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> 'How Asia Works' is not exactly economic orthodoxy, to put it lightly.

And yet it describes the historical record of several countries (in the case of Japan, how they did it twice: post-Meiji Restoration and post-WW2).

It goes over countries deemed 'successful' (Japan, Korea, etc), and others (Philippines).

What (particular?) "economic orthodoxy" would you suggest countries follow? What are countries (if any) have followed them, and what are the results? Are there book(s) that you would recommend on how to implement this/these orthodoxies, with case studies or historical examples of implementations?
I actually think the extreme density and breadth of manufacturing in China is going to continue to outpace US manufacturing. They have multiple enormous manufacturing hubs connected by high speed rail lines over a wide geographic area. The US has no equivalent to the likes of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, where you can finish a PCB design in the morning and have the prototype in hand that evening. You can go to the Huaqiangbei Electronics Market and find exactly the right motor and controller for your specs, pick up specialized sensors, and build your next rev overnight.

I have lived in the Bay Area my entire adult life. We used to have Halted/HSC, we used to have Weird Stuff. We used to have Triangle Machinery Co in Santa Clara. Now everything is gone.

I think it’s great that we built a semiconductor manufacturing plant. That’s important for strategic manufacturing. But we’ve so thoroughly destroyed our manufacturing base, let the factories rot, and financialized property value that the “weird place with random electronics” can no longer even afford to do business. Starbucks makes more money, so in it goes.

US politicians love to shout about manufacturing. “Manufacturing jobs jobs economy growth.” But these people DO NOT understand how things get made. They have no serious industrial policy. They do not know the value of a high speed train connecting manufacturing centers. And even if they did, the entire apparatus of our government is set up to stop it.

Manufacturing workers need education. They need housing, transit, health care, maternity and sick leave. They need secure jobs and extra income that allows them time off to take classes to learn new skills.

I’m glad we passed the inflation reduction act, and the CHIPS act. We need that investment. But it’s going to take much more than that to “bring manufacturing back” and I’ve have seen time and time again that we do not have the vision or capability to move in the ways that would be required.

I hope manufacturing comes back. We desperately need it. But I’m quite frustrated that despite some marginal progress, the serious changes we need are not on the horizon nor seemingly beyond it.
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A cynical person (not me, not I, I'm not a cynical person) might think that this is the opening salvo in a campaign to "save" the US tech sector by getting rid of old hardware. See the comments in this very thread calling for a "cash for clunkers for old devices" or a "remote kill-switch" to disable them (!)

Right now you can go to eBay and buy a used PC for $200 that will do everything you need to do, including gaming. You can buy a 64GB iPhone X for $100, which will do everything a new phone will do (basically). Can you imagine the drain on the hardware sector in the US due to these old devices piling up? And the trend is only going to accelerate. If the powers that be aren't conspiring to "fix" this "issue", it's only a matter of time until they do.
Rockets launched by Hezbolla into Israel hurt a lot of innocent people.
It reminds me of the DDT era, but corrupt...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDVuugQmxE

People were probably ignorant when they were spraying kids with DDT. Today it's ignorance mixed with greed.
A little trivia: since the recent 23andMe breach, the desci project genomesdao has launched a new service that allows 23andMe data exports to be imported into their platform. They then attract pharmaceuticals to make specific requests and share the profit from the requests. They'll explain it better on the site! They've been around since at least 2018, have won recognised innovation awards and is run by scientists, so not your typical crypto project.

Disclaimer: 23andMe customer and genomesdao holder.
Nature relayed one from the British Dental Journal (2023) on the acid protection granted by BioMin F. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-024-7876-8)

Here's another from 2022 that compares Colgate fluoride toothpaste against BioMin F(https://shorturl.at/M4hiQ).
> I'm not sure where Amazon lies on that scale

The issue is Amazon is a huge company, so even if you're working in an office you're still practically "remote" from most other workers. So when you need to work together, you have to do it the remote way, ala zoom.
I don't know, individually finely tuned addictive content served as real time interactive feedback loops is an other level of propaganda and attention capture tool than largest common denominator of the general crowd served as static passive content.
For reference, this is the GitHub issue: https://github.com/TheExGenesis/community-archive/issues/72

Cheapest is to stay away from anything related to the big clouds, especially Amazon with their "premium bandwidth" charges.

