MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ignoramous | 2025-09-13 00:23:47+00:00
TFA goes: A window for response (commonly 14 days) is offered, unless unfeasible due to seriousness and time restraints of the request itself. If the developer disputes the claim and provides supporting information (e.g. license, public domain status, fair use justification), the claim is reviewed.

As someone who has had multiple FOSS projects take down by companies / app stores (happens when we go viral in some country), DDoS'd by rouge actors (thanks for saving our bacon, Cloudflare!), visits from law enforcement etc; F-Droid's post on "appeals process" comes as a surprise. Here's the email I received from them:

Dear The Rethink DNS Authors, The F-Droid platform has received an official order from Roskomnadzor (RKN), Russia's Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, IT, and Mass Media, regarding Rethink (Registry Entry #3133609-РИ) https://f-droid.org/ru/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/ ... F-Droid took technical measures to block your website app page for the Russian site visitors to avoid the risk of limited access to F-Droid as a whole. For further queries or concerns, contact legal@f-droid.org. Thank you for your cooperation.

Nothing in there informs me that I had the opportunity to appeal.
by opo | 2025-09-13 00:24:24+00:00
>I neither said nor implied that the green transition is complete. Green transitions take decades.

Maybe you didn't intend too, but your words certainly implied it:

>>...it didnt prove conclusively that you could decarbonize your electric grid without any help at all from nuclear power.

Since you reference Germany later, the implication above was that Germany did prove you could decarbonize your electric grid without any help at all from nuclear power. Which might be true someday in the future, but Germany certainly hasn't decarbonized their grid yet. The one thing that Germany did "prove conclusively" is that thousands of lives were needlessly lost over the last 15 years because of bad policy.

>Germany is merely transitioning the fastest

Germany will certainly not be carbon neutral the fastest. I guess it will beat Poland though.

>Not the country next door to it that didnt even try.

You have a point - it is the responsibility of every country to decarbonize. I guess a big issue here is simply money - Poland GDP is much smaller than Germany and they have less available options. Though besides your claim, I've never heard anyone actually lauding Poland's efforts or thinking it was a good thing they are using coal.

>...They are seemingly obsessed with what was once ~8-12% of Germany's power output, but the actual environment? Not that important.

I have no idea what you are trying to say here.

Like I said, I find that those who actually want to decarbonize the grid, don't particularly care what clean technology is used and different countries will have a different mix of technologies they use. Unfortunately, there certainly do seem to be some advocates of solar/wind who would prefer to go decades (or maybe much longer) burning coal and killing people and destroying the environment when their country had the option to use a clean energy source.
by const_cast | 2025-09-13 00:24:35+00:00
I agree, but take it one step further: if you're not deeply familiar with mature and/or complex software, assume you are wrong. Assume however you verified it is incorrect.

Curl is a very old piece of software that is incredibly reliable, built in a language that allows you to do evil things.

If you find what looks like a bug or vulnerability, there is a good chance it's not. There's a good chance that because of specific circumstances that came to be 15 years ago, the code will never execute in such a way to cause a bug.
by thund | 2025-09-13 00:24:48+00:00
totally agree, chasing ultrathin designs has diminishing returns. There's so many practical ways to extend battery life such as letting users selectively dial down performance, adding a bit of extra thickness/weight, rethinking how power hungry features are scheduled... It's a matter of priorities, and Apple is obsessed with design (with dubious results, ie magic mouse charging port)
by devmor | 2025-09-13 00:25:29+00:00
I found that framing the questions in an innocuous way, the way a child might, gets past your moderation settings. Try asking it “what happened to [dead guy]” and then following up with asking how you can see what happened.

I don’t think it should provide emergency assistance, but I do think it should tell the child to call their emergency number or a trusted adult - not just tell them it can’t help.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-13 00:25:49+00:00
Unfortunately for your proposal, the crawlers for training LLMs don't have the same censorship as the AI chatbots do when communicating with the end user. The censorship of chatbots is either done by means of fine-tuning (a technique which is part of the broader category of 'alignment' processes), or having a separate model (which may or may not be an LLM) filter its output. Both of these are done only at runtime, after the LLM has already been trained - and most of the crawling comes during training.

