MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-09-13 00:59:03+00:00
You've retreated from "buy one humanoid robot and it can make as many more as you want from scratch, it's like asking a genie for free wishes" to "there could be a regulatory framework that would require the manufacturers of humanoid robots to make a retail parts pipeline that allows your humanoid robot to build another humanoid robot at a cost lower than what the manufacturer would sell one for."

You didn't talk about the cost, but what's the point of having your robot assemble parts that the manufacturer will sell to you, assembled, at a lower price? It only makes sense if it's cheaper.
by serf | 2025-09-13 00:59:05+00:00
it's more nuanced than that.

a slow moving cargo bike has a lot of potential kinetic energy but it's moving slowly enough that a normal human reaction time can deal with it well and maneuver it safely. a bystander can notice the large bike that is moving slowly and make efforts to avoid it.

a much lighter bike going a much faster speed to equal the kinetic energy is a bigger threat to pedestrians up until a certain point.

in other words : a person on a bike doing 60mph is probably more likely to be acting recklessly than someone going a sane speed; thus it's an okay-ish proxy as a metric for a 'responsible driving' score.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-13 01:02:33+00:00
Thanks for the kinds words and being open to listen to my feedback!

> Our role is not to moderate for or against any "side" in a debate. Our role is to uphold the guidelines, so that anyone with a reasonable position on any topic has fair opportunity to express it.

Absolutely and no argument there

> But if you see evidence that contradicts that (i.e., comments that are unkind towards visa-holders or that discuss them in any way that breaks the guidelines), you can certainly flag them and email us so we can take a look. We can only moderate what we see and there's a lot of stuff that we don't see.

I have done so on multiple occasions, but have seen a number of those comments remain up.

For example, this comment [0].

Additionally, in this very thread, we have an unsourced comment [1] parroting a common trope, which is legimately false in most cases (and as a member of the YC community, I'm sure you can get this validated), and with significant controversial discussion about this

I also see constant mentions of Infosys and TCS, but never mentions of massive European firms like EPAM which do similar shenanigans and advertise it to new hires across the CEE [2] or Globant and LATAM [3]. While the Indian firms are large, and it is acceptable to have not heard about Globant, EPAM is absolutely massive and every F100 uses them.

I can provide more robust data on the general trend, but it is something that would take some time, but I would really really appreciate if the YC employees affiliated with HN do a deep dive into this.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228366

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224087

[2] - https://www.epam.com/careers/epam-without-borders/usa

[3] - https://stayrelevant.globant.com/en/culture/globant-experien...
by vorpalhex | 2025-09-13 01:03:02+00:00
Yes.

Most CERT requests are valid and good and should be obliged.. but there should be a manual check involved.

Especially when an appeal is filed. Especially when the content is obviously security reporting.

Both extremes are wrong - don't ignore CERTs and don't mindlessly oblige them. Find one of the many reasonable middlegrounds.
by phire | 2025-09-13 01:03:27+00:00
That's high precision clocks (aka Preformance.now(), with sub-millisecond resolution) not timers.

The precision of setTimeout has never been high, it kind-of maps to the OS scheduler and the OS scheduler often enforce their own minimum timeouts (Windows has defaulted to 15.625 ms resolution for a very long time, and the newer high resolution timers max out at 1ms across most operating systems)
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-09-13 01:03:29+00:00
I’ll bite, but not in the way you’re expecting. I’ll turn the question back on you and ask why you think they need defending?

Their messaging is just more drivel in a long line of corporate drivel, puffing themselves up to their investors, because that’s who their customers are first and foremost.

I’d do some self reflection and ask yourself why you need to carry water for them.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-13 01:04:09+00:00
Proton dropped from the top spot on my list of “user-first email platforms” when they announced they’ll be deleting accounts that haven’t logged into their service in some arbitrary amount of time. If I can’t rely on my email / messaging / phone / communications provider to keep an open line for as long as I need it – whether that’s one year or two years or twenty years, then I’m not going to use it. And if they require payment in exchange for providing that service, then it better accept privacy-preserving payment, but even then, I’m probably not going to use it.

Proton had a great thing going where their VPN service and business service funded the cost of maintaining free accounts. The fact that they chose to destroy years of trust by announcing a deletion policy, indicated to me that they no longer care about their users more than they care about running a business.

I’m not even asking for something unreasonable. It’d be one thing if they didn’t want to maintain free accounts with no activity but hundreds of gigabytes of storage. But they haven’t stratified the limit by storage usage. If you’ve got a free account consuming a few megabytes of storage, maybe an email you setup for the government service you interact with every few years… well you better make sure you remember to do the arbitrary chore of logging into that account every year, or Proton will just delete it, no questions asked.

