MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-09-20 01:09:40+00:00
I skimmed, for me it was this: https://github.com/barddoo/zedis/blob/87321b04224b2e2e857b67...

There seems to be a fair amount of stigma around using llms. And many people that use them are uncomfortable talking about it.

It's a weird world. Depending on who is at the wheel, whether an llm is used _can_ make no difference.

But the problem is, you can have no idea what you're doing and make something that feels like it was carefully hand-crafted by someone - a really great project - but there are hidden things or outright lies about functionality, often to the surprise of the author. Like, they weren't trying to mislead, just didn't take them time to see if it did all of what the LLM said it did.
by frenchman_in_ny | 2025-09-20 01:09:52+00:00
Yes, I'm exactly that situation. Mid-40s. My background is in finance - investment banking. I spent 16 years at the same firm, before being actively recruited over to an industry-leading bank but in an adjacent sector (UHNW lending). Less than a year into that, I was laid off as part of a large reduction in force. "Sorry, last in first out, here's two weeks". Thankfully the RIF was large enough that it triggered a WARN Notice, so I got an additional 3 months out of it.

I've gone through my network multiple times, asked for referrals, have applied to 2,000+ job openings that I've seen on LinkedIn, have tried networking meetings, you name it. I'm in NYC and not geographically mobile (raising 2 kids, divorced), but I've applied to jobs in FL, Chicago, etc where I would try to make it work being in an office part time around my schedule. I've applied to totally different sectors.

The recruiting merry-go-around is brutal. ATS to enter resume data, automatic rejection emails (sometimes within under 24h!). The "what have you done the last two years" question kills me -- I've looked for a job, that's what I've done.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-09-20 01:10:14+00:00
This experience, really a decade of insecurity, has left me always being vigilant. If I'm relentless, I don't feel so insecure. The effort has gotten me results. I never wanted to be "so good they can't ignore you", just safe.

Two years is well past the point of having to throw the kitchen sink at the problem. Months in, it's worth having projects in some key technologies. A year in, I'd re-train. I'd also scout out some grants for school/training available to those who've been laid off.

It had me thinking of what I want to impart to my children. I don't want to strike the fear of God in them that you're always on the precipice of doom, but I don't want them complacent either. Robotics x machine-learning/LLMs presents a lot of uncertainty.
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-20 01:10:22+00:00
> Storage of data for 250 years (metal rusts, dvds melt/warp, paper is not data dense)

I would think: LTO tapes are like 20ish years if stored properly, so you'd only have to copy them 10-15 times over the course of 250 years although that cost/effort decreases over time with ever more modern standards.
by nvrmnd | 2025-09-20 01:10:35+00:00
From CNN:

"Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters on a call Friday evening that the administration came to the fee of $100,000 per year, plus vetting costs, after talking with companies.

He noted that the payment structure is still under discussion with the Department of Homeland Security, in terms of “whether we’re going to charge the $300,000 up front or $100,000 a year for the three years.”
by mancerayder | 2025-09-20 01:10:47+00:00
Here's a thought. Why not pin the H1B tech acceptance rate, forget high fees, to some measures around tech unemployment rates? A recent reading I read showed a higher unemployment in tech than non-tech jobs. I wish I could find the article that mentioned it (most likely Bloomberg or WSJ in the last two weeks). Doesn't that put the stats where the mouth is?
by disillusioned | 2025-09-20 01:10:57+00:00
I saw that a certain reading of this language:

> Section 1. Restriction on Entry. (a) Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section. This restriction shall expire, absent extension, 12 months after the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025.

Could be interpreted to mean that anyone who leaves the country on a _current_ H1B and attempts to return might be blocked if they don't have proof of the payment having been made, despite the fact that no process currently exists to remit said payment.

I'd love to say it's doubtful this administration would do something so callous, asinine, and cruel, but...
by encrypted_bird | 2025-09-20 01:11:25+00:00
1080p is 2K. The value of the "K" coefficient is determined by the x axis, not the y axis. That's why 4K is 3840x2160.

16K = 15360x8640 8K = 7680x4320 4K = 3840x2160 2K = 1920x1080 1K = 960x540

(Every value is a doubling of the tier below it, or in the case of "1K" a halving.)
by bhouston | 2025-09-20 01:12:12+00:00
This is actually smart. Many H1B visas are used to undermine fair labor wages for already local talent. We should ensure that H1B visas are for actual unique talent and not just to undercut local wages.

H1B is ripe with abuse - this article by Bloomberg says that half of all H1-B visas are used by Indian staffing firms that pay significantly lower than the US laborers they are replacing:

- https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-h1b-visa-middlemen-c...
by dlubarov | 2025-09-20 01:12:35+00:00
> The fact that you think Zionist colonization of Palestine was analogous to black families moving into white neighborhoods is just crazy. I don't think anyone who has ever read about this history could sincerely think that those two scenarios are even remotely comparable.

