skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> value is disproportionately captured by the already wealthy

value is generated using both capital from the already rich, and labour from the poor.

Over time, labour isn't increasing in productivity. It's capital that's increasing productivity, such as by improving labour's efficiency.

With this in mind, why is it that the rich shouldnt be the ones to capture the new/increased productivity? After all, it is their investment that would make such productivity possible. If you had told the rich that their investments would not actually gain them profit (because labour captured the increases that produces the profit), they would not have invested in the first place.

One way to break out of this cycle is for labour to provide something more than unskilled labour and merely using capital to produce goods/services. For example, research and development, knowledge/skill from education, etc.
this is so dumb. software engineers / developers etc program computers. so they are programmers. what has this world come to
Right. Not enough coffee when I commented
How can a Palo Alto house be worth only $2M? Or SBF’s parents had only $2M worth of equity on the house?
It's really not. Go visit Los Angeles. Or Las Vegas. Even the freaking Washington Post was complaining. Washington. In 2015.

I'm not going to argue definitions of a "good cocktail bar" but the point is, they ain't cheap these days.

And a karma tip, if a drink is $15-16 pre-tip, you should not consider that drink to cost "under $20"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/gulp-howd-we-g...
Had a lot of spammers with Russian language. Implemented expanding xml-bombs, Google Captcha, hidden input fields and a couple of other things against bots.

But the block on the russian language was most effective ( and since I was dogfooding it, I didn't see the harm at the time. But it's out of scope at this very moment, yes).

Disabled it.
It’s kind of like pre-nuclear steel that way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
How would that work for password similarity?

If they’re using some special hash algorithm that retains most of the information of the original password and allows them to determine that “password1” and “password2” are similar and “blahblah7” is not, their approach is hopelessly broken too.
My dad read me The Hobbit as a bedtime story starting from kindergarten. It was the first non-picture book I ever read.
Depends in my experience people see still mad at you for being unique and can't handle a single thing. But that's my own experience and those people are different from Ycombinator.

People are over here are really great, unique and nice. This is the best website for me. There's nothing else I can think off.
Are people in the EU not surveilled?
> Keeping someone from practicing medicine if they won’t get a degree is not gatekeeping by anyone’s definition.

It's gatekeeping that we all pretty much agree is a good thing, but it's still gatekeeping.
> we don't actually make "incredibly informed decisions".

the original argument differentiates between "can" and "do".

It is a form of "victim blaming" - they could've made good decisions, but because they didnt, the outcomes they had were "self-inflicted".
FFMPEG is in there too, of course! Such a powerful tool.

https://youtu.be/9kaIXkImCAM humor
Hey, a topic I know something about! I've done something similar to this: "tightening" text to resist wrapping but not prevent it. I'll describe:

A subtle feature of OS X since its early days (but possibly not anymore) is that if you had something like a window title or a filename in Finder's column view, and you made the window or column smaller, before cutting off the text, OS X would shrink the letter spacing (and possibly other metrics) by a barely perceptible amount, so that the text could still fit. I always thought that was brilliant.

One day I was working on a very design-forward web project and wanted the same thing. Occasionally, text would wrap when it really only needed a few pixels of wiggle room to stay on one line. Thus, react-typesetting and a <TightenText> component were born: https://exogen.github.io/react-typesetting/

Eventually I realized it would be neat to make work with variable fonts (and their arbitrary axes) as well. Check out this demo: https://react-typesetting-alpha.surge.sh

I haven't touched or thought about this in a while, but I still think there's an interesting blog post to be made there about how it's done!

