MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by almostgotcaught | 2025-09-13 03:40:24+00:00
> This, I cannot believe how all the most pro-workers rights people I know also support "open borders"-like philosophies.

You ever consider that it's because those people are pro-workers everywhere and not just workers nearby? So yes enabling foreign workers to improve their lives by coming here makes perfect sense.

> What do you think is going to happen to your bargaining power as an employee when your employer has an infinite workforce to draw from?

I mean that's like saying "what do you think is gonna happen to your rights once all the slaves are free". The answer hinges on whether we continue to operate under the government that's comfortable with exploiting its citizens.
by andrewdug | 2025-09-13 03:41:21+00:00
Wonderful feedback, thank you. We are a movies only and only on the weekends family as well.

- We log the questions asked in each child account for parents to view in the parent account, but the questions are only logged when they're signed in.

- Regarding giving the answer rather than fostering the process of discovering the answer, this is something we've gone back and forth on. I think we will add a setting for this in the parent's settings for each child account. We've talked to parents who want one or the other, so we will work on adding it as an option to just give them answers right away or have it start those teaching moments.

We appreciate these suggestions, thanks!
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-13 03:42:09+00:00
HN has one particular view, which is to keep increasing density without care for any other factor. But density does change neighborhoods and quality of life in many negative ways, including the example you shared. Someone may get to move into that area at a lower price. But someone else loses what they had. I don’t understand why those who demand lower priced housing are more valid. And too often, the response here is to attack anyone who brings up the negatives of high density living (edit: here come the oh-so-predictable downvotes). I suspect that is partly ideological, and partly due to age skewing younger here. But I wish there was more tolerance for mid-size towns that don’t get density forced on them, but can stay a healthy balanced size because that’s what the locals want to hold onto for their own quality of life.
by redhale | 2025-09-13 03:45:08+00:00
I don't know why people are still eager to spike the ball so quickly after every wave of progress. Things are still moving SO FAST.

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Ok it can complete a line of python, it will never write a full, correct function.

Ok it can write full, correct functions but it will never write full working programs.

Ok it can write full working (disposable) programs but it will never write real, mission-critical (durable) code.
by Eridrus | 2025-09-13 03:45:32+00:00
Constraint solvers are also often not applicable to the real world either.

Many formulations scale in a way that is completely unusable in practice.

Knowing how to get tools like Z3 or Gurobi to solve your problems is it's own skill and one that some companies will hire for, but it's not a general purpose technology you can throw at everything.

This post is the unironic version of "FizzBuzz in TendorFlow", where just because you have a big hammer doesn't mean everything is a nail. And I say that as an enjoyer of bug hammers including SMT solvers.
by macintux | 2025-09-13 03:47:07+00:00
I feel strongly that a string time value with no specified timezone is dangerous.

You have to make certain it is always handled as UTC, and if you export it to another system without making the timezone explicit, or anyone who is unfamiliar with the convention views it, you’ve lost the guarantee.

When you’re shuffling around petabytes of data, adding another few megabytes to include the “Z” at the end of every timestamp is hardly a major expense.
by fulafel | 2025-09-13 03:47:14+00:00
The most interesting slide IMO:

The diaspora Mozilla laid off much of the Rust team in August 2020 - Hacker News discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143819 ~everybody landed at a big tech company Result: Rust knowledge well distributed around industry No one company dominates - In contrast to Java, Swift, Go, C#, Dart Strong sense of collaboration & common mission - You can really feel this at conferences
by AdrianoKF | 2025-09-13 03:47:39+00:00
I've noticed the same when I tried to replace my ultrawide 34" with a Dell U3225QE for my home office the other day. I really wanted to like the Dell since I love the specs, but my head would hurt from the perceived bulge in the middle of the screen, where the curve used to sit farthest before. Stupid brains, really.
by pandaman | 2025-09-13 03:48:04+00:00
As I said, EB-1 does not require rare skills. PERM based EB-2 and 3, though, require that there are no US workers with such skills available so it's highly correlated with skill's rarity. So why and where would I say that the entire EB system is created for people with rare skills?

