MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrtksn | 2025-09-20 20:34:02+00:00
Yep, skilled people have options. When you are treating them as circus animals that constantly need to prove that they are worth the cage they will be put in and the food they will be fed, they just leave the circus.

Smart professional people desire non-hostile space where they can build a life. When a Russian scientist or Iranian doctor left their countries for London or Paris, they were't calculating for a net income increase, they were running away from an environment that didn't show a promise to allow them realize themselves. Lot's of white collar people are paid well below what they will make if they learn a JS library or do construction work because of their desire to fulfill themselves in a peaceful life and be respected. It is kind of similar to game devs being paid very little in respect to the complexity of the programming they do. If you break that magic, they aren't going to stay.
by arn7av | 2025-09-20 20:34:17+00:00
Update from USCIS: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/memos/H1B...

"Clarification" from Press Secretary: https://x.com/PressSec/status/1969495900478488745

1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It’s a one-time fee that applies only to the petition.

2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter.

H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the country to the same extent as they normally would; whatever ability they have to do that is not impacted by yesterday’s proclamation.

3.) This applies only to new visas, not renewals, and not current visa holders.

It will first apply in the next upcoming lottery cycle.
by graemep | 2025-09-20 20:34:43+00:00
> Mind you, most of our oven proof glass is decent enough to be put in the oven and then dumped on a cold surface

I would have thought that is a pretty minimal requirement. Where else would you put something you take out of the oven.

I assume anything that can go in the oven can go from oven to table and fridge (but maybe not freezer) to hot oven.
by nkrisc | 2025-09-20 20:34:49+00:00
I remember seeing plenty of ads for MapleStory in the 2000s online, but then, and even now, I have zero idea what kind of game it even is, or if it was even a game. I didn't know. It seemed like some kind of anime flash/browser social chatroom for weebs. As I recall the marketing for it was truly baffling and ineffective.

World of WarCraft, on the other hand, I knew exactly what it was because me and my friends and cousins had all been playing WarCraft and StarCraft since around 1995 or so.

But MapleStory? I couldn't even have told you with certainty if it was even actually a game or not. Turns out it is, but I didn't know that back then. I just looked and saw that it released in NA in 2005, that was halfway through highschool for me but I never met a single person there or in college that played it. If lots of people were playing it, I have no idea who they were.
by thomasmg | 2025-09-20 20:35:09+00:00
LLM are just software + data and can be made deterministic, in the same way a pseudo random number generator can be made deterministic by using the same seed. For an LLM, you typically set temperature to 0, or set the random seed to the same value, run it on the same hardware (or emulation) or otherwise ensure the (floating point) calculations get the exact same results. I think that's it. In reality, yes it's not that easy, but it's possible.
by Aachen | 2025-09-20 20:35:24+00:00
I use a blog that does three 'direct' (do you mean synchronous?) database queries for every pageview. Language was PHP5 (I feel like 7 got a lot faster but didn't do benchmarks so idk). Standard WAMP stack, renders in about 35 milliseconds on 2001 (sic) hardware iirc, and the HN homepage is very comfortably under 10 requests per second, so it's idling most of the time.

Database queries and interpreted languages aren't an issue at all. You need to be majorly unprepared to not be able to handle HN load. What I think people might overlook is that there will be other news outlets and social media that link to their website also. So it's hard to pass a verdict, though someone mentioned it's WordPress in a sibling comment so... I'd put my money on that it's poorly optimised but we can't really know I guess
by ttttransformer | 2025-09-20 20:35:31+00:00
To start off on a trial contract / milestone basis and then move to a CTO/senior engineer full time position if all goes well. First milestone is likely in the $5,000-$6,000 range for the changes we need done to the product. Prefer milestone over hourly based pricing given the task at hand is very well defined already.

Company is around using AI agents for Google Ads so any marketing knowledge is highly valuable. Fully bootstrapped and profitable.

TypeScript stack: Next.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, tRPC, shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS, and pnpm workspaces.

