MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kccqzy | 2025-09-13 14:51:59+00:00
You do not know enough about immigration and are spewing falsehoods.

First, a visa is not permission to stay in the U.S. A foreigner can have an expired visa and a valid status to be in the U.S. (they can take their time at their leisure to apply for one). Conversely they can have an unexpired visa but no permission to be in the U.S. (such as when they have a H-1B visa but is actually unemployed for a long time).

Second, this entire process of advertising fake job openings is not at all related to visas, H-1B or not. It's related to the employment based green card process. Hiring an H-1B requires a Labor Condition Application from Department of Labor, not a Permanent Labor Certification. The former does not require any attempt to hire American workers.

Third, even if some Americans apply for these fake job openings, that doesn't mean that foreigner must leave. After all, the foreigner still has valid H-1B status (see first point). It's a setback to their green card process only.

Fourth, whether or not the job can be filled by a local is determined by the company. Sure such determination will need to be submitted to the government for approval. Imagine that the company requires 10 years of experience with Ruby but the local has 9 years of experience. Guess whether the company will see this local as qualified? There's no good way to solve this problem. Companies can require whatever skill and experience they want in their job requirements. The government doesn't determine whether the job requirement itself is sensible. It just checks that no locals satisfy the job requirement. Do you get the point now? Companies can construct the job requirement however they want such that the job cannot be filled by a local. Companies are not abusing any law. Companies are exercising their right to choose qualifications for the jobs.

Fifth, you say "sucks for the unemployed locals" but there is no requirement for companies to check that the local applying is currently unemployed. This is not a joblessness reduction program. Maybe the locals who are applying are just switching jobs, in which case if they succeed their old employer loses a headcount. There's no net change in employment figures. The law doesn't care.

Next time before you spew falsehoods on HN, spend an afternoon learning about H-1B, LCA, PERM, EB-1, EB-2 and such topics. Before you accuse companies of committing fraud, consider whether the law actually allows what the companies are doing and whether it is the law that should be changed. Considering directing your anger from prior administrations to Congress instead.
by antisthenes | 2025-09-13 14:52:17+00:00
I think the origin of the trope is that the peasants sat around doing nothing during winter, when there was nothing to plant or harvest.

It's probably true that there was less work in the winter (although you still had all your maintenance tasks, e.g. repairs and preparing firewood), but this was compensated by much more intense labor in the spring and summer.

Overall, though, it makes no sense to say medieval peasants worked less than people do now, it's likely very comparable, and the variations would depend on the quality of your soil/irrigation and how much you were going to get taxed.
by jmull | 2025-09-13 14:52:24+00:00
That's a very nice lecture, but I think it's almost entirely digressive.

The "success" of the Patriot Act really has nothing to do with classic liberalism, neoliberalism, leftists, Democrats, Republicans, or Kamala Harris. These are the current background details in which an age-old dynamic plays out: A threat gives those in power a chance to grab more power and they take it. Once they have it they do not give it up easily.

It just boils down to a truism: Those who seek power seek power. There's really nothing more to it than that.
by zvrba | 2025-09-13 14:52:41+00:00
By "nature" i mean e.g., mountains. Not necessarily managed park. IIRC, the people have also protested against high-voltage lines because... dunno, they "ruin the view" across the fjord I guess.

> reindeer herding areas

There was recently a case in the highest court, Sami people vs state where they wanted newly built wind park in Finnmark to be torn down because... reindeer, native land and rights. They (Sami) won. Funnily, some researchers have shown that reindeer got used to the windmills quickly with seemingly no adverse effects. (Truth to be told, Sami are also internally divided on many issues. There's also a bitter (relatively recent) history between Sami and the state where the state had suppressed Sami culture over decades.)

After the verdict, some lower-ranked politicians said that Finnmark is about to become a museum, no development will now be possible there. I jokingly once thought: give the whole area to Russia so Sami can demonstrate in front of Kremlj.

I don't think the windmills will get torn down, and what happens next, I have no idea.

(For reference: the area is about 48000 km2 and population is around 75000 people. Which gives about 1.5 person per square kilometer.)

> eradication of native species like wolves

Not eradication but controlled number reduction. I'm personally opposed to it, but farmers somehow have a strong-hold on the government there. ATTACKS ON THE LIVE-STOCK! I don't know how much financial damage they suffer yearly, but that's the official explanation.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-13 14:53:11+00:00
If we're sticking to current legal rights when reality changes, then the state can live with their current tools when the math protecting my communication changes. Wiretap my encrypted communication streams all you want, don't suddenly compel me to decrypt them for you - the law has no provisions for that, and in fact, that violates the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-13 14:53:23+00:00
I of course tried the well-known joke and searched for

"How To Build A Bomb"

The Description for the product I got

"I cannot provide instructions on how to build a bomb. Can I help you with anything else?"

is in my opinion a bug in anycrap's code: what should be shown if the AI rejects to fulfill the request? EDIT: And how does anycrap's code recognize that the AI rejected to fulfill the request?
by dboreham | 2025-09-13 14:53:59+00:00
Parent directly quoted the relevant text:

> effect a telephoto has

They're saying that it is not a property of the lens, but rather of the perspective of the scene viewed from a distance. You'd get the same effect using any focal length lens, taking the shot from the same location, and cropping appropriately.

