MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seadan83 | 2025-09-12 22:28:32+00:00
> Yes they are. They are required to compete on a level playing field domestically and they still have to compete with marked up foreign goods.

Well, nu-uh! The "level" playing field concept is flawed here. Second, if everyone else becomes less competitive, that does not mean you are 'more competitive'. In a relative sense yes, but in an absolute sense no. A tariff is like a track meet where your competitors get whacked in the knees.

Now, I did say "tend" to be the wrong tool. If another country is actually flooding your market with cheap products (at a loss), in order to drive you out of business, tariffs make sense there. So, tariffs can be good against government subsidized industries. Tariffs countering other tariffs is simplistic, there are other countries in the world and global markets are large and well.. global.
by autoexec | 2025-09-12 22:28:40+00:00
> The obvious solution would be "we don't take down unless there's a court order", but then you'd get exposé pieces saying how protonmail is a den for drug dealers/pedophiles/doxxers/cyber criminals

I think it'd be crazy to make a service worse because of worry over potential hit pieces that might whine about a perfectly reasonable policy. It isn't as if Proton Mail hasn't been accused of those things before anyway (along with accusations of being a honeypot and not private enough).

It's better to have integrity and fight for your users than to cave just to avoid click bait articles by people with irrational views.
by tamimio | 2025-09-12 22:29:14+00:00
That's the real reason for the job market crisis; it is not AI, it's just corporate greed to have borderline slaves to lower job wages and workers willing to work extra hours for peanuts. AI is just the scapegoat, easy to blame it on something that's still new while also milking investors' money by promising how it will reduce costs and increase profits. If the job market crisis were really from AI, not only should it happen within a few years of adopting such new tech, but we should see its impact on other industries like lawyers, medical doctors, administrators, and lastly on tech workers, not the other way around.

That's why I keep saying and repeating: the tech industry and especially the engineering one should be further regulated and restricted just like other professions out there, otherwise, you are only allowing anyone to scam and game the system with any potential bubble currently happening.
by ponector | 2025-09-12 22:29:37+00:00
>> fact that the large majority of the population in Crimea

It's not a fact but propaganda from RussiaToday.

How about to go the Russian way: put troops there, make them do a referendum, be sure people see guns and Ukrainian flags. Anyone who will not make a Ukrainian passport soon will be deported or imprisoned. They are ok if Russia do it - then once more will be also accepted.

>> Maybe you're more optimistic?

There are €300b of frozen Russian money, also a 10% reparation tax on oil export could finance the rebuild of Ukraine.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-12 22:30:38+00:00
I’m not sure I’d call this a loophole per se. I don’t think governments should be refusing to let you take your ball and go home if you don’t want to sell things that create more compliance work/risk. I was just curious if this kind of jurisdictional edge case matters.

Do the relevant provider-agnostic Bluetooth audio standards (in USB they’d be class devices, not sure on Bluetooth terminology) have equivalent features that Apple is refusing to just implement? I think it’s reasonable to ask Apple to support interoperability standards once the industry settles on them, but it seems weird to incentivize them to create bespoke standards that they control in an effort to reduce their market power.
by commmentator | 2025-09-12 22:31:17+00:00
You'll note that Proton's PR only mentions the second date - " last one on Sep 6 with a 48-hour deadline."

Proton doesn't mention that the first email from Phrack which Proton ignored was weeks prior to that, which is what led to the second email in the first place.

You'll also note that Proton doesn't mention that their Abuse Team refused to re-anable the account after the article author did the appeals process, as per Phrack's timeline at the top of their article.
by a0123 | 2025-09-12 22:31:24+00:00
Sorry but doubt.

The whole "we have only received two emails" is a classic move of every company caught with their pants down. Considering Proton's history, they don't get the benefit of the doubt on this one.

As for the "company size excuse" sorry but considering the business you claim to be in (the private and secure email), having an on-call skeleton crew legal team available over the weekend for urgent requests is a bare minimum (and I'm pretty sure they have people available to hand over everything the cops request if "the proper process is followed").

Remember that they have turned over information in less than 24 hours before (for what they call an extreme case of course). So the "size" excuse doesn't hold. Doesn't matter how urgent it is, if they are the small bean they claim they are, there is no chance they can have a turnaround of less than 24 hours.

Again, it's not what they did that's the biggest issue, it's the coverup. Just like last time they got in hot water. Because the coverup raises a lot more questions.
by Jon_Lowtek | 2025-09-12 22:31:37+00:00
> For example in Germany, nuclear production was never subsidized at all.

