MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varispeed | 2025-09-19 21:56:06+00:00
In the UK it is mostly immigration policy. Thanks to something called Boriswave, corporations could import knowledge workers at close to minimum wage (so locals couldn't even compete for those jobs) and now it changed a little, but still it's fraction of what local worker would command for similar job. This has basically collapsed the IT market. Then you have more people competing for the same resources, meaning rents going up, you wait longer for a doctor's appointment and so on. Just don't get me wrong - I don't blame immigrants. If I was in a poor country and had talent, I'd grab any opportunity to get more experience and get foot in the door so to speak.

It's corruption of the government.

Now, by the way I understand H-1B, $100k still seams cheap for essentially getting a slave.
by mig4ng | 2025-09-19 21:56:10+00:00
I use it for many side projects, and I am starting to use it for bigger ones too.

Should we submit personal projects and smaller side projects, or is this for fully fledged app only?

Also, should we add know open source applications such as Plausible[1]?

I am always happy to see Elixir and Erlang hit the front page.

[1] - https://github.com/plausible/analytics
by DavidSJ | 2025-09-19 21:56:28+00:00
while Alzheimers drugs may be more effective earlier in the disease course, none of them are "effective" in the sense of meaningfully staving the disease off; the upside to early detection is not very strong.

One correction here: the amyloid antibodies that successfully clear out a large amount of plaque have yet to report data from intervention trials prior to symptom onset, so we can’t say this with confidence and in fact we have good reason to suspect they would be more effective at this disease stage.

I wrote about this and related topics here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h...

Edited to add: the sort of test discussed in the OP wouldn’t be relevant to presymptomatic treatment, however, since it’s a test of symptoms rather than biomarkers for preclinical disease.
by rgovostes | 2025-09-19 21:56:40+00:00
There is a perfectly cromulent grammar for a unit-aware calculator:

<expression without units> [<unit> [in <unit>]] <expression with units> [in <unit>]

"1+2 feet in meters" and "1 foot + 1 meter" are both unambiguous. There is no order of operations in terms of how the units bind. The expression "1 foot + 1" is appropriately invalid.

Of course the appropriate care must be paid to interpreting "in" correctly as either a unit or a keyword.
by aantix | 2025-09-19 21:57:25+00:00
Not if you’re a slow metabolizer. 15% of the population.

CYP1A2

Increased heart attack risk: A 2006 study found that slow metabolizers who drank four or more cups of coffee per day had a 64% increased risk of a nonfatal myocardial infarction (heart attack) compared to those drinking less than one cup daily. The risk was even higher for slow metabolizers under age 50, who experienced more than four times the risk

No increased risk for fast metabolizers: In the same study, fast metabolizers did not experience an increased risk of heart attack, even with high coffee consumption.
by declan_roberts | 2025-09-19 21:57:50+00:00
This is happening in tandem with work to tax offshoring ("No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act")

Companies could already hire offshore for 50% of what they pay in America, so I don't expect a dramatic change there.

https://thefactcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/No-T...
by derefr | 2025-09-19 21:57:52+00:00
My point was that in this alternate hypothetical world, there likely wouldn't be the large number of US domestic R&D companies to serve as valid targets for such investment, as many of the clever people who start them or staff them wouldn't live in the US. Those people would instead be starting and staffing those companies wherever they did live — or in whatever country they could immigrate to instead of the US, with that country then supplanting the US's role as a global R&D center. Which would put American investors in the same position that other countries' investors are in: having money, but few domestic R&D companies that aren't already plump with cash, while most opportunities are foreign.

