MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by technocrat8080 | 2025-09-20 03:39:54+00:00
A 100k fee is well within the territory of killing job prospects for skilled foreign students graduating from US universities.

What percentage of the AI labs are staffed by either foreign workers or second/third generation immigrants? Look at the composition of high achieving high school students- almost certainly of Asian or Indian descent, certainly many belonging to families of recent immigrants. The pipeline this EO disrupts is immense.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 03:40:50+00:00
As it turns out the government can dictate how the broadcast frequencies are used, including dictate things about the content. The company could have switched to online only and continued the show. Heck, they should have called uncle sam's bluff maybe and see what happened.

They are not sending Jimmy to gulag or arresting him. Jimmy can still continue his show just maybe on his own youtube channel or his own online platform or something.
by furyofantares | 2025-09-20 03:41:36+00:00
> The "lethal trifecta," as described by Simon Willison, is the combination of LLM agents, tool access, and long-term memory that together enable powerful but easily exploitable attack vectors.

This is a terrible description of the lethal trifecta, it lists 3 things but they are not the trifecta. The trifecta happens to be contained in the things listed in this (and other) examples but it's stated as if the trifecta is listed here, when it is not.

The trifecta is: access to your private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to externally communicate. Web search as tool for an LLM agent is both exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate.
by AngryData | 2025-09-20 03:41:54+00:00
But if you want to attract young talented and skilled people into the US, I don't think H1B is a good way to do it. I would imagine is more likely to result in people leaving after gaining skills and experience and set up shop back home where the money they earned stretches farther. Many of them are forced to do so after their employer tosses them away so why would you come here with any different plan to start with? There is no clearly laid out path to come here on an H1B and guarantee you get to stay even if you do stellar work.
by pimlottc | 2025-09-20 03:42:14+00:00
Sadly that is not uncommon these days at all.

For major arena shows, face price floor seats can easily run $500+, going up to $1000+ for the first rows. Even lower level bowl seats can run you that much for front row.

And that's if you managed to get scalpers to them during the original sale. Resale can commonly range as high as 200% - 500% of face price.

For example, for Nine Inch Nails' recent arena tour, face price for pit tickets (GA floor) were around $150-$200, depending on the city. But they were nearly impossible to get, so most fans ended up having getting them on resale, where prices of $300 - $400 dollars were common. You can wait for tickets to drop the day of the show but that doesn't always happen. I know someone who ended up paying $800 for a pit ticket on the day of the show after they shot up to over $1200 at one point.

It is frankly completely out of control.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-09-20 03:42:16+00:00
The economic benefits are really not clear; at least not without caveats and clear conditions for the advanced skills that make a migrant beneficial.

This is if you believe that lower wages for high skill work is not an issue.

However high migration rates lower social trust, this is well studied.

If you take a smaller example, hiring internationally vs domestically. If you have to go domestic then you might have to settle for a less ideal qualification, requiring more training.

This is repeated everywhere, so companies that train better are more likely to succeed. Leading to conditions that encourage upskilling for locals overall.

Importing people short circuits that idea.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 03:42:28+00:00
> would argue the Biden administration already attempted to do a form of this, as we saw with Facebook, Twitter, et al, the last administration certainly tried influencing the online arena

Not comparable. That said, I agree—if this precedent stands, there should be personal liability for Newsmax commenters under a future administration. (And, of course, they should be barred from federal property.)

One would also go after the online streaming companies to delist their content. Google and Meta are constantly under antitrust controlled. TikTok is government owned. And you could start knocking on X with its money-transfer ambitions and Elon’s robotaxi approvals (to say nothing of federal contracts).
by yellowapple | 2025-09-20 03:42:28+00:00
> It's way too easy to get banned on Bluesky

Only if you're on a Bluesky-operated PDS. That's straightforward to fix, at which point the most Bluesky can do to “ban” you is stick a label on your account that non-Bluesky applications/clients are free to ignore.

> to my knowledge their promises of being decentralized are comparable to Telegram being E2E encrypted.

AFAICT your knowledge is about a year out of date.
by throwaway7783 | 2025-09-20 03:42:48+00:00
I'm against these top sweatshops, but is the answer to that is ban the entire subcontinent?

Also, I don't know how many h1bs have you worked with. I have worked with many (hundreds), and it's the same spectrum of talent you'd find anywhere. This is probably not the intent of h1b, but banning a set of countries is not the solution. Changing the criteria is.
by yadaeno | 2025-09-20 03:43:09+00:00
“Manufacturing consent” should be required reading for all Americans.