Junior candidates welcome. Immediate start required, fully remote.

Email me with your CV, any past projects and why you'd be a fit for the role: dp@groas.ai
by mmh0000 | 2025-09-20 20:35:40+00:00
I've noticed this with Claude Code recently. A few weeks ago, Claude was "amazing" in that I could feed it some context and a specification, and it could generate mostly correct code and refine it in a few prompts.

Now, I can try the same things, and Claude gets it terribly wrong and works itself into problems it can't find its way out of.

The cynical side of me thinks this is being done on purpose, not to save Anthropic money, but to make more money by burning tokens.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-20 20:36:05+00:00
My Seic MG4 has volume +/- physical buttons under the touch screen as well as the usual steering wheel controls but all air conn controls are on the touch screen which works at any speed.

Quite a lot of the safety features rely on the Android tablet embedded in the dash. When you restart it (long press home button) quite a worrying number of warnings pop up on the display behind the steering wheel!
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-09-20 20:36:17+00:00
Ugh, Pathology image processing is really annoying.

IF Philips is going to stick to the DICOM format, and not add lots of proprietary stuff, _and_ it's the format that it uses internally, then this will be good.

For example, folks can check out OpenSlide (https://openslide.org) and have a look at all the different slide formats that exist. If you dig in to Philips' entry, you'll see that OpenSlide does not support Philips' non-TIFF format (iSyntax), and that the TIFF format is an "export format".

If you have a Philips microscope that uses iSyntax, you are very limited on what non-Philips software you can use. If you want files in TIFF format, you (the lab tech) have to take an action to export a side in TIFF. It can take up a fair amount of lab tech time.

Ideally, the microscope should immediately store the images in an open format, with metadata that workflow software can use to check if a scanning run is complete. I _hope_ that will be able to happen here!
by _ache_ | 2025-09-20 20:36:43+00:00
I did the exact same thing in C++ 10 years ago ! Same puzzle. :D

I wonder if I can still find the source code. (Found it! Source code was in French and not very elegant but it works, glorified brute force aka Backtracking).

I'm eager to improve it to find ALL solutions, not just the first one.

https://ache.one/polycube.cpp
by mullingitover | 2025-09-20 20:36:53+00:00
The fact that a hair-thin majority has managed to seize an inordinate amount of power, thwart all checks and balances, and enact a slow-moving nationwide pogrom should be enough to make the US a pariah for any foreign investment. There's no assurance that the US won't just outright steal all foreign capital in the country next week.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-20 20:37:10+00:00
Illicit artifacts usually end up in first world countries in surprisingly normal homes. It's pretty normalized. You may have come across things in antiques stores, or art galleries or coins on eBay.

Small scale looters steal the artifacts, then they're laundered across borders by organized crime as a funding source, and they don't care much where things end up.
by dehrmann | 2025-09-20 20:37:16+00:00
Lots of variables, here. How long does the current AI boom continue? If it's a bust in two years, expect a much longer service life for those GPUs. If it's still going, the question's more interesting. Is it more expensive to build a new datacenter or replace the old GPUs? What about the cost of operating them? How much better are new GPUs?
by ednite | 2025-09-20 20:38:28+00:00
Great question. I call this the “delegation paradox”: even when the math works, people resist letting go.

- Psychology: self-worth gets tied to “doing it yourself,” so outsourcing feels like weakness or elitism.

- Trust: Handing over personal tasks (groceries, errands) feels riskier than it is.

- Friction: hiring, scheduling, and managing another human adds overhead.

- Perfectionism: many would rather do it “their way” than risk compromise and not have the job done perfectly.

Ironically, these same barriers make people more comfortable with AI assistants, where with AI, you have less friction, less stigma, fewer trust issues.

The real productivity hack isn’t just saving hours, it’s getting past the belief that you must be the one doing everything.
by timr | 2025-09-20 20:38:37+00:00
First of all, Wikipedia is useless for definitions of words that are in the middle of active political debate. You completely ignored the definition I gave you (which is from an impartial source [1]) in favor of one you prefer, from a wiki.

