MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giardini | 2025-09-20 02:44:52+00:00
Yes, but in the same breath Kimmel said the assassin was a MAGA supporter.

Kimmel's words:

"...the MAGA gang [was] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them..."

The assassin may have indeed once been a MAGA supporter - his family certainly appear to be so. But political beliefs can change quickly as his history demostrates:

The assassin found true love in a transsexual roommate/lover.So overcome was he by his love for his transsexual roomie and so offended by MAGA supporter Charlie Kirk's objections to LGBTQ+, that he engraved LGBTQ+ graffiti on 30-06 ammo and shot Charlie Kirk in the neck with one of the bullets. He left the remaining bullets with the rifle IIRC.

Was the assassin a MAGA supporter at the moment he pulled the trigger? Beats me!
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-20 02:45:05+00:00
H1B holders have to be paid the higher of the prevailing wage or their employer's normal wage for similarly employed workers. So if a contracting company can ensure that the position their employees have is sufficiently different than the position a parent company is seeking to replace, there's an arbitrage. (This famously happened at Disney in 2014-15, with some workers directly training their H1B replacements.)
by DaveExeter | 2025-09-20 02:45:38+00:00
I think you meant "world market".

Companies are going to be offshoring as much as they can anyway. Bits fly across borders untaxed.

If there is some foreign talent that, for example, Meta thinks will benefit their bottom line by $1M/year, an extra $100K on top of a $250K benefits package is small change!

It's a human-tariff, but it is paid by wealthy corporations.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-20 02:46:01+00:00
I don't mean to be dismissive of the effort you went to in writing all that, but nothing you've said argues why software engineers would benefit from more planning. It argues for some planning, sure; I never said no planning whatsoever is good. If you intend to build, say, a website, that presents a very different set of challenges and usable tools than if you instead intended to build a microcontroller's firmware. But you seem to agree with me that in software you can turn on a dime, yet you don't don't offer any reason why more planning than what is already done would be beneficial.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-20 02:46:42+00:00
That seems needlessly antagonistic on your part. I'm not advocating for his way of doing things, but the person described has clearly decided it's more in his economic interest to maintain a comfortable fiefdom than to engineer himself out of it. Having automated myself out of a few jobs in the past without much of a reward, I can't say his actions are irrational.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 02:47:37+00:00
You can see the restriction easily on a chart: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/ann...

We have been around 1 million per year for decades. If we still had that policy, adjusted for population you’re talking about cutting legal immigration by one-third to one-half.

And that’s not counting a large increase in “gray market” legal immigration (TPS, asylum, etc.)
by Fordec | 2025-09-20 02:47:41+00:00
Per slide 8 of your second link: Except Africa and half of Asia who will still be above replacement rate for the remainder of our natural lives.

Per exhibit 5 of your first link: The US still to be as bad as Europe and Japan you disparage as "old" and that is based on 2024 analyses. A few more years of these events if sustained will drop that further.

And per Exhibit 1 of that same link, sure India will be at 1.9. And the US was at 1.6 two years ago, which is worse.
by rramadass | 2025-09-20 02:47:59+00:00
It is the distribution that matters at a wage level cluster defined by DOL. There are four (i.e. entry, qualified, experienced, and fully competent) and those are higher than the medians.

See also Understanding H-1B Minimum Salary Requirements for Eligibility - https://day1cpt.org/news/understanding-h-1b-minimum-salary-r...
by strcat | 2025-09-20 02:49:16+00:00
Xen itself is a microkernel. The list of vulnerabilities you've linked has a very limited scope not accounting for most vulnerabilities impacting QubesOS users. It also isn't a complete list for that limited scope. However, what you've linked shows the benefit of a microkernel-based design and why it would be best to have it beyond a hypervisor but rather inside of the virtual machines too. The vulnerabilities impacting the kernel and applications within the virtual machines are still very relevant to QubesOS users. QubesOS protects well against an attacker escaping from a virtual machine, but does not protect against an attacker exploiting the OS or applications within the virtual machines.

