MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2025-09-20 18:10:27+00:00
You won't see a land value tax for the same reason there are constraints on housing supply: because existing homeowners are essentially single-issue voters when it comes to do with anything about housing. Aesthetically progressive people turn into raging fascists the second you propose building slightly higher density housing near a train station that they're nowhere near.

In my ideal world I would:

1. Massively hike property taxes on non-income generating housing;

2. Make anyone owning housing subject to state, local and federal taxes on their worldwide income;

3. Get rid of preferential property tax rates and caps on property tax increases (eg Prop 13 in California). If you want to not force old people to sell immediately, defer their property taxes until death. This is exactly what Texas does;

4. Build for transit; and

5. Have the government be a massive supplier of social housing.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-20 18:10:31+00:00
I'm a bit late to this, but if you're still around, I'm curious if this research would necessarily mean that people with sleep apnea or other sleep disorders (untreated or treated) are more prone to Alzheimer's as they age? I'm also curious if there's been any research on your technology being used on people who have sleep disorders. I took a look at the research you linked, but the second paper noted that people with sleep disorders were excluded from the study, and the first paper didn't mention sleep disorders or apneas at all.

I ask as someone who has sleep apnea and uses a CPAP machine.
by mothballed | 2025-09-20 18:10:55+00:00
If it devolves into a dictatorships it can stay stable for awhile. Look at Dubai, one of the richest places per capita with no real "rule of law" (only in theory) but stabilized through a ruthless theocratic dictatorship that has brought peace and prosperity in a region of the world where democracy (and indeed -- other dictatorships) has so often brought the people untold terror, violence, and suffering.
by SXX | 2025-09-20 18:11:09+00:00
Having a lot of money and having actual connections it's not the same. There a lot of modern billionaires who made their money while barely talking with anyone outside their laptop screen.

Also it's take special kind of people to build right kind of slimy business structures to work with governments.

It's not just about corruption though because people who choose to work for governments have completely different set of motivations vs just making money. So working with them is just harder than working with business structures with simple goal to maximize profit.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-20 18:11:33+00:00
Most of the advice is good, though not particularly different from an advice you would give about writing any essays. This one though:

> Avoid placing equations in the middle of sentences. Mathematics is not the same as English, and we shouldn’t pretend it is.

I don't know what to make of it. Equations are supposed to be part of sentences, and mathematical equations are compact expressions of relations. For example, the sentence,

Newton taught us that force is equal to mass times acceleration, where both mass and accelerations are inertial quantities.

can be compacted as

Newton taught us that $F=ma$, where both the mass $m$ and acceleration $a$ are inertial quantities.

This becomes more useful with more complex relations. Generally, hanging mathematical expressions (those independent of sentences) should be avoided to the utmost in any technical report.
by brandensilva | 2025-09-20 18:12:00+00:00
Yeah I'm not excited about the future anymore. I used to have hopes America would try to usher in a better era but the opposite is happening where the shift is towards profits over people. A select few at the top who break laws is accepted while the rest are forced with even less rights. This goes beyond politics now but it is impossible for people to stop the infighting and look up who is causing all the problems.
by cesarb | 2025-09-20 18:12:03+00:00
> it was originally about 50% C and 50% Perl, the performance critical parts were written in C and then various git commands were written in Perl.

IIRC, it was mostly shell, not Perl, and looking at the proportion is misleading: the low-level commands (the "plumbing") like git-cat-file or git-commit-tree were all in C, while the more user-friendly commands (the "porcelain") like git-log or git-commit were all shell scripts calling the low-level commands. Yes, even things we consider fundamental today like "git commit" were shell scripts.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-20 18:12:44+00:00
woah that's actually awesome. I feel like adding uh storage usage limits could also be easy as well.

But the one thing that I always wonder is about (virtualization?) in the sense of something like docker just for containerizing or some sort of way of running them in some sort of sandbox without much performance issues or something, I am kinda interested in knowing what might be the best way of doing so (is podman the right way or some other way like bubblewrap?)

