MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-09-20 02:26:02+00:00
I agree. It seems to be an all too common example of both: 1. lack of nuance in thought (i.e. either assume good intentions or assume malice, not some probability of either, or a scale of malice) 2. the overwhelming prevalence of bad faith arguments, most commonly picking the worst possible argument feasibly with someone's words.

In this case instead of a possibility of it being a small act of opportunity (like mentioned above of just dragging feet) not premeditated, alternatives are never mentioned but instead just assumed folks are talking about some higher up conspiracy and on top of that that must be what these people are always doing.

Anyway thank you for your point it is an interesting read :)
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-09-20 02:26:49+00:00
> I find it hard to take that threat seriously.

Based on everything that has gone one that seems to me at least very naive. There was practically a textbook length document outlining what the administrstion planned to do if they got in power and they are going step by step through it.

The president said there are 4 comedians (who make fun of him) that he wants to get off the air. After this event he posted something along the lines of "2 down, 2 to go." Followed by "Why don't you just force the other two out now?".

There was nothing wrong about what was said - they just already have a plan and pick any small item to claim is the cause.

For example they want to defund left leaning non profits and think tanks. They don't have a reason to. But now they are trying to claim they motivated the Kirk killing - not because they think it did, but because it's what is already their plan.

People still thinking they are being objectives or that there are "norms" left, in my opinion haven't been paying attention.
by dgacmu | 2025-09-20 02:28:25+00:00
I cancelled on Wednesday night. We probably haven't watched anything on Disney+for two or three weeks; the value was getting lower over time (possibly because we've watched a lot of what we wanted to).

Had it not been for this event, I'd have probably just let the subscription hang around indefinitely (or until some big price increase caused me to reevaluate it), but as you note, it's going to be a struggle to get me back --- not because of the politics involved, but because the politics got me over the "eh, can't be bothered" hump to evaluate the value I was getting and it came up kinda marginal compared to when I first signed up.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-20 02:28:46+00:00
Come, come, my good sir! We all know that none of this matters at all, because if appealed up to the Supreme Court, they always rule in favor of President Trump. With all due respect, that's what matters in the case of President Trump, the Supreme Court will let him do anything. It doesn't matter what thin veneer of law is applied.
by Fordec | 2025-09-20 02:30:27+00:00
Who, funnily enough, will probably be the largest impacted by such things as locking down H1Bs.

Old and still accessible beats inaccessible. BTW the source of the USAs demographic resistance to aging has been the sheer fact it was that immigration melting pot of bringing in young talent to offset its local aging population. A few decades of this path and the US can be just as dismissed as Japan who have taken this path decades in advance.
by bmitc | 2025-09-20 02:30:46+00:00
> This is actually smart.

Do you personally know any H-1B visa holders? I can only assume that by your comment that you do not. The ones who play by the system have their entire livelihood and home held over their head while under an H-1B visa.

Punish the companies and staffing firms abusing the H-1B visas instead of creating a blanket, anti-immigration policy that will only bolster those abusing the H1-B visa, because those already abusing are the ones who have the funds to pay this fee. Companies who do things legitimately will not be able to easily absorb this fee.

I will lose friends and colleagues because of this imposed fee. This will kick out all the good people we actually want working in this country. This will further reduce good people wanting to come to this country.
by epistasis | 2025-09-20 02:30:57+00:00
Saying that they blinked seems to be an admission that it was a threat with impact, no?

What is there to blink about if it was not a threat?

If I walk up to someone with a gun and wave the gun around and demand they give me their money or I'll shoot them, it does not matter if I was "serious" or not about the threat. If I tell a jury that I wouldn't have actually ever have shot the person, and that they just decided to give me their money because they didn't really need it so much, I'm not sure any jury would agree, unless I was a hell of a salesman.
by hliyan | 2025-09-20 02:31:54+00:00
We need to return to a world where we primarily own things, not rent them. If the software executable can be thought of as a machine, we should be able to own the version/instance of it we purchased the license for. We may not own the intellectual property, but we should have enough ownership to install it on a personal cloud computer we own and run it until such time we need to upgrade it.
by defrost | 2025-09-20 02:32:08+00:00
> technically true but ambiguous

which has been the backbone of satirical and scathing social and political commentary in the western world for 50 years at least.