An attacker can do cross-guest exploits via the network too, which would not be considered within the scope of that list. As an example, if an attacker could exploit the network VM via a Linux kernel TCP/IP vulnerability, then exploit connected virtual machines from there with the same vulnerability. Network driver vulnerabilities are another way to get that initial foothold. It wouldn't be a hole in the architecture implemented by QubesOS but it would still give them control over everything that matters to the user.
by neilv | 2025-09-20 02:50:04+00:00
I'm surprised that the Xmonad project is/was willing to pay someone. Does anyone know whether there was a single benefactor, or where the money was coming from, and why?

(Incidentally, I love the way that my Xmonad setup works, even though I don't know Haskell. I tried using an i3wm setup at work for maybe a year, but every evening coming back to Xmonad on my personal laptop felt like a boost of agility. I guess, if I were wealthy and wanted to move to Wayland, I would seriously consider either doing the work myself or paying someone to.)
by shagie | 2025-09-20 02:50:43+00:00
If someone sees visa fraud, it should be reported. There are programs to try to combat it, though this is a "UCIS doesn't have the resources to audit every company."

So... if you see it, report it. https://www.uscis.gov/scams-fraud-and-misconduct/report-frau...

And there are actions on it when it is caught.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-executives-plead...

Ignoring visa fraud is one of the ways that it becomes established and in turn makes it harder for the companies that are following the rules to be successful.
by guiambros | 2025-09-20 02:50:47+00:00
> who would you rather hire: someone who wow'd in an interview or someone with LinkedIn flair?

Who would you rather interview: someone who has a great resume, and a strong LinkedIn profile, and connections to a strong peer community who can endorse them, or a faceless rando that shows up in your inbox with a PDF, amongst thousands of others, with zero referrals?

I'm not endorsing LI grind -- I too hate it, but ignore at your own peril. OP seems to be in a rather precarious situation, so maybe it would help being a bit less dogmatic.
by breadwinner | 2025-09-20 02:51:05+00:00
You are right about Bell Labs, the majority were US-born.

But let's consider one of the biggest innovations of recent times: Artificial Intelligence (transformers/LLMs specifically). Where was it invented? In America. Who invented it? Let's take a look. The seminal research paper that kicked off this revolution (titled "Attention is all you need") was written by 2 Indians, 1 German, 1 British Canadian, 1 Pole, 1 Ukrainian, and 2 US born people. So only 25% US-born.

Have you watched OpenAI's demos and how many of their researchers are Asian? Would you prefer for them to remain in Asia and contribute to DeepSeek instead?
by atonse | 2025-09-20 02:51:24+00:00
Speaking as an employer, I’d be a lot more picky if I was going to sponsor a candidate to make sure I could make my investment back. (We’ve never sponsored someone though)

The potentially sad thing/abuse that might come out of this is that employers will keep even higher margins from the H1 person and make them pay back that money faster. Even through some shady deal back in their home country.
by epistasis | 2025-09-20 02:51:44+00:00
The US has the nicest biggest pie in the world. Why would somebody move to a place with less opportunity?

The opportunity created in the US is due to the concentration of talent, high productivity, and extensive networks of people creating innovation that inflated the pie even larger.

Go ahead and move to any of those countries from the US, it's prettt easy, because everybody wants to be like the US! The only possibly better passport was a Canadian one!

Something deeply sick has infected the US when we no longer recognize the source of the wealth of our nation. Nobody could touch us. At least until we started to intentionally make ourselves poorer.
by stackedinserter | 2025-09-20 02:51:47+00:00
> these people don’t understand why scamming and cheating is wrong

Moreover, they openly brag about it. My wife's brings stories from her hair stylist that's very chatty about the ways they literally move their family from India to US and Canada. People fake marriages, divorces, report abuse etc etc. I'm still not sure if it's all true, but the very fact she brags about it is astounding.
by robocat | 2025-09-20 02:53:13+00:00
> if you can afford to pay $1 million, then you are almost certainly going to be a net benefit

Have a look at the outcomes in other countries that do this.

