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The first African-American patent holder was the inventor of Dry Scouring, the precursor to Dry Cleaning.

The Man Who Wasn’t There is just a movie, making the original inventor even more of a Man Who Wasn’t There in popular perception…sadly…

https://www.thoughtco.com/thomas-jennings-inventor-1991311
I would imagine it has a lot to do with how wealthy the family was. It's easier for a single generation to waste 50 million than it will be for them to waste 50 billion.

Family sizes are also much smaller so the split of the inheritance will result in larger starting wealth for each generation.
Or more realistically, the matter of the politicians and media narratives you can buy.

For $50 million a year you can run a good few think tanks and make a good few campaign donations.
> Does this account for all the extra space being created

As I have pointed out upthread, the GP's "theory" is not correct, so it doesn't account for anything.

"Expansion of space" is just a consequence of the overall spacetime geometry of the universe, which is due to its overall average matter distribution (and to dark energy, which is what is causing the expansion to accelerate).
If you think about it in terms of what kind of income you would make off interest of ~3% of the principal it’s easier to understand the difference between someone with 5 million vs say 50 and 500 million.

It’s the difference between $150k, $1.5 million, and $15 million dollars in yearly income. At 5 million you can decide to not work but you are only really able to afford an upper middle class lifestyle. Depending on where you lived that might be a working class income these days. So there is a massive difference across the spectrum of multi-millionaires.
That may be, but don’t call a neighboring time zone “friction”.

I grew up next to Indiana, a state notorious for screwing up their time. (Scroll down to “History” and each decade for past 70 years.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana
As a quick solution, you should try recording yourself speaking and then listen to it to check your pronunciation against some reference. So for example, find a YouTube video in the language you're learning that also has good subtitles (use https://filmot.com/ ) and listen to how they say the phrase and then record yourself saying the same phrase and play it back and compare.
The fact that the brits won the war doesn't make the Argentinian claim on the Falklands less valid.

> you Venezuelans

I'm no Venezuelan.
When it comes to Christmas songs, I'm afraid you will have to prise Slade from my cold dead fingers
How has TTS gone too far?
You really don’t need any kind of fancy AI algorithm to associate different keyframes with different areas of the photo. This could be done using any number of standard computational photography techniques based on straightforward criteria such as exposure, motion blur, etc. etc.

For this reason I’m skeptical of your claim that ‘HDR in older phones would have only merged/blended the images resulting in ghosting…or blurring’. Even if we assume this is true for the sake of argument, you undermine your own point here, as ghosting and blurring are also distortions of reality. You’re apparently ok with a photo showing a person with ‘more than two arms’, but not ok with a photo combining slightly different time-slices of the same scene (which is actually any photo taken using a focal plane shutter above flash sync speed :)). You're entitled to your subjective preference there, but I certainly don't share it myself.
> Also maybe do not provide card info "for card confirmation".

I could be wrong but I don't believe I was given the option not to. I was unaware it was sent in the clear until now.
https://archive.is/gtTIA
How does it feel to have an octopus arm? This robo-tentacle lets people find out
If you are "only" a millionaire in a HCOL area, you might still have to worry about crimes against your children. However, they will be random crimes that occur within the city you live rather than targeted crimes.

I have a friend living overseas. His children go to school with a Russian oligarchs kids. Visiting the oligarch's home for a birthday party was wild.
Civilization IV.
In most tech companies, I'd agree. When I was on exceptionally good teams where everyone was energetic and responsive, remote was perfect. When I was on average teams, it was too hard to get a hold of remote people even if they were productive. The individual action is simple, respond to messages ASAP and take video calls readily (maybe aside from some prearranged team-wide "focus time"), but leadership didn't set this direction.

I'd like to think that any new software workforce can arrange itself to be remote-only if it really tries, and it'd be much better off that way. Can also see why an existing company would rather bring people in-office.
And that's why I drew a distinction between the "owning a home and having a retirement plan" millionaire and the truly wealthy multimillionaire sort.
This looks really cool, but they should make it clearer that you only get one submission per day, and they're not going to check that your answer is valid before submitting.

