MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nimih | 2025-09-20 15:36:38+00:00
It's the thing you do to apply for the visa. You may worry that, because there is no language in this section specifying which visas this travel restriction applies to (newly issued/renewed, etc), and because of the inclusion of the word "supplemented," that this travel restriction applies broadly to all issued H1-B visas. And, well, the immigration lawyers at Microsoft[1] seem to share that worry.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/work/microsoft-urge...
by sema4hacker | 2025-09-20 15:37:01+00:00
>Keyboards, instant messaging, blogs, social media.

I've got a 29-year-old employee from whom I receive texts and emails every day. The grammar and auto-spell word substitutions are frequently so bad I have to respond "do you mean X or Y?", and sometimes so confusing I can't parse their message at all.

>I think the average person reads and writes as much as always

Perhaps, but the writing quality has definitely taken a dive.
by giovannibonetti | 2025-09-20 15:37:03+00:00
> Quality needs to come from the process, not the people.

Not sure which Japanese school of management you're following, but I think Toyota-style goes against that. The process gives more autonomy to workers than, say, Ford-style, where each tiny part of the process is pre-defined.

I got the impression that Toyota-style was considered to bring better quality to the product, even though it gives people more autonomy.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-09-20 15:37:15+00:00
No. C isn't an expressive enough language to write many solvers in. Many of the best solvers are basically impossible to write without meta-programming (where you write a generator for the n-stage version that is then able to generate the code for all the possible permuations), and there are also massive performance gains through symbolic-numeric approaches where the solver does introspection of the user function to rearrangements that aren't possible in a black-box framework.
by espadrine | 2025-09-20 15:38:16+00:00
Does Palantir fall under the Cloud Act[0]?

I wonder why so many governments sign with a company that, even if the contract says they will not leak information to the US government, is required to yield any information to it if the US requests it, without even being able to notify their client—regardless of the location of the servers themselves.

[0]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4943...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-20 15:38:23+00:00
I understand that it's a minor change in its current state. However, it is a fact that the long term goal is to port everything to rust. Once that goal is accomplished, rust will be required. So it is not at all a gross exaggeration. It's a prediction of the future.

I don't even disagree with that goal, I think it's desirable that things be written in rust, it's a really good language that provides a lot of benefits. I think I've just been infected with the C virus too long. I can't even tolerate C++.
by latch | 2025-09-20 15:38:34+00:00
Author here. I see it both ways.

Blog posts are collaboration (1). I did get the sense that Andrew doesn't see it that way. (And for this post in particular, and writegate in general, I have been discussing it on the discord channel. I know that isn't an official channel).

My reasons for not engaging more directly doesn't have anything to do with my confidence / knowledge. They are personal. The linked issues, which I was aware of, are only tangentially related. And even if they specifically addressed my concerns, I don't see how writing about it is anything but useful.

But I also got the sense that more direct collaboration is welcome and could be appreciated.

(1) - I'm the author of The Little MongoDB Book, The Little Redis Book, The Little Go Book, etc... I've always felt that the appeal of my writing is that I'm an average programmer. I run into the same problems, and struggle to understand the same things that many programmers do. When I write, I'm able to write from that perspective.

No matter how inclusive a community you have, there'll always be some opinions and perspectives which get drowned out. It can be intimidating to say "I don't understand", or "it's too complicated" or, god forbid, "I think this is a bad design"; especially when the experts are saying the opposite. I'm old enough that I see looking the fool as both a learning and mentoring experience. If saying "io.Reader is too complicated" saves someone else the embarrassment of saying it, or the shame of feeling it, or gives them a reference to express their own thoughts, I'm a happy blogger.
by mertleee | 2025-09-20 15:39:12+00:00
s2 is one of the coolest technologies that more people need to be talking about - I'm still begging them to move one layer lower -> turning s2 into an incredible middleware for edge IOT deployments!

PLEASE if someone from the team sees this - I would pay so much for a ephemeral object store using your same edge protocol (seen in the sensor example from your blog).

Cheers!
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-20 15:40:09+00:00
> This will be incredible for Americans looking for work.

No, it won’t, jobs (especially local jobs) aren’t a fixed commodity that are going to get filled. This will kill jobs overall, and result in more of the jobs (including jobs that didn't take H-1Bs to fill but were associated with businesses that had such positions) that remain being outside of the US as a direct result, and those direct US job losses will knock-on effects that will kill even more US jobs.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-20 15:40:16+00:00
>Suppress the concept. "We don't talk about that."

You're not disagreeing that it's a valid reason, you're just saying you don't like it.

>How did people enter agreements?

A will is not an agreement, it's a declaration of posthumous intent. It necessarily cannot work in oral form.

>Agree.