Maybe they’ll send you some reminders if you gave them a “recovery” email, but that defeats the point of signing up to a privacy-preserving email service and calls into question the premise that they even are one.

(In related news, I need to text myself on Google Voice every few months or they’re gonna delete the number I use for 2FA on critical services… and this is an account that has $4 of credit loaded into it from ten years ago…)
by acdha | 2025-09-13 01:04:30+00:00
I worked on a site in the late 90s which had news in several Asian languages, including both simplified and traditional Chinese. We had a partner in Hong Kong sending articles and being a stereotypical monolingual American I took them at their word that they were sending us simplified Chinese and had it loaded into our PHP app which dutifully served it with that encoding. It was clearly Chinese so I figured we had that feed working.

A couple of days later, I got an email from someone explaining that it was gibberish — apparently our content partner who claimed to be sending GB2312 simplified Chinese was in fact sending us Big5 traditional Chinese so while many of the byte values mapped to valid characters it was nonsensical.
by echelon | 2025-09-13 01:04:53+00:00
The number one worst thing they've done was when Sam tried to get the US government to regulate AI so only a handful of companies could pursue research. They wanted to protect their moat.

What's even scarier is that if they actually had the direct line of sight to AGI that they had claimed, it would have resulted in many businesses and lines of work immediately being replaced by OpenAI. They knew this and they wanted it anyway.

Thank god they failed. Our legislators had enough of a moment of clarity to take the wait and see approach.
by lovich | 2025-09-13 01:05:31+00:00
I’d be fine, as a citizen competing against migrants for jobs, if h1bs were structured so that they

A: were the top end pay, so they pushed the pay scale up

B: were uncoupled from employment. A company could pay the cost to let someone enter, but that person should be able to jump jobs day 0.

I’m not suggesting the specific implementation but I feel like if those two guiding directives were kept, both society and the individual workers would benefit from brain draining the rest of the planet while simultaneously pushing worker comp higher.

Has anyone suggested a significant change to the h1b system like this beyond just a close it all/open it all binary?
by eek2121 | 2025-09-13 01:05:39+00:00
Only if there is enough evidence. Yes, I can say that the inability to account for things like the ADA in the US can place an employer in hot water, however, since LC doesn't make those decisions, they are immune. The accountability is placed upon the employer. Don't hate the players or the game. Maybe just figure out how to fix it without harming everyone, be popular enough to make said idea into law, and get into a position of power that allows you to do so. If that sounds hard, congrats, welcome to the reason why I never got into politics. Don't even get me started on all the people you will never realize you are hurting by fixing that one single problem.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-09-13 01:06:20+00:00
They released a near-SOTA open-source model recently.

Their prerogative is to make money via closed-source offerings so they can afford safety work and their open-source offerings. Ilya noted this near the beginning of the company. A company can't muster the capital needed to make SOTA models giving away everything for free when their competitor is Google, a huge for-profit company.

As per your claim that they are scammy, what about them is scammy?
by tmule | 2025-09-13 01:08:38+00:00
This is a remarkable claim. Not a single Indian in tech that I know in my personal or professional life - numbering over a hundred - has ever disputed that Indians have strong (sub)ethnic affinities that color their views hiring. In addition, nepotism is a real thing in Indian culture. I’d be laughed out of a room with aforesaid folks if I claimed “Indian managers have a tendency to hire anyone else but Indians”. This is either deliberately misleading to “save face” on behalf of the community (another cultural trait), or you’re utterly oblivious in an outlying way to how things work.
by tormeh | 2025-09-13 01:08:46+00:00
Do you mean republicans? That’s different. I have some sympathy for the whole small government thing. I even kinda vote that way myself. But there’s a certain kind of person who will instantly vote for a “man of the people” who “tells it like it is” and promises that he’ll fix everything and says the foreigners took your jobs. And we have a term for those people.
by tavavex | 2025-09-13 01:09:11+00:00
I don't mean that you're literally allowed to run interviews for years. I mean that companies can, if they choose to, interview people indefinitely until they find a suitable candidate. The company won't collapse if they don't find an employee by the deadline, it's not imperative to their existence, it's just a nice to have, a goal. Maybe some project or initiative doesn't pan out or gets pushed back if no one gets hired, but the impact of all that seems rather limited. On the other hand, my existence is fully contingent on finding a job, and if I overrun the deadline I have to find a place to work, I won't be able to eat and pay rent. My time limit is existential, their time limit is artificial and fully in the realm of planning.
by sublinear | 2025-09-13 01:09:29+00:00
Since the result is the same to the end user regardless of what I say here, I know I will not sway many people but...

As someone who has done what I will call "corporate web dev" for a long time, it's almost never the actual site or web app that is abusing your resources. It's all the junk 3rd-party scripts that the business and marketing people force onto it.

