MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kfarr | 2025-07-18 16:45:20+00:00
I don't agree at all. I love the product but I have to buy a new pair of airpods every few years very consistently. It's either battery capacity loss, or crackling audio issues, or both to the point of not being usable. The Apple Genius always comes up with a story like "well it's out of warranty and the cost of repair is about the same as just buying new ones so you make the call dear customer."
by jand | 2025-07-18 16:45:34+00:00
I get your point, but according to [1] ASML was a bad example.

There is no kill switch which might be pressed only under circumstances that may never be "adapted to current situations". So who does said plow belong to?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-21/asml-tsmc...
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-18 16:45:54+00:00
I doubt it. If that were the case, I think they would only be complaining to Valve about the number of chargebacks issued from the Steam store. Not about genres-that-are-correlated-with-chargebacks-in-other-contexts.

Given Valve's generous refund policies, and the fact that a steam store purchase on your credit card statement looks quite innocent, and that the credit card companies didn't complain to Valve about chargebacks but about content, my guess is there are hardly any chargebacks, and this is just about moral purity.
by avidiax | 2025-07-18 16:46:02+00:00
I feel that 2 simple rules would capture all the value of H1-Bs but naturally limit their abuses:

1. H-1Bs applications are ranked by total comp. 2 years of that comp is unconditional (no PIPs, no performance management, no excuses). I can see an argument to bucket this by industry.

2. Only job codes where the YoY median pay and total employment are currently at a 3 year high are eligible to receive H-1Bs.

The comp requirements would devastate the body farms. The unconditional comp will put major pressure on the system of working H1-Bs to the bone, and not thoroughly vetting those hires. Companies that layoff in the thousands, or layoff their highest paid (oldest) employees are simply poisoning the H-1B well for that industry. Deep cuts can't be made up with H1-Bs for 3 years or until all the layoffs have been recouped industry-wide.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-18 16:46:36+00:00
> My instinct is to think that 16 year olds generally don't have the maturity to make these kinds of decisions.

My instinct is that people who are 40+ and who are financially secure shouldn't be voting either, because they will likely vote for tax breaks for the rich, and other things that help make their unsustainable lifestyle even easier/lazier.
by staplers | 2025-07-18 16:46:46+00:00
they would 100% made them exclusive

They sort of are with how quickly they connect and remember devices. If you've ever used non-apple bluetooth headphones, pairing can be ever so slightly slower and more cumbersome (not by a lot mind you).

That 1-2 second difference paired with the system notification "your apple brand headphones are connected to another device do you wish to override?" can save a bit of headache if you're using them all day and switching a lot.

I know it was enough for me to prioritize their airpods over others that do the same.
by cagey | 2025-07-18 16:47:23+00:00
From a more informative article[1] linked from TFA:

"The expiration of the enhanced [premium] tax credits is expected to cause ACA enrollees’ out-of-pocket premium payments to increase by over 75% on average, with people in some states seeing their payments more than double on average."

"The enhanced premium tax credits were originally passed by Congress in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and extended under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), but they are set to expire at the end of 2025."

[1] https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/how-will-the-2025-budget-re...
by JdeBP | 2025-07-18 16:47:27+00:00
It hasn't gone away.

* https://freshports.org/sysutils/most/

* https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/misc/most/i...

* https://packages.debian.org/sid/most

One can even get pg still, with Ilumos-based systems; even though that was actually taken out of the SUS years ago. This goes to show that what's standard is not the same as what exists, of course.

