skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, Boeing management and shareholder comp crippled the org on its own just fine. Getting rid of pensions is what enabled more comp to go to these folks. "401k experiment failure" are the keywords you can search for on the topic.

Are we going to claw back all the comp and shareholder returns from the folks who stole from Boeing while it went down the drain? No, we'll just say that's the cost, even though it is obvious that is what crippled the org. "Pensions are absolutely crippling" while orgs are strip mined in plain site, with a noticeable lack of hand ringing over said strip mining.

https://www.epi.org/publication/retirement-in-america/

https://www.pionline.com/defined-contribution/401k-experimen...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/magazine/401k-retirement-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/retirement/great-401-k-expe...
That was such a long time ago, it would not be acceptable today.

Also were two external factors in particular: Malaria and yellow fever.

This is not the case at NEOM. It's just bad treatment of these workers.
>Lack of HPV vaccination is just a symptom of lack of understanding of science and statistics in politics.

At some point it stops being about science or understanding and starts being wholly about politics. There's a lot more "well these demographics or institutions f-ing hate me so I'm sure as shit not taking their word for anything" going around than there was a decade ago.
Waymo's had a quiet – but – increase in ridership
Take a look at Sage (for PCs) and khikas (for calculators).
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.
You are correct and I want to be accurate. Autoimmune is genetic risk alleles plus environment, whereas cancer is genetic alteration.

https://pathology.jhu.edu/autoimmune/development
Thanks! To a layman it seemed like they were really similar devices.
I guess the consolation for Ukraine will be that these same supply chain issues that Europe and the USA refuse to fix will eventually be used against their militaries and populations. It's alarming to see how much Western technology is in these weapons that could/will be used in the event of conflict with the West.

It would be interesting to find out how much Western tech is found in Iran's Ballistic Missiles that are used against Israel or North Korea's Nuclear missiles that could be used against American cities.
Neither, it's unethical and there's no possibility of doing that in legal way.

However I do write 1-2 hour PoCs on my spare time and my own equipment, using only publicly available stuff - they sometimes come handy at some point later. If we assume 'remote first' development is okay - with no possibility to test stuff locally, well, we're back to either bookmark managers or pet projects to keep at least a bit of knowledge between jobs.
WebRL: Training LLM Web Agents via Self-Evolving Online Reinforcement Learning
Great and detailed response, thank you. Well, I asked, because a longer while ago I wrote a cross platform tool named `graft` [1] to solve a similar issue: Having to transfer files without needing too much boilerplate on windows, linux and macOS.

`graft` is a "risk your files for convenience" tool with pretty bad performance - so I would not recommend using it for something else than `graft serve` and `graft receive`, but these two are pretty handy.

`graft serve ".zip"` will scan the current directory for `.zip` recursively, start a password authenticated sftp server and providing all findings (and only them) via `mdns`.

While you COULD use any sftp client, you also can use any other host in the same network supporting mdns to just `graft receive` (without hostname) and `graft` will find the running instances in the network. If it is only one, it will connect, otherwise you can choose.

This is indeed pretty convenient :-) - as I said, I wouldn't rely on this for important files.

1: https://github.com/sandreas/graft
America is a global super power. Red vs. Blue has real life consequences for many people in other parts of the world.
> That was such a long time ago, it would not be acceptable today.

Not in the US, but this is a place that does public beheadings.

> Also were two external factors in particular: Malaria and yellow fever.

Here the external factor is desert heat.
I cannot use vendors own hand-picked case studies as a reference.
Everyone who has filled up at a Chevron gas station has blood on their hands too. Let’s not throw rocks when we live in glass houses ourselves.

https://youtu.be/9OtIAZMqrZE?si=TDdwHNnPwD7hu3CY
Hello, notebook-http mode
For what it's worth, that number isn't terribly far off from the roughly 1 in 200 worker fatality rate for the construction of the Hoover Dam in the USA. It would be even closer if we assume for the sake of argument that only about half of Saudia Arabia's foreign workforce is working directly on Vision 2030 projects.

And way lower than the rate of about 1 in 25 indicated by the article you linked on the Canada railway.
Does it expand to all pets? If I have 10 small dogs I could easly get an extra 1 week/year off. What about reptiles, fish. My girlfriend's cat?

Again, it doesn't exist because it makes no sense.
To put Saudi power into perspective: MBS hacked Jeff Bezos's phone by personally sending him a compromising link, killed one of his employers, and and Bezos prohibited the release of the documentary about the killing in Amazon Prime.

Saudis have oil, but they have also bought significant share of US economy. They are minority owners in Twitter and many other businesses.
> This issue is vastly aided and exacerberated by the fact that immediately after unskilled laborers land, the first procedure is their passports are seized, and it's made clear they have to please their employer and work themselves to death to get it back. It changes the entire dynamic straight away: instead of the employer being obliged to keep you, you are now obliged to get back your passport.

