MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by srameshc | 2025-09-19 20:45:46+00:00
This is going to kill H1B and immigration from countries like India, China and others for skilled workers. Even though $100K isn't a lot considering the overall investment that goes into hiring a full time employee, employers wouldn't risk that kind of money apart from all the document processing they have to. Maybe big tech will hire a few hundred every year but others won't even bother.
by lstodd | 2025-09-19 20:45:52+00:00
Inaction is a manifestation of one of two things: ignorance, or conscious decision to not act. I agree that strictly only the latter can be considered an act, while the former .. well. Not an act, but a then the question arises if an unconscious person can even be considered a person _in_relation_to_having_a_conversation_with_them_. That last point I must even more press.

I think this is what we are discussing. Please share your viewpoint on this.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 20:46:13+00:00
I don't think there is any reasonable evidence to suggest that most workers here on H1-B visas make more than 150k median salary, much less that they are awarded similar options as other employees.

I'm glad to hear this has been the environment you've worked in, but I don't believe it reflects the majority of skilled workers in the US on H1-B.
Ask HN: So Google blocked non-JS browsers, workarounds?
by lynx97 | 2025-09-19 20:46:16+00:00
Last time this happened was at least 6 years ago. Back then, a rant of mine got enough traction on HN to convince a Google dev to make Lynx wrk again.

This time, the UI explicitly mentions unsupported browsers, which likely means no non-JS version anymore. I wonder, does anyone with a little bit more Google-Fu know a workaround that might still work? If no, whats the cheapest (API) way to get searching via Google back to the terminal?
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-19 20:46:31+00:00
Bear in mind that this study is about the UK, and London is on the same latitude as Calgary, give or take.

The sun does get strong enough to burn here, but not for much of the year - especially considering the relatively high % cloud cover (not Seattle high maybe, but high). Skin cancer cases here are AFAIK most commonly related to overseas travel or people with outdoor lifestyles in the southwest of the country.
by tptacek | 2025-09-19 20:46:39+00:00
The standard statistical caution for these kinds of screening tests is especially important here, because while Alzheimers drugs may be more effective earlier in the disease course, none of them are "effective" in the sense of meaningfully staving the disease off; the upside to early detection is not very strong.

Meanwhile: the big challenge for screening tests is base rate confounding: the test needs to be drastically more specific the lower the percentage of the cohort that truly has the condition is. Relatively low rates of false positives can pile up quickly against true positives for conditions that are rare in the population.

The bad thing here is: you get a test suggestive of early-onset Alzheimers. It could realistically be the case that the test positive indicates in reality a coin-flip chance you have it. But that doesn't matter, because it will take years for the diagnosis to settle, and your mental health is materially injured in the meantime.
by ericmcer | 2025-09-19 20:47:04+00:00
The last one is tricky because who is going to sponsor a worker at the price tag of 100k with no guarantee of performance. That is rife for abuse. You could get google to sponsor you and then hop to your friends startup on day one.

It is reasonable that if you get a temporary visa to perform work in another country, and you decide you don't want to do that work anymore, you leave. They aren't enslaved or anything if the work is not worth it you can attempt to transfer your status to another employer or leave.
by pcl | 2025-09-19 20:47:35+00:00
> The worker gets to leave their sponsoring employer on the day of their arrival, if they choose to. The employment contract may not include any clawbacks of anything.

I'm not familiar with current H1B law, but what prevents this from happening today? I've hired away an H1B holder in the past; the process wasn't particularly difficult.

My understanding at the time was that the tricky thing for H1B holders is that they can only have a 60-day gap of unemployment before they need to leave the country (or find a different visa resolution, I guess).