(Or, if we really lean into the "alternate history" bit, then the US might not have so many rich investors to begin with, as those investors would have been the ones living in that other global R&D center country, who became ludicrously wealthy when their investments into the domestic R&D companies in that other country bore fruit.)
by pluc | 2025-09-19 21:58:04+00:00
Lost my job in early 2023. Couldn't find anything (25 years of exp, director of engineering managerial/technical type, great at what i do by past coworkers/bosses admission). By EOY I had to sell my house, figured I could use the (significant) profits to buy time or I could travel and make the time a little more enjoyable, so I set out to explore most of Europe thinking, well I'll for sure find a job before I run out of money! Another year went by, hundreds of applications, no job. Back home now, living in rather inadequate accommodations thinking "any day now!" Applied to ~400 jobs in the last 1.5 months (because at this point I'm applying to everything that moves), 3 interviews, 3 ghostings. Everyone's rejecting for real shitty reasons, I could go on for a bit about that.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-19 21:58:11+00:00
Reasons to get one:

- If you have hairy pets, then you may appreciate the MacBook Air's fanless design.

- Fanless == quiet

- Apple screens are some of the absolute best you can buy.

- If you have other Apple electronics (iPhone, Air Pods, Apple Watch, etc.) then it will integrate well with them.

- Excellent battery life.

- Excellent speakers and microphone array.

- Not dependent on cloud services that suffer major security beaches every year.

- Not using the same cloud services to data mine everything you do on your computer.

- Offers AppleCare as insurance to replace your stuff whenever there's a problem (vs. a standard time-limited warranty).

- Apple Script, Automator, and Shortcuts to automate what your Apple stuff does far beyond what you can do in Windows.

I don't care for much of what Apple provides, but the premium design and conveniences of a highly integrated ecosystem are worth the trouble. I would love to find something non-Windows that's better than my Macbook Air. If Google could make something like a fanless version of the 2013 Chromebook Pixel, it might just be good enough for me.

If there's one thing I'd caution against, as a user of a Macbook in the United States, it'd be the use of Touch ID / Face ID for logging in to your Apple products. Biometrics are not protected by the 4th amendment, so you can be compelled to unlock your device without a search warrant. For all of the security features Apple producs are reputed for, this is one big gap that doesn't ever really get talked about. For this reason I commend Microsoft for having a PIN option for Windows Hello authenticaiton.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-09-19 21:58:11+00:00
I think from a health perspective coffee/caffeine is fine - maybe even good. I wouldn't be shocked if it were good for you.

My reason for wanting to quit caffeine was related to willpower and self-control. I wanted a stronger mind-body connection where I'd readily act on my desires rather than delegating to "I'll do that once I feel properly caffeinated." I was finding that I wasn't doing much with myself after work hours because my energy levels felt low once caffeine wore off and because I wasn't training myself to be comfortable doing things even when I didn't "feel" like doing them. Those behaviors made me uncomfortable with myself, but I never felt like I had the time to address them while working a full-time job. At best, I'd get two day "detoxes" over the weekend and then hop right back on the bean juice Monday morning.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-19 21:58:18+00:00
> Praha

This is a pet peeve of mine, but there is an english name for that city and it's Prague.

There is no point in using the local spelling because it adds no clarity, is less obvious to pronounce for any reader and the locals are not really gonna thank you for doing this either. Just seems like a form of light cultural white-knighting to me.

You are not even consistent because Warsaw is not how locals spell that.
by CoffeeTails | 2025-09-19 21:58:24+00:00
On and off for 11 years now.

I've only managed to get sesonal summer jobs, in 2023 I finished my higer vocational studies as a frontend developer.

The jobmarket is a shitshow here in Sweden now tho, few people are getting hired, companies "can't find" anyone to hire bc they want unicorns and you read about bigger layoffs a few times a month.

All the while our politicians are ruining our welfare..

I'm honestly barely coping. I'm so glad I have my partner (who also struggle to get a job) and two cats.

I'm going to the gym twice a week, bake sometimes, cook daily sleep quite a bit as I'm tired all the time. I'm kind of just trying to stay active and stick to routines.

I've recently started seeing a psychiatrist as well
by non_aligned | 2025-09-19 21:58:26+00:00
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Yes, if you're truly exceptional, you can get in the US. You can also get into any other country in the world. And the Trump administration doesn't seem to be interested in changing that.

But only a tiny sliver of what you would consider successful, skilled people can qualify for O-1. To my original point: if you're "merely" hard-working and good at something, you - as a general rule - have no lawful pathway to immigrate to the US.

