MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonstaab | 2025-09-19 21:17:45+00:00
Nostr is essentially a compromise between p2p and traditional web architectures. It cuts with the grain of the internet by using web servers, while reducing the dependence users have on servers by using keys for identity and digital signatures for authenticating data.

The effect is that users have "credible exit" (among other things), which has been discussed for years. This doesn't really create any new "use cases", which is why the use case is often described as "whatever, it's the new internet".

What it does do is introduce a very different set of trade-offs which favor user control over platform control (with the attendant UX trade-offs (or at least a different set of UX idioms)).

The reason the focus is on social is because that represents the majority of applications that do exist, the original motivation for building the protocol, and a value proposition (censorship resistance) that lots of people can relate to.
by gorbachev | 2025-09-19 21:18:08+00:00
It is, however, a great opportunity for Canada and Western Europe to snatch all those people who now aren't able to come to the United States.

I know for a fact that multinational companies are expanding in exactly those areas (plus India) for exactly the reason that it's become very difficult to hire and move people to the US.

Those workers aren't paying taxes in the United States, and obviously the companies hiring people outside of the US aren't going to hire people for those positions in the United States.
by toast0 | 2025-09-19 21:18:32+00:00
If you're a US investor, investing in US R&D is easy, you have a good idea of how things work and how to get justice if you're defrauded.

If you want to invest in another country, that's a big change. There's certainly opportunity there, but without knowledge and contacts, it can be very hard to get things done.

One track to investing in foreign R&D is foreign nationals come and work in the US to earn skills, knowledge, and capital, and then they take those earnings and invest them in their country of origin, maybe living here or there.
by dgs_sgd | 2025-09-19 21:19:49+00:00
Interesting. I think this gets at guywithhat’s sibling comment:

> you'd have to do a study to show that the talent couldn't have been trained in the US, and that an increased supply of workers didn't drag down salaries, either short or long-term.

If the median H1B for software is exactly the same as the overall median, it makes you wonder if the median would be different if the H1B was not an option available to employers.
by oenton | 2025-09-19 21:19:53+00:00
> The Biden administration had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter.

This is categorically false. Are you referring to this story, where the Biden administration asked Facebook to take down Covid misinformation and "expressed a lot of frustration" when Zuckerberg told them no?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh...

If not, then where did you learn that the Biden administration "had (and used) the ability to demote conservative news outlets on Facebook and Twitter"?
by darnir | 2025-09-19 21:20:24+00:00
Uhh. No. That's a common misconception held by people that don't actually read their T&Cs. Your worth authorization is tied to "a" employer for the first two years. The employee is completely free to quit and enter into a contract with another employer. All you have to do is go get the name of the employer updated. It's just a formality and nothing else.

Yes, you have three months to find a new job if you're fired, but it's Europe, you most likely got at least a 3 month notice as well.
by rayiner | 2025-09-19 21:20:32+00:00
The affirmative action programs are largely inconsequential because non-Han only account for 9% of the population. In contrast to DEI in the U.S., where about 45% of the youngest generation belongs to groups that would qualify for racial preferences.

Also, the goal of the Chinese system is assimilation into the Han Chinese dominant culture. And they have reeducation camps for minorities that insist on cultural separatism.
by ge96 | 2025-09-19 21:20:36+00:00
Tech-wise in the US it was tough. I went to work in factory for a bit. I had recruiters hitting me up but they were 6 month contracts so I kept turning those down but eventually I just accepted one and I'm almost a year in now.

I will note I at the time had 5 YOE but no degree so that is a factor (many I don't qualify since no degree).

Reading r/cscareerquestions is depressing not that I go on there much now. People talking about applying to thousands of jobs.
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-09-19 21:20:37+00:00
The entire market works through supply and demand. The basic idea is if you can't find someone willing to work for $x an hour you have to raise x until you find someone.

The h1bs are often used to abuse that system by just importing someone willing to work for x, with the added bonus of it being very hard for them to ever leave your company.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-09-19 21:20:40+00:00
I was unemployed for 14 months in 2023/2024.

It definitely hit my self-esteem, as well as 401(k).

I ended up taking a job with Microsoft, but it was a poor fit because I hate the company as well as the product area I was in.

As soon as I could I found another employer that, while not perfect, I'm much happier with.
by baobun | 2025-09-19 21:21:03+00:00
You can get pretty close to guarantees.

Fresh git checkout on prod publish. Run all npm/node commands in ephemeral rootless containers. Only have publish token exposed and injected when you are actually publishing (not on install/build just prior). Separating users like you mentioned doesn't hurt bt doesn't sound like your lower-hanging fruit nor something that would likely save your bacon on its own without other workflow adjustments.

