MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Meekro | 2025-09-20 02:14:06+00:00
When this goes to court (and I'm sure it will), the administration's argument will probably go something like this: Congress has authorized the administration to issue visas to people of "exceptional ability in business" -- see 8 U.S.C. § 1153(b)(2), for example. However, Congress did not specify how, exactly, the executive will ascertain that ability. The Trump administration believes that making a one million dollar investment in the U.S. demonstrates evidence of business ability, and is using this as a factor for issuing and prioritizing visas.
by rchaud | 2025-09-20 02:14:08+00:00
I remember the HP website crashing in 2011 when they cancelled the PalmOS device line and slashed the price of the HP Touchpad tablet from $500 to $99. I had to call their 1800 number and wait 45 minutes to place my order with a sales rep. I wonder if Disney+ even has a phone number alternative to cancel with now that call centers are considered cost centers.
by derefr | 2025-09-20 02:14:28+00:00
CRAN’s approach here sounds like it has all the disadvantages of a monorepo without any of the advantages.

In a true monorepo — the one for the FreeBSD base system, say — if you make a PR that updates some low-level code, then the expectation is that you 1. compile the tree and run all the tests (so far so good), 2. update the high-level code so the tests pass (hmm), and 3. include those updates in your PR. In a true centralized monorepo, a single atomic commit can affect vertical-slice change through a dependency and all of its transitive dependents.

I don’t know what the equivalent would be in distributed “meta-monorepo” development ala CRAN, but it’s not what they’re currently doing.

(One hypothetical approach I could imagine, is that a dependency major-version release of a package can ship with AST-rewriting-algorithm code migrations, which automatically push both “dependency-computed” PRs to the dependents’ repos, while also pushing those same patches as temporary forced overlays onto releases of dependent packages until such time as the related PRs get merged. So your dependents’ tests still have to pass before you can release your package — but you can iteratively update things on your end until those tests do pass, and then trigger a simultaneous release of your package and your dependent packages. It’s then in your dependents’ court to modify + merge your PR to undo the forced overlay, asynchronously, as they wish.)
by bitbasher | 2025-09-20 02:14:35+00:00
Her fig tree metaphor is great-- I was reminded of it during a dialog in True Detective (season one). A line that felt like a response to the metaphor where Russ says, "Life is barely long enough to get good at one thing. Be careful what you get good at."[1]

https://youtu.be/fHmmR3GnGpU?si=Czu9o2yKfYQbmr6y&t=96
by defrost | 2025-09-20 02:14:45+00:00
Of all the takes on his motivations I've seen the most on point comes from an Australian of Robinson's generation ..

Death by shitpost: Why modern media is so ill-equiped to diagnose Tyler Robinson

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/19/tyler-robinson-alleged-...

https://archive.md/Lil0U#selection-941.0-941.80

Watching the US media struggling to cleave this into either left OR right as if the world is binary is, as you noted, ridiculous.
by freen | 2025-09-20 02:14:54+00:00
Ah yes, a feeling: even worse than an anecdote.

Yes: they reinvested rather than pocketed revenue.

Anyway, if did the research, you’d see the effective tax rate for the top income earners in US was 40% back then. Substantially higher than it is today.

And that substantially larger portions of revenue were reinvested rather than recognized as profit: high taxes, oddly enough, incentivize investment.

Do the math yourself: $1m in profit, 30% tax rate vs 1% tax rate: which rate incentivizes you to reinvest?
by cmxch | 2025-09-20 02:15:14+00:00
Just rip out the entire 1965 Immigration Act root and stem along with its follow on provisions. Then replace with a points system with citizen impact factored into the equation.

To handle the losses, have any firm and their downstream contractors and clients pay off displaced individuals many times over, with regional adjustments - such that it is cost prohibitively expensive to even think of bodyshopping people.
by stephen_cagle | 2025-09-20 02:15:44+00:00
I'll be honest that I read a different article on the same topic and did not know about the salary floor. So I wasn't thinking about that. I'm... mixed on that, but it does add a wrinkle to the equation.