>> You may be eligible for an employment-based, first-preference visa if you are an alien of extraordinary ability, are an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a certain multinational executive or manager.

Yep, and I am none of this.

>Yet you went for EB2, which is designed for a different set of immigrants where the proof of exceptional ability is a lot more lax

Yep, because EB2 does not require any exceptional ability, just the lack of a US worker available, willing, and able to do the job and a master's degree.
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-09-13 03:48:09+00:00
Sadly, yes, a lot of people want to be entrepreneurs for prestige/wealth. In their imagination they skip ahead to a fantastical ending: being rich and respected.

I find this disturbing. How can someone be useful to others without an idea of what that even means? How can one provide a novel offering without even caring about it? It's an expression of missing craft and bad taste. These aspirations are reactive, not generated by something beautiful (like kindness, or optimism).

Fortunately it is not hopeless; aspiring entrepreneurs can find deeper motivation if they look for it.

(I like to give the following advice: it is easier to first be useful to others and become rich than it is to be rich and then become useful to others. This almost certainly requires sufficient empathy and care to have a hypothesis and be "post-idea".)
by fakedang | 2025-09-13 03:48:45+00:00
> One morning during first period, a male friend of Sam’s mentioned a meme whose suggestive name was an inside joke between the two of them. Sam laughed. A girl at the table overheard their private conversation, misconstrued it as a sexual reference, and reported it as sexual harassment. Sam’s guidance counselor pulled him out of his next class and accused him of “breaking the law.” Before long, he was in the office of a male administrator who informed him that the exchange was “illegal,” hinted that the police were coming, and delivered him into the custody of the school’s resource officer. At the administrator’s instruction, that man ushered Sam into an empty room, handed him a blank sheet of paper, and instructed him to write a “statement of guilt.”

And here my friends is how over liberalism leads to far-rightism.

I would be classified extremely liberal by American standards, yet even I'd be traumatised if something like this were to happen to me even today (and something like this actually did). And even I would find refuge in the far right. Trust me, no one's making lines to find refuge in the left.

Now imagine the effect of such a traumatic encounter on a child.
by nirui | 2025-09-13 03:50:21+00:00
As I grow older, one thing that I've learned is that power won't stop.

One day they ask people to stop disrespect the leader, everyone obeys, then maybe the next day they'll start force people to praise the leader or be executed.

The world is a Tug Of War, your interest against other's. If either side gave up, then the otherside may just come in crushing.
by cootsnuck | 2025-09-13 03:51:18+00:00
...no one thinks it's weird for the supposedly most transformational digital technology ever invented to need manufactured demand?? None of us think it's strange that a startup currently vying for a half a trillion dollar valuation is looking to "pre-idea founders" to help them find PMF??

Would this have been viewed with skepticism if any other startup from like 5+ years ago selling an API did this? If so, then how is it not even worse when a startup that is supposed to be providing access to what is pushed as a technical marvel of a panacea or something does it?

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking crazy pills...

I literally help companies implement AI systems. So I'm not denying there being any value...just...I don't understand how we can say with a straight face that they need to "build and grow demand for their product and API" while the same company was just reported on inking a $300B deal with Oracle for infra...like come on...the demand isn't there yet?!
by lalaland1125 | 2025-09-13 03:52:05+00:00
I think you are incorrectly missing that many larger units (both 3+ bedroom apartments and houses) are currently filled with singles or couples with roommates who would rather live alone in 1 or 2 bedrooms, but can't due to inadequate supply.

Building 1/2 bedrooms would help those people move out, freeing up larger units for families.

> I fear it's just going to enrich the property management class

The property management class benefits most from the current system with no construction and high rents. Building a bunch of 1/2 bedrooms, triggering lower rents, would cause them to lose money.
by fakedang | 2025-09-13 03:53:09+00:00
Yes, and the usual suspects already abuse it to move jobs abroad. If you had observed, it's often multinationals, usually Indian consultancies or companies with Indian Capability Centers, which abuse the H1B. They'll just be forced to switch to the L1.