An interesting fact I learned about professional typesetting (and justification) is that, in order to justify lines, books don't just shrink the letter and word spacing: they also squish the characters themselves (in CSS this can be done with a scaleX transform). I guess my eyes have actually noticed this when reading books before, but I found it surprising because I always thought of the letterforms themselves as sacrosanct, and any distortion would be unacceptable. But it turns out, in almost every book you've ever read, 2–3% squishiness is perfectly acceptable.
If you use django rest framework, it's a subset that covers flask.
NuttX is what you get if you ask “what would a POSIX runtime for small computers look like?”. Where most RTOS things (few of which are realtime at all, but whatever) emphasise hardware abstractions / device models etc., NuttX accepts that peripherals are hopelessly device-specific, and use of peripherals is usually hopelessly application-specific, and so doesn’t kill itself trying to have complete peripheral support for everything.

What it does have is a lot of the sort of infrastructure you need to build moderately to very complex applications, and an enormous supported device base. It also depends on essentially zero third-party code (there are a bunch of contributed / 3p feature libraries).

tl;dr - NuttX is kind of old-school, but it is lovingly maintained by some really nice people to quite a high standard.

https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/introduction/about.html
Quite a few of us got our start by writing for PC Mag. Don Box offered me a job at DevelopMentor on the basis of having read an article I wrote on ATL in PC Mag on the flight up to Microsoft to attend the COR design review in 1997 (the tech that the COM team was building that would pivot to became .NET years later). I wound up owning COM at Microsoft over a decade later.

There was a wonderful community of people who made PC Magazine happen. It was fun to see their names in the credits to some of those issues. I even got a chance to meet them in person one time I was in NYC on business, sadly after they moved out of their iconic 1 Park Avenue offices.
However, the outcome of such a system would be that there's more stuff than ever at the yard sale. Things that didn't previously exist.

Therefore, the fact that new options exist at the yard sale is itself a form of wealth.
-- over here in Korea we have everyone beat for unhealthy alcohol consumption --

https://www.themonsoonproject.org/a-sobering-look-at-south-k...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoesik

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2016/2/7/the-country-...
That's not what someone giving even this poor interview question would answer with. It's also not true.

These interview questions are fairly shit, but they're not _that_ shit, and the people giving them are doing their best.
A New Paradox of Deontology
You can avoid brute force attacks by rate-limiting password guesses.
Iran’s Online Crackdown Prompts Smuggling of Starlink Kits
If I prompt it, it actually comes up with a decent function:

def is_prime(element):
"""Returns whether a number is prime."""
if element < 2:
return False
if element == 2:
return True
if element % 2 == 0:
return False
for i in range(3, int(math.sqrt(element)) + 1, 2):
if element % i == 0:
return False
return True

Of course, if you ask it to keep generating past that there's the usual slow descent into madness.
Don't forget the interviews!
> Rotating passwords is an old idea but mathematically it does reduce the probability of bring compromised.

Please can you show your work.

Most websites limit the attempts per user per time, which should make direct request break-ins unrealistic to mathematically impossible. So now we move the needle to "Your user database has been stolen, someone is trying to break hashed + salted passwords" which is such a problematic scenario for so many other reasons (e.g. unencrypted password recovery information stolen, PII stolen, and social engineering information verification info stolen) that rotating user's passwords weeks-months later is such wishful thinking.

Like, I legitimately don't get it. It was created in the late 1980s by people who just did what sounded right, and we've been stuck with it for over thirty years because change it hard.
How easy is it to translate word by word like that? I was under the impression that generally it is hard because different languages have different word orders. Is it not necessary to have the whole sentence before starting? (Or maybe Polish is just conveniently similar to English in word order?)
there's other types of solar than just residential rooftop solar. large scale solar installations can be built hundreds of miles from the cities they serve.
Cool... niche forums and social groups are a good thing but the world is increasingly lived on the internet and that has a big ripple effect even in real life.

The people who are raised on hypermodded Subreddits (and a hypothetical world where super constrained Mastadon servers replace Twitter/FB/<=2012 internet forums and comment threads) are not being taught to tolerate other opinions in their family, workplace, at universities, and high schools. And today much more broadly to newspaper columnists, blog platforms, Patreon accounts, Paypal/Mastercard merchant accounts etc, etc.