I'd probably spin up a storage box from Hetzner (or similar service for dedicated servers) as a first step, as you get unmetered connection. It should last you a pretty long while as most content will be fetched from caches.
Electrical charge? There are electrically initiated caps, but you can’t place a negative and positive charge into a stick of C4 and expect it to do anything.
It's amazing to me that a website that publishes articles (real articles, not AI slop) about games can't even support the livelihood of 3 people, and yet mobile game companies shovel out godawful games and continue to exist. It blew my mind when I saw how there were several games which were some combination of match-3 + PvP (so that you can whale your way to victory).
> What if I could ask patio’s archive: “what are some good books to read about [topic]” or “what advice would you give to someone trying to get a job at Stripe”

Or what if I could ask: "Given Omer Shehata's Twitter history, formulate a phishing scam that he would be likely vulnerable to".

The problem I see with here is that there are far more bad actor use cases for identifiable user data than good. In my opinion the main reason most social networks have stopped doing public by default and now do private by default is because not doing so opens them up to Cambridge Analytica type scandals where people don't realise what they're signing up for.

Personally if you do this, I would be very clear with your users that by submitting their data it will be made available publicly in an identifiable form. And that even if they revoke their data from your service it's possible for their data will continue to be archived by others, possibly for malicious reasons.
Can anyone vouch for the privacy and overall trustworthiness of the team? I really love this concept and want to install it immediately!
I know hating on Oracle is en vogue, but I struggle to believe this $600M figure.

a. I use to work in this space, even a $6M deal would be massive (let alone something 100x bigger).

b. The ENTIRE cuny budget in 2013 was only $2B [0]. This isn't their IT budget, this is literally the entire budget to run the entire university system across multiple campus, faculty, buildings, etc.

c. Because Higher Ed is known to be so cheap, especially in the late 00s - big tech companies charged accordingly (which was at a massive discount relative to most other accounts).

d. even if this $600M figure was an aggregated figure over multiple years, staffing and auxiliary costs - it still wouldn't come close to this figure.

e. an expenditure this large would definitely be called out in CUNY annual financial reports, and I can't seem to find any reference to it.

[0] https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/media-assets...

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EDIT: I did find reference last year to a $175M funding request to migrate from on-prem PeopleSoft (Oracle) to cloud.

Though, what I've historically seen is that only 10-20% of the funding request actually go to the software vendor. Organizations typically add 3-5x additional to either "pad" their request (in the event it doesn't get 'fully funded') and/or this is an opportunity for the university to higher for a bunch of roles they wouldn't have been able to get funded in the first place - so lots of things get buried in these numbers.

Lastly, the figures are also typically multi-year. Like 5-years being asked up front for approval.

Said differently, it wouln't surprise me if the true annual migration cost from onprem to cloud PeopleSoft might only be $10-20M

https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/...
You mean this quote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41574918
Oh interesting, here we have mysql on auto restart and IME it's critical to reliability since sometimes stuff happens and mysql goes down on a node.

I guess different databases might require more manual intervention to recover?
Perhaps they should try adjusting the parameters of their economic paradigm. I hear market capitalism is nice this time of year...

"There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system"
This is some sort of weird projection, where you have swallowed lots of propaganda, accuse anybody with actual facts as being "insane," and then accuse others of exactly what you are doing.

Meanwhile, back in reality

Bloomberg: US South Accounts for Lion’s Share of Factory Construction Boom https://archive.is/URbMw

Bloomberg Video from a year ago "factory construction has doubled": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-10-06/the-america...

"So one was just like, "Oh yeah, they got those higher starting wages." If you're walking in with no background in manufacturing, no skills that you could point to, the starting wages are in the like $17.50 to $22 an hour range depending on the role" https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-is-new-clean-energy-manufacturin...

This is not from tariffs, it's from carrots in tax incentives, used to build up the entire supply chain, not just a few factories.

If you have empty shelves in grocery stores, where the hell are you living? You expect me to not believe my own eyes, and imagine some empty grocery store shelves? If so, it's your own area's politics that are causing the problem. Wages are waaaaay up, especially on the lower end, much less on the top end.

The economy in the US is blowing away China, Europe, etc. We are so strong right now. If you are not doing well in your own micro area, look internally to see how your area is fucking up so much when there's opportunity everywhere.
Hezbollah has a political arm, and a military one. Both were targeted, but only the latter consists of combatants.
The beauty/horror of network effects
They didn't say there was a fish and fruit shortage.
> I don't particularly like Noah Smith (he's also in favour of protectionism and 'industrial policy'), but his https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-polandmalaysia-model has some good points also about Malaysia.

Yeah:

> On a trip to Turkey in 2018, I read How Asia Works, by Joe Studwell. Despite the fact that it didn’t get everything right, it’s probably the best nonfiction book I’ve ever read.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-developing-country-industr...