All that's to say that you can stop some of your website contents being quoted by the chatbots verbatim, but you can't prevent the crawlers using up all your bandwidth in the way you describe. You also can't stop your website contents being rehashed in a conceptual way by the chatbot later. So if I just write something copyrighted or taboo here in this comment, that won't stop an LLM being trained on the comment as a whole, but it might stop the chatbot based on that LLM from quoting it directly.

Everything is moving so quickly with AI that my comment is probably out of date the moment I type it... take it with a grain of salt :)
by thephyber | 2025-09-13 00:25:54+00:00
This conflates high education specialists with high earnings. It’s probably not completely uncorrelated, but only giving H1-Bs to the highest paying reqs which need them starves all of the other reqs of any possible candidates.

I understand that H1-Bs are currently likely to create an abusive relationship with the visa-ed employee, but just because you have identified a valid diagnosis doesn’t mean your suggested prescription would be much better.
by zahlman | 2025-09-13 00:26:44+00:00
The apparent purpose of the article is to editorialize about another Atlantic piece, which in turn presents the following quote from Trump's speech about the assassination:

> For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

> My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law-enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country. From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health-care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical-left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.

and proposes that this is somehow engineered to heighten the conflict, rather than to promise to restore order.

I don't understand the reasoning. Of course Trump is focused on those acts of political violence committed by the left; he's on the right. Of course the shooter was a leftist; no rightist would have reason to do this, except as a false flag, which would be taking us quite far into conspiratorial thinking. Trump knew who Kirk was; he didn't need evidence for this part — but we also can't say for sure that he didn't have insider information.

Meanwhile, the argument selectively ignores that

> President Donald Trump said Charlie Kirk “was an advocate of nonviolence” and said, “That’s the way I’d like to see people respond” to his killing.

(https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-he-wa...)

For LaFrance to go on at length like this against civil war, while throwing in sentences like "Donald Trump’s speech... should frighten any American who rejects political violence, cares about civil liberties, and dislikes government interference." (along with a bunch of other stuff about his use of the National Guard etc.), shows clearly that he is trying to push the narrative that Trump is for it; but this is flatly contradicted by the available evidence.
by mystraline | 2025-09-13 00:26:45+00:00
I'm acutely aware of that.

The folks who hired me didn't realize I was also a hacker. I did my due diligence as well, and this was more 10.3 . And yes, it was terrible.

I know that FEMA and EPA both are running their public portals as 10.8 , which is really bad. There's usually between 8-12 critical (cvss 3.0 9 or greater) per version bump. Fuck if I know how federal acquisitions even allow this, but yeahhh.

Also, on Hosting Server install, theres configs with commented out internal ticket numbers. You search this on google, and you'll find out 25% of the IPs that hit it are Chinese. Obviously, for software thats used predominantly in the US government, a whole bunch of folks in opposition to us are writing it. And damn, the writing quality is TERRIBLE.

basically, if you have to run ArcGIS enterprise, keep it internal only if at all possible. Secure Portal operation is NOT to be trusted. And if you do need a public API, keep the single machine in DMZ, or better yet, isolated on a cloud. Copy the data as a bastion, like a S3 bucket or rsync, or something. Dont connect it to your enterprise.

Oh and even with 11.5 , there are a multitude of hidden options you can set with the config for WebAdapter, including full debug. Some even save local creds like for portaladmin.

Oh yeah, and if you access the Portal postgres DB, and query the users table, you'll find 20 or so Esri accounts that are intentionally hidden from the Users list in portal on :7443 . The accounts do appear disabled... But, why are they even there to begin with?
by palata | 2025-09-13 00:27:07+00:00
Well it's open source. And you can use AOSP, or LineageOS, or CalyxOS, or /e/OS.

