MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-20 02:02:28+00:00
> We’re near 2 generations of flat real income for the vast majority of Americans.

No, we aren't! We have statistics on this (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N). Median real income is up substantially since 40-50 years ago, depending on what you count as a generation. And we have stories and records of what life was like in the 1970s, when 80% of households had to hand wash dishes and 50% had to line-dry clothes. The reason people believe living standards haven't risen since their grandparents' day is that they get false nostalgia bait depictions of how a typical person lived in their grandparents' day.

(What is true, and what I'm sure contributes to the power of the nostalgia bait, is that real income stagnated with the dot-com bubble and didn't hit a sustained rise again until the mid-late 2010s.)
by keeda | 2025-09-20 02:02:31+00:00
Looking at it solely from a perspective of competition between labor glosses over the fact that insufficient labor is also bad for the economy because it keeps companies from growing and hiring more people.

So sure, while the fewer jobs that they can fill could have higher wages (not a given, because lack of labor can stunt or kill companies) there could be much fewer people employed overall, which is clearly bad overall.

Of course, that assumes there is enough room for companies to grow. There are strong indications (e.g. the various labor and unemployment surveys) that this is the case in the US. In fact, there is a credible theory that the reason the US managed the inflation crisis so well was due to the immigration crisis.

I elaborated more (along with a couple of relevant studies) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308311
by gnulinux996 | 2025-09-20 02:02:36+00:00
Oh now they care about teachers, firefighters, cops and puppies? Is that what this H1B is about?

> American workers have one of the richest standards of living in the world.

What are you even talking about? Being able to hold more tokens that can buyback the products of the asset class does not make for a "rich standard of living".

Having to run gofundme's for medical care is not "rich standard of living". Them trembling on every unscheduled meeting with their boss is not "rich standard of living"

The American workers' existence is sad.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-20 02:02:40+00:00
That’s the trick with capacity planning around cancellation. You can always deprioritize it because any improvement increases the speed with which revenue decreases (not valuable to the business) and customer satisfaction with this flow generally doesn’t matter since you’re losing their business. The only negative risk factor is CC chargebacks which will cost you some money but at scale most people generally don’t deal with that hassle vs just trying to cancel a few times.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-09-20 02:02:50+00:00
> H-1B visa holders are REQUIRED to leave the country to renew their visas every few years

This part is not exactly true. You can renew H1B indefinitely within the USA(every 3 years, need a pending Green card application from the 2nd extension onwards i.e after 6 years). However, if you leave the US for any reason you won't be able to re-enter the USA without a renewed visa stamp from a US embassy. The two exceptions are that you can visit Canada or Mexico for less than 30 days without triggering the visa stamp requirement.
by raron | 2025-09-20 02:03:24+00:00
> since if the "main" kernel crashes or is supposed to get upgraded then you have to hand hardware back to it.

Isn't that similar to starting up from hibernate to disk? Basically all of your peripherals are powered off and so probably can not keep their state.

Also you can actually stop a disk (member of a RAID device), remove the PCIe-SATA HBA card it is attached to, replace it with a different one, connect all back together without any user-space application noticing it.
by da_chicken | 2025-09-20 02:03:41+00:00
That's true, but it's seldom going to be the case that the account cancellation portion of the app is all on it's own. It's going to be built into the rest of the application, including the parts your happy customers are actually paying for. You're taking down a lot of the site.

And I don't know about others, but the one thing that's sure to make me cancel and never return is when a business tries to be a jerk about subscribers. I know one subscription service that when you try to cancel will instead ask you to pause. Except when you pause, the site will make the buttons to complete a sale begin disabled. Then 10 to 15 seconds later, the button enables. It only does this so that they can show you a request to resume your subscription. Nope. I immediately went and fully cancelled, and I haven't been back. I only intended to pause for a short time because I was unable to use the service at all for several weeks. Instead because they wanted to grasp onto every customer too tightly, and they lost me for good. They didn't respect me, so I don't want their product anymore.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-09-20 02:03:44+00:00
> What Kimmel Said, and the affiliates broadcasted, was a claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a “maga” supporter.

This is the actual quote:

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,"

Note that he doesn't say that the shooter was MAGA, only that those within the right wing influencer sphere were desperately trying to characterize the shooter as anything other than one of them. This is unambiguously and factually true.

I swear, media literacy in the united states is in the fucking toilet.
by Froztnova | 2025-09-20 02:04:17+00:00
So let's have a thought experiment. We can agree, even if the US primary education system is crap, that the university system is world class. After all, people wouldn't come from other countries to study abroad in the US if it were not competitive.

So our CS graduates take the same courses, study the same material, and pass on the same grading scales as these international students from countries like China, India, etc that have come to attend American universities. Therefore it seems unlikely that they are categorically incompetent due to a flaw in their education, even if we make some allowance for them not studying as rigorously as their international peers for whatever reason.

