MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 17:44:41+00:00
The article makes the point that, in practice, permissively-licenced projects see more contributions back. Copyleft projects are being rewritten as proprietary instead (with a few exceptions like Linux, which are too big to fail). The end result may be even worse for the user, if the proprietary alternative ends up being the most developed one, grows an ecosystem and a network effect, and eventually everyone is forced to use that. There's plenty of examples.

It's not about "fairness". It's about reality and survival characteristics.

As a user, I care about my freedom too. But permissively-licenced projects give me enough freedom to choose them over copyleft projects that are even slightly worse in quality
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-07-18 17:44:45+00:00
LLMs need something like Waterfall development. They require a very complete, detailed specification of the behavior. And probably building the whole system twice, as recommended by Royce's 1970 paper that created the Waterfall process!

Agile processes only work when the developers can be self-guiding, which LLMs aren't.
by pi_22by7 | 2025-07-18 17:44:56+00:00
I’m with @NitpickLawyer on this; the scan is cool, but I was hoping for a bit more detail on what’s actually being exposed. Even something like a breakdown of common tool names or clustering by function type would’ve been really insightful.

That said, it’s still surprising (and a little funny) to see how fast these things end up public. Probably lots of default setups left running without realizing they’re wide open.
by delfinom | 2025-07-18 17:45:15+00:00
Several blue states expanded their medicaid programs to allow illegals. This was with the intention to pay for it with state dollars instead of federal dollars.

Some states even allow legal temporary visa visitors like students to sign up for their state level funded medicaid. NY is constitutionally required to do so.

ICE however is making a play to obtain all of that state level data.
by autoexec | 2025-07-18 17:45:17+00:00
> If it is a privacy issue, why mention that he was a "Pro-Palestinian Student Protester"? That does not seem relevant at all;

It provides context. The US has an extensive history of illegal/unconstitutional/questionable surveillance of protesters. This could be seen as either another example of exactly that or, at the very least, as a warning that the police in NY are willing to illegally use facial recognition when it suits their interests.
by f1shy | 2025-07-18 17:45:22+00:00
No it will not. Have done it thousands of times. No no no. You can downvote all that you want, but you will still be wrong. It will happen nothing. Period. If you do not know about it, educate yourself before downvoting and commenting about fuses.

Because of all these supplies work with transistors they do not act as a load to the other. Is like if the 2 had a diode in the output (in fact they do have one, but not directly in the output).

This is my typical experience in HN lately, is getting full of people with absolutely no idea what they talk about, and are constantly downvoting good comments.
by hertzthrowaway | 2025-07-18 17:45:32+00:00
Hi Peter, thank you for doing this on a regular basis!

In the event of a company-sponsored EB1A with an approved I140 but with an I485 pending for less than 180 days, is it possible for the company to rescind the approval? Or does the approval belong to me even though it is company-sponsored?

If the approval can be rescinded, could I lose my priority date and my I485 as well?
by casey2 | 2025-07-18 17:45:59+00:00
In reality most people will just scan for something that is obviously wrong, check that, and call the rest "good enough". Government data is probably going to get updated later anyhow. It's just a target for a company to aim for. For many companies the cost savings is much more than having a slightly larger margin of error on some projections. For other companies they will just have to accept the several hours of saved time rather than the full day.
by ChadMoran | 2025-07-18 17:45:59+00:00
"You are an expert software engineer

Your key objective is to fix a bug in the XYAZ class. Use a team of experts as sub-agents to complete the analysis, debugging and triage work for you. Delegate to them, you are the manager and orchestrator of this work.

As you delegate work, review and approve/reject their work as needed. Continue to refine until you are confident you have found a simple and robust fix"
by tadfisher | 2025-07-18 17:46:01+00:00
10 minutes is still an order of magnitude slower than a nixos-rebuild if you're hitting the cache, and there's no issue with forgetting to rebuild the guix profile. If you include nonguix (as is required for the 99% of users who need nonfree blobs) you get the 30-50 minutes as described in the article. I believe Nix-the-language being lazily evaluated is a big part of this; you can even inadvertently evaluate nixpkgs multiple times and not notice.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-18 17:46:28+00:00
The parsimonious explanation is that amphetamine was basically grandfathered in over a historical period where shrooms/acid were cultural and political pariahs and they still have to overcome the residue of that a half century later.