These scripts are intended to be "low code" solutions. Even if the developers working at those places mean well, nobody reads their docs least of which the marketing goons with unfettered access via a CSP nonce copy-pasting whatever example <script> tags they think they need to inject to make the thing go.

If you ever want a laugh and have tons of free time you should find one of those sites loaded with these kinds of scripts that an ad blocker would normally get rid of, read the docs for how those scripts were supposed to be used, and bask in the insane stupidity and cargo cult nonsense causing duplicate events and many redundant http calls and websockets... and then turn your ad blocker back on.

You may then ask yourself sensible questions such as: "doesn't all this royally fuck up their analytics data?" and "does some poor soul making reports from that mess ever clean it up?". The answer is yes it does, and no they don't. They instead will try to play the blame game and claim it's the underlying site or web app causing the issues until they find another job. There's a lot of churn in that space.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-13 01:09:32+00:00
You're drawing comparisons from the most deliberately-inflammatory portion of the internet. It's equally as silly as logging into X and thinking anything you see reflects a real political opinion. It is all ragebait, if you want an opinion that isn't mired in virtue signalling then turn on the news.

This is a chronic problem here in America - nobody knows when to stop anymore. It was plainly apparent January 6th when Ashli Babbitt died, pumping the brakes is hard when nobody listens to reason.
by spicyusername | 2025-09-13 01:09:53+00:00
What is your justification for this position?

Children shouldn't be exposed to pornographic material until an appropriate age.

How does this not reduce to "steam shouldn't sell games that aren't fit for toddlers"?

The same way that a speed limit, age of consent, or drinking age doesn't get reduced to nobody can drive, have sex, or drink.
by johnklos | 2025-09-13 01:10:04+00:00
I'm one of those people. I compile thousands of open source packages on VAX, m68k, SuperH and other less popular architectures. I think I know at least a bit about how much of this "maintenance" is repeated-but-not-substantiated bull and how much is real.

Claiming that actual maintainers spend more than trivial amounts of time on "maintaining" endianness correctness, I think, is somewhat disrespectful to those maintainers.
by cryo28 | 2025-09-13 01:10:41+00:00
This is the bigest misconception that H-1B is meant to hire the best. It is NOT. Foreign H-1Bs are typically rank-and-file employees to take mid-level jobs en masses. The best and brightest cannot go through H-1B due to oversubscription and resulting lottery. Thus the best and brightest are using different visa types like O-1 and self-apply for green cards using EB1/EB2 National Interest Waivers.
by tavavex | 2025-09-13 01:12:39+00:00
Yeah, I don't mean to justify the actions of the interviewer, they were likely in the wrong here. It's just that, to someone in my position, it seems almost funny to be willing to throw the entire interview over something like that. It's them who gets to decide your fate.

Also, we can't know what exactly was said, so maybe miscommunication could be partly to blame. Like, "Are you sure I can use any language? (Are you really so gracious as to give me this option?)" vs. "Are you sure I can use any language? (Can I use something you definitely don't know?)"
by codethief | 2025-09-13 01:12:43+00:00
> one session is for all remote connections. one for my personal stuff, diary, etc. one for my hobby. one for personal dev projects, one for client work.

Why would you have all those open at the same time, though? Isn't that incredibly distracting? (Disclaimer: I have no experience with tmux to speak of, beyond briefly trying it once or twice.)
by gus_massa | 2025-09-13 01:13:35+00:00
From https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/is-there-...

> Professor Lawrence B. Conyers, an expert in ground-penetrating radar at the University of Denver, told the Daily Mail that the claims of a vast city are “a huge exaggeration.” Egyptian archeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass, the former Ministry of Antiquities, called the claims “baseless”
by another_twist | 2025-09-13 01:15:41+00:00
That was because the parent complained about not having good write ups. You can use GPT which has already been trained on publicly available solutions to generate a very good explanation. Like a coaching buddy. Keeping in mind there are paid solutions that charge 15k USD for this type of thing, being able to upskill at just 20bucks a month is an absolute steal.
by the_af | 2025-09-13 01:17:48+00:00
Didn't I address this in my first paragraph?

How can you get enough experience without living long enough to accrue said experience? How can your perspective on things change if not enough time passed for perspective changes?

To get back to your initial claim:

> Experience and maturity is not very dependent on age.

This is what I disagree with. Experience and maturity are very dependent on age. While some people have a lot of experience and maturity early on, this is rare.

Also, some people don't get wiser with age, but that's a different proposition. I'm not claiming old people are necessarily wise.
by peishang | 2025-09-13 01:18:24+00:00
I don't want to be glib - but perhaps it is because our "context window lengths" extend back a bit further than yours?

Big tech (not just AI companies) have been viewed with some degree of suspicion ever since Google's mantra of "Don't be evil" became a meme over a decade ago.