* https://illumos.org/man/1/pg

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2008edition...
by Rochus | 2025-07-18 16:47:27+00:00
Entertaining. The presenter obviously doesn't like the class hierarchy to correspond to the domain model. He seems to think that this was an essential feature of OOP, supported by some quotations by Smalltalk exponents. But not even the Smalltalk world could agree on what OOP actually is (just compare the statements by Kay with the actual architecture of Smalltalk-76ff) and as quickly as Smalltalk lost its significance, there is no need to mention it further. I would rather look at a reputable industry organization such as IEEE, which even publishes its own standards and best practices, what OOP is about. E.g. the OOP Milestone (see https://ethw.org/Milestones:Object-Oriented_Programming,_196...) which names Simula 67 the first OO language, specifies OO as "the combination of three main features: 1) encapsulation of data and code 2) inheritance and late binding 3) dynamic object generation." No mention of the class hierarchy should correspond to the domain model. So maybe we should just not mix up a programming paradigm with how it is used by some folks in practice? The fact that the loudest proponents of a paradigm are not usually those who apply it in practice remains true even today. Takes far less than 2.5 hours to state.
by victorwynne | 2025-07-18 16:47:42+00:00
I feel like producing at such a massive scale results in sometimes selling some subpar units. I bought the AirPods Pro 2 in October of 2022 shortly after they were released, and even with quite a few drops and constant use I have not experienced any issues. I have heard of people with similar experiences as you and your friend though so it’s certainly not entirely uncommon.
by can16358p | 2025-07-18 16:47:52+00:00
I've never used AirPods but I can say their microphones are awful: whenever I'm talking to someone who is on AirPods, I can immediately tell it from the very low audio quality. This happens with many, many people.

When they switch to their iPhone mic, it literally sounds like the audio version of upgrading from 144p to 4K.
by AIPedant | 2025-07-18 16:47:55+00:00
The fact that these were specifically incest games makes me think a title was somehow involved in distributing CSAM, which is often why Visa/MC crack down on porn websites.

But it is possible that Visa sensibly and correctly said "anyone who makes or purchases such a game is a despicable scumbag, and we shouldn't assume the financial risk of dealing with them."
by d_burfoot | 2025-07-18 16:47:58+00:00
For those who don't know about Plato's Theory of Forms, the remarkable empirical fact is that all humans learn roughly the same concepts representing words like "dog", "house", "person", "boat", and so on, even if those people grew up in different places and never had any overlap between their observational experience. You and I may never have observed the same dog, but we still agree on what a "dog" is.

This phenomenon appears to occur for LLM learning as well, though it is less remarkable due to the fact that LLMs likely have significant overlap in their training data.

I believe this is good news for Alignment, because, as Plato pointed out, one of the most important forms is the Form of the Good - a (theoretical) universal human ideal containing notions of justice, virtue, compassion, excellence, etc. If this Form truly exists, and LLMs can learn it, it may be possible to train them to pursue it (or refuse requests that are opposed to it).
by victorbjorklund | 2025-07-18 16:48:28+00:00
That only makes sense if models were autonomously adding MCP servers and managing accounts themselves. Currently, users add MCP servers to their clients (like Cursor or Claude Desktop), so authentication should happen at that level. If the model handled auth, you'd still need to provide credentials to the LLM for it to provide it to the MCP server anyway. It's better to pass auth data as for example headers in requests - this way your credentials never get sent to the model provider (unless you're running locally).
by proberts | 2025-07-18 16:48:40+00:00
These are unprecedented times where green card status and even citizenship can be taken away. I think that all that one can do is to know one's rights and have the name and number of a lawyer handy who can be contacted in the event the worst happens. The ACLU has some very clear guidance regarding the rights of U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens when questioned or detained by ICE (or another immigration agency).
by wooptoo | 2025-07-18 16:48:51+00:00
This article is already largely irrelevant. The GPL (and the FSF), whether you like it or not, always has been a political movement. The aim of the movement is to expand the pool of free/libre software and to disallow commercial entities from gaining an unfair advantage without contributing back. With the GPLv2 they already have, as it permits them to run the software in the cloud, with their proprietary additions, without contributing back. AGPLv3 closes that loophole that's why it's even less popular.

