded a lot of my views on technology, such a breath of fresh air when I first found out about them! They really inspired me to look at my own work and ask how to make it more resilient, how to decrease dependencies.

From my experience, achieving provider independence boils down to: own your stack, work offline-first, test failure modes constantly.

Been trying to get a setup going with NixOS + local AI + custom CLI tools for development work, and I never would have thought to pursue this sort of thing if I hadn't found these people. Great stuff!

Oh and ORCA is a LOT of fun! Give it a shot if you're into sounddesign, or generative electronic music stuff: https://100r.co/site/orca.html
by renewiltord | 2025-07-18 17:04:20+00:00
Well, not clearly inferior but it’s a mathematical property that if A is a subset of B then max(A) <= max(B).

I’ve hired people for a decade in tech and through that period people have been bellyaching about this stuff throughout.

The absolute truth is that if you can’t hit $500k annual income in 5 years despite trying to do so, you’re not good enough.

The H-1B workers I know are making millions. If you’re getting pushed out by them it’s because American competitiveness is enabled by this. And I care a lot more about what’s good for America as a whole than trying to protect someone’s income.
by dang | 2025-07-18 17:04:33+00:00
Looks like this is the comment you're referring to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44206044.

It was flagged by users, not moderators. Users were correct to flag it, because it's an unsubstantive flamebait comment. (Pejorative generalizations about groups of people, especially large groups like a country, usually count as flamebait.)

Btw, nationalistic flamebait is particularly inflammatory. It sounds like you didn't intend your comment as a provocation, but such effects happen regardless of intent.
by oxcidized | 2025-07-18 17:04:36+00:00
Considering there were two generations (around 4.5 years) of top-tier consumer GPUs (3090/4090) stuck at 24GB VRAM max, and the current one (5090) "only" bumped it up to 32GB, I think you'll be waiting more than 5 years before 128GB VRAM comes to the mid tier model GPU. 12-16GB is currently mid tier and has been since LLMs became "a thing".

I hope I'm wrong though, and we see a large bump soon. Even just 32GB in the mid tier would be huge.

I'm really tempted to try out a Mac Studio with 256+ GB Unified Memory (192 GB VRAM), but it is sadly out of my budget at the moment. I know there is a bandwidth loss, but being able to run huge models and huge contexts locally would be quite nice.
by hundredwatt | 2025-07-18 17:04:57+00:00
The graph constructed by using bloom filter-style hash functions supports a decoding process called "peeling" where you:

1. Find a batch with 1 missing element 2. Delete that element from its other assigned partitions 3. Repeat, as the modified batches may now be recoverable

This iterative process (surprisingly!) succeeds with very high probability as long as the number of partitions is 1.22x larger than the number of missing elements with k=3 hash functions.
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 17:05:15+00:00
Your argument is in terms of "fairness". But most users don't care about fairness. They care about better software. I'll use a permissively-licensed project if it's better. Most people will use a proprietary project if it's better.

The article makes a point that permissively-licenced projects have the best survival characteristics, and that's why most (quality) software will eventually be permissively-licensed, while GPL will fade into obscurity and will be used only by enthusiasts why care about fairness more than they care about the actual quality of the software that they use.
by ModernMech | 2025-07-18 17:06:14+00:00
I wear a pair of these in size extra wide: https://www.brooksrunning.com/en_us/mens/shoes/road-running-...

But you're right, I wasn't introduced to something like these until very recently, when a particularly knowledgeable shoe nerd touched my feet and instantly was like "oh, I know what your problem is, your feet are all weird, you can't be wearing standard sized shoes." Then he went to the back and brought me the above shoes and I had a legit Cinderella moment.

Before I became aware of extra wide, I would typically be caught wearing shoes a size too big, which is why I had so many problems.
by anu7df | 2025-07-18 17:06:17+00:00
Re-entry permit is granted for 2 years and the only requirement is that you apply for it while in country. Usual processing time nowadays is around a year so in effect you need to apply once every 3 years for it. They have the option of sending it to a us embassy abroad for pick up but we have always had it sent to a friends address in US and picked it up while visiting US.
by kyoji | 2025-07-18 17:06:21+00:00
I play around with a Guix install in a VM, and with less than half of my system resources, a `guix pull` with a `guix system reconfigure ...` takes about 10 minutes. That said, if a pull happens to include a kernel update it can take much longer. I think pinning large packages (like the kernel) that may not need incidental updating is key to keeping pull times lower.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-18 17:06:34+00:00
I definitely see both sides in this... it's a bad use of resources, that I'm not completely convinced police should be barred from all access to, if it exists... on the flip side, the context of protecting an a-hole throwing rocks at a protest irks me as well.