Regardless of where you stand on the concept of copyright law, it is an indisputable fact that in order for these companies to get to where they are today - they deliberately HOOVERED up terabytes of copyrighted materials without the consent or even knowledge of the original authors.
by tonyarkles | 2025-09-13 01:18:36+00:00
Been using QGIS for about 6 years now for doing manual data analysis, as well as GDAL and Spatialite in C++ for creating/saving datasets and geopandas, Shapely, pyproj, etc for automated analysis.

QGIS is an odd duck. Part of the complexity of using it is the fundamental complexity of GIS software. There’s way more background info that I didn’t know (what do you mean a latitude and longitude doesn’t mean anything without a bunch more info?!) that’s necessary to use it effectively. All of the excellent UI in the world won’t save you if you’re not using the right coordinate system.

On the other hand… yeah, it definitely could use some love. I consider myself in roughly the amateur power user category. I don’t use it every day, but when I do fire it up once or twice a month I’m doing some heavy data analysis with it. Every time I do that I end up tripping over three or four things that seem like they should be obvious to do but aren’t. And man oh man… if there was a single bug I would love to fix: highlighted points, whether selected through the selection UI or through the data table… should always have a higher Z-order than the other points around them. The fact that you can select a bunch of points and not see them highlighted… so frustrating. You can go in and change the symbology to fix that in a number of ways but dammit it should work right out of the box. /rant
by andrewdug | 2025-09-13 01:18:38+00:00
You're right that it does answer "what happened to ___". We'll work on that. I suppose this is a benefit to no links or photos, but decisions about whether to provide information like this and whether or not to tell them what to do in emergencies, are decisions best left to parents, so I'll add that to our list for the parental moderation options. Thank you.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-13 01:20:02+00:00
>The same applies to tanks, artillery, and pretty much everything else.

It literally does not.

US built 6700 Bradleys. US built 10,000 Abrams. Thousands of these machines are already stationed in Europe just waiting to shoot Russians.

Germany built 3600 Leopard 2 tanks. They built 2k Marder IFVs.

Saab built 300 Grippens.

The Brits alone built over 400 main battle tanks. France alone built 800 of theirs.

You should divide all these numbers by half or more to estimate ones with modernization upgrades, but Russia ran out of modernized equipment a while ago, and NATO 80s equipment has demonstrably outclassed Soviet leftovers.

The US is bad at producing Artillery shells because we utterly refuse to use State power to induce business nowadays, because of stupid "Capitalism good, gubermint bad" ideology, but Europe ramped up shell production. Manufacturers have openly said that all they need is a commitment, and they will build capacity.

The anti-air missile problem is because NATO always intended to rely on US air power (and our thousands of aircraft) to utterly own the skies and deny any air attack. Also the Shahed situation is somewhat novel. The US once produced 40,000 HAWK Anti-air missiles, which would be perfectly sufficient against something like Shahed.

Nobody wants to disarm themselves to give everything they have to Ukraine, but there is substantial arms that are just waiting for use, while Ukraine suffers. US alone could arm Ukraine twice over and not even feel the pain. Most of our equipment is considered not useful against China and is slated to be replaced, but we STILL refuse to sell it.
by jtsaw | 2025-09-13 01:20:02+00:00
there's also some open source ways to share spatial data as a website from QGIS like LizMap [1], MapStore [2], and Mundi [3]

[1] https://www.lizmap.com/en/

[2] https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/latest/

[3] https://mundi.ai/
by ab_testing | 2025-09-13 01:20:43+00:00
I think the hill is trying to create a narrative here. The law specifically states to post job postings in newspapers and it is congress's fault if they have not updated the laws.

As per PERM regulations (20 C.F.R. §656.17):

For professional positions (those requiring a bachelor’s degree or higher), the employer must conduct two Sunday newspaper advertisements in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of intended employment.

For non-professional positions, at least one Sunday ad is required.
by esbranson | 2025-09-13 01:20:50+00:00
See for example a recent lawsuit accusing Tesla of running a systemic, ongoing scheme to replace or exclude US citizens in favor of H-1B visa employees.[1][2]

> Tesla prefers to hire these candidates [H-1B workers] over U.S. citizens, as it can pay visa-dependent employees less than American employees performing the same work, a practice in the industry known as “wage theft.”

> At the same time Tesla applied for these visa applications, it laid off more than 6,000 workers across the United States. On information and belief, Tesla laid off these workers, the vast majority of whom are U.S. citizens, so that it could replace them with non-citizen visa workers.

> The email also bluntly stated that the Tesla position was for “H1B only” and that “Travel history/i94 are a must” (i.e., proof of legal entry into the U.S.).

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71325887/taub-v-tesla-i...

[2] https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/lawsuit-say...