MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-25 03:10:41+00:00
This is pretty mild actually. If you do a google search for any remotely "salesworthy" word, like say, "microphone" (because you want a wikipedia article on how they work maybe, or links to organic results for whatever comes up, you get absolutely flooded by a whole pile of sales offers and filters as if Google were fucking Amazon. I've had it happen with all kinds of searches, even some that weren't at all for a product.

It didn't used to manifest in this way with Google results, and it's a ridiculous beshitting of the basic idea of just using its search.

IMGUR link to an example I quickly pulled up.

https://imgur.com/a/EdBLIMg
by Herring | 2025-09-25 03:12:17+00:00
Where are you getting "less competition"? The article clearly says that's not what happens. Study after study has shown that immigration generally has a net positive effect on the US job market.

What'll probably happen is a spiral like in the US South and rural/republican areas. The economy keeps getting worse and people keep getting more hateful and anti-intellectual and self-destructive.
by hurricanepootis | 2025-09-25 03:12:48+00:00
The AUR targets Arch Linux only and I don't wanna run into the chance of there being a mismatch of packages I'm using and what other people r using. It makes it easier for me to ensure that, for example, the versions of the libraries I'm compiling against actually work. Like, if there is a library update in the arch repos that doesn't hit the cachyos repos by the time I do a build, it could have issues.

There is an arch x86-64-v3 repo, but I found it to be very far behind in terms of the most current packages, and I've experienced bugs with it.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-25 03:14:25+00:00
> All banks are required to have "safe" 2FA in the EU by EU regulation. SMS is banned.

Hungary is in EU and the most popular bank sends a one-time code (with expiry) via SMS for logging in, making a transaction, for the mere displaying of "Telecode", and so on.

There is no TOTP, only this one-time code sent via SMS.

I do not use their apps on any platform. I login via their website when I need to which is rare. When I make a payment via card, I have to provide the provided 3-digit "Telecode" and the one-time code sent via SMS. There is an option "What if I do not have access to that phone number?" or whatever the literal translation is, but I have not checked that out yet.

... which is why I left a comment asking you about the details. You telling me SMS is banned and referring to EU regulations just left me more confused given the above.
by derefr | 2025-09-25 03:14:34+00:00
…you might have an argument there for this practice of rival-brand-mark sponsored-placement squatting constituting an odd type of trademark infringement.

Imaging if PepsiCo paid grocers to shelve cans of Pepsi right beside cans of Coke, sharing the same inventory tag that just says “Coca Cola”. Coke would definitely be able to sue for something about that, right? Well, isn’t this the same?
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-25 03:15:30+00:00
well so much for a principled stand against or for something by this dogshit logic. I guess the only important thing is to cheer on whatever gets the votes, never mind how badly all things deteriorate as a result?

I'm no fan of democrat progressive culture, but if the crap you describe is what passes for a bottom line in the conservative camp, then it's garbage either way.
by olyjohn | 2025-09-25 03:15:34+00:00
They used to be better. But all my recent Macs have had some real shitty power management issues. The most annoying thing is when the battery drains fully overnight when it was supposed to be asleep, and then you get the wait 20 minutes before you can even power it up even if you plug in a 120watt charger. There is no excuse to have to wait for the battery to charge before powering up.
by eviks | 2025-09-25 03:15:47+00:00
> there is information that is missing.

What information was missing?

> and fail to describe what it is the user actually has to do.

How is "go to a folder and copy file content" is not such a description?

> doesn't necessarily mean you have the domain knowledge necessary to make leaps that are frequently present in tutorials.

Again, rather than speaking generically, how does this post demonstrate it? What leap is present in "this tutorial" that an average reader would not have the knowledge to make?
by ghm2199 | 2025-09-25 03:15:49+00:00
I would imagine this could be one of the inputs along with a STT system as context to an LLM. Because in general we can speak faster than we can write/type and for me, specifically, after a point in the day typing creates a higher cognitive load than speaking.