I prefer a purely compensation relative approach because it let's the market decide what the actual salary for a software engineer is (with a percent of compensation premium for a foreigner and a 0 extra cost for a native). The market can dynamically adjust what a software engineer makes (not fixed price control) but it just cost more to hire foreign people.

In direct response to your first sentence, I think even foreign workers (who largely work harder and have more on the line than domestic workers) would question the wisdom of working for 50k a year as a software engineer in the US. They are actors in this system as well, and you can't just assume that you could offer 50k and get them to accept.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-09-20 02:16:44+00:00
> "anything other than one of them" can very easily be interpreted in two ways, one of them leading a person to believe that the adult (not a kid) was somehow "MAGA"

Anything can be interpreted in any way you want as long as you're arguing in bad faith

> at the very least, the situation as tense as it was (is?), Jimmy could have chosen to leave it alone for a bit - why say that MAGA is trying to "score political points" at this time? Why not consider that many people are genuinely grieving and upset?

lmao, no one, right wing influencers nor the government, is doing this.

> ABC fired his butt, not the FCC or anyone else. A sternly worded message from the FCC chairman doesn't make a company like DIS fire someone unless it is convenient for DIS. That's a fact.

It isn't "a fact". If a mob goon threatens action on an employer unless that employer punishes an employee, who the hell do you think is actually responsible?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 02:16:57+00:00
> Uk has nukes of some kind, and there’s Germany

Are the U.K.'s nukes on an independent platform?

Germany's military has no ranged capability to speak of--not in the same league.

> Lots of military tradition there, and guns, jeeps and trucks don’t take much to make in quantity

They do take time. If, as I suspect, we're at the precipice of the normalisation of tacitcal nukes, I don't think it would be too difficult to suppress. Or maybe it would! (I'd hope it would.) Either way, stupid aftermath doesn't seem to figure into the calculus of either Putin or Trump.

Btw, I'm not making odds for a deal that works. Just a deal that happens. Germany didn't keep anything from M-R.

> the us isn’t well positioned to hold land. The navy and Air Force can only destroy.

Holding Canada, Iceland, Greenland and--at arms length, perhaps as a territory, perhaps as a sovereign nation in name only--the U.K. and Ireland wouldn't take a lot of manpower or coercing.
by krapp | 2025-09-20 02:17:05+00:00
> Regardless of what side you are on, this country is bigger than one man.

Not anymore. It is now precisely the size, shape and texture of one man's ego.

> This branding seems flippant and unserious.

A groyper script kiddie named "Big Balls" had root access to the government's entire data infrastructure and just deleted shit at will, Trump's tariff policies were written by Grok using imaginary math, the head of the CDC doesn't think germs are real, the DOJ says Epstein never had a client list and Trump is definitely not a pedophile, the head of American intelligence is a Putin apologist, the Secretary of Defense is a lunatic podcaster trying to purge the military of "woke" and Trump is so much more rotten cabbage than man that he has to appear on tv by GenAI just so people still think he's a functioning human being. And he's definitely a pedophile.

We passed "flippant and unserious" miles and miles back. Can't even see it in the rear view mirror anymore.
by guerrilla | 2025-09-20 02:17:13+00:00
> If you dive into the yt-dlp source code, you see the insane complexity of calculations needed to download a video. There is code to handle nsig checks, internal YouTube API quirks, and constant obfuscation that makes it a nightmare(and the maintainers heroes) to keep up. Google frequently rejects download attempts, blocks certain devices or access methods, and breaks techniques that yt-dlp relies on.

This just made me incredibly grateful for the people who do this kind of work. I have no idea who writes all the uBlock Origin filters either, but blessed be the angels, long may their stay in heaven be.

I'm pretty confident I could figure it out eventually but let's be honest, the chance that I'd ever actually invest that much time and energy is approximates zero close enough that we can just say it's flat nil.

Maybe Santa Claus needs to make some donations tonight. ho ho ho
by freen | 2025-09-20 02:18:33+00:00
Also, what dumbass is gonna drop a million on this?

