skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid it's yourself who is divorced from current US reality.

US Laws have explicit carve outs for agricultural work, in the fields and in the slaugtherhouses.

Even so, children still work illegaly, without the appropriate permissions:

In February [ 2023 ], the Labor Department announced that it had found more than a hundred children between the ages of thirteen and seventeen working in meatpacking plants and slaughterhouses, in eight states, for Packers Sanitation Services, one of the nation’s largest food-sanitation companies.

The facilities themselves are owned by major corporations, including Tyson Foods and JBS. (All three companies denied that they had engaged in any wrongdoing.)

The children worked overnight shifts at such jobs as cleaning bone saws and head splitters with hazardous chemicals. At least three were injured. Packers, which is owned by Blackstone, the world’s largest private-equity firm, paid a civil fine of a million and a half dollars.

Child Labor is on the Rise (June 2023)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/child-labor-is...
> communism and Marxism were the driving forces behind the market in the "East" (Russia, Asia).

Could you provide some examples of technological innovations, created in Asia and driven by communism?

Because, as I know, all modern high tech in Asia are made for free market, driven by will to earn money, or copy-pasted from earlier development from other countries.
I'd love to watch a truck put on its' own chains, or deal with any number of situations our truckers deal with on a regular basis. Truth is, self-driving vehicles will only be feasible for the last mile, backing, parking, or fair weather interstate cruising.
"It's real" and "it's not real" are both poor explanations of gender pay gaps that aren't educational.

Claudia Goldin won a Nobel last year partly for explaining them - a rough summary is whether women work has changed over time (highest when everyone was a farmer, lowest 1950sish, now up again), the pay gap does exist currently and appears to be caused by having children, and prior to having children the current generation of women are paid more likely due to being more educated than men.

The "it doesn't exist" argument is something like "it doesn't exist if you control for job choice and seniority level", which is an example of conditioning on a collider because those things are /caused by/ motherhood, so you can't control for them.
Related / previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813174
Anarchy in the US (The Revolution That Almost Happened)
> Greg Edgreen, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, set up the working group investigating Havana Syndrome for the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, from 2020 to 2023. The role gave him access to classified intelligence compiled not just by the Pentagon, but by other agencies within the U.S. intelligence community. In response to this investigation, Edgreen told 60 Minutes: “If I'm wrong about Russia being behind anomalous health incidents, I will come onto your show. And I will eat my tie.”
bad news for pythons!
Truckers is a big group of Trump supporters, this will become an election issue.
I don't think it's some diabolical anti-consumer ploy, but shipping is something that has economies of scale: one $100 order is cheaper to ship than four $25 orders.

Let's say I sell shirts for $5 and offer free shipping with a $25 minimum. The shirts would be $4 if I charged for shipping. Shipping 5 shirts will cost me $5 and shipping 40 shirts will cost me $10. If someone buys 5 shirts, $1/shirt goes to shipping and I get $20 after shipping - just like $4 shirts plus $5 shipping. If someone buys 20 shirts, $0.50/shirt goes to shipping - I'm making an additional $0.50/shirt because someone decided to make a larger order.

But this is why a lot of stores do coupons when you hit thresholds. Free shipping at $25, 10% off if you spend $100. That way if you spend $100, you're actually charged $90 and so you're only paying $4/shirt + $10 shipping.

> Tell me ONE price — inclusive of everything — up front

Do coupons that require you to hit a spending level fit into this metric? I think they do in a lot of ways. You see the price and if you just want the price you just get the price while large orders get the discount. But it can also be hard when you see a bulk discount and feel pressured to spend more.
“Trust no one! The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them! ” - Gen. Hunter Gathers, OSI (The Venture Bros.)

There are parties who have effectively endless resources and motivation to mock up a false-flag event to steer the responsibility for this a certain way. They're all very, very good at covering their tracks, and even the most experienced security researchers will take months or years to just get an educated guess of who could be responsible. Trying to figure out who did this is a waste of time.

The lesson is this:

1. Never, ever install bleeding-edge software in production, for any reason.

2. Pentesters in your organization should be regularly trying to blow holes in your stack and let both you and package maintainers know the result. If they're not, they're not doing their jobs.

3. FOSS maintainers should audit the new code in each release for security issues, particularly for things that are obviously security-sensitive.

4. Donate to your FOSS maintainers; they do insanely important work.

These rules will pay off no matter who or what wants to break into systems.

This fortunately didn't get to stable. This was as close of a shave as you can possibly get without a security Chernobyl in your systems.

EDIT:

Downvote all you want; I'm right.

There are people who very much want to convince you and everyone you know that a certain party is responsible for this and every other attack you read about. They'll go out of their way to do that. There are geopolitical goals to be achieved by doing so.

