MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 04:02:28+00:00
The executive branch controls the FCC which controls broadcasting licenses. Specifically broadcast journalism over the air is controlled

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#JOUR...

Note:

> Nevertheless, there are two issues related to broadcast journalism that are subject to Commission regulation: hoaxes and news distortion. Hoaxes. The broadcast by a station of false information concerning a crime or catastrophe violates the FCC's rules if [...] The station licensee knew that the information was false.

All Jimmy had to do, it seems, was to say "this is all a made up joke" and move on, instead of presenting whatever he was saying as information or news.

> If a station airs a disclaimer before the broadcast that clearly characterizes the program as fiction and the disclaimer is presented in a reasonable manner under the circumstances, the program is presumed not to pose foreseeable public harm.

> However, as public trustees, broadcast licensees may not intentionally distort the news. The FCC has stated that “rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest.” The Commission will investigate a station for news distortion if it receives documented evidence of rigging or slanting, such as testimony or other documentation, from individuals with direct personal knowledge that a licensee or its management engaged in the intentional falsification of the news. Of particular concern would be evidence of the direction to employees from station management to falsify the news. However, absent such a compelling showing, the Commission will not intervene.

Again, Jimmy didn't get sent to the gulag and didn't go to jail. He can still run a show on his own platform or a youtube channel or maybe Netflix will sign him up. Heck, after this, I'd say he would easily triple his view numbers if anything.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-09-20 04:02:35+00:00
" Summary Companies

Visas are used principally by tech sector Over 70% of beneficiaries of H-1B visas enter US from India Latest move in Trump's broader immigration crackdown

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, potentially dealing a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China. Since taking office in January, Trump has kicked off a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, including moves to limit some forms of legal immigration. The step to reshape the H-1B visa program represents his administration's most high-profile effort yet to rework temporary employment visas.

Read about innovative ideas and the people working on solutions to global crises with the Reuters Beacon newsletter. Sign up here. "If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land. Train Americans. Stop bringing in people to take our jobs," U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said."

Absolutely. I've seen so many H1-B's doing run of the mill IT work. In the past, some job adds said "H1-B preferred." That's on top of all the Indian outsourcing.

It looks like Trump is one again making it expensive to use a foreign asset to encourage use or development of local assets. If they're truly talented and rare, then the $100,000 will be worth paying. I could see the A.I. field doing that since they're already doing it. Many will consider hiring or training Americans.
by kumarvvr | 2025-09-20 04:02:41+00:00
> 1. Managers Hoard Information. Leaders Overshare.

And, bad managers play politics with information privy to them.

> 2. Managers Weaponize Policy. Leaders Bend Rules for People.

This is absolutely true. There is a saying that comes to my mind, said by a good manager, "Break the rules and justify it, I am here to ratify it"

> 3. Managers “Fire Fast.” Leaders Coach, Then Help People Land Softly.

Also true, bad managers consider people as "resources" to be used and disposed off.

> 5. Managers Reward Compliance. Leaders Reward Dissent.

This is directly related to the control issue. Compliance means control is easy. But this will not prevent them from blame dumping and un-ethical acts.
by bdcravens | 2025-09-20 04:03:46+00:00
As you acquire properties, it's almost never possible to rebuild the systems from scratch, and instead it's becomes layers upon layers of patches and quick fixes.

A fun one lately has been AT&T. We have streaming with DirecTV, and they of course share authentication with the parent AT&T. So whenever I try to login to AT&T's website to manage my wireless or fiber, it redirects and logs me into DirecTV, everytime. The only way I can manage my service is to use AT&T's mobile app.
by jcelerier | 2025-09-20 04:04:02+00:00
The problem is having the idea than an operator can only represent one thing while in math there's no such rule - people should start programming without the broken mindset that an operator only means one thing, and then things become much easier. Operators are functions, functions can be overloaded and come with default overloads for specific types: adding a special case makes it more complex.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-20 04:04:31+00:00
> Per slide 8 of your second link: Except Africa and half of Asia who will still be above replacement rate for the remainder of our natural lives.

https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-p...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/15/5-facts-a...

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-worlds-birthrate-may-already-...

Most of the world will be below fertility replacement rate by 2030. This is important, because the faster fertility rates decline, the faster the light cone of capital returns into the future shrinks (people = profits = returns).