Except financing research and development, guaranteeing loans to reduce default risk and interest rates, capping liabilities to enable insureability at lower rates by guaranteeing to fix damages in case of critical failures with public money, financing and organizing emergency civil protection measures, as well as waste disposal, granting massive tax cuts, doing the diplomatic leg work to import uranium and protecting its transport with the police, all and all summing up public spending on making nuclear energy in germany to 169,4 billion euros according to the scientific service of the Bundestag (Document Number WD 5 - 3000 - 090/21), with the more green leaning FOES calculating 304 billion. And on top of that it is estimated that another 100 billion in public money will be needed to fix up long term waste disposal sites morsleben and asse.

... well except from those few hundred billion euros they barely ever subsidize it at all.
by ironman1478 | 2025-09-12 22:31:47+00:00
You're last quote hits the nail on the head. I've found that good libraries are written by people actually solving the problem and then open sourcing it. pytorch, numpy, eigen, ros, openssl, etc. these all came from being trying to actually solve specific problems.

I think rust will get those libraries, but it takes time. Rust is still young compared to languages with a large amount of useful libraries. The boost project in c++ started in the 90s for example. It just takes time.
by 76SlashDolphin | 2025-09-12 22:32:04+00:00
That is a fair concern, and while that would happen often in some cases, there are others which rarely export data or rarely read public data where you can manually approve each usecase. Still, we are very interested in seeing how people use MCPs so we can improve the UX, which is why we're publishing this release. If users report that they get too many false positives we can always increase the granularity of the trifecta categories (say, exports data can be exports data publicly or privately. Or reads public data can have different tiers, etc.)
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-12 22:32:22+00:00
Then work for a body shop for 1/4 the billing rate in Arizona, Lansing or whatever. You can get a better gig at Burger King.

There’s two ends to this market, the super smart people and the super dumb jobs. The volume is in people slinging COBOL, J2EE or whatever for awful wages.

The reality is the H1B in the dumb categories are keeping jobs onshore. Nobody is paying 2x for the work… the alternative is shipping everything, including the “better IT” and administrative jobs offshore.
by cerved | 2025-09-12 22:32:27+00:00
The author said they used Claude to decide which E2E tests to run and "Claude never missed a relevant E2E test."

How many times did they conduct this experiment? Over how long time? How did they determine which tests were relevant and that Claude didn't miss them? Did they try it on more than one project?

My point was that none of this tells me this will work in general
by godelski | 2025-09-12 22:32:53+00:00
> nuclear inherently requires extreme costs to operate.

True, but you also get large amounts of electricity in return.

You're over simplifying and cherry-picking. Is it a big deal if it costs 10x more if it produces 20x more power? What about 10x the cost, 10x the power (so equal $/MWhr) but 0.1x the land? What about 10x cost, 10x power, 1x land, but 10x more power stability? As in fewer outages. How much will you pay for 99.999 than 99.99?

The problem with the vast majority of these energy conversions is that people act like all these costs are captured in the monetary metric. I'm sorry, the real world is complex and a spreadsheet only takes you so far. There's no one size fits all power source. The best one to use depends on many factors, including location. If you ignore everything and hyper focus on one metric you're not making an informed decision that's "good enough" you're arrogantly making an uninformed conjecture.

I'm surprised how often this needs to be said (even to pro nuclear folks), but nuclear physics is complicated. Can we just stop this bullshit of pretentiousness masquerading as arrogance?
by michaelhoney | 2025-09-12 22:33:11+00:00
I work with QGIS, but until recently I’ve only skated over the surface. In the last year or so I’ve found LLMs increasingly useful as a companion to help me code automation scripts or just to ask “how can I do this?” questions. QGIS is deep and powerful but that power can be hard to access. LLMs make it a lot easier.
by bobthepanda | 2025-09-12 22:33:15+00:00
> "They're installing 1GW per month of pumped hydro storage," Mr Buckley said.

Fun fact, pumped hydro was actually developed for nuclear originally in the 70s, since nuclear is a large source of power that is hard to ramp down during low demand periods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
by lucideer | 2025-09-12 22:33:24+00:00
> economically

When we're talking about societal public investment - even investment in the private sector - capital cost is a much more constrained consideration than anything related to abstract market "competitiveness". The latter does not influence the former in real terms (only in argumentative policy terms, which are unfortunately more impactful than they should be).

> Longer than nuclear? Where did you get that idea from?

Longer than nuclear to do what? I was replying to the above commenter who said the following:

> in theory any amount of power a nuclear plant would generate could also be achieved with large amounts of renewables

TTL for individual nuclear is obviously always much longer than for renewables but time to any arbitrary large generation goal is almost certainly shorter for nuclear (barring taboo).
by II2II | 2025-09-12 22:33:29+00:00
I'm fairly certain such regulations don't exist anywhere. They would be far too easy to exploit, raising the cost of doing business and exposing them to outright fraud. Regulations meant to protect consumers usually protect them from dishonst business practices.