We're currently talking about banning foreign ownership of an incredibly popular web app in the US right now. If you are a government or commercial entity that would benefit from such a law, how convenient would it be if there happened to be a GitHub user with a Chinese-sounding name who committed an attack vector to the project with a timestamp that looked like it could have come out of the PRC?

And let's say it is someone in mainland China. We find out they are beyond a shadow of a doubt and who they are on a personal level. Some big-time DA's office like the Southern District of New York puts out an indictment for them and requests extradition. The people who are behind this are almost certainly state-sponsored and there's no way their asses are being handed over to US Marshals, ever. You could even argue that if they managed to stumble into a situation where they could be extradited, the government responsible for backing them would "tie up the loose end" before letting that happen, lest greater knowledge of what the organization has been doing fall into enemy hands.

Besides the Bond-style intrigue, there's no practical application to the knowledge. You already know where your users are coming from, most of the time, and might be geo-blocking based on that alone. If not, you know you should be alert to other threats from that region. If you're not, you aren't doing your job.
Hah, I went through a similar cycle with Mandelbrot stuff - first with custom fixed point on a 6502, then I somehow got my hands on a prototype Apple ][ FPU card of some sort, then there was the 386/387 (sweet sweet 80 bit floats!), etc.
The Observable proposal made a stronger case in my opinion, since Observables provide an interface that is functionally unique and useful for the boundaries between app logic and libraries, so a single standard approach has benefits. Signals on the other hand live right where application state binds to the ui. Is this really somewhere that people are patching together a hodge podge of libraries that need to use a consistent api? I'm not so sure.
Nope, they basically open sourced their api which is kind of a worthless proposition. You would think this is malicious, trying to pretend as open source, but the whole thing is done so ineptly, it is just incompetence. Likely management has no idea what open source means and thinks releasing api code means open source and is good enough for customers to use your GPU.

More concretely, what they open sourced calls closed source functions that run on the GPU which is where all the bugs are, and causes all the crashes.
Hitting this stretchy, electronic material makes it tougher
Poetic license requested...

It does seem, and not too unrealistically so, a daunting prospect that one could theoretically have their melon remotely roasted if its innerds or deeds defied the right wrong lofty authority -- a slightly more deleterious variation of Van Eckery, or worse.

Improbable perhaps, but shirtainly nay impossible.

Remember this? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-x...

Edit:

-∞ fucktards
I tried this out back in December. It is very straightforward. Would recommend for anyone who is testing the waters and just trying to start exploring the various tools.

From my understanding though, the quality is pretty far behind that of the cutting edge. A friend recently recommended Topaz to me, but that isn't open source.
Please pass my thanks to your ancestors for inventing hip-hop: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1634808/
Full agree.

Come to Australia! Dunnys everywhere mate.
From my point of view, from what we know today, it is bigger than Stuxnet because:

Stuxnet: aimed to delay one nuclear facility that was still being built

SSH pre-auth RCE: root access to most servers on the planet, impacting everyone from hobbyist self-hosters (that's me) to large businesses (of every type imaginable) to probably even some of the security agencies around the world. With SSH's track record, a lot of people choose to trust it as their internet-facing access protocol

I expect that whoever made this would have picked their targets carefully to avoid revealing the backdoor, so probably they'd aim (at least at first) at a handful of businesses of interest (advanced chip manufacturing, say) and governments, rather than causing tangible widespread issues in some way. Theoretically, though, (perhaps upon being discovered) if they'd just drop `rm -rf && poweroff` on all reachable systems (perhaps having it spread into networks in a worm-like fashion, setting a timer for 30 seconds so that it can propagate), most computer-based systems would just stop working (either killed themselves, or from failing routers or other systems they relied on), and lots of them would lose data because their backups either weren't working or were also impacted. Consider just how much involves a computer today, from infrastructure to hospitals. That's a whole lot more impact than a delayed nuclear program due to some unpublished Windows exploits

What modulates this potential impact is the question of how many important systems run something other than the OSes they were currently in the process of targeting (Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora afaik), how many servers require a VPN (or similar) to access ssh and have no outward-facing ssh server anywhere on their network, and how many years it would have taken to uncover (more and more systems would have been running this over time)
The page you linked on gulf war syndrome talks about how it's a real condition and not psychosomatic.
>He said...

That was me. I know there are a lot of comments and replies to comments here so it's easy to lose track of who did what to who.

I think if you read my replies in this thread you can begin to understand why it is not trolling or juvenile behavior, it's just me exercising control over the content that I posted, on my own time, following all the rules that reddit established when they launched.

This is a feature. Like I mentioned, all the content that I have ever posted is likely to be indexed in someone's archive somewhere whether reddit controls that archive or not. There are too many players in that space and they have been active for years with publicly available tools to manage all the grunt work for anyone who wanted to download it all and slog through it looking for gems.