I'm actually against parallel construction and feel that is far more dangerous than a lot of other activities in that it literally prevents you from knowing your true accuser in terms of laying out a defense/confrontation in court.

This whole story is just full of bad guys all around to a large extent.
by delusional | 2025-07-18 17:06:58+00:00
> the last gasp of the old America before it was washed away by demographic change.

I have heard commentators mention ideas along those lines (never the specific formulations you used as examples, but the general vibe) post 2016, and even a little before that. That is, to me, not the same as that being the policy. Post 2016 democrats needed a cope. They needed a hope to hold on to after they had lost, what to them seemed like a slam dunk. That's not a policy proposal, but rather a strategic observation. In general I think you're better served by listening to politicians when they are trying to build, than when they have failed in building.

I also think it's quite important to note that in that analysis, we presuppose that immigrants will like the democrats. That either requires that democrat policies are good for immigrants, and immigrants to recognize that, or a vast conspiracy to take America down. If demographic change would turn America into a third world country, as some commentators have argued, surely immigrants wouldn't be for that either.

> But I think it's totally fair to say that Republicans have a policy of giving tax cuts to rich people because it inures to their political benefit.

I surely don't hope it's that direct. I think it's fair to talk about the cause and effect, but it would be totally unfair to characterize it as naked corruption. I truly believe that the mainstream American republicans believe in tax cuts as a means to drive innovation. That they believe in slimming down the government from a place of ideology, and not simply a naked ploy to reduce the oversight of their sponsors' activities. That they believe their policies to increase the wealth of the regular American, which they then hope will make them vote Republican.

I worry that this is no longer true of the "far right"/"alt right"/"authoritarian right". That distinction, between doing something for a belief in a better world, and doing it purely for strategy to gain power, is where I place the line to "fascism". A definition I don't share with many scholars.
by jvanderbot | 2025-07-18 17:07:05+00:00
Yes, I understand what you mean. And I tend to agree. I'm just making space for intent, and as much as words matter, intent also matters.

A person who entered the country illegally is not incorrectly (even if roughly) abbreviated as an "illegal alien", since alien is a designation for "person of a foreign country" in this case. It's true this can be misused, but it's also true I don't think OP misused it or intended to, and even if it could be interpreted as a rough slight, I'd prefer we took the charitable stance, evaluated intent in context, and stayed out of semantics and focused on the issue (in this case whether such individuals receive funded health care benefits).

That's really it. If you disagree and think this was the time to call that out, that's ok, I just disagree and don't have anything more to say on it. Cheers.
by eitally | 2025-07-18 17:07:25+00:00
I often ignore Peter Attia these days (just like I also ignore Huberman), but I was listening to a fascinating pod he posted with two head/neck plastic surgeons who do both reconstructive & aesthetic procedures. It was the first time he's ever plainly admitted he knows not only far less than his guests about the subject, but also probably far less than the general public. For that reason alone, it was better than most of his pods.

One point stood out, though, when they started talking about evolutionary roots of things like facial fat pad thinning with age. That was this: historically, it was never important for humans to live beyond middle age because as soon as it stopped being possible to procreate, the job was done. With advances in technology having unlocked new methods of food production & preparation, safer shelters, better healthcare and more sophisticated information storing, retrieval and sharing, people are living far beyond their fertile years now, and this extension of both healthspan & lifespan is impacting how people are considering their approaches to healthcare (and crucially, lifestyle).
by mikece | 2025-07-18 17:07:41+00:00
Google Authenticator, like the Microsoft Authenticator, goes beyond mere TOTP and if you use that (or it's required by Google) then you need an app that can receive a push notification as part of the 2FA. This is the part that would screw up a lot of the consulting work I'm doing with client Google accounts because it would mean getting a separate installed instance of Google Authenticator for each account.
by Havoc | 2025-07-18 17:07:53+00:00
>how to offshore my money.

Chances of it being helpful to you is quite low. It's expensive and mostly works in corporate context.

>The people who implements offshoring have to learn from somewhere, so there is written tracks.

All on the job. Hop on a plane to caymans or whatever, spend half a decade working at a service provider there and then you'll have seen various implementations.

Keep in mind that this stuff changes all the time as the various countries' laws shift and each structure is essentially a once off custom design.

