skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Generally this is frowned upon in the West. India and Vietnam wouldn't tolerate it either

Yes, "frowned upon" is the perfectly realistic way to describe it.

Dior was just caught using slave labor including illegal immigrants in Italy (so they can say "Made in Italy" on the label), all working round the clock shifts and sleeping locked in the makeshift factory, operating machines with safeties disabled so they're more productive, making 2700E handbags for 53E [0]. The court just called it "Unethical Supply Chain" but no criminal charges. Luxury brands are "put on notice".

> thousands of small foreign-owned manufacturers supply luxury brands with goods that can claim the prized “Made in Italy” label but are produced at “Made in China” prices.

If you thought now you can sleep well but still buy cheap (or even a 2700E handbag) because your product isn't made in China, think again. And this isn't just Italy, it's everywhere. And it isn't just iPhones or Dior handbags, it's almost every cheap thing you buy and some expensive ones too. Business owners are greedy and chase profits, and customers are cheap and don't care beyond their own needs and wants.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2024/06/24/italian-...
The H100 is sold around 25k USD, with a production cost of only around $3k USD according to estimates.

Also it is heavily export controlled meaning many countries can't get their hand on it.

So even with the 910C consuming more electricity and having lower yields there will certainly be a market for it.
>The fact that an organization was involved 30 years ago in something bad doesn't mean

There is a long-standing history of ties between USAID and the CIA. During the Cold War, they worked together in training police forces all across the world, notably in Latin America, where the exercises allegedly included techniques of torture. USAID also served as cover for various covert activities, especially during the Vietnam War. After the Cold War, according to Weiner, the agency funded democracy-building programs in the former Soviet Union, “sometimes on its own, sometimes in concert with the CIA.” As recently as 10 years ago, it used its pro-democracy rubric to help foment anti-regime propaganda in Cuba.

Throughout this period, as was the case with U.S. embassies generally, USAID was used as a front for CIA officers, though, Weiner says, “much less frequently now than in the old days.” [0]

[0] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/usaid-donald-tru...
What you really, really, REALLY REALLY don't want is to attract people who want to do it for free. Money is at least honest.
Yes, I was also a big Facebook user in my twenties and now I'm in my mid-thirties and it seems Facebook became a lot less useful for this decade of my life.
For the birthdays of children in my social surroundings it seems the best practice has become to create an image with the details of the birthday party. Usually a photo of the birthday child with written Alice is turning 3. Join us for an afternoon of fun at Address on Saturday 16:00.
Usually shared on Whatsapp either in direct messages or in an existing school group if you are inviting the whole class or in ad-hoc group created for the event literally called Alice Birthday Party
> What you’re saying is that there’s this key organ of government—the “non-political civil service”—with independent responsibilities exercising their best judgment, that somehow isn’t even mentioned in the constitution!

You're saying that as if it were a real zinger, clinching the argument for you. I don't think it is or does.

Yeah, the constitution may not mention a non-political civil service. So what?!? It ultimately regulates a whole lot of shit that it doesn't explicitly mention. Like, does the constitution explicitly mention Elon Musk's employees installing drives on government computers? No? Clearly unconstitutional, then!
You are right. My bad. Please disregard the first line.

The tapes thing still holds, tho. They have tapes. Care to comment on those?
AirPower was actually announced. The problem with the others is it’s hard to know which are intended to be products or research. Particularly items that are far from any sort of release.

For example, I’m skeptical that Apple ever intended to release a car.
The flipside is I have seen "accountable" used basically as arbitrary threat. Hold accountable for whatever I don't like without regard to any mitigating circumstances.
Your ad dollars and marketing interests supporting the slaughter of the national enemy.
Why? I'm used to \ meaning lambda. I understand you aren't, and that's fine. But it's just your weird opinion determined by what programming languages you've learned.

Ultimately, it's just syntax and not so important. Semantics are important.
It's easy to dismiss eccentric people as conmen. But you have to consider, he has been at least partially instrumental in at least 2 impossible companies: electric cars and rockets.

Regardless of what you think of his intellectual capacity, he has a proven track record of organizing people to produce exceptional outcomes !

An inevitable characteristic of his algorithm is chaos: delete as many constraints and parts as possible. When things break, re-add those necessary parts.
Only if "utterly fucked" somehow means you can still pay a bit more to DHL and get packages even faster than USPS.

Your fast prototypes coming by air freight likely aren't routed through USPS at all unless it's the last leg of a consolidated shipment that's broken apart once it reaches the US. Those would be using some other carrier to get them from China to the US and then USPS only inside the US. USPS all the way from China is slow.

Paying ~$30 for express shipping through DHL (plus whatever the new tariffs end up being) will still get you those parts in 3-5 days to most major shipping hubs in the US, your suppliers will just need to start filing the export paperwork correctly.