The type of return you're talking about is usually intended to encourage people to make a purchase and to protect the reputation of a business. Yet the moment they detect abuse, abuse being return patterns that are atypical or that will end up costing the business more money in the long run, you can be sure they will stop honouring their return policy.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-12 22:33:37+00:00
Ignoring whether the claim is accurate or not, if Indian hiring managers are preferentially hiring other Indians, yes of course this is racism, because it means they are also discriminating against all other PoC candidates, not just white people.

Please think a little bit harder before claiming something isn't racism because it might somewhat counteract the structural privilege enjoyed by white people. Yes, white privilege is a thing, and if the claim was that Indian hiring managers were giving preference to non-white people, your comment would at least be worth discussing in the context of a society which overall still privileges white people. But that wasn't even the claim.
by syncsynchalt | 2025-09-12 22:34:23+00:00
UTF-7 is/was mostly for email, which is not an 8-bit clean transport. It is obsolete and can't encode supplemental planes (except via surrogate pairs, which were meant for UTF-16).

There is also UTF-9, from an April Fools RFC, meant for use on hosts with 36-bit words such as the PDP-10.
by etblg | 2025-09-12 22:35:04+00:00
Presuming we're talking about the job offers from the article, it's for PERM, part of the process for green cards, not for H1B. As far as I know, you don't need to post a job offer to consider local candidates for someone to apply for an H1B, only for them to get permanent residence.

Employee works for a company under an H1B, company likes their work, wants them to stay longer (H1B has a max of 6 years unless you sponsor the employee for permanent residence). Employee doesn't want to be in this weird temporary worker status forever (and again, after 6 years they'll need to), so the company has two choices: either hire a new employee, hope they've as good as the one you already have under the H1B, train them up to be as familiar with the job and its work as the H1B, and then forget about getting the existing employee permanent residence, OR, just sponsor them for the PERM process, put out a job ad with a really low likelihood of anyone applying, and move on with their lives.

The way the PERM process is set up, there's really no reason not to do the hidden job ad, it's not really regulated against, there's not much financial harm in doing it, and they already have an employee they like and who wants to stay, so for those two parties (and presumably anyone who likes working with this person, and any friends they have in America and so on), there's no reason not to just put out the hidden job ad.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-12 22:35:45+00:00
I don’t disagree with your point overall but the sad reality is that Charlie Kirk was not there to have a discussion. He went around trolling people and provoking big responses at universities so he could farm it out on social media. A huge part of his income was being a troll.

That does not mean he deserved to die. He didn’t. But he did not die undergoing some noble endeavor or engaging in free speech in some profoundly brave way.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-12 22:35:52+00:00
You can't compress the complexities of all social dynamics to a single axis. What's the distinction you're trying to make between "act of discrimination" and "racism"? Usually the distinction people try to draw is something like "systematic" vs "one-off" (the difference between one person yelling at you on the street, and lots of people yelling at you in particular throughout the month), but the behaviour alleged here is systematic. I suspect you don't have any particular meaning in mind, instead having taken a habit of language that works well in certain situations, and falsely generalised it outside of its domain of validity.

If you genuinely believe that the "single axis" approach is valid, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-12 22:35:53+00:00
Fully agreed.

Letting Big Social and governments sock it out to try to make this work doesn't seem like a winning proposition.

I really cherish Bluesky / atproto in huge part because it offers some chance for organic exploration, for individuals & orgs to test and try many ways to make social media work, to defang the Advanced Persistent Threats of the info-world. Without data that wouldn't necessarily count for much, but the firehose & backfill are also quite easy to get: humanity stands some chance, isn't quite in such a dark forest with the adversary here.
by mystraline | 2025-09-12 22:36:13+00:00
Uh, that is demonstrably not true. ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal, hosting servers, datastore, geoevent) all also run on Linux.

Now where ArcGIS enterprise succeeds is being in an actual enterprise (thousands of users), having groups collaborate, data control, and more. None of the enterprise-y bits exist.

And QGis is more akin to ArcGIS Pro, not Enterprise.

Now, yes, it is definitely resource hungry. And also, if you administer it, HA isn't really HA. Theres tons of footguns in how they implement HA that makes it a SPOF.

Also, for relevancy, I was the one who worked with one of their engineers and showed that WebAdapters (iis reverse proxy for AGE) could be installed multiply on the same machine, using SNI. 11.2 was the first to include my contribution to that.

Edit: gotta love the -1s. What do you all want? Screenshots of my account on my.esri.com? Pictures of Portal and the Linux console they're running on? The fact its 80% Apache Tomcat and Java, with the rest Python3? Or how about the 300 ish npm modules, 80 of which on the last security scan I did showed compromise?

Everything I said was completely true. This is what I'm paid to run. Can't say who, cause we can't edit posts after 1 or so hours.