An analogy is not an equivalence; one can make meaningful analogies involving aliens or unicorns. You have not provided any actual argument for why the analogy might be flawed.

> you'll have to now say that the Israelis have no moral right to prevent the millions of Palestinians who live scattered across the world from immigrating to Israel

Open borders are probably morally optimal, at least theorists like Joseph Carens would say so. You seem to be holding Israel to a standard of moral sainthood, or expecting me to. No state decides immigration (or any other) policies based on what is morally optimal.

> That "legality" was established by an undemocratic regime

We can just as well pretend that there was no sovereign power, only anarchy. When there's no legal argument for blocking immigration, we're left with only moral arguments, and I don't think a demographic majority has any inherent moral right to deny the freedom of movement of select minorities.
by hx8 | 2025-09-20 01:13:09+00:00
> This is a de facto shutdown of the program

No, this is just another tariff. If it costs $200k/yr to employee an H1B Software Engineer, and you expect them to work for you for 3 years, it raises the cost of employment from $200k/yr to $233k/yr. It'll discourage people from applying on the margins, which will bring the application rate down and acceptance rate up.
by cyberax | 2025-09-20 01:13:26+00:00
I believe, Oracle JVM uses polling?

This is the class responsible for safepoints: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4b544f93ad0e2beae4c80e06...

And this is one of the implementations: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4b544f93ad0e2beae4c80e06...

The arming code: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4b544f93ad0e2beae4c80e06...

I might be missing something, but I'd be terribly surprised if VM games are worth it.
by juujian | 2025-09-20 01:13:36+00:00
This will kick of a real wave of AI slob hitting journals, won't it? There is already a p-hacking problem, no help needed.

If you run more than one test, you are bound to eventually get a false positive significant result.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm using AI a lot myself, always supervised. This hits different.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-20 01:13:52+00:00
> This isn't really about it feeling good or bad,

I'm not sure that's true over the very long run.

We're talking about a proscribed health practice that results in continuing discomfort and sickness. Even if the benefit manifests as predicted, I'm skeptical it can make up for the low quality of life.

edit: I'm far from alone in this. When I share my aversion to sunlight, I find many more folks who feel similarly, than I do people who are puzzled by it.
by nine_k | 2025-09-20 01:14:30+00:00
It's easy to write a KV store, even a KV store with key expiration. But Redis is quite a bit more than that. Consider sharding and replication at least. Then lists, sets, zsets, bitfields, streams, geospatial indexes, hyperloglog / bloom filters, time series.

Something like LevelDB is relatively easy to write. Then you can build the rest of Redis on top of it.
by kllrnohj | 2025-09-20 01:14:47+00:00
This does seem to be very specific to Game Maker though. Like saying 0.0-1.0 is 8 bit unorm is incorrect. It's just a unorm, no bit depth is otherwise implied. Similarly HDR doesn't mean exceeding 1.0. It can mean that, but if you're going to a display directly you're going to want something more like 101010X2 unorm in PQ, which is still 0.0-1.0 in the fragment shader
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-09-20 01:14:51+00:00
I had a former employer with an Indian subsidiary for this very purpose. The problem is that there is no loyalty to the company and it becomes a revolving door of inexperienced people who couldn't get into H-1B. Always fun when they lie you about testing a feature that you haven't implemented yet. Incidentally, they also introduced ransomware into the entire corporate network (domestic IT was also barely competent).
by zahlman | 2025-09-20 01:15:10+00:00
1A makes freedom of speech a legal principle, but it also exists as a philosophical principle and a moral value.

But fair play is also a moral value held by many.

For years, in my experience, it was unilaterally the "blue tribe" in the US who would point at XKCD 1357, and argue that the constitutional protection of freedom of speech doesn't extend to being able to keep your job, since the job doesn't come from the government in the first place (and because of "at-will" employment laws, and because of your employer's freedom of association). But if you believe this, then you have to accept that it can also be used against you.

I personally think it matters quite a bit exactly what was said, along with how strongly it was identifiably tied to the company, and what the PR effect would be. Companies shouldn't, absent other extenuating factors, have to keep around someone whose mere presence will hurt the business. But it's also unfair if companies are given an inaccurate impression of what customers on balance actually think about the matter.

> If you don't believe in free speech, just say it. Say you don't want free speech, free assembly, free religion, and the free press. Don't cry about hurt feelings, though. That's what children do.

It comes across that you have decided what GP's values really are, and are trying to extract a confession through bullying. This is not a productive mode of discourse.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-09-20 01:15:30+00:00
Also Not A Fan. Consider that nearly all of the artists who made records pressed on 78 shellacs are long gone. How specious is the claim that they are even a significant revenue stream for the majors? (The purported rationale for copyright.)

