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by jacobgkau | 2025-09-20 01:20:46+00:00
> As a website owner myself, I don't understand what's so hard now that we can write 1 HTML tag and have an embedded video on the page.

You acknowledge that it's not that simple:

> running ffmpeg at a few quality settings upon uploading (there are maybe 3 articles with a video per day, so any old server can handle this)

Can any old server really handle that? And can it handle the resulting storage of not only the highest-quality copy but also all the other copies added on top? My $5 Linode ("any old server") does not have the storage space for that. You can switch your argument to "storage is cheap these days," but now you're telling people to upgrade their servers and not actually claiming it's a one-click process anymore.

I use Vimeo as a CDN and pay $240 per year for it ($20/month, 4x more than I spend on the Linode that hosts a dozen different websites). If Vimeo were to shut down tomorrow, I'd be pretty out of luck finding anyone offering pricing even close to that-- for example, ScaleEngine charges a minimum of $25 per month and doesn't even include storage and bandwidth in their account fee. Dailymotion Pro offers a similar service to Vimeo these days, but their $9/month plan wouldn't have enough storage for my catalog, and their next cheapest price is $84/month. If you actually go to build out your own solution with professional hosting, it's not gonna be a whole lot cheaper.

Obviously, large corporations can probably afford to do their own hosting-- and if push came to shove, many of them probably would, or would find one of those more expensive partner options. But again, you're no longer arguing "it's just an HTML tag." You're now arguing they should spend hundreds or thousands per year on something that may be incidental to their business.
by no_nobud | 2025-09-20 01:20:53+00:00
>nurse is not the janitor of healthcare jobs.

I don't know but among healthcare practitioner apparently it's seen like that. It's brutal, but out of all white collar jobs, only engineering is suffering, and especially males, yes, women are hired for 'reasons' over males, you can check any unemployment rate between males/females, now it's called he-cession https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-05/us-job... What is the ratio of females posting not finding jobs in social media compared to males? I personally never seen a single female complaining not finding a job, instead, they are dancing in the jobs for tiktok and posting how their 'lazy girl job' is going, meanwhile for guys, it's all over the place, especially in tech/engineering.

Engineering isn't guarded as a profession, there's no designation like other white collar jobs that you need to pass and have to be called an engineer, the 'engineer' term is so diluted that it's meaningless now, and even to be a plumper, you should have apprenticeship to practice it, it's even more guarded than engineer. Total waste of time to be an engineer, my advise to anyone who's getting in the field or thinking about it, do NOT, you are better dancing on tiktok than wasting your life in a useless degree.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-09-20 01:21:46+00:00
> If you want a sample of similar comments online

If you want a sample of this online, you can just come to HN and read the discussions on theoretical physics research, where people say funny things like no progress has happened in fundamental physics since the Higgs boson paper.

Anyway, my theory for the phenomenon is that social status and money boosts ones ego. Once youve made good money coding for long enough, and have long had people saying youre smart because youre a software "engineer", you start overestimating the depth of your understanding of the world. I would like to see what would happen if youd ask unqualified people like janitors how they think engineers build bridge. My guess is that theyd start off from the assumption that the subject is too complicated for their understand, but when it comes to the details youd get a cartoonish picture in a sense not unlike that of the software "engineer".

Bigger picture, I see people repeating ideas thoughtlessly ALL THE TIME. These cocktail parties where people discuss trendy topics, its basicall the same 3 ideas per topic that get brought up, because thats what their favorite influencer said. Extremely depressing.
by 588edbdf | 2025-09-20 01:21:54+00:00
Because H-1B workers had the ability to demand higher compensation via sponsorship and relocation to the US. Employers could say "no we won't sponsor you" but these workers are in demand due to their technical skills and could counter with "then I'll join another company that will".

If you remove the option for sponsorship then these workers will still be working their jobs because they're talented and in demand, they'll just be doing it from their home country instead for lower compensation.
by justinator | 2025-09-20 01:22:14+00:00
They are, unless you have the ear of our current President God-King and can get an exception.

