MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brewdad | 2025-09-11 03:51:07+00:00
All employees receive minimum wage regardless of whether they receive tips. Tips are not there to backfill the required wages nor can they be used for that. So this isn't the $2.13 min wage that must get to $7.25 when tips are added in.

In my area, the min wage is somewhere around $15/hr. Anything less than 20% tip on top of that $15/hr is considered stingy. The restaurants that do a service charge instead of tipping add 22% and sometimes a 4% fee to pay for employee health insurance.

Anymore, we really only dine out for special occasions or a monthly visit to our favorite spot.
by s20n | 2025-09-11 03:51:47+00:00
I recently came across a WIP full-fledged smartphone based on the CM5, called SPIRIT <https://github.com/V3lectronics/SPIRIT>

They use the EG25 cellular modem <https://www.digikey.pl/en/products/detail/quectel/EG25GGB-25...>, the same one that is used in PinePhone devices
by 303uru | 2025-09-11 03:52:34+00:00
Name media calling for the death of republicans or republican commentators.

I can name someone who called Trump a NAZI, JD Vance.

Go look at Twitter right now, it’s NYE for republicans. They’ve convinced themselves, sans evidence, that this was a leftist shooter. There are literally hundreds of thousands of posts foaming at the mouth that they can now hunt liberals and that the civil war has started. You’re doing the thing you claim to hate and frankly it’s disgusting.

'I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.' - Charlie Kirk
by d0gsg0w00f | 2025-09-11 03:53:06+00:00
I think the "gotchas" were a side effect of his true mission. If you look at all the gotcha clips for Charlie Kirk and others like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, they're not created by the official accounts, it's mostly leech accounts that grab the "best of" clips for their own click-bait benefit.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure the creators aren't sad that they have these followers but I don't think they go out looking for this.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-11 03:53:24+00:00
ESTA is not the equivalent of a visa. Under the visa waiver program you’re very restricted on the kind of work you can do and how you can be compensated for it. This work was very clearly not in compliance. For example like the B-1 visa, “business meetings” under ESTA refer to passive attendance only, and do not include active business operations or contributions.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-11 03:54:01+00:00
They keep referring to the workers as contractors, which is a bit ambiguous as it is used for both people doing construction work or people hired for outside technical expertise.

There were here on B1/B2 Visas according to the reporting, which has a 6 month duration and rather strict requirements: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207369

If they were here in the first case of the word, I would say they were definitely in violation. If here for the second case, perhaps not but if they did not get the "B-1 in place of H-1B visa (temporary project visa): Some professionals might be eligible for a B-1 visa for temporary projects in specific scenarios. This option can be viable when an H-1B visa, typically used for specialty occupations, might be challenging to obtain." they may have still been in violation.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-11 03:54:21+00:00
I think this almost certainly is not the issue. In modern times there's an inverse relationship, including in developed countries, between fertility and income. So the people most economically capable of having children are the ones choosing not to.

I don't know if the same was true in Rome, but indirect evidence would suggest it may well have been. Here [1] is a selection of some of the laws that were created to motivate fertility. They definitely target what were probably higher class citizens - concubinage was legally recognized, inheritance was one of the main targets of penalties, ranking of politicians was determined by their number of children, and so on. There was even apparently some angle shoot where people tried to marry very underage girls to avoid the penalties against unmarried men while also having a legal justification for having no children 'yet'.

[1] - https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/AugMarriage.html
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-11 03:58:08+00:00
Except for that you’d have to have a reasonable belief you know what to look for and where to look.

By comparison, we’ve looked nowhere (Earth is big and mostly inaccessible to humans) and don’t know what we should be looking for, since we don’t have any testable models for the origin of life yet.

And re RNA I was just giving one example of why all life might have it (ie RNA gave an evolutionary advantage so anything without RNA died). There’s all sorts of reasons why we don’t have evidence of multiple origins, not least of which is that we just haven’t looked in the right place and there could easily be life being created from scratch on this planet without even knowing about it. That’s what the entire field of synthetic biology is even about; just doing it in a lab instead of out in nature so that we can understand the conditions better.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-09-11 03:58:31+00:00
The argument doesn't seek to change facts, it seeks to invite a broader view of the facts at hand, and the issue, which is murder. Reduction in murder is the goal. Recognizing that murder is very closely related to poverty, not gun ownership, is relevant if you're honest and objective about that goal. If you discover that reducing gun ownership increases knife related deaths, that would be very relevant to the goal. It would then be irrelevant to talk about guns. Right?

Hypothetically speaking...
by cryptonector | 2025-09-11 03:58:49+00:00
> What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit?

