MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pazimzadeh | 2025-09-20 03:04:51+00:00
Sure but you should also be highly skeptical of people telling you that sunscreen is always required to go outside. A lot of the studies are funded by sunscreen companies which stand to make a lot of money.

> Tanning is a response to skin cell damage

I don't think this is true in any meaningful sense. Damage is part of life. Your body repairs minor damage and it is usually a good thing to trigger the repair pathways once in a while. This is also the basis for exercise - your muscles and tendons are damaged when you work out, but they get rebuilt stronger. Your DNA is also repaired, and turning repair pathways on can sometimes improve tissue quality/collagen production or get rid of imperfections - this is the basis of microneedling and cosmetic techniques, some of which involve light exposure. UV therapy is also a treatment for psoriasis (skin inflammation).

If any amount of sunlight is bad, ask yourself why melanoma typically occurs on the trunk region (in men) or legs (women) rather than say the face or arms. Those are regions that are normally hidden, but are then suddenly exposed when you go shirtless/at the beach.

The most dangerous thing is to go straight from non-exposure to high exposure. But if you gradually increase exposure, the body has many ways of dealing with non-overwhelming amounts of damage. Damage can in fact trigger repair which is often beneficial, as this article alludes to.

Most importantly, the more beneficial UV rays (UVB) for vitamin D production are weaker than the more harmful ones (UVA), so any sunscreen or glass that "blocks UV" necessarily blocks all UVB before you get close to blocking all UVA. Nothing can actually block 100% of UVA. But let's say you slather sunscreen on every time you go out. Now imagine one day you forget it or run out of it or for whatever emergency reason can't apply it. Now your pale unready skin is exposed to a large dose which could actually do more damage than your body is ready to repair.

The best time to get UVB is actually around solar noon. So, depending on your skin type, the best thing to do is to expose yourself to sunlight for short amounts of time (start with 1 minute if you want) without sunscreen before applying sunscreen. Then gradually increase the non-sunscreen time as your skin turns up repair pathways (and you get tanner).
by rramadass | 2025-09-20 03:05:50+00:00
Excerpts:

According to many economists, the presence of immigrant workers in the United States creates new job opportunities for native-born workers. This occurs in five ways. First, immigrant workers and native-born workers often have different skill sets, meaning that they fill different types of jobs. As a result, they complement each other in the labor market rather than competing for the exact same jobs. Second, immigrant workers spend and invest their wages in the U.S. economy, which increases consumer demand and creates new jobs. Third, businesses respond to the presence of immigrant workers and consumers by expanding their operations in the United States rather than searching for new opportunities overseas. Fourth, immigrants themselves frequently create new businesses, thereby expanding the U.S. labor market. Fifth, the new ideas and innovations developed by immigrants fuel economic growth.

Similarly, a recent study found that, between 2005 and 2018, an increase in the share of workers within a particular occupation who were H-1B visa holders was associated with a decrease in the unemployment rate within that occupation. Another recent study found that restrictions on H-1B visas (such as rising denial rates) motivate U.S.-based multinational corporations to decrease the number of jobs they offer in this country. Instead, the corporations increase employment at their existing foreign affiliates or open new foreign affiliates—particularly in India, China, and Canada. A study conducted in 2019 revealed that higher rates of successful H-1B applications were positively correlated with an increased number of patents filed and patent citations. Moreover, such startups were more inclined to secure venture capital funding and achieve successful IPOs or acquisitions.

The available data also indicate that H-1B workers do not earn low wages or drag down the wages of other workers. In 2021, the median wage of an H-1B worker was $108,000, compared to $45,760 for U.S. workers in general. Moreover, between 2003 and 2021, the median wage of H-1B workers grew by 52 percent. During the same period, the median wage of all U.S. workers increased by 39 percent. In FY 2019, 78 percent of all employers who hired H-1B workers offered wages to H-1B visa holders that were higher than what the Department of Labor had determined to be the “prevailing wage” for a particular kind of job.
by JackFr | 2025-09-20 03:05:55+00:00
1) as the child of a parent who was a smart, hard working accountant/financial analyst who was out of work for 2 long stretches in my youth, I have learned when you lose your job, you do not fuck around — you attack it with the same urgency as if the house was on fire as in immediately; 2) after 25 years, you’ve got to have some network — swallow your pride and use them.

