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by billfor | 2025-09-20 03:19:05+00:00
Fox news doesn't have a broadcast license. ABC does. As with redistricting, democrats are limited because things are already biased in their favor. Broadcast networks are all center-left at this point, if not then show me one major broadcaster that is center right. Democrats basically have nobody to go after.

To your point, The Democrats, when back in power, could extend licensing issues into cableTV, etc... and attempt to fire Fox or Newsmax commentators... I would argue the Biden administration already attempted to do a form of this, as we saw with Facebook, Twitter, et al, the last administration certainly tried influencing the online arena.

I just think both sides do it, although on this forum it seems to trigger mostly the left side.
by giardini | 2025-09-20 03:19:15+00:00
I also am Republican and believe in free speech but I believe it was OK to fire Kimmel b/c he's an employee who serves at the whim of his employer.

It isn't a free speech issue b/c the government didn't fire him. Nor do I think the government had much to do with Kimmel's firing.

I believe Kimmel displayed extremely poor taste in his choice of topics and wording, enough for any reasonable business to fire his ass. Maybe he can come back in a year.
by sargun | 2025-09-20 03:19:42+00:00
The author (Cong Wang) is building all sorts of neat stuff. Recently, they built kernelscript: https://github.com/multikernel/kernelscript -- another DSL for BPF that's much more powerful than the C alternatives, without the complexity of C BPF. Previously, they were at Bytedance, so there's a lot of hope that they understand the complexities of "production".
by hawngyeedun | 2025-09-20 03:19:55+00:00
> People don’t really use ChatGPT as a search engine replacement

Some do, and they think that they are using it as a replacement. I've been doing research on its use among college students and I've heard firsthand that some of them (especially from students in non-STEM fields) think ChatGPT can be as useful as, if not better than, search engines at times for _seeking_ information.

You may be talking to a specific subset of the population, but once you branch out and observe/hear from broader demographics, you'd be surprised to learn about people's mental model of the genAI technologies.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-20 03:20:06+00:00
With the small caveat that there wasn't a hot war with the party doing the peaking in progress one country over. This is literally begging for an escalation and that's most likely the only reason they haven't got one yet, not for lack of ability. The amount of hardware on NATO's Eastern flank is pretty impressive, especially in NE Poland and the Baltics and Finland near the russian border. Those pilots must have been wondering if the lack of response was good or bad news.
by btbuildem | 2025-09-20 03:20:20+00:00
Everyone is discussing the merits and downsides of this, but I'm yet to see the obvious be pointed out: it's extortion.

It's interesting to read all the analysis in the comments, but I think people are giving far too much credit to the admin in terms of having considered the impacts, the effects, some kind of desired direction for things to move, etc.

It's really much simpler than that: the mob boss has to get a cut of the action. One clue is the "fee" being annual, not one-time. Another tell is that there are no details as to what the collected money will go towards.
by pluc | 2025-09-20 03:21:16+00:00
Everyone thinks they know better, that's just the nature of people on internet forums. That's why I stopped asking for CV reviews - as soon as people know I'm struggling they come up with pointless edits. His point boils down to "you have no network, physical or digital" which might sound accurate with the information he's got, but isn't in reality because there's obviously more context than what I've shared here. I didn't just sit around brainlessly applying to jobs for two years. I've tried shit.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-20 03:22:09+00:00
It seems you're changing the subject. How do you buy yourself a mansion without paying for it?

> Even Steve Jobs used his wealth of Apple to buy up companies cheap at discounted rates.

Meaning there was someone willing to sell it to him.

> Exploit the laws for personal gain to hoard wealth

They're still not hoarding wealth, they're investing it.
by duped | 2025-09-20 03:24:30+00:00
I wish I lived someplace where we could take the huddled masses yearning to breathe free instead of a place where they're literally rounding up my neighbors for the crime of wanting a better life.

For what it's worth I know multiple people who have been turned away from Canada because their immigration laws are even stricter than ours. So I don't know how much you can attribute your lack of housing to immigration.
by victor106 | 2025-09-20 03:25:06+00:00
>There is a global competition for coming to Western Europe, Canada, and the US.