These changes will likely have bigger impacts on cheap off the shelf parts from e-commerce places like Temu or AliExpress, who were previously taking advantage of both the de minimis rule and inequal international rates through USPS.

Your Chinese suppliers can still ship by any of the normal commercial express shipping carriers as long as they understand how to file export paperwork or have an agent who can do it for them. Previously this usually added 1-2 days to the transit time over shipping undeclared "samples". Last year DHL moved to a paperless system and that extra 1-2 days delay is probably going away anyway. They may have even done it because they saw this coming. People have been grumbling about the de-minimis stuff for a while now.
I mostly meant the DOS era, when you accessed hardware directly, there were pretty much no libraries. Further on, if people did not start using C++, Pascal would have to evolve to allow writing the things that were previously done in assembly, and libraries would be done in that language as well. That did not happpen, so C++ won and writing Pascal code was even more complex because you had to brindge the C APIs.
They did indeed reduce standards. From the article:

> Throughout the ‘90s and ‘00s, the FAA faced pressure to diversify its field of air traffic controllers, historically a profession that has been primarily white men, notably from the NBCFAE.4 In the early 2000s, this pressure focused on the newly developed air traffic control qualification test, the AT-SAT, which the NBCFAE hired Dr. Outtz to critique from an adverse impact standpoint. As originally scored, the test was intended to pass 60% of applicants, but predictions suggested only 3% of black applicants would pass.5 In response, the FAA reweighted the scoring to make the test easier to pass, reducing its correlation with job performance as they did so.6 In its final form, some 95% of applicants passed the test.7

> This was a bit of a shell game. In practice, they divided it into a “well qualified” band (with scores between 85 and 100 on the test, met by around 60% of applicants) and a “qualified” band (with scores between 70 and 84), and drew some 87% of selections from that “well qualified” band.8 Large racial disparities remained in the “well qualified” band. As a result, facing continued pressure, the FAA began to investigate ways to deprioritize the test.

> Why not ditch it altogether? Simple: the test worked. It had “strong predictive validity,” outperforming “most other strategies in predicting mean performance,” and it was low cost and low time commitment. On average, people who performed better on the test actually did perform better as air traffic controllers, and this was never really in dispute. When they tested alternative measures like biographical data, they found that the test scores predicted 27% of variance in performance, while the “biodata” predicted only 2%. It just didn’t do much.9

> The NBCFAE continued to pressure the FAA to diversify, with its members meeting with the DOT, FAA, Congressional Black Caucus, and others to push for increased diversity among ATCs. After years of fiddling with the research and years of pressure from the NBCFAE, the FAA landed on a strategy: by using a multistage process starting with non-cognitive factors, they could strike “an acceptable balance between minority hiring and expected performance”—a process they said would carry a “relatively small” performance loss.10 They openly discussed this tension in meetings, pointing to “a trade-off between diversity (adverse impact) and predicted job performance/outcomes,” asking, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”
There is a trade-off between diversity (adverse impact) and predicted job performance/outcomes. How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?
> It's worth noting that Congress has been trying to force the USPS to run itself like a self-sustaining business for decades at this point.

That's the narrative, but this was always a blatant bid to destroy the USPS. There's simply no other explanation.
With artificially high Nvidia GPU costs it could very well be feasible.
Not a lawyer but if I remember correctly the laws don't even require cookie banners, instead they were invented as a hostile implementation of said laws and replicated because people thought they were required.
The president is fascist because he's, checks notes... , relinquishing governmental power by shutting down agencies? I think the only thing people have been habituated to is the enormity of the government; go back to any other point in history, was the government this big in terms of independent agencies, employee/contractor count, budget/debt as percentage of gdp?

Sure the spoils system was bad, but the current iteration where you have hundreds of independent agencies that cannot be fired breathing down your neck with statutory power is fucking insane.
and even more quickly fall apart
We hoped China would grow into a Korea or Japan, instead we got ourselves a Russia.
> Her father, Michael Cochran, born about 1810, started as a laborer and mill worker before buying the local mill and most of the land surrounding his family farmhouse. He later became a merchant, postmaster, and associate justice at Cochran's Mills (named after him) in Pennsylvania

I can’t find more information but I really want to study and understand this kind of upwards movement better. I know there’s a lot of easy commentary on then vs. now but I want to understand the details better. Any decent documentary about walking into a jungle and coming out rich?
The only implementation of E2E RCS is Google's Jibe, which is a proprietary, non-standard version. There is no mention of encryption in the spec other than to say that it's up to carriers to determine. Apple, in contrast to Google's proprietary approach, has offered to work with carriers and the GSMA to define a common set of standards for encryption.
> once the rules changed to have them compete on equal footing for the same position... That's suddenly a problem.