Setting that aside, you will see the that the citation for that definition [2] basically underscores the ambiguity of the term:

> Political scientists have outlined elaborated typologies of authoritarianism, from which it is not easy to draw a generally accepted definition; it seems that its main features are the non-acceptance of conflict and plurality as normal elements of politics, the will to preserve the status quo and prevent change by keeping all political dynamics under close control by a strong central power, and lastly, the erosion of the rule of law, the division of powers, and democratic voting procedures.

I challenge you to defend the proposition that the current administration is attempting to "prevent change by keeping all political dynamics under close control by a strong central power", while simultaneously clearly acting to undermine many parts of said authority. There are actions by every administration that appear to be "authoritarian" when taken in isolation.

The parts about erosion of rule of law, etc. are clearly also applied to the current administration, but again, are mostly debatable -- these EOs are either within the power of the executive under current law, or they're overturned by the courts. I openly grant that our legislative branch has been on a 50+ year mission to abdicate responsibility to the executive, but that's neither exclusive to the current administration, nor is it "authoritarianism" to use the authorities granted to you under the law, and again, it's not unique for US administrations to overstep the law and be pulled back by the judicial.

[1] https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism#cite_note-Cer...
by hypeatei | 2025-09-20 20:39:02+00:00
Unpredictable tariffs specifically. Even if one disagrees with tariffs, you can still roll them out in a predictable and legal manner. Cooking up a national emergency then changing them arbitrarily is a recipe for disaster.

Legally they don't seem to be valid either (how does an emergency require tariffing the entire world?), but of course the federal courts are letting them stay in place while it works its way up to SCOTUS.
by sigmar | 2025-09-20 20:39:09+00:00
axios tries to describe it as "panicky advice," but as written the EO explicitly says H1B holders "except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section" will be restricted from entering the US.[1] This article isn't really actionable advice when the only attribution is to some un-named "White House official"

[1] Section 1 here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...
by arrowsmith | 2025-09-20 20:39:24+00:00
What point do you think you’re responding to exactly?

GP mentioned “abandoning your parents” when you immigrate as if that’s absurd. In reality it’s the most normal thing imaginable.

I know hundreds of people who live outside their home country and I can’t thing of a single one of them who took their parents with them. When does that ever happen?
by danaris | 2025-09-20 20:40:07+00:00
> It's specific corner case of FCC licensing.

No, it's not.

It's fascism punishing those who don't bend the knee.

FCC licensing is only the specific excuse they're using this time.

> But the PR look was pretty bad. Instead of saying "condolences for the family, etc" now they are defending Kimmel's phrasing.

Boo fucking hoo?

It's a blatant First Amendment violation. They didn't have to "defend Kimmel's phrasing". All they had to do was say "no, it's protected political speech, and you can't do anything about it."
by charlie0 | 2025-09-20 20:41:05+00:00
The article came across as alarmist while completely failing to provide the bigger picture of whether this is actually a bad thing or not. We instantly assume it's bad because it would indeed be awful for us in the US to live like that.

I'd be interested in knowing how these workers get by, is housing and other important things cheaper there?

Flexible employment is not a bad thing, in fact, it's great. What would be bad here is not being able to afford basic necessities in a system like that and this article completely ignore that side of the equation.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-09-20 20:41:10+00:00
Touchscreens are great! You can put intuitive UIs on them, so if you need to reset the TPMS setting, change the backlight color, set "coming home" light duration, cabin illumination delay, etc., it's much easier to do so on a touchscreen than to fiddle with a menu in a single line, or even worse, hold some weird key combination when powering on the car.