As someone who lived in all three geographies and interacted with immigrants who lived in there, here is my raw take:-

Western Europe:- Love it and people are so nice but they are also (I am sorry to say) racist. Proof:- How many immigrant CEO's do you see from companies based in Western Europe? The top 4 largest tech companies in the US have two indian CEO's for more than 10 years now.

Canada:- Super nice and immigrant friendly more than the US, but the size of the country (approx 10% of the US) doesn't have the financial/economic/social infrastructure that is needed to support a large number of immigrants. Also tech salaries are miserable compared to the US

US:- For all its faults, US is truly the only country where immigrants looking for a better future can immigrate and assimilate into. For how long this lasts remains to be seen but I don't think that is going to change anytime soon.
by tamimio | 2025-09-20 03:25:18+00:00
Precisely, I have been saying this for a while: engineers are smart enough to invent things but too stupid to gatekeep their profession. You have bootcampers, H1B workers, self-taught whatever, anyone can call themselves an engineer overnight. In 5 years you are now a "principal engineer!" I would even go further and distinguish between software and other disciplines of engineering. A web developer who is called a senior engineer is on paper equal to embedded engineers who spent at least 5 years in education plus god knows how long in experience to get the same title. This is wrong. I don't see a CPR trainee suddenly being able to call themselves a registered nurse!
by photon_garden | 2025-09-20 03:25:19+00:00
Haven’t used Roam, but what I like about Obsidian:

- All your data is just plain files on your file system. Automation and interop are great, including with tools like Claude Code.

- It’s local-first, so performance is good.

- It’s extensible. Write extensions in HTML, CSS, and JS.

- It’s free.

- Syncing files is straightforward. Use git, Syncthing, Google Drive, or pay for their cheap sync service which is quite good.

- Product development is thoughtful and well done.

- They’re explicitly not trying to lock you in or own your data. They define open specs and build on them when Markdown doesn’t cut it.

Things you might not like:

- Their collaboration story isn’t great yet. No collaborative editing.

- It’s an Electron app.
by rramadass | 2025-09-20 03:25:25+00:00
Not True.

In the 90s, the Tech Industry in the US grew at such a pace that you simply did not have enough supply of domestic college grads. It was the H-1Bs who saved and cemented the US's dominance in the Tech Industry.

See also U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age (2001) - https://issues.org/jorgenson/
by psd1 | 2025-09-20 03:25:56+00:00
I question "mainstream". I would say it's a peculiarly American blend of prosperity gospel and pick-and-choose.

America didn't invent those tenors of self-serving cant, but it is the exemplar today

This supposed Christianity was one of the bigger factors in the assassination of reality, but ultimately we have these cunts because Zuckerberg gave a platform to perennial losers.
by yellowapple | 2025-09-20 03:26:27+00:00
That's where I feel ATproto strikes the right balance: it's basically “What if Nostr but the identity lives on a potentially-self-hostable server instead of the client?”, avoiding that risk of “oh no I lost my private key” while still providing the means to control where one's identity lives and move elsewhere if necessary (even if the current server is uncooperative or no longer exists).
by yannyu | 2025-09-20 03:27:34+00:00
Fox News is technically cable, as the other poster under you has noted, which is a favored defense for this sort of discussion.

What they ignore is that local Fox affiliate stations who are also licensed by the FCC have a history of aligning with Fox News misinformation campaigns relating to covid, election integrity, Russia and Ukraine, Palestine, etc.

So no, the FCC licensed world is not left leaning, and these local affiliate stations should absolutely be held to the same standard.
by neilv | 2025-09-20 03:27:52+00:00
These practices are very similar to what I've done in the past, for a large, sensitive system, and they worked very well.

(IIUC, we actually were the first to get a certain certification for cloud deployment, maybe because we had a good handle on this and other factors.)

