MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-09-20 19:01:38+00:00
> I should specify - it's hard in that it's troublesome to have to code switch and do a bunch of recall before working on the thing.

You don't sound like you have any experience working on software projects. I can tell you it's not hard to switch between programming languages. If anything, the difficulty level is placed on onboarding onto projects you are not familiar with, but the programming language in use is far from being a relevant factor if you already are familiar with it.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-20 19:01:57+00:00
How could you disagree with cheaper, smaller, faster, more battery efficient hardware led to WiFi, Bluetooth, modern smart phones etc?

But why nothing as ground breaking - physics.

At a certain point you come up with speed of light limitations and other sub atomic interferences that are way out of pay grade when it comes to producing smaller processors.

The industry keeps coming up with new techniques as far as wireless communications. But eventually again you come against physics, certain spectrum is worse for communications and Shannon-Hartley theorem.

With cameras, you can only do so much in a phone form factor. You can also only do so much with current battery technology, heat dissipation vs power etc.

And a lot of the technology is “good enough”. There is only so much video and audio fidelity that you need to reach the limits of human perception.

What exactly break through technology are you looking for?
by cuttothechase | 2025-09-20 19:02:01+00:00
The 100K fee has to accompany the H1B petition. The enforcement happens at the port of entry. So theoretically, a) the application could be denied if it doesnt have the 100K fee. b) If it doesnt get denied then you could stay in the country without paying 100K till a change of status event? This removes any out of US travel options. Not sure how practical option b is, where you put everything on the line if a travel need arises.
by hinkley | 2025-09-20 19:02:08+00:00
Part of the reason I’ve held onto my Jetta for far too long is that is has about 2 dozen physical buttons on the dash, and almost half of them are wired to the entertainment system. Including a handful on the steering wheel.

Every time I eyeball an electric vehicle it’s a clown car from a UX perspective and I have people who would be pretty upset if I died trying to change the song on my stereo.
by YZF | 2025-09-20 19:03:02+00:00
My daily driver is also a model 3 and I do sometimes interact with the screen while driving. For example if I need to see alternate routes while navigating or if I want to check my power consumption. Or if I want to listen to some Internet radio station.

I think they key though is that you're not constantly messing with the controls. It's up to you to pick the right moment and to limit your "disengagement". This is very different than e.g. texting someone while driving.

There are many things you can do in vehicles without touch screens to get distracted. You can even get distracted purely in your head while thinking about other things. Maintaining focus on what's going on while driving is on you.

I bet the overall reduced attention span due to social media and other effects has a big impact on drivers being able to maintain focus while driving.
by rendx | 2025-09-20 19:03:15+00:00
> It's obvious policy, given how vague and uncertain many details of this are.

" Section 1. Restriction on Entry. (a) Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

Personally, I do not see anything vague and uncertain about that. I agree that how Trump has been handling things anything and everything is vague and uncertain. But the language of the actual executive order, which in any sane jurisdiction would be the only thing relevant, is pretty clear. Note how it says "restriction on entry", and zero about new applicants.
by shagie | 2025-09-20 19:04:07+00:00
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

Changing or Leaving Your H-1B Employer Q. What is “porting”? A. There are two kinds of job portability, or “porting,” available based on two different kinds of employer petitions: H-1B petition portability: Eligible H-1B nonimmigrants may begin working for a new employer as soon as the employer properly files a new H-1B petition (Form I-129) requesting to amend or extend H-1B status with USCIS, without waiting for the petition to be approved. More information about H-1B portability can be found on our H-1B Specialty Occupations page. ... Q. How do I leave my current employer to start working for a new employer while remaining in H-1B status? A. Under H-1B portability provisions, you may begin working for a new employer as soon as they properly file a non-frivolous H-1B petition on your behalf, or as of the requested start date on the petition, whichever is later. You are not required to wait for the new employer’s H-1B petition to be approved before beginning to work for the new employer, assuming certain conditions are met. For more details about H-1B portability, see our H-1B Specialty Occupations page, under “Changing Employers or Employment Terms with the Same Employer (Portability).”

The company would still need to file an H-1B petition. It's that there is no lottery guesswork since the potential employee is already approved to work within the United States.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-spec...