Has nothing to do with being a one shot solution vs subscription.

Even economically the conspiracy theory against one shot cures makes no sense. As your shitty subscription solutions all go generic, I enter the market with my low risk one shot cure and eat all of your lunch.
by xdennis | 2025-07-18 17:46:55+00:00
Everybody knows that illegal migrant means an migrant who is illegal present in the country.

You're only trying to say that it means "his humanity is against the law" to stigmatize people who care about law enforcement.

If the term "illegal migrant" offends them then that's a good thing, because you should be ashamed when you break the law.

When you call an illegal a "undocumented migrant" you're essentially downplaying the illegality of the act. It's just as bad as calling a rapist an "undocumented lover". You're de-stigmatizing breaking the law.
by MintPaw | 2025-07-18 17:46:56+00:00
While I agree in this specific case, in general, the idea that privacy and safety measures trump all other factors is poorly thought out. What if, for my privacy and safety, I don't want to log into my account to view a specific piece of content? It ignores the reality and impacts of bot activity. And like, what if you paid the for the content? Obviously you have to sign in to view it.

Although maybe you didn't mean to make such a strong statement.
by proberts | 2025-07-18 17:46:59+00:00
Your green card process will have two steps, the I-140 filing and then the green card application, either in the U.S. with USCIS (known as an I-485 application) or outside the U.S. with a U.S. Consulate (known as an Immigrant Visa application). During the I-140 stage, there is some risk traveling on an F-1 or an E-3 visa (with the F-1 riskier), but this risk is relatively low and can be mitigated. One way to reduce this risk to zero is to switch to O-1 status, which as a PhD grad you probably would qualify for but your employer would need to support this. At the second stage, with an I-485 filing, whether you are in E-3, F-1, or O-1 status, you should expect to be unable to travel for at least 6 months unless you have a family emergency. With an IV application, you will be able to travel on an O-1 visa but there will be some risk traveling on an E-3 or F-1 visa (again, with the F-1 riskier).
by ActorNightly | 2025-07-18 17:47:00+00:00
Basically it hyper-connects your brain. When people talk about seeing shapes, its not that they are hallucinating, its that when they look at the random fuzz pattern on a rug, and pick out the particles of fuzz that make a creature face, its looks like someone purposefully put those pieces there to make that face.

As such, if you are "surfing" thoughts and find an association of something, that association can become very prominent. If you don't have the context to understand why you are making that association, especially after the trip, you can get stuck with beliefs about yourself that could be non optimal.

On the flip side this hyperconnectivity also allows you to see things like a completely different person would see them, which is where the true healing power lies. Its like you can be disugsted with a particular food when you are sober, but on shrooms you can truly feel what it would be like to enjoy that food. Once you have that context, you are able to move forward after the trip into right directions.

This is why set and setting are EXTREMELY important for significant trips. You want to be with someone who a) has done psychedelics, b) is in a very good mental state, and c) has a low ego not to project their own personality onto you. The best trip sitters are those that encourage exploration - they take everything you communicate to them and ask you questions about it without imparting any bias.
by mertleee | 2025-07-18 17:47:39+00:00
My girlfriend is an immigrant from the UK. I support immigration but only if it respects the rights of US citizens.

Frankly I'm stunned this post hasn't been flagged by one of HN's moderators yet.

Truly sad to see YC clearly play favorites with non-citizens claiming what can be found within the U.S. isn't good enough.
by bubblebeard | 2025-07-18 17:48:06+00:00
This is what happens when you give a new tool to people without educating them on how to use it properly. Problem with AI is that it’s so new to us all it’s difficult to find an authority on the subject.

In my experience it’s useless for fixing bugs or identifying flaws (mostly). That’s still our job, ensuring the code is generated as we intended it to be.

