MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vkou | 2025-09-20 01:46:05+00:00
> I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air.

Have you not been paying attention to where rhetoric in this country has gone in the past 8 months? The first amendment is dead, the great leader is publically calling for his critics to lose their broadcast licenses, and the new SOP is for the government to squeeze the shit out of anyone who doesn't toe the line. (Which is an ever-shrinking group of people.)

Be it with SLAPP suits, or by holding merger approvals, or by just threatening witch-hunts.

This is what 48% of the electorate wanted, and, well, it's what they've delivered.

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Meanwhile, in Fox land, Brian Kilmeade was publically calling for mass-murder of the mentally ill the other day. For some strange reason, neither Trump nor the FCC, nor all the people outraged about political violence are making a peep about that.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-20 01:46:08+00:00
> I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air.

Very little was needed. The U.S. president had already ominously threatened Kimmel and other late night hosts the day after Colbert was canceled, weeks before the shooting.

I thought Kimmel was hilarious; but as they say, there’s no accounting for taste.

The most ridiculous thing about this is that the world doesn’t cleave neatly into “radical left lunatics” and the righteous real Americans. I still can’t tell what the murderer was. Whatever that was, he acted on his own impulses - ones that are not broadly celebrated, irrespective of claims to the contrary.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-09-20 01:46:17+00:00
> You could make the argument (and I'm guessing it was?) that for scientific grants specifically, if the goal isn't money in the first place, and the lack of grant makes a scientific career impossible to fix later even with any amount of money (say grants 10x as large), then maybe you meet "irreparable harm"?

I think I'd agree with that, yes. I'd even go as far as to argue that you've caused irreparable harm to the public insofar as the grants specifically would have funded open-access publications.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-20 01:46:27+00:00
That's fine for

- Enhanced security through kernel-level separation - Better resource utilization than traditional VM (KVM, Xen etc.)

but I don't think it works for

- Improved fault isolation between different workloads - Potential zero-down kernel update with KHO (Kernel Hand Over)

since if the "main" kernel crashes or is supposed to get upgraded then you have to hand hardware back to it.
by hdjrudni | 2025-09-20 01:46:43+00:00
Doubtful. Not sure I'd be hired. I was hired at like $160k/yr. Would my employer have paid over half my wages to import me? I'm not so sure. Am I not bright enough? Do ya'all not want me here? It's possible. I'm no genius but I think I'm pretty good at my job and I dare say above average, and I don't think my employer could fill all the positions they have with equal or greater talent with only American citizens.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-09-20 01:46:50+00:00
I don't have a yacht with a smaller yacht inside.

I didn't buy a chair at my alma mater.

My brother is deep in student loan debt. I skipped college because I couldn't afford to work and go to school.

I keep a collection of screws because they're expensive otherwise.

I can barely keep the lights on as a software dev.

Sure, I eat better than someone from halfway around the world. But likewise we're both being taken advantage of by people of higher social and economic status and deprived of basic needs. We all desire an end to the hierarchy of abuse regardless of where on the totem of who-has-it-worse we are. Now go eat your rice, there are starving kids in Kentucky.
by pzmarzly | 2025-09-20 01:47:24+00:00
I had a Bash script that parsed my browser history, and for every YouTube video it would run yt-dlp with "--write-info-json --write-subtitles --download-archive=already-downloaded.db" flags. Creating it was the easy part, but keeping it running has presented some challenges. For example, Google started rate limiting my IP quickly, so I had to offload this process to a NAS, where it could keep running for hours overnight, persistently downloading stuff at near dialup speeds. Then I was running out of storage quickly, so I had to add video filtering, and I planned to add basic garbage collection. And of course I had to have youtube-dl (and later yt-dlp) updated at all times.

In the end, I decided it is not worth it. In the scenario you described, I would take the video link/ID and paste it into Bing and Yandex. There is large chance they still have that page cached in their index.

FWIW if you are going to create your own tool, my advice will be to make it a browser extension, and try to pull the video straight from YouTube's <video> element.
by Fordec | 2025-09-20 01:47:41+00:00
So the replacement is the talent stays in their own country, making local wages there where their talents are leveraged via offshoring instead. They still work to their skillset, wages remain suppressed but their country of origin get their personal taxes instead. But at least the talented individual gets a lower quality of life, that will teach them to roll the dice wrong on the geography they were born into.
by red369 | 2025-09-20 01:48:05+00:00
It seems that I was talking about a place with one of the highest depreciation rates (1) in the world, so what I said may not be widely applicable at all. I didn't realise it varied so much by country. I should have remembered that New Zealand has unusual prices because it gets a lot of used car imports from places like Japan and Singapore who get rid of their cars quickly.

