MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doganugurlu | 2025-09-17 07:34:29+00:00
Your statements contradict each other.

If companies are much more careful when hiring, they would not consider immigrants unless the candidate is exceptional, which doesn’t significantly change the number of opportunities for an average worker.

Contrary to the conspiracy theories, H1B requires the employer to pay market wage or higher, so hiring an immigrant for a white collar job is extra cost and risk, and only makes sense in a low-interest rate environment where finding a qualified candidate becomes a challenge.

The exceptional and even qualified immigrants that would take these jobs are coming at a significantly lower rate since Trump 1.0. And that includes international students that would eventually become exceptional/qualified candidates.

The 50 year old commenter has pointed out the root cause and showed examples of the cycle to explain when the jobs will come back.
by nodja | 2025-09-17 07:34:31+00:00
I've owned 2 gaming laptops in my lifetime and both had similar issues that were never fixed.

One was the first gen Alienware M17 with two GTX 270M GPUs (yes two) and an onboard nvidia GPU whose specific model I can't remember. That one suffered from stutters and audio crackling, etc. It was sort of fixed by disabling SLI and the onboard GPU and sticking to a specific driver that was modded, the driver was by someone on the notebookcheck forums IIRC. Later on I think it got somewhat patched with a bios update that let you use SLI without the stutters, but I think the laptop reached EOL without it being fully fixed.

The second was an ROG ASUS laptop with a GTX 460m (I can't recall the laptop model). Pretty much the same story as the OP but I didn't have the knowhow to go deep into the ACPI code. The only change from the story is that latencymon kept attributing the latency spikes to multiple dlls, sometimes it was some wifi driver, other times it was an nvidia one. I don't remember the full fix for that one, but it involved me changing the wifi card and disabling the dGPU (not the onboard one) when I was not gaming so I could watch videos and such without it crackling. Funnily enough it didn't crackle much when actually playing games (it still happened, just very rarely).

I stopped buying gaming laptops after that. Seeing this story makes me think things haven't changed one bit.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-17 07:34:51+00:00
Fun fact: I actually tried to connect to the internet when I got it. This, of course, prompted it to show me a bunch of ads on the "home screen". This didn't really stop me, after all, I never look at that page and it has direct access to what I watch (broadcast TV and Prime).

But the prime experience was so horrendous, everything lagged like hell that I just couldn't keep using it. So I went ahead and did a full reset, which got rid of the ads, and I connected my ISP's provided box. I didn't try the broadcast tv performance, since I didn't have an antenna cable on hand.

Now, I don't know about other markets, but here in France basically everybody gets their provider's box, even if it's only for public TV. It gets you nice affordances such as a generally better picture and the ability to pause/get back in time. Those boxen usually come with the usual streaming clients, too.

So basically, there's no need to connect your TV directly, even if you're not paranoid.

Sure, the TV can do its screen grabbing, but since it isn't connected to anything, the only possible issue is for its buffer to fill up and somehow break. This hasn't happened yet on my specific TCL.

However, I do realize that my ISP can also know what I'm watching and sell this information to "partners". I've yet to see any ads on their box, but I wouldn't bet the house this will never change. So I agree with your last point, this will probably continue going downhill until we either see the public waking up (on which I don't count at all) or some regulatory action (which seems somewhat non-nil, especially here in the EU – but they seem to have bigger fish to fry, such as listening in on my chats themselves).
by Fluorescence | 2025-09-17 07:35:01+00:00
Huh - I didn't know he was a West Country boy.

Barely though, moving to the states at age 4, but I guess he came back a decade ago. Not sure it warrants national pride unless his parents raised him on a strict diet of tea, scones and the BBC. I hope he turns up at YC having gained his birthright, a nice Dorset burr, "alreet moi luvlees, wart ideals be goin on ere?"