I would LOVE to push FLOSS everywhere. QGIS would mostly replace ArcGIS Pro, with exception of things like Experience Builder and other weird vertical tools. But yeah. I know this industry. Even met Jack a few times.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-09-12 22:36:15+00:00
That's a made up deffinition only recently invented. Racism is hating another group of people based on physical or cultural background.

The US is the most powerful country does that mean if I go to india I can't experience racism because technically India is "weaker" ?

Isn't this example literally a group of stronger indians being racist to weaker individuals (job applicants)?

This also implies they are not hiring black, asian, or hispanic people either but because they're a minority that's ok?

Such a bad take.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-12 22:36:33+00:00
Is this some sort of AI generated slop?

Or do the authors live under a rock? Idiots!

Walk into a donut shop or beauty salon run by the owner and pay with cash. Do you really think they’ll actually report that income to the IRS?

Small businesses advertise “cash discount” not because they wish to avoid credit card processing fees but because they don’t want to report the income!

Ironically the salaried middle class have somewhat fewer options for avoiding taxes, legally or illegally. They can’t take the bulk of their compensation as long term capital gains, nor are they paid in cash, and they lack possibilities for international accounting games.
by serf | 2025-09-12 22:37:21+00:00
I have one running home assistant, I have one running a duet web server for a printer, and I have one that runs cncjs for a mill.

the home assistant one runs a reverse proxy and adguard/tailscale docker among other things.

they're useful but the price point sucks right now unless you absolutely need the IO ports/shields they provide. I have a PoE shield on my home assistant one that makes the installation very tidy.
by alexkehayias | 2025-09-12 22:37:31+00:00
Having used emacs for many years, OP's description of "doing things wrong" is exactly the way I use emacs.

I seldom care about the inner workings of emacs and will do the absolute minimum to get it to work the way I want and then move on. I'm reminded over and over again that Emacs patinas really nicely with poorly written elisp in an init file over time.

Case in point, I found that org-export is super slow. After profiling it, I found the slow function, copied it, removed the slow part, and advice-add it right back in there[0]. Might this break some other deeply intertwined behavior someplace else? Probably. Does it matter if I'm the only one using it? Nope.

[0]https://github.com/alexkehayias/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#...
by legitster | 2025-09-12 22:37:52+00:00
So I was at a company that did this a lot - it was much less nefarious than on the surface.

It was usually related to them recruiting a certain specialist or acquiring a team at another company. But the only way to get these people visas was to post the jobs publicly and hide them as much as possible. They did this by the hundreds, and it wasn't really a cost saving measure - if you are trying to get anybody in particular from Microsoft or Amazon and they are already here on a Visa, you have to go through the process all over again to sponsor them.

So it was less about racism and more about hoops to jump through to hire someone that you have already basically hired. If you've ever had experience with how a government RFP works, maybe don't throw rocks from glass houses.

Is it unfair? Maybe. But in my opinion anything is fairer than our country's evil immigration requirements.
by rvnx | 2025-09-12 22:38:17+00:00
It is very possible for them to inject custom JS to a specific user.

You are the bosses at Protonmail, do you want police at 6 am shaking your kids, seize all your devices, loose all agreements with PayPal and Visa/MasterCard, because you want to protect a guy who distributes child pornography or plans a terrorist attack ?

No way, so you tap on the shoulder of the CTO and ask him to push a temporary update or turn on a feature flags, in order to collect the missing information.

This is true for all companies who control the client.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-12 22:38:47+00:00
This is shortsighted. China routinely experiences large overcapacity in their electricity grid just to deal with the unknown unknowns of outages and other new demands. Suppose that the AI bubble burst and AI energy use is negligible, the extra capacity could be used for something else: retire your traditional coal fired furnaces for steel making and replacing them with electric arc furnaces; produce more aluminum; build more EV chargers.
by Kon5ole | 2025-09-12 22:39:52+00:00
>Most of it are fake costs due to regulation.

Which costs are you thinking about here? Please be specifc, provide details about regulations which are not needed, why they're not needed, and what they add to the cost of a nuclear plant.

Sorry for the tone, but I think your statement is extraordinarily wrong - and at the same time it's being repeated very often lately but never with any specifics. I'm genuinely curious what it is based on.
by Talanes | 2025-09-12 22:40:30+00:00
>Nobody here is actually even arguing about the proposal here, just repeating platitudes and analogies.

Well, given that they're responding to this:

>I think it's actually pretty clear that almost all people are not capable of secure and reliable self-custody and would be better off with an intermediary. We're not keeping our fiat currency in a safe under our bed after all.

Why would you not expect people to argue in the style you presented them?
by hiccuphippo | 2025-09-12 22:40:31+00:00
The what button doesn't explain much.

As far as I know, "glitching" is opening a jpeg file with a text editor then deleting random ranges of characters, saving it again and then letting image viewers try to open the file, resulting in artifacts being added to the image.

This project seems to do the same for video files, but generating a valid video at the end.