The Daily Show, The -s30e102- 2025-09-18 Maria Ressa episode with Jon Stewart's monologue and interview went another way, "rolling over" completely into total Trump submission followed by drawing direct comparisons to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte popularist seizing of control of government.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ressa

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-20 02:32:27+00:00
I do! This dynamic drives it as well. A lot of people on social media are passionately convinced that "Trump can do whatever he wants" is the anti-Trump position and "Trump's power is still limited in many ways" is therefore a pro-Trump position. I never know how to engage with that perspective other than to say it doesn't sound right to me. If you're an anti-Trump person trying to figure out how to stop him from doing bad things, it seems pretty important to know that lawsuits are a useful component.
by psidium | 2025-09-20 02:32:46+00:00
I’m not not a lawyer at all and I have no real idea. My guess is that existing visas are already printed and henceforth there is no petition anymore, you have a status or visa already. Since the old petition didn’t require the payment, you don’t need to show proof of payment now. But lol if I actually know how this works, can be anyone’s guess.

My guess is that if this goes forward new h1b visas petitioned while the worker is outside the US will have a line saying “must show proof of payment” or something like that, while petitions while in the US won’t have that line on their visa stamp
by mcapodici | 2025-09-20 02:33:24+00:00
The way you worded tbat is good and got me thinking.

What if instead of just lots of text fed to an LLM we have a data structure with trusted and untrusted data.

Any response on a call to a web search or MCP is considered untrusted by default (tunable if you also wrote the MCP and trust it).

The you limit tbe operations on untrusted data to pure transformations, no side effects.

E.g. run an LLM to summarize, or remove whitespace, convert to float etc. All these done in a sandbox without network access.

For example:

"Get me all public github issues on this repo, summarise and store in this DB."

Although the command reads public information untrusted and has DB access it will only process the untrusted information in a tight sandbox and so this can be done securely. I think!
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-20 02:34:03+00:00
All countries will end up like Japan, it’s just time (explained in the links I cited). Some countries are likely willing to eat some economic gains out of other preferences. That’s a choice. It’s not all “line goes up.”

India’s total fertility rate is already 1.9, below 2.1 replacement rate. Its demographic dividend (and any potential capital investment opportunities) is already on borrowed time. So capital would rotate and reallocate there, while there is still time, regardless.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/dont-panic-over-falli...
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 02:34:19+00:00
It sounds like Steam offered a great opportunity to be highlighted across the platform after recognizing a mistake in their system.

The author(s) have an opportunity now to showcase their decade of work and instead choose to post a wall of text complaining on reddit.

If I had the chance for a no-cost promotional spotlight for my passion project that would put many times more eyeballs on my game than my little wishlist would have, I'd be working around the clock to come up with the best way to capitalize on this really unusual situation.

But I guess complaining on reddit is an option, too.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-20 02:34:59+00:00
I think it’s difficult to study this sort of thing because people and behavior is so different. I lost someone dear to me to melanoma and one of the things we learned was that a single blistering sunburn as a child increases cancer risk significantly. So small variations have big impacts.

I’d love to see a study where people wear a meter to sample exposure. My mom was an avid gardener who never wore sunscreen - she dressed appropriately with a hat.
by nelox | 2025-09-20 02:35:22+00:00
Yes, dubious indeed.

How about looking at descendants of fair-skinned Britains in sunnier climes?

Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world. This is due to a combination of factors: very high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, outdoor lifestyles, and a largely fair-skinned population that is more vulnerable to sun damage. Rates of both melanoma (the deadliest form of skin cancer) and non-melanoma skin cancers are higher in Australia than anywhere else. New Zealand follows closely behind.
by strcat | 2025-09-20 02:36:18+00:00
No, it's not wrong. Their OS objectively does not provide firmware updates and they've blocked updating SoC firmware. The section you've linked acknowledges that they're blocking updating firmware for the SoC. It states they are not going out of the way to block it for external components due to lack of clarity, but their OS is still not providing it. Outside of the SoC, some of their components are end-of-life without updates available and others are not. Some are set up so that they can receive updates and others aren't. Crucially, there aren't cellular radio firmware updates.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-20 02:36:19+00:00
>You can use a condom.

Sure. Now. But monogamy and polygyny are a little older than condoms.

>Metamours [...] polycule

You're answering rhetorical questions which, incidentally, are not about terminology, but about legal and social mechanics. Knowing what a "metamour" is, says nothing about what the formal and informal responsibilities of the parties involved are or should be with respect to each other. My whole point is that not having to define such relationships and their expectations is a reason to forbid them culturally.

>You write a will.

How did that work before most people knew how to write?

>By the way, inheritance laws are messy already as they are.

That's not an argument in favor of legally legitimizing polycules.

>the reason is to reinforce division and oppression

I mean, I gave several reasons why historically either monogamy or asymmetric polygamy would have been preferred over symmetric polygamy, that have nothing to do with oppression.

>I'd wager that an entire society built on top of that would have no lesser chance at thriving than the one we've been born into.

Sure, maybe. Personally, I'm more of the opinion that cultural features are memetic, and that memes are not uniformly successfully propagated. If monogamous and polygynous societies are more common than polyandrous and polycular societies, it's probably for a reason.
by rgovostes | 2025-09-20 02:36:46+00:00
This is brutal.

