skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You would think, after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries, that the far left would be happy that labor has finally prevailed. But none of them seem to be. You can almost hear them saying "No, no, not that way."

This line is particularly disgusting. Labor has not prevailed. Labor in fact has been crushed by deregulation, union busting, automation, and most importantly globalization. Real wages have been stagnant for over 40 years while the cost of living continues to increase.

Paul Graham is delusional. He thinks that we're all getting richer because 0.01% of the population has the means to start a startup.
What's a good environment that has:

1. interactive file listing and tab completion

2. the ability to run one-off lines

3. the ability to run parts of scripts and build up into a bigger script

Currently I write a lot of small-ish scripts using either bash or bash plus a text editor. I would like to use a less obtuse language than bash, but the interactive part is really important. I don't want a system where I have to run exploratory and test commands in bash and then translate them into a different language, because that means figuring out how to say it twice and doing extra debugging.
biggest advantage of flutter is the amount of time/energy spent in marketing flutter itself. dart is given up by google engineers long time ago. There were time where small amount of ads front end written in angular dart (like 10 pages across 4 applications) and those pages replaced with angular/typescript.

Probably you should go with java/kotlin instead of flutter/dart.
And explain to their shareholders how they burned billions of dollars in brand awareness...
I've been noticing an increasingly bimodal distribution of success among startup founders, at least locally. I see more stories of unbelievably large funding rounds online every day. I read non-stop Tweets about how easy it is to secure funding. Locally, we have a few lucky founders tapping into this easy capital and raising valuations that would have seemed impossible a few years ago.

Yet outside of the lucky few founders securing this money, I see a lot of founders struggling to even get the attention of VCs. I know several otherwise successful local startups with good founders that have been failing to raise for months or even years because they don't fit the mold of a potential rocketship startup. In some ways, having established customers and a working business model with self-sustaining revenue is a negative sign for investors looking for the next 100x investment or quick flip opportunity.
The benefits should go to whoever is responsible for the success of the company. This obviously opens up a political can of worms: the Left will say the CEO can't get anything done without the workers, the Right will say the workers can't get organized without the CEO (eg: what was Apple doing before Steve Jobs came back?). The workers can obviously leave and seek employment elsewhere. So can the CEO.

For better or worse, the data presented in the parent post indicate that the market seems to be increasingly siding with the CEO-side of the above argument. I am not really sure that there's a simple regulatory move that would negate that (eg: you can cap salaries, but CEOs make most of their money from stocks. You might be able to cap how much stock a hired CEO can own, but most of the wealthiest people like Bezos and Zuck are founders).
> But for ElasticSearch you’re stuck with them.

I am a bit at a loss about that statement, you can run Elasticsearch on your on infrastructure
Everything crypto has KYC now days. I highly doubt you can get that mobilecoin in any relevant quantities without disclosing who you are.
I spent a year in Ghana in 2017, and I had the pleasure of meeting numerous software engineers and tech entrepreneurs who were doing extremely high quality work for 1-2k USD / month (if they were lucky). Having companies like twitter on the African continent will provide massive economic opportunity, and social mobility.
Not sure why you're placing so much weight on Epyc outperforming Graviton but discounting designs / use cases where Arm is clearly now better. Plus it's clear that we are just at the beginning of a period where some firms with very deep pockets are starting to invest seriously in Arm on the server and the desktop.

If x64 ISA had major advantages over Arm then that would be significant, but I've not heard anyone make that case: instead it's a debate about how big the Arm advantage is.

Can x64 remain competitive in some segments: probably and inertia will work in its favour. I do think it's inevitable that we will see a major shift to Arm though.
> - Large unicorn startups that are perpetual money losers continue to operate only because they are effectively subsidized by regular capital raises. Look no further than all the Silicon Valley darlings such as Uber, Netflix, AirBnb, Tesla, and so on. All of them would cease to exist without continued capital injection from secondary share offerings or VC raises

You should look up the financial statements of the companies in your list.
I work in healthcare software and recently did a spike building a voice assistant for the EMR. We compared Google, AWS, Azure and Nuance's voice and intent recognition and Nuance blew all the others out of the water. When it comes to understanding medical terminology Nuance is way ahead of anything other providers have.

Dragon has been around for 23 years and has been THE product for VR in the medical field for at least the last 10 years (from my experience).
> It claims the allegations against Minsky are false.