Here's another way to look at it: let's say that in any country, roughly 10% of people fall into the category of "talented and hard-working" - not superstars, but the kind of people who would conceptually enrich the economy. Worldwide, that's probably what, 400 million adults? Further, let's say that about 10% would be interested in living in the US. And before all the EU folks sneer at that: that's probably a big underestimate, because a good chunk of the world is living in places with a much lower standard of living. So that's 40 million who probably want to come. And the total number of employment visas is ~100k/year. We aim for the global top <0.1%.
by mathattack | 2025-09-19 21:58:36+00:00
I'm huge into measurement, and quantifying this has stumped me. It's one of the few areas I'm willing to surrender and say "Let's just pick a % of time to put on it."

It's bad to say "Let's give it to folks who are underutilized or have capacity" because those are rarely the people who can do it well.

All I can come up with is the hardening % should be in proportion to how catastrophic a failure is, while keeping some faith that well done hardening ultimately pays for itself.

Philip Crosby wrote about this in manufacturing as "Quality is Free" https://archive.org/details/qualityisfree00cros
by rdtsc | 2025-09-19 21:59:05+00:00
> but one thing worth noting here is that the primary problem that damn near every other country on earth has isn’t immigration, it’s brain drain.

It's great if you only root for the US, but taking more global perspective, let's have other countries improve their situation as well. There are almost 200 or so countries, I am ok with them improving their economy using their equivalent of H1-B programs.

This is a golden opportunity for others to step in an eat Americans' lunch so to speak, let's see if they capitalize on it.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-19 21:59:05+00:00
> With that kind of control, why would they share with the artist?

Its in both parties benefit to find a mutually lucrative deal. More so when the customer is not that bright and motivated by "passion" and "fan culture". That same sort of passion (about music) leads to all parties underpaying a lot of staff (people want to be in the industry for some reason). Tech has its own version of this, see game development for over worked and under paid talent who does the job out of "passion".

"Influencers" selling burgers, backpacks, sports drinks and screw drivers is no different than concert t-shirts, posters, coffins and condoms. An artist is more than just the songs they sing. It's the film / TV that work shows up in. It's the other products artists can sell (a lot of this is other peoples art but...) and the things they can promote. They can exist without TM but the same cant be said in the other direction.

And some times the artist do get screwed. When your management and TM/LN folks have a relationship that dates back to Bill Graham Presents there is likely a back side deal that gives the management an extra kick.
by varispeed | 2025-09-19 21:59:13+00:00
You are missing alternative costs of the fact that more people compete for the same resources, Americans get much lower ROI for their education, it hollows domestic expertise. Companies become dependent on foreign workers. Local jobs pay less, people have less money to pay for products and services.

Short term - shareholders win, long term - everyone loses except the country of origin, where they can bring the knowledge back and develop their economy.

It's like outsourcing, just the foreign workers are onshore.
by johnfn | 2025-09-19 21:59:15+00:00
It is literally association fallacy. And it is bad because it doesn't lead to a good discussion. Instead of actually talking about whether Deno is doing a good thing, the only way I can respond to "Nah, all forms of marketing are bad." is by saying "no they aren't", which won't change either of our minds and isn't a particularly interesting discussion.

You seem to be saying that Deno reclaiming JavaScript is a bad thing? Why?
by UmGuys | 2025-09-19 21:59:30+00:00
It sounds like you're trying really hard to either: provide cover for racists, or more charitably cast good intentions on them. It's really simple: racism is hate and we shouldn't have hateful government. Also, this movement isn't organic the GOP have to manipulate people through fear or hate and fight tooth and nail to change rules just to win. America is dead at this point. It's unlikely to ever recover.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-19 21:59:33+00:00
Logistics and vetting mostly. The Indian body shops have a business model that already does this, actually: you hire the body shop, they send over one or two more senior engineers who then act as liaisons that farm out work back in India where most of the body shop is still located. My guess is that you'll just see more of that going on, although the R&D tax rules are getting weird with respect to amortization and out sourced labor.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-19 21:59:54+00:00
DSEI! I wish I had some official reasons that I'd be obligated to go and have fun in events like that :p

My fear is that they could be in endemic Japanese death spiral disease of hand-wavingly waiting for massive orders while not doing much to secure one.