I submitted this (wrong) answer

1. e3 Na6 2. Bxa6 Nf6 3. Bf1 Ne4 4. d4

but only realised afterwards that it has to be _exactly_ 4 moves, less than 4 moves is not good enough.
Location: USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Ruby, Rails, Django, Express, React, PostgreSQL, Linux, Bash, AWS, HTML, CSS. Trying to find time to play with Go and Rust.
Resume/CV: 15 years experience as a full-stack engineer (web, native, frontend/backend, firmware, devops). Contact for resume.
Email: ptx2 at-sign ptx2 dot net

Product-minded full-stack engineer with 15 years experience.

Recent technical write-up and open-source project I made that reached #1 on HackerNews: https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi...

Some things I've designed/built/launched/maintained professionally: high-traffic web frontend/backends, realtime interactive graphics apps, data visualizations, computer vision apps, firmware, reverse engineering, video/image processing, apis, api integrations (payments/social/data), distributed systems, linux sysadmin, refactoring/maintaining legacy systems, managing small engineering teams, remote work, customer facing work.

Some areas of interest: the outdoors, health and fitness, art, music, environment, games, human computer interaction, product design, ui/ux, embedded/iot devices, privacy, security, networking, optimization, unusual companies/products, web, linux.

Looking for interesting software engineer or tech co-founder/director/advisor opportunities!
For standard apps, I agree. But being able to change the default version of Python, NodeJS, etc. just by running brew install is a lot easier than using apt/apt-get. They just aren't made to support that kind of scenario.
As a French native speaker, I am surprised by the low quality (frankly ridiculous) voice of the French translation example.

Especially because the head of AI at Meta is a French guy AFAIK (Yann Lecun).
People whine about "wealth distribution" day and night, but at the end of the day what alternative is there to combat the (continually increasing) concentration of wealth at the top? At some point there will have to be redistribution, in some form, and the sooner society comes around to that the better off we'll all be.
Unnecessary items:

Scaling up - static website is enuf.

Site Reliability - ditto.

Front End Web - ditto.

Necessary items:

Ops - Gotta have someone who understands computers! Yes.

Research - Here's the work. Yes.

Training - No. Hire people carefully, fire quickly.

Legal - minimal - hire a small law firm.

So ~700 people mostly in Research and some cash for Legal? The scope of work must far exceed the scope of the task. Time to trim.

Comparisons to Google makes no sense.
Sorry to hear that. Will definately try to address in the future. Other than the terrible UX, did this help you in any way?
So he supports education vouchers and healthcare vouchers for everyone? Because that's what "wealth you can spend down for some specific purposes" is, in a practical sense. That's a welcome attitude, given that these things are often dismissed ideologically.

(Also, we generally want people to have some retirement income in their old age when they can't work, and the goal of letting young folks spend down their "inheritance" seems to be in tension with that.)
I recently did sort of the inverse as an experiment: put a button in a frame to avoid reloading the main page:

https://log.schemescape.com/posts/web-development/interactiv...
IMHO only: I think it's one of those enterprise-y software that tries to do everything, like Salesforce or Peoplesoft. It doesn't do any of it quite WELL, but it's a single source of truth, and a single product to support/pay a subscription for/admin. It lends itself to environments that are IT admin heavy, don't care about DX or editor experience, and/or want to outsource some of that work (there are a lot of Drupal contracting shops around). These are often the management-dominant companies that shop for solutions not based on user/staff satisfaction but because it checks enough boxes for them.

As someone forced to use it and learn it for 2 years, I did what they asked me to, cleaned it up, and then convinced everyone to move away to a different system (detailed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38489357).

We ended up with a system that was much much faster, much easier to edit, easier to maintain/develop, and thousands of dollars cheaper (compared to Acquia). It's the kind of thing that management would never have bothered to investigate without internal pressure (because, again, Drupal checked all the boxes). It's just an implementation detail that bigger businesses are happy to spend resources on, but it sucks for the day to day users.

It falls squarely in "never EVER again" territory for me too, like others here.
Has a nice house, a second beach house, and drives a Lexus. Doesn't own any super-cars and flys business class rather than in a private jet. People think he's worth $3 million, not $1.3 billion. (I just made all that up.)
I think there is stark difference between being the victim of an alcoholic abusive relationship one cannot escape and, "a lack of romance and escape" Mr. Contrarian.
It all worked well pre tech war, east and west semiconductor studios were customers at TSMC and TSMC was a customer at ASML. Then the US started the tech war and the world started bifurcating somewhere in the middle term into a NATOstan and BRICS world..

