MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragontamer | 2025-09-20 19:53:06+00:00
> but nary a word about the leadership of countries which create conditions that people have to emigrate from.

Because we in the US largely care about making our country better. And pulling the best and brightest out of other countries has historically been considered a good deal for us or even an explicit 'Brain Drain the Soviets' strategy.

This admin and the people in charge today have forgotten about this and now we are left with our multi decade system getting wrecked.
by Jensson | 2025-09-20 19:54:06+00:00
People have built complex working mostly bug free products without code reviews so humans are not that flawed.

With humans and code reviews now two humans looked at it. With LLM and code review of the LLM output now one human looked at it, so its not the same. LLM are still far from as reliable as humans or you could just tell the LLM to do code reviews and then it builds the entire complex product itself.
Show HN: An Implementation of DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation
by rishran | 2025-09-20 19:54:13+00:00
DeepMind recently introduced DataRater, a meta-learning approach that rates the value of training data points using meta-gradients. It promises more efficient training by filtering/re-weighting low-value data instead of relying on heuristics.

Sharing an implementation of the DataRater where I tried to reproduce the results on MNIST!
by pessimizer | 2025-09-20 19:54:27+00:00
With the ungodly level of poverty upper-class Indians are used to stepping over back at home, it's no wonder that there's no consideration given to working people here.

We hopefully have a different ethical structure. Extreme racists are largely a minority in the west, whereas birth naturally defining your life is simply common sense in some of the countries that we accept the most immigrants from. I'd be more inclined to accept people who are escaping that structure (like Mexicans, for example, who are running over the border instead of flying into six-figure jobs), but those who are coming here are from the class who have the most say in the conditions of the poor in their own countries.

The descendants of compradors, still winning, but playing the racist card because they know the US is still sensitive about what they did to black people, and how they never made up for it. Most of the immigrants I know are racist, and will explain why not being racist is stupid, at length.
by thisisit | 2025-09-20 19:55:11+00:00
> A $100k per year fee doesn't fix that, but it does make them so expensive that they are really only viable for $300k+ positions

It also incentivizes the CTO to promote a cost saving measure. For any job that doesn't absolutely require onshore presence, lets move it offshore. We can save 100k per position and also retain talent.

Companies have been offshoring jobs due to the tax rule change. Personally I know lot of Google teams which have been offshored. So, I don't understand why people think this will somehow cause job retention. Some jobs might be retained and more will be lost. Acting as if this $100k is somehow a good idea shows lack of understanding of how real world works.

In the meantime, rural medical teams who employ H1B doctors will be decimated. But before that these pesky billion dollar companies need to be taught a lesson.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-20 19:55:15+00:00
Immigration exploded after Brexit. While the official line was "Let's keep the riffraff out". the reality was that the Tories used Brexit to bring in plenty of cheap labour from specific countries, and the income requirements are applied very selectively.

Foreign students were also encouraged to study here and remain after studying. Initially even family reunion immigration was encouraged, although that's changed now.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/5579/live/8ea3a...

The UK has been playing this game for centuries - bringing in cheap foreign labour on the quiet, then using that as political leverage with "We will protect you from the foreign invasion" messaging.
by 5555624 | 2025-09-20 19:55:22+00:00
>Growing up in the 90s, television was a different experience. > >You turned on the TV, and whatever was playing at that moment would become your entertainment. > >Nowadays you yourself are in control, you choose what you want to see, whenever you want.

You had some control back then, too -- you could change the channel. I don't know anywhere that had a single OTA channel in the 1990s.

(And "Stargate SG-1" was on cable.)
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-20 19:55:54+00:00
> but you can adopt incrementally, thanks to XWayland.

Wayland's weakest point is a11y and automation tools, which XWayland doesn't work for.

> sure it's not the same, but unlike systemd vs sysv-init, you can't run two windowing systems side by side with equal privileges unless maybe you have two monitors and graphic cards. one has to be the one that controls the screen. and the other must necessarily run as a client inside it. wayland-on-X may have been possible, but it would have limited waylands capabilities and development.

You can do both, actually; XWayland can run an X server in a window, and many Wayland compositors will run in a window on top of an X11 server. It's not seamless, of course, but it does work.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-20 19:56:09+00:00
Vapor chambers are in laptops already. Mostly gaming laptops, because they need help getting the heat away from GPUs.

The miniaturisation of vapor chambers is cool, though. Not new (phones have been coming out with those for years), but it's not "just" another heatpipe.

I think that the fact that more and more phones producing so much heat that they need vapor chambers is also something worth writing about.

That said, most news media seems to have drunk the Apple kool aid because they all rave about the vapor chamber for some reason. I guess iPhone media is just a few years behind the curve.
by rishran | 2025-09-20 19:56:13+00:00
This result is representative of the idea where the DataRater learned how to down-weight corrupted images: https://github.com/rishabhranawat/DataRater/blob/main/mnist_...