The key difference here is that the L1 is a non-immigrant visa with a period of 7 years. The H1B isn't.
by lovich | 2025-09-13 03:54:19+00:00
> As I understood, you mean that you want H-1Bs to be able to change jobs, not to hang in the country unemployed?

No explicitly not that. I want whoever sponsors and h1b or the equivalent in my fantasy world here to pay for the cost to society up front and then for that h1b person to have the same freedom as a citizen.

My thinking behind that is that if a company is saying we can not find a single citizen who can fill this role so we need to import one, then this makes it real. If that argument is true then I want said immigrant to be in the workforce with the same rules that I have, instead of being a second class citizen which makes them more attractive to companies because they are cheaper/more controlled

I believe that allowing for the corporation hiring said h1b to have any say, direct or indirectly, in said h1bs ability to remain in the market will necessarily make them an employee that US companies prioritize.

The only way to stop that, from my current understanding, is to make it so that corporations have to pay the cost to add a person to society, but have no say in the decision making process after.

Upon review of my post and thinking through why I feel that way, I realized I just want the same deal applied to corporations for bringing in new entrants to society as is applied to people marrying foreigners.

I married someone outside the country and as part of their green card application I was required to commit myself to personally covering their social security checks if they divorced me before they made, iirc the exact number was 40, enough payments into social security.

Somehow companies aren’t required to have that level of skin in the game
by Eridrus | 2025-09-13 03:54:28+00:00
These tests are programming tests, but also effectively IQ and conscientiousness tests in the same way that most of what people learn in college is pointless, but graduating with a 4.0 GPA is still a strong signal.

I will say, IME, it's pretty obvious when people have seen a problem before, and unless you work at a big company that has a small question pool, most people are not regurgitating answers to these questions but actually grappling with them in realtime. I say this as someone who has been on both ends of this, these problems are all solvable de novo in an hour by a reasonable set of people.

Leetcode ability isn't everything, but I have generally found a strong correlation between Leetcode and the coding aspects of on the job performance. It doesn't test everything, but nothing in my experience of hiring has led me to wanting to lower the bar here as much as raise the bar on all other factors that influence job performance.
Ask HN: Getting over Burnout with Imposter Syndrome
by chrsig | 2025-09-13 03:55:34+00:00
Some background on me: I've reached a point where I quit my job of 11 years without notice due to sheer burnout. Shortly after I was hospitalized for a bit.

I'm trying to recover, getting back into healthy routines.

I'm also suffering quite a bit of imposter syndrome due to not having a 4 year degree.

I'm suffering from a lot of analysis paralysis trying to select a side project for a portfolio. Once I decide, I get another layer on how I'm going to implement it. And eventually it winds up feeling like I'm better off not doing any of them.

In my last job I was responsible for a mission critical service in the form of an apache module. Which I can attest is a rather hostile environment. So I'm pretty battle tested in the c/c++ arena.

In my spare time I've reveled in physically based rendering. So I've got enough trig & calc in my head to be dangerous.

My asks of HN:

- What are interviews like these days? How important is it to have a visable portfolio of working projects?

- How much of the AI hype is HN nerds nerding out about AI versus actually implementing AI, versus gluing AI apis together?

- How do you keep yourselves engaged with pet projects? My github is a field of projects 1/4 of the way completed before I lost steam on them.

I need some hope that future employment is possible.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-13 03:55:56+00:00
The people who want small, mid-sized towns are free to live literally anywhere they want outside major metro areas. There's 90+% of the state by land area left to them.

This discussion is and has always been centered around the housing crisis in urban centers, where it's been illegal to build density for decades. This has caused issues where those urban centers can't afford for people to provide critical services ( like teachers, laborers, medical staff, social services workers, etc) because housing simply doesn't exist at a price they can afford. Unless the suggestion is to make do with crumbling community services, housing reform is mandatory.
by theodric | 2025-09-13 03:56:40+00:00
I don't find the entire narrative in the article plausible. It smacks of the "everybody clapped" genre. This section feels particularly contrived:

> Did you hate me when I was hostage to the cult?" he asked. I'd never heard him use that phrase before.