Literally the CIO of a $20b/year ARR company said to me: “I was gonna send my kids to school in the US. Now? Never in a million years. Even I won’t set foot there.“

You can’t win in the global economy AND nativist white supremacist politics at the same time.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-09-20 02:18:49+00:00
Don't fret too much. This has been in the making since at least [1933](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot). Nixon moved it forward, but found enough conscience or fear to give in. Ford's pardon and the DoJ's failure to prosecute rounding out the idea of not actually holding our leaders materially accountable. Then Reagan comes in and torches the economic basis of the federal government, gutting its ability to audit the wealthy or effectively regulate white collar crime. He also quietly deregulates broadcast media leading to a massive consolidation throughout the 90's and oughts. Clinton, the centrist he was, let critical economic safeguards lapse. The gaslighting begins in earnest with Newt Gingrich leading. Then the world changed and a document written at least as far back as the 80s but never successfully adopted was renamed "The Patriot Act" and rammed through on an "emergency" basis and which laid the groundwork for the erosion of civil rights. "Free speech zones" enters the American lexicon, anywhere within 100 miles of the US international border is now subject to searches without a warrant. All the while media consolidation makes it possible for organization to push a fantastical right-wing agenda. The Overton window slides to the right. "Terrorism" becomes not just household but daily word. People became comfortable with the military, they were everywhere and in everything. And then the internet exploded in popularity and network connections and the meme wars began.

The battle was lost because only one group understood the battle was occurring.

We didn't start the fire.
by d--b | 2025-09-20 02:19:29+00:00
The use of ´gift’ is extremely weird. I wanted to check what that was about, but there is no link to anything describing this in legalese.

The website is exactly like a startup landing page that hasn’t built anything but wants to check engagement before proceeding. It’s only missing fake testimonies and clients.

I am surprised though that they didn’t make it a requirement to pay in TrumpCoin.

The design is so ridiculous, I could see these cards being used as collectibles by douchey crypto bros.
by djohnston | 2025-09-20 02:20:09+00:00
That’s a cute ad-hominem but ultimately off base because that’s not how the diploma mills scam works. I really encourage you to research those topics a bit - it is genuinely fascinating how complex the scams get. There’s also a bit of self-reflection that arises when you learn that these people don’t understand why scamming and cheating is wrong - they’re genuinely incapable of comprehending this. It makes you appreciate people who aren’t like that, including yourself! (hopefully)
by disney_ta_2025 | 2025-09-20 02:20:38+00:00
Big corporations are made of people, some who post here.

Disney's internal systems for something like this are a hodgepodge of the Hulu, D+/Bamtech, old corporate disney, and some bits sent out to SaaS. There's been multiple layers of layoffs and service ownership changes since the pandemic. I don't think the org would be able to rate limit by faking crashes if it tried.

What is happening is that routes and systems that normally have little and predictable traffic now are getting exercised... a lot harder (the exact numbers are for management to explain). Most things are going to be very resilient to this, as it's not THAT much traffic: It's still a small fraction vs resubscriptions and logins, but not everything is. Since the unsubscribe flows are never going to be anyone's top priority, this things happen.

You don't have to believe me, but I tell you it's incompetence, not malice.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-20 02:20:47+00:00
Even still, they are very hard to work with when compared to X11.

Fvwm people are very smart and have been developing fvwm for longer than Linux have been around. From what I understand and have read, bring fvwm or creating a fvwm clone on Wayland is near impossible. Far too much work.

So we will really end up with "pigs" like Gnome3, KDE or a slew of tiling environments. None of the cool WMs like Windowmaker, fvwm, dluxbox, twm, ctwm, vtwm ....
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-20 02:21:39+00:00
Thank you for understanding!

Before Amazon Prime we had 2 major deliver services: UPS and FedEx as well as USPS.

Now we have 3.

I didn't include in my previous comment but most of the people using Prime that I know still drive everyday, many drop their kids off at school. Going past stores that sell the same sorts of things they are buying on Prime.