It seems to me the Liquid Glass transition for Mac is a sacrifice for visionOS. Today, you can run iOS apps on an Apple Vision Pro, or create a virtual Mac display, but these are lesser spatial experiences: You still use a trackpad when interacting with Mac apps in Vision Pro, and you can't position their windows freely in space.

In Tahoe, hit targets are huge — toolbar buttons are 5,000 square pixels, ridiculous when using a precision pointer but maybe appropriate for eye tracking. Translucent materials make slightly more sense in augmented reality than a 2D desktop environment where no one ever complained about a lack of depth (before Apple went ultra flat and minimalist, anyway).

So despite to the apparent dud of the Apple Vision Pro as a consumer product, I doubt Apple would aggressively push a design "inspired by the depth and dimensionality of visionOS" a year and a half later without a strong reason. The recent Meta Ray-Ban Display shows the category is reaching a viable size and weight. I predict will soon see whether Apple's design gambit for spatial computing pays off or if they start to roll back towards a pointer-first UI on the Mac.
by K0balt | 2025-09-20 02:38:06+00:00
“Seasonal need” to work from June to December, then another “season” from January to June lol. They would be on a 6on,6 off rotation, staggered with their replacements. I do recall though that there was a huge local hiring spree a few years back, so maybe they got audited.

The problem (for them) is that pay scales (and cost of living) in that area are above average. A friend of my son got a job there about 8 years ago and it paid about 63k plus benefits, whereas the average home depot employee makes about 32k. No idea what it’s like post COVID.
by bitsage | 2025-09-20 02:38:13+00:00
Immigration has always bolstered the American tech industry, but the bulk of the industry has always been American. Just look at the distinguished members of Bell Labs. Many are immigrants, but most are American. The reason why immigrants come here is that American industry is already very strong. It’s not mutually exclusive to claim that Americans build a strong tech industry and that skilled immigrants have invented many new technologies here in America.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-09-20 02:38:27+00:00
It's more that ABC/Disney is beholden to two right-leaning broadcasters who are colluding with threats to assist in their prohibited merger that will be approved now because they just gave the felon a successful hand job. There is no indication that the ABC execs are anything more than spineless, unprincipled cowards who cave in a light breeze.
by estebarb | 2025-09-20 02:38:28+00:00
Between 1921 and 1965, about 9.6 million people were admitted as lawful permanent residents. That's not what I'd call a "very small" or "highly restricted" inflow.

Source: DHS Yearbook, https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2019/table1...
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 02:38:28+00:00
What am I missing?

"She handed over ... $46,700 to a family member to build a small guest apartment in their backyard. The plan was to live there for the rest of her life, free from the stresses of an unaffordable rental market, and then leave the apartment to her family. Instead, the arrangement collapsed within a year. The unit was unfinished — with no kitchen or functioning laundry — forcing her to rely on the house."

In what recent decade could anyone even dream of $46,700 USD being enough for a quickly-built, furnished apartment to be built in a backyard with working laundry?

This sounds like it fell apart because it was never going to work and was an attempt by a family member to help an aged person who was in a bind of their own making via lack of planning.

Seems the article could make a better impact if it had some better examples of the issue. As presented, it sounds like "Nurse Joan" should have planned for retirement.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-20 02:38:47+00:00
What doesn't affect fitness, or has relatively little cost, can and does propagate over time. By definition, nothing is selecting against them.

Similarly, beneficial and complex traits, like eyes, can "regress" if nothing selects against that trait. Plenty of species have lost their sight, making them less generally fit for many environments, because in a certain place and time those species could reproduce even without perfect vision, or just as the result of genetic drift.
by XenophileJKO | 2025-09-20 02:39:24+00:00
I'm fairly convinced that with the right training.. the ability of the LLM to be "skeptical" and resilient to these kinds of attacks will be pretty robust.

The current problem is that making the models resistant to "persona" injection is in opposition to much of how the models are also used conversationally. I think this is why you'll end up with hardened "agent" models and then more open conversational models.

I suppose it is also possible that the models can have an additional non-prompt context applied that sets expectations, but that requires new architecture for those inputs.
by dmbche | 2025-09-20 02:39:57+00:00
"Patients with amnestic MCI—who have memory loss as their main symptom and are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared to people with non-amnestic MCI—had lower responses to the test, reports the Guardian’s Ian Sample. It can’t directly predict who will develop Alzheimer’s, but it does identify who could be at a higher risk."

It's correlated eith amnestic MCI, ehich itself correlated with higher risk of alzheimers(edit0:typo) (that's what I'm reading from the begining of the paragraph you quoted)
by 15155 | 2025-09-20 02:40:03+00:00
Totally dodging the issue. You claimed "white supremacist" was an accurate title, cited Nazis who invaded other countries and eradicated the local culture/population/racial groups without assimilating (eerily similar to mass immigration), and then immediately moved the goalposts when it was illustrated how ignorant such a statement could be.