This isn't merely about which communities you opt-in and choose to follow. The market options to opt-in to are continually constrained and limited.

You see these same pressures exponentially being applied to everything, not just niche opt-in communities. It's a new culture of intolerance for the greater good. Guilt by association and zero nuance outrage campaigns.

Our culture is developing a zero tolerance policy to dissent and anything outside the Overton window. The only people I see how have no problem with this are people who:

A) have boring non controversial opinions or simply don't care

B) their ideologies happen to fit squarely in the overton window

C) generally don't participate in public discourse and are unaware of recent cultural developments... Or are simply naive they can't see the danger in slippery slopes where increasingly more moderate ideas get treated like Gaellio and blasphemy against God, but the mainstream safe culture is the new religion.

The "push a button to silence dissent" thing is what is expanding everywhere. Family dinners and IRL parties are one of the few bastions of tolerance but even that won't last long if the current culture continues.
Glasgow Interface Explorer – Production Has Started, Slow but Steady
Ah great analogy, yes, that is exactly what it is.
When is his next interview.

Per "tech" nonsense, SBF is continually portrayed as some sort of genius "executive", but he had no clue how to run a business, he's now broke, getting arraigned in federal court and his parents are bailing him out. If his parents' house has a basement, he will now be in it playing video games.

Will the judge call him "brilliant" as in the Holmes sentencing.
Support response is one to remember.
The article seems to look at individual ride payoffs, but what proportion of the total comp is actually in driver bonuses?

https://www.lyft.com/driver/bonus

I have no idea and would like to hear any experiences people have.

Edit: some simple math that assumes this ad page is representative. Author did 100 rides for $1110. Meaning about $11 per ride. Ad shows examples:

$5 for 4 rides (~10% of pay)

Or (and?) $120 for 20 rides. (~50% of pay!).

This sort of makes sense if you want to disproportionately reward highly available drivers over infrequent drivers.

The article says that lyft charges $30 to connect riders to drivers but really it’s $30 to maintain a system where drivers are there, and then connect them.
Reminded me of Block Bench which I saw a thread on a couple weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33845291
If you keep thinking you will screw up, chances are you probably will.

So stop thinking how you will screw up, and start thinking how you will succeed. Imagine yourself being successful one year from now and then imagine all the things you did to become successful. Go into details, write it down. Re-read it every time you start believing again you will screw up.

It’s like driving a car, you have to watch where you want to go, not where you don’t want to go. Because in both situations you will end up exactly there.

I’ve been in this situation myself, and learned this the hard way. So I hope this helps you avoid making the same mistake.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of SQL are doomed to re-implement it… poorly.

SQL-92 is no longer the baseline. Now we have CTEs, laterals, graph queries, JSON storage, system versioning, and more within a reasonably concise DSL for set theory.

And even more showing up all the time like function pipelines.
https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...

SQL is the Rodney Dangerfield of programming languages. It don't get no respect!
Ukrainian Steals $25k Bitcoin from Russian Dark Market and Gives to Kyiv Charity
> so generally speaking 'generate an entirely application' one-step models currently don't exist.

This already exists. People have created full apps in ChatGPT by doing this. Many examples online.
it's too reductionist to attribute luck to all of those factors imho.
I'm definitely eying the Framework the day I don't need to do iOS development.
> do they really deserve a billion dollars?

yes, as long as they did not undertake an illegal action to obtain that wealth.

The employees that enabled the wealth creation is surely paid, and not coerced into the deal.
This is super cool! It works well on my M1 Mac.

The example switching seems to be buggy: once I switch on the sound, it cannot be turned off.

BTW I am also developing a music programming language here:
https://glicol.org/

It also works as a NPM library for building synth/music apps in browsers:
https://glicol.js.org/
I know passphrases are better. But, the problem is there's much more to type every time you want to unlock your computer. And thus also many more chances to make a typo.