I have been there, and I saw my father — there is nothing good about it. You have my sympathy and I wish you the best.
by strcat | 2025-09-20 03:06:28+00:00
There are widely available tools for exploiting iPhones. These are available to low level law enforcement, border guards, etc. They're often abused. The same goes for remote exploits. Apple and Google have succeeded in making the exploits expensive, but not much success in stopping them for more than short periods of time. Perhaps they'll start having more success, but so far they haven't. Making the cost of developing the exploits more expensive does not change that the usage is widespread in many dozens of countries. The remote exploits are not only used in targeted attacks against a tiny subset of people. They're often broadly deployed on publicly accessible websites.
by superultra | 2025-09-20 03:07:24+00:00
He did not say that the kid was MAGA, or at least not exactly. Here’s all he said about it:

> We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

> In between the finger pointing there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level you can see how hard the President is taking this.

He then played a clip where a reporter asked Trump how he was doing. Trump said good and immediately started talking about his new ballroom.

What about any of that is misinformation? Given how they were certain the shooter was trans because he used arrows on the bullet - which were helldiver 2 codes - it did seem like people were trying to make it seem like the kid wasn’t MAGA.

Turns out the kid is neither, or both, and was just terminally online, which none of us want to admit is the real problem because we’re all also terminally online.
by guerrilla | 2025-09-20 03:07:52+00:00
> I'm not sure where you get "barely works" from, but that's not remotely my experience or the experience of anyone I know.

Alright, I'm exaggerating but I've never had as many problems with such a popular app of that class. I'm literally locked out right now due to a known bug (confirmed by support) and this isn't even the first time. Then there were months when recording voice notes (of all things) didn't work on Android. So many other little random things. If YouTube or something behaved that way I'd be shocked. It's a ghetto in comparison.

Yeah, I get what you're saying about friction. I'm complaining as someone who's fine with Signal and IRC, so not the target audience. Someone else also mentioned that the performance may have been better early on as well. I find that hard to believe but I'll trust ya'll for now.
by stackedinserter | 2025-09-20 03:09:35+00:00
In 3 months after implementing this policy there will be ports of entry full of people who paid any money to get to the US and that ready to share beds and work for $4/hour. Salaries will plummet, rent will skyrocket, crime will go up, quality of life will drop. Your neighbors will have to move out and new tenants will be 20+ people who don't speak your language and share none of your values.

Funny thing is those who opened the gate will be protected from consequences of their own policies in their gated communities.

That's what we see here in Canada after reckless immigration policies implemented by past government.
by abeppu | 2025-09-20 03:09:36+00:00
What's the basis for saying that the "original purpose" was to let companies hire "truly exceptional foreign workers"?

My understanding is that the H-1B was introduced by the 1990 immigration act, where the H-1B is supposed to be for "specialty occupations" other than nursing. But the same act introduced EB-1 and O-1 for people with "extraordinary ability", which sounds a lot closer to your "truly exceptional" understanding. I think maybe you're projecting a purpose onto the program that was never really there. The H-1B quota when it was introduced was 65k, so it's not like it started out being dramatically rarer than it is today.
by notpushkin | 2025-09-20 03:10:23+00:00
For some inexplicable reason, this site does not load properly for me. It also has apparently eaten all my memory.

Edit: it works if you put it through archive.ph: https://archive.ph/ruSeX

And here’s the model collection: https://makerworld.com/en/collections/453534-business-card-e...
by haberman | 2025-09-20 03:10:41+00:00
This was an interesting article, but it made me even more interested in the author's larger take on R as a language:

> In the years since, my discomfort has given away to fascination. I’ve come to respect R’s bold choices, its clarity of focus, and the R community’s continued confidence to ‘do their own thing’.

I would love to see a follow-up article about the key insights that the author took away from diving more deeply into R.
by chwahoo | 2025-09-20 03:11:03+00:00
I haven't closely followed distributed protocols like this in years so might just be just behind the times, but I can't recall ever seeing "Pro Censorship" as a badge on a technology.

Seems to fit with real-world trends that confuse and frustrate me. I'm not saying we need a censorship-proof world, just that I find this quite jarring. I suspect I might be missing some context.
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 03:11:09+00:00
Level 4 is also described as "This is the fully competent wage level. It is for anyone who have sufficient experience to plan and do work that requires judgement and do independent evaluation, selection, modification and skills. Usually these roles would have management or supervisory responsibilities."

Do you think that the median "Software" developer being brought over on a H1-B is Level 4? Even if you think a large number of them are L4, do you see the issue with trying to exceed a median salary at 150k if the L1 is 117k and the L4 (management or supervisory) is only 212k ... and we're using data from one of the most expensive corners of the US?
by strcat | 2025-09-20 03:11:23+00:00
It's available since October 2023 when it launched on the Pixel 8. We integrated it into hardened_malloc that month and deployed it in production. We've been working on further research and improvements based on MTE since then.