AI tools are most effective when you already know what you want to write, or if you need help finding alternatives to a poor solution you’ve implemented.
by gerardojbaez | 2025-07-18 17:48:32+00:00
I don't see why doing DaaS would limit the customer in choosing developers. I mean, I'm not talking about having a SaaS-style platform where the customer registers an account and submits work. I'm talking about freelancer-customer relationships and how the freelancer charges for its services; instead of a fixed, per-project price, the customer pays the freelancer's monthly fee (which could also be seen as a monthly retainer?) and submits any work he'd like.
by Expurple | 2025-07-18 17:49:00+00:00
> I don't see why a company that refuses to add to a GPL project has a "decent change" of releasing their code under a more permissive license.

Because upstreaming a patch once is cheaper than maintaining your own proprietary fork forever. It externalizes the effort of maintaining it in the future. That's the point that the article makes. And it's true in my experience. My employer allows and encourages me to contribute back to our dependencies. Those aren't the core of our business and our competitive advantage
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-07-18 17:49:08+00:00
Not to butt in, but 2% sounds like a good trade to me. You gotta think about every possible cumulative benefit everyone experiences by having 1k more a month. Imagine the lost stress, the increased nutrition, the increased education, the skills explored and practiced that couldn’t be before, etc. If the trade is that 2% of people sit around and economic output drops as much, why shouldn’t that be a net positive for society?
by karaterobot | 2025-07-18 17:49:57+00:00
There's a group of people for whom AI images seem to just be a trigger, and they simply never want to see them. So having a filter to remove those images makes sense. I don't really have that issue with AI images, but I often do want to have some way of filtering photographs from illustrations—be they drawings by humans, or images generated by AI. And that could go either way: maybe I want to see what an actual baby peacock looks like in nature sometimes, and maybe I want to see a cute illustration of a baby peacock other times. It would be great to have a filter for 'real' vs 'artificial'. Perhaps ironically, using AI is the best way to make that distinction on my behalf.
by api | 2025-07-18 17:50:11+00:00
In a single threaded flow your buffer pool is just the buffer you were given, and you don't return until the call completes. There are no actual concurrent calls in the ring. All you're doing is using io_uring to avoid syscall.

Other replies lead me to believe it's not worth doing though, that it would not actually save syscalls and might make things worse.
by proberts | 2025-07-18 17:50:12+00:00
The issue is that it's completely up to the company how it conducts its PERM recruitment and you can't have any say or role in this process. One option, to take control back, is to look at self-petition options, such as the NIW or EB1A. To be clear, however, the EB1A is a very high standard and I would argue getting higher and the NIW, while easier than the EB1A, is much harder now but still worth looking at.
by Guid_NewGuid | 2025-07-18 17:50:45+00:00
But this doesn't really contradict the idea, in my view. Our existing property framework is built around physical goods that experience scarcity. The cost of code duplication is zero and it is (barring catastrophe) indestructible. Today you can browse the git codebase in the same way as 2 decades prior or hence.

All the knowledge in those codebases is preserved for all time, freely available to anyone. They have been built upon in ways that don't necessarily give back but that wasn't a destructive event.

Aside: Though if I remember correctly git and Linux are GPL so they create categories of thought-crime under copyleft if a judge holds your code to be too influenced by them. How influenced is too much? You better have enough money for lawyers to find out.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-18 17:51:00+00:00
>adding a levy on purchase of any services supplied by US hyperscalers

How do you propose we do that? If you buy AWS cloud services from Amazon, you don't buy from Amazon Inc. Seattle USA, you're buying from Amazon S.a.r.l. Luxembourg, an EU company. It's an EU-to-EU business contract. Same with Google, Microsoft, etc.

Unless you wanna start tariffing EU companies of foreign origin IP now, which would be a great if your goal is to torpedo all foreign investment in the EU.
by papadilbert | 2025-07-18 17:51:15+00:00
Glad to meet y'all. Yes. I code COBOL along with C, C++, Java, REXX, SQL, and IBM mainframe Assembler. I support the racehorse of IBM mainframe operating systems, z/TPF. There are few familiar with it. Think of z/OS as a Clydesdale horse, big and SLOW.

zTPF runs the airlines, the model for real online transaction systems... Not SQL relational database shopping carts.