I had assumed moving to the UK was a Madonna-esque escape from getting pitched every 5 minutes while trying to do family stuff in SV.
by taurath | 2025-09-17 07:35:32+00:00
I believe I have the same one! For me, almost out of the box I needed to disable CPU boost due to the thermals and instability. That worked for a while, though I considered replacing it and didn’t because there was just no others available at the time due to the pandemic. Apparently my issue is common but not the majority - a lot of folks seem to just have gotten a bad batch. I’m curious though, have you not even had any issues with sleep mode on the laptop? It seems extremely common that it just doesn’t work/crashes.

I got a good 2.5 years out of it, but I was hoping to use it for at least 6 or 7.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-09-17 07:36:01+00:00
> democrats ... want to shame certain groups and grant new privileges to others.

This view seems to be starkly at odds with today's reality - ICE raids target "certain groups" - all out-groups, and this is not driven by Democrats.

It is also incoherent with "democrats are .. on the side of the status quo and existing power structures".

This seems more like projection than anything else.
by perlgeek | 2025-09-17 07:36:17+00:00
Many doctors in Germany stick very closely to the recommendations of the Stiko (standing committee on vaccinations) and take a lot of convincing to vaccinate more, or they outright refuse. It's really annoying.

My health insure only covers HPV vaccines for 26 year olds and younger: https://www.sbk.org/beratung-leistungen/vorsorge-und-praeven...
by arethuza | 2025-09-17 07:36:56+00:00
Well for my commute the trains are every 30 mins or so - pretty convenient times and a short walk from the office. The ticket is cheap, much cheaper than a days parking and during the trip I get to sit, look at the view and sip a coffee. The train is way more relaxing than the equivalent drive - which due to traffic levels at rush hour would probably take twice as long (at least) and be extremely unpredictable.

So when I have the option I'd rather take the train - of course I also drive a lot of places.
by jajko | 2025-09-17 07:36:58+00:00
Its pretty safe to assume all of them up there are exactly the same in this, each of them with their own little unique twist. There may be somehow magically an exception (probably not 2 though), but I am not holding my breath.

This was pretty much known since Day 1 (famous dumb fucks quote about people sharing their personal details), and as we all should know at this point people don't change, not for the better at least.
by gerash | 2025-09-17 07:37:42+00:00
I believe it's the other way around: The western governments, media and legislative bodies are under Israeli control.

Have you seen how the US Congress, half of which boos the US presidents along party lines, suddenly all rise up and fall in line when Netanyahu visits the Congress?

https://idsb.tmgrup.com.tr/ly/uploads/images/2024/07/28/thum...

Have you see the strange photos of all US politicians with yamakas near this wall in Israel as if they're pledging allegiance to something?

It's humiliating
by dayvster | 2025-09-17 07:38:19+00:00
This is true and I will concede this point. Appreciate your feedback!

However if I may raise my counter point I like to have a rule that C++ should be written mostly as if you were writing C as much as possible until you need some of it's additional features and complexities.

Problem is when somebody on the team does not share this view though, that much is true :)
by paool | 2025-09-17 07:38:55+00:00
Well, not really.

The protocol is pretty simple. Make a request and get back payment headers.

Sign the data, with the proper amounts. The signed transaction is sent to a facilitator. The facilitator validates the transaction, then broadcasts it onto the block chain. The payload is now sent to the agent or user.

The failure would be if an agent is unable to call a tool to perform it in the first place. The failure wouldn't be in the payment protocol.
by mzl | 2025-09-17 07:39:15+00:00
One missing thing in Rust is that the comparison operators are hard-coded to return bool values, which means that it is not possible to build up full expression trees form normal code using operator overloading. Thus the need for functions like `eq`.

In general, for modeling layers embedded in programming languages, having operator overloading makes the code so much better to work with. Modeling layers where one has to use functions or strings that are evaluated are much harder to work with.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-17 07:42:13+00:00
A11y is mostly handled by just using semantic html.

The designer, in my experience, is totally fine with just using a normal select element, they don't demand that I reinvent the drop-down with divs just to put rounded corners on the options.