But for basic radio controls, AC control, windows, etc., physical buttons are the way to go!
by arcticbull | 2025-09-20 20:41:12+00:00
No, what I said was the COVID years. People became dramatically more prone to conspiracy theories and significantly more polarized in the 2020-2025 period. A lot more happened to people than just exposure to COVID, which was of course part of it. I'm not talking about the people who died or the healthcare workers. There was a meaningful step change in the way we interact with each other and what is acceptable. There was a huge impact to the social fabric and cohesion of society.
by breadwinner | 2025-09-20 20:41:33+00:00
It is not a win unless you are talking about IT jobs. For silicon valley type jobs, silicon valley is silicon valley because it is where top tech people congregate. If it loses that status then talent and venture capitalists will find another place to congregate, for example Vancouver BC. It won't happen overnight, but even a slow migration is bad news.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2024/09/16/the-micros...
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-20 20:41:41+00:00
Again, if you have terrible work conditions, you as an H1B have the same options as US citizens. You look for a different job and maybe suck it up for a couple of months, just like a US citizen would.

And while yes, if have an ongoing green card process which takes 12-18 months, you may have an incentive to stick around to see it to completion, anyone who has their I-140, does not actually “lose their place” in the green card process. They can file for a new I140 and retain their place in the queue by retaining the priority date from the previous application.

If you think US citizens don’t stick around for a bit in a shitty job for a variety of reasons, then you’d be lying. People (including US citizens) don’t just quit jobs whenever they want without a plan like you’re making it sound. At least not ones that carry a reasonable wage, health insurance and other benefits. Again, all with the caveat of me not talking about consulting firms, which obviously don’t exactly have the best workplace environments.
by nkrisc | 2025-09-20 20:41:42+00:00
> just want to point out that maintaining a knife is a whole hobby that requires a time investment of learning the skill and storage of additional tools and materials.

Properly maintaining a knife does. Most people don't need to properly maintain a knife. You can do it good enough with a honing steel and some crappy automatic sharpener.

I enjoy cooking good food for my family and myself, but cooking is not a hobby of mine. So if my knife can slice a tomato without crushing it, then that's good enough for me. I don't need to shave a tomato so thin that the slice is transparent.

Does the crappy automatic sharpener work? Well the knife cuts better after I use it, so yes, it does.
by ryanackley | 2025-09-20 20:42:00+00:00
Skilled immigrants being important to the country and the H1B visa program being abused by large employers can both be true at the same time. From my own personal experience, most H1B visa holders are competent but not uniquely skilled.

This would be stupid five or ten years ago. Right now however, we have enough tech people in the country for the current job market.
by bapak | 2025-09-20 20:42:22+00:00
Tell me when was the last time you heard boomers talk about Samsung. Never happened. Now how many times has nana mentioned "the iPhone" specifically?

Also not from the US, I live in Thailand. Everyone wants an iPhone. Those who can't afford it buy Oppo, etc.

Samsung may be "strong" in Europe but it's just because it's colorful and/or cheaper. You live in the HN bubble if you think that people care about specs and not brands/price. The choice is generally "Either Apple or whatever else in my budget"
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-09-20 20:42:24+00:00
Sorry. I get it now.

You're bitter.

To be clear, I'm not a fan boy. I don't really know much about Mojo. I've watched some videos, checked out their website, thought it was interesting idea.

The parent post was about alternatives to CUDA.

I posted a 6 word sentence summarizing how Mojo is trying to bypass CUDA, and using Python. -> And you flipped out, that it isn't Python. Really?

I checked out your link, sure does look like Python. But that is the point, all of their promotional materials and every Chris Lattner video, all sales pitches, everywhere.

Everywhere, is Python, Python, Python. Clearly they want everyone one to know how closely tied they are to Python. It is a clear goal of theirs.

But. I see now the pedantic hair splitting. Mojo 'Looks Like Python', they use the same syntax. "Mojo aims to be a superset of Python, meaning it largely adopts Python's syntax while introducing new features".

But you say, they aren't modifying or extending CPython so this is all false, it is no longer technically Python at all.

