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65% of American Firefighters are volunteer.

Funding for Firefighters in the US is usually on the county level. The vast majority of counties in the US are poor as dirt, and can't pay for anything.

Don't ever use an "average" to look at the US. From education to sewers to courts to elections to the DMV to land zoning, the US is 50 different countries. They do wildly different things, have wildly different results, and generally are hard to compare.

Then add the Rural/Urban divide and things become even more bleak. Rural fire departments are usually partially or mostly volunteer forces.

So while Urban fire departments probably pay alright (ignoring that the job is "Run into that burning building and maybe die"), do not mistake that for "Firefighters (in general) get paid well"
I prefer longer daylight in the evenings. Dark mornings don't bother me.
I think that you might be taking that example in bad faith.
A two state solution is never possible when one state keeps expanding with impunity, and every time the second state resists it is called a terrorist state.
My country resisted colonization in the mid 20th century and the resistance efforts were called terrorism by everyone, nobody calls them terrorists now.
It's not just 4 days for a plan. They want 4 more days to even say where he is. They refused last session to disclose it and said they need more time to figure it out.

They don't know where his (living?) body is.
I worked at Raytheon in geointelligence services a long time ago and saw this happen and it wasn't a particular mystery why. Raytheon had acquired a smaller company decades back that handled all the ground processing for US spy satellite collections. This was a small group of like 50 people who'd been working in an extremely niche domain that was also classified and they'd been doing it for 20+ years each.

The government got angsty about being bilked by monopolies and started trying to mandate that contracts be split and awarded to different contractors. The first time they did this, they took the contract away from Raytheon and gave it to Lockheed, who probably felt the way the average reader of Hacker News feels, that surely this was a weekend project that five guys could do for a hundredth the price. It was not. Their solution completed the process of turning raw downlink data into human-legible imagery hundreds of times slower than Raytheon's. The government caved and gave the contract back to Raytheon.

A decade later, they overhauled the entire geoint enterprise to try and modernize it, bringing it to the cloud and using Kubernetes for everything, and did the same thing again. They gave the orchestration contract to Raytheon and the processing algorithms contract to Lockheed, with a rule saying the contracts can't go to the same company. Lockheed in this case just subbed the actual work back to Raytheon. The only way they could really do what the government wants, and have Lockheed employees working on this, is if they hired all the people who currently work for Raytheon, not out of any kind of nefarious underhandedness, but because these are legitimately the only people in the world who can do what they do at the level they do it.
Okay, so the same idea that I spitballed in a sibling thread:

> Btw. wouldn't it be possible in modern pipelines to remap or "disfigure" the texture when converting to triangles, so that it counters the bias accordingly? Ah, but that bakes in the shape of the quad, so it can't be modified runtime or it will get distorted again, right.

How does that work with animated meshes?
They've flipped back and forth over the years, and the length has been tweaked as recently as 2007.

I think that what happens is everyone blames DST, but the real culprit is just that the days are shorter in the winter and there's not much we can do about it.
'Paraparticles' Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle
Making models of the physical world is a lot of work. Can’t they install cameras and record hundreds of thousands of hours of objects getting shot through cannons, birds flying and trees swaying in the wind? Maybe with some more nuclear power plants they could get close to approximating something like Newton’s Laws of Motion (kind of close is good enough, no need to be nerdy about it).
Exactly. And noticing that you might have some degree of ASD, or the like, enables you to also to notice typical symptomatic weaknesses, aside from strengths. Which might not be obvious to you otherwise. Addressing a weakness is much easier once it is identified. ("weird nerd" is too vague a diagnosis)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...". George Washington stressed freedom of religion as a fundamental American principle even before the First Amendment was ratified. Welcome back to the Inquisition. Or perhaps rebirth of the Blockwart ? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blockwart
For northern states it almost doesn't matter, the latitude completely dominates the length of the day.

However I am irked at 'noon' being so far from solar noon year round, that's about the only solid reason to go back to 'standard' time so that at least in the median of timezones that time is approximately the same.

Southern states? Just let people work 8-4 instead of 9-5. This problem is entirely manufactured by trying to change the ruler rather than the prescribed mark points on it.
That aside, if you ask me, the cheapest way is to get rid of US jobs. Remove the US parts so you have a 100% non-US product. 0% tariff so far. For US-only sales have it assembled shipped to a country like Singapore or Australia with 10% tariffs to package and re-label. When you ship from say Singapore to US, the buyer fills in the tariff code with country of origin Singapore. Case closed. 10% tariffs.

I did not ask, but this does not make any sense to me. As per the following article, this trick where the country of origin changes based on assembly only applies to Canada and Mexico, not Singapore or Australia:

https://semianalysis.com/2025/04/10/tariff-armageddon-gpu-lo...