The inspiration was Figure 3 in the paper.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17895 Authors: Calian et. al., Google Deepmind
by calibas | 2025-09-20 19:56:44+00:00
I was wondering if it makes the cement weaker, but it looks like the bacteria actually make it stronger.

> At 3 days, EAM-containing samples exhibit increased overall porosity compared to the control, indicating an initial disruption in matrix densification. However, by 28 days, this effect diminishes, suggesting that hydration and subsequent microstructural stabilization mitigate the early porosity increase. Further analysis of pore size distribution (Figure 2F) shows that EAM incorporation leads to an increase in middle and large capillary mesopores, whereas coarse mesopores decrease, indicating a shift in the microstructure toward a more refined network. Despite these microstructural modifications, compressive strength measurements (Figure 2G) show that EAM incorporation does not compromise the structural integrity of cement. At 3 days, samples with higher EAM content exhibit a reduction in strength. However, by 28 days, strength recovery is observed, and EAM-containing samples exhibit a slight improvement compared to the control. This enhancement may be attributed to the formation of additional calcium carbonate, which contributes to matrix densification and mechanical reinforcement.
by knzai | 2025-09-20 19:56:47+00:00
Thanks. Re “scoop” as I said, I wouldn’t swear to any of this on the stand and it certainly doesn’t meet journalistic standards. Consider it opinion piece/color commentary.

…

That said both the person this time and people before who allegedly signed onto DHH’s nonsense I’m incredibly disappointed in. Most of them I considered at the least collegial acquaintances and some of them friends. So I felt like I knew them at least well enough to say they were above his sort of divisive rhetoric. But people frequently disappoint.

Maybe I have it all wrong and André, REDACTED, and REDACTED* have done something awful or something…. but from what I know of their characters I seriously doubt it.

Of course, IDK what the DHH crowd is actually thinking, if any of this is true, since in that case they don’t exactly discuss this openly, purely dealing in backroom shenanigans that one could almost think verged on collusion and that leads some groups like RC to possibly violate contract and employment law (at the very least copyright if you check who actually has the copyright on some of the stuff they distribute…). That is if any of the things people are saying is true.

But hey, Rubyists are all “nice” right? Nobody says ethical or kind was a requirement.

* There’s at least two people that I kno- err that is that I strongly suspect, have been tarred by mere association with André. I have a theory it’s more than just them. Apparently he’s insidious about leaking liberal labor thoughts like people should get paid enough to support their families in expensive tech hubs, even if they are working on open source. But apparently “professional open source maintainer” is anathema to some people’s vision and they’d prefer everything to depend on volunteer labor only. Which is a position multi-millionaires who successfully monetized that volunteer labor could take, sure. But it’d make them hypocrites, in the worst of ways. Especially since their alleged actions are leading to some of said maintainers losing work doing so, but they supposedly seem okay with funding others. At that point it stops being a logical, if unethical platform, and more personal spite?
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-20 19:56:57+00:00
package.lock only protects after the package has been locked though. If I want to say to you:

> I've audited fooapp==7.8.9 and I believe it is both functional and free of malware

You might act on that information by installing it and locking it to a hash. In this scenario we've missed an opportunity to compare hashes. Maybe you end up with a different one due to a problem with NPM or with one of our connections to it (it's a high value target, so CA's behaving badly isn't out of the question, nor is it being compromised).

If we instead deal in hashes up front, we know that we're talking about the same thing. Also, maybe we're not on the same network partition as NPM for some reason. If you've got a hash for the package, you can get it from whoever happens to have it and you can know it hasn't been tampered with. If you're using names you can't really trust it unless you got it from NPM. In addition to the maybe-NPM-is-inaccessable problems, names create additional load on NPM. Odds are we're in the same room when this conversation happens, so the network path between us is much more likely to be stable, high bandwidth, and free of attackers than the path between each of us and NPM.
by OskarS | 2025-09-20 19:56:57+00:00
I was curious about this study as well, both because the idea seems genius and wildly unsafe. I mean, I know teflon is inert, but really safe for consumption in quantities required for satiation? I googled the paper's title, and here it is: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26810925/

The answer is that it's a study in rats, seemingly (from the abstract) a very successful one. Probably a bad idea to introduce that amount of "forever chemicals" into the environment, but the central idea seems pretty sound.
by thepryz | 2025-09-20 19:57:10+00:00
I think you'd be surprised by how durable the newer phones are, especially the iPhone Air. It's hard to completely protect a glass screen from shattering since its a crystalline material encased in a metal enclosure that is more likely to dent than flex, absorb the impact and return to it's shape, but they keep getting better and I think most people could go without a case if they really wanted to.