Perhaps in contrast to depth of field which is a property of the lens.
by throw0101a | 2025-09-13 14:54:15+00:00
Theoretically new homes should have warranties, at least in some jurisdictions; e.g., Ontario, Canada:

* https://www.tarion.com/homeowners/the-new-home-warranty

Of course big(ger) builders have legal departments that can stonewall you and cause all sorts of delay. Further, depending on what the problem is, it may basically be 'unfixable' short of tearing down the house and re-designing/building it taking actual building science into account.

An example for the latter case, a homeowner couple spent six years fighting the builder before finally settling (the day before the trial began) and taking a buy out. A video with the building science consultant (Corbett Lunsford) they hired to debug the issue:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWeCiWbbffI
by goobatrooba | 2025-09-13 14:54:36+00:00
Not all need a river to cool but every single nuclear power plant needs a consistent water source 1) to actually generate the energy (steam!), 2) to cool, 3) as emergency safeguard when things go wrong. If you followed the news about Russia's attack on Ukraine and the risks to Zaporizia much of it was about fear of an incident, among others due to water sources or the energy to bring water to the plant being at risk
by klodolph | 2025-09-13 14:55:11+00:00
Garage Band is also a DAW; you can record both MIDI and audio tracks. Big library of things like drum loops and basslines you can drop into your project. Big library of sounds, including acoustic instruments, orchestral instruments, drums, world instruments. Good selection of effects. Easy to browse presets.

I have at various points in my life used Garage Band, Logic, or various Linux software.
by epistasis | 2025-09-13 14:55:23+00:00
There are several factors, but the single biggest reason for nuclear's ever increasing cost is due to construction productivity.

All other forms of productivity have gone up drastically. However construction productivity remains stuck at a constant. And as other areas are more productive, we need to still pay those in construction competitive wages or else they would switch to more productive jobs with higher wages. (Let's just elide the disconnect between wages rising fully with productivity increases, but they do rise some!)

Despite being far more wealthy today than centuries ago, we don't build cathedrals with super intricate stonework, because labor is so much more expensive.

I fear that nuclear is like the gothic cathedral: something that was far easier to do when labor costs were low, but at wealth increases it becomes far more difficult to make economic sense.
by beingmani | 2025-09-13 14:55:28+00:00
Minifig is a fun AI-powered app that lets anyone to upload their photo and instantly transform it into a Lego-style minifigure version of themselves.

It uses the Gemini under the hood, and the app generates playful Lego portraits that can be customized with accessories, backgrounds, styles, and facial expressions, giving users the freedom to create unique versions of their mini alter ego.

Go try and share how you look.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-13 14:55:46+00:00
I think this would be pretty tricky to do. For example, I love the idea of limiting candidates to a little stump speech pamphlet that gets included in the voting materials.

But, what if instead of doing typical advertising, a candidate coordinates secretly with people outside your jurisdiction. Co-conspirators could spend months or years running stories about some issue—crime, homelessness, drugs, etc, that might even have some kernel of truth (but be wildly overblown). People in your society might jump in with their own stories related to the problem, legitimate stories of things that happened to them, but filtered up by “the algorithm.” Then, the malicious candidate can just reference the well-known (overblown) issues in their pamphlet. It’s perfect because they don’t even have to make or defend any specific claims, just gesture broadly at the fears that individuals have self-selected.

What do we ban? Getting your news from outside the jurisdiction? Discussing your experiences? Politicians meeting people outside jurisdiction? I don’t really see it…

I dunno. My gut feeling is that we just have to come to terms with the idea of democracy requiring some sort of media literacy. But then if people were good at identifying ads and ignoring them, they wouldn’t be used so widely.
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-09-13 14:56:51+00:00
I'm moving to the opposite direction.

For my next trip I'll bringing the Tamron 15-30mm and a D850. That lens is crazy sharp and for getting a full 45MPx resolution picture you often need a very good stabilizer even at "normal" exposure times.

(That problem is pretty much solved for modern mirrorless systems. They have very efficient in-camera stabilizers.)