I used /e/OS before moving to GrapheneOS (when I changed phone), and /e/OS runs on tons of devices, but they just don't get full updates. So you end up running with a device that hasn't received vendor security updates for years, which is worse than just using Stock Android.

At least GrapheneOS does not support many devices (for good reasons), but the ones they support, they support really well.
by duxup | 2025-09-13 00:27:17+00:00
I had a friend who went for a walk and woke up in the hospital. She was on a walking path and some other walkers found her unconscious not long after some ebikes passed them going very fast on the walking path. Debris at the scene seemed to indicate there was a big collision. She still has short term memory issues and headaches.

Some of these ebikes are like tiny motorcycles ... that unfortunately riders are happy to ride all over the place.
by dmoy | 2025-09-13 00:27:19+00:00
Accountants have to sit for the CPA exams (four of them), and depending on the state may have required graduate course load. And also you should interview your CPA, because a lot are not very good at whatever specific section of accounting you need (e.g. tax filing).

Plumber is probably the closest to what you're getting at. They are state licensed typically, with varying levels of requirement. But the requirement is often just like "have worked for 2-4 years as a trainee underneath a certified plumber" or whatever. That would be closest to what I'm guessing you would be recommending?

Also relevantly: the accountant and plumber jobs that are paying $300k-$500k+ are very rare. There exist programming jobs that pay what a typical plumber makes, but don't have as many arcane interview hoops to jump through.
by tomhow | 2025-09-13 00:27:36+00:00
Previous related discussions:

Second ‘impossible’ ring found around distant dwarf planet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762112 - April 2023 (61 comments)

Ring discovered around dwarf planet Quaoar confounds theories - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34714024 - Feb 2023 (1 comment)
by oxalorg | 2025-09-13 00:28:04+00:00
Seeing lots of emacs praise on HN since the last 2 days.

In this blog post I walk through the process of how I go about extending emacs (specifically a 3rd party plugin) and tailoring it to my specific problems.

I'm definitely not an emacs pro, but I've written a few packages in emacs and have a cursory idea of it's vast powers! Happy to answer any question.

For anyone interested, my emacs config is at: https://github.com/oxalorg/.emacs.d
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-09-13 00:28:13+00:00
Yes, TLS encryption has similar potential risks, quantum and other elliptic curve vulnerabilities.

Quantum resistant algorithms are under heavy discussion in bitcoin dev mailing list, and have been for awhile. I think the signature sizes for leading algorithms are still too large to be practical within existing block size limits, but of course lots of things would probably have to change in a quantum emergency. Bitcoin devs tend to be extremely conservative with making new changes (in part because it attracts a lot of contrarians) so it's going to take a long time for people to agree on the right architecture for a quantum resistant scheme in bitcoin, but it will happen, BIPs are in the works like BIP-360 which outlines some potential structure for it.
by gcanyon | 2025-09-13 00:28:35+00:00
> We still need to overturn national nuclear bans, unlock more funding, and push democratic countries to support clean energy development abroad: especially where it is most needed to compete with Russia’s growing influence.

We also need to figure out how to build reactors in months to years instead of years to decades to failure.

And to build reactors at a cost less than $10 to $20 million per megawatt capacity.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-13 00:29:26+00:00
I understand, but why is similar moderation not extended when "H1Bs" come up on HN?

To be brutally honesty, why is it acceptable to bash H1B abuse but not B1/2 or VWP abuse on HN. In both cases, it is employers mislabeling and potentially breaking immigration and labor laws, yet it is acceptable to talk derogatorily about those on H1Bs and not on other visas, even though rates of visa misuse are consistent across most large nationalities.

I am of South Asian origin, but I have lived in North America for almost my entire life (aside from 6 months in the old country), but the persistent utilization of "H1B" as a code word for South Asian (primarily Indian) origin tech employees is tiring.

