MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Flatterer3544 | 2025-09-20 05:40:34+00:00
You really going to mention all that, which had some impact on the US middle class, but you're not going to mention anything about the US "wealth distribution" dynamics which has had its regulations and protections removed to the demise of the middle class?? Income tax roof being more than double before, corps being taxed more than double, the top earner vs bottom earner of any corporation much closer.. Less workarounds, no-one using the stupid "buy-borrow-die" strategy that is all too common now..
by Fannon | 2025-09-20 05:41:25+00:00
What bothers me about MCP is that there is not even a standard way to describe an entire MCP server in a single JSON file. Like OpenAPI for REST. This makes exchanging metadata and building catalogs unnecessarily unstandardized.

The article also mentioned that OpenAPI is too verbose: I totally see that, but you could optimize this by stripping an OpenAPI file down to the basics that you need for LLM use, maybe even using the Overlay spec. Or you convert your OpenAPI files to the https://www.utcp.io format that pylotlight mentioned.

Some "curation" of what's really relevant for AI consumption may be a helpful anyway, as too many tools will also lead to problems in picking the right ones.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-20 05:41:34+00:00
Fair point. To be clear, time in deep sleep does not increase. What increases is delta power, the primary measure researchers use for how restorative deep sleep is. This has been shown in the research, and our technology has been validated by an independent laboratory so that they could use it in their own clinical trial.

On our site we simplify the language. That is partly because of the regulations do not allow us to make clinical claims prior to approval, and partly because explaining the neuroscience in detail would overwhelm most visitors.

I link to the research so those interested can dive in deeper, and that is allowed.
by phs2501 | 2025-09-20 05:43:49+00:00
Does anyone know of a Wayland WM/compositor that does multi-screen like XMonad? Preferably out of the box but I'll take configurable.

For those unaware, though I doubt you're reading this thread if so, I want n desktops that are shared between all screens, not desktops _assigned_ to particular screens. If I summon a desktop on screen 1 and it's currently displayed on screen 2, they should swap.

Ideally also does layouts kind of like xmonad too, not "here's a tiling tree structure and a bunch of commands to manually manage it".
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 05:44:00+00:00
There was some initial social media reaction portraying this guy as some hard right fascist or whatever, as well. So it wasn't something just Kimmel had come up with. It could be that by the time the show started more evidence came out and he was looking more one way, and Jimmy just had stale info or his staffers were lazy and didn't update him.

> Nothing he said was false though, the Republicans were trying to paint the shooter as anyone other than one of their own.

Yeah, and the show owners could have fought it. There might be a warning, a lawsuit, maybe a period to comply and make changes etc. But they folded immediately. They probably figured technically they could have explained it, but the PR aspect of it was a losing battle. Here is another part of the country flying flags half staff, and what is ABC's doing? Oh right, explaining away Kimmel's news and jokes and defending him. A lot of these corporations and their leaders can smell the way the wind blows and they really hate it when the wind blows away their profits, so they just react accordingly.
by mlyle | 2025-09-20 05:44:25+00:00
I don't understand your logic, and your statement isn't true.

Fraud doesn’t require someone to be "tricked into giving something for nothing." Courts have long recognized that it’s also fraud when one party induces another to act (or refrain from acting) by relying on false or concealed information.

That’s why there’s piles of case law on fraudulent inducement (getting someone to stay in a contract by making untrue statements) and fraudulent concealment (hiding negative information so they remain in the relationship). In both situations, the injured party continues performing under the contract to their detriment because of deception.

The key element is reliance on a misrepresentation.
by Ancapistani | 2025-09-20 05:44:33+00:00
I was very hesitant to comment on this, due to the current political climate - but I’m going to do so anyhow, and ask that you keep in mind that while I associate more with the right than the left, I’m an Anarcho-Capitalist. I’m an outsider to both sides, and my intent here is to share an observation because I believe it’s relevant.

From what I’m seeing in right-wing spaces, this is much more than hypocrisy. Much of the right has made the explicit decision to abandon their principles because they believe that the left will ultimately attempt to destroy them when they regain the White House.

Whether that belief is accurate or not, they seem to be willing to give Trump significantly more latitude to suppress the left as a result of it.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-20 05:45:25+00:00
Huge update on this: https://www.wsj.com/business/media/jimmy-kimmel-decision-beh...

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The decision to preempt ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ was made unilaterally by the senior executive team at Nexstar, and they had no communication with the FCC or any government agency prior to making that decision,” a Nexstar spokesman said.

