MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esperent | 2025-09-20 04:49:37+00:00
My take on the health benefits of coffee or tea is that it's probably nothing to do with the caffeine, and a lot to do with antioxidants. Both of these drinks are high in antioxidants, and the typical modern diet is low, so for a lot of people caffeinated drinks are a major source of their antioxidant intake. This shows up statistically as coffee and tea increasing longevity, but on an individual level, just make sure you're getting antioxidants from other parts of your diet instead.
by andirk | 2025-09-20 04:49:58+00:00
I have worked with software people on H1B visas who's #1 goal was to hire more [specific nationality] and thin out the rest. Their work ethic was a top-down rule by fear, and their code was VERY bad. Made my life straight up worse. One example of abusing the H1B visa system.

I have also worked with amazing H1B visa people.

Just make sure they're actually talented.
by reincoder | 2025-09-20 04:50:17+00:00
I think the main thing was that we were doing a migration. We operate a very large-scale infrastructure, and our engineering team is super talented. However, you can imagine this is not a very common case.

I appreciate you taking a look. Let me know if you have any feedback for us. I am the DevRel, so I hang out in the community. If you see any issues where you think you need immediate support, post that in the community, and I will respond.

https://community.ipinfo.io/
by ertian | 2025-09-20 04:50:20+00:00
The hollowing out of the American middle class is because the huge, wealthy middle class was a post-war anomaly, from a time when the US had the only intact industrial plant in the world, and lack of communication technology and logistical sophistication meant production had to be localized and centralized. So, if you happened to be living in the right places in the US, you could have a house and a car and put a couple kids through college on an (artificially-inflated) factory worker's wage. At the same time, 80% of the population of the world was on the edge of starvation.

Now, thanks to better logistics and communications, companies can move jobs to where labor is cheaper. This has pulled billions of people out of poverty, dramatically reduced the price of goods, and generally improved global well-being--but that was at the cost of the 1% of the 1950s, which is to say the American working class. Now, if you work in a factory in the US, you only make a single-digit multiple of what a factory worker in Korea, Mexico, Germany or Italy makes (though you still have a double-digit advantage on much of the world).

It wasn't sustainable to have a tremendously wealthy middle class in a world that was mostly starving. No amount of trade barriers could maintain that: you're relying on a world market with very little competition, and the other 7 billion people aren't going to be content to sit on their hands.

What you want to do instead is to develop new, cutting-edge, high-paying industries, and thereby keep a competitive advantage on the rest of the world. Maybe you could, I dunno, develop top-notch schools to lure all the best and brightest people from around the world to your country, invite them in, encourage them to stay, and get them to innovate and create here rather than elsewhere. That might just result in whole new, massive, high-paying industries that pick up the slack left by your diminished industrial dominance.

Seems like a good idea to me! But hey, instead, you could always try slamming the door shut, chase out all the dirty foreigners, and just rely on your inherent and intrinsic American superiority to carry you forward. I'm sure that'll work just as well.
by k_bx | 2025-09-20 04:50:24+00:00
Sorry if somewhat off-topic, but might help with getting more users. Redis is actually good enough and easy to install for most projects, but it has downside that it's "memory-only" (needs to fit in ram), and if you're in a tight container/vm – you'd better not rely on it solely.

So, there's another project – called kvrocks https://github.com/apache/kvrocks , which is for people which don't need in-memory perf of redis but would like to use its protocol and be still very performant. However, its devs never packaged a release in deb and other formats.

So, if you were to implement something similar ^ which will implement the protocol, have ability to grow on disk, and be available in distro repos (ideally) – would definitely hold a niche of many little projects which benefit from redis-like thing I've done.
by taiwan_num1 | 2025-09-20 04:51:58+00:00
FAANG offers the exact same salaries to US citizens and those who need sponsorship. And speaking from personal experience, the majority of the Chinese and Indian immigrants at Meta are extremely talented and tremendously hard working. The best Americans are obsessed with startups and entrepreneurship and aren’t satisfied with being cogs in the machine the way H1B seekers are.

I’m not saying the system is perfect, we definitely need to work on clearing out these fraudulent consultancies and such. But FAANG H1Bs are good engineers and we would definitely be worse off without them. I much preferred the proposal to only allow H1B after a certain salary threshold of ~200-250k which seems like it would solve the issue.
by maxbond | 2025-09-20 04:54:18+00:00
No True Scotsman really only applies to factual statements. All normative statements suffer from a No True Scotsman fallacy. But it doesn't really matter because they aren't literally true to begin with, they're lodestars or food for thought.

Eg, if I say, "real programmers never ship untested code," well, I've shipped untested code either on accident or to address a production incident. I'm just some dude, but I'm sure many of the very best programmers would say the same. But I think there would be a consensus among them that you ought not to if possible.
by nirui | 2025-09-20 04:54:29+00:00
> mostly, I've never had a download NOT work

Well, how about thanks the people who's maintaining the downloader to make it possible?