1) https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/89145417/new-zealand-h...

This is an old study which points to New Zealand having quick depreciation in the first year. Looking around briefly, I think depreciation reduced substantially since COVID, and I think those numbers in that study may have been too high anyway (the study found over 50% in the first year). I'm interested in what happened, so I'll try and find what the reality is when I get a chance.
by nimih | 2025-09-20 01:48:36+00:00
You may want to read the section on enforcement:

> Section 1. Restriction on Entry. (a) Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section. This restriction shall expire, absent extension, 12 months after the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025.
by rubyn00bie | 2025-09-20 01:49:32+00:00
So a genuine question here regarding the platinum card, as it applies to non-US income for 270 days:

If a corporation decided to apply for this, using a foreign subsidiary that holds US income from abroad—- could that corporation claim personhood and theoretically bring that income into the US tax free? Alternatively, could they funnel funds through a foreign born person to bypass paying taxes on that income?
by vasilipupkin | 2025-09-20 01:49:42+00:00
and so who owns the shares of "corporate america"? Newflash: Teachers' and firefighters' and cops' pensions are all invested in "corporate america". As well as pensions of union workers. As well as 401ks of all the other middle class people. Come on.

"the exploitation of American worker" ? American workers have one of the richest standards of living in the world.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-09-20 01:50:27+00:00
>it damn sure hasn’t worked out well for the countries those talented folks came from.

It damn sure hasn't worked out well for a lot of talented, perpetually underemployed (many deep in perpetual debt) US kids. And I'm pretty sure that what those talented folks learn here in the US has made its way back to those countries, considering (e.g.) the level of competition we see from Asia these days.
by derefr | 2025-09-20 01:50:58+00:00
Digs directed at the President or the administration are and always have been well within the Overton window in American journalism, and previous Presidents and administrations have just seen them as a fact of life and brushed them off.

Thus “milquetoast”: an implication that any reaction to this is, objectively, an overreaction.

That the current President is a habitual over-reactor does not change that fact. It just means that you can paradoxically be taking a heterodox / outré stance by saying objectively milquetoast things.
by gruez | 2025-09-20 01:52:19+00:00
You're ignoring the part of the quote where he implied the killer was MAGA or MAGA affiliated. For reference the full quote is:

>The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it

Kimmel didn't explicitly make the accusation that the killer was MAGA, but the use of the wording "desperately trying to imply ... as anything other than one of them" definitely gives that impression. I mean, why else would they be "desperately" trying to? If an attempt was made on Bernie or AOC I wouldn't characterize leftists prematurely blaming it on the right as "desperately". It's just the most logical inference. The "killer was right wing" narrative was also being pushed in some left leaning circles, so it's not exactly outlandish either.
by jaredcwhite | 2025-09-20 01:52:29+00:00
He doesn't run an open source project well when there's a substantial brain drain from the ecosystem due to his loudly-expressed worldview being deplorable.

This is like the fallacy of marketers who only measure slight short-term increases in engagement. It's not success if you get a temporary bump of 5% if you also end up pissing off a ton of people who will never come back. Eventually the whole thing craters.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-09-20 01:52:58+00:00
FCC chair literally said "We can do this the easy way or the hard way" the easy way being ABC cancelling it, the hard way being pulling the license.

And if you wait for the license to be pulled as your red line, you misunderstand how this works. This is an actual threat, the kind of thing that mobsters get RICO charges for. The threat has done its work and served the purposes of the administration. The crime has already taken place. The mobster says "but he agreed to pay the protection money and nobody ever actually broke his kneecaps"

"These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel,” said Carr, a Trump appointee, “or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/jimmy-kimmel-liv...
by breadwinner | 2025-09-20 01:53:08+00:00
Ha! And who worked at Bell Labs, the US company? Immigrants.

Mohamed "John" Atalla, raised in Egypt, and Dawon Kahng from Korea, who together invented the MOSFET transistor, which underpins modern electronics and computing. Both immigrated to the United States for graduate engineering education and made their breakthrough at Bell Labs in 1959.

Yann LeCun, born and raised in France, immigrated to the U.S. in 1988 to work at AT&T Bell Labs, where he became head of image processing research and contributed significantly to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish-born inventor of the telephone, was a founder and major figure in the creation of the Bell Telephone Company; AT&T, created by American Bell in 1885, later established Bell Labs.
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-20 01:53:08+00:00
> It's not that engineers cant take care of their own security.

I dunno. My computer has at least 1 hardware backdoor that I know off, but that I just can't get hardware without any equivalent exploit.