"The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1nlgzzu/trump_signs_p...
by fooey | 2025-09-20 01:22:14+00:00
it's effective nearly immediately too, and applies to all entries, not just applications

> the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025

anyone on a visa who happens to currently out of the country has ~24 hours to get back without a $100,000 bill

if you're in the states, you won't be removed, but you cannot leave and re-enter without paying up
by stephen_cagle | 2025-09-20 01:23:06+00:00
This straight 100k to the top is not a good way to implement this. It should be a percentage (say 50%, we can talk about what the number should actually be) of the total compensation that is being paid to the H1B. We should also just completely remove caps on H1B.

This allows companies that truly want extraordinary talent to pay a premium to acquire it with no red tape . It also makes it far less likely that they can significantly underpay foreign workers to work in the united states and undercut American employees (at a 50% surcharge, you would have to pay 2/3 the prevailing salary to break even (assuming all employees are the same)).

The 50% number is something I made up, I think we can have an honest discussion about what that number should realistically be (and it should probably be different for different industries). But my main point is it should simply be a percentage tax paid on top of all compensation for foreign employees. This is the correct way to balance domestic companies undercutting domestic labor, while allowing them to access genuinely extraordinary talent with no impedance.
by peteforde | 2025-09-20 01:23:16+00:00
One of the things that drives me crazy about YouTube is that if a video gets taken down, it shows up as a "This video is no longer available" with no further metadata. I am far, far more uptight about no knowing which video was removed than I am about the fact that it is no longer available.

I have put serious thought into creating a tool that would automatically yt-dlp every video I open to a giant hard drive and append a simple index with the title, channel, thumbnail and date.

In general, I think people are way too casual about media of all kinds silently disappearing when you're not looking.
by mikeryan | 2025-09-20 01:25:10+00:00
This is idiotic. We’re already pushing China and India into a partnership with Russia. The sheer volume of people in those countries mean “on average” more brilliant people than we do.

The US competitive advantage is built on us being a destination for the best and brightest. Between this and the crackdown foreign students at US Universities why would the anyone want to come here?

The misuse of H1Bs is a small problem compared to the value it provides.
by alde | 2025-09-20 01:25:10+00:00
You are arguing about semantics of residence permit vs work authorization which is not the core of the issue. If you get fired and don’t find a new employer then you leave in 3 months.

Also, it is definitely not just a formality to change employers. For example, on a blue card the new employer must prove to the ministry that they couldn’t find anyone local or EU to fill this position aka “Labour Market Test”. The position needs to be registered in a special gov database to prove that, etc, etc.
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by indolering | 2025-09-20 01:25:53+00:00
I don't think I'm going to take my health advice from an economics magazine that is published by libertarians in the UK (a famously NOT sunny place).

Economists have a habit of wandering off into other fields and misapplying statistical methods developed for economics. See their work in anti-parastic studies and all sorts of gross wannabe sociology research.

I'll wait until Chocrane steps in and says something before rejecting decades of scientific consensus.
by rvrb | 2025-09-20 01:25:53+00:00
Sure there is zero immediate risk, I just genuinely don’t know what I would get out of taking on the risk of adding a community maintained middleman into the supply chain. I know, because rpm-ostree, it’s not the same as some random distribution. If there’s nothing to get out of it personally that layering a package or two can’t give me (or better, writing my own simple image).. why?

I’m not saying there isn’t a reason; I’m genuinely looking for it
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-20 01:26:37+00:00
There are lotsa issues in healthcare, not least that the medical association practices "birth control" for doctors. Plus the residency process to get board certified is absolutely grueling [1], I knew more than one doc who quit when they got their MD and got into startup land because it's an easier life!

It does seem that, against all odds, Obamacare really did "bend the cost curve" and slow down the growth in health care costs. After a rough patch decade or so when we didn't get new "blockbuster" drugs we are now getting drugs like Wegovy and Cobenfy which cost a lot but promise savings elsewhere.

[1] that said, a doctor really should know what to do when somebody with a rare condition that they'll only see once in their career and working a 996 schedule at a university medical center does give the experience for that.
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by zahlman | 2025-09-20 01:28:03+00:00
> One side has the political philosophy that amounts to "if Trump does it, we support it".

I disagree that this is an accurate characterization of the side that isn't the "fringe far left".

> and the latter is ostracized by democrats.