However, if the news can be believed, we're now seeing a significant number of CS graduates who are unable to find employment. This is coming on the tail end of a bunch of highly publicized layoffs.

The notion that there "Aren't Americans to do these jobs" just doesn't track. I'm sure that there are lots of corporate executives who are saying that there aren't enough qualified Americans to do these jobs, but they're saying that because it's in their best economic interest to say that, not because it's actually true.
by robbiep | 2025-09-20 02:04:37+00:00
Have a read (rather than guessing) - it’s fascinating! Your other reply has a good insight but on more of a related topic but the primary reason this exists is for error correction. So approx one third of single nucleotide mutations have no change on the expression of the DNA or protein. And some of those that do change the amino acid are actually conservative; ie changing a basic amino acid to another basic amino acid which may still end up folding in the same way
by djohnston | 2025-09-20 02:04:40+00:00
Yes, scam. Scam. India. Scam. India. You’ve never heard of these two together? Google is your friend. Diploma mills, good old fashioned racial discrimination, hiding job listings in obscure outlets to avoid domestic applicants, man they are truly talented in this endeavour. Maybe if they put so much muscle into improving the home country everyone would be better off.
by chrisweekly | 2025-09-20 02:05:02+00:00
No. "Always downloading random code and hoping" is not the only option. Even w/ the supply-chain shitshow that the public npmjs registry has become, using pnpm and a private registry makes it possible to leverage a frozen lockfile that represents the entire dependency graph and supports vulnerability-free reproducible builds.

EDIT to add: Of course, reaching a state where the whole graph is free of CVEs is a fleeting state of affairs. Staying reasonably up-to-date and using only scanned dependencies is an ongoing process that takes more effort and attention to detail than many projects are willing or able to apply; but it is possible.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-20 02:06:03+00:00
And you are arguing that citizens should be deprived the right to vote. Wouldn't common sense suggest that the current requirements are working, especially given that the guy who ostensibly got the election "stolen" from him got elected again? Where is the threat that demands tightening the requirements?

You are, of course, also welcome to leave the conversation if you feel it unproductive. It's neat how we are free to choose.
by ummonk | 2025-09-20 02:06:13+00:00
He never said he was a MAGA supporter but that he was being claimed to be not “one of them”. Given that the shooter came from a conservative family in a conservative town and attended trade school and spent his time gaming, I think it’s reasonable to say that he was a product of the right wing milieu, and not a product of left wing indoctrination as the right alleges.
by chowells | 2025-09-20 02:06:27+00:00
Turing completeness is irrelevant, as it only addresses computation. Security has to do with system access, not computational capacity. Brainfuck is Turing complete, but lacks any primitives to do more than read from a single input stream and write to a single output stream. Unless someone hooks those streams up to critical files, you can't use it to attack a system.

Language design actually has a lot of impact on security, because it defines what primitives you have available for interacting with the system. Do you have an arbitrary syscall primitive? Then the language is not going to help you write secure software. Is your only ability to interact with the system via capability objects that must be provided externally to authorize your access? Then you're probably using a language that put a lot of thought into security and will help out quite a lot.
by 0xWTF | 2025-09-20 02:06:28+00:00
I was about to ridicule this, but then I thought about it. My wife is in a skilled trade in SV, and that actually sounds about right. She has nothing to do with software, but probably earns, dollar/hour, about the same as a mid-tier L6 SWE at Google. I do R&D program management, government though, so the conversion to quality of life is kinda weird. Most people would see our house and assume I'm a director.
by keeda | 2025-09-20 02:06:48+00:00
Crossposting from elsewhere:

Looking at it solely from a perspective of competition between labor glosses over the fact that insufficient labor is also bad because it keeps companies from growing and hiring more people.

So sure, while the fewer jobs that they can fill could have higher wages (not a given, because lack of labor can stunt or kill companies) there could be much fewer people employed overall, which is clearly bad overall.

Of course, that assumes there is enough room for companies to grow. There are strong indications (e.g. the various labor and unemployment surveys) that this is the case in the US. In fact, there is a credible theory that the reason the US managed the inflation crisis so well was due to the immigration crisis.

I elaborated more here (along with a couple of relevant empirical studies about how H1B actually impacted employment and wages of native workers): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308311
by TonyPeakman | 2025-09-20 02:06:57+00:00
Thanks a lot for the detailed suggestions — this is super helpful.

You’re right that symbols like +//@ aren’t valid in XML/XHTML, and the original idea was just to keep things as short and stackable as possible. But I see the value in a more standard, semantic form like lifecycle.load, control.value, event.click, meta.raw. It’s clearer, easier to search, and plays nicely with stricter environments.

I’m leaning toward offering both: the current short symbols for quick prototyping, and a more verbose but standard form (potentially with dg- or dot-namespaced attributes) for projects that need stronger compatibility. Your idea of aligning the names with the terminology we already use makes a lot of sense.