> As any longtime reader of mine will know, my favorite book about economic development is Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works. If you haven’t read this book, you should definitely remedy that. In the meantime, you can start with Scott Alexander’s excellent summary.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-studwell-got-wrong

The book goes over what actually happened: it's not theory, it's history. What worked in each country (often the same/similar things), the variations, and where things were tried but went badly (often with analysis on why).
They are still able to import and export goods from around the world. Even US has exported goods to them (more than Canada or Mexico.) Its just that US doesn't import much from them.

https://oec.world/en/profile/country/cub?yearlyTradeFlowSele...
Ten Year Tech Job Forecast
"all of them result in students who will perform worse in college than if admissions were based solely on merit."

How rude. It's also straight wrong. The merit of a student is in what they could do with education.
And not to carry on, though did you miss the recent youtube scroll of the battery fire in China?

You speak with confidence to yesterday's troubles that were not so far away.

Your confidence is your undermining, Man.
I agree completely with this.
Papermill output is a notebook - that is the log file.
You can double click on it, it opens in 1-2 seconds and you can see visually how far your notebook progressed and any plots you added for debugging.
No. While there were criminals also in gulags, most of people were there only because someone didn't like them or they happened to be wrong time in wrong place. That's it.
> The line defining “code” and “data” is thus heavily blurred and any argument about how humans are far superior because of the “reduced number of training examples” is definitely missing the millennia of evolution that created us in the first place.

I disagree. The line is quite clear. Our factual memories do not persist from one generation to another. Yet this is what modern ML does.

The "data" encoded in DNA is not about knowledge or facts, it is knowledge about our architecture. Modern ML is a like a factory that outputs widgets based upon knowledge of lots of pre-existing widgets. DNA is a like a factory that outputs widgets based upon lots of previous pre-existing factories.

The factory is the "code" or "verb." The widgets are the "data" or "nouns." Completely separable and objectively so.
I like this analysis, although I come to a different conclusion: if AI can give early warning to nursing staff, telling them 'look closer', and over 1/3 of the time, it was right, that seems great. Right now in a 30 bed unit, nurses have to keep track of 30 sets of data. With this, they could focus in on 3 sets when an alarm goes off. I believe these systems will get better over time as well. But, as a patient, I'd 100% take a ward that early AI warning with 66% chance of false positives over one with no such tech. Wouldn't you?
> IMO HN actually scores quite highly in terms of health/politics and so forth content because the both mainstream and fringe ideas get both shown and pushback.

As someone with domain expertise here, I wholeheartedly disagree. HN is very bad at percolating accurate information about topics outside its wheelhouse, like clinical medicine, public health, or the natural sciences. It is also, simultaneously, extremely prone to overestimating its own collective competency at understanding technical knowledge outside its domain. In tandem, those two make for a rather dangerous combination.

Anytime I see a post about a topic within my area of specialty, I know to expect articulate, lengthy, and completely misguided or inaccurate comments dominating the discussion. It's enough of a problem that trying to wade in and correct them is a losing battle; I rarely even bother these days.

It's kind of funny that XKCD #793[0] is written about physicists, because the effect is way worse with software engineers.

[0] https://xkcd.com/793/
Exactly, yet the push toward taxpayer-subsidized domestic manufacturing is driven by rust-belt politics.
Every time this sentiment comes up I'm reminded that it's a spectrum.
Past comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2988835
America has the best version of the American view of free speech, that's true.
> Sounds to me like they need to disarm, then.

I'd want all militaries to disarm too, unlikely to happen unless everyone starts to agree to not get into everyone else's business.

So besides getting everyone to disarm, what could we do?
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41564397 .
yeah i tried this demo when it first came out and then again today. Not to be all Reflection 70B again but it just doesnt seem like the same weights was uploaded as was showed in their original demo from July https://the-decoder.com/french-ai-lab-kyutai-unveils-convers...
Sorry, NIH is what I meant. I get those two mixed up in my head.
not necessarily! If the 0day is bad enough the vendor may patch it or release further guidance - most recent case is Ivanti this week (https://cyberscoop.com/ivanti-vulnerability-cisa-kev/)
Kinda.

The United States has threatened to stop financial aid to other countries if they trade non-food items with Cuba… Despite the existence of the embargo, Cuba can, and does, conduct international trade with many countries, including many U.S. allies; however, U.S.-based companies, and companies that do business with the U.S., which trade in Cuba do so at the risk of U.S. sanctions.