Edit: just discovered in the comment below the (parents parents?)comment that there is systemd isolation too, that sounds very interesting and the first time I personally heard of it hmm
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-20 18:12:50+00:00
https://archive.today/r7BdW

Press release: https://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/content/newsroom/press-re...

Discovered via APM Marketplace: The job market's bizarre balancing act - https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/09/18/the-job-marke... - September 18th, 2025
by Bender | 2025-09-20 18:13:51+00:00
I have an Autel EVO II Pro 2 and I don't like it. They say my elevation 6300 MSL should not matter but I am lucky to get 20 minutes of flight time. The drone also refuses to do geomagnetic calibration. It also emits RemoteID which is a non starter for me. RemoteID only benefits muggers and has zero benefit to commercial or general aviation. RemoteID may benefit law enforcement in terms of paperwork but it's too late by then as damage is already done. I would rather have a drone that can receive both ACAS as well as ADS-B and that just gets out of the way if the controller loses connection or if I am incompetent or malicious. Drones can descend incredibly fast. The FAA need to fix that for real.

If Chinese drones were banned I would likely try out Skydio made in the USA if I can ahead of time find a simple way to turn the transmit power for RemoteID to 1 milliwatt.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-20 18:13:56+00:00
We are only talking about Software - other industries like nursing and academia are way more severely impacted.

If you're on an H1B doing basics terraform scripting or maintenance work, your job is already in the process of being automated using a CodeGen tool being monitored by a senior engineer (be they located domestically or abroad).

If you a new H1B employee working at GCP's Sunnyvale office, you will most eventually be transferred to an office in India, Canada, and maybe the UK.

In neither case is new grad and early career hiring within the US going to pick up. And if you have been unemployed for an extended period (more than 6 months), well I'd recommend reading PG's article about building "Ramen Profitable" startups.

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The H1B market in software is bimodal with mass consultancies like WITCH (India), EPAM (Eastern Europe), and Globant (LatAm) who are overwhelmingly screwed because their business model is messed up, and you have people on an H1B who are basically working at a FAANG or FAANG equivalent and who are earning the same salary as citizens - these companies already began the process of offshoring 3-5 years ago when remote work kicked in because much of the CEE and India began giving massive federal and state industrial subsidizes to open offshore offices in IT Parks (and had been doing so for decades).

Short term it's a headache for companies with a large OPT-to-H1B pipeline and they will most likely do mass layoffs or push people to work at GCCs abroad - just like during COVID's early days. Long term, this only continues to incentivize offshoring because now you have a tangible upfront cost you can project and model on ($300k per employee minimum) and compare against the Section 174 impact.

My bigger question would be - if you are an H1B who was born (not necessarily a national) in China or India, why would you even make a large investment like a house or a condo in the US? Best case you are already looking at a 15-20 year backlog just to get a Green Card, and the cost to keep someone on an H1B in the US is a wash compared to hiring abroad if your salary is breaking the 6 figure mark.
by vkou | 2025-09-20 18:14:15+00:00
It's funny that you quote Sanders on this, when this EO's solution to 'human beings are being mistreated' is not 'stop mistreating them' it's 'lets do our best to throw as many as we can out'.

It's right up there with Oregon's stance on slavery. (The state banned it and fought for the Union on the basis that it didn't want any --------- living in it, even enslaved ones.)
by jmyeet | 2025-09-20 18:14:38+00:00
That's fair but it's also kind of the point.

There's an awful lot of people declaring themselves and others to be ethnically Jewish or not Jewish when it suits them or suits some political goal. Russian is the third most common spoken language in Israel for a reason: to change demographics from the refuseniks, many of whom were ethnically and religiously Jewish but many who were not.

The character assassination on Corbyn who, in the very least, has Jewish ancestry, was disgusting regardless.
by cbeach | 2025-09-20 18:15:57+00:00
Some people "waste time" recognising superb acheivements of people they don't know. This happens a lot in science and technology, where a single individual can contribute a tremendous amount to advance human knowledge and technology.