> they haven't made it impossible to download videos, so that is a win IMO.

At some point you can just fire up OBS Studio and do a screen rip, then cut the ads out manually and put it on Torrent/ED2k.

Will you still think it's a win then?
by makowskid | 2025-09-20 04:55:02+00:00
I had had enough of ChatGPT sounding like a machine and repeating the same forms. So I forced it into rehab: no em dashes, no buzzwords, no “in conclusion.” Sentences short. Advise directly. I keep my rulebook under 1500 characters (Custom Instructions limit). Set it: profile icon → Settings → Personalization → Custom Instructions. Sharing my prompt in the comments if you want to try it.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-09-20 04:56:22+00:00
Another perspective: they don't need to create chips that are as good as Nvidia. Current strategy is to create less powerful chips but that have better yields due to smaller die size. They then scale out huge multi-node AI clusters. This requires more power and bandwidth, but they have plenty of those. Data centers are located near renewable energy sources, for example in the desert, where power is nearly free. They are very good at building networking so bandwidth is not an issue. They are very good at building efficient power systems (less heat when routing energy) because they are not behind, even in some areas ahead, in power semiconductors (GaN). They still need to innovate in power delivery systems and cooling systems to be able to handle the scale that's required, but that's easier than solving litography.

In other words, they are working on litography and nanometers, but they're not very worried about those areas because they don't really need them. HN is too myopic, focusing only on single-chip performance and logic chips.
by uxcolumbo | 2025-09-20 04:58:01+00:00
I have that identity, ie being the pillar of stability and support for those around me.

One thing I worry about is getting a stroke or become blind, paralyzed or similar.

Having lost people around me or seen them fall seriously ill , made me realize things can change so quickly.

I admire ppl like yourself who keep going.

Or people like Paul De Gelder, who lost the majority of their limbs and then just keep going and seem to thrive.

I wonder how ppl like that change their mindset after such life events. What happens in the brain? Is it via therapy or effectively deciding to make the best with the cards you’ve been dealt.

From what you wrote, it sounds like you haven’t lost a core pillar of your identity, which is a positive mindset.

Wishing you the best on your new path ahead.
by cortesoft | 2025-09-20 04:59:41+00:00
I feel like if more package repositories did this, you would end up just finding more and more workarounds and alternative distribution methods.

I mean, just look at how many projects use “curl and bash” as their distribution method even though the project repositories they could use instead don’t even require anything nearly as onerous as the reverse dependency checks described in this article. If the minimal requirements the current repos have are enough to push projects to alternate distribution, I can’t imagine what would happen if it was added.
by flanbiscuit | 2025-09-20 05:00:18+00:00
I believe it's about waiting a bit before a new patch is released, not fully avoiding installing updates. Seems like compromises are being caught quickly these days, usually within hours. There are multiple companies monitoring npm package releases because they sell security scanning products and so it's part of their business to be on top of it.

pnpm has a setting that you can tell it that a package needs to be at least X minutes old in order to install it. I would wait at least 24 hours just to be safe

https://pnpm.io/settings#minimumreleaseage
by cryptonector | 2025-09-20 05:00:23+00:00
> That said, we actually didn’t pivot to vfork, we pivoted to posix_spawn for all but the case where we have to change working directory (had to support old glibc without the attr for that in spawn).

You can always accomplish that sort of thing by using a helper program that ultimately execs the desired one -- just prefix it and its arguments to the intended argv.
by potamic | 2025-09-20 05:00:42+00:00
Journalists fucked up massively when they allowed sponsored content to masquerade as editorial content. Now people don't trust media as much as they used to and are moving to other sources to get their information. What journalists around the world need to do is come together and build consensus in the industry on separating sponsored content from their own. A tiny, fine print at the bottom of a full page sponsor is grossly insufficient. It has to be more explicit. Perhaps reserve colors and styles exclusively for indigenous content or frame all sponsored content in a clearly identifiable manner. One way or another, they need to figure out how to reclaim their reputation.
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-09-20 05:02:52+00:00
It can be a cheaper source of human resources without direct outsourcing. This will just offshore jobs, not foster recruiting of citizens.

The intent is obvious, but the foresight into potential outcomes is shortsighted.

Labor is expensive, more competition will rise overseas, as it will become more expensive to operate.

It also crushes the opportunities of a gigantic number of individuals who are here today who had a plan in place to exist in this ecosystem. Additionally the institutions that supported them will also be hurt. Although, they might have been aware of the writing on the wall over the past year.
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-20 05:03:20+00:00
> IMO the problem is that H1B employees are stuck at the employer for the duration of their green card process, and so end up both paid lower and unable to escape abuse.