Of course there's TouchID and Windows hello but they don't work if your laptop is closed in a dock. Or in my case a Mac mini at home.

This is why I still stick to the truly random sorry password, I have no issues remembering arbitrary strings for some reason :)
> Has to do with Musk: yes, it's his family

No, it had to do with Grimes, with or without Musk, with or without kid. She was the target and she's no longer Musk's family.
It other words, you're not caching/reusing you regex patterns?

I think I see the cause of one of your recurring performance problems.
CVS' Diabetes Scheme
ChatGPT caused 'code red' at Google, report says
If you're in it for the long haul (1-2 years), I'd recommend working through the recommendations in https://www.teachyourselfcs.com/. The Algorithms part, the Networks part and DDIA all have a very high return on time invested.
There are only really two types of passwords: Passwords for online accounts and passwords used to encrypt things.

Imagine the password for my Gmail is Watermelon45. Theory says that's super weak, but I'm not a watermelon farmer and I wasn't born in 1945 so nobody who knows me is ever going to guess it. I trust Google will effectively block against brute force attacks by rate limiting login attempts, and if Google is breached and the password cracked as long as I'm not reusing it somewhere else it doesn't matter.

Now if I encrypt my portable SSD with the same password that is a problem. It would be trivial to brute force. So external storage, computer logins, ssh keys are perhaps examples of the very few situations where high entropy passwords are actually useful. For everything else which is 95% of passwords, easy to remember but unique is fine.
Some only ship within the country, listing the shipping cost directly. Others link to their page listing the shipping costs, which could be e.g. having costs for each country with a "free if over XX EUR" note.
Just learn from these lessons. Don't blame them for dishonesty, even if they are not truthful to you. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
I guess you guys have some firmer land up there. Here if it isn't pure swamp, its limestone which water has no problem passing through, hence no basements in most locations.
It's close enough. I'd expect last mile delivery to be the biggest cost driver anyways.
Sorry to be brutal...

Yeah, your post seems mean-spirited and unhelpful.

I keep up as well as I can with a wide variety of people and some portion of people fall off the map. I keep up enough to know that many of them are in a spiral of isolation and despair that characterizes the present era. Sure, some might not have valued me personally but many "just can't" keep up with friendships generally and suffer from this.
Oh dear, yeah, the UI has been dystopian. The cryptic errors, the lack of feedback to let you know if things completed, links to partner websites with absolutely broken pieces of critical information (I couldn't get a prescription list, went to their partner website, and not only did the link not work, but the feedback form also had errors so I couldn't even get help/report it)

If this is how critical pieces of software, the ones that sustain life (albeit in an indirect, societal way), will continue to be written, we'll be fucked.

And yeah... Flint was a disaster. It seems like every city around here has its own little ecological disaster. Ann Arbor with the PFAS/PFOS, St Clair River with the no swim warnings, etc...
Then there's something else at work here that is not in evidence.

For example, were they granted a legal monopoly?
It's been a few years.
And while the folks who are interested in web typography are here: here's another neat experimental demo: river detection in JavaScript: https://twitter.com/ua6oxa/status/1256734388072574976
Excellent book! I was only about 25-30 pages into the first edition when it all finally clicked for me. I've never feared a regex since.
There is progress toward the goal. For example determining molecular and tissue markers of aging, research in mice, all the work funded by SENS Foundation and soon LEV Foundation, findings that for example giving blood from young mice to old mice restores some aspects of youthfulness, and so on.
Thats a $2 - $4 million house with $1 billion in the basement?

Alameda Research loaned $1 billion directly to Bankman-Fried: https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-received-1-billion-in-per...
Some apps just offer both, and even auto-detect. So if your phone is de-googled, the app will use UP, if it has the Google Services it will use that. For some apps it is available in the settings.