My OS is developed with a set of tools that is known to make code revision about as hard as possible. Provides the bare minimum application insulation. And is 2 orders of magnitude larger than any single person can read on their lifetime. It's also the usable OS out there with best security guarantees, everything else is much worse or useless.

A browser is almost a new complete layer above the OS. And it's 10 times larger. Also written in a way that famously makes revisions impossible.

And then there are the applications, that is what everybody is focusing today. Keeping them secure is close to useless if one don't fix all of the above.
by nelox | 2025-09-20 01:53:33+00:00
No, the language clearly limits the restriction to those “aliens … currently outside the United States.” “Entry” in this context means seeking admission (or re-entry) to the U.S. from abroad, under a new petition or visa that starts outside. It is tied to new petitions, and specifically those where the beneficiary is abroad.

“(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall restrict decisions on petitions not accompanied by a $100,000 payment for H-1B specialty occupation workers … who are currently outside the United States …”
by majorchord | 2025-09-20 01:53:57+00:00
But if they're hiding, you wouldn't have interviewed them in the first place, right? I don't see how this is comparable.

All the smart engineers that I know absolutely struggle to find jobs. There are regularly job threads here on HN or freelance subreddits and other places, that are chocked full of great people desperate for work.

But maybe that's really just a small fraction of the people, I can't know for sure.
by nine_k | 2025-09-20 01:54:01+00:00
I'd say this is the most important quote:

> In later interviews, many women who had been posture photo subjects expressed profound embarrassment and pain over the experience, and even guilt about not objecting. Writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron (Wellesley '62) said, "We were idiots. Idiots!"

If you find something obviously wrong, make a noise about it, even if the perpetrators look very serious and proper.
by which | 2025-09-20 01:54:10+00:00
You can buy Austrian citizenship for ~5M EUR. Cyprus and Malta offered similar schemes at much lower prices until recently. Italy incentivizes people to move their tax residence there by letting them pay a 200k EUR lump sum tax annually instead of the standard progressive rate. I don't really see why we shouldn't have programs like this if there is vetting, but I'm also curious under which US laws this can be justified. Who would have standing to contest this even if it wasn't legal?

PS:

Under 50 USC §3508, the CIA director or the Attorney General can bring in up to 100 aliens and their family per year for permanent residence without regard to any admissibility requirements. Perhaps to maximize revenue these spots can be auctioned off at a premium.
by estebarb | 2025-09-20 01:54:34+00:00
A common problem in latam and other geos is brain drain. Most of their best minds simply leave the country looking for better opportunities. That is impactful for the countries economies, the country invest a lot in people,but others see the benefits.

During last century, USA has been the most benefited from that kind of immigration.

Personally I think that this is a very short sighted decision by USA administration. But overall, I think that this will benefit the rest of the world. Maybe in a few years even USA will start exporting their best minds abroad!
by vasilipupkin | 2025-09-20 01:54:51+00:00
reform is a type of action that tries to identify a concrete set of issues and fix those issues, implies a positive change.

this is a change in the direction of significantly reducing hiring of foreign workers by American companies, which is bad for everyone. It's bad for American companies, because it will reduce their growth. It's bad for American workers because when our companies don't grow, neither does our economy and that hurts Americans. So it's a change, but it's a dumb change.
by 588edbdf | 2025-09-20 01:56:29+00:00
That's a misguided assumption that doesn’t hold up in practice because it assumes H-1B workers were "brought over" based on employer need for a domestic worker. The need isn't for a domestic worker, its for a skilled worker and the skilled workers want to work in the US because it yields higher compensation and opportunity.

Many H-1B workers request sponsorship from employers despite having the ability to work from local offices because they have in-demand skills that give the leverage to ask for it knowing that it will result in better opportunities.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-20 01:56:41+00:00
Maybe it’s a good idea. Maybe it’s not.

But the real issue is nobody had a policy debate about this in a legislative process. There’s no permanent law. It’s just Trump making stuff up.

Congress makes laws. Executive implements them. Let’s get back to that please.

Then it will last past this random-policy-of-the-week administration.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-20 01:56:58+00:00
We can still use policy to disadvantage the economics of offshoring, we just haven’t gotten there yet. This took time, that will take time.

Does it suck that billions of people were born into lesser global economic circumstances? Absolutely. Does that mean we should allow corporations to exploit labor (both imported and citizens who have to compete against that imported labor) at the disadvantage of domestic citizens? No. This is workers vs capital, not immigrants vs citizens.
by gruez | 2025-09-20 01:57:03+00:00
>Now fact-check Fox News.

Did you miss the second part of my comment? Even if Kimmel was in the wrong he shouldn't be taken off the air. I'm just pointing out why Trump might be upset. It's a reason, not necessarily a good reason.