Now, if this new fee applies to H1B transfers as well as the initial application, well, that'll actually make it harder for H1B holders to change jobs.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-19 20:48:26+00:00
It seems like there are two conflicting forces here. We want to ensure that we accept mostly high-skilled immigrants, so we can't do a pure lottery. But anything less than a pure lottery and immigrants are forced to "perform" or be kicked from the country, they will end up "both paid lower and unable to escape abuse" as you say. I don't know that it's possible to solve this satisfactorily.
by asdff | 2025-09-19 20:48:37+00:00
It is powerful enough to smoke under it and have it draw out the smoke. It also ate its carbon filter at one point, just sucked it off the grease trap into the fan. I shut the door to the kitchen and open some windows and there is very appreciable draft coming out of those windows. I tend to only use the back two burners directly under the hood while cooking. Certainly no commercial unit, however.
by jpadkins | 2025-09-19 20:49:29+00:00
The top end of H1B has been great for America. In the last few decades, there has been growth of abuse of the program to get mid level talent at below market rates which really hurts the middle class in America. People need to understand that most reformists don't want to get rid of the truly exceptional immigration to the US. We need to limit the volume, especially the immigrants that are directly competing with a hollowed out middle class in the US. Let me know if you want further reading on this topic.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-19 20:49:34+00:00
Yup, I grew up in a hot subtropical climate and the best counter to the summer was to stay indoors, hydrate. If you have to be outdoors, stay in the shade, if you have to be exposed to the sun, cover yourself. All of the benefits you get from being in direct sunlight can be gained with just being outdoors in shaded areas, maybe for a slightly longer time.

The way western culture glorifies direct exposure to the sun is always hilarious to me, everyone lining up to burn their skin for hours on end to "catch up" on sunlight exposure. Instead of just playing an outdoor sport under some trees or being outdoors in the morning/evening when sunlight is a lot less potent and weather is a lot more pleasant.
by fuzztester | 2025-09-19 20:49:37+00:00
got it, thanks. interesting.

I've seen things like that too, among my friends and acquaintances.

e.g.: a few months back, i was hanging out one evening in the office of a friend who works in the filmmaking field, who i saw creating a presentation to promote an upcoming film course they were going to conduct shortly.

i somehow could detect, by the words and tone, that it was probably ai-generated. he said yes.

then i told him what i intuitively felt, that using such a tool once in a while may be okay but if you use it a lot, your skills will atrophy.

same thing happened with another friend in a different field some days later.
by adolph | 2025-09-19 20:49:45+00:00
Winix and many other brands can be equipped with activated charcoal filters which do absorb VOCs.

For consumers looking for a way to remove VOCs in their homes and offices, Kroll adds, “air cleaning using activated carbon filters, a tried-and-true technology that doesn't rely on chemical reactions, is still the way to go.”

https://news.mit.edu/2021/study-finds-indoor-air-cleaners-fa...
by molticrystal | 2025-09-19 20:49:53+00:00
The claim that Google secretly wants YouTube downloaders to work doesn't hold up. Their focus is on delivering videos across a vast range of devices without breaking playback(and even that is blurring[0]), not enabling downloads.

If you dive into the yt-dlp source code, you see the insane complexity of calculations needed to download a video. There is code to handle nsig checks, internal YouTube API quirks, and constant obfuscation that makes it a nightmare(and the maintainers heroes) to keep up. Google frequently rejects download attempts, blocks certain devices or access methods, and breaks techniques that yt-dlp relies on.

Half the battle is working around attempts by Google to make ads unblockable, and the other half is working around their attempts to shut down downloaders. The idea of a "gray market ecosystem" they tacitly approve ignores how aggressively they tweak their systems to make downloading as unreliable as possible. If Google wanted downloaders to thrive, they wouldn't make developers jump through these hoops. Just look at the yt-dlp issue tracker overflowing with reports of broken functionality. There are no secret nods, handshakes, or other winks, as Google begins to care less and less about compatibility, the doors will close. For example, there is already a secret header used for authenticating that you are using the Google version of Chrome browser [1] [2] that will probably be expanded.