- wikipedia
>Israel doesn't occupy Lebanon

Shebaa Farms are currently occupied by Israel. Which is Lebanese, acknowledged by both Syrians and Lebanese.
The goal of the brand owners is to make money, for the customer the value should be a certain reputation of quality. But as long as customers don’t notice or punish it, it’s advantageous to sell out your brand to make more money (from the perspective of the brand owner)
They're also paying $5M per year to maintain the servers and software. In theory they don't have to think about it but that just highlights the waste even more. I wish I could spend $5M without thinking.
Former MoviePass CEO admits the $9.95 'unlimited' ticket scheme was fraud
It does lock you out of iOS apps, Apple Pay, and 4K streaming of DRM content [1]. But that's not so bad I suppose.

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/RecordingIndicatorUtili...
While I agree with the "are you serious?" part, there are plenty of other companies that are backtracking on remote work, including quite a few small and/or early-stage startups that I see posting in the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads here on HN.

I know of no studies that show that RTO mandates improve any measurable statistic for a company, and remote work has done wonders for my commute and well-being, so I will no longer consider working for a company who does not have a majority of its employees working remotely. I'm a staff engineer with a couple decades of experience. My current company is 100% remote and it's lovely.
> edtech is a horrible sector to sell to). Oracle has a price point that makes it worth it to them, and they have customers willing to pay it.

The way businesses deal with this is by selling more expensive software! That's why Oracle is getting rich by selling crappy software to difficult sectors that nobody wants to touch.
The problem is that the answer was a really easy google. I didn't know what low background steel was and I just googled it.
Retirement plans are defined benefit ("employee will be paid $X per time period during retirement") or defined contribution ("the company puts $Y per time period into this retirement vessel").

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/...
A list of SaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to DevOps and infradev
Developers and Open Source authors now have many services offering free tiers, but finding them all takes time to make informed decisions.

This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings with free developer tiers.
> Israel and Lebanon are not at war.

Maybe not, but the combatants holding those devices were at war, no?
How does bombing civilians stop rockets already launched? Most likely the person launching is already out of the area.
Nebula is (most likely) not a coop.

https://medium.com/@cameron-paul/who-actually-owns-nebula-95...
LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service
The loss of productivity/time from added congestion alone would make this unprofitable for everyone involved.
Islands generally don’t have great agriculture and we are overfishing the oceans as it is.
Given these were from 1996 and 2002, I think this is the tip of the iceberg and we're going to start to see AI/LLMs discover a lot more plagiarism. Back in the day people could get away with plagiarism by obscurity. Not any more.
This was the $600M solution..
That was the $600M solution...
Related:

Former CEOs of MoviePass and Parent Company Charged in Securities Fraud Scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33476838 - Nov 2022 (2 comments)
Made the Chinese even more richer and technologically superior to the us in many many areas as well.
Oh, look up what happened when Mugabe took over "the breadbasket of Africa". Then get a stiff drink.
Elemental mercury isn't that toxic. It's the vapors that are dangerous.
Eh, deniability and international response is another reason not to drop bombs from the air.
Reaching the the legal hammer out to be a last resort, but IMO, EOL-ing a device should require open sourcing it and handing over any info required for administration to the users. Or refund for full price.

A device which can not be administered by the end user is administered (perhaps negligently) by the company who sold it.
For MLOps platforms, Papermill is the one of the reasons why we don't include experiment tracking out of the box any longer in Hopsworks. You can easily see the results of training runs as notebooks - including loss curves, etc. Any models that completed get registered in the model registry along with plots, a model card, and model evaluation/validation metrics.
The problem is that the company which did the rigging seems to have had an official license. If apple gave away licenses to build things branded apple and they contained explosives, I would blame apple, too.
If you think about, $600M is enough money that someone somewhere could create an entire new company and staff it with some of the best developers just to get this contract...
It seems like there should be 5-6 vendors of 'University HR Software'

You want 1,000 licenses for it? That will be $5,000 a year, for a total of $5 million

It's going to us a year to implement it, we're going to send out 25 people to get it up and running, train your users, etc. That's another $25 million.

We'll spend the next year building integrations to all of your other software and systems, that's going to be another $25 million.

These quotes will all vary +/- 25% depending on the vendor. Schedule a 200 hours of meetings, trainings, etc for 500 people involved with the new software. That's another $5 million.

Where's the other $540 million coming from?
What the hell is this data? -9.6% for Computer Programmers but +17.9% for Software developers? -2.6% for Network and Computer System Administrators but +17.4% for Computer and Information System Managers? This data seems to reflect the change in the words we use to describe jobs more than an actual shift in the kinds of jobs in the labor market.