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Immediately following his monologues there advertisers and affiliates contacted and were complaining to Disney. The FCC was, if anything, just the final nail in the coffin.
by xnickb | 2025-09-20 05:47:23+00:00
> Then, it's the "leaders" (the top brass - founders, etc) who decide that things have gone too far and we need to make brutal 10% cuts across the board.

I agree with the general sentiment of your points, but aren't those 10-20-30% layoffs an attempt to make the bottom line look better before the call with the investors? In my experience most layoffs have a goal to reduce spend by X rather than churn underperformers. And often times managers aren't even allowed to target based on merit, but on some weird metric which is a mixture of compensation and impact.
by gwenzek | 2025-09-20 05:47:46+00:00
I really don't like this move. I always rooted for Android because of its openness. It was also a reason why I was proud to work at Google.

The PlayStore is full of crapware, and I'm using a lot of apps from Fdroid, including basics like keyboard and text.

If you're at Google try to push back on this please.
by ineedasername | 2025-09-20 05:47:47+00:00
Hi Rob, as head of product if you’re sincere in this then maybe check in with the SVP of North American sales, see if your sincerity is founded on something more than well-wishes. It would hardly be the first time in corporate history that a sales division was wagging the dog without the dog knowing.

Heck that’s an interesting thought, why isn’t the SVP here commenting instead? If you can’t find the new one then maybe check in with Kevin Egan, congratulate him on the new CRO job, see what his take is on this being more of a mistake than standard operating procedure. Maybe have his reminisce about his sales days from way back at Oracle, where sales and revenue optimization is known for their ethical practices.
by viktoreu4_ | 2025-09-20 05:47:48+00:00
This is a good letter. I literally just submitted my own plugin https://github.com/MaxwellsEquation/LaTerM-obsidian and it took me thirty minutes to get past the validation script, as it seems to check for "plugins's" in the script in some places, while the template specifies "plugin's". The process should probably be overhauled.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-20 05:48:24+00:00
I think one important distinction that I haven’t seen mentioned here much is that there is a big difference between handing out h1bs to cognizant employees vs students who did masters programs in the US and are working as direct hires in faang companies. In the latter case, these workers have already invested tens if not hundreds of thousands into the US as well as many years before even making a dime. This cohort is much more incentivized to stay in the US and contribute over the long term. They are also not ‘abusing’ the h1b program at all, because they are getting paid the exact wages as their US counterparts, unlike those at BigTechConsulting.

Smarter policy would be to looking into targeting the actual exploitation, where it actually exists (if it’s deemed that the externalities are truly negative), like the outsourcing to cognizant. Of course, we are living under the rule of probably the most inept president in any of our lifetimes; so he doesn’t act methodically, only reflexively to once again reduce US competitiveness over the long term.
by darkamaul | 2025-09-20 05:48:35+00:00
> We do not run postinstall scripts. This prevents packages from executing arbitrary code during installation.

I get the intent, but I’m not sure this really buys much. If a package is compromised, the whole thing is already untrustworthy and skipping postinstall doesn’t suddenly make the rest of the code safe. If it isn’t compromised, then you risk breaking legitimate installation steps.

From a security perspective, it feels like an odd tradeoff. I don’t have hard data, but I’d wager we see far more vulnerabilities patched through regular updates than actual supply-chain compromises. Delaying or blocking updates in general tends to increase your exposure rather than reduce it.
by sakjur | 2025-09-20 05:49:09+00:00
It nuances ”leader” and ”manager” from something you are to descriptions of problem-solving toolkits when dealing with people.

In that sense it could be reconstructed as ”soft power mode” and ”hard power mode” where the former inspires confidence and encourages creativity and the latter emphasizes compliance and alignment. Any person in a position of power will utilize strategies that could be seen as signs of either mode depending on the situation.
by raincole | 2025-09-20 05:49:55+00:00
> Gaming is the only area where I expect plugins have limited permissions.

It's pretty much the opposite. A lot of modding communities' security model is literally just to "trust the community."

Example: https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Modding_API

> The code in Mods for Cities: Skylines is not executed in a sandbox.

> While we trust the gaming community to know how to behave and not upload malicious mods that will intentionally cause damage to users, what is uploaded on the Workshop cannot be controlled.

> Like with any files acquired from the internet, caution is recommended when something looks very suspicious.
by Fannon | 2025-09-20 05:50:09+00:00
Let me take the other position in this comment: I also see that how MCP works really helped its quick adoption. Because you could just build a local MCP server as a proxy around existing APIs and functionality, there is no need to touch anything existing. And MCP often starts as "MCP Server" that is basically a software artifact that you'd just configure and run - often locally. I don't think that just doing REST or extending existing REST APIs wouldn't have delivered this part of the MCP success story.