None of this is relatively difficult per se, just a bit extra friction which should be worth it to avoid these kinds of events.
by guyzero | 2025-09-19 21:21:31+00:00
Everyone in these threads always points out all sorts of issues with the H1B system, which are mostly true, but it's not like there's a suggestion for a replacement here. This is a de facto shutdown of the program, not a reform. I'd be happy to see a reformed skilled immigration program for the US, but this isn't it.

The US makes up about 4.5% of the global population and it seems silly to think that the FAANG companies and the new AI startups chasing behind them are going to restrict their hiring to this tiny slice of the global talent pool.

The only effect this is going to have is accelerating the offshoring of jobs through more hiring in India, Europe and Canada, which is a net loss for the US.

I myself became a US citizen two years ago after being on a H1B. I was paid the same as all my peers and for all its shortcomings the program worked for me. It stunning to think this has been closed off, killing the main path for skilled immigration into the US.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-19 21:21:46+00:00
> one wish is the west adopted Chinese style kitchens

This works if there is a designated member of the household (whether family or employee) who prepares food away from everyone else.

It doesn't for a social setting. Fortunately, the only thing you need to reach the health benefits of the former in an open kitchen is a good vent. If you have a multi-story home, the motor doesn't even have to be in the kitchen, allowing for quiet designs.
by c2h5oh | 2025-09-19 21:21:53+00:00
I was once told to stop wasting time submitting PRs adding null checks on data submitted via a public API. You know, the kind of checks that prevented said API from crashing if a part of payload was missing. I was told to stop again with my concerns dismissed when I pointed similar things out during code review. I left that company not long after, but it's still around with over a quarter of a billion in funding.

I would love to say that this was an exception during almost 20 years of my professional career, but it wasn't. It was certainly the worst, but also much closer to average experience than it should have been.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-19 21:22:11+00:00
> A core strategic strength of the US over the last century has been that everyone with any talent wants to come here to work, and by and large we’ve let them do so.

That's largely a myth, though. The vast majority of smart, driven people have no path to lawfully immigrate to the US.

By a wide margin, the main immigration pathway are family visas (i.e., marriages and citizens bringing in relatives). H-1B visas are a comparatively small slice that's available via a lottery only to some professions and some backgrounds - and the process is basically gamed by low-wage consultancies, with a large proportion of the rest gobbled up by a handful of Big Tech employers. And that's before we even get to the fact that H-1B doesn't necessarily give you a path to permanent residency, depending on where you're from.

For most people who aren't techies, the options are really very limited, basically "be exceptionally wealthy", "be a celebrity", or "be one of the world's foremost experts on X".
by godelski | 2025-09-19 21:22:16+00:00
Well the reason you don't move a bridge is because it's really hard and really expensive. Just like you don't build an airplane while it's flying because it couldn't be flying if it wasn't built.

The analogies seem to just be missing the point. There's constraints, so what?

I've worked in hard science, engineering, and software. No one is omniscient, so the goals evolve and pivot during the project. That's pretty standard practice. You can't just plan and execute unless you're omniscient. Honestly, the big differences I see is that programmers spend less time at the drawing board and engineers and scientists spend much more time there because working in physical space is very costly and time consuming. But there's a lot of similarities. Programmers would be more effective if they spend more time at the drawing board and engineers would be more effective if they could hack on their tasks more cheaply (which is why sim has had such an impact for them)
by 48terry | 2025-09-19 21:22:29+00:00
Okay. Now: Imagine it's 2025:

Cookbook: Open book, follow steps.

New gadget from mult-billion dollar company: showcases on a live demonstration that it's a broken piece of crap that doesn't work.

Like, are we forgetting that it didn't work? It sucked at the job! Let's not what-if or have some imaginary "okay, but pretend it's actually good," deal here. It was bad!
by byroot | 2025-09-19 21:22:41+00:00
They haven't been contracted by Ruby Central since May by their own account: https://bsky.app/profile/duckinator.bsky.social/post/3lz7lec...

The other people I know who had their accesses removed have resigned from RC a while ago, and the one I still see with access on https://rubygems.org/gems/bundler are people I know are currently employed or contractors.

As far as I can tell, this part of the Ruby Central statement seems to check out. Now you can of course debate whether commit rights should be limited to employees, but have have no indication that they lied here.
by mbesto | 2025-09-19 21:22:44+00:00
> You can argue how well that’s worked out for us

And its an easy argument:

The Manhattan Project engaged thousands of scientists, but over 16 notable principal scientists (with major published credits) were foreign-born and either retained their citizenship or became naturalized U.S. citizens only after escaping persecution or war in Europe.

As of 2025, about 10-12 CEOs of the top 50 Fortune 500 (F50) companies were born outside the United States, representing roughly 20-25% of F50 CEOs. This number has grown over the past two decades, reflecting increasing diversity among leadership at America's largest corporations.

