skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy this "blaming the mainstream media" for the upteenth time. First of all, looking at your other examples of Myanmar and Sudan, there have been tons of coverage in the mainstream media about those issues.

What the OP is saying about 21000 laborers dying in Saudi Arabian is that huge number would have been noticed by lots of people - and a lot of these people would have had huge incentive to get the word out, and then the "mainstream media" would have had huge incentive to get the word out as well. E.g. wouldn't this have been gigantic news in places like the Philippines and India where many of these laborers come from?

As OP points out, I think the bigger problem is separating out on-the-job deaths from "natural" deaths. I.e. how many deaths would you normally expect from 10M people over 7 years?

My guess is that it's some combination of (a) truly awful slave-like conditions, (b) just general "lack of safety culture" conditions (e.g. ~100 people died building the Hoover Dam - I don't think people considered them slaves but they definitely weren't following OSHA rules), (c) accidental deaths that happen in any large project over this amount of time, and (d) natural deaths. The journalistic challenge is that it's difficult to tease out these different causes.
I just use a proper programmer-friendly monospace font that emphasizes the distinctions of those characters (I.e. slashes or a dot in the zero char).

Then, I don't have to worry about undoing decades of momentum.

> Why not have an alphabet that omits B, I and O, and includes X, Y, Z?

Because that would bring integer increment errors and require a significant overhaul of existing code bases and require careful checking.
> loved Lisp, but none of the lisps have anything like Python's ecology. Julia, even less so.

None of the lisps have anything close to julia's ecology in numerical computing at least. Can't really speak to other niches though.

> People don't pick languages for language features, mostly. They pick them for their ecosystems -- the quality of libraries, compiler/runtime support, the network of humans you can ask questions of, etc.

Sure. And that's why Python is both popular and slow.
Thin-film transistor circuits can probably approach more of what you are envisioning than silicon integrated circuits. There are even organic semiconductor versions of TFTs that use lower temperatures and liquid chemistry for layer deposition.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33376205 (45 comments)
I wasn’t sure what the article meant by “no screws or glue”, when the photograph appears to have visible screws. But closer images show that these are apparently some sort of rivet?

I found a (Japanese-language-only) news piece that shows some of the crafting and assembly of the satellite, and the box body certainly holds together by itself, via some beautifully intricate joinery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_F-NzzC7RA
> I can already show up at a US embassy or consulate anywhere in the world and provide them my passport serial number to have a new one cut in an hour if I've lost mine

Do you have any sources to confirm this?
When will “they” invent a better bus to go between the system memory used by the CPU and the GPU? It seems like that is a pretty major bottleneck.

It took a while before SSD’s stopped using SATA despite SATA being a huge bottleneck. Now it uses something else whose name I cannot recall. Surely there is work to do something like that for the GPU.

Because while it’s been a long while since I’ve built a computer I do know that the video card has always been the peripheral that pushed the limits of whatever interconnect bus existed at the time. There was all kinds of hacks for it like AGP, Video Local Bus, and then even PCI express to a large degree.
Considering that the US and others largely know about this and benefit from the product of this labor, one might argue that they never stopped; they simply outsourced it.
That's crazy. 4% is a pretty common match.
I guess it depends on what you define as a successful outcome. Recent changes to the law mean that employees are automatically enrolled at the matching rate and then their contribution automatically escalates by 1 percentage point per year up to a max of 15%. I suspect that that's pretty effective at getting people to contribute and get the match.
I personally think it's relevant because of the tech investments that the Saudis are making around the world. Based on my years of reading Hacker News, I feel the focus here is is about VC/investment/business first, "hacking" topics second.
Right, this is a bi-elliptic transfer, which is delta-v-cheaper than a Hohmann transfer for widely separated orbits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer

In practice in the real solar system, the cheapest way to get from Earth to the Sun is to use Jupiter. Launch to there and reverse-slingshot to cancel out the orbital velocity and drop directly towards the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe would have done this, although decided not to because of the complications in designing to handle both the cold of Jupiter and the heat of the Sun.
It seems you're not getting what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about the normal seat adjustment that you probably fiddle with a bit especially if you don't have profiles and change drivers a lot. I'm talking about the feature where your seat will go further back than normal to give you more space to get in and out of the car. It's often called something like "Easy Entry/Exit". Then when you start the car it goes back to where either the seat was last or whatever profile it was set to.

On this feature (which itself can be enabled/disabled), sometimes you can choose how far back it'll move the seat automatically for you.

Its this setting that you're suggesting you're going to mess with enough to have decent muscle memory to change without looking. That you'd want as a top-level feature setting option, practically a dedicated button to change it.