These economists expressed the correct viewpoint that benefits the capital class so their viewpoint and credentials are validated and legitimized. “Right-thinking economists” are promoted while economists that have views that dont benefit multinational corporate interest are pushed to the fringes.

This is extremely well documented and when you see it spelled out in the book you will not be able to see the world in the same way.

Lex Friedman was nobody until he published a study that self driving cars were safe while Elon musk was in the midst of legal battles for his cars killing people. Lex Friedman is a “right thinking” academic so next thing you know Elon musk is talking on his podcast calling Lex “the smartest person in the world” despite having almost no credentials.
by cxa | 2025-09-20 03:43:25+00:00
I have Xmonad running well on Ubuntu 24 with Gnome Flashback

The packages I install are: xmonad libghc-xmonad-extras-dev gnome-flashback gnome-panel

(plus suckless-tools and xmobar)

That should give you a login option for "GNOME Flashback (Xmonad)"

I recall there were a couple of hacks necessary to show the Gnome Panel:

gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-flashback root-background true

gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-flashback desktop false

and then the panels you can hide or remove per your preference
Show HN: An app that sets TikTok video music as ringtone
by noteable | 2025-09-20 03:43:39+00:00
I created a completely free app that allows you to easily set music from TikTok as your ringtone.

You can search for "Ringtone Maker Guru" in the App Store.

You can also click the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ringtone-maker-guru/id67522121...

Feedback is welcome.
by barddoo | 2025-09-20 03:44:15+00:00
Agree. I used it mostly for getting ideas, the memory management for example, Gemini listed so many different ways of managing memory I didn’t even know existed. I know I wanted to pre allocate memory like tigerbeetle does, so the hybrid approach was perfect. Essentially it has 3 different allocators, a huge one for the cache, a arena allocator for context, intermediate state like pub/sub and temp one, for requests. It was 100% Gemini’s idea.
by mappu | 2025-09-20 03:45:02+00:00
Wayback is a new Wayland compositor that implements the X11 window manager API on top of a single rootful XWayland session: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-Wayland . XMonad should run fine inside it.

This gives you the advantage of Wayland's modern display stack and no legacy Xorg code while still running a classic X11 window manager.

The main downside is you have to run all X11-compatible apps, it's unable to manage any Wayland-native applications. But, X11 apps aren't going away any time soon, just the display server.
More personal blogs get narrower width
by unisyncd | 2025-09-20 03:46:08+00:00
More personal blogs get narrower page in recent days posted on HN. Is it a new fashion?

Examples:

https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo

https://mini.gmshaders.com/p/tonemaps
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-20 03:46:54+00:00
LinkedIn referrals mean jack shit.

As I said:

> anything past where you've worked on LinkedIn is a waste of time

Because everything on LinkedIn literally exists to be farmed. And why wouldn't it? LinkedIn's customers are recruiters. Users are the currency.

OP would be better served by actually networking with their peers. Not in app-mediated (and -monetized) ways, but in normal social human ways.

Sometimes it's like people forgot how to say "Hey, want to grab a coffee and catch up? What's been going on with you?"
by ryukoposting | 2025-09-20 03:48:23+00:00
Intel has enormous 14nm capacity and the node has been fully depreciated for years now, I wouldn't be surprised to see them keep it around long past its time in the zeitgeist. I'd be willing to bet we're about a generation away from a deluge of demand for embedded chips made on that node. Several high-end microcontrollers are made on 18nm processes already.

I'm still rooting for them to separate the fabs from the IP, I just wouldn't be surprised if some of the fabs stick around longer than folks would expect.
by thisisit | 2025-09-20 03:48:50+00:00
As always with this administration using a cannon to kill a mosquito for the right reasons. And then people debating the reason rather than the cannon.

The logic from this administration and it’s supporters is opposite of Benjamin Franklin. Rather than thinking that it is better a hundred guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer. They think it is better a hundred guilty persons be punished than one innocent person’s suffering. We have seen this from the South Korea detainees debacle and here too.

There is fraud in H1B system. People do take advantage of it. People do suffer from ghost jobs. But the question at the heart of the matter is what is the basis for a flat 100k fee? Because lots of numbers from this administration seem to be pulled out from thin air. There are reasons fines are set low in comparison to a company revenue but POTUS doesn’t seem to know.
by famerica | 2025-09-20 03:50:14+00:00
> My main complain with this administration is always the chaos and impulsiveness which doesn't bring much confidence that they are actually capable of actually fixing the problem, as it always doesn't seem well thought through or executed. More like headlines to get some cheering from MAGA crowd.