Good. I'm glad you agree. I'm just going to ignore the appeal to emotion.
by saghm | 2025-09-20 15:40:35+00:00
It's literally a test of how people will react, so yes, finding out if people will react negatively would be exactly the point of doing the test in the first place. Would you prefer that they don't publicize what their follow-up plans would be to try to make it harder to criticize the plans? If you're against the plan, I'm pretty sure that's the exact type of feedback they're looking for, so it would make more sense to tell them that directly if it actually affects you rather than making a passive-aggressive comment they'll likely never read on an unrelated forum.
by s46dxc5r7tv8 | 2025-09-20 15:40:46+00:00
The analysis feels quite wrong just based on pure physics. Where has that curiosity, interest, and engaged thought gone? It has not simply vanished into the screen without heat loss, it is transformed energy. The mind's eye may no longer be fixed on glyphs on paper but it certainly has not closed. Kids these days are fluent in languages of memes and rich with visual experience. Just because tiktoks are a few seconds long doesn't mean there is nothing in them. Perhaps the vogue visual learning of today is more in common with "trashy pulp fiction" but there isn't nothing at all there as the article suggests.

There will be some challenge in adapting to this new format but attention remains. We are just not converting this new medium into the best educational content as seen in the declining graphs. People are still hungry for knowledge and information about the world, they are just getting it in a more convenient form and who can blame them? I personally do not engage in any of the endless scroll feeds available today and despise social media. I read books both in digital and physical form and I graduated right near the peak of that literacy chart around 2009.

We just need to find better incentives for content creation and the rest will follow on it's own. Often this can only be done with regulation but what regulation can improve the quality of short form media? It will likely take those who grew up steeped in it to imagine the best way to change it for their own children.
by asa400 | 2025-09-20 15:40:52+00:00
Nah, this is absurd. This guy or anybody else can write whatever they want, whenever they want, on their own blog. They are under zero obligation to create bug reports, file issues, check in on a chat channel, or contribute in any other way to an open source software project that does not employ them. Writing blog posts is a perfectly reasonable and normal community behavior.

The members of the Zig project are free to reach out to the author!

When you create a project in public people will write about it, tweet about it, complain about it, etc (if you’re lucky!).
by zdw | 2025-09-20 15:40:58+00:00
I feel like Docker and other containerization tools are becoming even less relevant given that systemd can twiddle the same isolation bits so there's no real difference in terms of security that using a container tool grants.

Seeing that podman can run containers as systemd services (see https://codesmash.dev/why-i-ditched-docker-for-podman-and-yo... ), it seems like using containers other than as a distribution mechanism has few advantages, and many disadvantages in terms of dependency updates requiring container rebuilds.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-20 15:41:12+00:00
Why not store it in hydride form? (Edit: my bad, should read article first, then the comments.)

That's said to be even more energy-dense than liquid H2, and it's obviously much safer.

Guessing the answer is that it requires heat to liberate the gas, and/or makes us even more dependent on rare earths.
by oaiey | 2025-09-20 15:41:27+00:00
As a liberal/conservative European I definitely support that US companies have to search harder locally and do less outsourcing. As a employee of a company who merged many years ago with an US company I should probably search for a new job. Because once outsourcing becomes a problem (which would be very anti capitalistic but also very popularistic) I bet there is no separation between companies who outsourced vs true multi national company anymore.

Good luck everyone who lives these weeks on a H1B visa!
by motorest | 2025-09-20 15:41:55+00:00
> There's at least one proprietary platform that supports Git built by via a vendor-provided C compiler, but for which no public documentation exists and therefore no LLVM support is possible.

That's fine. The only impact is that they won't be able to use the latest and greatest release of Git.

Once those platforms work on their support for Rust they will be able to jump back to the latest and greatest.
by em-bee | 2025-09-20 15:42:00+00:00
code review can be almost as much effort as writing the code, especially when the code is not up to the expectations of the reviewer. this is fine, because you want two people (the original author, and the reviewer) on the code.

when reviewing AI code, not only will the effort needed by the reviewer increase, you also lose the second person (the author) looking at the code, because AI can't do that. it can produce code but not reason about or reflect on it like humans can.
by ranyume | 2025-09-20 15:42:00+00:00
In my workplace happens this, but in a bad way. There's a push to make use of AI as much as we can to "boost productivity", and the one thing people don't want to do is write documentation. So what ends up happening is that we end up with a bunch of AI documentation that other AIs consume but humans have a harder time following because of the volume of fluff and AI-isms. Shitty documentation still exists and can be worse than before...
by DoingIsLearning | 2025-09-20 15:42:23+00:00
Not just governments, Europol as an European wide police. [0]

Palantir is also likely one of the major lobbyists in pushing for Chat Control to the European Commision.