[0] Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301499

[1] Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527739

[2] https://github.com/dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header
by samtheDamned | 2025-09-19 20:50:15+00:00
I have an iphone and I feel a frequent nagging in the back of my head to switch to android despite the serious created by ecosystem lock-in and it's solely for the benefit of sideloading. Like you said, why would I leave apple's refined and increasingly customizable walled garden for google's half-assed one? Especially when Google is explicitly an ad company (I know apple isn't that much better).
by dotancohen | 2025-09-19 20:50:29+00:00
I haven't seen the video, but he didn't try very hard. Outside of small religious extremist communities, most Israelis realize two things about the Gazans:

- They are suffering severely. - They are suffering due to the education of UNRWA, teaching them that the murder of Jews is the highest honour.

Of course we feel pity for them. But pity is not actionable - and we want our hostages back.
by actionfromafar | 2025-09-19 20:50:37+00:00
I'm not convinced this tech is really such a good idea.

If all you are trying to do is finding the right podcast episode, it might be quite a bit better than fiddling with a screen.

But... cognitive load is a thing.

https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021...

The reason conversations can be held safely between the driver and with (some! people are different) other occupants in the same car, is that all occupants can asses what is happening and react to microcues from the driver in realtime. (Phone calls add many milliseconds in reaction time, plus the other person is not situationally aware.)

I do think an AI could help here though. This app isn't quite that. The AI would have to be very fast and responsive, notice with cameras and microphones when the driver needs a microbreak in the conversation, seamlessly continue when appropriate, perhaps be plugged in to the car radar and so on. Really be a polite and attentive passenger.
SaaS Fees Are Everywhere – Why Don't We Catch Them
by fee_hunter | 2025-09-19 20:50:46+00:00
I’ve noticed a growing pattern: hidden fees buried in SaaS terms – auto-renewals, cancellation charges, “maintenance” costs.

Most users only realize weeks or months later, and by then it’s too late. I’ve seen people lose $50–$500 on a single subscription just from the fine print.

Why is it so hard to spot these charges up front? Is it dark-pattern design, or just that nobody reads the T&Cs?

Curious to hear if anyone here has strategies/tools for catching these before they bite.

(Tomorrow I’ll share something that might help with this problem.)
by aylmao | 2025-09-19 20:50:51+00:00
Unrelated, but I don't get the "taco" thing. I'm Mexican— it's a head-scratcher that people use the name of our food as an insult to Trump. He doesn't look like a taco, and the acronym is a sentence, not an adjective/phrase, so it doesn't make much sense spelled out in most contexts.
by jltsiren | 2025-09-19 20:50:59+00:00
That's pretty common in Europe. Temporary work permits can be valid either for a specific job or a specific industry. In the latter case, as long as you can find a job that meets the requirements in a reasonable time, you can quit and stay in the country.

But those work permits mostly concern the individual and the government. The employer is not as much sponsoring them as providing evidence.
by olyjohn | 2025-09-19 20:52:29+00:00
You mean a tiny computer in your pocket that you can mostly just consume content with and chat with others. Sure there are some neat, useful apps out there, but you can't really learn how technology works on a tablet or phone unless you're allowed to build that specific kind of app. You don't even have a filesystem. 10 year old me in today's world would have not been able to break my phone like I did my old DOS / Win95 PC and actually learn something. Shit I used to spend hours just browsing the filesystem, and the install media to see what I could find and learn and use. That's how I found the Weezer music video, and the pinball game on the Win95 I still CD. There is no equivalent to this with phones.
by loverofhumanz | 2025-09-19 20:52:50+00:00
"If a company can't find someone for a specific job or role then I don't care if they go abroad to find that person."

You're believing and repeating the propaganda. The H1B was sold to Americans as for this purpose and then very deliberately turned into a loophole for importing massive amounts of foreign labor.

How silly is it to accept the idea that Big Tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Tesla are not be able to hire Americans for any role they want. They're the richest companies on the planet!