There's usually so many loopholes that any economic benefits just don't materialise.

Specifically govts usually specify investment, but then the applicants just buy assets or property that doesn't actually help the recipient country.

NZ gave a passport to Peter Thiel. I can only hope our government introduces a taxation law specific to him!
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-09-20 02:53:34+00:00
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair (cnn.com) 629 points by VikingCoder 2 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 1133 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282482

Previous thread, with a better reference.
by defrost | 2025-09-20 02:54:42+00:00
This is in Australia, the AU $70,000 easily covers the cost of an insulated residential shed build .. it's damn near kit when done right.

Australian family members are frequently able to setup the form work for a slab (with pipes and ducts) ready for a concrete pour, and can often rustle up a few friends to spend a couple of days propping up the walls and framework, bolting up, fixing in pre-built panels, etc.

I've done a few of these, one in the last five years, many over the last 50 - from residential to garage to barn, to tractor etc.

Start with suppliers such as: https://www.fairdinkumbuilds.com.au/products/residential-she...

brochure: https://www.fairdinkumbuilds.com.au/assets/Resources-Documen...

and hunt about - it's not fancy but doable.
by intermerda | 2025-09-20 02:54:58+00:00
You're applying economics when the problem is fundamentally racial. Trump has exposed the dark underbelly of the US. The comments in this thread as well as elsewhere just show the fundamental lack of empathy - which I know is a made up word unless someone with the "right" political leanings was harmed.

Of course the visa is a privilege and there are tons of abuses associated with it. There are methodical ways of going about it and actually fixing the problem. Slapping a $100k fee with unclear language and no heads-up uproots while uprooting lives of so many people have lived in the country for years if not decades, maintained legal status, and paid taxes including Social Security and Medicare is "a smart move" according to the top comment.

But we all know what the real problem is. If majority of the H-1B visa holders had the right skin color, they would be welcome with open arms regardless of any abuse of the system. Just like how South African refugees are welcome while other those from the "wrong" kind of country are not.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." ― Lyndon B. Johnson
by bradlys | 2025-09-20 02:55:42+00:00
Yes but I took the time off somewhat intentionally. I spent 3+ years not working. I tried finding work in NYC for a couple of those years but it never manifested. It got to me in the end and I got tired of some issues I was having in NYC.

I ended up having to come back to the bay area prematurely. I want to live here long term but it wasn't the right fit for where I'm at in life. (Single mid-30s male - dying alone) I'm working at a FAANG. I've studied well over 1000+ LC problems, paid for professional tutoring/mocks in LC and System Design, dozens of free mock interviews, and several hundred actual interviews over the years.

The way I coped was working even harder at studying and having an otherwise busy life in other aspects. When I looked for jobs in the past - it was a full-time job just from the studying aspect.
by strcat | 2025-09-20 02:56:31+00:00
Your claims about the conversation are based on Rossmann's lies about what was said and his lies about the context for it. He was and still is actively and openly engaging in bullying, libel and harassment. You're not even being specific about what you think is wrong. The conversation happened after violence he helped to encourage. He then made a very clear attempt to direct more violence towards me with the harassment content he published. Rossmann openly uses many of the same tactics and tropes as Kiwi Farms to cause harm to people. It's therefore not surprising that he openly has a verified account on the site where he pals around with serial harassers and vents to them about what's bothering him including naming people he has issues with. It's clear what his tactics are meant to accomplish including the incredibly dishonest content he published about me to direct his followers and Kiwi Farms friends to target me, which they have.
by huevosabio | 2025-09-20 02:56:42+00:00
These other visas are incredibly complicated to get. And funneling everyone through student visas is just inflating demand for uni degrees.

What someone's labor is worth is up to the market to decide. Also those $100k are taxed out of the employer and employee's value.

On the benefits of people moving to the US: it's been widely studied and it's basic economics, immigrants bring both supply and demand, so the size of the economy grows and so the opportunities to current residents.