I don't think he did.
And, let's be honest, poverty and poor in the 40's and 50's was very different than poverty and poor in todays imaginations. I'm not saying it's fantastic and that the safety nets are great, but they exist. Especially for single mothers, which weren't thought of in the 40's and 50's. I'm not one who glorifies the 60's, but it did help reproductive rights (which is a big step out of a poverty cycle) and it brought in help for single mothers, from church groups to government.
Indeed, not an expert... but what is a state actor stopping form putting extraordinary resources (say NSA for instance) in mining and minting to gain an advantage? And how bad is that?
As am I. The product is already available on the continent. It'll be great to have locals providing input on shaping it for the local environment and giving their perspective. Plus, hopefully high paying jobs!
This is true for all poisons though. It’s about dose...
Pretty sure dang is not a "volunteer moderator".
PG's articles are like a modern day Siddhartha. He illustrates the glories of growth and change initially, but by the end he illustrates the glories of stability and security.
how can be it instant , the moment i comment , it vanishes , but when i comment on someone else's comment on the same video it shows up and it is not deleted.
That position has slipped precipitously... because corporations like IBM, Google and Microsoft have taken control of open source. They employ a significant number of contributors and enjoy control over a lot of the major projects.
And ever-increasing selfishness and greed.
It's always worth measuring/understanding your application because likely it's not "half" but skews heavily one way or the other (in vs out).
> It's easier now to start and grow a company than it has ever been.

Arguing that, due to being easier now to start and grow a company, more wealth gets created, is "conveniently" seeing only one [the positive] side of the coin. Because, considering the alarmingly low ratio of success in the startup world, growth in the overall number of startups also means growth of startup failures (which often means destruction of wealth, however small, instead of its creation). But, for obvious reasons, VCs don't like to talk much - at least, publicly - about it ... And this essay is just one more example of that trend.
If the utility of money is a suitably concave function, those two become much more similar.

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2021/3/28/extreme-poverty-i... makes a good case that poverty and inequality are quite related historically, too.
Did you forget the /s? This sounds like you just read the first chapter of a book on the semantic web (SW) from the 90s and how great ontologies are and how they'll CHANGE EVERYTHING. The SW folks have been hyping this stuff for years. It sounds great until you begin to see the practical realities around it and it starts to look a little less, shall we say, "magical" and more like a huge pain in the ass.
I'm rather disappointed PG would think that the Forbes wealth list could support any kind of conclusion whatsoever. One of the biggest reasons that the top of the list is filled with tech billionaires is that their wealth is relatively transparent, being mostly in the form of stock holdings in publicly traded companies and often directly disclosed. This makes it much easier for Forbes to estimate their net worth with some degree of confidence. Older wealth is often more opaque and diffuse, hidden behind various complex financial structures or stored in assets that are difficult to value or rarely change hands. Whether Forbes is aware of how much wealth there is and in what form, depends largely on the desire of the possessor to make it known. Some would want to disclose (or even inflate) their wealth for ego or branding reasons. Others would likely prefer to remain off the Forbes list altogether. So the Forbes list is a poor starting point even for a discussion soley about the wealthiest people. To draw any kind of inference from it to the broader economy is just downright ridiculous.
> John Doe stacking pallets at the Coca Cola factory really won't produce much better top or bottom line results for the business if you offer him a stock bonus. His forklift only drives so fast.

A counter-perspective would be that John Doe becomes incentivized to improve efficiency and innovate in the process. People are not machines or primitive animals. Humans are capable of creative problem-solving.

Note: stock options are not stocks. You're not given a share in the company, you're given the opportunity to invest in the company. You have to put money in to _potentially_ get money back.
He was rich enough not to need more money before starting YC-the acquisition price for viaweb was $49M, and it roughly ~10x'd between then and the peak in late 1999. (cites: https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-buys-viaweb-for-49-million/ https://venturebeat.com/2008/10/08/as-other-tech-stocks-rall... ). I don't know how long he spent there or what fraction of the company he still held, but I'd assume that he'd have stayed long enough to get to his personal Fuck You Money.

More generally, I know many many people (maybe literally tons by weight?) who continue to work long after they don't need to, usually because they're just deeply interested in the domain. I've seen this up close with my father, who continues to farm at 70, and with some founders who keep founding despite having more money than they will ever need. So when someone in that situation says they work on a thing because it is interesting to them, I generally believe them.
Yeah I don't remember how I found about this, but I remember it involved some `console.log(JSON.stringify(...))`. It's tricky to notice.
Biden names 2 ex-NSA officials for senior cyber positions
It's hard to see this in any other way but the standard bend-the-knee campaign to make every single person subservient to woke-ism.

It doesn't matter who. Everyone must be made to pledge allegiance with the usual creeds, and repeat the platitudes.

It's authoritarianism plain and simple.
I would be suspect of reviews in general - you'd need to find a group of experts without bias (if you want a review of the technical aspects) or of fans who have had enough time to "digest" both versions.