These companies use the H1B to increase their labor supply, suppress wages, and gain indentured workers.

If they couldn't cheat by importing cheaper foreign labor they would have to compete against each other much more than they do for American workers.

This is all about big companies rigging the system. They do not care if it's good or bad for America, the foreign workers, or anyone else. It's simple greed.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-19 20:53:07+00:00
It's the goal and pretending it cannot even be approximated is very American of you. Arguing it's impossible actually sounds bigoted. What exactly do you think makes some people inferior in your eyes?

What'll really mess with your right wing sensibilities is that equality, happiness and ranking high on various democracy indexes all correlate. Arguing against happiness sounds just weird.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 20:53:35+00:00
No. iPhone 16 buyers from last year are still waiting on features promised to them when they purchased.

Plus, the placement of buttons on the 17 and the 16 are annoying in everyday use, and the extra RAM does not seem to keep applications in memory longer as iOS seemingly kills processes to save battery even when RAM is plentiful.

Apple Intelligence is not useful except for extremely limited text editing/review features. Unless your phone is broken or the PWM accessibility feature is actually useful on the 17, I can't think of reasons to upgrade.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-19 20:53:40+00:00
Yeah, but it would go a looong way to getting us (the public) to use Fil-C in production. Like I'd really like to be able to run OpenSSH using Fil-C and I really don't want to have to worry about the C-coded crypto being non-constant-time.

What I suggest as a medium-term solution might be to have macros that expand to nothing if Fil-C is not used but which expand to a Fil-C macro decoration that indicates that the author thinks the assembly (or assembly coded function) is Fil-C-safe.

Now... I know, there's more, right, like you burn a register to keep a pointer to the Fil-C thread data structure, and the assembly needs to not step on that, so ok, it's probably harder than I'm making it seem, but maybe not much harder because you can save that pointer as part of the exit and restore it as part of the enter.

I do trust that your crazy ideas are crazy but workable though!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-19 20:53:50+00:00
There are essentially two schools of thought when it comes to rules.

The first is "rule of law" where it's important what the rules are. You need good people with knowledge of what's actually happening on the ground to be the ones who make the rules, and then the rules are strictly enforced and if that leads to a bad outcome it means the rules are deficient and there is a meaningful process for addressing that, which results in a change to the rules to prevent the bad outcome from happening in the future.

The second is "CYA" where the purpose of rules is to make prohibitions as many and broad as possible so that if anything bad happens or you have a dispute with someone you can pin a violation on them, and then the rules are ignored whenever that isn't the objective.

The best organizations use only the first system, but this is rare. If you make rules according to the first system and the way you enforce them is according to the second system, you have a minor problem with under-enforcement. If you use the second system entirely, you're going to have major problems with office politics and morale. But the worst is when the people at the top are making the rules in expectation of using the second system without noticing that someone in the middle is actually enforcing them.
by Earw0rm | 2025-09-19 20:54:37+00:00
White people - depending on your definition, I mean pale-skinned Northern Europeans - are adapted to live north of about 45 degrees.

Obviously they live lots of other places now, but evolution is slow to catch up.

If you drive through France for a day, you can literally see the change from north to south, "could be Dutch" in the far north to "could be Spanish" in the south. Of course lots of people move around but I'm talking about averages.
by asdff | 2025-09-19 20:54:39+00:00
I don't think it follows that preventing that brain drain would have lead to appreciably better outcomes for those countries. The real sucking factor for the united states is the second to none availability of capital to spend on R & D. If you keep the brains where they were raised, there is no mechanism for them to actually turn their ideas into fruition because there is little funding to support this either in private or public sector. The reason why you hear about research talent going back to China is because they are offered PI positions and generous startup grants or something analogous in most cases, with the government there committed to invest billions in research. You can't really expect that in the global south. You can't even really expect that in Europe in a lot of cases.
by mcmcmc | 2025-09-19 20:54:51+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.