You can license your software as you wish, but in the long run the GPL has ensured that contributions reach back upstream for the common good, rather than for profit. The GPL gives protections for the people/end consumers, much like labour laws do in your own country. The GPL ensures that your contributions are respected, available to all, and not abused for profit (not always true, but tribunals have enforced the license terms before). The GPL has the effect of doing this globally while allowing contributions back from a global audience. It's genius and the companies absolutely hate it.
by pxeger1 | 2025-07-18 16:49:19+00:00
> most of the expansion card tech is all done by general purpose hardware, which while cheaper will never be as good as a custom dedicated silicon chip that's only focused on 1 task

I think one reason they can be as good as or better than dedicated silicon is that they can be adjusted on the fly. If a hardware bug is found in your network chip, too bad. If one is found in your software emulation of a network chip, you can update it easily. What if a new network protocol comes along?

Don't forget the design, verification, mask production, and other one-time costs of making a new type of chip are immense ($millions at least).

> Its why I advocate for a separate ML/AI card instead of using GPU's. Sure their is hardware architecture overlap but your sacrificing so much because your AI cards are founded on GPU hardware.

I think you may have the wrong impression of what modern GPUs are like. They may be descended from graphics cards (as in graphics ), but today they are designed fully with the AI market in mind. And they are design to strike an optional balance between fixed functionality for super-efficient calculations that we believe AI will always need, and programmability to allow innovation in algorithms. Anything more fixed would be unviable immediately because AI would have moved on by the time it could hit the market (and anything less fixed would be too slow).
by pksebben | 2025-07-18 16:49:40+00:00
To bang a fairly weathered drum, this is largely a matter of conservative policy. Psychedelics were far more common in leftist circles (some might argue that this is cause as opposed to effect - mind-expanding experiences tend to shift politics towards that end of the spectrum).

This means that if you wanted to use the law as a political cudgel without being accused of thought-policing, you could outlaw psychedelics and be confident that the blast zone would exclude the politically faithful while locking up loads of political undesirables; like hippies, panthers, etc.

Of course, these days you have right-wing podcasters discussing DMT with billionaire CEOs, so it's a little trickier. Thus the tentative steps toward legalization.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-18 16:49:42+00:00
except that youth skews left.

That's one of those time-honored political truisms that turns out to be based on... not much of anything. Trump made massive inroads with younger voters this time around.

It's all about outreach (and, in the US, Christian youth evangelism.) It's the stated goal of the American right(1) to dismantle public education precisely for that purpose.

1: https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Project-2...
by quag | 2025-07-18 16:50:35+00:00
Yes and no. The H-1B visa is "dual intent" [1] and you are allowed to apply for and receive a green card (permanent resident card) while on an H-1B. After 5 years with permanent residence you can apply for citizenship. It is a common path, and the intention for the majority of people on an H-1B visa.

[1]: https://isss.temple.edu/faculty-staff-and-researchers/intern...
by duxup | 2025-07-18 16:50:37+00:00
>If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.

That aspect certainly is a good exception.

To me code reuse and so on is really about doing those moderate things that are sort of side functions that are required but aren't the actual "product" that you're making / selling / etc.

I've worked on many a project that "there has to be something that does this that we can leverage quickly, oh this" and suddenly the product grows up around that software that you didn't even make an intelligent decision about if it works the way you want long term ... and it's a mess.
by michael1999 | 2025-07-18 16:50:50+00:00
This sounded like a straight-forward HIPAA violation, but I checked. There's a carve out for LE.

You can see the bones of a stronger limit during drafting (as "required" by warrants), but then weakened to allow mere "administrative requests".