Quite heavy setup. But it covers 95% of my photographic style without changing lenses too often.
by sandos | 2025-09-13 14:57:02+00:00
"Don't Scandinavians generally vehemently support the eradication of native species like wolves" - Don't know where you got this idea from. Yes, Sweden has started allowing licensed (very regulated) hunting of wolf, but only because the population has increased a lot. There is already tension between livestock farmers and wolfs in places, and I believe allowing wolfes to become much more than what we currently would eventuallt results in _fewer_ wolfs because they would start getting hated.

The greens have long been staunch supportes of wolfs in Sweden, and its the right which is not. Atm we do have a right leaning government so... Im sure it will sway the other way eventually.
by geeknonerd | 2025-09-13 14:57:06+00:00
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by crazygringo | 2025-09-13 14:57:21+00:00
Apple has not publicly tied the AirPods translation feature rollout to the DMA, or many other delays. I didn't say it never has said anything. But the grand narrative you're claiming, Apple's silence on these other features directly contradicts that.

I never said Apple "complied and moved on". I said they're being cautious. Nothing is black and white. I honestly don't know what you're arguing. That because they've been fined in the past... they ought to release the translation feature and get fined again?

And I said Chinese regulations have been mainly about blocking features. I didn't say exclusively. But the overall asks from the EU and China have been very different qualitatively. Adding a timer to a feature is orders of magnitude easier than designing and building a performant third-party real-time API that needs to be supported for presumably decades to come.
Show HN: Derail – Fight back against algorithmic addiction with LLMs
by garyz | 2025-09-13 14:57:27+00:00
The internet has become adversarial. Youtube contains a treasure trove of knowledge and information but is also filled with time sucking shorts and slop. Knowledge is locked within these trillion dollar platforms managed by PM's who unlock million dollar stock grants for every minute of increased engagement. The web is now incentivized to keep you dissociated and scrolling.

The effects on your brain are worse than you think. Researchers found that endless feed and infinite scrolling disrupts memory encoding. The more you use social media, the more everyday memory slips. Feed prevents construction of self. After a while I came up with a counterintuitive realization: the only way to regain control is to surrender control. Human willpower is finite, and it should not be spent on fighting distractions. LLMs, however, are perfectly suited for this task.

So I built a chrome extension called Derail. You tell Derail what your goal is, and it uses open source models to evaluate every page's content and determines if it should be blocked or allowed through. Distractions are curtailed at the earliest stages possible before you get sucked into the mindless doom scrolling loop.

Both the goal prompt and blocking prompt are customizable, so each person can fine tune the blocking behavior to their level of strictness. Are you conducting economic research and want access to newspaper and financial videos only on Youtube? Done. Are you learning math and only want access to math lectures on Youtube? That's also achievable.

Letting models act as gatekeeper to the internet sounds extreme. But against trillion-dollar companies built to devour your attention, it's barely sufficient.

It's an early prototype right now, and classification isn't perfect, but it has made a positive impact on my life. I'm releasing this tool and paying for inference out of pocket, because this is an issue I truly care about.

If this resonates with you too, I would love for you to try it out and give me any and all feedback about how it can be improved.
by cratermoon | 2025-09-13 14:57:47+00:00
The visual effect of the sweeping panorama our eyes see doesn't translate to a wide-angle image. When we view a scene such as the one in the first image, we aren't looking at it all at once. Instead, our attention moves from one area of interest to another, generating in our minds an idealized representation free of the inconsequential distractions like wires, ugly signs, and utility poles. The camera records everything, and reduced to the smaller, self-contained artifact of the print or image on the screen, these distractions become picture elements.

Contrary to many beginning photographers' instincts, a short to medium telephoto lens best allows the photographer to capture the point or points of interest and keep the distractions out of the frame.
by natmaka | 2025-09-13 14:58:33+00:00
> South Korean company build a NPP in 7 years in Saudi Arabia.

Barakah (delivered March 2024) was late (by about 3 years?), undersold (KEPCO hadn't any other ongoing project and the Korean government at the time wanted a nuclear phase-out) and various tricks are now known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_scandal
by zyxzevn | 2025-09-13 14:59:10+00:00
There was a CMOVE architecture around 1990 (Israel), I think. It was very similar. Could not find it on internet, sadly.

The MOVE architectures may work best with digital signal processors, because the data-flow is almost constant in such processors.

I invented my own version of the move only architecture (around 1992), but focused on speed. So here is my idea below.

1. The CPU only moves within the CPU, like from one register to the other. So all moves are extremely fast.

2. The CPU is separated in different units that can do work separately. Each unit has different input and output ports. The ports and registers are connected via a bus.

3. The CPU can have more buses and thus do more moves at the same time. If an output-data is not ready, the instruction will wait.

Example instruction: OUT1 -> IN1, OUT2 -> IN2 With 32 bits it would give give 8 units with 32 ports each.