We don't know yet, but we can infer these possible changes "the person who shot him [was] hoping to elicit":

- stop an effective communicator from further moving the needle of public opinion in his side's favor

- intimidate other effective communicators with similar views

- intimidate other future possible effective communicators with similar views

- cause more violence (some people love chaos and violence)
by decimalenough | 2025-09-11 03:59:02+00:00
From the friendly link, ICE itself says he did not violate his visa conditions in any way:

From statements made and queries in law enforcement databases, [redacted] has not violated his visa; however, the Atlanta Field Office Director has mandated [redacted] be presented as a Voluntary Departure. [Redacted] has accepted voluntary departure despite not violating his B1/B2 visa requirements.”
by coderenegade | 2025-09-11 03:59:13+00:00
And when those countries run into issues because the government is incompetent, people start wishing they had guns again. It's all well and good to give up guns when the system works, but when it doesn't, you lose self determination.

Japan is, famously, a country where the system generally works. Hell, a late train would get you a letter for your boss. It's a bit different in places where the police don't have the resources, or dangerous individuals aren't removed from the public.
Ask HN: How to Explain Gap in Resume?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-09-11 03:59:41+00:00
I left my job two months ago. Why? Because of the following reasons:

- The work was menial.

- The pay was horrible.

- The blame was most. We were the frontliners in the IT war without much power in our hands.

- I wanted to prepare for government computer engineer job.

- I could not see myself in that role for long.

- I had two conflict/disputes with my teammates on team meeting. It made my life almost hell.

Few follow up questions that interviewers can ask are:

- Why could not you seek a different job instead while having your existing job?

- Why could not you seek a different department in your previous company itself?

I was preparing for government job since I left my job.

Nepal has now collapsed. I do not expect any upcoming vacancies(for government computer engineer) for the near time being. At least for 1.5 years.

Now, I need to get back into industry after few months. Thus I need to be prepared to answer these questions. The most plausible one seems like "I was preparing for government computer engineer job examination and the government collapsed" (which is the reality as well). I am here to seek insights on what troubles this answer could bring and suggested ways to overcome them?
by enceladus06 | 2025-09-11 04:00:51+00:00
This afternoon 2025-09-10 I managed to get cellpose 4.06 running on my m4 mac with metal performance shaders [mps] for optimization in a mamba environment. When I tried to train a model tho, cellpose gave problems.

So I used claude4 to search for a solution. It said downgrade to 4.04. TLDR It worked. This whole process took like 30seconds, much faster than manually googling. Yes this is just one anecdote, but LLMs have sped my workflow up a bit.
by brewdad | 2025-09-11 04:01:16+00:00
Stop paying your property taxes in the US and see how long it takes before the government forecloses. It is effectively rent under a different name. In exchange the government will protect your property ownership rights so that you don't go on vacation and find someone else now gets to claim your home since you weren't there to stop them.

Note: I think this is a good thing and that property taxes are vital to our local communities well-being.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-09-11 04:02:54+00:00
We all know (probably including you, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt) that the "cold civil war" comment wasn't about gerrymandering in a general sense, which has been around for a century, but about a specific recent redistricting (and gerrymandering) bill in Texas. The sentence doesn't really make sense if you interpret "gerrymandering and redistricting" in an abstract sense because (1) it's not a new thing and (2) everyone does it. That is why they didn't need to state it to make the reference to the Texas news clear. If you were aware of the Texas news, you would also have drawn the obvious inference. However, equivocating this Texas idiocy with actual political violence (which is what the "cold civil war" comment does) is disturbing at best.
by al_borland | 2025-09-11 04:03:35+00:00
I turned on the Daily Wire’s live coverage briefly to see what they were saying. They were talking about Charlie as a person and holding back tears. The one guy was recounting a one-on-one basketball game they played where he thought he’s school Charlie, but quite the opposite happened.

The other guy was mentioning how he loved to debate, not just in the forums like the schools, but even with his friends. And how he’d debate them even harder in private, and was willing to change his mind, searching for truth.

They also talked about his faith for a while.

I didn’t watch for too long. When I was switching it off they were brining a woman on and it sounded like she was going to tell some of her own stories about him.

I think these people were actually friends with him vs the talking heads on many other networks reporting who only knew him through his work. If you want to hear the real stories, you need to get them from the people who were closer to him.

He also had a wife and kids, I can only assume he has some positive impact on their lives. His kids would have no concept of what he is professionally, he’d just be “dad”.
by seangrogg | 2025-09-11 04:03:41+00:00
Similar sentiments here. I can't find much common ground with Charlie Kirk but that doesn't merit an assassination. Unfortunate all around, and a situation not too dissimilar from the Mangione case (in the context of what happened, not necessarily why).

That said, while I don't condone it I can't say I'm surprised by it. It seems stoking divisions is a large part of the modern media landscape and all it takes is one person with the motive and the means.
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-11 04:04:31+00:00
> So the highest depth you could theoretically go is R10G10B10, and forget about floating-point HDR.