Botton line, everything is Assembler. It's all just bits.
by bogwog | 2025-07-18 17:51:34+00:00
I vaguely remember some benchmark I read a while back for some other io_uring project, and it suggested that io_uring syscalls are more expensive than whatever the other syscalls were that it was being used to replace. It's still a big improvement, even if not as big as you'd hope.

I wish I could remember the post, but I've had that impression in the back of my mind ever since.
by ninkendo | 2025-07-18 17:51:54+00:00
> using the arguments indicating the calling process wants to block

Nice to know io_uring has facilities for backwards compatibility with blocking code here. But yeah, that's still a syscall, and given that the whole benefit of io_uring is in avoiding (or at least, coalescing) syscalls, I doubt having libc "just" use io_uring is going to give any tangible benefit.
by bsoles | 2025-07-18 17:52:41+00:00
LinkedIn did the same thing to me after I have enabled 2FA, completely locking me out of all my devices. Then, they asked me to send a picture of my driver's license to a third-party company, who does some kind of validation I guess, to re-enable my account. God, I wish I can delete my LinkedIn account, but it is my only professional visibility to the business world.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-18 17:52:43+00:00
There's an implicit "working on rockets" in the OP's comment. ULA did 4 launches in 2024 with 2700 employees. SpaceX did 138 launches in 2024 with less than 5 times as many employees. (They had 13,000 in 2023. It's grown a lot since then, but hasn't doubled, I don't think).

ULA employees spend a lot higher percentage of their time on paperwork than SpaceX employees do. The injury rate while doing paperwork should be essentially zero.

SpaceX does 5-10 times as many launches per employee, and has an injury rate 6 times as high per employee. So the injury rate per rocket launch is comparable.
by tkj922 | 2025-07-18 17:53:00+00:00
I don't get it. To me it seems that being locked out of a "work" email is far better (far less worse) than being locked out of a "personal life" one, which probably includes stuff like telecom, utility, insurance, social media being tied to that entity. It is easier to get another job than to "recover" all the other aspects of life
by superfrank | 2025-07-18 17:53:08+00:00
I've did a bunch of recreational drugs growing up, but mushrooms were the only one that I swore off forever. It just didn't sit well with me and would lead to a ton of anxiety both during and after taking them.

I think it's too easy for people to get caught up in the idea that these are miracle cures and forget that, just like with any drug, the effects will be different for different people. I'd love for it to be available for people who are seeing benefits, but I don't think there's any shame in people saying, "that doesn't work for me"
by tracker1 | 2025-07-18 17:53:24+00:00
I'm not suggesting they should bypass current laws. I do question if it should be against the law to check against an existing data source like facial recognition. One could have put the picture out to the press, and asked, "hey, do you know this person?" type of thing and gotten the same answer.

I get that it's a slippery slope and it is a bit invasive to even establish many of these databases... not to mention the license plate tracking, cell tracking, etc. I also don't like jerks throwing rocks at people.
by proberts | 2025-07-18 17:53:48+00:00
The O-1 is a high standard but it's less about overall achievement or standing (like the EB1A green card category) and more about meeting specific criteria, which many talented professionals and founders do. I would recommend reviewing the O-1 criteria (they're listed on USCIS's website, www.uscis.gov) and then having an immigration attorney evaluate your background. People are often surprised that they meet the O-1 criteria or with a bit of work will qualify.
by foobiekr | 2025-07-18 17:53:58+00:00
I agree with you, but ..

Through direct experience, I do not think 2 or 3 good sessions and you're done is really true. Maybe with experience even that goes - you learned what you needed to learn and there's nothing more to it.

But IMHO psilocin is a strong anti-inflammatory which may in and of itself be some (not all) of the mechanism for alleviating depression (the link between inflammation and depression is strong). That will almost never be lasting.