From the language-specific network package manager, I pulled the small number of third-party packages we used into the filesystem tree of system's repo, and audited each new version. And I disabled the network package manager in the development and deployment environments, to make it much harder for people to add in dependencies accidentally.

Dependencies outside this were either from the Linux distro (nice, because well-managed security updates), or go in the `vendor` or `ots` (off-the-shelf) trees of the repo (and are monitored for security updates).

Though, I look at some of the Python, JS, or Rust dependency explosions I sometimes see -- all dependent on being hooked up to the language's network package manager, with many people adding these cavalierly -- and it becomes a much harder problem.
by CyanLite2 | 2025-09-20 03:27:57+00:00
Don’t play the race card, you sound emotional saying that.

You admitted that there were tons of abuse. This gets back to the law’s original intent. This is the best fix that corporations “pay up” for.

It’s just politics. You have CS grads facing employment headwinds against AI, H1B, and high interest rates. They aren’t going to vote for the incumbents if they’re unemployed. Now they’re going to have a $100k discount to hire them instead of from a WITCH company. FAANG will still hire H-1Bs.
by strcat | 2025-09-20 03:29:06+00:00
There's a difference between Apple doing good integration of MTE and the work they're doing being truly novel. ARM MTE is not the only memory tagging implementation. Apple getting ARM to add something many people have wanted from elsewhere is useful, but it doesn't make it their idea. The fact is that they're not at all the first to deploy MTE to production and MTE was not the first deployment of hardware memory tagging to production. Their integration is better than what Google offers in Android 16 themselves. Unlike Apple, Google's mobile OS is open source and not limited to what Google does themselves. There are ways their integration is better than what's implemented elsewhere and also ways that it's worse. For one thing, it's deployed for a narrower set of components. What's implemented elsewhere is not static and will improve. MTE has been deployed in production in GrapheneOS for 2 years without significant hardware changes yet, but those are coming.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-20 03:29:13+00:00
> Those countries were not keeping for high skilled immigrants.

The US, UK, and Canada all have special provisions in their immigration programs aimed at attracting and prioritizing highly-skilled workers.

Both the UK [1] and Canada [2] both use a points-based ranking system that prioritizes highly-skilled immigrants. The UK system is clear in its goals:

> introduce an Immigration Bill to bring in a firm and fair points-based system that will attract the high-skilled workers we need to contribute to our economy, our communities and our public services.

And while the US H1-B program is lottery-based, 20,000 slots are reserved for people who hold a master's degree from a U.S. institution. Proposals have also been made recently to change to a points-based system. [3]

> They built themselves into places that high skill immigrants seek, but that is more of a side effect than a competition

Wherever there is choice, there is competition. 55% of billion dollar startups in the US have immigrant founders, employing an average of 1,200 employees each [4]. If these people don't come to the US and start companies, the US will feel the effects - even if they were just "side effects".

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uks-points-ba...

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAISE_Act

[4] https://www.fosterglobal.com/blog/55-of-americas-billion-dol...
by grakker | 2025-09-20 03:29:18+00:00
I quit my last job. I found myself thinking that the easy way out was really attractive, and I was seeing fewer and fewer downsides. Then I thought, I might as well quit, enjoy as much as I could, then take the easy way out when my account ran down to zero. Then, as it was approaching zero, I found out I could start withdrawing pension from my old job, with a heavy penalty for doing so early. Fuck it. I did that. Now I'm limping by on about $1500 a month. It's working for now, but I can imagine the end not too far away. But that eternal darkness is more attractive than dealing with the day to day bullshit of working while my country falls quickly into fascism, in addition to the normal fucked up capitalist morality and thinking.
by notpushkin | 2025-09-20 03:29:29+00:00
It’s usually done in MIT-like licenses, which are quite short.

But I’d argue that replacing it with

Copyright (c) 207X Jonathan Fenimore Licensed MIT, see the license text below

or even

Copyright (c) 207X Jonathan Fenimore SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

should be enough, but IANAL too.

