An effort to prod Malaysian employers into hiring more locals for white-collar jobs by doubling the minimum salary for foreign staff has caught expatriates cold and stirred anxiety among some firms ov...
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-has-no-areas-of-dryness-first-time-in-25-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698660 Points: 33 # Comm...
The hedge fund manager said central banks were not handling fiat in the same way, warning of a breakdown in the global monetary order....
1968's classic and influential sci-fi film, Planet of the Apes (based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel), spawned a franchise that dominated the first half of the '70s with four more movie s...
Details remains murky regarding the "Board of Peace" on Gaza that US President Donald Trump has invited world leaders to join. "The understanding is that Trump is attempting single-handedly to put int...
Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, of Nicaragua, died of a "presumed suicide" on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, ICE said....
Rural hospital closures limit healthcare for millions of Americans. Thomas Northcut/Getty Images Over `100 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, making it hard for millions to access healthcare. ERs...
Oil industry expert Daniel Yergin argues that the US is desperate to have supply chains independent of China....
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/business/crafting-soars-ai-analog-wellness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671020 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey joined "This Week" amid ongoing protests in his city and a newly launched DOJ probe into his actions....
President Donald Trump announced that the NATO countries who have sent small contingents of troops to Greenland will be charged a 10% tariff on all goods....
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Comptroller Mark Levine wants to separate politics from investment strategy to boost public pension fund...
US President Donald Trump on Friday gave a key role in post-war Gaza to former British prime minister Tony Blair and appointed a US officer to lead a nascent security force. Trump named members of a b...
Using acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase a child's risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability, a major new review published Friday finds....
Experts weighed in on Trump's "Great Healthcare Plan."...
A Pokémon card store in Manhatten has become the latest target for thieves looking to steal merchandise featuring the lucrative pocket monsters — and this time, customers were held at gunpoint. Speaki...
Civilians fled a Kurdish-held region of northern Syria on Friday before a deadline set by the army, which seeks to expand its control over the area after driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo. The govern...
Article URL: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644962 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...