> I think a very high application fee is actually part of a good solution, but is useless by itself.

This is always going to be bad if you compare to what any functioning democracy should be doing in this situation which to revert the deterioration of wages and punish/reeducate abusers. I admit it's idealistic, but if you could suspend the need for political realism here a moment there is a chance you could see this is only logical.
by roytam87 | 2025-09-20 05:03:21+00:00
win32s brings codepage to/from widechar APIs and codepage table files (P_*.NLS), and a setting "AnsiCP=" in [NLS] section in win32s.ini.

16bit IE brings its own MSNLS.DLL for handling different codepages to ACP(Active Codepage) in Win3.1x.

and win9x also works mainly in ANSI codepage with some kernel side unicode support.
by defrost | 2025-09-20 05:04:06+00:00
> At that time, it was fairly apparent that he was not MAGA

The criticism of the "MAGA gang" was _not_ about their actions at the time of the Kimmel broadcast, it was very much about their immediate behavior as soon as the shooting hit the news .. the time when nothing was known, the time when the FBI head was making statements about suspects that were untrue, the time when the US head of state was declaring war on the left .. you know, the time when nothing was known about the political allegiance of the shooter .. or the lack thereof.

I'm an outside observer, from here it's clear that the US has fallen deep into an Us v Them K-hole and that the current administration is all too happy to turn up the heat on the divisions that render the nation asunder .. the chaos makes the heist all the easier.
by nine_k | 2025-09-20 05:04:56+00:00
I hazard to guess that it would be the same, because the compiler would produce a loop out of .iter(), would expose the loop index via .enumerate(), and would keep track of that index in .min_by(). I suppose the lambda would be inlined, maybe even along with comparisons.

I wonder could that be made faster by using AVX instructions; they allow to find the minimum value among several u32 values, but not immediately its index.
by mrheosuper | 2025-09-20 05:05:45+00:00
> People truly good enough to get the employer to pony up $100K to pull them in -- presuming there isn't some kickback fraud happening -- will truly be the best of the best.

And what stops those people, best of the best, working somewhere else, with much better living standard(EU) ?

In the past, it's because of salary, but now, the 100k/year will either make company to lower their package, or try to extract much more from the employee.
by hedayet | 2025-09-20 05:06:17+00:00
I have seen an endless stream of unqualified people scamming and abusing H-1B, O-1, EB-1, and EB-2 programs — you name it. I can understand why the average American might come to resent these programs.

On the other hand, I know many highly talented immigrants in the USA whose contributions to society would be missed if they just couldn’t focus entirely on their work - let alone if they were kept out of the country altogether.

My point: They have identified the right problem (H-1B abuse), but the proposed fix is too drastic and undermines sustainable trust between immigrants and the country. I’d like to be proven wrong, though.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-20 05:07:10+00:00
The hollowed out middle class is surely because of the class of jobs that have been growing the fastest, seeing the highest salaries and salary growths, and have been the best jobs in America for 2 decades.

It’s not because of the other jobs which the H1Bs aren’t even allowed to do abd have seen falling salaries and degrowth.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-20 05:11:44+00:00
No, but these are slogans that seldom survive contact with reality.

"Managers Hoard Information. Leaders Overshare." - sure, until they don't. Because as companies grow, the probability that there is a hostile or careless employee in the audience approaches 1. That employee may tell a friend working at a competitor, may talk to a journalist, and so on. Most tech companies are funded on the principle of radical transparency, but then start compartmentalizing information because oversharing doesn't scale.

"Managers Weaponize Policy. Leaders Bend Rules for People." - likewise, this works up to a point. Past that point, if every "leader" within the company is bending the rules, you end up in an unmanageable mess, and outcomes that are unfair and legally perilous ("how come the company made an exception for Jill but not Joe?").

"Managers Fire Fast. Leaders Coach, Then Help People Land Softly." / "Managers Avoid Hard Conversations. Leaders Run Toward Them." - wait, so which one is it? Firing someone is a hard conversation, and in my experience, line managers often avoid it, letting performance problems fester for too long. Then, it's the "leaders" (the top brass - founders, etc) who decide that things have gone too far and we need to make brutal 10% cuts across the board.

"Managers Reward Compliance. Leaders Reward Dissent." - this varies, but the tolerance for dissent is usually higher among line managers than top leadership, simply because dissent is guaranteed once you hit a certain scale and your company can't be run as a perpetual discussion club. At some point, you need to get behind the plan or look for another job. I'd wager that Steve Jobs wasn't all that keen on dissent from random employees. Similarly, if you work at Palantir and tell them that they should sever ties with the Dept Homeland Security, I'm sure they will be happy to show you the door.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-20 05:13:09+00:00
When you upload a video to YouTube, you agree that you own the copyright or are otherwise able to grant YouTube a license to do whatever they want with it [0]:

> If you choose to upload Content, you must not submit to the Service any Content that does not comply with this Agreement (including the YouTube Community Guidelines) or the law. For example, the Content you submit must not include third-party intellectual property (such as copyrighted material) unless you have permission from that party or are otherwise legally entitled to do so. [...]