Sure, but the local government wants it that way.

They won't be the ones to change it!
Looks like it costs slightly above $50,000 just in hardware devices to setup such a Hacker Lab. Here's hoping costs will come down some more soon.
I've come around to that conclusion on other verboten words, if other people don't like them it's not a big deal for me to stop using them. And I suppose it's less typing to push to main than it is to push to master.
Yeah XKCD reminds us that something that "everyone knows" is taught to 10,000/day and we should have empathy, but I definitely think this is one of those situations. If you're curious how this could happen, there's a simple explanation, IMO: these countries are some of the small handful of non-republics left in the entire world. There's lots of authoritarian republics, but true totalitarian systems are another beast entirely, just from a cultural perspective alone.

Here's a semi-outdated map that I'd argue Afghanistan has earned a place on, and also doesn't shout out The Holy See, which is also a theocratic monarchy: https://i0.wp.com/mattdallisson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/... The list is basically Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Holy See, and uhhhh that's kinda it. The UAE is a republic of monarchies, which is a fun/sad corner case.

When the laws are made at the whim of the sovereign, chattel slavery isn't so unimaginable.
Pensions are fine if you actually pay for them by purchasing guaranteed annuities to offload the liability. Except nobody wants to do that because they’re insanely expensive. Even more so if they’re going to be inflation adjusted.

In reality if workers want pensions, the company should give them a fix annual amount that the worker can use to purchase an annuity.
There are different definitions of slow, though. You might want arbitrary precision numbers but want it to be reasonable fast in that context.

I don't agree that it is "insane stuff", but I agree that Python is not where you go if you need super fast execution. It can be a great solution for "hack together something in a day that is correct, but maybe not fast", though. There are a lot of situations where that is, by far, the preferred solution.
some public transit agencies spend over half of their operating budget on pensions
Until 2021 laborer were unable to leave the country without permission from their employers ...

And even now if you are working in the middle of the desert can you even go to the airport without your employer help ?
Perhaps it’s the natural progression of peekaboo scrollbars that are only visible when you’re scrolling. Those sacrifice some utility for some pixel-scale gains and minimalist aesthetic, this just takes it a bit further.
Could you point to any specific major breaking changes between 3.x releases?

I can not, but I can tell you that anything AI often requires finding a proper combination of python + cuXXX + some library. And while I understand cu-implications, for some reason python version is also in this formula.

I literally have four python versions installed and removed from PATH, because if I delete 3.9-3.11, they will be needed next day again and there’s no meaningful default.
Show HN: Slicendice
Releasing a bunch of helper functions over slices
The Most Insane Weapon You Never Heard About [video]
> purchasing an EV vehicle was avoiding saudi oil

Its avoiding a lot of Saudi oil. A 25mpg car over 150,000mi will go through 6,000gal of gasoline. That's ~308 barrels of oil just for the energy of moving the car.

A car will have ~400lbs of plastic parts. You'd need like 3.9 barrels of oil to make that plastic. Both a gas car and an EV will need this plastic.

You're going to use almost 100x as much oil driving the car around than the plastics in the car. A 100x reduction in oil use is significant. Quit pushing lies about how EVs still use a significant amount of oil, as if they're pretty much the same. Either you should be aware of the falsehoods you're suggesting or you need to be informed.

And no, the energy generation for an EV isn't anywhere near as significant as the oil use for burning in an ICE. In most modern grids a lot of that energy is going to come from locally produced natural gas, maybe still coal, some nuclear, and a decent chunk of renewables. Burning oil isn't that massive of an overall electricity source.
Practical Embedded Software Testing
> I'm hedging here; it feels to me that OCR-ing normal text that never left the digital realm should be 100% reliable, but I'm not a specialist in that subfield so I surely must be missing something...

A string set in a given font at a given size won't always render as a fixed pattern of pixels. The font describes the curves of the letter forms and how that's rasterized depends on lots of factors such as the zoom level, exactly how the font rendering engine is implemented, whether or not anti-aliasing is turned on which is further complicated by the fact that the text can be set in any color with any other color as a background, etc. And there are a LOT of fonts.

Lastly, OCR is not just about recognizing letter shapes but has to contend with how the text flows. It has to understand line-breaks, multi-column layouts, captions, pulled quotes, page-numbers, hyphenation and all the other weird shit that we make text do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42043139
UK AISI bounty programme for novel evaluations and agent scaffolding
It was a bad application of country.

How do you feel about "An economically challenging location with weaker supply chain, infrastructure and potentially lower compliance to standards in engineering."