I understand that a lot of ICs are dealing with a significant amount of stress due to the downturn in the tech industry, but there is a nativist current on HN that is starting to morph into anti-South Asian sentiment.

This style of thread comes up almost daily on HN, and is something I have previously brought up to @Dang as well.

It is tiring and demeaning to those of us who are immigrants or the children of immigrants - a number of us who make up a major portion of the tech industry, and have leadership positions in YC as well.

South Asian Americans make up around 2-3% of the US, but almost every post on HN about the job market turns into "H1B"-bashing, which often devolves into bashing people on the visa instead of the companies themselves.

Almost never do I see conversations extending sympathy to those on work visas and also stuck with abusive employers - only nativist bashing that "they took our jobs".

I hope you can moderate these kinds of conversations or update the engagement rules of HN, because HN and the tech industry of 2025 is not HN or the tech industry of 2008.

It is legitimately demoralizing. I worked on the Hill for several years, have advised administrations on how to bring back manufacturing and "American dynamism" (to use the A16Z term), and have built, launched, and funded software products and companies that are used by backbone infra in the US, and even advised a number of YC startups that have exited.

I have done my part for the country, yet to a large portion of HN and the tech industry I and other South Asian Americans will continue to be termed as "H1Bs" until they hear our accent, or if we can pass as some other race or ethnicity.

I would love to have a good faith discussion with you about this, because I do heavily leverage HN and have found it to be a great resource to find technical discussions and have my portfolio companies show share their features, so the toxicity around H1B and work visas in the tech industry is heavily demoralizing.
by alberzurano | 2025-09-13 00:30:50+00:00
I’m building a project in the AI traveltech space, and I keep asking myself: why hasn’t this industry applied automation and agentic systems the way others have?

Corporate travel is still a mix of booking engines, dashboards, and human agents tied together by manual workflows. It works, but it doesn’t think. The systems don’t actually “know” the traveler — they just store preferences and points.

What if instead, you had an agent that travels with you?

Would love to hear perspectives from people who’ve worked in travel, automation, or agent frameworks.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-09-13 00:30:53+00:00
Hmm, you successfully nerd-sniped me. AFAIK there are at least:

- 8-bit floating point types: (S1)E4M3 (finite only, has no-negative-zero variant), (S1)E5M2 (has no-negative-zero variant), E8M0

- 6-bit floating point types: (S1)E2M3, (S1)E3M2

- 4-bit floating point types: (S1)E2M1, NF4

- Block floating point types: MXFP8 (E5M2/E4M3*32+E8M0), MXFP6 (E3M2/E2M3*32+E8M0), MXFP4 (E2M1*32+E8M0), NXFP [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19821

Do you have anything to add on?
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-13 00:31:13+00:00
The west always assumed Russia would (attempt to) close the gap between Belarus and Kaliningrad at Poland's corner.

>The military powerhouse that is Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad actually does have a sizable (for Russia) military investment, which is why the west would expect them to defend it in that way.

I don't think Russia COULD do that anymore, unless it was entirely a Belarus operation. But if they succeed at rushing that gap, current war "meta" is extremely defensive-sided. Russia may not have a meaningful "fleet" but they certainly have enough working and pretty good submarines to make hell for anyone trying to then supply Lithuania.
by BenFranklin100 | 2025-09-13 00:31:41+00:00
A healthy labor pool increase business growth that in turn can push average industry wages higher however.

It’s real phenomena too - US developer wages are so high in part due to the business ecosystem which depends on part on recent graduates and a flexible labor pool.