And thanks for pointing out the router example — you’re right, the docs only show the “all options” version. I’ll add a minimalist example alongside it so people can see the simple path too.

Appreciate the thoughtful feedback — this gives me a clear direction for making dagger.js easier to use while staying standards-compliant.
by silverquiet | 2025-09-20 02:07:36+00:00
I recently heard on a podcast where one of the guests recounted what his father used to say about the employees making cash-handling mistakes in the small store he owned. It was something like, "if it was merely incompetence, you'd think half of the errors would be in my favor."

It probably is a glitch in this case, but it's hard not to see the dark patterns once you've learned about them.
by lxe | 2025-09-20 02:07:57+00:00
"nostr is a simple distributed protocol to build internet applications for social networking, communication and media.

It requires lightweight relay servers, as opposed to large federated servers like in mastodon or email, or fully p2p like scuttlebutt.

It can be used to some extent via a browser using web clients, but it's best used alongside extensions for authentication and key management"

That is what I'm looking for. I'm not sure it's a good description, but I wish something like this was front and center
by flutas | 2025-09-20 02:07:57+00:00
> fcc licensed stations

Think your local K[3 letter] west of the Mississippi, W[3 letter] east of the Mississippi*.

Not "Showtime" or "HBO" or "Cartoon Network" or "CNN" or "Fox News" or "MSNBC".

That's why the affiliates started pulling it, because their license is what's on the line, not ABC/Disney directly.

*: Except for KDKA, KYW, WFAA, WBAP, WOAI, WDAY, and WNAX.
by adrr | 2025-09-20 02:08:03+00:00
I wonder how much money Disney is going to lose off the cancellations for all of Disney’s streaming. Let say it’s 10%, that’s $2.4b. Linear revenue which includes cable and broadcast is only $2.7b. So even if Trump pulls their broadcast license, they’ll lose more money from this boycott not including boycotts of their movies and theme parks.
by vkou | 2025-09-20 02:08:29+00:00
Let's turn this around - would the US win if young, skilled people were net-leaving it?

Imagine spending 25 years raising, educating, feeding, and clothing a person, investing over a million dollars of money and labour in them, and then they just pack their bags and leave.

Educated, skilled, young immigrants are a colossal gift to the host country, and a crippling debit on the welfare and prosperity of the country they have left.

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Anyone who has ever given it more than thirty seconds of thought knows that countries become wealthy when people living in them work - and make stuff. So what do you do to improve a country's prosperity?

Obviously, in backwards-logic, you start raising barriers to people who want to do useful work in it.

(Because dealing with the systemic issues that have resulted in the country becoming prosperous not being correlated with the plurality of people in it not becoming prosperous would upset wealthy people who don't actually build anything.)
by throwaway89201 | 2025-09-20 02:08:38+00:00
> This is actually smart.

The policy topic is irrelevant. This is not normal reform. Looking from the outside, the United States is clearly democratically backsliding and is imposing decree upon decree of emergency measures, without a functioning parliament, with a sand-in-wheels judiciary, along with an enormous cult of personality, without any empathy towards the victims of sudden policy changes and black-bag jobs.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-20 02:09:16+00:00
"My wife wants to go for dinner but I'd like to eat anything other than fish."

Strongly implies the wife in the sentence wants to eat fish.

Anyone with a moderate grasp of English understands what Kimmel was implying.

"Trying to characterize him as anything other than one of them". <- The implication is definitely that he's "one of them".
by crote | 2025-09-20 02:09:36+00:00
The problem is that everything is political: if politics don't impact you, you are living a very privileged life.

On the one hand, I do agree that endless debating over relatively minor ideological differences is pointless, and only going to lead to time-wasting and resentment. I certainly have the same desire for some peace and quiet, and being able to focus solely on my work.

On the other hand, we live in a society where questions like "am I allowed to use the office bathroom" have been made political, and where your coworkers are genuinely worried about whether they'll get arrested and deported from the country for no reason whatsoever during next week's sprint planning. Their issues are real and by definition require the business as an entity to respond to political developments.

You might have the luxury of putting your head in the sand and pretending they don't exist, but that's not going to magically solve your coworkers' problems. Unless the company wants to restrict its hiring to the absolutely minuscule group of people who will never be impacted by politics, it'll have to engage in some level of political discussion.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 02:10:07+00:00
> During last century, USA has been the most benefited from that kind of immigration

This is inaccurate. The U.S. had a highly restrictionist immigration system from 1921-1965. The foreign born population dropped from almost 15% to under 5% by 1970.