It is unclear how removing U.S. components from products would reduce U.S. tariffs.

Excluding your “remove US components idea”, it is clear to me that China is losing in such a scenario, since they cannot tariff the non-Chinese components anymore and the Chinese components would be subject to tariffs in the country of assembly. To be clear, I do not know to what extent they enforce tariffs on non-Chinese components, but I have read of them placing tariffs imports from other countries, which could affect the components made in those countries.
How does "mainstream" America increasingly get its news?
I think it's funny because the ease of development was one of the reason why the original Playstation had such a wide library of titles. The Saturn and the N64 was hard to get good performance out off due to architectural decisions.
The Starlings' Curious Odyssey
An AI website will look about as unique as a Facebook profile in 2004. Even the most non-technical people can tell a designer "make it look like this other website that I like". An AI won't be able to understand that, because it can't surf the web, locate the site and analyze what makes it good in the eyes of the customer.
I didn't gain direct experience with Cell, but given that description of the tooling, I'm unconvinced that the issue is fundamental to many-core, or that the author's assertion of non-composability holds up under scrutiny. Composition in "flat" processing architectures is, in principle, exactly what is already seen on a circuit diagram. It recurs in the unit record machines of old, and in modern dataflow systems.

That architecture does have particular weaknesses when it is meant to interface with a random-access-and-deep-callstacks workflow(as would be the case using C++) - and CPUs have accrued complex cache and pipelining systems to cater to that workflow since it does have practical benefit - but the flat approach has also demonstrated success when it's used in stream processing with real-time requirements.

Given that, and the outlier success of some first-party developers, I would lean towards the Cell hardware being catastrophically situated within the software stack, versus being an inherently worse use of transistors.
Read. More. Than. One. Sentence. Read the article as a whole, not cut into pieces. Context will let you learn what he meant by "failed", since "failed" can mean multiple things. "At what did the PS3 fail?" is how it should be read and comprehended.
Netflix could probably get enough goodwill by just automatically not charging people who didn't use their service at all as to be worth it. No hassle, we just keep rolling your subscription over until you watch something again (of course they make interest in the month you paid but didn't use services - that $0.05 should pay for the email and other infrastructure costs needed for a customer that doesn't even use the service). The real benefit of this is when someone does watch something there is no hassle - they are already subscribed and so they don't even think about should the re subscribe.

Of course with their ad supported tier they probably don't agree.
Anything you're remotely sending down there is going to be attached to a long wire and rather big. Also navigating tight spaces underwater can be challenging even for a human, in person. Navigating them with a brick remotely is much harder.

Some setups have smaller ROVs launched from another submersible, like ROV ROBIN.
If a human rights org were highly critical of Russia but not Ukraine, is that a bias as well?

Reality isn't politically neutral.
I was talking to one person from the CUDA Core Compute Libraries team. They hinted that in the next 5 years, NVIDIA could support Rust as a language to program CUDA GPUs.

I also read a comment on a post on r/Rust that Rust’s safe nature makes it hard to use it to program GPUs. Don’t know the specifics.

Let’s see how it happens!
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These are people having stronger loyalty to Israel than to the US. Also, would US conpanies employ people with strong ties to Russia, knowing they would suppress any criticism of Russia‘s war in Ukraine? Apparently that’s what these Meta employees with strong ties to Israel did: Suppress any criticism of Israel‘s apparent war crimes in Gaza, for which there are arrest warrants from the ICC.
After having lived in a country for a while that doesn't change its clocks, coming back to a country that still does has emphasised how annoying and archaic changing the clocks is. It also doesn't help that countries don't even change clocks on the same date.

We need to just stop it. After the first year everyone will forget it was even a thing.
The professional matchmaker angle as a contrast is fascinating. The subscription model not only removes the incentive to provide quality quickly -- it reverses it. Doing a worse job is encouraged if you can leverage that to convince people that the future (which is only available by continuing your subscription) is worth waiting for. It's also more attractive because it has smaller up-front costs for the consumer.

It would be an interesting world if we outlawed auto-renewal for services that you need to actively use in order to get any value from them. When you're paying for Netflix, you aren't paying to watch movies, you're paying for /access/ to movies you can watch. The flip side is that the maximum potential service quality would decrease if revenue decreases -- which is also why ad-supported services prevail. If all players are subject to the same rules, that would either end up as a decrease in licensing costs or a focus on quality content over quantity. If they aren't producing exclusive content, they are beholden to the quality of the market. Either way, that should encourage quality content to be made over saturating the market with content.

