MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vnuge | 2025-09-19 21:10:01+00:00
Since relays don't own user generated content, there is no need to "federate" client's generally rely on user-selected relay sets. The user chooses where they want to read/write events to/from.

That said, many of the "larger" relays do store events from other relays (federation if you prefer). Primal does, TheForrest does, nostr.land and so on. Nostr.land specifically has a purpose of aggregating notes from many other public relays, with spam filtering. It's a paid relay built for that purpose. Don't want that, use someone else.

Most users get to see 99% of notes from the current relay federation now, but it's also impossible to check those metrics.

Certain clients and signers store notes privately so if a relay ever decides to censor your notes you just publish to a different relay if they don't have your notes already.

Chances are if you use ANY of the popular paid relay providers, your going to get warnings on 3/4 write events that the other relays _already_ have the note published to the first. It's usually that quick...

Finally, relays "federate" by acting as clients themselves. Most relay software available already offers this as an option, may use it as a local cache for when on mobile and network/wifi is slow. Their local relay slowly pulls notes from other relays (or outbox) and caches those notes for when they load their client up. It's cache and the client dev didn't even have to write that functionality, it was transparent.

Finally, other's mentioned outbox, which has it's own set of issues as well, but it doesn't matter because a client developer can choose to give the user the option if they want. Going from federated, to peer-to-peer which was the intention.
by TriangleEdge | 2025-09-19 21:10:06+00:00
> Maybe big tech will hire a few hundred every year ...

A few hundred? All of the tech companies I've worked for are > 50% Indians in the US. Especially in big tech. I could be wrong, but my understanding is there there is not enough software developers in the US, hence the temp workers. Is there expectation that the demand will drop?
.YE ccTLD – Formal Redelegation Request to ICANN/IANA
by FreeTheDotYE | 2025-09-19 21:10:22+00:00
We are the FreeTheDotYE campaign, a volunteer-led effort to address a long-standing failure in internet governance. We have submitted a formal request to ICANN/IANA for the redelegation of Yemen's country-code top-level domain (.YE).

The full request can be viewed here:

https://freethedotye.org/letter

The Core Problem:

The IANA Root Zone Database lists TeleYemen as the manager for the .YE ccTLD. Since the Houthi militia's takeover of Sana'a in 2014-2015, TeleYemen's infrastructure has been under their control. This means a non-state armed group is the de facto operator of a sovereign nation's digital identifier.

The Basis for Redelegation (RFC 1591 & ICP-1):

Our request is grounded in established internet governance principles that the current operator has clearly violated:

1. RFC 1591: Requires a ccTLD manager to serve the entire local community as a trustee.

2. ICP-1: Requires the operator to be neutral, competent, and serve the public interest.

Demonstrable Governance Failures & Real-World Abuse:

* Failure to Serve the Community: The .YE namespace exclusively serves the Houthi militia. Yemen's internationally recognized government and civil society are forced onto generic TLDs (.com, .org), while militia-run portals occupy .gov.ye and .edu.ye.

* Weaponization for Military and Extortionist Purposes: The control over the `.gov.ye` namespace is being actively used to threaten international maritime shipping. The Houthis have established a website at `hocc.gov.ye` (Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center) which acts as a front for their maritime operations. Through this site and associated emails like `info@navy.gov.ye`, they issue military threats and run what amounts to a digital extortion racket under the guise of a state authority. This is a direct abuse of a national resource for military coercion.

* Loss of Neutrality: The .YE domain is used to run propaganda outlets (e.g., saba.ye), and the same authority uses its control over telecommunications to censor and surveil activists.

* Instability and Risk: The entity controlling .YE is documented for severe human rights abuses, including the kidnapping of journalists and detention of UN staff. An operator associated with such acts cannot be considered a stable or trusted steward.

Our Formal Request to ICANN:

1. Initiate a formal review of the .YE delegation.

2. Temporarily redelegate .YE to a neutral international trustee until a stable, legitimate national authority can assume stewardship. There is a precedent for this (e.g., the .SO Somalia redelegation).