Take the extreme: when people leave a country or city the economy there collapses, see Detroit or the increasingly old and depopulating European countries.

Or take the extreme on who comes: fiscal studies show that even low skilled immigrants are net positive fiscally. Only very old and unskilled immigrants are a fiscal burden.

Finally, thinking that we can capture the world's economy in a bottle and live lavishly without competition is delusional. If we stop letting people build here, they will build elsewhere and without us. We are increasingly less relevant.
by al_borland | 2025-09-20 02:57:25+00:00
He said the guy who shot Charlie Kirk was MAGA, which isn’t true, according to the information that has come out from those actually working on the case in the various press conferences, and from the evidence that’s been made public.

It wasn’t meaningful to the joke he was looking to set up, it was just misinformation for misinformation’s sake. At least it came off that way.

Add to that high emotions from people coping with a murder, and there you have it.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-09-20 02:57:41+00:00
It feels kind of crazy to go from "AI is 'only' something like snake oil" to "AI is 'only' something like fire, metallurgy, agriculture, writing, or electricity" without some kind of mea culpa of what was wrong about their previous view. That's a huge leap to more or less imply "well AI is just going to be comparable to invention of fire. No biggie. Completely compatible with AI as snake oil."
by rediguanayum | 2025-09-20 02:58:04+00:00
Also announced today is the Trumpcard, a visa for super wealthy individuals. HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308778 but is wrongly flagged. Politico is carrying the Trumpcard: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-gold-card-vis... and says that it's $1 million for individuals and $2 million for corporations. The Trumpcard website is https://trumpcard.gov/ and is a terrible parody of itself.
by mbac32768 | 2025-09-20 02:58:21+00:00
It's ludicrous. US companies will not be able to dig up 200,000 qualified software engineers in the domestic population while every other skilled profession is experiencing a similar brain drain.

The prospect of a $100k/year/employee visa tax makes opening an office in Europe so much more compelling.

I guess the people who can't be offshored will see their salaries go up so that's cool?
by throwawaymaths | 2025-09-20 02:59:19+00:00
no, null pointers are enforced safe at the type level in zig, as are array bounds, this eliminates huge classes of errors, so you are not "responsible for everything". unlike c, you often (unless highly tuned performance is needed) do not have to resort to opaque void pointers, and the compiler gives you typesafety on that, another major footgun in c.

also operators and integer types are unambiguous, and there is no UB in safe compilation modes.

It's arguably much better than C, not "slightly better than C"
by kjellsbells | 2025-09-20 02:59:40+00:00
I infer from this explanation that there were hundreds of Meta devices in the room just waiting for the wake phrase. Since if the dev server died with only a few tens of clients, that would be its own source of embarrassment.

But then: it sounds like quite the security risk if the wake phrase can trigger those hundreds of devices to go off at once, no? "Hey Meta AI, blast Baby Shark into my eyeballs NOW" could be quite the attack on an office, in a train, etc.

I would imagine that the solution is to either allow for a dedicated wake phrase, or to voice fingerprint the wake phrase during device setup so that it only triggers for the single user.

My main object of pity is for the engineers who had to build this demo and probably got reamed afterwards. Vaya con Dios, y'all.
by ii41 | 2025-09-20 03:00:16+00:00
Then you have misunderstandings about urban warfare. Bakhmut is urban warfare. It's actually called an urban meat grinder, the worst form of urban warfare. Civilian casualties at Bakhmut is one or two orders of magnitude smaller than total casualties per different sources and estimates. 80% civilian casualties and 50% being women and children is not "at best urban warfare."
by hakfoo | 2025-09-20 03:00:18+00:00
As a FVWM daily driver, it's amazing to see it's has gone from "it's the niftier-than-twm baseline that's installed by default in your 2.0-kernel Slackware or RedHat distro, but you'll probably install something trendy like AfterStep/WindowMaker/Enlightenment" to "It Has Powers That Cannot Be Recreated In The New Magic."