It wasn’t on equal footing, so your entire post is based on either a misunderstanding or you’re just blatantly trolling in which case well done, I totally bit.
1000 lines of perfectly inoffensive and hard to argue against code that you don't need because it's not the right solution is negative velocity. Granted, I don't think that's much worse with LLMs but I do think it's going to be a growing problem caused by the cost of creating useless taxonomies and abstractions going down.

That is to say: I think LLMs are going to make a problem we already had (much) worse.
For the frugal-minded customers, will this be motivation to avoid using the service for the first time that month (and a little sinking feeling when you do)?
That's a significant low ball estimate relative to BLS statistics[1], which pins national median annual wage (circa May 2023 dataset) at $137,380.

For the DC locality specifically, median annual wage is $170,350 with a location quotient of 3.5 (!!)[2].

To be sure, this is just base wage, which explicitly excludes things like holiday premiums, weekend premiums, overtime, shift differentials, bonuses, etc.

This also doesn't include that oh-so-sweet defined benefit pension. The most ambitious civil service employees absolutely love gaming the shit out of this by lateral transfer to a high cost of living locality (e.g. DC metro area) for the last 3 years before retiring (at age 56) and moving to relatively low cost of living areas (e.g. Florida).

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes532021.htm

[2] The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration.
> America needs to build.

Without the needed parts apparently
> sure, making the government smaller is basically the same as putting the government in control of everything.

Come on. A "hostile takeover and dismantling of our democracy" is completely orthogonal to the size of government, before or after the takeover.
Google in 2000: "Do no evil". Google in 2025: "Genocide is profitable". I wonder what Google users outside the US think about this in particular? Our "national security" could be their "national danger" after a single presidential term. Do they want to keep giving Google their money?
Ok, let's focus on the article. Directly from it:

> they concluded the following:

> Snow was the one in the recording Reilly obtained. He explained to people how they should answer the biographical questionnaire. He advertised the telephone conference process via text, emphasizing that it was for members only, and saying things like “If you don’t answer that your friends feel you are well respected you can cancel yourself out of this announcement.” He instructed people to mention that they were NBCFAE members, as he explained it, “so the FAA would know […] this applicant is being groomed […] by an […] FAA-approved and recognized association.” Our organization, he said, “wasn’t for Caucasians, it wasn’t for, you know, the white male, it wasn’t for an alien on Mars,” and he confirmed that he provided information “to minimize the competition.”14
That's a big problem though. They're targeting a class of use cases currently covered by iCalendar family of open protocols[0] and handled by every calendar and e-mail app there is. Because of their narrowed focus on features most relevant to individuals, families and groups of friends, they'll be able to deliver a superior experience there for people on their platform - and they have both enough users and the correct placement in the "tech stack" (unlike e.g. Facebook/Meta or other social platforms, that already tried and failed to pull it off) to break universality of iCal for everyone else.

If this sticks, it won't only screw you or me over as Android users with Apple users in our friends groups. This will quickly bubble up from friend gatherings to community groups and local services businesses. At some point, you'll find that your kids' kindergarten or your stylist or even your doctor starts sending you Apple Invites instead of e-mail invites (.ics), because the Apple variant also comes with a shared photo album. It's actually surprising when you notice just how many appointments could use a shared photo and/or document collection directly linked to them - that part is actually a good idea from Apple. It's just sad that they're weaponizing it instead of improving what already works for everyone.

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[0] - https://icalendar.org/RFC-Specifications/all/
There is a joke that in a modern factory there is only a man and a dog. The man is only there to feed the dog and the dog is there to guard the equipment and make sure the man does not touch any of it.
Now add an option to exclude people and places from showing up ^^`
Reality famously has a left-wing bias. So too, it follows, will the collected writings of humanity. This merely reflects that.
A closer look at the Tanmatsu Palmtop for hackers
I never said it wasn't proprietary, just that Apple doesn't use it currently. It's fine to offer to work with carriers, but for people right now, it's non-viable to use RCS with iMessage.
Don't let hacker news become habituated with politics.
Mercurial is simpler than git. It is (or was) just too damn slow
Transversely (ie non-tangentially) vibing:

1. Other than (perhaps) the above exception, Soviet botany had no use for samizdat, since already realized (by etymology!) by time of great patriotic war (thanks Sv Nikolai (Fedorovich)?) that it was the N/S dichotomy, not the N/J dichotomy*, that needed to be bridged. (Sv Andrei (Nikolaevich))

2. Elon might still figure that he's been solving the wrong problem once serially defeated by the Ancient Enemy (evidently still got the nerd-fox chip weighing heavily the shoulder <= cheating on the gamer rankings)

(the N/J dichotomy (at least), Swiss have already bridged it in aggregate..?)