This is a critical test of whether the principles of a multi-stakeholder, community-led internet can hold in a conflict zone where a ccTLD has been turned into an instrument of war.

Links:

- Campaign Website: https://freethedotye.org

- X profile: https://x.com/FreeTheDotYE
by godelski | 2025-09-19 21:10:24+00:00
It's hard to infer what you're exactly saying here, but I've worked in physics (my undergrad), aerospace engineering (first job), and programming (my phd and onwards), so I think I can bridge whatever gap is being discussed here.

In programming, engineering, and hard science your goals evolve during development. There's always discovery during the doing process that necessitates pivots, and sometimes hard pivots. The main difference I've seen is just how much time goes into planning. Software has an advantage in that when working with physical things mistakes are incredibly costly both in money and time. You fuck up a tolerance and you might need you wait a few weeks for the part to be remade and you might have an expensive paperweight (hopefully you can use for some testing).

So what that leads to is more planning stages. That's not just make a plan and go, but make a plan, go, regroup, replan, go, repeat. It often means gathering people who are the owners of different parts of a project because you can't just duct tape things together and the most permanent solution is a temporary solution that works. This greatly affects how I go about programming and is something I notice I do differently from my peers. I spend a lot more time at the whiteboard while most people I know never visit one. I'm not spending all my time there, or even most, but I couldn't do my job without "pen and paper".

In programming the "laws of physics" aren't constantly changing and you're not "building a plane while flying it" (how would it even get off the ground lol), but your requirements are constantly changing. That's... normal engineering and normal in both experimental and even theoretical science. That's because we're not omniscient and you don't know the full answer from the get go lol.

This isn't to say in trad engineering and science we doing also "move fast and break things". Just like in programming you'll build toy models or scaled down versions. But I do think programmers could benefit a lot more and make a lot fewer mistakes (substantially reducing future workloads) would they spend a bit more time at the drawing board. It's great that in programming we can jump in and poke around and experiment so much faster than the physical world allows us, but it seems that this feature is overused instead of being used in addition to planning and designing. That's what actually made me come over to this side, was the ability to iterate faster. But sometimes you gotta take a step back and look at things. Sometimes you gotta move the bridge. Sometimes you gotta tear it down to build an entirely new one. The latter is actually much easier in programming and honestly I feel like it's used less frequently. But that's like being unwilling to throw away your first draft when writing a report (or anything). Why hold on? The first draft's job is to get the stuff out of your head and see it in a more physical form. It's so easy to rebuild, magnitudes easier than doing it the first time, but it always hangs on as if losing it is losing work.
by kevinsync | 2025-09-19 21:10:50+00:00
Believe it lol [0]

"The acts are responsible for all of it. They set the ticket prices. They created the large fees. Ticketmaster is paid to take the heat. Because the acts don’t want their fans to hate them. Even worse, the fans don’t hate them even when they’re told the acts are at fault, they just don’t believe it!"

For more insight into ticket pricing, see [1]

That said, up until I read this Ars article, I understood what Ticketmaster was and why they exist and kind of had few problems with it or moral compunctions about it; the concert business is cut-throat and it's very hard to turn a profit without some of these tactics in place. I find this new revelation about protecting revenue by actively supporting + enabling the corrupt reseller market to be quite fucking distasteful though!

[0] https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2022/11/17/ticketmaster-swift-...