If they find one of my edited posts that has a suspicious amount of worthless updoot karma and that post is totally out of context then I am sure they are bright enough to figure out that they will need to get that content somewhere else.

I left untouched all of my old "Best of Reddit" and the gilded posts since those had above average value to the readers who chose to engage and updoot.

At the end of the day, the content has always been mine to edit or delete. That is the way that the site was designed to function so labeling anything I do as vandalism, trolling, or juvenile behavior only works to make you look like someone trying hard to understand how to value your investment in reddit in the event that others choose to act similarly.

As I mentioned somewhere else, reddit could change all of this if they instituted controls that would allow live users to instantly recognize bots and adverts so that users can instantly choose to read a post or comment or to ignore it. The fact that they embraced and actively ignore the bot armies, the shills for various products or philosophies, the blatant adverts, etc tells me and others that they have lost touch with their users.

As it is, forcing me to check karma levels and username age to hope to recognize reposters and bots is just wrong. Clear and ban the bots, ID the adverts, add a shill warning to those who evangelize or push agendas or misinformation, and the traffic finds a floor.

On that floor reddit will find those loyal, long-term users like myself a lot more likely to engage. Clean the house and make it more livable and others will move in to see what's up. Sunshine is the best disinfectant here. Otherwise people like myself will choose whether to continue to engage with reddit and set their own terms of engagement.
> What is this syntax? I know s/a/b/ for sed substitution but not such a thing starting with c

It's the syntax for sed substitution for someone who mistypes, is dyslexic or does not have an excellent memory.
Seems like a good way to piss off the lizard people
More than 1500 journalism jobs have been cut so far in 2024
Yea no. They are using 12 year olds in incredibly dangerous manufacturing sectors.
Since they don't want to pay higher wages in a competitive labor market, they instead start illegally using under-age labor, and throwing lobbying money at lawmakers so they can move on to legally hire underage kids.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-hyundai-subsidiar...

They don't get to go to school. They get to work 9 hour shifts instead.
We all know why these laws need to exist, and attempting to role them back is the result of pure greed.

https://marshfieldresearch.org/Media/Default/NFMC/National%2...
> This risk is somewhat mitigated by demanding only open source software be used. At least then if a software's supplier goes bankrupt then updated versions can still be produced. That's not the case with closed source software.

If your solution starts with "for this to work all software used will have to be open source" you have a completely nom-solution.

Reality doesn't care about your ideals.
Show HN: Yarn Spinner for Books
Peter Selinger’s Lecture notes on the lambda calculus [pdf]
GMT+8, the name (Mandarin/mixed-dialect first name + Hokkien surname) and most importantly the circumstance that the user was seen connecting from a likely VPN exit or hosted server in Singapore [1] are all consistent with a Singaporean identity, whether real or cover. For that reason, the opinion of [1]'s source that the name sounds fake should also be taken with some amount of salt (Mainland Chinese are not always well-informed about Diaspora Chinese communities). Worth noting that many of the holidays mentioned, likewise, are not public holidays in SG [2] - Jan 24th was, but Jan 22nd (listed as working) was a Sunday, inconsistent with a "working on regular working days" pattern most anywhere.

Would be interesting to see a greater corpus of Jia Tan's writings, especially older ones. There are fairly distinctive idiosyncrasies that may be used to distinguish Singaporeans, Mainland Chinese and speakers of various Slavic languages (and Anglo natives).

[1] https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...

[2] https://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/public-holidays
I highly recommend a Florida python hunt on an airboat if you’re up for such an adventure.
What are your thoughts on using Intel GPUs for deep learning?
This is a simple version of the tree search approach that people suspect Q* is
Because random people testing an unpackaged version will not find a problem
I wonder if they have stats that indicates repeat travelers (who are more likely to stop by those small villages) are less likely to purchase JR Pass, even when it was cheaper. Anecdotally, my friends and I stopped bothering, especially after most of us started flying to HND to save time, or switched to riding airport buses or the Keisei Skyliner, thus don't benefit from using JRP on the Narita Express. These remote villages may also be more accessible on non-JR modes; for the first destination mentioned (Ama Hut in Shima, Mie), Kintetsu seems to be faster than JR.

Also, Asian tourists like the Korean and Chinese influencers named in the article can fly directly KIX, NGO, FUK, CTS, etc. or ferry from Busan, so JRP might be an even worse deal for repeats from those countries.
Just be careful it doesn’t invent some new tax laws in the process.
This has been posted several times lately; discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39862404
Probably forgot throwaway pw.
A lisp that didn’t spam parentheses would probably be more palatable.
it's worse than sweatshops. from the article:

> Despite such findings, a new Iowa law signed last year by Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) allows minors in that state to work in jobs previously deemed too hazardous, including in industrial laundries, light manufacturing, demolition, roofing and excavation but not slaughterhouses. Separately, West Virginia enacted a new law this month that allows 16- and 17-year-olds to work some roofing jobs as part of an apprenticeship program.