Nobody cares about that stuff. These are minor details, we can change it later if someone really wants it. As long as we're not just sitting on our hands for lack of work I'm not putting effort into reinventing things the browser has already solved.
by tzs | 2025-09-17 07:42:20+00:00
That is indeed the question. I'm not one those sophisticated investor types. I'm more of a "stick it in a broad index fund and leave it there" guy with a side during high interest times of "have a fair amount in 3 to 18 month CDs and treasury bond/notes".

I'll be retiring in a few months, and because my house is paid off, my older ICE car is paid off, my new EV will be paid off soon, we have no state income tax and a great senior property tax relief program, and I don't have any expensive hobbies, my annual Social Security benefit will be about 50-60% more than my normal annual expenses. The difference should be enough to cover a new desktop computer every 5 years, a new iPhone every 4, a new iPad every 5, a new watch ever 4, a new car every 10, and deal with the occasional need to replace a major appliance with several hundred a month left over.

If Congress screws up Social Security by letting the trust fund run out I'll be old enough then that when I'm forced to start drawing on my retirement investments I probably won't have enough years left to actually run out of money, as long as I can reasonably preserve my investments until then. I don't even need my investments to beat inflation--it looks like I'll be fine even if they fall behind inflation as long as the inflation isn't too high for too long.

So it seems to me a good case can be made for getting out of stocks, or at least getting a significant majority out, and into something safer. The question then is where to put it that has very little risk of loss of principal but should at least try to counter inflation?
by mvx64 | 2025-09-17 07:42:47+00:00
I have considered getting a Mac in the past (even a very old Air) to make and, most importantly test, Mac builds, but I never got to it and cross-compiling to Mac seems like a pain, if at all possible. If you have a VM laying around though, it should work.

A good thing about the approach is that if it compiles, it should work exactly the same everywhere and with predictable/linear performance, no matter the environment or driver situation.
by kimixa | 2025-09-17 07:42:51+00:00
The windows driver has 2 paths, the internal compiler, and the same LLVM as in the open source amdvlk release (though there might be things like not-yet-upstreamed changes, experimental new hardware support etc. that differ from the public version, it was fundamentally the same codebase). The same for DX12 (and any other driver that might use their PAL layer). If you want to confirm you can see all the llvm symbols in the driver's amdvlk{32,64}.dll and amdxc{32,64}.dll files. From what I remember, the internal compiler path is just stripped out for the open source amdvlk releases.

I believe the intent was to slowly deprecate the internal closed compiler, and leave it more as a fallback for older hardware, with most new development happening on LLVM. Though my info is a few months out of date now, I'd be surprised if the trajectory changed that quickly.
by jcelerier | 2025-09-17 07:43:24+00:00
I use boost and Qt but completely disagree. Every new version of boost brings extremely useful libraries that will never be in std: boost.pfr was a complete game changer, boost.mp11 ended the metaprogramming framework wars, there's also the recently added support for MQTT, SQL, etc. Boost.Beast is now the standard http and websocket client/server in c++. Boost.json has a simple API and is much more performant than nlohmann. Etc etc.
by argsnd | 2025-09-17 07:43:56+00:00
This just feels to me like you’re starting from a conclusion (“the UK is being badly managed”) and working backwards in a somewhat nonsensical manner.

Yes AI is new but it has contributed to something like 1/6th of total US economic growth over the last year and of course any government will be courting more investment of that type.

To the Americans I would note that your country is currently being even more badly run than the UK at the moment given that since Trump’s inauguration the UK has grown faster than you (and every other G7 economy).
by Strom | 2025-09-17 07:45:04+00:00
Asus doesn't even test basic features, nevermind the extra ones. I have the 2017 Zephyrus GX501, which came with a Nvidia GTX 1080 which introduced HDMI 2.0 support. The Asus Zephyrus marketing material is boasting about HDMI 2.0 capability, the manual talks about HDMI 2.0 etc. However, in reality the device is limited to HDMI 1.4 bandwidth.