The question should now be how fast can innovation happen with 2 or maybe even 3 supply lines instead of 1 global supply line for semi conductors.
It showed "eightwothree" to be 83. Or is that not what you are talking about?
En Garde: Monetizing Competitive Gaming – Seeking Insights and Collaborators
Hey Hacker News community,

I'm Munimur Ashrafy, founder of En Garde - a new venture that's shaking up the gaming world. We've created a platform where gamers can engage in 1v1 battles across popular titles, with real stakes - think competitive gaming meets skill-based money.

Since our beta launch of less than 60 days, we've grown to over 2,000 users with a lean approach and a keen focus on user experience. But as we look to scale, we're eager to tap into the collective wisdom of this vibrant community.

What sets En Garde apart:

Skill-Based Matchups: Players can earn real money, making every game more than just a casual play.
User Growth: Achieved 2,000+ users rapidly with a modest marketing budget.
Tech Stack: Built for seamless, real-time matchups with a focus on fair play.

We're here seeking:

Feedback: What do you think of our approach to monetizing gaming?
Collaboration: Open to collaborations with tech enthusiasts and gaming aficionados.
Insights: Particularly interested in your thoughts on scaling in the competitive gaming niche.

Also, if anyone is passionate about gaming and tech, and interested in what we're doing, let's connect! We're open to exploring potential partnerships, investment opportunities, or even just bouncing off ideas.

Check out En Garde https://www.engarde.io/ and let us know what you think. Looking forward to your insights and comments!

Thanks,
Munimur Ashrafy
Agreed. It's worth the learning curve for the sheer power you can enable your workflows. I've always wanted to toy around with node based architectures and this seemed quite easy after using A1111 extensively. The community providing ready to go workflows has made it quite enjoyable too.
(Assuming the max speed issues the other post mention are resolved!).

For a regular car this is useful because the space all the shafts taking power from the ICE to the wheels can be used for something else. For a race car there is plenty of space for those shafts and you don't have anything else to put into that space if you could. This the reason this was developed doesn't apply to race cars.

Of course for race cars they are concerned about weight and performance. Not having those shafts may be better for weight and thus worth it (assuming a EV race care), or it might not make a difference. This might have some other advantage in racing applications that the designers haven't even realized yet.
Most of these screeds come down to a fundamental error: trusting a single filesystem with your important data.

If you trust a single filesystem with your data, you're wrong. It doesn't matter how fancy it is, how many parity blocks it has, or how many disks it's backed by: a single logical filesystem definitionally cannot be redundant. If you pretend it is, it will blow up in your face one day, and it will be nobody's fault but yours.

My backup is a drawer full of individual hard drives. Unlike any filesystem that ever has been or ever will be invented, that drawer cannot corrupt my data.
typically for production releases I have -DNDEBUG, which will disable -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS
Show HN: Trending podcast topics from the past week – Siev
Hey HN,

Wanted to show off this side project I've been working on. Using whisper and a few other models I've been able to transcribe popular podcasts and extract their topics of conversation. From there I've rolled the historical trends into this historical dashboard which shows a break down for the leading topics of the past week.
Flood-avoidable
I find it interesting that it requires 16GB of RAM on Windows but 32 on a Mac. Unfortunately that leaves me out ...
> That is because the average matter distribution in the universe is the same in all directions from us, so the "gravity" from it cancels out.

Can't gravity have an infinitesimally small effect, which means this matter distribution has to be perfectly balanced for its gravity to cancel out to zero at some point?
50 million is still not an 'I have staff and a house in every major city' kind of thing. But once you get to the billions you have an 'I can make significant changes to the world' button. Want to redevelop North St Louis? Get 1:1 time with any politician I want to influence them about any hobby project? Make a university build a dorm without windows, because I pay them?