Amusingly enough someone like Apple could get answers over time by watching play counts of both for people who have both versions.
I think you just won this thread. Seriously, I agree very much with your sentiment. The question isn't so much about the very latest-and-greatest new technologies per-se, but rather about the applications of technologies that are quite often fairly old. That's not to say that there isn't really cool stuff just over the horizon, but as you say, we really need better applications more than more new tech.

And sometimes the tech we need is "out there" and has been for a while, but just hasn't hit "critical mass" yet.

Take @kroltan's answer. I am also extremely bullish on RDF, Wikidata, and the like. But most of this stuff is pretty old now, especially in "Internet years". Which leads, of course, to the question of where the line is between incremental refinement of "old tech" and actual "new tech" as a discrete thing.
United Therapeutics is trying to "3D print" human kidneys. I pray that they succeed at this venture. It will be yet another world-changing endeavor for Rothblatt. If you aren't familiar with Martine Rothblatt, listen to this interview with Tim Ferriss: https://tim.blog/2020/12/16/martine-rothblatt/
This should interest you then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_out_nines

I think you are seeing the result of there being 86400 seconds in a day. Dividing them out gives you results that are evenly divisible by 9.

* (/ 86400 9)
9600
* (/ (/ 86400 24) 9)
400
* (/ (/ 86400 60) 9)
160

So it's pretty hard to avoid reaching 9 with numbers that cycle in base 24 (hours) and base 60 (seconds/minute and minutes/hour) together.

For example, there is this connection that looks like a coincidence until you think it through:

* (/ 86400 60)
1440
* (* 24 60)
1440

And of course, casting out 9's there produces your favourite number yet again:

* (+ 8 6 4 0 0)
18
* (+ 1 8)
9

* (+ 1 4 4 0)
9
Really great move by Twitter. There's lots of amazing programmers in African countries like Ghana and Nigeria, but not enough employers are taking advantage. I suspect Twitter will be the first of many companies to start hiring in the region.
Alcohol makes us lose balance, but heavy water has the opposite effect. Could a 'heavy' gin and tonic get us drunk but keep us upright?

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-last-retort/30055...
Agreed. If entity A makes billions of dollars by selling everything they know about you, and entity B makes billions of dollars by merely knowing everything they know about you, I much prefer entity A. Entity B and its investors terrify me with the confidence they have in the future returns on that knowledge.
If the sum total of the wealth you are trying to hide is a in the thousands, you aren't who the government is concerned about. At least, not enough for policy changes. So, while cash is likely far more prevalently use in crime, you're talking about the huge long tail of low level drug dealers and smugglers, not the oligarchs and money launderers.

Deposited/electronic money tends to be necessary when you hit a million plus. At that point cash sucks and is super risky to hold.
Yes, not only good old Rawls, but many contemporary writers make arguments about the limits of meritocracy. Some books I can recommend:

Robert H. Frank: Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167404/su...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/06/28/book-rev...

Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/books/review/the-tyranny-...
If you were a CEO and your board & investors thought you were worth $50M a year, presumably you would decline that out of selflessness and insist upon a much more reasonable living wage?
Any recommendations on places to visit and stay for someone thinking of spending a few months in Africa to better understand the region? Likely this summer/fall (Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Ethiopia are high on my list as I've done minimal traveling in the region outside the south).
World’s Eight Richest People Now Worth $1T
HN has always felt rather US-centric and IMO it really reflects in the response that this type of news gets.

For Twitter, increasing its international presence and talent pool is a big win. The community stands to benefit in the opportunities the tech giant can provide.
>for most people in tech

The majority of people in tech do not work in Silicon Valley or even US tech hubs for that part. Friendly reminder entire continents across either side of the US coast by with less than 15% of that number and would live extremely comfortable lives with just the 100k that often gets tossed around here.
Damn. Of course. Kinda game changer.
Can you please not be snarky on HN and please generally stop posting in the flamewar style?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please note this guideline too: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." I don't think there's a plausible interpretation of the GP comment as being "all in his face"—it was responding to a general question raised by the specific drama, which seems within the intended use of this site. Maybe it's a bad point, I don't know—certainly if you think it is, you're welcome to say why—just not by being snarky or by accusing another user unfairly, which I think you've done in both this comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26780092.

Also, re that last one, please note the site guideline about not using allcaps for emphasis. It's not the most important point but it makes a significant difference to the threads.
... and people continue to use the platform

I imagine that the number of people who even hear or read about these privacy leaks represent a minuscule fraction of the user base.

