MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 18:50:27+00:00
Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. It's specific corner case of FCC licensing. ABC didn't have to cancel Jimmy and could have called FCC's bluff and tried to file a lawsuit based on 1st Amendment. But the PR look was pretty bad. Instead of saying "condolences for the family, etc" now they are defending Kimmel's phrasing.

> Looking forward to Rep. Mike Lee also being fired for spreading misinformation about a politically-motivated killing.

It's going to happen once the democrats are in power and fox or whatever channel broadcast lie and it's related to a crime. I don't see it happening in congress though.

> MN Rep. Melissa Hortman.

Sadly I don't know if anyone there knows who Hortman is.
by cs_throwaway | 2025-09-20 18:50:28+00:00
I think a lot of people arguing about the H1B visa are talking past each other.

- There is no doubt a large volume of abuse by tech consulting companies. It's likely even worse than it looks, because the H1Bs in the U.S. are to support even larger teams offshore. I don't understand why we can't just blacklist these companies.

- Some of medium-skill hires, e.g., did a 2 year MS degree from random university in the U.S., are also a bit sus, in my opinion.

- I'll bet several of Zuck's recent $10M Superintelligence Team hires were at least briefly on an H1B before getting their EB-1A Green Cards.

- Same for a lot of faculty in computer science -- you can get an EB-1B Green Card quickly, but you have to spend some time on an H1B. You cannot convert directly from a student visa. The O-1 exists, but is not on most people's radars in academia. I think likely because the legal fees are prohibitively expensive. (I have heard $40K+)
by ellen364 | 2025-09-20 18:50:56+00:00
"Approximately 1 million a year net" is completely true. In 2023 the UK's net migration was 906,000. But for context I'll add that it was a historic high and in 2024 net migration fell to 431,000.

The Migration Observatory at Oxford publishes excellent summaries about migration trends, e.g. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo...
by dang | 2025-09-20 18:51:18+00:00
This submission was flagged by HN users. Moderators didn't touch it or even see it until a couple minutes ago.

Not sure if this makes me more or less "complicit" (except insofar as such perceptions are monotonic, so can only become more, never less), but I have to agree with the flaggers here. OP is an opinion piece about a Major Ongoing Topic that is so major and so ongoing that the bar for Significant New Information is too high for most opinion pieces to clear.

If that convoluted sentence doesn't make sense, it's probably because I'm using HN moderation jargon—but there are many explanations available:

major ongoing topics: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

significant new information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

how we handle stories with political overlap: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-20 18:51:50+00:00
One way would be to have an accelerometer detect that the phone is falling, and have tiny spring-actuated bumpers, wires, or feet extend from the corners of the phone to catch its fall. Little stainless-steel or Nitinol wires would do great.

Here's a patent for the idea which just expired this year: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7059182B1/

Apple also patented some versions of this, although I think not as nice as the 2005 one: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9571150B2
by timr | 2025-09-20 18:51:53+00:00
> Polling in the US has swung in favor of immigration

Don't forget to quote the parts that contradict your statement:

> After climbing to 55% in 2024, the percentage of Americans who say immigration should be reduced has dropped by nearly half to 30%. Sentiment is thus back to the level measured in 2021, before the desire for less immigration started to mount. Meanwhile, 38% now want immigration kept at its current level, and 26% say it should be increased.

Overall, this poll paints a picture of moderation from a period of anti-immigrant sentiment, not of a population that has "swung in favor of immigration", as you assert.

(It also has nothing to do with H1B visas specifically. As far as I can tell, it's almost entirely about illegal immigration.)
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-20 18:52:39+00:00
Relevant to immigration bans, this clause is what seems to give the president very broad authority on immigration (see also Muslim ban).

> Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.

Congress shouldn’t be writing this sort of broad language into its laws. Congress has delegated a ton of power to the executive and now Trump is going to pressure test it. The current Supreme Court will decide this clause is wide enough to drive an iceberg through.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182?utm_source=ch...
by rendx | 2025-09-20 18:53:58+00:00
"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."

See https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

Nothing in there says it only applies to new applicants.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-20 18:54:03+00:00
The problem though is that there is no market. No one wants this thing, no one will buy this thing, hence no manufacturers will care to develop or sell any of the modules.

Sure there's maybe a few thousand hackers, but the phone market is measured in hundreds of millions, not thousands.

The phone itself will be inferior in hardware, inferior in software, inferior in services, inferior in support, and so on.

There us no market.
by nailer | 2025-09-20 18:54:17+00:00
https://www.newsweek.com/vance-boelter-suspect-democrat-assa...

> However, a 2019 document shows Walz signed off on Boelter's appointment "because of the special trust and confidence I have in your integrity, judgment, and ability."