> who isn't American?

Is this a trick question? People who were not born in America are clearly not American, save for naturalized citizens and a handful of other caveats. If you were born in Iceland, Greenland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark (just picking some traditionally/predominantly-white countries to really drive it home) and are not the child of a diplomat or even a citizen: you are not American.

Seriously: do you believe you are Japanese? If you actually are Japanese, do you think you're Peruvian, too? Are you also a Liechtensteiner? People are citizens of specific nations, believe it or not - this is not some new, misunderstood concept.

> means other than to exclude some group

Why is it a foregone conclusion that exclusion is automatically unjust?

Are countries not permitted to exclude people? Again: this is not based on race. Does one have an automatic right to immigrate wherever they please?
by charlangas | 2025-09-20 02:40:57+00:00
Reminds me of the Ambystoma salamanders that reproduce via kleptogenesis. They are all female, and they "steal" sperm from males of 3 or 4 related species. Most of the time they discard the male's genetic material, but sometimes they incorporate it, which results in embryos that have multiple sets of chromosomes. It's wild. The offspring can contain genetic material from up to 4 different parental species.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-20 02:41:49+00:00
With Vim and the terminal can I set conditional breakpoints, watches, and back in the day when I did bit twiddling in C, debug stack corruption and look at the assembly that the compiler was creating first each line? With JetBrsins ReSharper using Visual Studio, there are hundreds of guaranteed safe project wide refactoring you can do [1] and a lot of various boiler plate code it can autogenerate.

Not to mention the dark days of Window GUI development. How exactly is Vim better than a modern IDE?

[1] Yes I know all bets are off when you are using reflection.
by liquid_thyme | 2025-09-20 02:43:03+00:00
Great, so if they're as obviously bad as you claim, then it should be easy to weed them out for any competent HR department. And if the HR department isn't competent, the company is going to fold. Either way, problem solved.

You felt it appropriate to jump on your little throne and pass judgement on large groups of people, but cried ad-hominem when I slightly criticized you. Sensitive much?
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-20 02:43:31+00:00
> Anyone can say anything.

Not as the federal government, because it explicitly lacks the freedom of speech citizens are ensured by the Constitution.

And absent a first amendment claim, the best defense they can come up with would be 'We were joking.'

Which, given the well-cited history of coercion by this administration (both in verbalized plans and actions), would be a hard defense to make.
by nwienert | 2025-09-20 02:44:27+00:00
The question is more are you irreplaceable - is there no way an American could do your job even if they may need more training?

We pay taxes, we compete for limited schools and jobs, yet far more people want to come here than leave. Americans have become a lot less wealthy the last 40 years relatively thanks to stagnant wages and skyrocketing prices.

The last thing we need is an unlimited supply of competition that only moves in one direction. Average H1B salary is like 60k, rich companies like MS are employing thousands of IT workers. These are jobs that anyone here could do with a 1-2 year online technical degree.
by martin-t | 2025-09-20 02:44:27+00:00
> They've since admitted this was a mistake

Don't anthropomorphize organizations. It was no longer beneficial for them to openly fight open source so instead the people in charge decided they needed to get developer mindshare by changing their public signaling. The sad thing is many people fell for it. They can just as easily switch back at any time when it becomes beneficial.

BTW, the phrasing "Microsoft has embraced open source" is very ironic and given my previous paragraph, it is a nice foreshadowing or what can come next at any time.

> Are you claiming Microsoft/GitHub used or sold private source code for training LLMs?

I have not seen it denied in any official communication. After skimming this question[0], nobody else could either and the phrasing in their FAQ is oddly specific about Business and Enterprise. So yes, given their patterns of behavior, it's very likely and I will consider it true until proven otherwise.

But that's not the biggest issue. That is that every LLM or LLM-adjacent company (Microsoft included) seems to suddenly argue that a mechanical transformation of input data is enough to erase licensing and attribution.[1] Free software licenses like GPL simple cannot exist in this environment. In fact, any licenses would have exactly 0 meaning.

See a program you want with a license you don't want? Just run it through a sufficiently complex black box and out the other side you have an identically behaving program which according to big-tech has no relation to the input. You can even do this with closed source software if you run it through a decompiler first.

I recall a MS CEO shouting something about developers when developers were the thing they needed most. Now they can train NNs on the devs' own work to imitate and replace the devs so devs are no longer valuable and get thrown under the bus.

Oh and MS employees are apparently forced to use LLMs by management...

[0]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/135400

[1]: This is a convenient 180° turn after for example people who had ever seen windows source code could not contribute to wine.