GrapheneOS always uses it for the kernel, all of the base OS processes including apps with a couple exceptions, user installed apps opting into it and user installed apps solely written in Java/Kotlin which are very common on Android. For other user installed apps, there's a toggle for users to opt-in and most apps work with it already. For apps not known to work with it, there's a user-facing system for MTE crash reports and users can make an exception. Users can't disable it for base OS apps or apps which should work due to opting in or being pure Java/Kotlin.

Apple uses it for the kernel and parts of the base OS. They require opt-in by app developers and discourage doing it.

GrapheneOS is working on improvements to the kernel integration, Chromium PartitionAlloc integration and other aspects of it. We'll enable enforcement of tags for untagged memory once that's available, but we're also expanding the tagging. As an example, fully enabling stack allocation tagging has a more than acceptable performance cost for GrapheneOS but not Apple or Google. That's something we've been actively testing and will be deploying.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-09-20 03:11:31+00:00
> Linters can't fix language semantics that create dead-ends for static analysis. It's not a matter of trying harder to make a better linter. If a language doesn't have clear-enough aliasing, immutability, ownership, thread-safety, etc. then a lot of analysis falls apart

this assertion is known disproven. seL4 is a fully memory safe (and also has even more safety baked in) major systems programming behemoth that is written on c + annotations where the analysis is conducted in a sidecar.

to obtain extra safety (but still not as safe as seL4) in rust, you must add a sidecar in the form of MIRI. nobody proposes adding MIRI into rust.

now, it is true that sel4 is a pain in the ass to write,compile+check, but there is a lot of design space in the unexplored spectrum of rust, rust+miri, sel4.
by edoceo | 2025-09-20 03:11:54+00:00
Right. But you know how to fetch and inspect (yea?) so, I with you that piping random crap to sh is bad. Maybe these snips encourage that behavior.

Tauri is trustable (for some loose definition) and the pipe to shell is just a well known happy-path.

All that to say it's a low value smell test.

Also, I'm in the camp that would rather git clone and then docker up. My understanding is it gives me a littl more sandbox.
by shirro | 2025-09-20 03:11:59+00:00
I have always hated the mad scientist archetype in media because it feels anti-intellectual and unrealistic but then you consider Unit 731, Joseph Mengele and all the experiments on black people, children, prisoners and service people in the USA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... you have to wonder if perhaps some of the portrayals aren't a bit tame.

It is disturbing how much psuedo science and unethical shit just gets a pass. If their media is to be believed they talk about polygraphs in the US like they are anything but a means to pressure a confession while the rest of the world regards them as pseudo-science.

Consider that the places forcing freshman to be photographed for what was essentually racist eugenics psuedo science were supposed to be places of learning. Its wild. Like what the hell is wrong with our species?
by remorse_jaunty | 2025-09-20 03:12:02+00:00
Couple years back I walked away from a company that IPO’ed, cashed out enough to not worry about rent or food for the next 20–30 years. I swore off jobs, told myself I’d build something of my own. But I haven’t built anything. Haven’t even tried applying anywhere, too stubborn for that. Most days I just circle around ideas, start, stop, drop. Repeat. Money isn’t the problem—it’s this gnawing restlessness, this sense that I’m wasting what could have been momentum. I don’t know what I’m building, and that not-knowing is eating me more than anything else.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-20 03:13:32+00:00
When I finally switched fully to Linux a few years ago I decided to go with Kubuntu and overall I've been satisfied. It's customizable so I can make it look and feel pretty similar to Win98 (always my goal :-) and works pretty smoothly. There are occasional hiccups but I had problems with Windows too. It's pretty amazing how full-featured KDE is.
by yalogin | 2025-09-20 03:13:42+00:00
Actually it’s much more sinister. It’s another way to force companies to kiss the ring. The government apparently can grant exceptions if they deem it’s in the good of the country.

> The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.
by cmxch | 2025-09-20 03:14:49+00:00
Then make the GCC itself unprofitable to operate as an extractive force and the costs unable to be mitigated as an extractive entity.

Your GCCs will be paying for the direct training of the US side people you overlooked and essentially a generous and well backed “pension” for the few that can’t be made current.