> Hortman provided the sole Democratic vote in Minnesota's lower chamber to pass a Republican bill that would strip adult undocumented migrants of state-funded healthcare.

> Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) said they had found "No Kings" flyers in the suspect's car, and the "No Kings" protests across the state have been cancelled.

> However, a state report in 2016 listed Boelter's political affiliation as "none or other," and another report in 2020 listed him as having "no party preference," according to the New York Times

That’s literally the first story of the guy you can get on Google. How come you didn’t mention them? Maybe you’re about to tell me the news week is some kind of Republican publication while you accuse me of manipulating information.

He did register as Republican more than two decades ago, but I can’t find any information about the No Kings guy voting for Trump.

sorry, why do you think he wasn’t left-wing?
by alwa | 2025-09-20 18:55:08+00:00
What if, as a condition of the visa [0], the sponsoring high-performing immigrant guarantees that the relative won’t become a public charge, and becomes legally bound to reimburse the public purse if that happens?

I seem to recall the notion that elderly people are normally isolated, atomized wards of the “aged-care industry” as a relatively recent innovation, no? Versus people seeking to bring elderly relatives to reproduce the sort of multigenerational households that more traditionally handled aging care, and that do that today in other parts of the world?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_charge_rule
by moritzwarhier | 2025-09-20 18:55:26+00:00
It seems more credible to me that they would cut off a sizable portion of their viewers by forcing widevine DRM.

Or is it something different you are thinking about?

What benefits does DRM even provide for public, ad-supported content that you don't need to log for in order to watch it?

Does DRM cryptography offer solutions against ad blocking, or downloading videos you have legitimate access to?

Sorry that I'm too lazy to research this, but I'd appreciate if you elaborate more on this.

And also, I think they're playing the long game and will be fine to put up a login wall and aggressively block scraping and also force ID. Like Instagram.

Would be glad if I'm wrong, but I don't think so. They just haven't reached a sufficient level of monopolization for this and at the same time, the number of people watching YouTube without at least being logged in is probably already dwindling.

So they're not waiting anymore to be profitable, they already are, through ads and data collection.

But they have plenty of headroom left to truly start boiling the frog, and become a closed platform.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-20 18:55:27+00:00
> Why do they ignore the fact that so many people use cases (and the market opportunity)?

Apple sells cases.

There are ruggedized phones available. The market is small.

You can get away without a case with a modern iPhone for longer than most people assume.

The average person does better with a $10 sacrificial case layer that snaps on to their phone that can be replaced whenever they want or if it gets damaged.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-09-20 18:55:52+00:00
I didn’t make the assumption but it sounded like a reasonable assumption based on the pronouns you used. You said “could you software engineers stop making things harder for yourselves.” A reasonable interpretation of this is that you aren’t a software engineer.

Reinforced softly by the rest of your comment not being technically sound. Adding a second language that is meaningfully different in its strengths and weaknesses isn’t “bureaucracy”. Bureaucracy is more like “sign a CLA before you can contribute”.
by edflsafoiewq | 2025-09-20 18:55:56+00:00
> What decision-making process led to the idea of injecting human urine into a frog in the first place?

Hormones are basically messages sent through an animal's body to signal some change should take place. It was discovered that there was a hormone called hCG produced by the human placenta that triggers "you're pregnant" changes in the body. hCG is also present in the urine.

So if you want to detect a hormone, the idea is you inject it into an animal and see if it triggers the relevant changes (since the changes are usually internal, you generally need to kill the animal to check). So you would look for an animal that responds somehow to the hCG hormone, inject urine into it, and check for the response. Mice and rabbits were first used, but it was eventually discovered that certain species of frog that are highly sensitive to hormonal changes made for much simpler and faster testing.
by zzo38computer | 2025-09-20 18:56:18+00:00
> Features like GitHub Actions, Copilot, and Codespaces also creates vendor lock-in.

It is possible to use GitHub Actions in ways that do not create vendor lock-in. (Unfortunately this is not always the case.)

> GitHub tracks user behavior through telemetry data, including all interactions on the platform

You might be able to work with using only the API, like I do (I can't log in anyways (due to forced 2FA that doesn't work), so I have to use the API). (There might still be server-side logging, but this should prevent client-side telemetry.)

> and GitHub Copilot uses the publicly available source code to train its AI

Publicly available source code is public and can already be used by anyone anyways.

> Rather than promoting quality software, it has become a matter of "stars" and "likes".

I think that you do not have to use these features; you can still host a mirror of your repository. I find the "stars" and "likes" to not be very helpful anyways. It is a problem that many people try to overemphasize these features, though.

> GitHub's decision-making processes regarding policy changes and feature implementations has no regard for users and it can change at any time

I do believe that there are significant problems with their policies, so they are right about that part.