So, to tie this all together: for the reasons I’ve laid out in this subthread (with citations), I’m not too concerned about the need to cater to the demands of capital. It needs returns more than humans need it considering population growth is almost over, and it will continue to slowly exhaust investment opportunities as the global demographics transition continues.
by vnuge | 2025-09-20 04:05:28+00:00
Hard to say how relevant that is. DMs are simply a collection of events sitting on a relay. It's not really a mutual tunnel, most clients implement nip44 via nip19 (giftwrap DMs) so your ni04 message wouldn't likely make it to them. It's not considered backward compatible such that you could send a user a DM, then cause their client to downgrade to the DM scheme that uses nip04.

It's also worth noting, the user _must_ be made aware of the encryption method that was used, their "signer" application, which is also responsible for encryption and decryption, would require their permission to do an operation in either direction. Users may often choose to grant a trusted client application the permission to decrypt all nip04 or nip44 messages alike, automatically, or generally manually with a popup. That's up the signer application how granular the permissions get.

To be clear this is a client implementation detail, im not a client developer, so I can't say in practice how many have handled the UX on this, but know that the signer, and the user had the final say on which algorithm was granted permission.

Clients and signers alike could choose to block obsolete encryption methods if they choose.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-09-20 04:05:42+00:00
Maybe so, but the point is, this whole 'we'll just move abroad and outsource and there will be no consequences' doesn't take into account how the environment has changed. Do tech companies really want to face off against the power of the government? Is that even a fight they could win? The government could sanction them, cut off their access to the US banking system. All sorts of ways to make them hurt.
by gitaarik | 2025-09-20 04:06:00+00:00
Biology as defined by humans.

This is the third paragraph of the article:

> “The classic concept says that [a species] is a group of organisms with similar physical and genetic characteristics that can reproduce with each other in nature and produce fertile offspring,” says Xim Cerdá, an ecologist at Doñana Biological Station in Spain who was not involved with the research, to Miguel Ángel Criado at El País. “But it turns out that’s not the case; two species are needed here. We’re going to have to rethink the concept.”

The article doesn't talk about something like "carve nature at its joints"
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-20 04:08:43+00:00
Are you joking? I wonder if you missed all the kids talking doubleplus ungood badthink self-censorship there already? I might unalive myself if I see one more post talking about seggs or grape or acoustics.

All you have to do is make them slightly less likely to be seen and they'll fall all over themselves censoring themselves voluntarily.
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-20 04:11:05+00:00
And then the white house threatened the network into silencing Maher and removing him from the airwaves, right? Famously, we never heard from Maher again.

This is a transparent and frankly heavy handed attempt to build some false equivalency between actual destruction of freedom of speech and a politician who didn't like some particular speech, but didn't ban it (which is how it's supposed to work, by the way)
by theendisney | 2025-09-20 04:11:37+00:00
Start a blog and have chatGPT write something ambitious before each rejection.

I just do some preparation walk into the building and announce i want to work there. You dont even have to pay me. Ik im still heren by the end of the month we talk. Stop thinking about it, we have work to do!

This is not a great formula but it is a great filter for the kind of company I want to work for. If it cant detect a good deal im out.
by mlrtime | 2025-09-20 04:13:04+00:00
"Computer science ranked seventh amongst undergraduate majors with the highest unemployment at 6.1 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

https://www.newsweek.com/computer-science-popular-college-ma...

Obviously there is not going to be a drop of 200k overnight, but I think the graduates of CS will be thankful there are more opportunities for them. These opportunities will drive more students to take CS classes in the US.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-09-20 04:14:30+00:00
That's not what the public interest requirement means. In fact, the FCC's own website says "the public interest is best served by permitting free expression of views."[0] And anyway, there are specific carve outs for late-night programming.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/fcc-and-speech
by rashunain | 2025-09-20 04:17:06+00:00
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by HardCodedBias | 2025-09-20 04:17:12+00:00
Note that the fee is triggered by entry.

It sounds like F1 and TN visa holders will be able to acquire H1B visas without triggering the fee (but no international travel afterwards or the fee would be triggered).

I suspect that the o1 and l1 visas will get more use if this actually gets enforced.

I also suspect that the large tech companies don't overly mind since they all have very active offshoring programs.
by eviks | 2025-09-20 04:17:28+00:00
> Just about any line of text I write daily uses symbols not reachable from the resting position

Use a better setup! No-one forces you to use bad defaults and think everything must be bad. Also, there are no such symbols even on standard setup, all of the number row keys/symbols are reachable with individual fingers, so you never miss the resting place, it's a couple of fingers moving back and forth.