When can I begin working for a new H-1B employer if I change employers? If you are changing H-1B employers, you may begin working for the new employer as soon as they properly file a non-frivolous Form I-129 petition on your behalf, or as of the requested start date on that petition, whichever is later. To be eligible for portability, you must not have been employed without authorization from the time of your last admission into the United States, and your new employer must properly file a new, non-frivolous petition before your H-1B period of authorized stay expires.
by bongodongobob | 2025-09-20 19:05:15+00:00
They most definitely do. They have been lobotomized in some way to be ultra corporate friendly. I can only use their M365 Copilot at work and it's absolute dogshit at writing code more than maybe 100 lines. It can barely write correct PowerShell. Luckily, I really only need it for quick and dirty short PS scripts.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-20 19:05:46+00:00
I don't use a phone case or a screen protector. Examining my phone which is about two years old, there are a few hairline cracks on the back glass, and the front glass is mildly scratched if I hold it at just the right angle to catch the light. I'm sure if I dropped it on concrete at the right height and angle it'd fully crack the screen but generally speaking I haven't needed a case in nearly a decade.
by destroycom | 2025-09-20 19:05:48+00:00
> Written in Zig for optimal performance and memory safety

Ironic to see this, as even a cursory glance over the code shows a lot of memory bugs, such as dangling pointers, data races, some potential bugs like double free, etc.

It is good that the OP is learning things, but I would caution against relying on LLMs and taking on a bigger project like this, before the basics are well understood.

Personally, this is one of the reasons I dislike the LLM hype, people are enabled to produce much more code, code that they aren't qualified to support or even understand.

While the project linked is clearly designated as strictly for "learning purposes", the applications we will get in the large will be of no better quality.

The difference being, before LLMs, those, who didn't have qualification, wouldn't even approach problems like this, now they can vibecode something that works on a lucky run, but is otherwise completely inadequate.
by oezi | 2025-09-20 19:06:03+00:00
I don't know why you think everything is so bleak. Yes, Europe is inter-connected to the world. We export a lot and we import a lot. Unemployment in Europe has been not been terrible for a long time.

Of course there is room for improvement and there are political challenges, for instance to enact the pension reforms needed for the demographic changes but Europe has achieved also a lot we can be proud of. Without Europe and without the single market, we would be facing the same issues Britain is facing: Being too small, unable to regulate anything on their own, dependent on foreign trade partners, etc.
by analognoise | 2025-09-20 19:06:10+00:00
The techno-libertarians I’ve interacted with were always painfully naive, with a simplistic worldview (that they thought was extremely learn’ed - mistaking their technical skill for broad intellect that understood politics to be “simple”).

If they haven’t grown up thus far, I doubt yet another logical inconsistency will puncture their shallow and hermetic understanding.

Or as I read it somewhere, “We’ve created a group of technical people who can solve any technical problem but can’t explain why Nazism is bad.”

The only thing that might pierce that veil is this: they believed they were not workers, but more like a priestly class, “self made” but immune to the travails of “everyone else”. The massive spike in layoffs, the economic slump, our increased taxes (via tariff), the rights erosions - might get them to recognize their mistake in understanding, but only if it strikes them personally (this gets back to the naïveté mentioned above).
by timr | 2025-09-20 19:06:13+00:00
> This has very strong "cruelty is the point" vibes.

Hanlon's razor. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Regardless of what you think about the wisdom of the policy itself, implementing it rapidly is...probably not the best decision. But it's also par for the course for this administration.

It's not clear to me that this is an intended consequence of the policy change, or just Microsoft's attorneys being conservative in the face of chaos. A plain-text reading of the EO does not support the interpretation that people with existing H1B visas would be subject to the restrictions, but rather, seems like an ambiguity in the wording that a conservative lawyer could interpret in that manner:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

> Section 1. Restriction on Entry. (a) Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section.
by someperson | 2025-09-20 19:07:36+00:00
The final years of healthcare for the elderly is unaffordabily expensive.

Nations are able to afford it with a healthy dependency ratio, but with the Baby Boom generation leaving the workforce, it will no longer be possible.

A young family who have recently migrated are saving for a house and college, to make them pay for a decade of end-to-life treatment (cancer treatment, dialysis) at United States price ranges is unaffordable even for very high income earners.

Remember the two parents have four grandparents, and two children (the receiving country would love for them to have a third).

That said, I am open to a special visa with a million dollar escrowed deposit per elderly parent to cover their healthcare. Without extreme restrictions they are bound to become a healthcare burden on the system.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 19:08:17+00:00
The point is that it strongly suggests the system is being abused by India. Even excluding developed countries where people might lack incentive to move, India doesn’t come close to having 70% of “the talent.” Latin America alone probably has as many college graduates as India, accounting for higher college attendance rates. But Latin America accounts for a small share of H1bs while India accounts for 70%.
by mothballed | 2025-09-20 19:08:19+00:00
The expected value for immigrants is rapidly shifting into it being more favorable to be an illegal, because ICE/CBP is mostly going after low hanging fruit of easy to catch people that they know about with homes and salary jobs / university and a visa. People that are off paper and 100 miles past the border are as good as gone. So basically what we get is the exact opposite of what we want.
by seadan83 | 2025-09-20 19:08:20+00:00
Please explain the senate

> No, democracy is supposed to be two wolves and a sheep voting on who to eat for dinner.