Suppose it were significant; then how many of the artists' descendents are getting their share of the streaming revenues on those copyrighted trax? (Before the copyright expires, of course.)

Another specious claim of the majors: these trax are 'still out there'. All 400,000? How would you know, and how would anyone where to look? If you can find where they're hiding, one at a time (online or in a cardboard box under a table in the back of a record store in Poughkeepsie?) Here they all are, on one library's website.

The Great 78 collection is a wonderful and delightful addition to the historians and explorers of 42 genres of music. It's the sort of contribution only a Great Library could afford to make. Of course, beyond the comprehension of mere commerce.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-20 01:15:42+00:00
After steeping in Fischel's tract on the proximate cause of housing inflation (linked to from Klein)..

I gather that the main (meta-)issue, as you are kind of insinuating here, is that, for healthcare, there is a conflation of inflationary and deflationary processes..

(Sorry to go on what might seem to be a reductive tangent here, as I often do when pressed. I have further takes on Klein vs Shapiro for later)

My roughshod framing of (one) solution is that there has to be sustained deflationary pockets in a mildly inflationary phase

Probably mirrored by such proposals for housing as

https://devonzuegel.com/for-the-greater-good-the-game-theory...
by aorist | 2025-09-20 01:16:06+00:00
all of

> designed a dozen sites I never published > I was never on time > I couldn't get up for class on time

And depending on why

> don't drive > I feel like an alien, and most everyone drives me insane. > most of them I cut off without a word, and those that reach out I resent

also sounds like how someone with ADHD could describe themselves, and the other issues could be downstream from that
by k33n | 2025-09-20 01:16:16+00:00
It is an annual cost. This will dramatically shake up the US tech industry. I expect to see engineering budgets increase, and less Americans struggling to get interviews and ultimately jobs at companies HQ'ed here.

The originally stated purpose of the H1-B program was to import top-tier elite talent but anyone who watched it evolve saw that it became terribly exploitative. I've watched as companies that I've worked for have given 1/4 market rate or worse to H1-B hires. They got addicted to cheap talent. It stopped being about talent on the hiring side and more about increasing head-count at a major discount.

Bring in top talent, but pay them what they're worth if you do. A top-talent elite hire should easily be worth double what a native-born top-talent elite hire would be worth if this program can just do what it was designed to do.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-20 01:16:27+00:00
the phrase "shutting the barn door after all the horses have run off" comes immediately to mind. It's way too late to save tech in the USA, imho. It's too late for my nephew, who couldn't get a job after graduating with a CS degree in 2022 and who is not currently working in the tech field at all. And it's too late for all the lost wages for all the guys and gals my age whose incomes were artificially held down using the foreign competition, both on and offshore.

Before you downvote and curse me out, please understand that I have trained dozens of H1Bs throughout my career and helped them be better developers while knowing full well what the overall game looked like. I did it wholly without prejudice.

Deep down, I always knew we would hit that inflection point and we did. I don't think it is fixable at this point. Thus, it makes sense for politicians to finally consider addressing the abuse. I currently counsel young people to not become software engineers/developers. Aside from the lack of jobs, there is the awful ageism that strikes right when family is the most expensive (college aged kids). I'm very fortunate in that I saved like a madman and we inherited some wealth, which we INVESTED and didn't just blow on cars, houses, and vacations the way most dipshit Americans do these days. So when the inevitable career abbreviation took place, I was at least prepared. But I'm no less bitter, and that's the truth.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-20 01:16:35+00:00
> If engineers can't even manage their own security, why are we expecting users to do so?

This latest attack hit Crowdstrike as well. Imagine they had gotten inside Huntress, who opened up about how much they can abuse the access given: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183589

Security folks and companies think they are important. The C suite sees them as a scape goat WHEN the shit hits the fan and most end users feel the same about security as they do about taking off their shoes at the airport (what is this nonsense for) and they mostly arent wrong.

It's not that engineers cant take care of their own security. It's that we have made it a fight with an octopus rather than something that is seamless and second nature. Furthermore security and privacy go hand and hand... Teaching users that is not to the benefit of a large portion of our industry.
by LeoPanthera | 2025-09-20 01:16:36+00:00
H1B hires are already expensive. Most large tech companies spend quite a lot on legal services.

The assumption that a lot of people make, apparently including Trump, is that companies are hiring H1B for no good reason. Or maybe because they think it's cheaper? It's not. In virtually all cases, H1B hires are because there simply aren't any suitable American applicants with the necessary skills.
by lttlrck | 2025-09-20 01:16:57+00:00
Of course it depends on the nature of the business but push that too far and you can lock yourself out of projects that require work to be performed on US soil.