> By providing Content to the Service, you grant to YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use that Content (including to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display and perform it) in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and Affiliates') business, including for the purpose of promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service.

If you include others' work with anything stronger than CC0, that's not a license you can grant. So you'll always be in trouble in principle, regardless of whether or how YouTube decides to exercise that license. In practice, I wouldn't be surprised if the copyright owner could get away with a takedown if they wanted to.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/t/terms#27dc3bf5d9
by alephnerd | 2025-09-20 05:13:23+00:00
> but there’s a balance that employers have to maintain to get some in-state advantages from local or state governments for job creation

True! The issue is local, state, and federal governments gives limited benefits compared to CEE countries, Israel, India, and others who roll the red carpet with multi-year tax holidays, subsidizes, and targeted hiring pipelines.

> makes more sense for America to get trainers or professors for niche subfields than actual workers so you can create homegrown talent

How? They overwhelmingly came on H1Bs as well, not O-1s.

This is why this is such a stupid approach, and is absolutely showing the hallmarks of a Stephen Miller policy. Interestingly, this seems to have overshadowed the Trump Gold Card and Platinum Card announcements (which part of me thinks was part of the reason this announcement happened).
by 0xfffafaCrash | 2025-09-20 05:13:34+00:00
Might be a cultural thing

I’ve both been rewarded for dissent from leadership throughout my career and had greater respect for and advocated more strongly for those willing to stick out their necks and disagree earnestly and productively when in leadership positions.

Dissent isn’t the same thing as sabotage. There’s healthy conflict and open disagreement which helps illuminate risks and gaps and uncover opportunities in productive ways and then there’s just stirring the pot or trying to tear things down without bringing alternative proposals to the conversation — being unwilling to contribute in positive ways if you don’t always get your way.

The latter kills the ability for the team to work well while the former is key to allowing colleagues bring insights and value to the team
by dtkav | 2025-09-20 05:14:11+00:00
The plugin is called Relay [0] -- it makes Obsidian more useful in a work setting by adding real-time collaboration.

One thing that makes our offering unique is the ability to self-host your Relay Server so that your docs are completely private (we can't read them). At the same time you can use our global identity system / control plane to collaborate with anyone in the world.

We have pretty solid growth, a healthy paid consumer base (a lot of students and D&D/TTRPG), and starting to get more traction with businesses and enterprise.

[0] https://relay.md
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-20 05:14:51+00:00
Your question displays sufficient knowledgeability of the phenomenon of strictly integer harmonics, that you can basically disregard the replies explaining how they could arise, whereas your question is more about given that it shouldn't arise inevitably, how do we know they would be harmonic given the case of a fan.

Some of the replies pontificate and assume sounds are periodic, and hence their harmonics must have been perfectly integral, which is of course totally bonkers.

Yes, some instruments are harmonic (i.e. integral harmonics down to ~ ppm frequency ratio errors) like violins, but only because those are bowed strings, resulting in phase locking.

Plucked strings are much further from integral harmonics, due to dispersion: yes standing waves for a frequency-independent wavespeed c on the string would give perfectly harmonic partials. Real strings show dispersion (a frequency dependent wavespeed) resulting in inharmonic partials.

Nothing indicates fan noise to be strongly harmonic. Their composite sound may have structured and repeatable (in)harmonic components in many ways, harmonics would be easiest to explain. The part that sounds "white" would presumably be hard to characterize and cancel.
by ineedasername | 2025-09-20 05:15:04+00:00
I don’t think many readers here will be taken in by this performative apology and believe it is anything other than it is:

“We’re sorry...ish... that our routine pressure tactics and revenue min/max practices got exposed publicly. We are, actually, grateful it was caught now rather than after we deleted their account. That fallout would have cost us far more inconvenience to clean up. Thanks to the limited attention this has drawn, we only need to relax the thumb screws briefly, rather than pretend to an overhaul of the practices themselves, which would still have been, just like the apology, performative and short lived.”

If most people here think like I do, we’re instead doubling down on our efforts to ensure we can exfiltrate our data and jump platforms with only moderate frustration instead chaos when vendors pull this sort of thing.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-20 05:15:49+00:00
Here's me hosting a bunch of different bitrates of a high quality video, which I encoded on a 2016 laptop. http://lelandbatey.com/projects/REDLINE-intro/

The server is $30/month hosted by OVH, which comes with 2TB of storage. The throughout on the dedicated server is 1gbps. Unlimited transfer is included (and I've gone through many dozens of TB of traffic in a month).