There are so many cool stuffs and perfect plans from Japanese large companies and government agencies that are pushed forward up to one step before volume production or commercial rollout and then stalled until funding dries up and everyone moves on. Which, if I were to explain by speculating, might be due to people prioritizing own job security over corporate revenues, due to low psychological safety and perceived invincibility of large organizations, as one among many consequences of employment ice age phenomenon.

But whatever the mechanism is, it'll be sad if this one follows that path. Hopefully they make and ship them in substantial numbers. That should be their goal anyway.
by throwa5885667 | 2025-09-19 22:00:05+00:00
I wish the US would just return to "racial" quotas like pre-WW2 instead of all this huffing and heaving.

MAGA (and most Americans) don't seem to have any issue with immigration -what they have a issue with is the culture/skin-color/ethnicity of who immigrates. Indeed this is where the country quotas come from - Europe with 20 odd countries has 20x the priority than India or China.

If the US had an ounce of honestly they'd just make this explicit instead of beating around the bush. Since people have better opinion of the Chinese and other "white" East-Asians (admittedly the fairer gender only), just restrict it explicitly to "race" of Caucasians and there "Yellow" races.

It'll save Indians and other "suburbans" a lot of trouble not dealing with this farce of "liberalism" going forward. I genuinely mean this - given how things are going, Indians will find themselves in the place of Jews in Nazi Germany quite soon. And much like the useless British-colonial state that governed Israel then, the vestigial British state in India which is as internet upon Anglo-American triumph today, can't and will do jack shit for them.
by charliea0 | 2025-09-19 22:00:45+00:00
A better perspective is that the median H1B holder created $100k+ worth of value for some US company. Salaries are lower than the value you create, or else your employer would stop paying you.

There could be some rare edge case where you are undercut by a direct competitor, but overall America is much richer with H1Bs that without them.
Show HN: New Site for My OSS Digital Signage Toolkit
by sagiadinos | 2025-09-19 22:00:47+00:00
GarlicSignage provides a suite of self-developed open-source software components that allow users to create custom digital signage solutions.

The concept is a modular system of individual building blocks that can be flexibly combined.

The following software components are currently available:

garlic-player: A media player for Windows, Linux, Android, and macOS is written in C++ with Qt lib. The playlists are based on w3c SMIL.

garlic-hub: A web-based CMS for managing content and controlling the media players. It is in PHP 8.4

garlic-launcher: An Android launcher that, together with the media player, enables a remotely manageable, root-free hardware solution. written in JAva

garlic-proxy: A transparent proxy solution for reducing bandwidth consumption written in PHP7.
by protocolture | 2025-09-19 22:01:01+00:00
"Demographic Replacement" is such a hilarious framing of immigration that it immediately marks you as an agitator or someone with an intense learning difficulty.

In case you were wondering why you cop the downvotes its probably that.

Unless you are suggesting some kind of mass imprisonment of the people pushing that particular framing, in which case you might have a point.
by Avicebron | 2025-09-19 22:01:06+00:00
There are plenty of first-rate medical schools in the US, it's very possible to increase the supply of qualified doctors to re-balance. Yes it will probably mean a similar scenario where doctors are paid somewhat less than they have been previously, but hey, look how bad engineering has gotten these past 20-something years relative to where it once was as a comparable profession to medicine.
by kh_hk | 2025-09-19 22:01:20+00:00
Left my job in 2022, thought I was going to just take a short break. Been applying to jobs but I really struggle to find something that motivates me enough to pass the interviews. Probably have gone through 20 processes. Got one offer, but also managed to get a grant to work on my side project for the last year, so I did that instead. We see what next year will look like, but I am not too optimistic honestly.
by helph67 | 2025-09-19 22:01:21+00:00
Not if you have high blood pressure, both it and salt can affect your B.P. Years ago I suffered with very bad dizzy spells which always began when I tried to get out of bed in mornings. They could last a few days. A doctor said another patient had same symptom and found reducing caffeine intake reduce them. I switched to decaf and progressively they got weaker, ultimately vanishing!
by kmavm | 2025-09-19 22:01:42+00:00
Hi Fil! Congrats on all the amazing progress on Fil-C.