>Let’s just say that the alleged shooter’s political philosophies are likely complex and are yet to be fully understood

By most accounts it's safe to say he's left leaning. You don't have to be a card carrying DSA member or have your ideology fully align with the Democrats platform to earn that label.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-20 01:57:05+00:00
I'm a little bit confused by the text of the proclamation. It says people outside the country have to pay a $100k fee. Isn't an F1 student on OPT inside the country and not subject to the fee? Or are they required to leave the country to apply and are subject to it.

The proclamation gives me the impression that foreign students are exempt from the fee.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 01:57:34+00:00
Ethnicity is a biological construct. You can see my ethnic group as a tight cluster in a genetic chart: https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2018/07/09/the-main-interesti....

> The point is at the end of the day their govt will build trains to every little village because that’s the consensus, they just don’t call it DEI

“DEI” is the promotion of distinct identities with an emphasis on differences (the “D” means “diversity”). In contrast to assimilating into a common, dominant identity. Investing in underdeveloped geographic regions isn’t DEI at all. I agree the Chinese system is vastly better than what we call DEI.
by jrockway | 2025-09-20 01:57:58+00:00
Are H1B visas undercutting wages significantly? I haven't really looked since the zero interest rates era, but back then H1Bs were getting paid the same as everyone else. I got the impression that companies would like to hire citizens (for their own convenience), but there were more jobs than people.

The economy kind of sucks right now but it ain't H1B visa holders that are the problem.
by jaredcwhite | 2025-09-20 01:58:02+00:00
I talk to so many people on almost a daily basis now who are migrating out of Rails or have already done so. The brain drain problem is massive. DHH has grown a cult of personality that is actually shrinking the overall ecosystem. This is what happens with authoritarians. The "in-crowd" gets louder and louder—at the expense of a diminishing body politic due to increasing disenfranchisement.

I don't know if it's too late for Rails itself to be saved, but we need a robust Ruby ecosystem entirely removed from the RoR framework and we need it yesterday.
by maxbond | 2025-09-20 01:58:25+00:00
> When declaring dependencies, most packages don’t specify any version requirements, and if they do, it’s usually just a lower bound like ‘grf >= 1.0’.

I like the perspective presented in this article, I think CRAN is taking an interesting approach. But this is nuts and bolts. Explicitly saying you're compatible with any future breaking changes!? You can't possibly know that!

I get that a lot of R programmers might be data scientists first and programmers second, so many of them probably don't know semver, but I feel like the language should guide them to a safe choice here. If CRAN is going to email you about reverse dependencies, maybe publishing a package with a crazy semver expression should also trigger an email.
by closeparen | 2025-09-20 01:59:27+00:00
Tech companies are extremely motivated to have people working in person in their Bay Area offices. That's why you see the extraordinary numbers that you do on levels.fyi along with the insistence on RTO. But no matter how high they get, these numbers will never meet highly capable Americans' lifestyle demands, because the Bay Area doesn't have and will never build the housing or commuting infrastructure to support them in that quantity. Wage gains go straight into real estate.

The question is, if tech companies can't have their Bay Area offices filled with the caliber of people they want (who will accept being forever-renters or super-commuters), will they relent on US remote / small sites, or will they instead try to shift their trillion-dollar Bay Area office cultures to their Bangalore sites? My money's on the latter.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-20 02:00:49+00:00
People are debating the merits here, and losing the big picture.

Congress makes laws. The executive implements them.

It could be a fantastic idea. But then make it a law. Give the president the power to do something like this.

Debating the merits without focusing on that first legitimizes this crazy psuedo law making Trump engages in and will enable him to be more arbitrary in other areas.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-20 02:01:38+00:00
It can be both. Median price of a home is $400k. Homebuyers need household income of ~$117k to afford typical home in U.S. Their income from ther visa enables their buying power to compete against citizens. About 300k H-1B visa holders own homes in the US per FWD.US. Other comments in this thread speak to the wage suppression and lower wages.

https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/home-affordability-in-c...
by nettlin | 2025-09-20 02:02:08+00:00
This file does not contain the terms of service of Slack. Rather, it contains the software licenses of third-party code that is embedded in Chromium, which in turn is embedded in the Slack app. Every dependency has its own license, which is why the file is so big (800× Apache-2.0, 237× MIT, 59× LGPL, and so on).
by truncate | 2025-09-20 02:02:14+00:00
I agree that H1B abuse should be fixed. Its also bad for other H1Bs which have the skill and didn't abuse the system (which many of them are).

Maybe this 100k thing will fix it and maybe this wont. 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.