So we may be in the case where the real breakthroughs are, as you say, in the first two or three sessions. I think most people who took mushrooms out of desperation would agree with that - by the end of the third session many of the things they needed to accept are, in fact, front of mind for awhile. But ongoing maintenance is probably useful.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-18 17:54:13+00:00
Disclosure: I work in risk management, and a component of my work has been providing subject matter expertise in implementing generative AI with controls and guardrails in large enterprises. Thoughts and opinions always my own. I pay for Khanmigo (but also ChatGPT, Claude, Kagi, etc).

TLDR I'm more confident in Khanmigo's safety and security (tailored to a young, non adult audience) of the product than I would be of OpenAI and ChatGPT, based on my research and discussions with others in industry. Khan Academy incentives are not OpenAI incentives. I trust my kids alone with Khanmigo, I would not trust them alone with ChatGPT.

Empire of AI By Karen Hao [1] is a great read by the way, and helpful context adjacent to this topic.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai...
by Brybry | 2025-07-18 17:54:48+00:00
It'll be interesting to see how the EU Battery regulation that requires user-replaceable batteries impacts this when it comes into force in 2027. [1][2]

[1] https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-law-more-sustainab...

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj#:~:text=Artic...
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-18 17:54:53+00:00
I worked at BigTech, I don’t think I met a single coworker on H1B that was a “specialized top talent” whose job couldn’t go to an American citizen. I’m not saying any of my H1B visa coworkers were worse than American citizens, they weren’t better.

Now I also spent a long career in regular old enterprise dev before 2020. Definitely any halfway decent framework developer could have done the job as well as the ones who were here on H1B.

I can easily hold multiple thoughts at once.

1. As long as their unemployed qualified Americans for roles, we should reduce the new H1B visa applications dramatically.

2. I don’t begrudge anyone here on H1B and don’t support discriminating against them or cancelling their visa

3. I don’t agree with how once you get let go from a job, the clock starts ticking no matter how much money you have saved. When I was at Amazon and Amazon started Amazoning with me. I didn’t break a sweat when I was on “focus”. I played the game long enough to get through my next vest and then sat around and waited on my “get $40K+ severance offer and leave immediately or prostrate myself for a couple of more months and still be let go with 1/3 the severance amount”.

Of course I took the severance. My coworkers here on H1B were scared shitless and overworked themselves. Then again, it was my 8th job out of now 10 and I was already 49 at the time. I might have acted differently if I were younger.
by mojo-ponderer | 2025-07-18 17:54:59+00:00
Apple does not have a good track record of making devices that are built to last. It has repeatedly opposed right-to-repair legislation, and has been exposed as secretly throttling the CPU of phones as the battery decays, without making that known to users. If it really is Apple's vision to sell AirPods as a lasting product, it stands in stark contrast to its overall history.
by Guid_NewGuid | 2025-07-18 17:55:52+00:00
I had prefixed that with "in my view" but in a purely literal sense you're right. Code and knowledge are inanimate objects, they don't 'want' anything. The statement is influenced by my belief, it is merely a common turn of phrase.

To expand a bit more, code is freely, instantly, trivially duplicated, shared and remixed[1]. Much like knowledge there is no scarcity for these artifacts without legally mandated, police enforced, artificial scarcity. If the full source code for anything (Windows 11, EPIC Systems, whatever) was leaked tomorrow that would be a non-destructive event for both the code and knowledge involved. People work around this with trade secrets and intellectual property law but the 'entropic' norm is for these things to become more available, not less.

[1]: Since we're being literal there is of course some energy and time cost to the listed actions.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-18 17:56:23+00:00
I mean, the CEO also reportedly dislikes yellow, warning signs, and beeping.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/tesla-workers-gettin...

> Among the more baffling details in the report are several sections about how Elon Musk’s personal tastes appear to have affected the factory’s safety for the worse, “his preferences … were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.” Musk, apparently, really hates the color yellow. So instead of using the aforementioned hue, lane lines on the factory floor are painted in shades of gray. (Tesla denies this and sent Reveal photos of “rails and posts” painted yellow in the factory.) He also is not into having “too many signs” or the beeping sound forklifts make in reverse.