For me, the winning feature is FvwmButtons. Long before we had system trays and notification busses, if you wanted to put a media player, a clock, some stat counters, or a full-blown xterm, in a little desktop dock, you just captured a regular window. You didn't have to invent an entirely new category of "software designed to live as an icon inside someone else's ecosystem." I'm not aware of any compositor that offers anything like it-- it seems like the best we get now are ugly bars with a limited vocabulary of "we can integrate over some signaling bus with these three specific programmes and that's it".

I'll also lament the loss of bold, opinionated design. "Modern" compositors are either minimal to the point of nothingness, or insipid and generic. They don't look like the awesome UIs you'd see in old hacker movies, or the classic systems that were backed by 500 page HCI standards guides, they just look like the sort of UI you'd use in an textbook where you wanted to imply a GUI without anything specifically branded.
by bitsage | 2025-09-20 03:00:38+00:00
The cost of hiring in the US versus elsewhere is already greater than $100k for the type of tech firm that can just open an international office. I took the base salaries of Google SWEs on levels.fyi for NYC, London, Bengaluru, and Toronto, multiplied them by the standard 1.4 for overhead, and realized the US is already significantly more expensive than most developed countries, let alone the Global South. Companies clearly value employing in America despite the cost.
by youniverse | 2025-09-20 03:00:45+00:00
Agreed, I can't describe the sadness that some of my most treasured nostalgic videos were lost before I knew about yt-dlp, and I can't find out what their titles even were. For example on spotify when music gets removed, if it's in your playlist it just shows it greyed out and unplayable.

Someone at google please give us the ability to see titles!
by rinon | 2025-09-20 03:01:10+00:00
If we’d fix the green card caps so that Indian workers could get green cards we wouldn’t see as much abuse. The system is broken, so you’re suggesting break it further? The US benefits from a lot of smart immigrants, we should be making it EASIER, not harder, to attract and retain the best talent from all over the world. The United States is ceding its leadership here and we’re going to pay for that for generations.
by joek1301 | 2025-09-20 03:02:12+00:00
> One hypothetical approach I could imagine, is that a dependency major-version release of a package can ship with AST-rewriting-algorithm code migrations

Jane Street has something similar called a "tree smash" [1]. When someone makes a breaking change to their internal dialect of OCaml, they also push a commit updating the entire company monorepo.

It's not explicitly stated whether such migrations happen via AST rewrites, but one can imagine leveraging the existing compiler infrastructure to do that.

[1]: https://signalsandthreads.com/future-of-programming/#3535
by Supermancho | 2025-09-20 03:03:04+00:00
> Corporations are not filled with evil people, but people make perfectly rational, normal decisions based on their incentives that result in the emergent phenomenon of perceived malicious actions.

This rationalization is cope. All US Corporations making "normal" decisions all the time isn't casually obvious. I would say that wherever there is an opportunity to exploit the customer, they usually do at different levels of sophistication. This may mistakenly seem like fair play to someone who thinks a good UI is a good trade for allocated advertisement space, when it's literally social engineering.

Corporations make decisions that more frequently benefit them at the cost of some customer resource. Pair that with decisions rarely being rolled back (without financial incentive), you get a least-fair optimization over time. This is not normal by any stretch, as people expect a somewhat fair value proposition. Corporations aren't geared for that.
by btbuildem | 2025-09-20 03:03:57+00:00
I like how they kept it simple and minimal. If you look into embossers, their form factor is quite different (more akin to a construction stapler).

I've been tinkering with a variation on the theme -- something that can emboss paper / cardboard / thin sheet metal. 3D printed dies work great, but it's some rabbit hole! Lots and lots to learn.
by chrisweekly | 2025-09-20 03:04:03+00:00
Agreed that actual malice is relatively rare (at least, relative to incompetence!). But I feel your take on Hitler is questionable. The question of evil is a tricky one, but I don't think there's a good case to be made that he was only trying to do the right thing. He was completely insane. But leaving aside moral culpability or metaphysical notions of judgment, for any definition of "malice", he embodied it to an the absolute maximum degree.