Unfortunately, pipe dreams will remain pipe dreams.
Also worth checking out is the recent release of RedwoodSDK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43657215
Plausible 3.0.0
> a two state solution was never acceptable to Israel

Wrong, they accepted the 1947 partition plan and agreed to the Oslo accords
One does wonder precisely how many decades (or centuries) have to pass before "desecrating a mass grave" becomes "archaeology" (... "he ruminates while thinking about that fascinating Pompeii exhibit that toured through town one year...").
Trump is attempting to take over American Universities
That sounds like an incredibly annoying way to manage software. I don't have a single thing installed that way.
In this case, part of the criticism is that the phone doesn't function well. Even when it was new, it was slow and clunky, and the issue seemed to be the CPU wasn't up to the task. They may have optimized it a bit since, but fundamentally they chose an under-powered CPU to hit certain open source requirements.

I agree though that for many things (such as their laptop), specs often don't matter. Either I need a high-end, GPU accelerated computer, or I need a terminal. Having the newest CPU doesn't matter if it achieves other desired goals.
A lot of people don't have the freedom to live their lives by scheduling around when the sun is up. Very large swathes of the population are tied to jobs with strict hours that they are required to be physically present somewhere (or at least online) and don't have a lot of room to flex from that. That limits their ability to take advantage of the longer summertime days by just "get up earlier" or "just leave work early" or what-not.

Me, I would love to see DST made permanent for that exact reason: I want the most available daylight after I can leave my job, so I have light for mountain biking, fishing, etc. But that's just me.
The point is your 'question' was really a claim/assertion, and you know it. It doesn't make sense as a question in context otherwise. The claim/assertion has no basis in fact.
Kneecaping the tech used to save lives thru hurricane forecasts - this seems less than ideal.
It's hard to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it how absurd government work can be. I was briefly on the 2020 census project as a sub-sub-sub-contractor.

The Census Bureau has access to IRS data and generated most statistics like unemployment rate for the government. So lots of PII and therefore strict background checks.

All good except that they hired people before the checks were done. And the checks were slow so people were waiting months before getting access to systems.

That's pretty bad, but at the start at least we were in meetings. We couldn't do anything without system access but at least we could get up to speed on the project and provide general advice.

Someone somewhere got word of that and one day there were armed Federal agents outside the offices. No badge = no entry and thus ended our participation at all in the project.

But it did not end our getting paid. I was flying into DC costing $2kish in expenses per week and I think I was being billed out at nearly $8k a week (I got $2.5kish of that). If I tried to do any actual work for that money someone would have literally shot me.

That went on for months because the background checks took that long. There were dozens of us in that situation and several hundred thousand in government money was burned for literally no benefit.

I don't know exactly where that project ended up but it did not get used for the 2020 census.
m68k is nice to work with.

I've never tried Dusk OS m68k port in emulation because of the "dogfooding doctrine" I began enforcing with that port: no other tools than Dusk's. So it only ever ran on a Powerbook 520 (unless people have tried it elsewhere without telling me).

I don't know if it runs on the basilisk emulator. I suspect it's likely that it doesn't because my booting method is highly unorthodox. I don't push the same "buttons" as system7 at all, so it would probably confuse the emulator.

That being said, if the I/Os of your machine are simple, porting to it should be easy. Reach to me if you need help, I'd love to have a second m68k machine to run on.
I cannot read your paywalled Atlantic link, but the other link is an account from an aggrieved ex-employee and should also be taken with a grain of salt.
I'll take "things openai will never have to worry about" for $500, Alex
> Can you explain a) how; b) who these companies and oligarchs are;

Most military defense companies. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon are the main ones. Raytheon makes a ton of money from their work on the Iron Dome. 70% of Israel's weaponry comes from these US companies. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/middleeast/where-israel-get-i...

Sending "aid" does not mean sending cold hard cash. Billions in aid could mean sending that equivalent amount in weapons. They are funneling cash into defense contractors.

> why always Israel and not any other country or mix of countries?

It is not always Israel you just don't look for examples that might prove your world view incorrect. Egypt, South Korea, and smaller middle eastern countries like Jordan receive millions in aid.
To be clear, the construction I’m endorsing is: "were available only in Lisp until recently", which is the construction that my editors typically proposed for similarly ambiguous deployments of "only". The ambiguity in the original placement is that it could be interpreted as only available as opposed to available and also something else. My editors always wanted it to be clear exactly what the "only" constrains.
The US is about 0.05% Israeli, so it's not a conspiracy, but Israelis are certainty a much higher proportion of Meta than most other companies and countries outside of Israel.
I won't shut up about this, because I don't think most people can understand viscerally how much more valuable their time is than almost any other consideration until they've spent a lot of it already. People here obsess about equity stakes, but almost never about opportunity cost, which is what's really killing most of them.