It looks to me like, far from being ostracized, Hasan Piker is getting to do another round of puff pieces in sympathetic outlets.

> And you are comparing president of the country to twitch streamers.

No; you are the one who spoke of "lawmakers and media figures", so I am comparing media figures to media figures.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-20 01:28:07+00:00
Apologies if this comes across as pedantic, but it isn’t a footnote. It’s part of the actual article, just included near the end in the “Looking Ahead” section. If they omitted it entirely or put it in an actual footnote, then yes I agree that would be a noteworthy omission. But it feels extreme to call it ridiculous when it’s right there in the article.

The other thing I’ll say is that even if this is struck down by the courts (which is not certain give the Supreme Court’s recent support for the president), that can take a while and this could still have a real impact on people. Many people thought the president imposing tariffs was unconstitutional, but as right now those tariffs are actually in effect. Companies that employ H-1B workers (and the workers themselves) will need to start planning for this immediately regardless of whether or not it is eventually struck down.

The last thing I’m wondering is when you say it’s ridiculous, do you just mean sloppy reporting? Or are you implying that the author has some ulterior motive? And if the latter, what do you think that ulterior motive is?
by wonderwonder | 2025-09-20 01:28:10+00:00
I disagree, why would they then not just hire the H1B at 50k and pay a 25K fee.

100k flat annual fee plus the new minimum 150k salary returns the H1B program to its original purpose of allowing US companies to hire truly exceptional foreign workers who have skills US workers do not. This allows companies to do just that and pay for it and at the same time protects the jobs and job prospects of US workers
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-20 01:28:17+00:00
My milage does vary. I swore off caffeine for a decade. Then I discovered that stims restore some cognitive function that I had written off.

The difference is that my anxiety is more interesting (to me) than distressing. I can sometimes leverage it as a mechanism for change.

Granted - this also possible because my anxiety (currently) falls within a range. Turn it up a ½doz notches and I probably won't be mining it for usefulness.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-20 01:29:01+00:00
and that's a function of the regulatory environment. In the US it's tough for private sector unions but quite the opposite for public sector unions and for certain private sector contractors.

Right now we have a lot of huge houses with massive master bedroom suites in Arizona and very little high speed rail but if there was union labor to build those houses and non-union to build the rail it would be the other way around. As it is we have a "labor aristocracy" that fought efforts to establish universal health care for 40 years because good health benefits are a reason to take a union job.
by djohnston | 2025-09-20 01:29:18+00:00
Yeah exactly. And they embrace that fraud and turn it into a cornerstone of their economy. I too have worked with extremely talented people from the subcontinent and not one was on an H1B. The H1Bs I worked with were less competent than an undergraduate intern. Thankfully I only had to do that once during an on-prem install in Tyson’s Corner.
by jonstewart | 2025-09-20 01:29:41+00:00
Oh, I will never give up on TDD. And the assistants are great at helping to write tests, and especially analyzing the tests you have and suggesting others for edge cases.

But I have repeatedly seen claude get hung up on TDD itself and I've tried lots of different prompts/directions. It runs into a problem and inevitably runs ever more complicated shell commands and creating weird temp input files than sticking to "cargo test" and addressing the failing test.

Since I need to review the agent's code, I'd much prefer it to use a workflow like a human, with a progression of small commits following TDD--much easier to review the code then. If it's just splatting up big diffs, then it makes review harder, and that offsets any productivity gains.
by molticrystal | 2025-09-20 01:30:03+00:00
Your view from a distance, where you rarely download Youtube videos, is common for now, and we still live in a very fortunate time. The problems are short lived, so over long periods, they tend to average out, and you are unlikely to notice them. Even active users will rarely notice a problem, so it is understandable for your use case, it would seem perfect.

Looking closely, at least for yt-dlp, you would see it tries multiple methods to grab available formats, tabulates the working ones, and picks from them. Those methods are constantly being peeled away, though some are occasionally added or fixed. The net trend is clear. The ability to download is eroding. There have been moments when you might seriously consider that downloading, at least without a complicated setup(PO-Tokens, widevine keys, or something else), is just going to stop working.