The senate is exactly the sheep. That the senate is now controlled by the sheep is also wild. The senate is what gives a person in Wyoming has 4x the voting power of someone in California. The senate was designed so that the less populous states (the sheep) don't get rolled. That the senate is majority minority is wild.
by Rover222 | 2025-09-20 19:08:41+00:00
LIDAR is not some inherently superior solution. And more importantly, once you get away from hardcoded self-driving solutions and go deep on machine learning (the only viable way to reach L5), it can add more noise than signal if using sensor fusion.

Anyway, time will tell. I think in 2 years or less, Tesla will be absolutely dominant in autonomous ridesharing in the US.
by alwa | 2025-09-20 19:08:43+00:00
I’m also confused as to why this is Microsoft-only advice. It keeps sounding like the proclamation involves adjusting an administrative fee for new visas (which, I guess, must be how it bypasses normal rulemaking procedures?).

How does that result in a fee for re-entering on a valid existing visa? Is this less about formal policy and more about Microsoft hedging against the possibility of chaotic and arbitrary enforcement? Which seems not-unlikely when a large bureaucracy has a rule change dropped on it with 24 hours to implement…
by ezst | 2025-09-20 19:09:55+00:00
This, so much. Not the UK, but another western-European country that has slowly succumbed to right-wing rhetoric and fear-mongering. There, legal immigration has continuously been a boon to the economy, but each politician having had to "one-up" the previous one in terms of "tightening immigration" and "looking tough" has only made legal immigration increasingly miserable, and put off skilled/high-earning global workers whose presence was desired.

Of course, nothing has changed for the illegal ones: they haven't (and won't) see the increased burden of legal migration of which they are oblivious. Overall things are only getting worse, and I hate that there's no attempt to having a honest and transparent debate and discourse on the matter.
by dvdkon | 2025-09-20 19:10:11+00:00
So if you want your employees to be able to go back from vacation and back to their belongings, you have to pay a large fee. And to pay that fee, you have to talk to the president personally, otherwise you're screwed.

That's so dumb I can't believe you're suggesting it. In a rule-of-law country, lobbying the president should never be a solution to anything, much less routine bureaucracy.
by apalmer | 2025-09-20 19:10:45+00:00
I don't think 'gentrification' is the right word for this. However the comments here do illustrate an underlying 'real' phenomenon what ever you call it.

Just for clarity: - Non-Japan Asia is new to gaming, and that's okay, it's going to take some time before they find their own voice.

This is not factually true, video games have one of the most popular forms of entertainment in non Japan Asia for 25 years. Nearly a quarter of humanity lives in non-japan asia. There were good non japanese games, bad non japanese games, and more than anything tons of 'mid' non japanese games. They aren't new too it, and they do have their own voices and styles.

What gets talked about as history of video gaming tends to reflect American video gaming history and the unavoidable influence of America's number one vassal state, Japan. Really this is the history of games marketed in North America and that's fine, it just isn't the whole history.
by ivraatiems | 2025-09-20 19:10:52+00:00
These new restrictions are uniquely capricious and gleefully harmful to people, but they are really only an extension of behaviors that have gone on for some time. I'd like to share a related story from the previous Trump administration:

My roommate in 2018 was an Indian here on an H1-B. He was working for a large consulting firm. (You've heard of it.) I don't recall his title but it was sort of an SRE/infrastructure position. He was a relatively conservative guy himself, in terms of his views, and a huge fan of America. He delighted in being here. He bought a brand new Mustang because it was the iconic American car. We weren't particularly close friends, but we got along okay.

In the spring of 2018, he went back to India for the first time in several years, for about a month. His return flight date came and went and I didn't hear from him until the next day: He was back in India. He'd landed in Chicago, and CBP had pulled him aside. They said his documents were flawed and he was to be deported. They said he had lied about where he was moving for his job. When he pointed out that he hadn't, they said, well, your employer didn't tell us everything they were supposed to when you moved.