> Consider open source self-hosting solutions

I think having multiple mirrors is more helpful, whether or not GitHub, Codeberg, etc are some of them. (You might want to mention the multiple mirrors in the README file. Some projects on GitHub already do this.)

The hashes can be used to identify git objects regardless of which mirrors are being used, and you can also have signed commits.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-20 18:56:21+00:00
Can you explain why "move to another country with your family, leaving your elderly parents to fend for themselves" is not abandoning ones parents? Most of the world doesn't believe that old people having a roof over their heads and access to healthcare is all it takes for them to not be considered abandoned.

Even moreso with arbitrary rule changes with zero deadlines meaning they can't even necessarily fly back in emergencies without risking losing their status in the US?
by maxbond | 2025-09-20 18:56:48+00:00
Poking at this dissertation (Continuum and Computational Modeling of Flexoelectricity by Sheng Mao):

https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3bc2...

> Flexoelectricity, ever since its discovery, has been regarded as an alternative of piezoelectricity at small scales. In fact, as early as the 1960s, Koehler et al. (1962), Turch´anyi, G. et al. (1973), Whitworth (1975) found that edge dislocations in centrosymmetric materials, such as sodium chloride, carry charge. Later, Perenko & Whitworth (1983) extended the observation to another kind of centrosymmetric material, ice. Piezoelectricity vanishes in these materials, therefore cannot be the source. Instead, a “pseudo-piezoelectric” effect was postulated by Evtushenko et al. (1987) for an explanation, which was later shown to be a result of flexoelectricity Mao & Purohit (2015).

Emphasis added.

So I think this was known but not fully understood by the time Perenko & Whitworth published Electric currents associated with dislocation motion in ice in 1983?

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=69134483967663101...

> In this paper we describe [an] experiment in which a small current is observed due to the movement of dislocations during plastic deformation [of ice].

The same authors of the paper TFA discusses published a preprint in 2022, which could also be what you're thinking of: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00323
by trhway | 2025-09-20 18:56:48+00:00
the next version will come with plasma micro jets ejection from the cutting edge - convenient for civilian use. I'm also wandering about an array of shaped micro-charges on the edge - should be able to cut through several millimeters of steel in one move, etc. so a soldier can cut though an opponent's ballistic vest or a into an lightly armored IFV.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-20 18:56:54+00:00
NotebookLM is extremely badly engineered: The large downloads don't work in mobile browsers. For the longest time, the downloads were in wav format which doesn't make any sense. The mobile app lacks much of the functionality too. The generated audio is often about an altogether different topic than the one I requested. And don't get me started about the quality of the speech -- it still has an occasional "third voice" problem that just doesn't fit in. Overall, I would say its UI fits the culture of shipping utter crap, and I would never hire any designer of that team.
by sfink | 2025-09-20 18:57:26+00:00
Yes. For example, you could always say "give me a jpeg image file that is encoded as the bytes 255, 216, 255, 224, 0, 16, 74, ...". But that's just pointing out that the input to your "LLM" function includes the prompt. It's f(model, prompt) = response.

It's not straightforward to prove that models have to be lossy. Sure, the training data is much larger than the model, but there is a huge amount of redundancy in the training data. You have to compare a hypothetically optimal compression of the training data to the size of the model to prove that it must be lossy. And yet, it's intuitively obvious that even the best lossless compression (measured in Kolmogorov complexity) of the training data is going to be vastly larger than the biggest models we have today.

You can always construct toy examples where this isn't the case. For example, you could just store all of the training data in your model, and train another part of the model to read it out. But that's not an LLM anymore. Similarly, you could make an LLM out of synthetic redundant data and it could achieve perfect recall. (Unless you're clever with how you generate it, though, any off the shelf compression algorithm is likely to produce something much much smaller.)
by jcul | 2025-09-20 18:58:50+00:00
It is essentially, chat logs and shared files. With filters for things like I said it in a thread with person X, on this date, and it had a link etc. That with a quick and easy UI.

I don't think there's anything stopping someone implementing a powerful search like that over IRC logs, or matrix logs or whatever. Just that slack were the ones who did it, and marketed it well so it took off.

Saying that, if I was launching a project or startup I probably would not choose to use slack.
by vintermann | 2025-09-20 18:59:11+00:00
They test specific prompts with temperature 0. It is of course possible that all their tests prompts were lucky, but still then, shouldn't you see an immediate drop followed by a flat or increasing line?

Also, from what I understand from the article, it's not a difficult task but an easily machine checkable one, i.e. whether the output conforms to a specific format.
by zo1 | 2025-09-20 18:59:40+00:00
That is exactly what Democracy is. The only difference is people that are now complaining have, up until recently, actually been "the wolves", and now that they're outnumbered on certain topics and country-wide decisions they complain about the concept itself.