Nearly half of all Fortune 500 companies in 2025—specifically 44%—were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants, meaning the original founders were not born in the United States or were the first generation after immigration.

These are just three major examples.
by knotbin | 2025-09-19 21:22:45+00:00
"This is just marketing"

Do you know how many other INFINITELY LESS EXPENSIVE forms of marketing there are? Of course it's marketing, Ryan Dahl even said openly "I can justify spending money on it because it does get Deno's name out there" on Twitter.

But yeah sure this is just an evil plot to get you to use a free MIT licensed runtime or a cloud hosting provider.
by nopelynopington | 2025-09-19 21:22:54+00:00
We're lucky enough where we live to have a surviving map of the area from the 1600s. On this map, north is at the bottom, and south is at the top, as there was no convention that said it should be otherwise. From the same mapping survey there are other maps that are not oriented merely south but also southwest, southeast, West entirely. The survey taken in the 1600s was not even consistent from map to map - it was enough to show a compass to indicate which way North is.
by wnc3141 | 2025-09-19 21:24:18+00:00
H1B's are a invaluable part of our communities and America's immense capital and soft power. However there is also a ~7% unemployment rate of new CS/CE grads. (Not including underemployment). This is after tech firms begging schools to reallocate vast amounts of public money into teeing up young tech employees. With the vast availability of a global workforce, there is little incentive to train junior workers.

Of course much of this could be solved by narrowing the gap between the lowest earnings and highest earnings workers so that the tech career path wasn't so high of stakes. Anybody working should have the opportunity to launch into a dignified adult life. There must be a conversation ultimately about where the vast profits of tech firms should sit within our economy.
by vovavili | 2025-09-19 21:24:38+00:00
Taking the well-being of abstract concepts like a country over the well-being of concrete individuals is a slippery road towards a particularly unappealing version of collectivism. Me emigrating from Eastern to Western Europe was among the best decisions I have made in my entire life, and I couldn't care less if the outcome of this is my country doing "worse". My country by itself doesn't feel nor think anything, but I certainly do. One of these thoughts is me not believing that I have a civic duty to be less well-off materially and mentally just so my taxes get re-routed to a country I accidentally happened to be born in. I vote with my feet.
by riazrizvi | 2025-09-19 21:24:53+00:00
Yes. 3 years. Marriage ended. Sold everything.

But emotionally, much better off than last year.

Making ends meet with a return to non-tech after a 3 decade break. Won’t ever stop doing that at least part-time, going forward, for security. For tech, focused on a body of work to create opportunities.

Optimistic.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-19 21:25:14+00:00
This 100%. If it comes that that in the U.S. and there is no other practical alternative, I will buy the cheapest Android phone I can find to run those locked down apps on it when needed, and leave it powered off the rest of the time. All my personal business will continue to be done on my Graphene device, that's non-negotiable.
by vnuge | 2025-09-19 21:25:26+00:00
nostr cryptographic developer here (author of libnoscrypt C library)

Nip04 has been deprecated, and to be clear, in practice the nip04 payload is in a signed nip01 event wrapper.

nip44 replaced nip04, which has been reviewed/audited. Does use authenticated encryption in the message payload with forward secrecy, again in practice wrapped in a nip01 event, singed by the author, usually by the same cryptographic software used to encrypt the message.

nip44 is becoming more widely used for direct messages and other "private" metadata stored on relays. It's chacha20 + hkdf.
by dyauspitr | 2025-09-19 21:25:42+00:00
It was 16 months for me in engineering management but then I wasn’t really looking for the first 6 months so probably closer to 10 months. Been employed for over a year now with a drastic pay increase.

Best time of my life honestly, after 15 years of working. I realized I get 0 pleasure from working and have plenty of things to occupy me if I wasn’t. I learned I don’t need a purpose in life. What I really love is running, woodworking, reading, eating, lifting weights, traveling and spending time with my family.
by kelnos | 2025-09-19 21:25:46+00:00
I think perhaps part of the point being made is that the ratio should not be the same. We should be bringing in higher-than-average and exceptional talent via these visas. If we're just mirroring the skills and talent level of the native workforce, we should be drawing from the native workforce.

I don't buy the argument that there's a big shortage of talent for these jobs in the US, especially in a job market like there is right now.

Having said that, I do know quite a few people who have been in the US on H-1B visas, and many of them are exceptionally skilled. I think those are the kinds of people we should be granting H-1B visas. I also know quite a few H-1B holders who I wouldn't ever want to work with again, and there are too many people in that group. Not saying there aren't plenty of US citizens I wouldn't want to work with ever again, but that's a separate issue.
by oytis | 2025-09-19 21:25:52+00:00
The conditions look like the only requirement is being a professional with college degree.