He asked to see documents he had with him, or call his managers. They said no. He asked for time to go online and get his employment details. They said no. The only options he were given was: 1) Admit he'd lied, and be deported but not banned from the US, or, 2) deny he'd lied, and be deported and banned for five years. Indignant, he refused to "admit" to anything. He was deported. His entire life in the US was summarily destroyed. I spent a great deal of time helping him get his possessions either sold or shipped to him, and on the phone, I had to explain to him that he likely hadn't done anything wrong - it wasn't his fault. This was how our system had been set up to work.

About two years later, a judge concluded that there had not, in fact, been any issues with his employer or him that were material. The deportation was ruled to have been illegitimate. But by that point, he'd been back in India for years, and it was now COVID. He's probably never coming back to the US. We lost our chance to have him, because a couple of individual CBP agents in Chicago made a bad call one day in 2018 and wouldn't take no for an answer.

Even if you believe in controlling and limiting immigration, even if you think that we should only bring the best and brightest and then only in limited numbers, even if you think everyone who crosses the border illegally is a criminal, there is nothing just in what happened in this case. If you are such a person, and you think the people in power are on your side, I urge you to look at what they're actually doing over what they say they're doing. There's no justice in what happened in this case; if even legal immigrants have such limited due process and can have their lives so utterly destroyed, what rights do any of us imagine we have?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-20 19:10:58+00:00
> One of the main features of monorepo is maintaining a DAG of dependencies

No, that's the opposite of a monorepo (w/continuous integration). A monorepo w/continuous integration does not maintain any list of dependencies or relationships, by design. Every single commit is one global "version" which represents everything inside the repo. Everything in the repo at that commit, is only guaranteed to work with everything else in the repo in that commit. You use continuous integration (w/quality gates) to ensure this, by not allowing merges which could possibly break anything if merged.

Maintaining a DAG of dependencies is a version pinning strategy, the opposite of the continuous integration version-less method. It is intended for external dependencies that do not exist in the current repository - which is why it's used for multi-repos, not monorepos.

But as I originally pointed out, you can have a monorepo where everything is version-pinned (not using continuous integration). It's just not the usual example.
by jphfeeds | 2025-09-20 19:11:37+00:00
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by icyfox | 2025-09-20 19:11:50+00:00
I guarantee you the weights are already versioned like you're describing. Each training run results in a static bundle of outputs and these are very much pinned (OpenAI has confirmed multiple times that they don't change the model weights once they issue a public release).

> Not quantized. Weights are the same. If we did change the model, we’d release it as a new model with a new name in the API.”

- [Ted Sanders](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44242198) (OpenAI)

The problem here is that most issues stem from broader infrastructure issues like numerical instability at inference time. Since this affects their whole service pipeline, the logic here can't really be encapsulated in a frozen environment like a Docker container. I suppose _technically_ they could maintain a separate inference cluster for each of their point releases, but that also means that previous models don't benefit from common infrastructure improvements / load balancing would be more difficult to shard across GPUs / might be logistically so hard to coordinate to effectively make it impossible.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-... https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...
by JohnBooty | 2025-09-20 19:12:26+00:00
I am particularly a fan of "flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun."

But even as somebody who likes Dickens' prose, I think his syntax is often a lot more complicated than it needs to be. In that sense I agree that it's slightly difficult at times.

Not "difficult" as in "this really took me a tremendous amount of effort to understand" but difficult as in "I think his syntax is a little more difficult than it needs to be."

(Of course, any sort of art should be understood in context. It wouldn't be reasonable to impose modern expectations on something written 150 years ago)
by card_zero | 2025-09-20 19:12:57+00:00
Hey, I don't venerate readers, I hate it when people read Sense and Sensibility or War and Peace or Moby Dick out of worthiness. I read what I want, and I read a lot of trash, not important works of literature. Though Moby Dick has a chapter that's all about sailors lovingly holding hands in a bucket of warm sperm, and another one about a priest wearing a whale's penis as a coat, so it's not all bad. But I don't think old Herman really intended it as reading matter, to be honest, it seemed to me more like a hostile act, a 200,000 word prank. But I like reading adventure stories and gumshoe pulp, and I don't want it all converted to videos.
by shagie | 2025-09-20 19:13:16+00:00
(Backing this up... though as I write this, the site with the source data is down - https://flag.dol.gov/programs/prevailingwages ... so using one that uses that data... https://flcprevailingwage.com )

Software Developer (15-1252). Eau Claire County. Bachelors degree. 0 experience.

The prevailing wage is Level 1 Wage:$36.54 / Hour - $76,003 / Year

Change it to San Francisco County.

Level 1 Wage:$65.24 / Hour - $135,699 / Year

And so, as noted... it is location dependent.