The problem isn't limited to some units, there was plenty of discussion online of this issue at the time of release. [1]

Asus never recalled, fixed, or even responded to the issue. Indeed, even the marketing page [2] still talks about how you can use HDMI 2.0 to connect 4K TVs at 60Hz.

It was also an interesting showcase of laptop reviewer incompetence. All the reviews just regurgitated Asus marketing material on how it has HDMI 2.0, but apparently nobody actually tested it.

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[1] https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/rog-zephyrus-series/gx501-zeph...

[2] https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-zephyrus/rog-zephyrus-gx501...
by idle_zealot | 2025-09-17 07:45:07+00:00
It is humiliating, but that makes no sense at all from a power dynamics perspective. Israel is just not that powerful, economically, militarily, or socially. The US's military industrial complex is, and basically every politician is beholden to powerful capital interests, the MIC among them. Unconditional and enthusiastic support of Israel, then, is a proxy for support of those financial interests, hence the visits, deference, etc. This backed up by the very real threat of a handful of powerful lobbying groups that will and have coordinated to redirect funding to opponents of anyone they deem insufficiently deferential.
by hn-ifs | 2025-09-17 07:45:12+00:00
Came here to ask why you'd want to run an app in docker. Genuinely don't get it. Sure the app doesn't touch the host system so there's isolation there, but the extra overhead doesn't seem justified to me. I'm not docker expert, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this running a striped down version of Linux to run the app? Lighter than a full VM but... Yeah I don't get it.
by mhuffman | 2025-09-17 07:45:21+00:00
>Because one of the first apps for it will likely be one that looks at people's faces and immediately digs up everything about them available online. There's already been videos of it working with older tech, so I'm sure it'll work even better now with newer hardware and AI.

The app in question[0]. I would imagine newer hardware and some Palantir APIs would be all you need to do this very reliability.

[0]https://gizmodo.com/this-facial-recognition-experiment-with-...
by raffraffraff | 2025-09-17 07:46:04+00:00
Thing is though, it would be more useful to have such an intellectual actually take apart Mosely's views. For posterity. For all of those people who haven't properly thought things through (which is, I would say, most people)

Thinking completely outside of our post-WWI bubble, history has been far more brutal in the past. This is the anomaly. Taken as a whole, human history has been full of genocide, slavery, brutality.

When somebody misrepresents "survival of the fittest" in the way that the 20th century fascists did, and embark on mass extermination "for the good of the world" (in their warped view), citing the fairly recent Darwinian view of evolution, isn't it better to tackle these views head on, for the benefit of those who haven't the inclination or the ability to think it through themselves?

What I see nowadays is a complete lack of curiosity. Nobody wants to try to understand why people "go bad", they just want to put them in the bin. That only works if those "bad" people are a minority.

Also, when the "good" people stop engaging in debate with the "bad" people, there's a danger of creating a dogmatic society. Looking at Christianity in the middle ages, and extremely confident sense of your own rightness can lead to atrocities too.

Sorry, probably nonsense, boarding a flight, not paying full attention to my post
by noufalibrahim | 2025-09-17 07:47:48+00:00
> One can support Israel without supporting Israel's current approach.

I suppose you could that in theory but only in theory. In practice, the current situation is not very surprising given the overall trajectory since the inception of the country. It's very disturbing to see the memes that are coming out of the social media of the soldiers and even the general population.

Even if the current govt. of the country changes, I wouldn't hold my breath about the new government making reparations or taking any other positive steps.
by jwr | 2025-09-17 07:48:11+00:00
Midnight commander is a great tool, although I think most younger users do not realize that we lost something along the way. Norton Commander was fantastically fast for common file operations not just because of the dual-pane design, but because of several things working together. Thoughtful design of software while thinking of hardware. To get the most out of it, you were supposed to use the numpad on your keyboard. And it should be the classic IBM PC numpad: large +, large 0, [num]/*- in the top row. Then, you wanted your function keys as a top row above your keyboard. Also, ESC was supposed to work immediately, not after a delay.