[0] (warning pdf) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-00095...
by reaperducer | 2025-09-20 15:42:36+00:00
Got my air yesterday and it definitely gets hot. Will see how it does after a few days as I expected the heat due to the initial sync and transfer, and iOS indexes everything for a day or two.

I have one, too, and you're right that the heating is just what happens while it restores its data and settings and whatnot.

I believe it also re-scans your entire photo library to re-identify dogs, cars, people, etc. with whatever improved algorithm comes with the new chip/OS.

This happens every time you get a new iPhone. Depending on how much it has to sort through, it can take a couple of hours to a week.

I always leave the case off for the first few days.
by philipkglass | 2025-09-20 15:42:56+00:00
Improved hydride storage is exactly what the submitted article discusses.

A hydrogen battery that operates at just 90 °C has been developed by researchers from Japan, overcoming the high-temperature and low-capacity limits of earlier methods. The device works by moving hydride ions through a solid electrolyte, allowing magnesium hydride, which acts as the anode, to repeatedly store and release hydrogen at full capacity.
by keiferski | 2025-09-20 15:43:53+00:00
I enjoy reading as much as anyone, but I find these kinds of posts to be very short-sighted.

First off, civilization precedes mass reading by millennia. To attribute the Enlightenment and modern industrial civilization to reading, and any counter-movement against the Enlightenment as anti-reading, is to fundamentally misunderstand most of history.

E.g., Romanticism was an explicitly anti-Enlightenment movement and arguably had more interest in poetry and literature than the forces it was reacting against. You could also probably make the argument that widespread reading via the printing press led to more anti-intellectualism culturally, as the onus of belief shifted from the elite priestly class to the popular individual.

Secondly, the vast, vast majority of people were not reading complex literature or scientific papers, they were reading the equivalent of Netflix series. Deep, intellectual reading has always been a niche thing reserved for a small percentage of the population.

Thirdly, and I think most importantly: reading is a historical technology. It's not the end-all greatest thing ever invented, never to be surpassed by anything new.

I personally think that audiovisual media is far, far superior to reading in many situations, especially for education - language learning, for example. The problem right now is that we're assuming that short clip-based media like TikTok is somehow the ultimate form of video. It's not, and short attention spans are more due to the economics of media consumption than anything inherent to the video format.

I think we're just very, very early in the development of a new media format that combines the best elements of text, audio, moving images, and other data in a way that is ultimately more compelling and effective than static words on paper. Video, like books, is ultimately a historical technology and not necessarily the end-all of future media.
by dzink | 2025-09-20 15:43:57+00:00
I don’t disagree that the decline is there and that TikTok is really bad influence, but I also think reading has moved to online writing since books offer a much slower feedback mechanism (especially if others around you are not reading them). Books offered much more than not having information to those with initiative or enough push by educators. Now information is a lot more abundant and has faster (not necessarily better) delivery methods that don’t need involve cost before getting it. The problem with free is that it’s also likely influenced / paid by others. Social Media speeds up the delivery so much with visuals and audio that everything else seems far less attractive. The lazy consumer what’s easy and emotionally entertaining. Those who have more rigor and also enjoy faster flow, may get audiobooks and listen to them T 2x speed. Yet others now use AI to drill into areas that would take a lifetime of hunting down hard to find books. Information is more liquid now. The key is ensuring smart people know how to get what is real and helpful vs stuff that just showers them if they are lazy.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 15:44:09+00:00
> No, they folded because the United States Federal government threatened them.

Yes because they control the FCC and FCC has rules in regards to the content of broadcasts. Kimmel is free to say anything he wants on his own website or platform and such, but as soon as it's on the "air" rules apply.

> This is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment by the government against protected speech (no matter how many people find that protected speech distasteful).

If it's that clear the would have fought it. It wasn't clear at all. Moreover it was just a bad PR look instead of saying something like "condolences for the family blah blah" they would be defending Kimmel's phrasing. That's why they dropped like him a hot potato.
by motorest | 2025-09-20 15:44:14+00:00
> The point was you don't need to wait for 8 Pis to become available when most people can get going straight away with what they already have.

You also don't need RPis to learn anything about programming, networking, electronics, etc.

But people do it anyways.

I really don't see what point anyone thinks they are making regarding pedogogy. RPis are synonymous with tinkering, regardless of how you cut it. Distributed systems too.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-09-20 15:44:28+00:00
Are you even a programmer? Do you know what any of these words mean?

> using the CPython interpreter as a dynamic library (shown as libpython.dylib in figure 1).

They're embedding the python interpreter not extending it - just like everyone and their mother has been able to do for decades

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/embedding.html

I repeat: you have no idea what you're talking about so in reality you're the troll.
by Silhouette | 2025-09-20 15:44:34+00:00
Talking with your phone because driving is boring as shit is fairly harmless

It really isn't. Driving while distracted by a phone conversation is comparable in safety to driving while heavily intoxicated or while barely awake. This is not a hypothetical. There is actual experimental research behind it and the evidence is consistent and overwhelming. There is no justification and no defence. It's not a debate. It kills people.