> my hand has left that position the arrow keys are easier to find. (Inverted T of course, with home/end/pgdown/pgup cluster

It didn't, a couple of your fingers did. But also, why did you ignore the F6, numpad+ etc hand dance and only focus on the arrow keys?

> "you" in this case being a typical user

A typical user doesn't use vim. A real user using vim is perfectly capable of basic keyboard rebinding

> This is mental friction that remains even after you spent years internalizing the hjkl cursor moving flaw.

No, it goes away after you spend minutes oiling your system to remove friction. (Of course, it may still take years of ignorance before that...)

> change the default in every other piece of software to match vim.

Or you change the default once system-wide. See, reality is much simpler than your fantasy!

> the creator of vi didn't choose hjkl because he thought it superior

So? You're the only one here stuck on hjkl because for some reason you can't comprehend that it's just a config, not a mandatory commandment passed down by the Vim prophet.
by defrost | 2025-09-20 04:17:29+00:00
Not suggesting anything.

Perhaps you might wish to re-read my comment.

I'm stating as a matter of fact that many people in Australia build out granny flats in their backyards for older relatives (or for themselves when their partners die and they pass the main house over to children) and Colourbond "sheds" are one of many available options.

A number of fabricators exist that build out trusswork and wall sections to spec. in industrial parks and ship them out for people to either put up themselves or to hire others (three, maybe four people) to put up for them.

Insulated sheds have pretty high R factors and can include regular doors, internal walls or mezzanine floors, large feature windows, etc.

I also stated (not suggested) that I've built multiple shed variations, some pretty damn slick, over the past several decades.

Do you not know how to pour concrete, plumb, pull cable, roof, cut sheet metal, etc?

My mother could tile a pretty decent floor, wall, and bathroom and she was mostly a bank clerk, accountant, school secretary, et al type.
by chii | 2025-09-20 04:18:20+00:00
> In a true monorepo ...

ideally yes. However, such a monorepo can become increasingly complex as the software being maintained becomes larger and larger (and/or more and more people work on it).

You end up with massive changes - which might eventually become something that a single person cannot realistically contain within their brain. Not to mention clashes - you will have people making contradictory/conflicting changes, and there will have to be some sort of resolution mechanism outside (or the "default" one, which is first come first served).

Of course, you could "manage" this complexity by attributing api boundary/layers, and these api changes are deemed to be important to not change too often. But that simply means you're a monorepo only in name - not too different from having different repos with versioned artefacts with a defined api boundary.
by AngryData | 2025-09-20 04:18:32+00:00
If your house is 35 years old+ then yes. If your house is newer than that I would not count on it unless the person who built it was specifically concerned with the quality of their whole house HVAC system.

A lot of 90s+ builders are trying to prevent any and all air leaks, many with the idea of insulation, with the outer vapor barrier system already blocking 90% of what would get through on and older house, on top of the fastest building process being sealing every visible seam and line with caulk instead of trying to cut and match it up perfectly. And any overall airflow problems are quite literally not their problem, that all goes onto the HVAC guys/company or lack thereof, which often these days are the cheapest possible corporate scrapings for employees that only have half a clue what they are doing and only really care about whether the system turns on or not as per the system manual.
by twothreeone | 2025-09-20 04:19:22+00:00
Exactly this. And the main "equalizing" factor in Germany is taxes, round about 50% of Germany's labor share of GDP for average earners consists of taxes and social security contributions. Which is exactly what the Republican campaign has been all about - minimize taxes and cut spending wherever possible. Yes, you get a vastly more unequal and in many cases just flat out inhumane society. But if you can manage to be part of the "upper" class for a few years it pays so well that it becomes very appealing to a lot of people all over the world.
by pgedge_postgres | 2025-09-20 04:20:16+00:00
Thanks for flagging this. You’re right that the issue sat too long without a response, and that’s on us. We’ve now replied on GitHub and are actively looking into it. It appears the crash may be related to CPU feature mismatches (e.g. missing AVX support when using pgvector), especially in emulated environments like ARM Macs running x86 containers. We’ve asked for system details to help confirm. Happy to dig in and resolve it quickly from here.
by pgedge_postgres | 2025-09-20 04:20:57+00:00
async multi-master does trade off consistency for availability and latency. In PACELC terms, pgEdge leans into AP/EL, not CP. It’s built for low-latency local writes across regions, with built-in conflict resolution to manage eventual consistency. Definitely not trying to be a NewSQL quorum-write system. Just a different use case.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-20 04:21:20+00:00
The author is a little confused. A system that blocks releases on defects and doesn't pin versions is continuous integration, not a monorepo. The two are not synonymous. Monorepos often use continuous integration to ensure their integrity, but you can use continuous integration without a monorepo, and monorepos can be used without continuous integration.