1. "Create a reminder for reading this email at 5:00 pm" and this could infer what to do from the screen shot's description(plus a local MCP tool for calendar)

2. "Can you fetch that file form that project in that workspace and implement the pattern in the code on my vscode terminal?" It can lower cognitive fatigue of typing and clicking a bunch of place.

3. Take notes as I describe something on the screen. It could be for prompt composition e.g. get the link from my browser and the file on vscode and write code that does XYZ.
by runevault | 2025-09-25 03:16:00+00:00
The thing I'm curious about is how much would it impact sports podcasting/etc if they clamped down on the gambling advertising. And to be clear I'm not saying that is a reason not to clamp down, just anytime I watch any podcast about sports there is all but guaranteed to be at least one ad for a major sports betting site. Plus how much of the new TV deals for various major league sports in the US was driven by the expected sports gambling ad revenue during the games.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-25 03:16:14+00:00
(2024)

Discussion then on other url:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110194

and Related:

Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41659458

Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41665630
by linguae | 2025-09-25 03:17:09+00:00
The sad thing is that Apple used to have people like Bill Atkinson (RIP), Larry Tesler (RIP), Bruce Tognazzini, and Don Norman who cared deeply about usability. What made the Mac special wasn’t its looks, especially in the pre-iMac and pre-Mac OS X days when the computers were mostly beige and the classic Mac OS UI was quite plain-looking (though still good-looking, IMO) compared to Mac OS X and later. Rather, what made the Mac special was its attentiveness to UI.

Somewhere along the line Apple products became luxury goods that were appealing due to their visual design. I am particularly fond of Apple’s early 2000s design, with beautiful hardware such as the iMac G4 and the Power Mac G4 Cube running early Mac OS X. Apple still makes very visually-appealing hardware and software. However, I feel that under Tim Cook Apple has heavily leaned into its visual appeal at the expense of what made Apple great: the emphasis on usability.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-25 03:17:14+00:00
As I said in another reply above,

where's the room for a firm set of beliefs and moral framework, or perhaps a principled stand against or for something by this dogshit logic of yours?

The only important thing is to get them votes and followers then? The conservatives can fuck off just as hard as the radical left if that's all that matters.
by ipnon | 2025-09-25 03:18:08+00:00
It would be remiss to overlook the role of the church in 19th century American society. There was something of a religious revival. And the nature of a single congregation is that it never grew past the limits of a small, personable organization. While there was a flourishing of denominations, there was nothing akin to outright sectarian conflict or violence. So there was this small, personable network of congregations in intimate contact with each other that spread throughout the entire country, with small nodes every few miles or so at least.
by nh2 | 2025-09-25 03:18:24+00:00
We're using CephFS for a couple years, with some PBs of data on it (HDDs).

What performance issues and footguns do you have in mind?

I also like that CephFS has a performance benefits that doesn't seem to exist anywhere else: Automatic transparent Linux buffer caching, so that writes are extremely fast and local until you fsync() or other clients want to read, and repeat-reads or read-after-write are served from local RAM.
by brailsafe | 2025-09-25 03:18:53+00:00
I definitely agree, but I don't think all of those examples are apt. Particularly the drinking one, because I think that's fairly likely to be 50/50.

Some other good examples (I think) are simply watching things. It doesn't need to be porn, think about how many people are chronically watching mindless trash content for hours at a time because we've made constant scrolling an immersive experience available all the time everywhere. I know I am. We've gone so far as to even eliminate the necessity to decide what to watch, the media companies have automated the process of turning what used to be customers into their products and delegated the friction to the telecom companies. When you think about your phone bill, really we should be paying basically nothing for it (and in some places it's nearly that cheap), but in expensive places we're paying like $80/month to engage with 5 free addictions that only take value away from our lives. They're charging us to sell ourselves to each other.

Weed: I agree that it should be legal, but how many new customers have been created since a store opened in every available vacant commercial space within a legal jurisdiction?