> Law Enforcement Purposes. Covered entities may disclose protected health information to law enforcement officials for law enforcement purposes under the following six circumstances, and subject to specified conditions: (1) as required by law (including court orders, court-ordered warrants, subpoenas) and administrative requests; (2) to identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person; (3) in response to a law enforcement official's request for information about a victim or suspected victim of a crime; (4) to alert law enforcement of a person's death, if the covered entity suspects that criminal activity caused the death; (5) when a covered entity believes that protected health information is evidence of a crime that occurred on its premises; and (6) by a covered health care provider in a medical emergency not occurring on its premises, when necessary to inform law enforcement about the commission and nature of a crime, the location of the crime or crime victims, and the perpetrator of the crime.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-07-18 16:51:05+00:00
I’m sorry I gave the impression that I was talking directly to you.

It was a generalization of hyper-partisanism and how maybe if people don’t want something ahitty to happen to them later, they shouldn’t ignore it when they believe it is in their favor.

See stacking the court, ending the filibuster, lowering the voting age to 16, etc.
by loteck | 2025-07-18 16:51:13+00:00
Hi Peter - do you have any specific thoughts for people posting about immigration scenarios here, to help keep themselves safe? Given that it was recently revealed that ICE is monitoring these comments.[0][1]

[0] https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co...

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...
by jorangreef | 2025-07-18 16:51:20+00:00
> How does TigerBeetle's existence support the argument that rolling your own dependencies is better than using off-the-shelf tools?

At least from my own experience, without TigerStyle [0], there's no way we could have shipped TigerBeetle from 0 to production in 3.5 years, with the same quality, and to the same tolerances: https://jepsen.io/analyses/tigerbeetle-0.16.11

Whereas, for example, if we'd used off-the-shelf dependencies such as Raft or RocksDB, it would have been a nightmare, and taken longer, just to fix them up to solve our storage fault model and implement Protocol-Aware Recovery correctly. Even then, we'd have been stuck with a systems language of the last 30 years (C/C++), when we could have invested in a language for the next 30 and with a more powerful toolchain. Of course, we'd also have been without Deterministic Simulation Testing, because most software dependencies are typically not designed for DST.

But finally (and to your point about sustainability), without TigerStyle, we wouldn't have had the company, or the investment, team, and customers we have today, or be as far along financially. Not saying that you need to share our engineering philosophy. But it works for us.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3WYdYyjek4
by philipkglass | 2025-07-18 16:51:25+00:00
HathiTrust is much better than Google Books about allowing access to works that are no longer under copyright in the United States. Under US law, everything published 1929 and before is currently in the public domain. But there are a lot of special cases where 20th century works published after 1929 are also in the public domain:

https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain

Google Books appears to follow the blanket 1929 rule, or did the last time I looked. HathiTrust has cleared the copyright status for many additional works following the more complex rules, e.g.

"Drawing Birds" by Joy Postle, 1953:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433115876140&se...

Unfortunately, the Google-originated scans that HathiTrust has come with special restrictions. Google itself required that only people associated with the academic libraries could download whole books as a unit, even for works that are in the public domain:

https://hathitrust.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal...

Fortunately, members of the public can download individual page scans without any special affiliation. People have naturally written tools to automate this process so that full books can be reassembled and then uploaded to the Internet Archive or other book sites.

Google Books has a much faster and sometimes better search interface, so a common flow I use is to search Google Books for terms and then go to HathiTrust to read inside books that Google Books surfaced but won't show.

EDIT: corrected 1926 to 1929 per cxr's comment below.
by bji9jhff | 2025-07-18 16:51:46+00:00
> Corporations can't embrace-extend-extinguish open source. This is because the source is always available. Sure they can use that knowledge to build a new, more popular, thing, but the existing source never goes away. It represents an un-enclosable commons.

Some counter-examples:

* git is now mostly github

* khtml is now mostly chrome

* linux is now more android and chromeos than linux. Anyhow, the plain kernel is deeply corporate.

You can still fork those project. But it would be mostly meaningless to do so.
by prometheus76 | 2025-07-18 16:51:51+00:00
Couple of notes: Medicaid DOES cover emergency services for undocumented immigrants, to the tune of 16.2 billion dollars during the Biden administration. (Reference: https://budget.house.gov/imo/media/doc/cbo_on_medicaid_for_i...)

Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it isn't happening. From a May 25, 2025 article on the official CMS website: "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today increased federal oversight to stop states from misusing federal Medicaid dollars to cover health care for individuals who are in the country illegally. Under federal law, federal Medicaid funding is generally only available for emergency medical services for noncitizens with unsatisfactory immigration status who would otherwise be Medicaid-eligible, but some states have pushed the boundaries, putting taxpayers on the hook for benefits that are not allowed."

From this article: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-increasing-o...
by ryandrake | 2025-07-18 16:52:16+00:00
> software engineers and influencers that want a piece of the pie or to show their bosses they’re learning the technology.

This breathlessly-positive performance art shows up all the time on HN, whether or not the article is even about AI. I can believe it when someone points out specific tasks that the tool is good at and why, but when someone shows up and extolls AI as the greatest human achievement since the steam engine and how it's going to change life as we know it, it just feels like they are performing for their manager or something.
by sophia01 | 2025-07-18 16:52:37+00:00
I'm graduating from my PhD and starting a FAANG research role. I'm Australian and about to start in F-1 OPT status.

I am interested in an EB-1 or EB-2 (possibly NIW) visa, but am concerned about a long period where I can't travel (aka re-enter).

What's the practical difference between E-3 and F-1 OPT (with STEM extension) in my case? Is it easy to switch from F-1 to E-3 at the same role?
by johnmaguire | 2025-07-18 16:52:37+00:00
I've debated replying at all, but I am genuinely perplexed by this comment as a response to the quoted text:

> It's not your decision. Your decision is whether or not to pay Kagi for their service. Kagi produces a product that tries to provide the best value, and doesn't surveil you.

Did I imply it was my decision? I don't think I did. In fact, I pointed out that I don't even have the data available to me to evaluate the decision against the decision-making axis I provided (how much value is Yandex providing to the search results?) I am struggling to understand what you're trying to get across here besides contrarianism.

The hard fact of the matter is that you are obviously right: I cannot make decisions for Kagi. This was never in question. I can share my feedback with them and vote with my money.

> Kagi produces a product that tries to provide the best value, and doesn't surveil you.

This is another unprovable statement.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-18 16:52:47+00:00
Apple really needs to put a product person back in charge, IMO. Cook is a supply chain wizard, and has been very good for Apple shareholders - but not great for the products. Apple's quality, especially software, has been on a downward spiral for a while now. If I wasn't so locked in to the whole ecosystem I'd be back on a Linux laptop by now - too bad I can't stand Android.

But I guess that's why quality has been allowed to decrease - the customers aren't leaving, myself included, so why would they bother until it's a real danger to their marketshare.

edit I'm also not sure who to put the blame on for software quality. I'm not entirely sure if it's Cook's direction, Craig, or a combination of a changing culture within Apple.
by godelski | 2025-07-18 16:53:04+00:00
> Also, if you are as experienced as you claim to be, you should know that conferences are notorious for having FAR weaker peer review than actual journals.

Yes, but conferences are the primary publishing venue used in computer science and ML. Publishing in NeurIPS, CVPR, or ICML is more prestigious than publishing in JMLR or TMLR

While worse at conferences, I are, the fundamental problems are similar. They exacerbate the problems, but it's still the same problems

And please don't be offended. I'm writing to a general audience. I don't know if you have academic experience or not until you tell me. It seems you agree it would not be appropriate for me to assume otherwise
by proberts | 2025-07-18 16:53:11+00:00
The L-1 is very easy through a large multinational company after a year of employment with that company outside the U.S. and is attainable although more difficult through a small multinational company. The other options are the E-2 (treaty investor visa), which could allow you to work for a British-owned company in the U.S., or the O-1 (extraordinary ability visa), which requires a relatively high level of achievement but is often attainable by talented professionals.