Also? Working your ass off to save a shitty business relationship has a psychic cost. You do not have an unlimited reservoir of relationship energy to spend. If you want to keep doing startups, you need to guard your morale reserves. Wringing yourself out here won't just mess up your current startup (which seems fucked enough already); it can mess up your next one too.
It being only 100 seems kinda low for the size of Meta and how many Israelis live in the Bay Area. There is a very large contingent that lives in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale.

They’re nowhere near as large as the Chinese and Indian population but probably close to third place for largest foreign born tech worker populace in SV.
Sure I quit my co-founded company when I realised I was crashing due to being overworked. Funnily enough after 20 years away I've returned to the original small company and now run it.
Having worked for a government contractor, I decided that the government was using the Charlie Sheen principle: not paying them to come around, but paying them to go away. I have no idea what they billed us for to the government, but I doubt we were getting paychecks equivalent to what the government folk we dealt with got. (To say nothing of benefits.) But I assume that it was far easier to let contractors go.

Actually, the friction of hiring and placing made it relatively hard to let contractors go other than through downsizing. People showed up drunk or stoned, and hung on for a month or two.
The PS4 and beyond is entirely creditable to Mark Cerny who spent a lot of time talking to developers who had spent years pulling their hair out with the PS3.
Well, except for natives (until 1978).
I take it then the courts finding on presidential immunity also supports your view of unambiguous interpretations and the court following public opinion?
It's remarkable to me that people don't realize that markets are - by definition and design - a race to the bottom. A single decision maker may hold up efficiency for ideological purity, but, ultimately, an efficient corporation is leaving 5% profits on the table if mfg costs 5% more.

It's fairly obvious that trade barriers are good and necessary for a country, not sure why we've allowed this to go on for so long. It's truly fascinating.
Meta could start by being transparent when they are asked to take down a post and could be transparent when they comply.
Honey bees do the waggle dance though:

https://animalwise.org/2011/08/25/the-honeybee-waggle-dance-...
RedwoodSDK – a composable framework for building server-side web apps
I know, but for HN purposes, the point I made about titles is the higher-order bit.

Threads like this, at best, waver on the edge of a hell pit. If it plummets in, the discussion won't stay on HN's front page anyhow. Title de-baiting is a way to support having a discussion that doesn't completely suck, to the extent that this is doable.
The Sony-Toshiba-IBM alliance had much grander plans for the Cell architecture, which ultimately came to naught. The PS3 wasn't just a console, it was supposed to be a revolution in computing. As a console, it did alright (though it's still handily beaten by its own predecessor and marginally by its own successor), but as an exponent of the Cell architecture that was supposed to be the future, it failed miserably. Sony yanked OtherOS a couple of years into its life, and while a Cell supercomputer was the first to break the petaflop barrier, it was quickly surpassed by x86 and then Arm.
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I built a tool to help you expand your Japanese and German vocabulary.

You can easily add your own words and then learn them in context.

This is a very early Beta, so we are looking for beta testers.

Excited to hear your feedback!
NGO Monitor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO_Monitor

From Wikipedia:

> NGO Monitor is a right-wing organization based in Jerusalem that reports on international NGO (non-governmental organisation) activity from a pro-Israel perspective

<wikipedia page goes in lot more detail>

I'll trust HRW on this one. No thanks.
Supabase does. It has a spending cap, so you won't wake up to a 100k bill if you get hacked. An app I recently consulted for used fireabase SMS auth. Someone spammed their sign-in page and they were hit with multiple 4-figure charges. Firebase refuses to refund of course. Its a great model until it really, really isn't.
> The October 7th attacks were a gift to Israel's government, so they could gaslight the world into thinking the horrible shit they were already doing was to stop Hamas. What did the village of Masafer Yatta do to them?

This is one of the most disgusting, vile statements I've seen on hacker news.
They’re blowing up children. If I am against that, is that now a bad thing? This is how far we’ve fallen. We have a nation state committing a genocide of an indigenous people and the Human Rights Watch is accused of being biased against the genociders.

“I feel this organization is biased against the Nazi party” is essentially the same sentence.
This is a weird assertion that the author meant "failed to sell consoles" when he simply said "the PS3 failed". He later clarified "failed for developers" literally 2 sentences later.
I think it depends on your perspective. You can think of it as pessimistic or optimistic. An optimistic view would be: There will always be problems, but I can deal with them. Everyone else also has problems. No matter the decisions I made, there is no reason to have regrets.

It helps me to know that the richest, most attractive or smartest person alive has the same amount of problems. It's just part of life and I am happy