Unless you’re helping to fix the pipeline problem you allege exists, you’re expanding the problem space.
by throw81398475 | 2025-09-20 03:17:15+00:00
I see this sentiment (that if someone can get a FANG job then they can get a startup job easily) on here all the time, and it is a belief that needs to die.

When I took an offer at Google I had literally been searching for months and had no other offers.

Years later, after a couple years career break I had been searching for months and could hardly get startups to talk to me, but X and Meta seemed very interested (I was not interested in them).

I know it sounds intuitive that if someone can land a gig at one of the large companies then they can easily get a job at someplace that's doing "good work" but this is often not the case.
by Animats | 2025-09-20 03:17:15+00:00
The $100,000 fee isn't the real route to a visa. See the proclamation text: [1]

(c) The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.

"At the Secretary's discretion" means "get your bribes ready". Lobbyists are probably already working the phones on this.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 03:17:38+00:00
Ferret7446:

> Even Hitler's actions can be traced through a perfectly understandable, although not morally condone-able, chain of events. I truly believe that he did not want to just kill people and commit evil, he truly wanted to better Germany and the human race, but on his journey he drove right off the road, so to speak.

Disgusting take. Don't simp for hitler. How am I having to type this in 2025?
Saving Microsoft Movies and TV Titles as Videos on Windows 10 PC
by steviewonderyrs | 2025-09-20 03:18:03+00:00
Hi, I am writing this because I am using a Windows 10 PC, and I need advice from a major tech geek about how to manually hack the copyright protection used for content on the Movies & TV feature on Microsoft? I purchased a season of a TV show a while back that I paid $19.99 for & I might lose access to it now because I have to convert to Windows 11 in October & the Microsoft Movies & TV app recently disabled the ability to purchase new content. So, I am concerned I will not be able to access the content I already purchased when I change to Windows 11. I am worried the Movies & TV app will no longer even be compatible. And yes... I know the process of removing DRM violates numerous "anti-piracy" laws with the FBI, subject to fines, possible jail time, being investigated, legal fees, permeant record, etc. Therefore, IF anybody is going to bring the focus of this thread to all those things, then respectfully don't even waste the time/energy to comment. I am aware of the risks I am taking. I collect content all the time with software like StreamFab & apps like Soulseek for my collection for personal use & I DO NOT sell it to anyone or claim it to be my own. Therefore, that is totally legal. There is nothing out there I can find that uses simple terminology and step by step instructions on how to remove Microsoft PlayReady DRM or whatever kind the Movies & TV developers use to protect their content. If there is anybody reading this who can SERIOUSLY help me, please respond or email me. If you do not want to put it in writing, we can always email to start & I can give you my phone number if you feel comfortable and we can talk verbally so it cannot be tracked. And before anybody suggests it, I will not use a Screen Recorder to save the videos because I want them in the quality that I paid for and free of ridiculous watermarks. My email is steviewonderyrs@gmail.com if you want to reach out to me that way and have experience/knowledge in this kind of stuff! Thank you all for reading & thanks in advance for your help!
by ornornor | 2025-09-20 03:18:10+00:00
Glad it got resolved, if this isn’t an excellent reason to get off slack and a perfect illustration sd to why owning your data matters then I don’t know what is.

I hear mattermost is a good alternative and you can self host it.

Good luck, I’m sure teaching teens to code as a nonprofit is hard work enough, I can’t imagine worrying about losing 11 years worth of messsges on top of it.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 03:18:18+00:00
It has nothing to do with “skin color,” but economics, culture, and worldview.

“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family. The opinion advanced in the Notes on Virginia is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived, or if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, so essential to real republicanism? There may as to particular individuals, and at particular times, be occasional exceptions to these remarks, yet such is the general rule.” — Alexander Hamilton
by hansvm | 2025-09-20 03:18:35+00:00
That's wild to me. I'm mostly not a fan of browser-based tools, and I was apprehensive of Discord calling things "servers" when they're clearly not (if they lie about that then what else?), but it's been rock-solid for me and for several friend groups for ~6 years. We don't use any particularly fancy features (chat, voice, streaming, various settings changes on all of those, etc), but we use a mix of clients/web/mobile-web, and out of all of us there was exactly one issue in that time (a few weeks were incompatible with a particularly esoteric browser, fixed not long after I reported it).
by strcat | 2025-09-20 03:18:53+00:00
MTE is also available on a bunch of non-Pixel devices we can't support or which don't meet our other requirements.

8th/9th generation Pixels are half of the devices we support. 7 years of support is the status quo but it was 3 years before the Pixel 6 raised it to 5 so the earlier devices aren't supported anymore.