And of those that are aware of these leaks, a small fraction are concerned about internet privacy.
How to cope with personal challenges when working remotely
No matter what life throws at you, I hope these strategies can help you too.
It already is. You cant buy one without KYC. Unless you go to "dark" places where you may or may not get scammed.
Unless you already have cryoto then ofc you can exchange it but most people need a fiat on-ramp.
Anyone here with insight on how this positions relative to fly.io? (Besides having vastly greater resources backing the effort)
First Flight Helicopter on Mars – Ingenuity
A fitting tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGFz5JkLzw8
But only because perl was chosen as the default non-C language for postgres build system stuff maybe 20 years ago...
> You have deep issues

Thanks for the personal attacks. Highly appreciated /s

> The difference is in the quality of care as gov run hospitals have much tighter budget constraints and can't treat patients with as much delicacy as private medical institutions.

Yet somehow places such as Singapore, Thailand and Japan manage to provide top notch healthcare even in government institutions, healthcare that is much better than most private European hospitals.

And yes, my point was exactly about how a not insignificant number of people in Europe seem to think that their healthcare comes for free (because they don't pay tax for a variety of reasons).
Efficient and Safe Allocations Everywhere
It's not clear that the first two even had direct contact with RMS and they don't even make any serious allegations. Barely anyone cares that RMS had a mattress in his office, lots of people at MIT have done that, and nobody is even making the allegation that anything inappropriate happened beyond him having it and him sleeping on it alone. The third is socially awkward and bad behaviour but it happened almost 40 years ago.

Even if I accept that these quotes are an accurate portrayal of events that happened, I'd expect you to have more damning evidence to support canceling someone that has been extremely important in this industry for over 50 years.
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Finances are generally a big cause of divorces. Have you considered that upper-class couples have low divorce rates because they have money? Rather than they are upper-class because they don't get divorced.

Don't get me wrong, divorce is a massive destroyer of wealth. But happy couples don't generally get divorced. And financial stability is a big contributor to happiness.
Many people would, but I assume they wouldn't be considered CEO material.
Yosys and open source FPGA toolchains.
I think FPGA are vastly underrated and hard to use because of tooling and this is promising in changing it.
Here's Anandtech's article on the previous Neoverse V1/N2 announcement: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16073/arm-announces-neoverse-... arm weren't saying anything official but Anandtech did a little digging and reckons V1 is SVE 1 and v8 and N2 could be Armv9 with SVE 2.

I'd suspect NVidia would be using the V1 here as it's the higher performing core, but not way to be certain.
We do not know of any, either in humans or animals.
> Now, would the journalists who wrote articles with titles that are a variation of "RMS defended Epstein" [1,2] apologize or at least correct their articles?

If it does not create outrage or get any clicks, they have no incentive to do it. It's not like journalists have a conscience.
I don’t understand your comment. Firefox and Chrome both have actual debuggers as well, but many times console.log is a faster way. What are the deficiencies you speak of?
anyone know if OpenSearch still uses "/" as a special character? Largest pita when trying to use ES for logging web applications and quite frankly, made it near unusable.

If Amazon fixed that, I would be firmly on their side. Also, any improvement over Kibana would be welcome.
The gist of your original comment was that life has been getting better for everyone. But if you also claim people need to adjust their expectations downward, then some things are not getting better for everyone.

I know that people from the 50s to the 80s didn't have internet, healthcare technology, medicines, smartphones, etc like today. But obviously there is something to be said for the stability or utility of knowing that your children will most likely have a better future than you did, and the demise of this fact (or belief) is causing friction in society.
This text is so exactly what I thought he should write, based on my understanding of him. It is 100% sincere and made me happy.
If white supremacists will start celebrating South Park tomorrow, or it will turn out the scenario authors there are white supremacists, would it instantly make everyone quoting South Park "blatant racists"?

Your comment seemed to imply that, which made me feel a strong revulsion.
The feigned surprise in the Feinstein quote is just priceless. Someone her age knows full well this was how things were done back then.
ok. But then they're using cash from the business to get the share count back down to prior levels, and it's still a net loss for Icahn. There are only 100 percents. If the management team gets more ownership through dilution, it means Carl Icahn owns less.
No. They don't. I think my question was objectively straight forward too. who pressures the US to do anything?

So either you're trolling me and pretending geopolitical hierachy doesn't exist or you may think my question is stupid. Either way...
I find it incredible that someone can code up a strategy for deploying an investment vault, the community, which operates as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), can decide to vote on it, and two days later, people can start investing money into it and earning interest - no middleman or manager involved. The investment vault will deploy the capital in different protocols based on the strategy outlined (and voted on by the DAO) automatically.

The automation smart contracts can bring about is scary.