[1] https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/03/01/the-truth-about-tic...
by zeven7 | 2025-09-19 21:10:52+00:00
I began keeping my own little list of things after the inauguration. It's very incomplete. I would love to see a broader effort toward a more complete list. I'd also like it to be limited to extremely serious and verified, indisputable information. There's enough cruelty and corruption that we don't need to count things that might be taken out of context or easy to dismiss.
by onetimeusename | 2025-09-19 21:11:07+00:00
Ok that may be true but I would also argue there is such a thing as elite overproduction[1] via immigration. That is, we are basically importing a new elite for a fixed number of roles in society. Let's presume also that the children of highly talented immigrants are also highly talented. In some sense this kind of social engineering could be harmful to both nations involved.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction
by knotbin | 2025-09-19 21:11:20+00:00
Yes. Ryan Dahl has openly said this. It isn't a "gotcha" nor is it something they're hiding. Tweet from Ryan Dahl:

> I can justify spending money on it because it does get Deno's name out there - blog posts posted to http://deno.com, etc - but without support it's pretty likely our legal bills will dwarf whatever that marketing is worth
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-19 21:11:39+00:00
I'm not sure I think this is totally sensible.

It might be fine if Dark Web stuff is popular in relevant countries such Russia, and the prospective spy can pretend that he was only trying to buy drugs or something, but I think the interesting thing would be to leverage mainstream websites, i.e. big things-- Google, news.bbc.co.uk, etc.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-09-19 21:11:44+00:00
> Android has both better phones and better UX.

extreme, EXTREME minority opinion stated as fact

> when all Apple has done for the past five years is merely copying it

This is a popular refrain but never passes the sniff test. Android has nothing equivalent to AirPods, airdrop, find my, list goes on and on.
Ask HN: Why not have shoes that are just as loud as sports cars?
by amichail | 2025-09-19 21:12:08+00:00
Sports cars get to be very loud on purpose… so why not pedestrians?

Imagine shoes with pressure sensors and built-in speakers that blast a sound every time you step. Pick your sound pack: heavy boot thuds, robot clanks, cartoon boings, Godzilla stomps — whatever fits your vibe.

Would you rock a pair?
by mcny | 2025-09-19 21:12:10+00:00
I got a new Android phone recently as well. I am trying to see how far I can get without signing into a Google or Motorola (this is a Motorola phone) account. So far so good. I can't download any apps from the app store that were not already included when I activated the phone but I can use fdroid so I am good for the most part.
by waterhouse | 2025-09-19 21:12:10+00:00
> couple studies on Somali immigrant population in Minnesota and Sweden - where such dark skinned population naturally gets very low on vitamin D - showed such correlation as autism rates in that population is higher than back there in Somali (and that would explain the correlation of low sunlight expo.

Or autism among Somalis causes them, or their parents, to want to immigrate to Minnesota and Sweden?
by spwa4 | 2025-09-19 21:12:23+00:00
The real thing you can learn from Nordic Socialism: big government programs are easy with oil revenues, where you get goods and services from foreigners with very little effort on the part of your own citizens.

At that point then everyone takes credit for how well that all works.

This is like pointing out that Bill Gates' household proves how communism works on a small scale.
by gorbachev | 2025-09-19 21:12:27+00:00
> IMO the problem is that H1B employees are stuck at the employer for the duration of their green card process, and so end up both paid lower and unable to escape abuse.

This is not true. Transferring your H1-B to another employer is entirely possible, the new employer will have to file the application as usual, but the application is not subject to the annual H1-B quotas.

At least this was the way it was several years ago. I doubt the process has changed since.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-09-19 21:12:35+00:00
What if we make the fee per-year? "It costs $10,000 to sponsor a new H1B immigrant's entry, and then it costs $5,000 per year per H-1B employee you have." H1-B holder is free to leave, and the cost of that happening to their employer is fairly low. Then let's say after 5 years of H1B employment, you automatically become eligible for citizenship, since you're clearly a valued worker.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-19 21:12:51+00:00
Eh, Trump's administration is so cravenly corrupt and incompetent in every facet and manner that I think it will happen, purely because it's one of those "throw 'em a bone" tactics for the commoners. It's the same reason the aggressive ICE actions have redoubled.