---

In longer licenses like GPL or Apache, you are not supposed to change any copyright statement placeholders. For example, there’s this line in the GPL text:

Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>

But it’s a part of the “How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs” section. You are supposed to copy it into your code and fill it out there instead.

---

Or they could just compress the license amalgamation! I think it would be a bit bigger but pretty reasonable, and their lawyers should be happy with this arrangement.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-20 03:29:42+00:00
> I'll also lament the loss of bold, opinionated design. "Modern" compositors are either minimal to the point of nothingness, or insipid and generic. They don't look like the awesome UIs you'd see in old hacker movies, or the classic systems that were backed by 500 page HCI standards guides, they just look like the sort of UI you'd use in an textbook where you wanted to imply a GUI without anything specifically branded.

On Mastodon I follow a bot that posts screenshots of old Mac Kaleidoscope schemes and the creativity on display both leaves me in awe and makes me sad that no modern windowing system can hold a candle to it. With Kaleidoscope there were no rules. You could do a hacker OS[0], or game UI[1], or titlebars on the left[2] or underneath[3], or non-rectangular and chrome[4], or made of denim[5], and those are just a few of the thousands of wildly different themes[6].

Nothing on modern Linux comes close. Even if you seek out third party themes all you find are dozens of minor permutations on popular flat themes like Material and Nord. It's so dull.

[0]: https://macthemes.garden/themes/24c0f39f11eb-net-ghost/ [1]: https://macthemes.garden/themes/8f7b145a33f3-Millenniac [2]: https://macthemes.garden/themes/95203ae3bfe0-my-sidewyas-os/ [3]: https://macthemes.garden/themes/6da656d65263-modulus/ [4]: https://macthemes.garden/themes/7e008718df3c-dt-chromxium-tw... [5]: https://macthemes.garden/themes/0305d1075f5e-dt-denim/ [6]: https://macthemes.garden/
by coolThingsFirst | 2025-09-20 03:29:49+00:00
>The available data also indicate that H-1B workers do not earn low wages or drag down the wages of other workers. In 2021, the median wage of an H-1B worker was $108,000, compared to $45,760 for U.S. workers in general.

You can't compare tech salaries to general salaries. The entire thing seems disingenous.
by nomilk | 2025-09-20 03:31:34+00:00
Without additional setup, GPT-5 already uses python as it deems necessary (e.g. for calculations). Is an R MPC server any different to GPT-5 (that automatically uses python)? Reasoning: they're both an LLM plus a REPL, (I think) this makes them approximately equal? Or is there some advantage to using an MPC Server?
by ihnorton | 2025-09-20 03:32:42+00:00
Numbers. I’ve read thousands of resumes over the past few months, screened dozens of applicants, and experienced a wide variety of weirdness and fakes both in resumes and on screen calls. Please note that I’m talking about raw “application box resumes”. Referrals and other semi-vetted sources don’t get this level of scrutiny.

I gave two examples of secondary sources, but what I’m really getting at here is that the numbers and noise are so, so high now (not to mention staffing firm fronts and foreign actors) that I usually need more signal than a solid-looking resume before investing even 30’ in a screening call.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-20 03:32:44+00:00
What world are you living in? Many Chinese come in on student visas, get jobs at FAANG and then have to move back to their country after losing the H1-B. These are the people we want, doing the jobs that we want them to do, and we’re too nearsighted to figure out how to keep them.

Again, these are the most talented, most affluent minds that China has to offer. Sure, let’s have them work for the CCP rather than keeping them in the west.
by simonw | 2025-09-20 03:33:30+00:00
We've been talking about this problem for three years and there's not been much progress in finding a robust solution.

Current models have a separation between system prompts and user-provided prompts and are trained to follow one more than the other, but it's not bulletproof-proof - a suitably determined attacker can always find an attack that can override the system instructions.

So far the most convincing mitigation I've seen is still the DeepMind CaMeL paper, but it's very intrusive in terms of how it limits what you can build: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/
by rayiner | 2025-09-20 03:34:53+00:00
> The consensus in sociology and anthropology is that ethnicity is a social construct

Biologists meanwhile know that it’s in your DNA: https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212169298.... You can take a DNA sample of me and have a very good idea about my ancestors going back tens of thousands of years.