Other people waste time criticising people they don't know simply because those people have different political opinions.

The former behaviour comes naturally to me. People who do the latter need to be pulled up on it.
by parpfish | 2025-09-20 18:16:05+00:00
one thing i've noticed about scientific writing:

many early-career folks are afraid to make things too simple and easy to understand because they (subconsciously?) fear that it makes their work seem simplistic or trivial.

when you're an academic that has built a great deal of your self identity around being perceived as 'the smart one', it takes a fair amount self-confidence to start presenting yourself in a way that is easy to understand
by yibg | 2025-09-20 18:17:39+00:00
We must be reading different things. In the other post about this topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305845) there were lots of discussions on the benefits of changing how the H1B program is run, with many in favor of this type of change.

I can't speak for others, but for me this seems like

1) a shakedown of corporations and / or

2) a way to ban immigration without being technically a ban

But overall I see this as another anti-immigration "policy" that's coherent with the rest of the anti-immigration policies from this administration. Hence the pro-immigration arguments.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 18:17:46+00:00
> the system is working as designed

The founders didn’t envision speech being policed with guns. That is absolute nonsense. The system is clearly broken.

That requires debate as to whether norms are failing to adequately police speech in an era of social media, and if the First Amendment’s idealistic vision of lawless self-regulation has failed. (Alternatively, how we can bring non-violent shame back into the envelope of norms.)
by Arcuru | 2025-09-20 18:17:58+00:00
I've been mirroring all my public projects on GH and Codeberg using CI to keep things in sync, and add a note to my README's [1] explaining that both can be used. In practice the vast majority of OSS contributors are on Github so it's just not reasonable for smaller projects trying to grow to be anywhere else. Larger projects have enough pull that they can do what they want.

[1] https://github.com/arcuru/eidetica#repository
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-20 18:18:28+00:00
Thiel is the US' Zhang Zhidong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zhidong

He could also be Shen Buhai, incarnate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Buhai

Either one of these figures could provide us clues as to how to head off Thiels' insanity.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-09-20 18:19:23+00:00
I believe in Thiel's eyes, MAGA and "the left" are equally inferior groups of society. He's simply using MAGA as a vehicle to implement his plan and convince other like-minded elites to support him. If you listen to some of his interviews in podcasts, you can actually hear a bit of surprise and excitement in his voice in how rapidly he's making movements on the back of the current political environment.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 18:19:46+00:00
The problem isn’t about which ethnic bloc has more power, it’s that people have such strong ethnic identities that they’re forming ethnic political blocs in the first place and doling out patronage on the basis of ethnic group. That’s a recipe for dysfunction and corruption, as we see in Chicago. People will forgive a lot of corruption and graft for their ethnic tribe. And the winners of those elections are robbing the treasury to pay for benefits targeted at their co-ethnics.

150 years after their inception, assimilation of ethnic whites has largely ended those political machines. But the effects are cumulative. Chicago still lives with the consequences of the machine politics of the Cermak to Daley era. And ethnic politics still plays a large role in Chicago between whites, hispanics, and black people: https://www.hispanicfederation.org/news/new-poll-shows-dead-... (“One interesting finding is that one-third of Latinos think Vallas may be Latino.”).
Show HN: Dropping SDK for Free Hybrid Search RAG Database
by customragbot | 2025-09-20 18:20:17+00:00
Just dropped an SDK for devs.

First version we've launched, its free with unlimited queries if you're using HubSpot or Database connections, and has a free tier for embedding too.

Would love to get some feedback, please give me starts if its useful to you.

pip install yardee

https://github.com/findmyoptions/yardee-python-sdk

http://customragbot.com/customragbot-api/

Thanks for looking.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-20 18:21:35+00:00
MAGA is one example of the stupidity of the collective godhead.