The pursuits of car and oil companies have literally re-shaped the built environment in the name of making it as easy as possible to be sedentary when you'd otherwise have to move—most significantly so in places that missed out on dense urbanization in the pre-industrial period—and now all we know how to do is get in our big SUV and drive to Costco, then to McDonalds, because otherwise there's a near-zero likelihood you have access to more economical healthy choices that are persuasively close to not drive to. Most North American cities effectively made it illegal to do anything else but sprawl, and concentrated as much wealth and power as possible in the hands of mega-franchise companies and private equity while we watched our wetlands get paved over for parking lots (we unironically should have listened to Joni Mitchell on this one). Good luck opening up a new corner store, those only go on the main avenues and shockingly someone owns that land already.

Credit Cards: Obvious one, but if you obscure how much you've spent and eliminate the requirement to keep track of what's available to you, maybe even add a nice little ding sound when you tap your phone, you're going to buy a hell of a lot more.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-25 03:20:05+00:00
Please fix the seek time numbers - they’re wildly in accurate; full platter seek is more like 20-25ms. I tried chasing down where the 8ms number came from a while back, and I think it applies to old sub-100GB 10K RPM high-speed drives from 25 or so years ago, which were purposely low density so they could swing the head faster and less precisely.

Check out the Olmez et al paper from MSST 2024 - I linked it above, but here it is again: https://www.msstconference.org/MSST-history/2024/Papers/msst...
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-25 03:20:32+00:00
I don’t understand the logic behind why companies will be willing to pay an Indian $160k to work for them in the U.S. but will not be willing to pay the exact same Indian $50k to work from India.

This may have an effect at the margins where the company is contractually or due to some rare product specific reason required to have the person be within the U.S. But the vast majority of H1Bs are working for major tech companies that have massive campuses all over the world.
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-25 03:20:40+00:00
As far as I know, mostly from the rough outline in Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent Of Man, Galileo's lens was one "moment" of the rapidly evolving optical technology of his time. The Nimrud lens was much more ancient artifact, so ancient its purpose isn't clear. What qualifies as "echo" is unclear but I think a reasonable look at the renaissance period at least shows Galileo's lens wasn't the last of anything but a part of the rebirth and extension of technology.

Optical technology didn't stand still even in the ancient world - Archimedes is reputed to have lit the sails of roman ships on fire with a lens. While the story is considered apocraphyl, it is old enough to show that the properties of lenses were roughly understood from ancient times.

The only reference to Taş Tutak I can google is this article. Etc.

This text really triggers my AI "spidey senses" but naturally I can't say with certainty. It makes me think OpenAI might have right when they suppressed GPT-2 and wrong later. It presents the problem that refuting plausible bs takes vastly more time than creating now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrud_lens
by claw-el | 2025-09-25 03:21:14+00:00
I believe the main ‘change’ of this $100,000 fee is the composition of labor. A doctor applies for H1B too and various other non-tech job applies for H1B too. Startups and hospitals have a much higher chance to not willing to pay for the fee and we will just end up with less ‘doctors’ in the 85,000 H1B visa approvals.
by jashmota | 2025-09-25 03:22:23+00:00
I definitely agree with you - recreating the scene in teleop is challenging. In excavators, however, it does make it better. An excavator has huge blindspots on the right (due to arm), to the back and sometime near the bucket. Hence the workers who are hired to stand around (banksmen, spotters, signalmen) and signal to the operator.

It's like driving a Ford F150 without backup camera. You'd add the backup camera upfront, and not display the back view at the back window.

It's definitely challenging and we're far from something that's perfect. We're iterating towards something that's better everyday.
by ilikehurdles | 2025-09-25 03:22:49+00:00
These people sound like they teleported straight out of a sociology classroom from 2017 or 2020 and didn’t catch what year it is. This whole puritanical bully culture is completely dead. Get out of your echochambers, and read the room already.