So yeah, the app has to support it, but the user can choose then.
My PC-porn mag of choice was PCW (or "Personal Computer World" if you prefer). I used to hang around the computer-room at school in the eighties waiting for break time when the CS ("Computer Studies" not Computer Science :) teacher delivered it.

I now have PDF's of a lot of those issues, and I even found them useful. I'm having some fun writing a toy compiler for the 6502, and the "Subset" pages have turned out to be a treasure-trove of 6502 assembly language :)
It seems like it would be an exceptionally bad idea for him to use hidden funds to get someone to pay his bail - he's being watched.
I think part of the magic is still lost, as we used to be very open source and free centric. These days it's all based on paid API calls.
I have multiple irreversible-damage experiences with linux too (not bsods, but think of updates and/or nvidia drivers). Even 18.04 to 22.04 transition on one of my older vpses failed recently despite absolutely default setup. I’m fine with MSYS2 as a unix-like env.
That’s an interesting idea. It’s a tough ask, too: they have to get familiar with the code and then find the logic error. That’s quite the puzzle.
I have been using NTFY for months, love it!
This pretty closely describes how/why I usually drink as a dev.

While sober I can function socially more than well enough to get along in the day to day without issue, but it’s much much smoother if I’ve had some alcohol (but not too much).

I also tend to focus more squarely on my conversation partner when I’m buzzed, whereas sober my head is all over the place, plus I don’t get bored with the conversation or lose energy to converse as easily.

Since beginning to work from home I’ve had very little to drink, averaging 0-2 beers per month. It’s really a social thing.
Regarding venting the overpressure hydrogen gas outside instead of inside - was that rejected in detail?

Besides, my experience is that engineers do not think of these things until after the fact. Have you noticed them in any academic book on engineering? I've never noticed them in any, nor in any software engineering book.
I too do not do these things on my "smart" phone.
why was pledging some/all of the equity of their $4m home enough?

or is it that two secret rich people put up much more and the parent’s house thing is basically a distraction?
comparing percentage profit is meaningless.

At low monetary amounts (like 10 euros), it's easy to make 1% profit. At high monetary amounts like 1 million, it's quite hard to get 1% profit - much harder than at 10 euros.

Therefore, to quantify the risks, the absolute amount invested must be compared, not just the return %. At $1 million, they took 100,000 times more risk than the $10 investment.
I know, it's just how it works for most countries, because most countries are smaller than the US and often the national post offices have a mandate to treat remote parts the same way as the more accessible parts.
For 44B Elon could have been man of the century if he had just flooded the world with starlinks. Though if he did and he somehow broke the Chinese Great Firewall it’s be horrible for him and Tesla me thinks.
Wow, didn't expect to see this on HN! Creator here, happy to answer any questions :)
irrelevant if what you need the energy for is making methanol to run your tanks and missiles on

somewhat relevant, but not overwhelmingly, if what you need the energy for is running the tank and missile factories; solar intermittency just means you can only run the factories for one shift instead of three, so your capacity is three times as expensive

but historically many factories have only run one shift most of the time anyway so clearly this is not an overwhelming factor

being able to use processes that your competition would find outrageously inefficient because you can afford orders of magnitude more energy is a bigger advantage

think of victorian-era industrial-revolution britain against the zulus
Why? Is it because you think Rust code in the kernel is memory safe?
How Do You Protest in the Face of Censorship? An Empty Sign
send them a letter

perhaps better, hire a lawyer to do so
I dont think I've ever seen a Diners Club/Carte Blanche in my lifetime, with a DC/CB number, most of those are issued as Discover or Master Card now.
They are saying that the thing you are talking about right now is saturated - but positions that authentically need that level of expertise are not.
None of these tools are programming languages or mainly programming languages, except Visual Studio, which you can easily use free.

The point isn't that nobody pays for any kind of software. I mean, we could whip out enterprise software as an example. "Hey, the company I work for pays 700K per year for SAP support; whatddya mean $500 will kill a programming language tool?"