I know many people think these things don't matter, because you can do everything with MC (and more), but I disagree. In this case, every fraction of a second matters. In the setup I described above, selecting all files in the current directory and moving them to the directory in the other pane is: one flick of the right hand (roll over + and Enter on the numpad), F6 with the left hand followed by another Enter immediately with the right hand. Now try to do that using the + that is on your = key and tell me it's the same thing.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-17 07:49:08+00:00
> Was is generated from scattered notes? Entirely vibe-written?

Why does that matter? Maybe the person hates writing. You need people to suffer and put effort for the end result to be worth your time?

> How many details are actually verified to be correct by a human?

I mean.. assume the best..? The author could also have written it by hand and just lied. Or he's a paid troll from an Asus competitor - it's all just made up and it's a work of fiction. You implicitly have to assume the author tried their best and be okay there might be some errors.

If the writing is more clear thanks to an LLM then you're likely to catch errors more easily.

If you feel the thing has errors, then engage with the material and point out the errors.

You're not judging the end result on its merits
by jrflowers | 2025-09-17 07:49:09+00:00
I was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have.

I suppose I could have phrased that “why should I believe you” but I feel like andyprevalsky would have answered that if they answered the question I posted.
by shellac | 2025-09-17 07:49:38+00:00
It sounds like this will include Teesworks, one of the dodgiest land deals of recent years. For a small investment two people essentially held the entire thing to ransom and secured options on an astonishing amount government money.

You can hear Richard Brooks summarise the situation (in 2023) here: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/76
by Nursie | 2025-09-17 07:50:43+00:00
The UK didn't exactly get left out, it just failed to invest in growth and productisation. Some great research comes out of there and then moves overseas or gets bought up (like ARM).

If there are any chips on shoulders, it's more to do with the government talking itself up, throwing around some feel-good bullshit, usually entirely mis-targeted (see for example Sunak talking about making a safe space for blockchain companies) and then failing to get out of the way when the country actually does produce something amazing.
by t0lo | 2025-09-17 07:50:59+00:00
Especially when you see that the entire economy is leveraged on AI- and will likely cause another gfc (within the silent depression we're already in)

“We’re now locked into a particular version of the market and the future where all roads lead to big tech,” says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which studies AI development and policy. Indeed, the success of major stock indexes—and perhaps your 401(k)—is resting on the continued growth of AI: Meta, Amazon, and the chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom have accounted for 60 percent of the S&P 500’s returns this year. "

People wont be able to handle this. Small scale community is the only way to get through what is coming.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-17 07:51:20+00:00
HPV infections can usually be cleared up by a healthy immune system, so there's a causal relationship with the immune system. There's a lot more information on it available here. [1] Risk factors for it managing to progress onto cancer include obviously the type of HPV infection and "immune status, the presence of other sexually transmitted infections, number of births, young age at first pregnancy, hormonal contraceptive use, and smoking."

I also wonder if 'number of births' is not largely a proxy instead for the shift in the immune system of a woman while pregnant; in effect they tend to become slightly immunocompromised, probably as a means of preventing an immune response from harming the baby.

[1] - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cervical-ca...
by Reubend | 2025-09-17 07:51:34+00:00
> The “realism” of graphics has nothing to do with performance.

Obviously I understand your point that computational complexity is different than the extent to which something is realistic. But it's totally wrong that it "has nothing it do with" it.

Photorealistic scenes require high res textures, higher detail levels in geometry, better shadows, better global illumination, etc...

Cartoonish art styles don't necessarily require any of those. They still benefit from them, but with diminishing returns.

It's cool if they want to take advantage of some fancy UE5 features, but the burden to optimize is on them, especially considering that the game's quality settings look like this: https://www.thegamer.com/borderlands-4-optimal-pc-settings/#...