>

> “I didn't hate you,” I said after a minute. I sensed this was a test, and if I passed, something important was waiting for me. "I was just baffled."

>

> “I hated myself,” he admitted. "I felt trapped. And now I feel so stupid."

>

> He started sobbing, raggedly, struggling to catch his breath. "Why would adults want to do that? Why would they want to fool kids? How could I fall for it?"
by epistasis | 2025-09-13 03:57:20+00:00
You don't think that younger people need housing too?

How about all the empty nesters that are sitting on 4 bedroom homes but are unwilling to move. Are you going to propose legislation to make them?

Will you propose legislation to specially encourage more multi bedroom homes?

The attitude of "this doesn't benefit a narrow band of people that I want to benefit, therefore it must be stopped" is why California is in such a housing mess right now.
by lend000 | 2025-09-13 03:57:28+00:00
At the speeds AI is moving, we've effectively used it all; the high quality data you need to make smarter models is coming in at a trickle. We're not getting 10^5 Principia Mathematicas published every day. Maybe I just don't have the vision to understand it, but it seems like AI-generated synthetic data for training shouldn't be able to make a smarter model than whatever produced that data. I can imagine synthetic data would be useful for making models more efficient (that's what quantized models are, after all), but not pushing the frontier.
by Retric | 2025-09-13 03:57:42+00:00
> You have two types of thermal power plant, one of them has a somewhat lower fuel cost so why does that one have a higher operating cost? Something is wrong there and needs to be addressed.

Nuclear is inherently vastly more complicated requiring more maintenance, manpower, etc per KW of capacity and thus has more operational costs. A 50+ year lifespan means keeping 50+ year old designs in operation which plays a significant role in costs here.

> 5 miles of highway has around the same amount of concrete in it as a nuclear power plant.

A cooling tower isn’t dealing with any radioactivity and it’s not a safety critical system yet it’s still difficult to build and thus way more expensive per cubic foot of concrete than a typical surface road. When road projects get complicated they can quickly get really expensive just look at bridges or tunnels.

> You could hypothetically build a hydroelectric dam that wipes out a city on the first day.

Hydroelectric dams have directly saved more lives than they have cost due to flood control. The electricity bit isn’t even needed in many cases as people build dams because they are inherently useful. Society is willing to carry those risks in large part because they get a direct benefit.

Wind turbines are closer and do sometimes fail early, but they just don’t cost nearly as much so the public doesn’t need to subsidize insurance here.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-09-13 03:57:44+00:00
"materials science (eg. Cutting edge battery tech), semiconductor fabrication, neuroscience, pharmaceutical research "

This is a beautiful fantasy for H-1B, that is totally disconnected from reality. What is that 1% of the H-1Bs currently? It is mostly IT and software slop jobs.

Here are the top 40 employers, it isn't going to hurt research in the US to cut them to zero.

Amazon.Com Services

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Ernst & Young

Tata Consultancy Services

Google

Microsoft

Infosys

Meta Platforms

Intel

Hcl America

Amazon Web Services

IBM

Jpmorgan Chase

Walmart

Apple

Accenture

Capgemini

Ltimindtree

Deloitte Consulting

Salesforce

Qualcomm

Tesla

Amazon Development Center

Wipro

Fidelity Technology Group

Tech Mahindra

Compunnel Software Group

Deloitte Touche

Mphasis

Nvidia

Adobe

Bytedance

Goldman, Sachs

Cisco

Linkedin

Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services

Paypal

Ebay

Servicenow

Visa USA

For non-slop jobs, give them a green card and fast track to citizenship. For an IT consultant, no thanks.

source: https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/h1b/
by KPGv2 | 2025-09-13 03:58:41+00:00
You're the one claiming the Nazis were socialist, which makes you look like a fool at best, and like a liar at worst. A cursory understanding of pre-war politics in German, which you could get from any number of sources, would lay bare how wrong the idea is.