> why education is so important, and why republicans hate critical race theory.

Or because of appeals to fake authority like you just did here.
by Shellban | 2025-09-20 03:35:01+00:00
The author makes the case that EULAs are "toothless." However, what about federal law? In the U.S., at least, it is illegal to make copies of other people's work. This is not an offense against YouTube (who does not inherently own the media they present), but the publishers, the creators, etc. Somehow, I doubt that Alan Becker would approve people downloading and sharing his videos willy-nilly.
by hakunin | 2025-09-20 03:35:55+00:00
> I disagree that this is an accurate characterization of the side that isn't the "fringe far left".

The evidence is there. Trump has been thrashing back and forth on tariffs, explaining 2 mutually-exclusive reasons to have them, and they justify it each time. Trump has been infringing on free speech and due process at levels beyond anything democrats have ever done (if you don't count republican conspiracy theories), and they justify it. I have listened to a lot of debates, and nobody can answer a question "what would Trump do that would make me vote for democrats instead".

> Hasan Piker is getting to do another round

Again, these people are not voters.

> I am comparing media figures to media figures.

I'm sorry, I should've been clearer. You said "It was not a Republican media figure who made that video […]" and "it's not the right-wingers who are being shown to have all sorts of clips". I understood that as you making a point that democrats are worse than republicans in general because of these examples. Which cannot be true because the entire Trump cabinet and most republican lawmakers are now doing the most heated and divisive rhetoric constantly and unapologetically, as though they are influencers and agitators, not government of a 2-party nation. Their actions speak even louder than words. So what you're pointing out in totality pales in comparison to what republicans are doing. And I'm saying: you cannot point to leftie twitch streamers that don't have any political power, and compare them to the literal White House and republican lawmakers, to judge the magnitude of the problem on each side.

However, even if we single out just the media figures, it's absolutely insane how much conspiracy, lies, and divisive rhetoric has been fed into right wing minds. And it's almost awe-inspiring how lockstep all republican pundits are with each other. Nothing like that exists on the left.
by pizlonator | 2025-09-20 03:37:35+00:00
That might be the way to go but my best ideas for how to make vfork work sidestep all of that.

It's just a lot of work. It basically means that the whole Fil-C runtime has to be aware of this alternate mode where we're the vfork child and we have to play by different rules.

Anyway, long story short:

- Yeah I know vfork(2) is important. It's just not the most important thing on my plate. The constant time crypto situation we were talking about in the other thread is definitely more important, for example!

- I know how to do vfork(2) but every version of it that I've come up with is a ton of work and carries the risk of introducing really wacky stability bugs and safety bugs.

So, vfork is just a high risk, high cost, medium reward, medium urgency kind of thing. That probably means it'll be a while before I implement it.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-09-20 03:38:06+00:00
That is a reasonable counter argument, however I would argue that that is no longer a benefit for the American public.

Similar to how our country effectively relocated our entire manufacturing sector to the entire world (to externalize the environmental impact), only to enforce it with gunboat diplomacy to ensure that only the profits make their way home, I don't see any benefit in having the jobs located on US soil.

Politicians will say that there is a good reason to have the jobs here, but there isn't. It is much better for everyone if we just tax the owners of the company when they exercise their shares (something probably has to be done about the loaning loophole).

America should be a nation of suburban houses, spread quite far apart from each other, of people mostly working from home. Anything else is a legitimate nuissance.
by joshdavham | 2025-09-20 03:38:52+00:00
There’s some advice that’s been going around lately that I’ve been having trouble understanding: the idea that you should not be updating your dependencies when new patches are released (e.g., X.X.PATCH).

I understand that not updating your dependencies when new patches are released reduces the chance of accidentally installing malware, but aren’t patches regularly released in order to improve security? Wouldn’t it generally be considered unwise to not install new patches?