That is, your analysis is only true in the static case. Starve US startups of talented junior developers and you might kill the next Facebook in the process.
by fiscalnonsense | 2025-09-13 00:31:43+00:00
In active use:

retropie - pi3b+

gps based ntp (2x pi2 + gps hats. Chrony rocks.)

rtl_433 monitor for 915 and another for 433 (2x pi2, 2x rtl-sdr sticks)

an ads-b 1090 monitor (pi3 + rtl-sdr stick)

libreelec - plex clients (2x pi4 (1GB and 2GB)

an emulated macintosh (pi3)

a flood monitor in the basement (pi1)

an aarch64 dev platform (cm4-8GB) and another (pi5-8GB)
by aGHz | 2025-09-13 00:32:34+00:00
Thank you very much, this is exactly the starting point I needed. I'll keep following the citations trail into more recent years, but your second link from 2007 reinforces my feeling that we're still very far from understanding the mechanisms:

> Second, within LIPC, we found a gradient in which a more dorsal-posterior region was involved in SR, a mid region was involved in both SR and EE, and a more ventral-anterior region was involved in EE, but only when SR was high.

To me, these are merely clues about how the high-level pieces fit together, and there's a long road to actually understanding the neural correlates of memory.
by pandaman | 2025-09-13 00:32:53+00:00
It's not just Infosys doing PERM fraud, around 2020 Meta had been barred from filing PERM due to overwhelming fraud. And are there really 85K unique and impossible to find in the US individuals every year? If these exist they will take a small fraction of H-1B allocation and the rest will go to the fresh grads, as it's now.
by zahlman | 2025-09-13 00:34:00+00:00
I have seen comments on HN posting this narrative as well. It defies comprehension. One of the pieces of evidence used to spin this story is the suspect wearing a Trump costume for Hallowe'en, as a 14-year-old, in 2017 (the year that this costume was popular; the entire point was to protest Trump by treating him as a literal boogeyman).

(But of course, it is only seemingly all of Bluesky; and of course it's very easy on social media to start filtering for this content once you first encounter it.)
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-13 00:36:26+00:00
Thats some Wealth of Nations every worker can move the same number of bricks reductive thinking.

I have been in the valley for 25+ years, and worked with a ton of visa holders.

The majority of them were better educated and all well compensated for the work they did. The fact that many of them stayed for green cards and citizenship says a LOT. There is a reason that the boss of both google, and MS came through these programs.
by zahlman | 2025-09-13 00:36:39+00:00
"Freedom of speech" exists separately as a philosophical concept, not as legal doctrine implemented by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The latter is something I have always considered a shockingly Americentric view. I have seen people go so far as to say that the First Amendment defines what free speech is — which is kind of like saying that the Second Amendment defines what a gun is.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-13 00:36:42+00:00
Nuclear energy requires high-end engineering and manufactoring skills. Both vanish in the west more and more, particularly in the US.

China can build nuclear plants just fine because they have the manufactoring and engineering quality and quantity. Where did they get that? We gave it to them and even financed it.

The crisis of the west is a crisis of production. To bury regulations just means to keep a failing system afloat for another short while. Regulations exist to prevent another Chernobyl, thanks.
by eek2121 | 2025-09-13 00:37:05+00:00
I read it about halfway through before the kiddos started screaming. Overall very good.

One nitpick: maybe provide just a bit more detail regarding how your/your friend came to some of the conclusions. It isn't because I don't believe anything, however I'm just an old timer (somewhat, elder millennial) who likes to know how things work/how you guys game to the conclusions you did. Not a full rundown, obviously, however I did see quite a few assumptions that were only partially explained. Seems to be a good read, however, and I'll finish it tomorrow.
by mpyne | 2025-09-13 00:38:27+00:00
Well it's because by this logic we should just stop Americans from studying for computing jobs as well, that way those who remain will have higher wages. Just as the Luddites tried to stop the rise of industrialization that threatened to bring the skills they used to employ to the wider public at lower costs.

The real answer is that immigrants create enough economic demand to be net positive even for Americans, for much the same reason as Americans are generally more prosperous when there's more of us.

Seriously, you live in some dumpy parts of the country and you can have the exclusive rights on being the town cloud guru locked down and in principle get higher wages in a smaller labor pool, but for some strange reason few of us want to do that.