We needed to port all the user-level fork(2) calls to vfork(2) when working on uCLinux, a port of Linux to MMU-less microcontrollers[1]. It used to be that paging MMUs were kinda expensive (those TLBs! so much associativity!!!), and the CPU on your printer/ethernet card/etc. might not have that much grit. Nowadays not so much.

Still. A hard-and-fast use for vfork(2), as requested perhaps.

[1] http://www.ibiblio.org/lou/old/ViewStation/
by _whiteCaps_ | 2025-09-19 22:02:21+00:00
OT but I saw this show in Vancouver and was shocked at how few people knew the Flaming Lips and how many young kids were into Weezer. I went with my son who I thought had weird musical taste and wanted to see Weezer, but a ton of his friends when to the concert as well for the same reason.

The price was worth it to see the giant pink robots though!
by ilamont | 2025-09-19 22:02:41+00:00
Thanks for sharing that. 2023 data:

Revenue: $23,678,074

Expenses: $32,674,667

Net Income: -$8,996,593

Net Assets: -$3,530,018

Liabilities and expenses have likely grown in the last 18 months. IA may have gained some additional donations, but a lot of people are turned off by Kahle's doubling down on courtroom fights with copyright owners, even if he takes $0 in salary.

No organization can keep this up unless there is an ace in its back pocket.
by seec | 2025-09-19 22:02:57+00:00
Why would the church leaders say anything? More power to them, they get to profit without taking any risk and without having to say anything that could be condemnable. It's a win-win for them. If you spend enough time around them, you realize that they are too often awful people and that the scripture is actually their way to moral absolution.

As for your first statement, this is the correct explanation, that is supported by every historian that isn't a bible pusher.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-19 22:03:06+00:00
I’ve worked with plenty of coworkers on H1B both on boring old enterprise companies and BigTech. Absolutely none of them were better (or worse) than American citizens.

On the other hand, those working for WITCH companies…

And trust me, I’m in no way “anti minority”. Not only are some of my best friends minorities - so are my parents…
by sebst | 2025-09-19 22:03:38+00:00
Depends on what you define as "worth it":

- compared to the MacBook Pro, you basically get the same power with a slightly inferior display and without active cooling (which can inhibit long running high-cpu tasks)

- compared with AMD/Intel: It will give you the better hardware (build quality, trackpad, battery lifetime) for a markup. Depending on your use cases, compute power can be either better or worse (gaming on M* is not that great, for example)

- If you want to go beyond the base models, Apple charges ridiculous amounts for RAM and SSD, and those cannot be upgraded after purchase

- Operating system/ecosystem is a matter of personal preference

I personally still love Apple (Unix with decent UI), but like too much things these days, the list of disappointments grows longer. Not as long as with Windows, though.

That being said, if you're on a budget, you're good with a decent AMD/Intel notebook (e.g. a Thinkpador XPS) with Linux. That'll be a work horse and probably lacks some of the "wow, that's nice" effects that you might still get with a mac.
by jollyjerry | 2025-09-19 22:03:48+00:00
3 years. Left work because I felt comfortable with finances and family life, but wanted to try something different. It’s been fun working on personal projects and sharpening old tools. Still figuring out what I want to do long term. Some ideas include becoming a CFP because I like helping people with their finances, working for a tech company in that domain, or expanding the personal project (jch.app) and building more community.

In a good headspace now, right after the first year was feeling lost on where to go next.
by Symbiote | 2025-09-19 22:04:00+00:00
Or take the approach of several European countries: tickets cannot be resold for more than face value.

Ticketmaster still double-dips on running a resale platform and charging a "processing fee" for reselling a ticket, but it means the original ticket purchased for €100 + €10 "fees" is resold for €100 + €10 "resale fees" and not more than that.