The video below shows what I'm talking about. Note in a lot of cars it's just a basic toggle. Sometimes you can set how far back you want the seat to go, if you want the steering wheel to move, how far you want the steering wheel to move, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhM-gJ5cIHA
It's like eruv. The loophole was planted there for us mortals to find and use it
> Afterward Uber helped Macron campaign who then ordered National Financial Prosecutor's office to "stop bothering them" so I don't think anything new happened since.

Isn’t that kinda definiton of corruption?
I know I'm likely alone in this opinion, but corporate income tax seems like a poorly designed tax to me. Why should companies pay taxes in a year with high profits, even if they face losses for the next ten years? Why should I pay corporate income tax when dividends and income are taxed anyway? Corporate income tax also seems to heavily influence business strategies as a consequence, which wasn't its intended purpose.
It would be great to be able to use VictoriaLogs underneath instead of Elasticsearch. This would simplify the configuration and maintenance, since VictoriaLogs works optimally with default configs on any hardware. This will also help reducing hardware costs for large amounts of stored security logs, since VictoriaLogs usually needs up to 30x less RAM and up to 15x less disk space than Elasticsearch for the same amounts of logs. See https://itnext.io/how-do-open-source-solutions-for-logs-work... for details.
See also state governments' pension problems.
Most employees are bright enough to at least contribute as much to max out the company match. It's free money.
I disagree.

There is a tremendous amount of technical integration needing to be done for this project and others in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, etc.

Many of the people who do, or might, take part in that work are here on this forum And I think a frank discussion of these issues is on topic.
> All the new money and agreements and on-call resources did ameliorate but did not prevent or even lessen, the massive catastrophic fire destruction.

This seems a bit disingenuous, didn't the number of acres burned dramatically decrease starting in 2021?
I'm confused by this statement in the article:

<< LignoSat is made of honoki, a kind of magnolia tree native to Japan, and has been made using a traditional Japanese technique without screws or glue. >>

From photos I've seen while searching for more information, it does appear that there's a wooden core structure that is joined without fasteners. But it's then given a metal exoskeleton and what certainly appears to be metal fasteners.

I'd like to understand whether the goal is to create satellites without metal, as the article seemed to imply.
That sounds so illegal, it's crazy there aren't consequences for that.

EDIT: Article on the kills switch https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-bosses-tol...
If the model wasn't optimized with a parameter = 3.08 (that is, the optimization figured 3.08 increased the objective function), why would it be better than parameter = 3.1 ?

(This applies to functions of parameters too)
Ultimately, I have seen millions die of starvation in one system and not in the other. So I'm going to take the latter. You argue the semantics and whatever terms you like.
It's really expensive or difficult to have a one off object made though, and that's where 3D printing thrived. It fulfills that rapid prototyping itch.

People don't even really etch their own pcbs anymore, it's so fast and cheap, let alone spend $10k+ to manufacture a six cent item (maybe!), so there never was enough motivation for a diy movement to make ICs and other nanofabbed stuff
Essentially, the regulatory bandwidth in the US is way too low.

Rather than straightforward regulation and strict enforcement to limit the amount of pesticide in the air that most everybody would generally agree on (because no humans generally want to breathe pesticides), businesses are allowed to collude and set up industry groups that bribe political parties to adopt outlandish positions like "pesticides help humans grow, too". This sets one side of the Overton window very far out, ends up convincing many people that it isn't a problem worth worrying about, and generally makes a politically intractable mess of the whole subject.

So lacking the political will to directly tackle the problem, the concern falls back on existing regulatory frameworks (/causes of action) that are repurposed to address the topic, to fit in both existing legal and emotional (memetic) precedents. Due to a storied history and what was/is required to rectify past wrongs, our governments and much of society have been highly primed to focus on racial disparity above all else.

It's also essentially a retreat in the strength of the argument from individualism to collectivism, which allows it to continue existing in a weaker form rather than smashing head first into the efficient market fallacy we've all been primed with.
His father (Ramon Reiser) used it as defense back when he was accused (but Nina's body was not yet found). It simply explains a lot of his (odd) reasoning and behavior. It does not absolve him from his behavior, nor does it acquit him from time in prison for his criminal deeds.

Also, I'm on the spectrum, and recognize a lot of behavior. I have been accused by my neighbors of a crime. One I did not commit (I did not abuse my children, sexually or otherwise), but you know how that goes? Gossip.

As for the podcast, I read the transcript (in less time than the podcast would take, as I skimmed through some parts). It had a lot of unnecessary content, and missed some details (such as the one I mentioned) but it was alright. It is a sad story.
I think this is too loose of a definition of code...