>It might even be taught in accounting schools

It's not.
by lr0 | 2025-07-18 17:08:57+00:00
Google has personalized search enabled by default for users, which makes it feel more "relevant", of course you get this by sacrifacing any means of privacy. For me, I don't mint unpersonalized results, however, my reason for stopping using ddg is a bit unorthodox one; the overall search performance (as in the time you need to wait until the results load) was significantly higher than Google's. I still believe that Kagi is a game changer.
by romaniv | 2025-07-18 17:09:13+00:00
This video contains many serious misrepresentations. For example, it makes a claim that Alan Kay only started talking about message-passing only in 2003 and that it was a kind of backpedaling due the failures of the inheritance-based OOP model. That is a laughable claim. Kay had given detailed talks discussing issues of OOP, dynamic composition and message-passing in mid-80s. Some of those talks are on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo

Also, earlier versions of Smalltalk did not have inheritance. Kay talks about this is his 1993 article on the history of the language:

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

Dismissing all of this as insignificant quips is ludicrous.
by bsder | 2025-07-18 17:09:17+00:00
> One of the things that I found most frustrating about USB-C hubs is how hard it is to find one that actually gives you multiple USB-C ports.

It's the power consumption.

IIRC, USB-C has a base power per port of 15W (5V @ 3A) with just basic CC resistors. USB 2 starts at 0.5W (5V @ 0.1A) and is only supposed to allow 2.5W (5V @ 0.5A) after negotiation. USB 3 is 4.5W (5V @ .900A).

Note that the Caldigit hub linked in a sibling has a power supply of 20V @ 9A. That's 180W!
by tomchuk | 2025-07-18 17:09:46+00:00
Yesterday's discussion around Kagi[0] prompted me to poke through some settings there, as it had been a while. They've also added a "Exclude AI generated images" which they describe as "Best-effort removal of AI generated images from search results"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594475
by mertleee | 2025-07-18 17:09:55+00:00
It's disgusting.

Many VC firms outside of YC flagrantly promote what is basically fraud. There are literally YC companies that provide pseudo visa fraud as a service.

Following the law and having respect for the immigration system is simply seen as an "inconvenient challenge" to these people.

I myself am a person of color, but in the cohort I was in (of 30) maybe three individuals were native born Americans of any race. The rest were exclusively Canadian immigrants largely from India and China (not actually born in Canada). It's also quite common in the US for people to work on visitor VISA's while applying for O1s.

To name a few...

https://extraordinary.com/ (promulgated by https://x.com/0xsigil?lang=en)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gale

https://www.deel.com/paid-lp/immigration/
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2025-07-18 17:10:32+00:00
Fedora Kinoite has been a fantastic experience. Everything has worked out of the box on many different machines, including Wi-Fi and fingerprint readers, and being image-based it makes rollbacks easy in case an OS update goes sideways.

If you really don't want an image-based OS, then Fedora KDE (macOS is disqualified too).
by 9x39 | 2025-07-18 17:10:46+00:00
When Microsoft does layoffs and then mass H1-Bs, is that shedding low-skill Americans for top Indian talent, or just labor arbitrage? Is a country of 340 million really lacking talent, or do we just want cheaper and controllable labor?

https://www.newsweek.com/microsoft-layoffs-h1b-visa-applicat...

Companies always want the lucrative American businesses and consumers as customers, all the while wanting to shed expensive American workers.
by throwaway071625 | 2025-07-18 17:11:35+00:00
The article calls out “certain adult games” which is vague. It is interesting to note that most of the delisted games were themed specifically around incest.

https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27

Wondering if this will be a slippery slope towards pulling more anodyne stuff.
by Ar-Curunir | 2025-07-18 17:11:36+00:00
I would encourage you to actually read up about the hoops that people with H-1Bs have to jump through just to stay in the country. It is a demeaning and abusive process, and not usually one that people engage in frivolously.

Additionally, you can already today legally switch jobs as an H-1B, but it is a process that gives undue amounts of power to the employer, which makes switching difficult. Finally, regarding switching fields, it's not that easy. You have to show that your new field is related to your degree and experience.

So please, instead of making up imaginary bogeymen, learn more about the immigration system.
by pembrook | 2025-07-18 17:12:21+00:00
I could list a million examples. But here's one, imagine if selling a physical product in Illinois vs. Ohio required:

- hiring a human representative in each state and paper-based filings and correspondance in different languages for the VAT register

- Joining a dual-state system for financing the recycling of the packaging

- Registering with a package register who has the right to refuse your product over marginal differences

- Changing the packaging language for each state

- Having your supply chain examined by officials of each state, in different language (better hire someone), for things they don't like

- Hiring a local representative in each state to manage interactions with regulatory bodies related to EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility)

- Treating your IT systems in each state differently based on nuanced data rules and compliance

Yes, it's worse than the US. California is the most regulation-happy US state and they're a cake-walk compared to interfacing with EU beaurocratic idiocy (in many different languages!).