The average US citizens' compliant wilfulness and irresponsibility with regards to the US' war crimes, yet another.

It doesn't just have to be about what Americans do to themselves. This phenomenon is just as easily observable in what Americans do to other nations.

So, if there is hope, it lies in the proles. The ones that live outside the US' borders.
by dang | 2025-09-20 18:21:54+00:00
All: please submit the original source and then add a link to alt sources in the comments.

I know the twitwall is frustrating (it is to us too) but we want HN posts to link to original sources, and for the site name to the right of the title to reflect that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We're happy to pin the alt links to the top of a thread and/or to move them into the top text, as I did in the current case.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-09-20 18:22:43+00:00
> Runtime bounds checking

Compile time slice bounds checking is generally not a thing, since the length is not known until runtime. Its still safe.

> but only in Debug/ReleaseSafe builds

So, the default build modes?

Istg zig should just eliminate releasefast and releasesmall and force you to opt in on a function by function basis.
by YossarianFrPrez | 2025-09-20 18:23:06+00:00
Maybe I'm just a sci-fi nerd who loves innovation, but this is so cool!

Clearly, this product is not intended for the mass market, and may find purchase with people who have tennis elbow and who can afford it, etc. <insert other critiques about practicality and applicability here>. But still, when was the last time someone tried to re-invent something as basic as a knife?
by Nasrudith | 2025-09-20 18:23:11+00:00
The whole argument sounds familiar. "Those entitled minorities have the nerve to make not being discriminated against a high priority when voting." It is all classic scapegoating and assigning sinister forces who conspire to make people do things that they would all do on their own anyway and refusing to accept any responsibility on your part.

The obvious solution of "stop being a racist douchebag so minorities can actually feel secure enough to be able to act on other priorities" being of course completely off the table as the speaker views such behavior as a birthright and sacrament. It does happen. Now voters of Irish descent take 'is an Irish Catholic' as a nice to have at most instead of an essential.

But the same counterproductive behavior is doubled down upon as their sacred sacrament of racist douchebaggery shall not be denied. Look at how a very religiously conservative bloc, Muslims ended up shifting to the left by necessity from the racism they encountered post war on terror.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-20 18:23:18+00:00
Well it would probably take at least 5 years to rewrite all of Git in Rust (git-oxide is 5 years old and far from finished). Then another few years to see novel features, then a year or two to actually get the release.

Btw 10 lines of code per day is a typical velocity for full time work, given it's volunteers 1 line per day might not be as crazy as you think.
by kirjavascript | 2025-09-20 18:24:02+00:00
here's a JS one liner that handles scream and unscream in one function

transform=s=>[...s.toUpperCase()].map(s=>(l="BÁGẲLẬQǞVÀCĂHẴMẦRȦWẢDẮIǍNẨSǠXȂEẶJÂOẪTẠYĀFẰKẤPÄUȀZĄ")[l.indexOf(s)^1]||s).join``
by mylifeandtimes | 2025-09-20 18:24:41+00:00
> So I don't personally find text hard to read or very much focus impacting.

- Have you benchmarked your speed on text vs non-text controls that are otherwise equivalent? (i.e. both are button presses, both are always in the exact same location, ...)? - Have you benchmarked how this changes as you loose the similarities? Does this benchmark measure "time to complete task" or "time spent looking at control" (turning a physical knob vs a screen slider) - have you benchmarked your speed for fixed-location controls vs controls which may be buried in a menu item on a touch-screen?

Do these benchmarks change if the control has delayed onset (pressing "play" takes 2 seconds to start the music, and you get no tactile response to tell you if you have successful pressed the button or not)

Have you benchmarked how these skill comparisons decay with impairment? Do they decay equally, or does the text-based skill decay faster?

Look, given this is HN I fully believe you are in the upper 99% on several aspects, making you with text controls faster than me with manual. But the question is would YOU be faster with text or manual? And how consistent is this?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-20 18:24:59+00:00
Hey mate, I myself understand this usecase.