But now that many companies focus on MCP as a remote API, the question obviously comes up why not just use standard API protocols for that and just optimize the metadata for AI consumption.
by uxcolumbo | 2025-09-20 05:50:15+00:00
What’s your advice for people who want to transition to working on projects to help fix the climate crisis?

Where would you start?

Curious, what bit are you working on to help fix this? Research as you’re doing a PhD?

Reading “Reinventing Fire” currently. So much needs to change, but it feels like there is zero political will to address this crisis.
by ionwake | 2025-09-20 05:50:45+00:00
Its a good question and I am unsure why I would get a downvote a it delves into realms of philosophy. Ah I just realised its the offended manager. Anyway to answer the question, I think at a core level I just always felt that I should be loyal to my manager, and if I saw that after my sacrifice, that I was unappreciated, then I would leave, as my work was not for payment but to help people who needed it.

Once decided to leave, I felt as a final mark of respect I would both leave quietly, and more importantly I did not owe them the feedback, which would ofcourse help.

It sort of should make sense. I am often confused why people who decide to quit a company that has wronged them, would voluntarily provide feedback. I feel they only do it to vent, but control of ones emotions is an act of discipline one should not shirk in professional settings.
by keeda | 2025-09-20 05:51:15+00:00
I could not read the full article so I don't have all the details about the report, but the scope pretty limited. There are equally numerous reports about e.g. BigTech H1B salaries being much higher than typical. So that raises the question, which is the greater effect?

Better instead to look at larger scale studies out there, including the ones I mentioned in the comment I linked. The results are much more nuanced, but generally they find negligible or mildly positive impact on native workers, suggesting they are largely orthogonal to foreign workers.

The point is that the dynamics are more nuanced than simple supply vs demand.
by kh_hk | 2025-09-20 05:52:12+00:00
I don't know. It's all a mix of factors, but it's basically "been there, done that". The last times I was really excited about the jobs, nowadays I have this doom feeling it will be the same experience over again. Maybe burnout, maybe being too privileged to fail and still somehow make ends.

That said, I forced being motivated, and I did whatever took, and still failed interviews. So, now I know it's not on my hands to pass or not.
by 9x39 | 2025-09-20 05:52:20+00:00
Detach from reacting to them, invert the situation and give them what they’re looking for but not asking for.

Generalizing heavily, but I have turned relationships around to somewhat functional levels like this with weak leaders who leaned entirely into playing their supposed manager role.

Example: micromanager. Nagging you for updates. Inverted: insecure and craving information. I’ll flood you with information. Maybe you’ll back off and trust me if you’re not pathologically like this.

Information hoarding. Inverted: politically vulnerable, unsure of who to trust (maybe? If not a psychopath). Share information - not gossip - give them the credit, make them feel like they have allies and backup. See if you can’t go through something together and build trust.

Avoiding hard convos (coward). Inversion: insecure about people skills, probably bad history of making things worse. Start the hard convos for them by setting them up and handing them off. Take the risk and make the icebreaker moves, scheduling or calling or introducing. Play a support role if it’s them vs externals, detach and be supportive and nonreactive or limit it to positive reinforcement only and active listening if 1 on 1.

Typically I see immediate improvement with these if behavior stems from insecurity, but psychopaths and narcissists can and will take advantage.

I think nonreactivity and some pity for the cowardly go a long way to stabilizing things if they’re trying but failing. Cut them off and leave if it’s hopeless.
by mg | 2025-09-20 05:52:21+00:00
That is a good idea.

59 requirements, including Django, seems pretty heavy though?

For my own RSS feed, I use this 48 line Python file with no dependencies outside the standard library:

https://github.com/no-gravity/atomfeed.py

It takes an array with the entries as input, not a web page. But I guess the HTML parsing should take no more than another few lines? For HTML parsing, I have good experiences with the lxml module which is in the Debian repos. It is fast and works pretty well.
by skinwill | 2025-09-20 05:52:23+00:00
Can someone explain to me how this is different than a simple noise generator based on a PN junction? As in, isn't this just amplifying noise and aren't there less sensational ways of doing nearly the same thing? Does measuring a photon with this method actually get you better randomness? I have some serious gaps in my understanding here and an ELI5 would be neat.
by ccppurcell | 2025-09-20 05:52:44+00:00
I get a really bad vibe from this guy. I first came across him from a viral video where he was making claims about millennials in the workplace. In my opinion they were a mixture of obvious and wrong. And it was framed like he was some expert. But it later became obvious that it was basically an ad for a book he had out, and really he has no expertise or real world experience whatsoever. He's a grifter imo.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-20 05:52:56+00:00
Not really. You keep asserting letting immigrants be citizens is some plot by Democrats to win elections demograpgically. The entire intellectual exercise is predicated on that being somehow wrong (as opposed to the rectification of dealing with the untenable tension that millions of people have lived here for decades without a path to becoming fellow citizens... A path that can be offered by an expedient as simple as fixing the law, not pouring more resources into failing to enforce a bad one).