If you think rails is worth forking, fork it.

If you think it shouldn’t be used, don’t use it.

If you can’t be around a diversity of viewpoints, especially opinions that offend you, then get out of the kitchen.

It’s so typical of these people to wish everyone else to build the future they believe they deserve.

Do the work, or go to hell.
by john01dav | 2025-09-25 03:23:32+00:00
Morally, this guy did nothing wrong. These abusive practices need to be stood up to. I'd rather live in a world where this sort of vehement NO when someone with power tries to pull something unreasonable, like demanding an app or fee, is common and effective, than this world where companies and governments can just steamroll people. Ideally, other passengers would see what's going on, see the systemic problem (even if minor in this case), and also join in in the NO. Make the terminal unusable with an angry growing mass until they decide to be reasonable. The comments on that youtube video mocking the guy and not even addressing the airline's unreasonable policy are also an absurd lack of solidarity against these companies. When someone is mad they probably have a reason to be mad and we ought to listen to them and then get mad too if we agree, other than just dismissing someone for feeling an emotion, lest we'll just have more and more rights, privileges, and respect eroded. We need a culture of standing up for each other against injustice, no matter how small.

I know that his behavior was not a rational pursuit, since in practice humans are too skittish about standing up for themselves and too skittish against anyone whom they see as abnormal/not complying with social norms. But, this does not change the fact that he's completely in the right. I'd love to know a more effective strategy to deal with this shit from companies, if anyone knows one. What should he do instead in this situation where it is simply too unjust to him to be acceptable to give in?

Also, I'm offended at this cop for telling the guy to "be cordial". NO. The airline's behavior is not cordial! They do NOT deserve it back! Freedom of speech means freedom to get mad at someone, possibly REALLY mad, when they try to be unreasonable. Being angry is different from being violent, and the government shouldn't shield people and companies from this consequence (angry people) of their actions.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-09-25 03:23:42+00:00
> Perhaps the government could permit highly skilled individuals to qualify personally for the visa so long as they sustain employment in their field.

That is kind of how it works: when I was on a H1B I did look at switching jobs and had an offer from a company who would sponsor me. They need to file a Labor Condition Application to show that the position qualified for a H1B worker, but you can start working as soon as the LCA is approved if you already have the visa, while the I129 is processed.
by eru | 2025-09-25 03:26:39+00:00
Thanks for the explanation.

How is any of that fraud? Fraud doesn't just mean you have to disagree with something someone does, but you have to have been lied to.

> And, of course, the executives who are incentivised on share price, for whom a buyback is a much, much, easier way to get those incentives than actually doing their jobs and using the money to grow the company.

Companies can and should adjust the incentives so that the effect of dividends and buybacks are the same for the executive. (They already adjust for share splits for example.)

> If you bought shares in the company as a long-term position in order to receive dividends then you do not benefit from buybacks, and arguably lose out (because the money used on the buyback could have been distributed as a dividend).

Before you buy any shares, you should check what management says about their plans. At least, if you have specific expectations.

Even if buybacks were outlawed, companies aren't guaranteed to pay dividends. It's perfectly legal to never make a profit, or to give all your excess money to charity. You just have to tell your shareholders.

> Mr Doctorow's point is that the company is taking money from its operations, which it should be spending on expanding those operations and increasing its value, and spending that money on artificially inflating its share price, by effectively wash trading the shares, creating artificial demand, and artificially reducing supply.

Yeah, that's a stupid objection.

The substantial first half of it would equally well apply to dividends. (And the whole point of giving money to companies as an investor is that eventually you are getting more back.)

The second half is just not how any of this works. Does he even know what a wash trade is? And what's 'artificial' about this?
by crdrost | 2025-09-25 03:26:57+00:00
For me the key was just application to figuring out if any cards are missing in a deck by sorting it.

Assume spades < clubs < diamonds < hearts, and ascending order for cards for all suits. Once you know the principle you can switch to US playing card order if you want.