I am an immigrant (not to US though), so looking from this standpoint. If I wanted to move to the US, H1B would be a pretty straightforward way for me to do so - as it is for many professionals now. With this path cut off - what is left to people who are just good professionals in their field, but maybe not exactly Nobel laureates? There is Green card lottery, but being a lottery, it's not ideal for life planning, and it doesn't account for one's professional achievements.
by 6c696e7578 | 2025-09-19 21:26:20+00:00
Large organisations have less excuse, not more. I've worked across the industry, at various levels. The bigger the org, the more layers of compliance that have to be adhered to. A competent and compliant sales team would not be pulling figures at random to extort with. The sales team is normally bonus motivated, normally that type of reward system ensures they're not just chair warming.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-19 21:26:34+00:00
There's a ton of abuse, feigned work and loopholes, and rules that undermine the law and also make foreign workers a 2nd class.

Amongst other elements that should be fixed:

* Taxation without representation (i'm suggesting adding the latter, not removing the former)

* The H1B worker must be paid at or above the higher of the median rate at the company for the role or at the employee's request by an independent valuation for the role, this ensures workers are not being paid less

* The fee should be prorated, monthly, over the 6 year span of the H1B, allowing the company to spread it over time and manage cashflow

* The H1B worker should only be contractually required to stay for the average tenure of the role in the industry (which afaik is 18mo right now)

* The H1B worker should be able to easily port their H1B over to another employer. The new employer must pay the fee, prorated, on the H1B, the prior employer will be reimbursed prorated unused fees
by dtagames | 2025-09-19 21:26:43+00:00
I already had experience deploying web apps so I use the same setup I have a workflow for. But if that's not been someone's experience, DevOps, as you say, it's going to be a hard road.

My advice is not to build anything you cannot be sure you can ship. And you must know how it will ship before you code it to ensure that happens.
by computersuck | 2025-09-19 21:26:46+00:00
RPIs have always had shit cpu performance - the initial idea for the pi was to use very low cost broadcom crap chips that no one would buy and market it for "educational" use.

They are essentially for kids to play around with learning computers by blinking LEDs and integrating with circuit boards. The idea of building a high performance cluster with pis is dumb from day one
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-09-19 21:27:01+00:00
>All the H1B's I have worked with are whip smart, hard working, and in general amazing people. I cant say the same for all my localy sourced colleges.

Anecdotally myself, I've worked with great ones yes, but the majority aren't incredible.

In the tech arms of banks you can see a lot of what I would describe as at best regular software engineers, nothing special.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-h1b-visa-middlemen-c...
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-19 21:27:07+00:00
> An H1b software engineer median is ~$120k.

> Using other official sources, the median pay for US software engineers overall is... ~$120k.

So, it seems that if we remove H1b workers and assume that the demand would have stayed the same, then domestic salaries should have been higher. Assuming, of course, that companies won’t simply offshore.
by angoragoats | 2025-09-19 21:27:24+00:00
> Why did you include that list of sponsors at the bottom of your post?

The paragraph immediately preceding the list begins with a sentence mentioning the sponsors. How did you not see this?

> What's with the "contingent on employment status or ideological alignment" bit about? That's not been mentioned anywhere else so far.

“not been mentioned anywhere else” is false. If you click on the PDF linked to in this very post it mentions that only full time employees of RubyCentral maintained access to their GitHub account.

I find it ironic that you’re so quick to question whether something is LLM-authored given that you write so much about using LLMs.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-19 21:28:28+00:00
"I'm just surprised how the responses here(including the original announcement post) at HN of all places are mild and at times indifferent to the fact that we are about to give up control of our devices and make Google the arbitrator of what we can run on them"

Some might argue the corporate OS[1] user never had "control of [their] devices"

As in the past, more hassles are to come for Android users, but some might doubt this idea that users currently have control or ever had control

Why the hassles

Because the user has no control over the OS

The corporation might increase or decrease the hassles, making users happy or unhappy (or indifferent), but either way the user never has control

In a non-corporate OS the user can generally edit the OS to her liking

Introducing hassles in a non-corporate would cause users who were annoyed to remove them

In other words, if users choose a non-corporate OS where users have control then there is no need to "raise awareness among people, among law makers or people whose opinions matter to make Google take notice"

1. For example, the ones from Silicon Valley and Redmond
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by giantg2 | 2025-09-19 21:28:41+00:00
We would have to look at that by industry. For example, if median developer pay is $130k, then both of your numbers are below that and would bring the median down. $118k for highly skilled workers (purpose of H1B) seems low to me. Additionally, the upper bound for the middle class in all 50 states is above $100k.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-09-19 21:28:58+00:00
This mischaracterization was a view that many on the left have already disproven in the past few days (major black, gay, and women influencers who have changed their views on Kirk) when they looked into it, which is why a mass outflow from the left is being witnessed.

It’s not a surprise with the bubble people are living in though.