And I guess I'm saying, Chill. They clearly are focused on Python all over the place, to say that it isn't, is really ludicrous. You're down a rabbit whole of debating what is a name, what is a language. When is Python not Python? How different does it have to be, to not be?
by mgraczyk | 2025-09-20 20:42:51+00:00
The problem here is that the proclamation says otherwise. It doesn't include any exception for current holders

Trump has the legal authority to block anyone from entering for essentially any reason (see Trump v Hawaii)

So it doesn't matter much what the white house says today. They are free to change their minds tomorrow. That's part of the strategy, if immigrants are afraid they will be arbitrarily extorted at the border, then only the ones whose employers have bribed Trump will even bother applying
by forrestthewoods | 2025-09-20 20:42:58+00:00
> Is this a bit of chickens coming home to roost as far as developer culture forgetting how to work with cross-compiling toolchains?

I don't understand your comment. Completely ignorning Rust the modern state of cross-compilation is an unmitigated disaster.

Linux is especially bad because glibc is badly architected pile of garbage stuck in the 80s. It should be trivially possible to target any minimum glibc version for any possible Linux hardware environment. But glibc and Linux distros don't even attempt to make this possible. Linux toolchains make it nearly impossible to not use the default system libraries which is the opposite of correct for cross-compiling.

Zig moves mountains to make cross-compiling possible. But almost no projects actually attempt to support cross-compile.
by nrmitchi | 2025-09-20 20:43:23+00:00
A "White House Official" may be saying this now, but it is not what was in the EO that was actually signed. There were no exclusions for current holders, and the start date was explicitly September 21, 2025 (a date that does apply to the "next lottery").

They are more than welcome to roll back this asinine decision, but pretending that everyone else is just mis-interpreting is gaslighting.

Either way, until there is an official, in-writting announcement that can be depended on, no one should be taking the advice of an unnamed White House source.

In any situation, your best bet is to follow the direction and guidance of your own attorney.
by more_corn | 2025-09-20 20:44:09+00:00
Do you disagree that China regularly censors speech? Retaliates against dissent? Locks masses up people up for being the wrong race or religion?

Don’t get me wrong there are some amazing things about China. Freedom isn’t one of them.

For someone criticizing commentators here let’s hear your credentials regarding knowledge of China. Or are you just a bot reflexively criticizing anyone who questions China?
by boricj | 2025-09-20 20:44:20+00:00
I think it's too weak as a paper for me to put out there. I also haven't even applied the minor corrections from the reviews.

If you want to take a peek at the case studies, I've blogged about my butchering of aln across C standard libraries and operating systems [1]; there is also widberg's outstanding write-up of their FUEL decompilation project [2], which uses ghidra-delinker-extension as part of the magic.

If you want to read a paper on the technique, there is the one for Ramblr [3] which I became aware of after the reviews came back.

[1] https://boricj.net/atari-jaguar-sdk/2023/11/27/introduction....

[2] https://github.com/widberg/fmtk/wiki/Decompilation

[3] https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/nd...
by nrmitchi | 2025-09-20 20:45:33+00:00
That's the thing; the order was not unclear. It very clear said what it said.

The general public's opinion that it was grossly unjustified and most likely going to be rolled back does not change how clear the initial order was.

The fact that virtually every immigration attorney and firm was on the same page about it goes to show how clear it actually was.
by hyperrail | 2025-09-20 20:45:41+00:00
Consumer Reports' reviews of newer Mazdas always stress the infotainment system as a big negative, to the point that I would seriously reconsider them as a result.

Apparently it's a case of "right idea, wrong execution." The deep menu hierarchies and small text make the jog wheel knob controls even more awkward (in CR's view) than a decent touch-screen system plus a few buttons. [1]

Maybe that's one reason that BMW has just abandoned their Mazda-like wheel controller [2], despite having had it for years before Mazda.

(Interestingly CR says the latest Mazdas do have a touchscreen, but touches are allowed when the car is moving only for CarPlay/Android Auto.)

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/mazda/cx-50-hybrid/2025... - "the CX-50's infotainment system is frustrating and distracting to use while driving. [...] the text- and list-based menu structure forces drivers to glance away from the road for too long. Even simple radio tasks require multiple taps and twists of the rotary controller knob"

[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63576709/bmw-kills-idrive...