R10G10B10 matches most HDR displays out there, AFAIK even Windows uses that outside of DirectX (where FP16 is used).

But beyond that...

> Fixing this would require rewriting the entire protocol.

...most of the protocol does not have to do with color values. X11 is extensible and an extension can be used that allows alternative functions that use more advanced color values where that'd make sense. For example, assuming you want to use "full" range color values for the drawing functions like XFillPolygon, etc, you'd want to add have the extended range state in graphics contexts, introduce extended commands for changing it (with the existing commands simulating an SDR color for backwards compatibility). That is assuming R10G10B10 is not enough of course (though because for decades many applications assumed 8bit RGB, it is a good idea to do sRGB/SDR simulation for existing APIs and clients regardless of the real underlying mode of the monitor unless a client either opts-in to using extended color or uses the new APIs).

Another thing to keep in mind is that these are really needed if you want to use the draw primitives using extended color / HDR. However most HDR output, at least currently, is either done using some other API (e.g. Vulkan) or via raw pixel data. In which case you need to configure the window output (a window region, to allow for apps with mixed color spaces in a single window - e.g. think Firefox showing a SDR page with an HDR image) to use a specific color space/format and then rely on other APIs for the actual pixel data.

This is something i wanted to look into for a while now, unfortunately other stuff always end up having more priority - and well, my "HDR" monitor is only HDR in name, it barely looks any different when i try to enable HDR mode in KDE Plasma under Wayland for example :-P. I do plan on getting an HDR OLED monitor at some point though and since i do not plan on changing my X11-based environment, i might take a look at it in the future.
by thephyber | 2025-09-11 04:04:31+00:00
Charlie Kirk’s “certain argument” was “what is a woman?”. He would gish gallop weak and fallacious arguments to pretend like his definition was valuable (it wasn’t) and he would steam roll the nuanced definitions provided by his interlocutors.

And no, bad debate isn’t necessarily valuable and that dichotomy doesn’t get us anywhere. Kirk was not the only person doing valuable debates. He was a propagandist with a façade of debater.

Medhi Hasan is an eminently more honest and more skilled debater. Destiny is decent (although he does streaming debates for a living, so he gets a little too “debate bro” for my taste). Matt Dillahunty and some of his crowd are more informed and charitable than Kirk was.

We should be encouraging young minds to seek out honest interlocutors, not ones that sate their “dunking” appetites.

I’m not arguing for killing and your framing is not valuable. I’m arguing that Kirk was not a good role model for the kind of debate where people might actually learn facts.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-11 04:05:04+00:00
Seems like they should have been on an L-B1 visa not a B1/B2 visa if that is what they were doing.

"The L-1B nonimmigrant classification enables a U.S. employer to transfer a professional employee with specialized knowledge relating to the organization’s interests from one of its affiliated foreign offices to one of its offices in the United States. This classification also enables a foreign company that does not yet have an affiliated U.S. office to send a specialized knowledge employee to the United States to help establish one."

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
by ggm | 2025-09-11 04:05:09+00:00
I assumed they were a poor fit for the starter-motor problem, the need to supply super-high current (load) to get static forces overcome, swing the engine into it's cycle. But, I see they are capable of that burst of high load. So, indeed it begs questions.

I suspect the engineer approach would still be to demand a brick of standard lead-acid battery size, to fit into the hole, and the least possible change to wiring harness and associated behaviour.

Building out cars which need a different box in the hole would be something you do with supreme confidence it isn't making you awkward in the marketplace. If you wind up at the petrol stop in death valley with a dead battery, and alas a good ol' lead acid unit can't fit, that isn't cool. Battery replacement happens in all kinds of places.
by gpm | 2025-09-11 04:05:11+00:00
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-nationals-r...

> South Korean officials originally hoped the Korean Air plane would leave Atlanta as early as Wednesday afternoon local time, shortly after it arrived from Seoul. But the foreign ministry said its departure was likely to be delayed “due to circumstances on the U.S. side,” and a spokesperson for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport later said that the charter flight had been canceled.

> At a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Wednesday, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun learned that Trump had ordered the suspension of the repatriation process in order to discuss with South Korea whether its detained nationals — all of them skilled workers who were helping to set up an electric vehicle battery plant — should remain in the U.S. to continue their work rather than being sent home.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-11 04:06:17+00:00
I can’t really evaluate or trust that part - it’s a redacted quote from some unspecified doc from an unspecified source. My point is that building factories generally requires a different visa because ESTA and also B1 have many restrictions. The fact that it says B1/B2 in there undermines its credibility - one is a travel visa not a work one, and it doesn’t make sense to mention them interchangeably.
by slidehero | 2025-09-11 04:09:22+00:00
>but having known refugees from a tyrannical government

my family escaped Poland as political refugees before the end of communism. Poland famously had bloodless revolution in 1989 exactly this way.