During that time, the U.S. had a small number of highly skilled immigrants, such as German scientists fleeing the Nazi regime. You’re talking about a very small number of truly exceptional people. A $100k/year fee is not going to shut down this kind of immigration.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-20 02:12:09+00:00
I really don’t understand this argument that he wasn’t popular as if that’s at all relevant. Aside from the cost of putting the legion of attorneys protecting a show that’s not bringing enough revenue and the fact, there’s a broader risk with the Nexstar merger that requires explicit government approval that the FCC also threatened.

More importantly, his viewership didn’t suddenly change and the cancellation came about pretty clearly as a result of the FCC threat and not any business decision the company would have made otherwise. Not a lawyer but I would think that Kimmel has a 1a lawsuit he could bring against DIS and the government.
by shagie | 2025-09-20 02:12:20+00:00
That classification already exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B-dependent_employer

... and is done for these employers already (though not to the level that is being proposed)

Public Law 114-113 (December 2015 to September 2025) : additional fee of $4000 Public Law 114–113, part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, imposed a fee of $4,000 on H-1B petitions and $4,500 on L-1A and L-1B petitions. The additional H-1B fees would apply to all petitions postmarked on or after December 18, 2015, and until September 30, 2025.
by Meekro | 2025-09-20 02:12:49+00:00
The "extra-legally" part is not at all clear. When this goes to court (and I'm sure it will), the administration's argument will probably go something like this: Congress has authorized the administration to issue visas to people of "exceptional ability in business" -- see 8 U.S.C. § 1153(b)(2), for example. However, Congress did not specify how, exactly, the executive will ascertain that ability. The Trump administration believes that making a one million dollar investment in the U.S. demonstrates evidence of business ability, and is using this as a factor for issuing and prioritizing visas.
by Fordec | 2025-09-20 02:13:02+00:00
There's a logically fallacy in there. Throwing up border walls does not stop capital. Capital can still exist outside the borders and work with the supply chains of the other countries minus 1. And pick an inflow metric that capital cares, and the US does not control more than 50% of it. number of consumers, GDP, income growth, all of it. The capital will continue to service the bigger number that remains offshore through cutting the US out of that pie reciprocally.

The US as a feature of it geography and population (Japan, UK and the Philippines) can choose isolationism as a policy. But the rest don't have it as an option due to direct contact to neighbors or economics too small to sustain. Most of the world will not follow the on-shoring path, because they cannot.
by ummonk | 2025-09-20 02:13:06+00:00
Are you asserting that he followed left wing influencers or read left wing books or attended left wing classes or somehow got his indoctrination from left wing sources?

There isn’t any evidence of that - there is only evidence that he hated the right wing (and to the contrary there is obvious evidence he came from a right wing milieu - just take a look at his parents). Simply hating a side doesn’t mean you have been indoctrinated by the other side - just look at people who left fundamentalist religious sects.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-20 02:13:47+00:00
Yeah, we definitely will have Android.

Almost everyone on our team is on Android, but we wanted to iterate on the platform that most users are on and focus on getting that experience right.

Sales will somewhat depend on when we bring on someone to pick up the Android front-end.

We're a really small team, and with hardware, firmware, services, and apps, the engineering footprint becomes quite large.

What often doesn't get factored in is manufacturing test rigs, plus we have software to support clinical research.

I'm not complaining about it, but holding off on Android seemed to be the right move, as we can't remove any of the other functions. We've had quite a few requests for Android.
by lovelearning | 2025-09-20 02:13:50+00:00
The problem with "Hanlon's Razor" is that everything can be explained by incompetence by making suitable assumptions. It outright denies the possibility of malice and pretends as if malice is rare. Basically, a call to always give the benefit of the doubt to every person or participant's moral character without any analysis whatsoever of their track record.

Robert Hanlon himself doesn't seem to be notable in any area of rationalist or scientific philosophy. The most I could find about him online is that he allegedly wrote a joke book related to Murphy's laws. Over time, it appears this obscure statement from that book was appended with Razor and it gained respectability as some kind of a rationalist axiom. Nowhere is it explained why this Razor needs to be an axiom. It doesn't encourage the need to reason, examine any evidence, or examine any probabilities. Bayesian reasoning? Priors? What the hell are those? Just say "Hanlon's Razor" and nothing more needs to be said. Nothing needs to be examined.

The FS blog also cops out on this lazy shortcut by saying this:

> The default is to assume no malice and forgive everything. But if malice is confirmed, be ruthless.

No conditions. No examination of data. Just an absolute assumption of no malice. How can malice ever be confirmed in most cases? Malicious people don't explain all their deeds so we can "be ruthless."

We live in a probabilistic world but this Razor blindly says always assume the probability of malice is zero, until using some magical leap of reasoning that must not involve assuming any malice whatsoever anywhere in the chain of reasoning (because Hanlon's Razor!), this probability of malice magically jumps to one, after which we must "become ruthless." I find it all quite silly.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

https://fs.blog/mental-model-hanlons-razor/