And FWIW, I think the H1B program, like the TFW program in Canada, is outrageously corrupt and has zero legitimacy, and the laughable foundations that people use to justify it -- namely a completely unsubstantiated labour shortage -- is such a ridiculous lie that it deserves to be obliterated. It is a way for the ultra-rich to stomp on worker rights and compensation.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-19 21:12:58+00:00
Pretty much. All this did is now create a thousand talents program for India.

H1B visa abuse by consultancies and mass recruiters is a real issue, but this now incentivized companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Pfizer, Cheveron etc to expand their Indian offices.

Edit: can't reply

> Was there any reason for them not to? It's cheaper than H1B anyways.

Spending an additional $10-15k in visa filing fees isn't that big of a deal for an employer who's already paying around 25-35% in withholding and benefits, but at $100K that makes it enough that if you needed to sponsor 10 people on an H1B, you now hit the monetary amount to avail GCC tax rebates and subsidies in most of Eastern Europe and India, where they will give you an additional $10-20k in tax credits and subsidies per head.

Basically, opening a new office abroad just to save on $10-15k of filing fees per employees wasn't worth it, but now that it'll be $100k per employee, the math just shifted.

> Why is this parasitic organization allowed to incorporate?

VC now, not a director anymore. But help me find a new grad with 3-4 years of exploit development and OS internals experience in the US. I can't.

On the other hand, I can in Tel Aviv. There's a reason the entire cybersecurity industry has shifted outside the US.

Large sectors of the US tech scene just lack ANY domestic know-how.
by irq-1 | 2025-09-19 21:13:05+00:00
I tried to find out what key algorithm is used -- not listed anywhere. Everything led to pages about Blech32 (a bitcoin key encoding).

https://hellonostr.dev/en/introduction/

The encoding seems to have an unmentioned/unaddressed version number included, both in the nostr doc and the bitcoin docs.

npub1abcxyz... is npub (header) 1 (version) abcxyz... (key)

Now take a look at the doc (linked above.)
by abakker | 2025-09-19 21:13:19+00:00
it is very difficult to determine this. Companies that do h1Bs are all multinational, so they can locate dev offshore and just say they did it internally. There's also the reality that even if you go out and try to evaluate the revenue that comes from IT, you basically can't get clean attribution even if you want to. many H1Bs are not working on customer facing product, but internal projects and that makes treating things like application maintenance or service desk pretty difficult to calculate for ultimate revenue outcome.
by jpadkins | 2025-09-19 21:13:26+00:00
I agree the current process is broken. I disagree that you don't replace it with something workable. Like many govt regulations, it's several decades out of date. Heck, a simple "I submit under the penalty of perjury that at least 10 US permanent residents have had good faith interviews for this position." type submission would be sufficient for me. HR people aren't going to want to commit a felony for their company, so the scams are going to go way down.
by milesvp | 2025-09-19 21:14:41+00:00
Seriously. Imagine the fractal nature of software problems (you do need firmware right?), and add that on top of a layer that has poorly documented errata and non standard peripheral variants. I'm currently making a board to solder onto an existing production run because we finally found the 1 sentence in a 1700page data sheet that explained why many of our MCUs are overheating. Had the datasheet simply labeled VREFP as VDDA, it probably would have triggered a review of the power schematic. Oh, and the CPU overheating was masked by component variation, and CPU binning, which means the overheating wasn't obvious on any of the early prototype boards...

And then, there's the sourcing problem. Components that looked like they were in big supply when the hardware was specced, can end up being in short supply, or worse end of lifed while you're trying to get all the firmware working.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-19 21:14:54+00:00
Maybe you're making really mild "Indian" food haha. I'm Indian and if we're making anything remotely spicy, we're dumping lots of hot stuff in a tadka or pan frying it, which is not only unpleasant elsewhere (read: eye watering and cough inducing), but sometimes prohibitively much for the person doing the cooking, if the ventilation is inadequate.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-09-19 21:15:14+00:00
Sites like jobs.now show the H1B situation is incredibly corrupt. So many hard to find jobs where they ask applicants to physically mail in their resume, so that later on they can make it an H1B job.