Down tools. stop work and the economy essentially seized up (practically over night).

>Sometimes it will work out, but not without sacrifice.

Sacrifice is always necessary.

If the factories stop, there is no way to move forward, regardless of how tyrannical the government.
by logicalmind | 2025-09-11 04:09:53+00:00
I think the point being made is that you can create your own enemies. In this case, meaning enemies of the United States or politics of the United States. Many of the radicals of the world become that way due to harm that became them or their family.

If your family lived in a village in middle east and the military of another country came and seemingly killed your parents, you would think that the person would grow to have certain opinions on the things and certain enemies.

A lot of the policies being enacted have the potential to create a lot of enemies. Just to name a few, there have been thousands of people fired from federal government. Those people and their families have had their lives changed. You have people from other countries who have lived here their entire lives who are now being separated and sent to other countries. You have people playing politics with Ukraine where many people are dying due to something that the rest of the world has the power to solve. Or people in Palestine being murdered while some talk of building a wealthy paradise on the land where they were raised.

I'm not taking a side on these things. But you have to agree that these tactics have the habit of making very determined and malicious enemies. Many political policies, and the people who have strong opinions on them, have to realize that their opinions and the policies they support, do impact the lives of real people. Potentially causing devastating repercussions, death and suffering. If said people are determined to enact revenge, it is no surprise that feel justified in doing so.

I'm not justifying their thoughts or actions. But you can understand that people who have felt these impacts aren't acting particularly rationally or are stable.
by petralithic | 2025-09-11 04:13:00+00:00
Serious question, have other past conflicts in history not made you also lose faith in humanity? Studying what people did to each other even thousands of years ago, systematically beheading and parading them around on spikes for example, as many civilizations have done, has made me realize that humans simply do not change, for our biology and psychology remains the same.

Even still, have previous recent or concurrent conflicts like Myanmar or Sudan not caused you to lose faith either? I often find people who say this have some personal vested interest in this particular conflict and find it somewhat hypocritical that other such conflicts have not moved them the same way, for it's still humans fighting each other after all.

> Also big companies, they only care about money, ethics and morale do not exist, they only care about money money and more money.

I mean, yes, that is the purpose of corporations, they do not have morals by themselves. They are like machines to absorb money, you wouldn't expect a lawnmower to have ethics when it runs you over.
by jjani | 2025-09-11 04:13:28+00:00
From outside the US the view looks very different:

1. In 2016 Democrats choose a candidate based solely on internal party politics rather than to win an election, get routed by Trump

2. In 2024 Democrats choose a candidate based solely on internal party politics (letting Biden run) rather than to win an election, get routed by Trump

3. In 2025 Democrats try their best to put up a candidate for New York mayor based on internal party politics rather than to win an election

Gee, wonder what the pattern is here.

> supreme court isn't helping.

Similar patten here. How did the SC end up like this? If the roles were reversed, would R have done the same as D?

> 4. the current administration is getting something done, yes. Some things are down the wrong path and shouldn't be done. Some things are debatable but perhaps the right path but doing them in a stupid manner.

You really believe that if only D currently had a majority somewhere, the current gov wouldn't be doing most of the stuff it's doing?
by throwaway3060 | 2025-09-11 04:15:50+00:00
With more than a hundred people killed by those government snipers. The protestors succeeded, but some paid the ultimate price to do it. If they had a means to defend themselves, maybe there could have been less lives lost.

This was Ukraine, where elections still existed and there was still some air of democracy and institutions. In a place where a tyrant has an established, unshakeable monopoly on violence, what do you think could prevent the tyrant from using that?
by thephyber | 2025-09-11 04:16:00+00:00
He was the public face of Turning Point USA, a political organization that focused on getting more youth in the USA to turn conservative / Republican, to vote, and to adopt a more conservative culture. By “public face”, I mean he was 17 when he cofounded it with an octogenarian and a billionaire funder.

I think he and the org were active on Twitter, but they were MUCH more active on YouTube, and short form video (Instagram, TikTok).

It’s not even clear we know who the shooter is (still conflicting reports about whether the suspect has been arrested, let alone a confirmed identity). Too soon to know what the motive is.
by tharmas | 2025-09-11 04:16:12+00:00
Why? Because i don't swallow neocon propaganda?

I used to be just like u. I was outraged when Putin took Crimea in 2014. I watched the Maidan protests live. Then I dove into the history of Ukraine. And i began to learn things the news media doesn't tell you. I began, GASP, to change my mind.

People ALWAYS resort to insults when you say the war is lost for Ukraine. Even if i was to be wrong why always the insults. Cant people disagree without resorting to insults?