Yaml isn't really code in the same sense as python is, and Shakespeare didn't write in code in the same sense that the diagrams in this article are.
I was listening to a podcast with Naval and David Deutsch yesterday. They talked about this. He said these kind of studies are kind of pointless. Yes. It's likely twins will more or less end up with same outcomes in life. Because they look the same and society has a tendency to treat people who look certain in certain way. But that does not mean what they can do in life is limited by their genes. What they think plays much more important role than their genes.

https://nav.al/deutsch-files-iii
> It's also disappointing that EA has yet to start a bug bounty program. Without any real incentive to report vulnerabilities, I know people who have instead chosen to keep them to themselves. I would love to see EA follow the rest of the industry's lead here.

Does that mean the author got nothing for reporting this?
So, configuration?
ThunderBee wrote:

> I would actually argue the opposite. r/worldnews is one of the few major subreddits that actively blocks the hordes of pro Palestinian bots.
> The pro Palestinian propaganda campaign being run by US adversaries might be the most effective I’ve ever seen.
> I could write a very lengthy post on this topic but it’s exceptionally rare to find anyone willing to have a discussion and not a yelling match.

I think this is what they claim to be doing, but really they are just blocking people who aren't pro-Israel while claiming they are bots.

I think you just explained what is going on. It is being done by the moderators.

The majority of opinion in Canada and US is negative on Israel's military campaign. Blocking this viewpoint from r/worldnews is censoring a majority viewpoint because I guess the moderators disagree with it. At least I am understanding now what is going on.

For example:

* 50% of Canadians believe that Israel is engaging in genocide: https://www.readthemaple.com/polls-show-gap-between-canadian...

* 40% of all US citizens and the majority of US democrats believe Israel is engaging in genocide: https://www.jpost.com/us-elections/article-800603

* Even 30% of American Jews believe Israel is engaging in genocide: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/one-third-of-american-jews...

And even if you don't think that Israel is committing genocide, it doesn't mean you don't care about Palestinians dying in Gaza.

The moderators and the non-blocked inhabitants of r/worldnews are creating an alternate reality and self-justifying it by claiming everyone who doesn't agree with them are bots.
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It'll be a human-like-centipede of hallucinating bots writhing on a Metaverse conference room table, "air dropping" new shitcoins into each others mouths for eternity ... or until there are no more tires left to burn or the source of whatever they're using for power this week runs out.
You can do this with your own salary through a 401k in the US or an RRSP in Canada.
I spent some time looking into it. I believe it could be done with a source-to-source transpiler with zero-cost abstractions and some term rewriting. It’s a lot of work.

The real barrier my thought experiment hit were the extensions. Many uses of Python are glue around C extensions designed for the CPython interpreter. Accelerating “Python” might actually be accelerating Python, C, and hybrid code that’s CPython-specific. Every solution seemed like more trouble than just rewriting those libraries to not be CPython-specific. Or maybe to work with the accelerators better.

Most people are just using high-level C++ and Rust in the areas I was considering. If using Python, the slowdown of Python doesn’t impact them much anyway since their execution time is mostly in the C code. I’m not sure if much will change.
This is probably a rerun of the Qatar World Cup 2022 reporting.

We were told that 6500 guest workers had died in workplace accidents building the stadiums, and everyone got very upset.

But that was very misleading. 6500 was the number of deaths for any reason among ~1M guest workers. That is a perfectly normal death rate in a population that size.

The official Qatari statistics was that 37 world cup construction workers died, and only 3 of those were work-related accidents. This info was of course reported far less.
Grab the drives from the cloud?

Isn't most data in the cloud heavily distributed and broken into shards across many racks and drives and such? And encrypted so is useless outside of the custom block storage system employed by the cloud provider?

They would need to decrypt and assemble the shards to get usable data out.

I have no clue how they would even know which drives out the tens of thousands to grab, and they would also have other customer's data on them.
An alternative to tablets is pure powder of ascorbic acid, which can be mixed in drinks or food, and which is also cheaper, while containing no excipients.

While one can get enough vitamin C from one red bell pepper per day or from one or two kiwi fruits, depending on size, where I live, in Europe, the equivalent amount of pure powder of ascorbic acid is more than ten times cheaper. It also does not need frequent shopping.
No one is going to spend $10 a month to insure a paper plate. If no one is going to buy a policy, it doesn't make sense to have the infrastructure in place to sell that policy. Thus no one offers insurance policies on paper plates.
Superannuation is very very similar to the 401k honestly. I remember when Australia brought in superannuation system and the biggest pushback was that it was blatantly a move to the us system (we had government pensions in the 90s). The tax treatment isn’t that different since 401k contributions aren’t taxed like income either. I work for an employer that pays 15% 401k contributions on top of salary. The main difference is that employers aren’t required to pay 401k contributions and I think that would be the better point to make.
Agree. That’s why I want to build a truly private AI, where users are confident to use without worry about their privacy.
At first, we hosted stateless AI models using ephemeral processing to handle real time convos. We designed and implemented a protocol to ensure E2EE via TLS/SSL, GDPR/CCPA compliant with conversations stored locally on-device. We also provide an anonymous mechanism, no login required.
Currently, we hosted open source flagship models of meta, Llama 3.1 405B, Llama 3.2 Vision and FLUX.1[dev]
The product has just launched and is free to use with unlimited prompts. Paid plans are for AI agents. We still have a long way to go and would love to hear your feedback.
Out of curiosity, what is your favorite?
Because of the principal-agent problem and the fact that there is no structure to reward future success reliably? If the Chicago parking meter plan is so outrageous, why do it? It's obviously bad. So why do it? You know why. There's a guy with controls over a lot of money. He's going to find a way to access some of it.
So the system memory is already slower than the memory on the GPU card?