In your first pass, divide the deck into black and red cards. Then divide black into spades and clubs. Then divide spades into <= 7 and >7. Then insertion sort the cards <= 7, then insertion sort the cards > 7, spades are now sorted. Clubs come next, divide into <= 7 and > 7, insertion sort, and combine. Split diamonds and hearts, repeat with diamonds, repeat with hearts.

“What about the pivot thing?” Well, that's because we don't know the midpoint of our set in a typical sort. So instead you can just grab a random card and then go through the deck to find all cards < that card. If you want slightly fewer passes, use median of three.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-25 03:27:31+00:00
Having managed people on H1Bs (and therefore been intimately involved with the process) the problems with switching jobs are not the requirements. You’re only allowed to switch to a similar job or a “better” job in a similar line of work.

The problem is that the mechanics of the switching process is extremely cumbersome. Some of the relevant documents are held by your current employer and not with you. The new employer effectively needs to apply for a new application minus the lottery system. There are significant weeks to months worth of delays for the new employers to get approvals, so most H1B employees that transfer are actually working provisionally on the basis of their new approval still being pending. They are very limited in terms of traveling etc during this period. There are significant risks to changing your job when you’re approaching the end of your current H1B visa expiry. This was particularly bad for Chinese applicants who unlike most other nations’s applicants who got 3 year approvals, usually only got 1 year approvals.

The real problem in switching jobs aren’t the policies but the extreme uncertainty and bureaucracy involved in doing so.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-09-25 03:28:59+00:00
One of the things he doesn’t say is you have to be extra careful when your boss is replaced by an outsider; it’s exactly as if you changed you changed your job and have to prove yourself all over again.

The new guy also comes with an inflated sense of self-importance; he’s there to fix things which the old guy messed up.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-25 03:29:12+00:00
Originally Ceph divided big objects into 4MB chunks, sending each chunk to an OSD server which replicated it to 2 more servers. 4MB was chosen because it was several drive rotations, so the seek+ rotational delay didn’t affect the throughput very much.

Now the first OSD splits it into k data chunks plus d parity chunks, so the disk write size isn’t 4MB, it’s 4MB/k, while the efficient write size has gone up 2x? 4x? since the original 4MB decision as drive transfer rates increase.

You can change this, but still the tuning is based on the size of the block to be coded, not the size of the chunks to be written to disk. (and you might have multiple pools with much different values of k)
by AuthAuth | 2025-09-25 03:29:37+00:00
This section was the hardest for me to understand. I personally don't like the idea of building a mental theory of mind and then evaluating your responses based on how you think someone might react. I prefer to be authentic in my action even when I know it is going to be ill received or not be in my advantage. I do what I do for a reason and I have to trust my internal compass. If after all that my actions are taken the wrong way then I accept that. Self reflection to keep myself in check, most of the time i stand by what I said. You cant live life without being mean, rude, offensive sometimes thats what the situation calls for.

But maybe im an asshole, I genuinely have no idea.
by atoav | 2025-09-25 03:30:28+00:00
Chances based on my experience? 50:50

Old engineers will say things that are hard learned lessons like "don't reinvent the wheel, when your thing is running on a system that comes with wheels". So, good solid advice that rookies will ignore, because of course they do. But sometimes old engineers will say things that are more of the quality of: "30 years ago went deep into this topic, discovered the truth and haven't updated my judgement since, despite the world having changed a lot".

The problem is that unless you really know things inside out or know the hard held opinions of your older collegue well, it can be hard to tell the two apart. In that case it only helps to talk about it in more detail and try to get to the root of where the judgement comes from. Then it could come to light that the warning to use PHP comes from a bad experience with PHP version <1.0 or that there is a number of bad experienced that are really useful for deciding the direction of a project.

In the end many decisions are about taste. And nothing is as good as a way to keep arguing than matters of taste. Weigh all the pros/cons and make a choice.