I think it could also be that they don't want to fix any problems, but they do want the chaos and media attention that provides catharsis to the voting base.
by aesbetic | 2025-09-20 03:50:21+00:00
Its a proclamation, not an executive order. This is important to keep in mind because Congress granted explicit statutory authorization to the President in the Immigration and Nationality Act 212(f) and is unlikely to be cut down by the courts for this reason:

"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."

Also interestingly, it seems to only explicitly impose restrictions on entry into the US. But most visa holders are already in the country, and atleast according to this proclamation, they'd be unaffected.
by Sanzig | 2025-09-20 03:51:09+00:00
The broadcast license is also strictly speaking only necessary for over the air stations, it does not apply to cable. Cable providers get ABC for cheap due to Section 111 compulsory licensing (short version: a cable provider can retransmit an OTA station for only a small royalty), but there's nothing stopping Disney from offering ABC to cable providers for a similar cost if their license is pulled.

So, the impact at the end of the day is just lost revenue from antenna users. Cable and satellite would be unaffected. That's got to be a relatively small number in the grand scheme of things.
by nomilk | 2025-09-20 03:51:29+00:00
US-based companies that depend on H-1Bs may:

- stomach the cost increase,

- reduce the number of H-1Bs they hire,

- move (the company) out of the US (i.e. to less imposing jurisdictions).

If companies choose the latter, the irony is the resulting reduction in US tax revenue from companies moving out could outweigh the gains in revenue from the $100k H-1B tax, thus resulting in lower US government tax revenues due to the change.
by al_borland | 2025-09-20 03:52:11+00:00
> with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them

Anyone hearing this would take away that Tyler was maga, would they not? It heavily implies that he is maga, and that’s why the maga gang is trying to deflect.

A lot of conclusions were jumped to early on by everyone. Things are more clear now, but still not 100%. From what I’ve seen so far he was a Trump supporter in his early teens, but did a full 180 in recent years, due to the influence on the internet, as you mentioned, and who knows what else.

If the ultimate joke was to laugh at Trump talking about his ballroom, I don’t see what his maga comments added to that. He stepped into a hornets nest and added nothing to the joke in the process.
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 03:53:58+00:00
I don't agree that it is harder than it used to be, unless you specifically mean there are a few more dialogs to hop through during install and initial setup which is annoying on recent versions. But you do this once, just like Windows UAP.

Apple sells remote management software* if you don't want to buy your own KVM solution, it's $79.99 but given that there are no per-user limits and it has been continually updated for ~20 years, I'd say it's often overlooked in discussions of remotely managing Macs.

If you want a free solution, Tahoe w/ ssh FileVault unlock makes using a Mac as a server more useful than ever with a non-Apple VNC product of your choice.

* Mac App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-remote-desktop/id4099073...
by AngryData | 2025-09-20 03:55:20+00:00
Over a long enough time-span it isn't zero-sum. Under any sort of limited time span, which is what people with limited amount of life live deal with, it is zero-sum. It doesn't matter how much money you spend, the economy has material and man power limits than cannot be exceeded no matter what someone manages to pull out of their butt. On top of that, the value of money IS affected by the total amount of currency in circulation as history has shown many times over, and only in a theoretical economic vacuum where customers are infinite does one guy holding a trillion dollars not devalue someone else's $1.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-20 03:55:50+00:00
According to https://zulip.com/plans/#self-hosted, the only things you get by upgrading from free self-hosted (which is absolutely offered) to paid self-hosted is to remove the limits on mobile notifications, which is a service that Zulip as an organization has to run and which therefore has an inherent cost, plus access to various forms of customer support.

Explicitly mentioned is that all Zulip features are included in the free plan.

The self-hosted offering is notably described as 100% open source software in the tab heading above all the plans, paid or free. https://zulip.com/help/zulip-cloud-or-self-hosting confirms this interpretation. It’s as owned as any other open source software. https://zulip.com/self-hosting/ even confirms that the self-hosted offering is the same software as Zulip Cloud.

The mobile push notification service is also open source and can be self-hosted for free, although this requires recompiling the mobile apps with a different secret and distributing the modified apps to the desired mobile clients. Zulip has no way around this due to Google and Apple’s push notification security models.
by dahart | 2025-09-20 03:56:32+00:00
> This does seem to be very specific to Game Maker though.