*N/S= iNtuitive/Sensing pace antiMyers-Briggsists

N/J = Nerd/Jock as usual

Update: returning to the American divide
https://youtu.be/x6d3wUHalPU

Lagniappe
https://youtu.be/jh3kwZ761mo
Corrupting or motivating? Thin line I’d say.

The other side of the coin is you won’t get the candidates you want if they can get the same money for less taxing jobs. Game theory 101.
ΕU is currently handed over to China. There is absolutely no reason to stick with the US. Same as Latin America (bar maybe Mexico).
This is what the parent comment _means_ IMO.

What are you are saying is: optimising for commercial success is incompatible with morality. The conclusion is that publicly traded megacorps must inevitably trend towards amorality.

So yes, they aren't "evil" but I think amorality is the closest thing to "evil" that actually exists in the real world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byg8VZdKK88&t=141s
I’ve provided a list of DEI hiring policies that don’t fit into your list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945302

I said at the top of my thread that the refusal of people in power to engage with criticisms like this thoughtfully has allowed the far right to toxify these debates and I think the downvotes and responses to my comments are minor, but perfect, examples of my point. Instead of discussing the issues and how they should be fixed, the “debate” breaks down into “DEI bad” on your side and “saying DEI bad is racist/sexist/etc.” on the other side.
Kagi used to charge based on the amount of searches you would do. It wasn't x ct per search, but x $ per Y searches.

A lot of people didn't really like that, so they introduced the $10/mo for unlimited. You can still pay $5/mon for 300 searches: https://kagi.com/pricing

I would probably be paying less if I just did cents per search, but I honestly just like unlimited plans, so personally wouldn't get pay per search.

I'm the type of person who does a Kagi search for "5+7" instead of pulling up a Calculator, so I would rack up pretty quickly.
I hate to break it to you, but 2 million people engaged in an endless list of activities that encompasses repairing tanks, making grants, building bridges, supporting citizens abroad, distributing pension checks, performing surgery, making sure airplanes don’t crash and conserving forests is not the same kind of thing as a codebase and requires a different skill set to effect change in.
Hello fellow scientism fan. Happy to meet a person who is surely using the word "asinine" in every day conversations. I wonder how many of the "many steps" were imaginations turned "evidence" such as this one. I would go ahead and examine like I did in the past but I'm saving it for a rainy day, when I'm in the need of good entertainment.
all of latin America added up is only around 10% of US's consumer market size
> The president is fascist because he's, checks notes... , relinquishing governmental power by shutting down agencies?

You do know the president is not supposed to have that power, right? His job is to execute the law, which as currently written requires those agencies to exist.
More importantly you can tell investors you have even more accounts than you do and your churn rate is very low.
You make a good point and those kind of senior engineer skills may be the least affected. My post does not argue against that. It argues that writing code manually may quickly become obsolete.

What I am trying to say is that people who see the output of their work as "code" will be replaced just like human computers did. I believe even debugging will be increasingly aided by AI. I do not believe that AI will eliminate the need for system understanding, just to be clear.

Then again, you might argue that writing lines of code and manually debugging issues is exactly what builds your understanding of the system. I agree with that too, I suppose the challenge will be maintaining deep system knowledge as more tasks become automated.
It is a weird concept for the libertarian mind, but sometimes the goverment power is used to protect people freedoms and rights.
Well they specifically said "renewal" so the business just wouldn't renew them and therefore not cost them any more money.

Obviously some services like insurance or storage don't work like this, though. I don't want to use them, but I want them to be there if I do need them.
Since your response is to call me a liar, I won’t dignify the rest of your comment with a thoughtful reply.
Yea x and YouTube. Also the YouTube meta specifically seems to have moved to these sensationalist over exaggeration and over simplification.
Really would be nice to have a sensibility filter somehow. It’s gonna come with ai.
They do have an expectation of being free from threats against them, which is what was happening on that subreddit apparently.
Frankly, you are both right. We have to protest, because sitting silently is nothing but complicity.

But protests alone almost certainly won't solve this.

There is a 'progression' of boxes in resisting tyranny, and protests are the soap box.
I don't really think it will choke the supply, but only reduce in capacity in short term, for example TSMC Arizona[1] took 4 years to be in produciton. Intel's process is still acceptable and better than China.

Also semiconductor is very complicated manufacturing process not only invovles Taiwan but vendors all over the world, like the light source of EUV is provided by Cymer based in U.S. I don't think China taking over Taiwan would mean they can transfer whatever is there into something productive in any short time as because of supply chain problem. Note that many SMIC's (basically China's TSMC) leadership are actually from TSMC already[2].

[1]https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Mong_Song