For them the main driver is convenience of not having to stop and the ability to tell Alexa to put it on a list and reorder periodically.

This seems to be the case for most of the customers, look at the rise of Instacart. Door Dash followed suite by expanded from just hot meal delivery to Retail and Grocery. Traditional grocery stores don't want to leave the margins on the table so they are launching their own efforts.

I leave some food for thought:) https://web.archive.org/web/20200612211824/https://www.thegu...
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-20 02:21:42+00:00
Because it actually works pretty well most of the time. I'm not sure where you get "barely works" from, but that's not remotely my experience or the experience of anyone I know. And of course, network effects are strong so that keeps people using it even through the occasional hiccups.

As for how it got its foothold, it comes down to having an easier onboarding than the solutions it competed with. With Mumble (or Ventrilo, etc) someone has to pay for a server. Then you have to download the client, get the host and port to connect to, enter credentials, and so on. Repeat for every server you might join. With Discord, once your account is set up you just click on a link and join the server. You don't even have to use the client if you don't want; you can join from the browser just fine. I don't think the friction of using previous solutions was actually bad, but it was enough to give Discord an edge even without the integrated chat+voice angle (which is something that those other programs never did and still don't do).
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-20 02:21:54+00:00
All of those were enabled by decreasing cost and miniaturization of hardware, high speed ubiquitous Internet and later the mobile phone.

But since then the Apple Watch is an innovation both technologically and from a business standpoint, In 2010, I wouldn’t have imagined you could have a processor faster than the original iPhone, with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, cellular, satellite communication, 32 GB of storage in something that size with that battery life.

While I think the newly announced Meta glasses are ugly and don’t provide enough value for the money, it was risky and not just another social media platform to provide ads.

Gen AI is some real sci fi shit that I wouldn’t have thoight it would be as far as it is in 2020.

Self driving cars are a real thing on the road right now. Even Uber itself is innovative and has made travel to different cities much better than dealing with taxi services. As much as I dislike Musk as a person, you can’t deny SpaceX and Starlink are game changers. All of the major tech companies are spending a lot of money on better custom processors and TSMC is doing some wild stuff on the manufacturing side.

The medical industry is also doing some life changing things.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 02:21:57+00:00
> Broadcasters have a license from the government to use the airwaves and they are obligated to act in the public interest. So some restrictions apply to them.

Necessarily.

Carr threatened to revoke licenses based on the political speech of ABC. That's clearly unconstitutional. Trump followed up by saying licenses should be revoked for criticism of himself. Unitary President cuts both ways.

If this is okay, the next Democrat who's President needs to shut down Fox News and their ilk or be impeached. (From the perspective of fomenting rebellion and generally posing a threat to our republic, Jimmy Kimmel isn't even on the list.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 02:22:46+00:00
> he doesn't say that the shooter was MAGA, only that those within the right wing influencer sphere were desperately trying to characterize the shooter as anything other than one of them. This is unambiguously and factually true.

I'll put it in the technically true but ambiguously misinformation category. (Which is on every metric better than what goes on at Fox.)
by liquid_thyme | 2025-09-20 02:22:58+00:00
There is shortage of everything now. Maybe immigrants needing gas is raising gas prices too. (OK, i know you didn't say that, but its a joke :P) We could go back and forth posting links that contradict each other, or recognize that scapegoating immigrants isn't productive.

https://www.uschamber.com/economy/the-state-of-housing-in-am...

"The shortage of housing can be attributed to a range of regulatory and policy failures. These include burdensome permitting processes, outdated zoning regulations that dictate everything from lot sizes to parking requirements, complex legal frameworks, price controls, and restrictive financial regulations."
by pedalpete | 2025-09-20 02:24:14+00:00
Is that gabapentin? Or is there something else that is the go to these days?

There was a comment on reddit a few days ago from someone with narcolepsy who was looking for a sleep tracker.

Sadly, our technology does not "induce" deep sleep.

It is suspected that the reason the Alzheimer's study showed such an increase in deep sleep was due to decreased cortisol as a result of stimulation, but that is just a theory at this point.