How do you think the people on the other side have felt till now?

The checks and balances only acted as a way to hide the true nature of government.
by pron | 2025-09-20 18:59:53+00:00
Well, that's true for simple type systems. Dependent types are not so practically usable. You're absolutely right that simple types prove some "simple" properties, but we know what characterises them: they're inductive (or composable) invariants, i.e. P(a ∘ b) ⇔ P(a) ∧ P(b), for some program composition operator ∘ (I'm papering over some important but nuanced details). It's just that most program correctness properties we're interested in are not inductive, so the "proving power" of simple types is not strong (another way of describing it is that it's not powerful enough to express propositions with interleaved universal and existential quantifiers).

So when we talk about formal methods, we're usually interested in those that can express and/or "verify" (to some degree of confidence), non-composable properties and propositions that involve interleaved quantifiers.
by rsync | 2025-09-20 18:59:59+00:00
I think that touchscreens are dangerous in cars but I’m open-minded and can imagine implementations that wouldn’t be unsafe…

What I am absolutely convinced of is that touchscreens are cheap and tacky.

The current trend of so-called “luxury” cars with wrapping screens all the way around the passenger is terrible.

A high end, or luxury, car should have physical controls and physical dials/gauges.

I’m reminded of a quote I heard describing the then new Bentley SUV: “what a poor person thinks a rich person’s car looks like”.
by surfingdino | 2025-09-20 19:00:41+00:00
> - There is no doubt a large volume of abuse by tech consulting companies. It's likely even worse than it looks, because the H1Bs in the U.S. are to support even larger teams offshore. I don't understand why we can't just blacklist these companies.

I wish we could ban offshore IT consultancies dumping "talent". Unfortunately politicians will not support such ban, because those consultancies help corporate donors keep the wages down. If the government banned suppliers who use offshore consultancies from bidding for government contracts those outfits would disappear overnight.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-20 19:00:52+00:00
> Too bad the religious fanatics don't use their religion to do good and be social and friendly instead.

Agreed 100% on that! Nobody was chosen and no land belongs securely to a single race.

> since Israel is the one taking territory away, that is not theirs to take

This is incorrect. As frequently as Israel is accused of "stealing land", all land that Israel holds was won in a defensive war.

Now there are nuances of land belonging to the state, and occupation, and annexation, and personal property rights, and the relationship between different bodies ruling and maintaining (or not maintaining) areas A, B, and C. But Israel is not stealing land. If there are specific incidences that you would like to discuss, then please mention them. This is my hobby, I might have an answer ))

> armed settler gangs supported by the IDF violently hunt Palestinians out of their homes and plundering them.

Please mention such an incident, I would much rather address a specific incident than talk in general.

> That's not all of it, there are even cases of murder without prosecution.

Yes, I do agree that has happened. I'm not going to whitewash or deny facts.

> be put back into their internationally recognized borders

You should be aware that the internationally recognised borders of the state of Israel include Gaza and the West Bank (but not the Golden Heights). These are the borders of Mandatory Palestine after Jordan was cut off (1923 I believe). The green line is a cease fire line - not an internationally recognised border. This fact was used to justify many cross-border attacks against the state of Israel. The principal is that a successor state inherits the borders of its predecessor state.
by lejohnq | 2025-09-20 19:00:55+00:00
I’ve been caseless for a while and have had a couple of drops and the phone has been fine. When I eventually upgrade my phone, I’ll probably stay caseless, or add minimal protection. Mainly cause if the increasingly rare catastrophic drop happens, it’d be unpleasant to deal with.

I do like some cases for their design elements, I might use one to just further personalize my phone.
by deadbabe | 2025-09-20 19:01:19+00:00
A reminder that just because we may feel sorry for these H1B people caught up in this administration’s shenanigans, it does not mean we have to be overly supportive of the H1B program in general.

If it ends, it ends. There’s plenty of American CS graduates desperate for jobs here at home too. Tired of hearing stories about people who have been unable to land any kind of CS job due to low hiring and AI making them irrelevant. We need to support these people and H1B programs absolutely don’t help. I hope the foreigners will understand, and not take it too personally.

edit: but also, if you’re an H1B who gamed the system through consulting agencies to beat the lottery, screw you. Your fraud has taken opportunities from both, Americans and legit H1B applicants.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-20 19:01:31+00:00
Nah. The “friction” is overstated. H1Bs face the same labor conditions as rest of the folks. When the market is great, you can shop around and make a lot of money. When the market is bad and you stay put, most of the other employees are doing the same. The caveat: I’m not talking about the consultancies that abuse the system, which we can all agree are bad and their employees usually will have a hard time finding other roles.