> But the migration had a steep cost: over 6 years later, there are thousands of projects still stuck on an older version.

This is a feature, not a bug. The pinning of versions allows systems to independently maintain their own dependency trees. This is how your Linux distribution actually remains stable (or used to, before the onslaught of "rolling release" distributions, and the infection of the "automatically updating application" into product development culture, which constantly leaves me with non-functional Mobile applications whereupon I am forced to update them once a week). You set the versions, and nothing changes, so you can keep using the same software, and it doesn't break. Until you choose to upgrade it and deal with all the breaking shit.

Every decision in life is a tradeoff. Do you go with no version numbers at all, always updating, always fixing things? Or do you always require version numbers, keeping things stable, but having difficulty updating because of a lack of compatible versions? Or do you find some middle ground? There are pros and cons to all these decisions. There is no one best way, only different ways.
by skewbone | 2025-09-20 04:21:54+00:00
People tend to use the inertia H constant (MW*s/MVA) when it comes to describing the amount of inertia that grid forming inverters and batteries can provide. Sometimes the units are simplified to seconds, which makes it easier to understand how many seconds it could provide rated power for this specific function.

Active inertia or synthetic inertia do vary power when frequency changes but the key is the dynamic behavior. They typically do so by emulating a synchronous machine by implementing something like the swing equation in the active power control (see REGFM_B1 [1]). They essentially emulate the inertia, which makes them have some damping in changing the phase angle and frequency of their voltage waveform just like a spinning synchronous generator would when resisting frequency changes due to physical inertia, resulting in an inertial active power response. This makes it easier for people to analyze because they understand the swing equation from synchronous generators.

[1] https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/90260.pdf
by pgedge_postgres | 2025-09-20 04:21:58+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! We're pretty excited about it, too :-)

Citus focuses on scaling Postgres via sharding, typically with a single write node and many read replicas. It’s great for high-throughput, analytical workloads. pgEdge, by contrast, is built for geo-distributed, multi-master Postgres — all nodes are writable, with built-in conflict resolution. It prioritizes low latency, availability, and data locality over pure scale-out. So the goals are pretty different.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-20 04:22:21+00:00
I see problematic hardening at two different levels)

1) Putting NULL pointer checks (that result in early returns of error codes) in every damn function. Adds a sizable amount of complexity for little gain.

2) Wrapping every damn function that can fail with a “try 10 times and hope one works” retry loop. It quickly becomes problematic and unscalable. An instantaneous operation becomes a “wait 5 minutes to get an error” just because the failure isn’t transient (so why retry?).

Also becomes quickly absurd (gee, tcp connect failed so let’s retry the entire http request and connect 10 more times each attempt… gee, the HTTP request failed so let’s redo the larger operation too!)
by motorest | 2025-09-20 04:23:37+00:00
> I've been saying this for years. When the last Raspberry Pi shortage happened people were scrambling to get them for building these toy clusters and it's such a shame. The Pi was made for paedogogy but I feel like most of them are wasted.

You're describing people using RPis to learn distributed systems, and you conclude that these RPis are wasted because RPis were made for paedogogy?

> I run a K8s "cluster" on a single xcp-ng instance, but you don't even really have to go that far.

That's perfectly fine. You do what works for you, just like everyone else. How would you handle someone else accusing your computer resourcss of being wasted?
by rdtsc | 2025-09-20 04:23:52+00:00
> It’s actually a terrible excuse as the backlash is demonstrating. Even if they were about to axe the show all along it would have been a good idea to delay that to avoid the appearance they were caving to government pressure.

But that meant having to defend making up stuff about a murder and comment on the crime even as the others are flying flags half staff. Quickly showing they caved to government's pressure was exactly the look they wanted.

And let's say fought back, who would that be for? They younger viewers are not sitting at home watching TV and cheering Jimmy on. Many don't even know who Jimmy is; they just learned this week because it's on social media. So putting some kind of a defense and turning it into a battle rather than caving would have been the worse of the two choices they had.