> Were the Nazis socialist? https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists

Answer: "No."

> Were the Nazis socialist? https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-socialism-and-the-fal...

Answer: "Any analysis of the electoral platforms, internal party dynamics and political actions of the Nazis between 1921 and 1945 makes this clear [that the Nazis were not socialist]. Perhaps the German Workers Party - the party of around 100 members led by Anton Drexler that preceded the Nazi Party (NSDAP) - might have sought to cobble authoritarian anti-capitalism (which is not the same as socialism) onto biological racism. The early, pre-Nazi party that Hitler joined toyed with forms of market control to benefit small businesses and to halt ostensible "foreign" - that is, Jewish - control over markets. But such dalliances would not last long."

> Were the Nazis socialist? https://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/NazismSocialism.html

Answer: "This is standard propaganda for Fox News and the Tea Party. . . . "National Socialism" includes the word "socialism", but it is just a word. Hitler and the Nazis outlawed socialism, and executed socialists and communists en masse, even before they started rounding up Jews. In 1933, the Dachau concentration camp held socialists and leftists exclusively. The Nazis arrested more than 11,000 Germans for "illegal socialist activity" in 1936. . . . In the 1930s and even beyond, nazism, in sharp contrast to socialism, was strongly supported by leading capitalists."

> Were the Nazis socialist? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/05/right-need...

"The Nazis hated socialists."

Essentially, the name comes from a few socialists long before Hitler came to power, and the name just stuck even as non-socialists took over (early 30s) and began doing despicable things. It's a bit like saying "Johnson and Johnson is a company comprised of two individuals with the same last name" rather than acknowledging that's just the original name, long before it was rendered inaccurate.
by strcat | 2025-09-13 03:59:59+00:00
This is a post by a user on the GrapheneOS forum not associated with the project in any way from May 2024. Their post referenced April 2024 Cellebrite capabilities rather than the July 2024 data or later where they had fully caught up to recent iPhones and iOS. The post is from May 2024, they didn't have time travel.

GrapheneOS has access to recent Cellebrite Premium documentation from the past couple months which shows the state of things in the previous published documentation from earlier in 2025 along with the 2 snapshots published in 2024 has been carried over.
by epistasis | 2025-09-13 04:00:34+00:00
You are mistaken on the basic facts of where this permits more hosing.

You also do now understand people in urban areas and their desires. For example look at Seattle, which has added a lot of population, but only added 1 car per 30 new people:

https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/07/while-seattle-populat...

For a few generations, 99% of housing that was built was car dependent. That's not what the market wants. So when options are provided that allow living without a car, people flock to it.
by vbezhenar | 2025-09-13 04:01:49+00:00
I've used antlr to generate parser for small language used in one project. It's like 100 declarative lines of code. Writing parser by hand would be a much more complicated task.

I didn't really care about diagnostics. It has some, that's enough.

And of course it's easier to maintain declarative grammar description.

My guess is, that it's often used for those kinds of simple grammars without high requirements to impementation. When you need to get things done. Like regex. You might write code to parse a string in a more efficient way, but with regex it's almost always easier. So ANTLR is like regex engine for more complicated inputs.
by furyofantares | 2025-09-13 04:02:07+00:00
I tried a few things and checked CPU usage in Task Manager to see how much work the CPU is doing.

KV Cache in GPU and 36/36 layers in GPU: CPU usage under 3%.

KV Cache in GPU and 35/36 layers in GPU: CPU usage at 35%.

KV Cache moved to CPU and 36/36 layers in GPU: CPU usage at 34%.

I believe you that it doesn't make sense to do it this way, it is slower, but it doesn't appear to be doing much of anything on the CPU.

You say gigabytes of weights PER TOKEN, is that true? I think an expert is about 2 GB, so a new expert is 2 GB, sure - but I might have all the experts for the token already in memory, no?