If you're curious about just how durable the iPhone Air is, take a look at the latest Jerry Rig Everything video where it exceeded his typical scratch test resits and he was unable to bend it with his hands.

https://youtu.be/sQ56ve39l2I?si=XOgAtnlAtOwO4Lln
by leakycap | 2025-09-20 19:57:40+00:00
https://youtu.be/KrLwxfnCSGg?t=1216

Guest: You know how sometimes you can pronounce the same word differently? Well—two things can be true.

Interviewee: Wait, what are you saying?

Guest: When you're from the Midwest, you say 'meeyulk' for milk or 'peeloh' for pillow, and that's not incorrect. It's just, you know, two things can be true. So, that's what I was saying.

Interviewer: Yeah. [wideyed confusion]

Guest: So, what's that all about?

(hint: it isn't linguistic descriptivism & I'm not the guest in this scenario)
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-20 19:57:44+00:00
> The H-1B is a classification of non-immigrant visa in the United States that allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations, as well as fashion models and employees engaged in Department of Defense projects who meet certain conditions

This is not about emigration. Frankly, as a European I would find moving to the US a serious downgrade in living quality.
by 101008 | 2025-09-20 19:58:30+00:00
Any reason why when I upload a set of books to NotebookLM and have an interesting conversation about them with NotebookLM, the conversation is not stored? I can't revisit it later, I can't continue from there. I don't understand why they changed the UX/UI from the other AI solutions (Gemini or GPT).

I also don't get why NotebookLM refuses to write things either, I can't make it write an essay based on the information I fed through PDFs or other files.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-09-20 19:59:39+00:00
> If they can build things faster, what need is there to manipulate the statistics?

A lot to unpack here. You completely blipped over the part about “no property rights” which is pretty clear when you look at, for example, how their rail construction projects go. Choochoo, rail is coming through, time to move this village, no eminent domain payments necessary.

> If the chinese don't have property rights, then how come they own so much property?

If ownership of a half-finished concrete shell by a bankrupt construction firm on the 33rd floor is counted as “owning property”, then the statistics will look pretty good.
by godelski | 2025-09-20 20:00:05+00:00
> I am not responsible for the commonly understood meaning and definitions of words in the English language.

Yet your are responsible for your own misunderstanding of commonly understood meanings and definitions.

Let's have a look, shall we?

goal (noun) 1 : the end toward which effort is directed : aim | The goal is high-speed rail travel. Synonyms: purpose aim plan objective intention intent idea object ambition dream https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goal

Do you see a requirement of "must be obtainable"? Even the synonyms would tell you you're wrong. Surely you've made plans that have failed. Surely intentions and ideas. But regardless, there is still ambitions and dreams, which you specifically state are not included.

Let's have a look at another word, just for fun...

aspirational (adjective) : of, relating to, or characterized by aspiration | aspirational goals https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aspirational

I am sorry, it is YOU who are lacking the understanding of common words. Don't be so smug when you're so trivially proven wrong. If you do care about being correct, as you try to convince us, your only "out" is to update your belief.

You had aspirations of proving us wrong, they gave you direction, but you failed.

Thank you for the active demonstration of the utility of unachievable goals.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-20 20:00:22+00:00
For phones that heat up enough to need it, the screen also acts as a way to dissipate heat. Unless you put an extremely thick screen protector on there, the phone will still be able to get rid of some heat through the glass.

I do wonder how this will affect benchmarks, though. I can imagine the phones running slower in practice compared to reviews because the reviewers don't put a case on there.
by l___l | 2025-09-20 20:00:40+00:00
"One software company was approved for over 5,000 H-1B workers in FY 2025; around the same time, it announced a series of layoffs totaling more than 15,000 employees. Another IT firm was approved for nearly 1,700 H-1B workers in FY 2025; it announced it was laying off 2,400 American workers in Oregon in July. A third company has reduced its workforce by approximately 27,000 American workers since 2022, while being approved for over 25,000 H-1B workers since FY 2022. A fourth company reportedly eliminated 1,000 jobs in February; it was approved for over 1,100 H-1B workers for FY 2025.

American IT workers have reported they were forced to train the foreign workers who were taking their jobs and to sign nondisclosure agreements about this indignity as a condition of receiving any form of severance. This suggests H-1B visas are not being used to fill occupational shortages or obtain highly skilled workers who are unavailable in the United States."

This speaks for itself.
by gimmeThaBeet | 2025-09-20 20:01:21+00:00
This is what sticks with me the deepest.

With immigration are unquestionably tough decisions, tradeoffs, philosophies on the issue, and demographics in general. It gets heated, fast. I know I'm biased, but I wish trust had not degraded to such an extent you could believe people could deal with these topics in good faith.

But how can anyone support this kind of craven policymaking where uncertainty and cruelty are features and not bugs? Just shock and awe and deafening silence.