As time goes on, even for those rare times you want to grab a video, direct downloading may no longer work. You might have to resort to other methods, like screen recording through software or an actual camera, for as long as your devices will let you do even that.
by superkuh | 2025-09-20 01:31:14+00:00
I understand now that I was talking about how youtube currently works and you two were talking about how youtube could be contrived to work.

Yes, it could. It'd only just waste more bandwidth having to redownload and cause more pauses. But people who buy things (the important ones to advertise to) have fast connections and everyone's locked in so google can focus more on advertiser issues over the lower end network user experience.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-20 01:31:30+00:00
> My rural patients are so much more insufferable than my urban ones…

I retired from medicine, having spent my career at a well-known institution in the upper midwest of the U.S. Over the course of my tenure there, I took care of patients from all parts of the world, all walks of life. Some of my most cherished patients hailed from rural farm communities. Whatever that commenter’s issues might be, this doesn’t line up with my experience at all. The work of the physician is to tailor their work to meet the needs of the patient by understanding their needs in ways that may be difficult to discern through ways other than empathic understanding.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-09-20 01:32:06+00:00
Not so much offensive, as utterly puzzling given the information we had on him by Monday night.

Not a fan of Trump or Jimmy, and I don’t think this is a proportional or good response. I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air. I also don’t understand why he left that little dig in his monologue.
by eskogis | 2025-09-20 01:32:26+00:00
Conventional Versioning is a library designed to simplify the versioning of packages, particularly in larger monorepo setups. It uses conventional commits to detect new versions for packages automatically but also supports manual version promotion if needed. As expected, it adheres to semantic versioning (semver).

Read the README in the repository for more information: https://github.com/tscpp/conventional-versioning

I made this simple and straightforward package about a year ago. IMO it's one of the best packages I've created, and it's sad to see that it has flopped completely. Even google doesn't list the package. I thought I would post this to Hacker News to see if I could get some interest in the package, for funzies :)
by gruez | 2025-09-20 01:32:28+00:00
You don't exactly need to be MAGA to think that Kimmel's remarks were incorrect. From the economist:

>After the assassination Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian on abc, suggested erroneously that Kirk had been killed by a maga fan. Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasters, threatened consequences: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Within hours abc took Mr Kimmel off the air indefinitely. Mr Carr then said all broadcasters should ease up on the “progressive foie gras”.

https://archive.is/ze4pD

You can check the other articles in the same issue and see they're not exactly cheerleaders for the Trump administration.

That said, the FTC shouldn't be in the business of strongarming critics, even if they're wrong.
by halfcat | 2025-09-20 01:32:33+00:00
You seem good at using the tools of data. Stick to that. We need more people like you. Don’t let clever phrasing dim your shine.

Hanlon’s razor is in that group of things the expert class is supposed to say so the expert class doesn’t use the tools of data on their masters and attempt to convict them. Along with Occam’s razor, correlation does not imply causation, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, data is not the plural of anecdote, let’s agree to disagree, no one can beat the market, and so on.

These all throw out the baby (Iran-Contra, etc) with the bath water (flat earth, etc), tend toward curbing scrutiny, and let someone off the hook. All of these sayings are worth considering, and red flags, at the same time.
by rohannih | 2025-09-20 01:33:30+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I had hoped that the saved feature would help alleviate that concern a little bit. You save posts from your feed that seem interesting to you, so that way when your ready to consume long-form content you can just navigate to your saved. Otherwise, if you don't have as much time you could scroll on the feed and save things for later. But I get what you're saying and will definitely think about how I can improve there.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-20 01:33:46+00:00
All statements following this disclaimer are unedited reproductions authored by yourself in this thread.

> There's no such thing as "compliant" in this context, you totally made that up which reinforces this is beyond your scope of experience.

What an unnecessarily hostile take.

I see accusations and statements, not questions and discovery. Folks seem too busy grabbing their pitchfork to engage in an honest conversation on shitty enterprise sales tactics.

> There's no covenant or other legal obligation they have to be compliant with other than internal systems and controls ...

So in other words you've never worked at a large org, or been in a leadership position over hundreds of people.

> This was a process error that you and others have decided to make into something it isn't.

There's probably been no less than ~6 executives that have been responsible for sales operations in that time frame, and that the sales process has been revamped and changes to how revenue is generated just as many times.

"Slack" didn't do anything.