The GDP of Puerto Rico overall in 1960 was $1.6b. You would expect about 20x growth over the time window, and its more like 100x.

No disrespect to Puerto Ricans intended.
Yandex works great instead.. just type .."watch "whatever""
I once heard Marvin Gaye's album What's Going On [1] through a $30000 HiFi and I could not believe the stereo information that was available on good vinyl and a valve amp. You could hear how far each of the backing singers were away from their microphone, it was unbelievable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApthDWoPMFQ&list=PLc60gkdW0b...
I am a seasoned voter who submitted his ballot several weeks ago in addition to prior-water-carrier for said propaganda. I know how ballots work.

All of that is irrelevant.

Choosing not to exercise your right to vote is a valid choice, and choosing not to exercise that right does not preclude you from complaining about electoral outcomes and the policies of the extant and future governments.
That was, in many ways, a crazy difficult transition. I don't think most languages have gone through such a thing. Perl tried and died. So I don't agree that it reflects poorly on the community; I think the plan itself was too ambitious.
The correct answer to your friend was "I care". There's no inherently wrong way to decide whether to give money or not. If your friend doesn't base his decision on what they'll use the money on, that's fine, and if you do base it on that, that's also fine.
For something that requires writing BASIC (or RPL for that matter), I think I'd rather use a programming language on a PC

However, keystroke programming a calculator, where you can still somewhat do simple loops with goto-like constructs when needed, strikes the right balance for the limited UI of a calculator

So something like the HP 15C is nice.
I worked and did research atobservatory for my PhD - you are exactly correct. It was well known to the scientists and onsite engineers that a collapse was imminent, for years. Ironically, prior to the collapse the agency responsible for funding performed a study to see would need to do to stop supplying money to the observatory, and found that due to environmental impact, it would actually be more expensive to stop funding. After that study we all suspected that the agency was just waiting for decay or a natural disaster to do the dirty work for them
Biggest Print on Demand Players from Latvia Printful and Printify Are Merging
Yep, here it is - https://github.com/CharityDEX/Whisper-Whatsapp-Bot-main
This is very interesting, i was building something similar, but i used https://github.com/K0IN/string-embed (embeddings based on a distance function - Levenshtein in my case) to generate embeddings, for deterministic matching.

I will follow your project, im interested in your ann search speeds :)
> You can't compare Microsoft to your run-of-the-mill small (or even large) software shop, though.

True. Your run-of-the-mill shop should have a simpler and more straight-forward system.

But you seem to want the reverse.
It doesn’t. Especially with multinationals, and doubly so as crypto gains adoption. Hence why the governments of the world are in a panic. Decentralization is a huge threat to bureaucracy since their tools of intimidation and control are less effective.
When every frame in a film is perfect [video]
The Problem with Monoliths
Hmm that's a good point, but IMO the distinction isn't sharp enough to make a big deal over. The core idea of SoM as I see it is that human cognition is often quite decentralized, and that any illusion of a unified self is constructed piecemeal from the outputs of smaller, less-aware subsystems. Generally it's expected that the subsystems communicate with each other, yes, but I think "disproportionately rely on one or two members for complex questions but act like you're unified overall" still fits the bill.
Pensions seem nice to have, but IMHO, it's generally better for employer and employee when compensation is paid immediately. The accounting is simpler, accountability is easier, and there's no long term entanglements.
A backend only API so people can use custom clients
Aside to your aside: When A can be proven from B, and A can also be proven from !B, it is really tempting to conclude that A is proven. But many people will argue this is incorrect in general, that is, they deny the excluded middle axiom. What if B is independent of your system of logic? We know then that A is not disprovable (since a proof of !A would prove !B). But that doesn't prove A. Unless A can be proven without reference to B, A might be independent too.
>"we're going to blow up TSMC"

No, only US writings have suggested TW should blow up their fabs, or threatened that US would. To which TW media has told US chuckle heads to knock it off because they're clearly not going to destroy their golden goose that can lay eggs for PRC or US.

Economic value is also denying US who is even more disproportionately affected by removal of 90% of high end nodes, which are already largely denied to PRC.

I wouldn't expect any TW knowledge workers to be able to leave, the runways are going to be cratered, the ports and coasts saturated with mines and overwatching drones. PRC going to make sure their only future is going to be tied to mainland prosperity.

PRC trade to west bloc in general like 5% of GDP... it's not nothing but it's not substantial. If you told Xi he could renunify with TW in exchange for 5% of GDP, he would have loled and smashed that button yesterday.

War is bad for the economy, but it could be even worse for your adversaries. Imagine if US enters fight and lost, entire geoeconomic order would shift. Entire economic order could also shift if US doesn't fight (i.e. abdicate certain 1IC security commitments).
I'd like a more credible source for the statistics. I would hope the SA demographics community wants to be transparent, I am less sure the SA Gov wants to help here.