I don't think being against exploitive mass migration - which by its definition is brain drain of other countries, which every bleeding hearter likes to ignore - is the same saying no one should ever immigrate ever.
by throw0101a | 2025-09-19 21:15:37+00:00
> - What Kimmel said was wrong (assuming you believe Utah state investigators) and deeply irresponsible and irresponsible.

Exactly which words were wrong/irresponsible/irresponsible? Do you have a video clip and timestamp of the specific statements?

> - Clearly the market was already deciding that Kimmel's show is irrelevant (Nielsen ratings quite clear on that).

Quite the coïncidence that this is the second comedian that has been canceled, the first being Colbert. As Timothy Snyder, a historian on Central/Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, and totalitarians regimes, commented: General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

* https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/196846639438465036...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder

> - ABC's distributors threatened to stop airing the network, which is what actually caused Disney/ABC to act, it's hard to say what impact the FCC Chairs comments actually had.

The owner of many ABC stations is looking to fulfill a $6.2B merger/acquisition:

* https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-media-group-inc-enters-into-d...

* https://deadline.com/2025/08/nexstar-acquires-tegna-local-tv...

They need to get FCC approval.

Instead of deciding the deal on its merits, the Trump administration has made it known if you rub its tummy you will get what you want (export policy isn't decided on (say) national security evaluations, but if you give money: Nvidia 15% export tariff, UAE buying $2B of Trump-family crypto).

Instead of procedural government decisions (i.e., rule of law), you get government decisions based on the temperament of the boss.
by nine_k | 2025-09-19 21:15:38+00:00
Basically all of South America is in US-friendly timezones. I worked with a few quite bright folks from Argentina, for instance.

I suspect that flying someone from Buenos Aires to SF or NYC for onboarding and then and back would cost significantly less than $100k.

Remote work from Europe is harder in this regard, and from India... would be night shifts only.
by nerpderp82 | 2025-09-19 21:16:46+00:00
Awesome article!

Since these are so small, we could augment the last neighborhood level transformers with these and upgrade the local grid. Home solar could charge into these, we really could do peak shaving at the local level.

The other use would be for data centers to buy when power is cheap and shave their peaks as well.

I am very bullish on utility scale batteries.
by throw10920 | 2025-09-19 21:16:55+00:00
> Government doesn't provide services.

Yet again, factually incorrect. The government provides many services - social security, food stamps, military protection, utilities, research funding, pharmaceutical oversight, and many, many, many other things. You're just wrong.

> You provide the service of producing economic value.

Also wrong. That is not a "service" provided to the government - it's just something that people do, and they have the right to keep those rewards.

> You can't with straight face claim that profit is not captured by billionaires but by everybody if economy grows 3% but billionaires wealth doubles in the same period

Those things are unrelated.

Yet again - a mixture between stupidity and malice, driven by base greed, envy, and resentment of what others have that you don't.
by tux3 | 2025-09-19 21:17:06+00:00
>This is the time to ask what we can do about this, how do we stop it. How do we raise awareness among people, among law makers or people whose opinions matter to make Google take notice.

You and me don't get a vote on the Google board. The current government is not what I'd call fiercely pro-consumer. People say that money talks, but what's really in this season is tacky golden bribes; not an area where consumer advocates have a comparative advantage.

Raising awareness for a change that Google is already communicating widely and openly, is unlikely to scare Google very much.

If you want to take this seriously, it's going to need something beyond the usual token resistance that consists of angry social media posts.
by adleyjulian | 2025-09-19 21:17:42+00:00
RINO republicans don't look like rhinoceros. That the word makes no sense by itself means that you'd have to ask what they meant by it. If the acronym were "DUMB" or "CLOWN" or whatever then I don't think it'd stand out as much.

Also, you're right that it's often used in a way that wouldn't make sense grammatically if it were written out, but that's true for most acronyms I think; e.g. JPEG or GIF.

"Look at this funny Graphics Interchange Format I just sent you!"