Studies do show a decrease in night-time cortisol (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02170-3) early in the night during stimulation.
by cmxch | 2025-09-20 02:24:19+00:00
Set a floor that is regionally adjusted such that the foreign ops/noncitizen cost is consistently higher no matter where. And that it also accounts for and penalizes malicious compliance/intent.

Regarding the overall problem: For the jobs that people care about keeping away from the alphabet soup provisions, the only problem is finding pliant and desperate people that take any port in a storm - not competence.

On business resistance: As for firms like Alphabet/Microsoft/Meta, they are not immune to noneconomic forces that might favor US presence and penalize non US expansion, broadly construed.
by smeeger | 2025-09-20 02:24:31+00:00
when your skin turns pale white your body is screaming for sunlight. it wants sunlight just like your body wants food and makes you hungry. if sunlight were so deadly then everyone would have skin that was pitch black and doesnt change. but we have this insane adaptive system to make sure we are always getting a trickle of UV. why else would we evolve this system if sunlight werent extremely important?
by laughing_man | 2025-09-20 02:24:32+00:00
I keep hearing how reduction of the H-1(b) cap will keep singular talent from coming to the US. If you're genuinely hiring the best in the world for a critical role in a billion dollar project, $100k is a rounding error.

Judging from the reaction, it's almost like what the program really gets used for is to replace domestic workers with desperate, barely-qualified foreigners.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-09-20 02:24:35+00:00
That's because actual malice IS rare. Corporations are not filled with evil people, but people make perfectly rational, normal decisions based on their incentives that result in the emergent phenomenon of perceived malicious actions.

Even Hitler's actions can be traced through a perfectly understandable, although not morally condone-able, chain of events. I truly believe that he did not want to just kill people and commit evil, he truly wanted to better Germany and the human race, but on his journey he drove right off the road, so to speak. To quote CS Lewis, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
by vishnugupta | 2025-09-20 02:24:36+00:00
Exactly. The tech pay disparity between US (and particularly in California) and everywhere else is so large that it’s not even close to being comparable.

I relocated to Amsterdam from India. When I got to know about the salaries my peers were making in the same company but in the US I felt like a fool. Being a manager I had access to compensation data so yeah it was hard to not feel being done by.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-09-20 02:24:41+00:00
My first computer had a 10MB HDD. * I could program with it comfortably (e.g. Turbo Pascal). * I could play with it (Civ, Day of the Tentacle with a few tricks, ...) * I could run a office suite. * I could communicate via mail and newsgroups

In short: all problems back than could be solved at home.

And yeah, I know that barely anybody cares _how utterly_ wasteful software has become.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-20 02:24:46+00:00
There is nowhere else to invest. China, Russia, and Africa? No trust. Europe and Japan? Too old. That leaves India, which may or may not attract material capital inflows.

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-dep...

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf

https://www.columbiathreadneedleus.com/institutional/insight...
by SmilingSuccess | 2025-09-20 02:25:13+00:00
I built a simple tool to estimate how much memory is needed to run GGUF models locally, based on your desired maximum context size.

You just paste the direct download URL of a GGUF model (for example, from Hugging Face), enter the context length you plan to use, and it will give you an approximate memory requirement.

It’s especially useful if you're trying to figure out whether a model will fit in your available VRAM or RAM, or when comparing different quantization levels like Q4_K_M vs Q8_0.

The tool is completely free and open-source. You can try it here: https://www.kolosal.ai/memory-calculator

And check out the code on GitHub: https://github.com/KolosalAI/model-memory-calculator

I'd really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or bug reports if you decide to give it a try.
by pierrec | 2025-09-20 02:25:23+00:00
No proper calibration, but the closest I've seen is in the Myst series. According to my fuzzy memory, either Riven or Exile (or both) had a setup screen with shades of gray, it instructed you to adjust the brightness / contrast of your monitor until the shades looked a certain way. My search-fu is failing me on this, so maybe it's a fabricated memory.