Sorry if I wasn't being clear.

I am all for stable cryptocurrencies but not cryptocurrencies which prey on desperate people wanting 100x returns or promising too much that we all know is BS for hype and not delivering on it.

I myself am a teenager and uh had gotten some 100 ish dollar from winning competitions in crypto space (not that much, but I am proud of it kinda money) and uh I couldn't really get that money if it wasn't for crypto y'know.

If I hadn't made my stance clear, I am all for stable cryptocoins but that is just a very (minor?) part of the amount of things on crypto and all others usually generally harm, sure there are some outliers but here's an article that I had made when I ragebaited so hard one day about some crypto thing that I basically just wrote an article trying to explain my situation

https://justforhn.mataroa.blog/blog/most-crypto-is-doomed-to...

"This whole space is still full of scam. 99% of the times everyone has ulterior incentive (to earn money) but still I mean, it kinda exists and I mean still crypto (stablecoins?) are the only sane way to transfer money without kyc"

This is one of the comments that I had written and I hope I can make my stance clear. I just searched and found that I have written about stablecoins 10 times almost seperately in the article and uh I am all for stablecoin and I think even In my original comment, I may have said that stablecoins are the only thing that is remotely nice about cryptocoins,maybe monero if we are really streching it.

I saw a r/cryptocurrency poll of someone saying that they are 97% for the money and 3% for tech and that point this is almost like polymarket gambling except being even worse and more out of your control, almost giving someone your money if you invest in some memecoin

I kinda (like?) stablecoins (even gold like paxg is good) but not much anything else as a baseline of token for the most part, i myself have usdc in things like stellar/polygon which also have low gas fees for the most part

So what are your thoughts? I hope I can make my stance clear lol,
by anukin | 2025-09-20 18:25:32+00:00
Most of the program directors and other technical staff comes from lower ranked colleges like CET Trivandrum rather than from IISc and IIST. They are not based on IIT Jee rankings.

https://www.youngpostclub.com/yp/discover/news/asia/article/...

China banned the private tuition for Gaokao. Even before, it was not open to gamification like rote learning a few physics, chemistry, mathematics questions are(in the case of JEE). There are rounds to the exam which deals with latent intelligence rather than rote learning of problems for patterns. JEE has multiple choice questions and other pattern matching questions while Gaokao emphasise on subjective understanding.

Chinese professors are well paid and there are various perks to being a professor in China. Its a lucrative job and was one of the most well sought job before the private sector gained over it. IIRC the cafetaria for professors were said to be one of the biggest perks over working in private sector(jokingly mentioned by a chinese friend). I am not sure how true that is now.
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 18:27:09+00:00
That’s not a helpful lens because it overlooks the patterns of settlement. Nearly all the founding fathers were British. During the 18th century, German and Scandinavian immigrants formed their own communities across the midwest. Ethnic politics had little opportunity to arise in these communities, which were individually mono cultural. That result of that is quite different from a mass influx of a foreign population with a distinct group identity into an existing city or town.

In terms of what we could do now, we should stop illegal immigration and asylum entirely. We should also end family reunification. And skilled immigration should be spread out around the country (there are top universities everywhere). All that would prevent the development of ethnic enclaves, and over time lead to the weakening of disparate ethnic identities. That’s what happened during the immigration restriction from 1924-1965, when the foreign born population share dropped by 2/3, and the salience of ethnic identity among European Americans was greatly reduced.
by dang | 2025-09-20 18:27:17+00:00
Related ongoing threads:

US Gov acknowledges that 100K fee does not apply to existing H-1B visas holders [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45318060 - Sept 2025 (43 comments)

Visa holders on vacation have 15 hours to return to US or pay $100k fee - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312877 - Sept 2025 (218 comments)

New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45316226 - Sept 2025 (3 comments)

Also recent and related:

Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305845 - Sept 2025 (1675 comments)

The H-1B Visa Program and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309740 - Sept 2025 (51 comments)