I work for a very small company and we've seen by that stipulation a couple of times on anything _remotely_ close to defense/MIC/security.

And the administration can tighten those screws further if it desires.

(I am the only H1B in the history of the company, now a citizen. It would have been impossible to have taken this path with this alleged financial burden)
by petsormeat | 2025-09-20 01:16:58+00:00
Yes. Last full time software development job was in 2017, under the most abusive manager I've ever had in my 20+ years in tech. Took a full year out just for psychotherapy. Unfortunately, the subsequent years had me branded with that "employment gap" stigma that recruiters and hiring managers can't see past.

I'm now doing temp office work for my local government. I actually prefer the job setting, aside from the low pay. I would encourage everyone to try getting work in their own local governments, especially around big events like elections, when there's need for a lot of people at once.
by Cameri | 2025-09-20 01:17:32+00:00
For identities to be truly decentralized, there's no one you could run to to ask permission to change your password. Either you own your identity, or someone else does.

Your identity, BinaryIgor only exists in ycombinator, and for as long as ycombinator allows it, and only ycombinator can allow you to change your password. I can't recall how accounts are created here, but likely it also depends on linking it to your email identity as well. If ycombinator disappears, your identity goes down with it.
by MalikSamara | 2025-09-20 01:17:32+00:00
alpha loop (al) – exploring participation in digital asset ecosystems

alpha loop (al) is an early stage community token experiment created to study how digital assets can support collaboration, transparency, and collective intelligence. The project uses participation as its core design principle and treats token mechanics as a research tool rather than a financial product. By testing engagement, data visibility, and lightweight governance on Solana, alpha loop aims to generate insights that may inform the development of new models for digital asset ecosystems and potential institutional applications in the future.
by jacobgkau | 2025-09-20 01:17:50+00:00
To be fair, the article doesn't say Google "secretly wants" downloaders to work. It says they need downloaders to work, despite wanting to make them as annoying as possible to use. The argument isn't so much about Google's feelings as it is about whether the entire internet would continue making YouTube the video hosting site to use if downloaders were actually (effectively) blocked.
by kragen | 2025-09-20 01:18:14+00:00
Building an AST is also not a large amount of code, especially if you already have GC and some kind of runtime type discrimination. And building an AST simplifies a lot of other things you might want to do, not just type checking. You're speaking as if compilers were invented in the Obama presidency because previously computers didn't have enough memory for all their code, and were invariably many-person projects.

But, in fact, writing a compiler, with an AST and static types, is a common single-person term project for undergraduates, and it's something people have been doing for 70 years, since computers used magnetic drums and acoustic delay lines for RAM. We've learned techniques since then that make it easier, which is why undergraduates can do it now.

One notable example is Stephen C. Johnson's "portable C compiler", which was the main C compiler in the late 70s and early 80s. By my count the current version of it at https://github.com/PortableCC/pcc is a bit under 50,000 lines of code, including C, some kind of C++, and Fortran frontends and backends for 18 architectures, but not including lex and yacc. I just built it here on my phone, which required implementing getw() and putw() (maybe I don't know the right feature test macros) and #including <strings.h> with the "s" in aarch64/local2.c. The executables total about 320K, including C and C++ (no Fortran) and only aarch64.
by wonderwonder | 2025-09-20 01:18:50+00:00
Lets Go!!! Raised the minimum salary to $150k. The 100k application fee is per person per year.

Meaning now companies can either hire an American new grad for 100k a year or pay 250k a year to import someone. It also still allows companies to bring over highly skilled foreign workers for which there are no American equivalents.

Really happy with the approach and I think it will be a massive boon for US tech and knowledge workers
by kashunstva | 2025-09-20 01:19:07+00:00
> it's very possible to increase the supply of qualified doctors to re-balance.

In many cases, the rebalancing that is needed is from subspecialties to community based primary care in rural and other underserved areas. Some new medical schools appeared in the 1970’s to address the need for more family medicine docs. What happened was completely predictable… more subspecialists. Graduates follow the money trail when choosing residencies and fellowships.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-20 01:19:32+00:00
By the number of developers and what they were doing at any time since the 70s, your experience isn’t representative. The startup tech bros back then weren’t doing things out of “passion”. Even in the 60s and 70s Jobs, Bill Gates, the Intel founders, Larry Ellison, Bushnell, Scott McNealy, and all of the early tech founders were driven by money.

And whether startup founders had passion or not, once they took outside funding, money was all that mattered.
by Amezarak | 2025-09-20 01:20:28+00:00
Infosys, Tata, and Deloitte are hiring basic programmers. There’s no shortage of American applicants with those skills.

I’m sure people will make the argument about FAANG but there’s plenty of Americans for that too.

Go look at the experience people are having right now with this job market. There were mass layoffs and new grads every year on top of that.