An expose by ITV is not how I want to get authentic figures for death rate on a long term engineering project.
Tarja Turunen could have been an excellent Wagnerian soprano but decided she liked heavy metal more. So even today there is quite a bit of musicianship in some pop genres.
A recent experience I had came while walking in a forest with friends about an hour from Seattle. While walking, we heard an animal sound of some kind that cause an immediate "hairs on the back of my neck standing" up reaction along with what felt like an adrenaline rush (time slowing, narrowing of focus, etc). All of this happened immediately, and it took a few moments for my conscious mind to catch up. My friend and I looked at each other and walked briskly away from the sound. It wasn't until we encountered another hiker that we found out a mother bear and cubs had been spotted in that area.

This was unlike any other fear of animals, jump scares, or even near-miss types of experiences I've had in the past. It was a very primal and immediate reaction to a sound I've never heard before.
Erlang is JIT compiled since 2021.

Grandparent is also correct in that it tends to be faster than Python et al. If we have a deeper look at the benchmarks [1][2], as long as there is no significant amount of bignum arithmetic (where both call C code) or standard IO involved [3] it's consistently faster than Python, and often by a large margin.

[1]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[2]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[3]: Standard IO goes through several indirections to make it work with remote REPLs; other forms of IO do not suffer from this.
Show HN: MassApply – Virtual Assistants Apply to SWE Jobs for You
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Absurd is the amount of hypocrisy that is likely loaded in your statement unless everything you have ever bought or used wasn’t knowingly made in some sweatshop.
It's been out for 2 months, you had your chance
The whole point (or at least the main point) of the tax paperwork is to be able to produce them to tax investigators.
If you don't want to share anything, then it's easier not to do the accounting. Which I guess is severally illegal globally.
Exactly, I really like your style and thinking, AnimalMuppet.

My fear for 10+ years has been that another county or block will start a gold, commody or electronic based currency and the world will flood to the backed currency dumping USD as fast as possible. Bitcoin ALMOST became that black hole of USD before Adam Back's Blockstream was able to sucessfully hijack the BTC GitHub repo and inject hacks like SegWit and RBF that essentially killed BTC as a currency.

USD doesn't have to die, just something slightly better has to come along.
> This will provide more people with the opportunity to develop amateur satellites at a lower cost.

Maybe, not what is being reported by Sky News though

- https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/lignosat
There are ways to design languages to be dynamic while still being friendly to optimizing compilers. Typically what you want to do is promise that various things are dynamic, but then static within a single compilation context.

julia is a great example of a highly dynamic language which is still able to compile complicated programs to C-equivalent machine code. An older (and less performant but still quite fast) example of such a language is Common Lisp.

Python makes certain choices though that make this stuff pretty much impossible.
The data is stored on a server in another country where the warrant isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Now what?
Well, thats good news that striking still works in this semi-dystopian world.
What is a server variable?
I read the conclusion, not the entire article.

The 300TB a day at the modern news provider is staggering, and it's a shame it's 99+% piracy and porn.

"My" USENET was all newsgroups. rec.motorycles, comp.lang.lisp, etc.

We had a UUNET feed at the office, one of the large hubs for USENET, and a "smart router" (we could feed everything to UUNET, and they'd figure out how to move it from there). We had bang path email addresses as well. These still linger in old USENET archived post signatures.

I paired off a local fellow who paired off of UCLA for my home feed, and that was fed by a 2400 baud modem. When you're not just sitting there staring at the blinking cursor and the text crawl, 2400 is shockingly adequate for background text traffic, even though even back then, it was uncompressed. Over 80 notbook size pages of text in a half hour. You just don't "subscribe to everything".

Later I switched to a dial up Netcom shell account, running `nn` for news and `elm` for mail. I didn't have "internet" at home until 1998 when I finally got cable TV and a cable modem. (It was pretty exciting installing BSD from a single floppy that downloaded the rest from the internet!)

Ah, the halcyon days when signal was > noise on a public infrastructure.
4 months from report to remediation... absolutely pathetic.

This could have been exploited to just unban every account that has ever been banned. This guy would have made a fortune selling just that exploit to cheaters.
Minecraft, choice blindness, the urge to neither blight nor sight a blank sheet of paper.

Some people like facts that end. A conclusion, closure.

The backrooms, trivial as a meme (I was in the /x/ thread, so I was fuckin there)
was not dangerous until it was commodified via YUoutube/etc, endlessly turning into literal brain rot; useless, endless, addictive information.

Of course the only people to who wouldn't dismiss the idea are those with children and developmental psychologists.