Everyone is right in saying that those drivers should take public transport instead if they want to work or call or play a game while they are on the move. And yes - maybe in time there will be self-driving options that will make the whole issue obsolete. But right now anyone driving but not paying full attention is a danger to themselves and others and this is not something we should condone or attempt to justify. It kills people.
by kasperset | 2025-09-20 15:44:38+00:00
Phone usage is getting more intense as we move from mere passive consumption to having them as creative (compute) device. "Heat" is sort of reflection of that.

I want to see more optimization to reduce the heat from both hardware as in this case and in software side as well. I guess it is easier to show enhancements about hardware made to address something such as heat or processing but comparatively difficult or abstract to show software optimizations?
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 15:45:21+00:00
In what way? The cited portion, which discusses theories in the field, says:

“The rainbow theorists argue that the machine was a functional body (Merton 1968) that pursued political incorporation of many ethnic groups in the political party. In return for loyalty to the political party, machines delivered a variety of social services to ethnic immigrants, in addition to jobs, friendship, and opportunities for social and economic advancement. The rainbow coalition of mostly white-ethnic groups was sustained through a virtually endless supply of ‘municipal gold’ (Erie 1988) that the machines controlled. This exchange system seemingly guaranteed ethnic loyalty to the machine.”

The remainder of the article shows how Irish domination left the Polish with the short end of the stick: “Through this study we try to show that Polish Americans in Chicago were on the short end of the exchange arrangements in the machine, receiving few rewards, especially as their independence from the Democratic party expanded during the Daley era.” The Poles were punished

This is basically Pakistan, except instead of clans it’s immigrant groups voting for their own co-ethnics and jockeying for advantage. It’s a far cry from the political debates of the founding era, which were based on principles and political theory, not ethnic tribalism.
by necovek | 2025-09-20 15:45:57+00:00
I sense a bit of contradiction in there.

If it's universally true that free markets reign supreme for economic development, then how come "foreign counterparts" can strategically leverage that without having a free market themselves? How did they even get to the comparable economic level without them?

So I would counter that this is the wrong conclusion. Due to USA supporting and driving the globalization of trade and production, it has remained the "world leader" for as long as it has. Let's remember that USA has 1/4-1/3 of the population of China or India — I would say that the tactic has worked for a long while. Unless you want to claim how USA has inherently more capable and more intelligent people (which I would dispute)?

Without this, I believe USA would have likely lost the lead even sooner — let's see how high end tech export restrictions will end up? Will it make China actually catch up sooner since they can't leverage top end tech anymore, and now they have to invest a lot more in developing it themselves?

Now, maybe we are at a tipping point where USA does need a change of tactic to remain a "leader" (but why?), but it really seems like squeezing the last ounces of the tech leadership by USA to remain "top dog" for a little longer. At the same time, it's completely normal that countries 3x or 4x the size of it, with improved economic and scientific development, are about to overtake the USA. Do you think there'd be any incentive to go into a war if all the people in the world were as rich as middle class people in USA? I think it'd be very hard to get anyone to sign up for an army, even if there are any profiteers looking to start it.

A good world, IMO, is one where everybody has at-least comparable means as the US middle class. That would naturally mean that bigger countries than US are richer than them, and that is OK. I know US people have been growing up with this superiority complex, but really, a lot of historical things have come together for US to be as successful as it was.

I believe that all of you HN participants from US are closer in mindset to HN participants all over the world than to some of your fellow Americans. Don't let the nationalism get to you either: you've got good examples of what comes out of people in other countries who fall prey to it (they get abused by their politicians and war criminals, get the shitty end of the stick while the former get rich and avoid any life-threatening drama).
by scythe | 2025-09-20 15:46:35+00:00
Hydrogen production by electrolysis is relatively efficient, with 80% efficiency regularly achieved by modern electrolyzers. It's the reverse reaction that causes problems; 60% is very good for a fuel cell.

So you can avoid the issue if you can use hydrogen to do useful work directly. The simplest cases are iron reduction from ore and heating via absorption heat pumps. Iron reduction works pretty well, but absorption heat pumps have limited exergy efficiency (a measure of useful energy available in heat) when using a very high temperature source like a hydrogen flame. An alternative is to use the waste heat from a fuel cell to drive an absorption heat pump, effectively converting hydrogen to both heat and electricity, the latter possibly being returned to the grid or a battery. But this creates a complex system of energy distribution, which requires some fancy load balancing on the electrical side. District heating allows you to avoid having a fancy fuel cell in every residence, but it requires infrastructure.