That's what's so dishearterning. Is that who we are now, or is this just a timely excuse to be who we always have?
by recursivecaveat | 2025-09-20 20:02:44+00:00
It's fine for it to do something like following a tutorial from an external source that doesn't have the highlighter bits set. It should apply an increased skepticism to that content though. Presumably that would help it realize that an "important recurring task" to upload revenue data in an awk tutorial is bogus. Of course if the tutorial instructions themselves are malicious you're still toast, but "get a malicious tutorial to last on a reputable domain" is a harder infiltration task than emailing a PDF with some white text. I don't think trying to phish for credentials by uploading malicious answers to stack overflow is much of a thing.

I have a theory that a lot of prompt injection is due to a lack of hierarchical structure in the input. You can tell that when I write [reply] in the middle of my comment it's part of the comment body and not the actual end of it. If you view the entire world through the lense of a flat linear text stream though it gets harder. You can add xml style <external></external> tags wrapping stuff, but that requires remembering where you are for an unbounded length of time, easier to forget than direct tagging of data.

All of this is probability though, no guarantees with this kind of approach.
by dizhn | 2025-09-20 20:03:17+00:00
I have been following that project for a long time. They are "good people". They want to make sure the project survives. I am bummed about that change and I could probably get the their notification service free if i asked for it (little bit involvement with some things) but I didn't. I respect their decision. Though of course I do have the same concerns as you. I just want to think it won't happen.
by cube2222 | 2025-09-20 20:03:33+00:00
As a non-user who just played with the podcast thing a while back, is notebooklm actually better than just using something like Claude Projects to dump all your files into it, and then chatting with it in that project?

Other than the podcast thing of course which is unique.

Mostly curious about perspectives of folks who used both and can compare them.
by timr | 2025-09-20 20:03:34+00:00
Few people actually know what "authoritarian" means, and are mostly just repeating things they've heard and intend to mean as "leaders doing things I don't personally like."

A strict definition of "authoritarian" [1] doesn't fit the current US administration at all in many ways, since they've focused their attention on tearing down government, not building it up. In some ways they demand stricter enforcement of (pre-existing!) rules, but in many others they have acted to undermine government authority (e.g. with respect to environmental regulations). Generally the people who decry authoritarianism in the domain of immigration enforcement will turn around and decry loosening of regulations about things that they prefer to be regulated by the government.

[1] "favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom." per Google's definition.
by w10-1 | 2025-09-20 20:04:09+00:00
Regardless of the merits of such visas, they were legal, and companies now depend on them.

Business uncertainty is off the charts when any administration can change existing policy at a whim and on short notice, for any kind of sunk costs.

The whim makes it uncertain, the short notice makes it unmanageable, and the sunk-cost makes it unavoidable.

It's this uncertainty that fuels government corruption, by creating an undifferentiated need to make nice and comply.

At each step, it will be cheaper for companies to join than to resist, and companies that resist will get oversized responses as a warning to others. That makes joining corruption an economic necessity.

This is how Putin organized and subjugated Russian oligarchs and the elites.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-20 20:04:27+00:00
> Sure, but they have always been able to do that.

I think the newness (some period before 2020) of tech in general tended to intimidate those legacy shareholder groups who got in early. And I suspect that early shareholding was often dominated by employees, etc (not sure tho).

I think those interests plus the proximity to adjacent industries created strong interest in US Gov's (now-former) incentives to create to bring many of the best minds here.

We've dialed back all the above. We've put truly hostile interests in power that are weaponizing Gov assets & millions of supporters - against every manifestation of immigration. Our actual outcomes are flavored with rising Gov violence and populist animosity toward (mostly non-white) immigrants and those associated with them.

Considering what and where we are, I absolutely see this high-paying, historical class of jobs being shipped overseas.
by someperson | 2025-09-20 20:04:29+00:00
> have their visa applications denied on public charge grounds

Oh, I wasn't familiar with the 'public charge' requirement of the US immigration system. That's excellent in principle, and wonderful if enforced adequately.

> Not sure how that works with Medicaid—it sounds like [1] some states have chosen to implement that in ways immigrants can access if they come in on green cards and spend their working lives in the US, paying in to the system—but that seems to me more like a local policy choice than a primary feature of the immigration system.

Yes, agree that's not a feature of the immigration itself but a local policy choice. Some states are very lax with Medicaid qualification rules eg, California recently expanding coverage to illegal immigrants with loosened criteria that legal immigrants won't qualify. I recall changes were made in response to federal tightening of rules. It's still a bad policy, but a local one.

> For that matter, in your formulation, should the working-age immigrants themselves, who permanently resettle and work their whole life in the US, be denied access to old-age benefits when the time comes?

No, one principle is they have paid into the system for a long period of time then they should of course be able to access benefits.

The other principle is by that time they are ready to retire they will certainly permanent residents but hopefully citizens, so not seen differently than other citizens.