You started this subthread with the musing "It[']s so strange how illegal immigration has been completely normalised in the minds of some people." It's normalized for the same reason school shootings (I don't like it, but ask any member of Gen Z: school shooting drills are as normal as your drills now) and Sunday football are normalized: when something goes on for decades, it's normal. We live in a country where the President's wife broke immigration law (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/melania-trump-modeled-...); are we expected to take him seriously when he leads a crusade against illegal immigration?

The GOP is looking at an ocean, seeing the law declares it's illegal for the ocean to be there, and trying to boil it (instead of doing the smart thing, adjusting to the reality, and building a bridge).
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 05:53:04+00:00
So why did the network fold so quickly? It's a simple enough explanation "we not journalists, these are all made up jokes and parodies, we send our condolences to the family ... etc".

They folded because they knew how the statement was perceived. Here is half the country flying flags half staff and ABC owners are defending Kimmel. They are worried about views and profits and when that is threatened everything goes out of the window.

Paradoxically, I think Kimmel is all of the sudden on top again, just due to the controversy. The younger crowd who don't sit and watch ABC, might have just learned about this Kimmel guy the first time. May be another network will pick him up, it could be a win for him overall.
by telchior | 2025-09-20 05:53:26+00:00
Every change this admin implements needs this examination first. Everyone is in here having earnest discussions about policy pros and cons, but it ain't that country anymore.

The companies the admin favors are being given backdoors for every policy that's presented, and the way to become favored is to present bribes, whether they come in the form of gold plaques, lawsuit settlements, crypto investments, or stock market collusion.
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by vasvir | 2025-09-20 05:57:14+00:00
Yes,

Also the other problem of a big monorepo is that nothing ever dies. Let's say you have a library and there are 1000 client programs or other libraries of your API. Some of them are pretty popular and some of them are fringe.

However when you are changing the API they all have the same weight. You have to fix them all. In the non monorepo case the fringe clients will eventually die or their maintainer will invest on them and update them. It's like capitalism vs communism with central planning and all.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-09-20 05:58:14+00:00
I haven't looked into it seriously, no. Scripting support in Bevy (the ECS framework I was exploring) is pretty limited. There's an add-on that can provide unofficial support for LUA (https://github.com/makspll/bevy_mod_scripting) but I doubt that would be compatible with a WASM build target.
by jjav | 2025-09-20 05:58:15+00:00
> If you bought a home during ZIRP, this doesn't apply.

No, but if you're holding a 2% or slightly less mortgage, that's a nice place to be.

But of course it's not only the mortgage interest. Over the years your income goes up also, and inflation eats away at the real cost of that mortgage even if the monthly bill is exactly the same for 30 years.

> Smaller landlords will often eat the tax increase given the cost and risk inherent in switching tenants.

This can be true sometimes but not in the long run. Unless you're exceptionally lucky, you're not going to find a lifelong rental where the owner perpetually takes a loss.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-09-20 05:59:00+00:00
You do realize that all of these are false dichotomies.

Leaders share the right amount of context so their people understand the overarching strategy and goals. They don't overshare.

Leaders help move their people away from rule-breaking in the first place.

Leaders prioritize the health of the team. While this should include giving timely correction and assistance to help people to the right track, and finding ways to lean in to individual strengths, it also absolutely includes removing people with poisonous attitudes, disruptive behavior, or someone dragging the team down with poor performance.

Leaders reward justified, rational dissent. Compliance is an expected norm until someone can demonstrate either an exception or the need for a new norm. Compliance is more often related to things that can sink the entire company, so no, it doesn't just mean "control." Compliance is not the same as conformity.
by achow | 2025-09-20 05:59:06+00:00
Here's something not directly related that doesn't get mentioned enough, if at all:

Lack of empathy for managers from their teams and the organization.

Good managers are often caught between a rock and a hard place, trying to balance competing interests and navigate difficult situations, since they also have managers and business priorities. Depending on the team size, this pressure is almost on a logarithmic scale. I have seen people choose the IC path because they consider a manager's job too stressful, and they can be paid the same (or sometimes even more than their managers).

I agree with the general sentiment here in the comments section — the article sounds good at first glance, but it's missing the nuances that get in the way of a manager acting like a leader.