I suppose next you’ll also say the GPU memory is designed to be accessed in a much more “parallel fat pipe” way that can shove gobs of data across the bus all at once vs the CPU which doesn’t have that requirement?

I mean the whole idea is “single instruction multiple data” and GPU takes that to the extreme… so yeah I guess the data pipeline has to be ultra-wide to shove shit across all the little cores as quickly as possible.
Underpaid TW semi talent, now banned from working in PRC, was happily working for PRC interests for 3x-4x pay. Most has their price. During war time, it's not just going to be money, it's going to be calories, it's going to be safety.

Reality is, as with all war, collaborators will be richly rewarded, sabeteurs will be shot. US won't be able to extract much engineers - PRC A2D2 is going to prevent subtantial exfiltration, certainly not on level of 100,000s of talent. I would wager US+co won't even be able to extract their own nationals out.

There's still a lot of sole source semi supply chains on TW... if world wants global semi to keep churning they're going to have work with PRC for access. TSMC fabs in US likely on a timer the second island becomes inaccessible. Unless there's replacement/substitute, which so far PRC is the only country trying to replicate entire supply chain - meaning if anything they'll be least affected.

Realistically most PRC hopes is to extract some EUV machinery (even if damaged) for reverse engineering. Ultimately taking TSMC supply offline hurts US/west more, since leading edge disproportionately denied to PRC already - with TSMC projected to dominate 90%+ of advanced nodes for 5/10+ years, PRC is losing a finger, west is losing the hands and feet.
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A lot of words to say: taxation is theft.
How many wars have the US started?
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> An ounce of prevention...

However idiotic it may be - people are far more willing to pay $$$$$ to have a broken leg treated than they are willing to pay $ for salt or sand to put on their icy sidewalk.
It’s believable, there are a lot of people in the world.

Fentanyl is used to poison nearly 100k Americans annually, most who don’t even know they are being poisoned by it.

Most Americans don’t know this level of destruction is happening and it’s right here, why would we be expected to notice slave labor deaths far off?
Conjectures aside on the % of the posters on here that overlap with work and sphere of influence surrounding this exact topic, you can have that frank discussion elsewhere.

Hacker News is not the forum for that.
The world of tax is complex. Business exist in many shapes and sizes. So...

- because companies heavily use government resources like roads and stuff.

- because losses can be offset against profits. These tend to be middled out over multiple years. You can port losses to other years.

- a lot of companies (holdings etc.) don't pay out income tax and are basically just letterbox companies. These companies need to pay tax on dividends otherwise they would literally pay zero tax.
Common lisp is in fact a good point of comparison once you look at how it's fast. The trick with Common Lisp is that they made a foundation of stuff that can actually be optimized pretty well by a compiler, and made that stuff exempt from being changed on the fly (or in some cases, just made the the compiler assume that they won't change on the fly even if they do, resulting in seg-faults unless you recompile code and re-generate data after changing stuff).

This is how Common Lisp people can claim that the language is both performant and flexible. The performant parts and the flexible parts are more disjoint than one might expect based on the way people talk about it.

But anyways, Common Lisp does manage to give a high degree of dynamism and performance to a point that it surely can be used for any of the dynamic stuff you'd want to do in Python, while also giving the possibility of writing high performance code.

Python did not do this, and so it'll be impossible for them to offer something like common lisp perf without breaking changes, or by just introducing a whole new set of alternatives to slow builtins like class, int, call, etc.
Words are to be used whenever (and as often as) they are appropriate.

Outside of slurs, blanket avoidance of words mostly just adds unnecessary obfuscation.
What usually happens is the trust is underfunded, and the company makes it up in real time. When the company goes under, the pension plan gets assigned to the federal government's Pension Guarantee Corporation and if your promised pension is above the guarantee amount and above the funded amount, you take a hair cut.

If you're lucky, you've been getting audit reports about the underfunded pension for years, so you could prepare, but you probably couldn't do anything about it.

If your employer had put the pension funding in a 401k account for you, you would know what you have, and be able to separate from the employer and not have to keep in touch to make sure they're holding their end of the bargain.