Good point. I was going to point out that in general comparing 6-bit color to float color should not result in a change in brightness, tonemapping, or anything other than maybe some visible quantizing in the 6-bit version. That first example makes sense to me if we’re talking about what Game Maker does with 6bpp vs float, and wasn’t meant to be a conceptual comparison of bit depths for shaders in any environment. So maybe GM doesn’t use the same color pipeline with LDR vs HDR colors, perhaps HDR is tonemapped and LDR isn’t? The first paragraph implies this, but doesn’t say it explicitly. Or is tonemapping in GM a user choice not determined by color format?

> Similarly HDR doesn’t mean exceeding 1.0

True, but it’s harder to see the point of HDR without having to deal with colors that are brighter than the display can handle.

There are lots of different ideas & suggested definitions around for what HDR means, but I like to think the important one is the idea of storing colors in absolute physical units, as opposed to relative units where 1.0 means one times the brightest color the display is capable of. Which, of course, you can do with any bit depth, but HDR tends to pair well with higher bit depths.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-09-20 03:57:01+00:00
Later reporting is saying that it will be 100k / year. If so that's quite substantial.

That will make the program non-viable for a large percentage of the people who use it today.

I suspect that the o1 visa would get far more use if this change were enacted.

It seems to high. Again: why not make it an auction?
by nomilk | 2025-09-20 03:58:14+00:00
> what makes you think they will allow them to move abroad without severe penalties

To my knowledge, there's no penalty (severe or otherwise) for shutting down a company in the US.

There are probably many more gentle solutions too, like if a multi-national wants an H-1B, but they have offices in other countries, they might simply hire through their offices in other jurisdictions. The employee could even take extended work trips to the US if required (but remain hired through the other country's office).
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-20 03:59:11+00:00
> The grift is the widespread belief that they can be found and hired with a job listing.

Oh, yeah.

The real grift management sold all over the world is the idea that your people should just leave after 3 or 4 years, you can hire new people for the same roles and they will be much cheaper.

You can't hire people for roles. If you change the people, the roles will change, and all the bets are off on whether they will be functional roles or not.
by kappi | 2025-09-20 03:59:19+00:00
As authorized by federal law, the department will conduct investigations of employers through Project Firewall to maximize H-1B program compliance. To achieve this goal, the Secretary of Labor will personally certify the initiation of investigations for the first time in the department’s history. This historic action leverages existing authority granted to the Secretary if reasonable cause exists that an H-1B employer not in compliance.

Secretary-certified investigations, as well as other H-1B-related investigations, are important tools the department will use in Project Firewall to hold employers accountable and protect the rights of American workers. Violations may result in the collection of back wages owed to affected workers, the assessment of civil money penalties, and/or debarment from future use of the H-1B program for a prescribed period of time.
by jfil | 2025-09-20 04:00:36+00:00
Most people underappreciate how tough it is to get yourself motivated & creating anything when the structure of a job falls away. Its fine to go take a job, just for the structure/mental stimulation it provides.

If you do take a job, I wouldn't be surprised if you eventually find a passion project that'll make everything fall into place. Its ok that it takes time to discover that passion.

(I took 2 years off for an entrepreneurial project. Finished it in the first year, bummed around purposeless for the next one. Went back to work early. 15 years later, beginning to get curious/driven again.)
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-20 04:01:11+00:00
I genuinely enjoy R. I use it for calculations daily. In comparison using Python feels tedious and clunky even though I know it better.

> CRAN had also rerun the tests for all packages that depend on mine, even if they don’t belong to me!

Another way to frame this is these are the customers of your package's API. If you broke them you are required to ship a fix.

I see why this isn't the default (e.g. on GitHub you have no idea how many people depend on you). But the developer experience is much nicer like this. Google, for example, makes this promise with some of their public tools.

Outside the word of professional software developers, R is used by many academics in statistics, economics, social sciences etc. This rule makes it less likely that their research breaks because of some obscure dependency they don't understand.
by nomilk | 2025-09-20 04:01:45+00:00
US-based companies that depend on H-1Bs may:

- stomach the cost increase,

- reduce the number of H-1Bs they hire,

- move (the company) out of the US (i.e. to less imposing jurisdictions).

If companies choose the latter, the irony is the resulting reduction in US tax revenue from companies moving out could outweigh the gains in revenue from the $100k H-1B tax, thus resulting in lower US government tax revenues due to the change.
by famerica | 2025-09-20 04:01:51+00:00
> I don't think my employer could fill all the positions they have with equal or greater talent with only American citizens.

I assume that's because the wages are too low, since you have already described your skill level as merely above average. Unless I'm significantly misunderstanding something, Americans would be better off if your company had to pay higher wages, even if the company ended up shutting down as a result.