Hacker News: N2yhWNXQN3k9

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:59:51 +0000

Interesting, there are plenty of localities in the US that hire 5-10yoe developers at south of $100k.

You can see this in BLS data.

Is there a good resource for data on wages in Poland? I mean, I am going to look, but I thought I'd ask.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:54:01 +0000

> I know you're trying to bait a comment with the BLS reference

I am not. I am generally confused at what you would suggest is wrong with the GDP measurement.

We have multiple layers of agencies reporting on GDP and other economic measures the US. There are certainly some troublesome siloed measures (CPI), but I wasn't aware that GDP was one of them.

Your take doesn't seem relevant with regard to my knowledge on the subject.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:41:03 +0000

Then what would the salary be? If I am hard-pressed to hire at 120k?

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:37:45 +0000

Oh? Convince me? Outside of speculation around the fact that BLS heads were replaced?

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:35:41 +0000

Those are stats published by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Immigration_Lawyers_A...

They seem roughly correct

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Rails Needs New Governance"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:24:45 +0000

rails is a cult.

DHH isn't a great architect. he was a yung feller with okay ideas. most of those ideas suck in the grand scheme of time.

with modern tooling, the general direction is more confusion than time saving (rails's original major goal)

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:21:03 +0000

Ever live somewhere that isn't a city, but has access to talent from a local university? No one is sticking around to be hired for $70k a year when they can make $120k a year in a city. Yet, there are plenty of hires due to a local migrant population, which commonly has generational support. This disrupts that. It hurts more than migrants. It hurts communities.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:16:06 +0000

I don't think you even need a container for that type of containment.

You could do it with namespaces.

I think node/whatever-js-run-time/package-manger could allow for namespaced containment for packages with simple modern linux things.

The realms proposal was a step towards that at one time.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:08:52 +0000

Growing up, you never did a sport you weren't really interested in? A hobby? A academic activity?

That is pretty common, you can find plenty of literature on it.

But your condescending comment is noted.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:04:01 +0000

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/excisetax.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tariff.asp

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Samsung forces ads onto fridges; is a bad sign for other appliances"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:59:26 +0000

In this administration?

Probably more likely to see a EO on requiring those things

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:55:31 +0000

> whether they come in the form of gold plaques, lawsuit settlements, crypto investments, or stock market collusion.

You forgot monopolization, power consolidation, etc

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:51:48 +0000

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/18/fcc-brendan-carr-th...

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:31:31 +0000

Yeah, pretty common to force children to do things until they are of self-volition age, some reach it very late in life, some very early.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7011967/

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:53:06 +0000

Laravel uses stupid tricks to make templates easy. If you are using heavy modularization with blade templates in production for views, you are paying a lot because the framework developers are lazy and don't want to actually memoize requires.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:51:09 +0000

Blade templates (very slow, especially with components), reflection, macros, not binding things explicitly in the container, etc, all these things lead to very slow applications.

Those who use Laravel don't typically care about performance though

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "The rise of async AI programming"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:46:15 +0000

> subtle mistakes that my brain jumps straight to the likely failure ... I can usually spot the bugs faster then before

doubt intensifies

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:23:13 +0000

Laravel is slow because it uses reflection like it is free, and it doesn't even need reflection really. Its just a marketing gimmick, IMO.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:10:54 +0000

In Laravel, the issue is that the framework is sold as "productive" as default. There is no real "beef" to the framework though, IMO. It is better today, but historically it is just a wrapper around symfony with some dependency injection through reflection, questionable serde, tons of magic, and with some unique takes on templates and routing, which are arguably not very good takes? Maybe components are better, but blade in general seems backwards as a template language.

Ever want to type `$model->foo instead of $model->getFoo()` but then have `$model->foo` magically call `$model->getFooAttribute()`, but fall back to `$model->getAttribute('foo')` if that method doesn't exist? Then that magically calls some casting methods, and possibly even fetches infinite records from a remote store? It is so artisan, bro. I can tell you more if you got five minutes.

New comment by N2yhWNXQN3k9 in "A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut"

N2yhWNXQN3k9 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:52:25 +0000

> or we would not be having this discussion.

Or those who aren't students of philosophy, just never read everything they said, seems more likely, no?

> Keep in mind the philosophers who came before had great contributions to the big thought-experiment we call existence, but many of them argued from emotionally or socioeconomically tainted positions and nobody has gotten it 100% right yet, or we would not be having this discussion.

Okay? What does that mean? We have 300 years of society embracing this perspective of Hume and the (at least) tens of thousands of scholars that followed him. I think it is well established that we believe this, even if you have some special knowledge or something enqueued.

Are you going to debunk all philosophy of the 18th century because they were arguing from an "emotionally or socioeconomically" stance (whatever that means)? It seems like an argument from an extremely weak position rhetorically, and I am being generous.