> Six more states are also evaluating bills to lift restrictions preventing minors from working jobs considered dangerous. A Georgia bill would allow 14-year-olds to work in landscaping on factory grounds and other prohibited work sites. Florida’s legislature has passed a law, drafted by the state’s construction industry association, that would allow teens to work certain jobs in residential construction. It’s awaiting approval from DeSantis.
> the advice for teenagers going online is that they should protect themselves by not sharing their identity.

To me this is still the basic advice. This is not just for when sommething really bad happens, it's also all the smaller things. Like whether they need their employer to know they had a strong pro-union stance in the past. Or if they really like and promote some artist, that later happens to have an incredibly bad reputation dragging their fandom down with them, etc.

There's just no real upside IHMO...except many companies will expect kids to have some online presence and expose what they're doing to the world, and might give preference to people with a strong following online.

So they are still advised still keep a safe and positive "public facade" somewhere to deal with these kind of expectations, and have their "real" accounts anonymized.
I think we may be talking past each other. How does what you're saying relate to the "non binary" concept?
Did they? I mean, did they understand the privacy violation possible in this case? Or was the technical point they wouldn't understand somewhere in the middle of an agreement nobody reads anyway?

The difference in awareness is massive between those two use cases.
Superior ( in my humble opinion )
I think hot food vending machines do that already.
Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)
You can't make a trombone SING!
Hey :)) Oh I love the idea of async movement from CPU to GPU ahead of time - ingenious! Prefetching a small amount of metadata seems reasonable and very smart!
I'm learning PCB design, and embedded Rust to go along with it. Building a flight computer for an RC plane (I've been working on laying out and programming the computer for almost a year now -- haven't even started the airframe.)

It's been very fun. I keep saying that I'm going to do a blog series about it, once I get it in an MVP stage.

The state of embedded Rust is also progressing very quickly underneath me, which is nice. Writing drivers is much easier now than it was at the beginning of the project.
Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model
Oil isn't worth invasions anymore. We have shale oil in the Bakken, and EVs / alt energy / decarbonization will make it much less important.

Think about if you'd fund a major new oil project. Most don't get going for 5-10 years, meanwhile there is an army of investment and forthcoming techs in EV batteries and perovskites in solar.

A war is big money. Yeah, it's not the shadow corporation's money, but the Washington people do some math too, it will bring temporary high gas prices and war isn't popular. It's why all the "invade Iran!!!" stories have fallen flat in the last 4-5 years, they get laughed out of the building.
Nobody thinks that Go has every feature under the sun. Indeed, it lacks features that even C has.

What it does not lack, however, is enumerations. Enumerations establish the number of something. Go has that feature. That's all enums are. Nothing more, nothing less. Other languages have additional features, like value constraints, that can enhance the use of enums, but those are entirely different features.

The idea that Go doesn't enums because it lacks those other features is like saying that C doesn't have loops because it doesn't have the equivalent of Go's range operator. How ridiculous. Obviously C has loops. Anything else that might enhance those loops is a separate feature.
even a North Korean hacker would be plausible.
> More concretely, what they open sourced calls closed source functions that run on the GPU which is where all the bugs are, and causes all the crashes.

In particular, what they did was open source the drivers but not the firmware, and then when the firmware has bugs nobody outside the company can fix it because it's not open source.
They refused to divulge how they knew
There's a couple things going on in the US, IMHO.

Yes, you can get wire transfers or ACH at most banks with a routing number and account number. But wire transfers usually cost money to send, and sometimes cost money to get. Generalized ACH transfers usually come through a service provider, and that costs money too.

Also, the same numbers can be used to credit and debit an account, and also to forge checks. So giving your payment credentials (or writing a check) is a security risk. I'm a little fuzzy on details, but someone at my employer at the time (Facebook) had my payroll data on a device in a laptop bag that got stolen in San Francisco, and as a result I had to be hyper vigilant on checking for unauthorized transactions (or get a new account number, but that's more disruptive, assuming the theft was just normal SF theft, like it probably was)
LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
> remember that you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

But I am sure JiaT didn't only work on the xz project?
I wonder too. Allied stern words?
Crypto Social Media Firm Merkle Gets Unicorn Valuation in Paradigm Deal
Turkish local elections: Opposition stuns Erdogan with historic victory
Been running a non-public Piped instance for a couple of years now.

There are videos where it works and videos where it doesn't.

It's been a few months now where some proportion of videos fail to play over Piped no matter what (the same videos will fail across public instances too) and anecdotally that percentage has increased recently.
Even without the zero!

alias git='TZ=UTC git'