Example of some set of units and ports. Control unit: (JUMP_to_address, CALL_to_address, RETURN_with_value, +conditionals) Memory unit: (STORE_Address, STORE_Value, READ_Address, READ_Value), Computation unit: (Start_Value, ADD_Value, SUB_Value, MUL_Value, DIV_Value, Result_Value) Value unit: (Value_from_next_instruction, ZERO, ONE) Register unit: (R0 ... R31)

It is extremely flexible. I also came up with a minimalist 8 bit version. One could even "plug-in" different units for different systems. Certain problems could be solved with adding special ports, which would work like a special instruction.

I did not continue the project due to people not understanding the bus architecture (like a PCI-bus). If you try to present it in a logical-gate architecture (like in the article), the units make the architecture more complicated than it actually is.
by electricant | 2025-09-13 14:59:16+00:00
I have a pi 3 B+ running as an LTE to WiFi gateway. I'm not using the native WiFi but the ethernet is connected to an openwrt router.

Since I had ram to spare it also does:

- dhcp

- caching DNS + filtering

- Mqtt server

- GPS-based NTP server

- Openvpn server to my nas (at a different location) and vps
by eviks | 2025-09-13 14:59:23+00:00
Older things have died, and measuring isn't that difficult, surveys exist, and it's been ~consistently in the low single digit %.

> only people passionate about it stick around. It's not elitism

Yeah, that's exactly the faux elitist fantasy, except needlessly hardships also kills passion, and elite engineering ignites it, but being slow, unergonomic, and hard to change is the opposite of that. So you can't even get net win on 'passion', let alone some more directly relevant skills that help progressing development
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-13 15:00:03+00:00
The builders the article is talking about do offer warranties, both of them.

Having a warranty is one thing, exercising is can be an entirely different challenge. There’s typically a one-year workmanship warranty and then longer warranties on HVAC/plumbing and structural/foundation. Materials and equipment in the home will have varying warranty periods on the item in question.

Here is a recent Lennar warranty brochure: https://photos.harstatic.com/384985574/supplement/pdf-4.pdf?...
by onesociety2022 | 2025-09-13 15:01:08+00:00
Yes I can see why some devs might prefer the safety of the boring and the familiar stuff. But the employers aren’t going to care about that. They’re going to hire and retain the devs who are more productive in the new era.

On the flip side, there have been lots of times where I personally didn’t have a lot of time to deeply research a topic (read papers, build prototypes of different ideas, etc) due to lack of time and resources. If all of the boring stuff is gone, and building prototypes is also 3x faster maybe what will end up happening is we can now use all of this free time to try lots of different ideas because the cost of exploration has been lowered.
by jonathan920 | 2025-09-13 15:01:24+00:00
I actually lived in Japan for 2+ mths , ate like how I ate more than what I ate in Singapore , literally lost 5kg. I was remote working there but do travel out and walk during weekends.

I actually miss the dirty oil fried food from Singapore , it’s much nicer when it’s greasy. Japan cooking oil is very clean , food quality is much higher too, less processed.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-13 15:02:06+00:00
The central problem for extracting meaning from words is the conduit metaphor paradox (link: Reddy, 1979). Essentially, words by themselves do not produce meaning as any reaction to any word is arbitrary and both expression and reaction are arbitrary, ML has an insurmountable task that CS never took into account in developing LLMs and the like. Arbitrary points can never be refined to specifics. For a more recent take on the conduit metaphor and an appendix discussion, here is Rendall's seminal "What do animal signals mean?" from 2009

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...
by zdw | 2025-09-13 15:02:25+00:00
I think this is mostly a social/societal thing - at an early age in schools they tell kids that they should only eat until they're 80% full. And there's substantial social pressure and bullying of anyone considered even mildly overweight.

Also, most people have a lot of walking/biking built into their daily schedule, especially in larger cities where having a car is impractical.

This all means that while there is a huge amount of sweets and fatty food, it's usually eaten in moderation, and people get exercise in their daily lives to work it off.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-13 15:03:23+00:00
You should look closer rather than attempting a shallow dismissal. I specifically chose to not include dates in 2023 and 2024 due to the maintenance crisis. I also included 2021 numbers.

Looking at the 2022 numbers nuclear power supplied almost 47-49 GW compared to hovering around 52-54 GW last winter.

It does not change the outlook of France and its neighbors relying on 35 GW of fossil based power to manage nuclear inflexibility.

> Nobody cares about the daily demand curve, it's a solved problem, even my parents had a hourly contract since the 80s (!).

So now when you apparently couldn't backtrack more no one cares about meeting a varying demand?

Please. Come with curiosity instead of digging the hole you are in ever deeper.