This is a double edged sword given that it means there’s less incentive to invest in US public education and fostering our own talent. Instead of brain drain we’re dealing with brain rot.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-19 20:55:20+00:00
I vehemently disagree with whatever xenophobic nonsense he and Miller will vomit up to defend this move, provided he doesn't TACO out on it. Fuck bigotry, period.

However, H1Bs have been a thorny issue for a while, and this might be the rebalancing sorely needed. If Capital can freely import cheaper labor ad infinitum from abroad (or outsource it), then that deteriorates domestic stability while amplifying a form of Capitalist Imperialism abroad. Thus far, China's been the only country to really take full advantage of this long-term strategy error, and a lot of tech folks have been warning that failing to address known flaws in the visa process will ultimately leave us at a disadvantage in the long run, much like we did with manufacturing.

A high application fee is a start, but the better solution is dispensing with H1Bs entirely in favor of green card sponsorship with associated work contract. If these talented workers are that badly needed, companies would have no compunction sponsoring their permanent residency and, eventually, naturalization. Long-term data suggests none of the tech industry is really doing this, which means these "uniquely talented workers" are just replacing existing American workers at lower wages and higher precarity.

I love my international colleagues, and I want them to be treated with the same dignity and respect I receive. H1Bs do not, and cannot, accomplish this outcome.
by czhu12 | 2025-09-19 20:55:41+00:00
I misread this initially as the problem that damn near every other country has is also immigration. This seems to also be at least somewhat true for first world countries.

Looking at the politics in Europe and Asia today, the question of who is allowed in and why is a central point of debate that rages and threatens to tear apart much of the fabric that was built over generations.
by K0balt | 2025-09-19 20:55:45+00:00
Idk what visa program was is under, but home depot used to bring in immigrants to run their stores (stockers , cashiers, etc ) under a program that meant that some contractor was putting 12 people in a 3 bedroom apartment and charging them big fees to come work for minimum wage. This was a while ago, but I was in the rental business and got to see it first hand and talk to the workers. It was extremely exploitative. 5 years ago they were still doing it my hometown, I haven’t checked since. It was mostly Eastern Europeans.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-19 20:56:02+00:00
Remember that the child side of `vfork(2)` can only do async-signal-safe things as `vfork(2)` is documented, and it's really as if it is executing in the same thread as the parent (down to thread-locals, I do believe), so really, `vfork(2)` shouldn't really be all that special for Fil-C! You might want to try it.

As u/foota notes, it's important. The point of `vfork(2)` is that it's _fast_. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502392
by nabla9 | 2025-09-19 20:56:09+00:00
Good idea, but Ted Nelson ruined it all by himself. He wanted to build a closed-source system that he owned and controlled. He was a bad project leader and got nowhere. His patents prevented others from using zigzag structures. Decades later, when some people wanted to build an open-source GZigZag, he first said it was okay to use the name, then turned sour on it and prevented them from using it, eventually killing the project.

If someone wants to do it again, they shouldn't involve Ted Nelson in any way our use anything he has control over, whether a trademark or a patent.

The Curse of Xanadu https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
by legitster | 2025-09-19 20:56:34+00:00
The median pay of an H1B visa holder is $118k. The 25th percentile is $90k. This is from the government's official data: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/O...

Any suggestion that the program is dragging wages down instead of dragging wages up is not just misleading but factually wrong.
by zdp7 | 2025-09-19 20:56:41+00:00
That's not correct.

"Standard Mode (Default): By default, LAN mode will include an authorization process that ensures robust security. This option is ideal for the majority of users who prioritize security and ease of use. Despite claims to the contrary, LAN mode through Bambu Connect will require neither internet access nor a user account. This hasn't changed and won't change." With the firmware that implemented security in, third party only speaks through Bambu Connect. Reading the page I included that information and if you go to the original security update announcement, it is clear you can only use Bambu Connect for third party access. In addition you lose the ability to control the printer.