It's very different than just caring for food and shelter, but at those levels, personal luxury isn't really the most important thing. And really, for many things, even a billion isn't enough. Imagine you wanted to personally make high speed train happen between two US cities. A billion doesn't even begin to fund your real life Sim City project.
So 'Hugh' gets to feel smug because he knows the difference between an RJ45 port and an RJ11 port, while leaving his less informed co-worker at a disadvantage, working over the weekend on a deal that helps pay their salaries, while Hugh stays home and plays? Hugh's job is to make sure that dude has email, and instead on Monday he's enjoying making dude look dumb because Huge didn't do his job? If I were Hugh's IT manager, I think we would be having a learning moment about why we're there in the first place.
Perhaps there is a better alternative to this. Rather than simply waiting for "times of instability," society at large could take a more proactive approach.
Generative AI a stumbling block in EU legislation talks
I’m running engineering at a small startup that’s full remote, it’s working fine for us. Don’t agree that remote work means you can’t have dynamic communication. It just means you need to choose the right employees and have an higher bar of alignment on how you work and communicate.

Don’t hire people who don’t value synchronous communication. People who want all communication to be async and don’t plan to respond promptly to messages (like the work/life balance crowd on HN) will not produce a dynamic team because that’s not the strong point of async communication.

Do quick calls when text conversation gets too long, build a team where you can expect people to actually make an effort to show up to the calls. For us we also have strategy calls with video regularly (but not too frequently), and make sure everyone is aligned to the plan and concerns are resolved before building. Make sure the team understands that for anything where they are unsure what to do or have any ambiguity around requirements, that they proactively ping the right people.

Doesn’t mean you need to be on all the time and that async communication is not valuable, but you need everyone to know when it is and isn’t the right way to go. So long as people are making a best effort to value communication speed it works out.

Hire people who are motivated enough to form opinions, and confident enough to say they really think. Most people are not invested in their work, or not invested in the problem space enough to bother making the mental and research effort to form valid opinions on your problem space. This is fine for when things just need to get done (not everyone on the team needs to be a decision maker), but foster those who are ready to invest. Make it clear it’s a good thing if they do form opinions and are willing to express their doubts about the strategy to others/leadership.

For us we also have very clear owners of different aspects of our operations and product. Someone will make the final decisions on those aspects. This doesn’t mean they make all choices, they can choose to defer to someone they trust to make the call. But someone needs to be clearly responsible, and others need to know that if a conversation is not resolving that they can pull the right person in to resolve it efficiently. People need to agree to disagree at some point once those responsible make a choice.

This general approach works for us, people don’t tend to hate their managers if they understand why choices are made, feel that their concerns are heard, and are aligned ideologically with the approach and way of working. But it does require choosing the right people and setting a higher bar for yourself on alignment.
I've been using ChatGPT 4 to translate and explain various texts in Mandarin and it's been very on point (checking with native speakers from time to time, or internet searches). As expected, it has trouble with slang and cross-language loanwords from time to time. However for languages with much lower information online, it hallucinates like crazy.

> coming soon: "We've been getting a lot of these tourists here lately, they're eerily fluent, but all seem to have the same minor speech impediment"

Haha, if that were to pass, that would still be a far better outcome than our current situation of completely blind machine translation (this is especially for various Asian languages that are very sensitive to phrasing) and mispronunciation by non-native speakers.
> In the US the pedestrian is expected to run the gauntlet

Technically, in most of the US, if a pedestrian looks like they're wanting to cross the street at a corner, that legally makes it a crosswalk whether it's marked as such or not (excepting for ones that have a sign indicating that there is no pedestrian crossing allowed). Failing to stop to allow the pedestrian to cross is an infraction and you can be ticketed for it.

Practically speaking, though, you're correct.

> that's in one of the more pedestrian friendly cities in the country, San Francisco.

Wait, what? San Francisco is considered a pedestrian-friendly city? That seriously boggles my mind. I mean, there are certainly cities that are worse, but there are also plenty of cities that are better.
This is true if you view the world from a zero-sum perspective. If the rich are winning, then the poor must be losing.

But I would argue the world is not zero-sum. Modern life for middle class or poor class people is a lot better than the vast majority of history (the 2 notable exceptions are post WWII USA and post Cold War USA, when America was punched through as an undisputed global superpower).

We are a looooonnng way away from 19th century standards. Like seriously, would you desire to go back in time to 1890? Okay, have fun if you're not white. Good luck with polio and leprosy. Hope you're not bored with reading (if you can read) because video barely exists.
The problem statement was super clear though. "Find the first occurrence of any one of these strings in a longer string" doesn't require any fancy regex tricks, just a for loop and knowledge about `isPrefixOf` or `startsWith` or whatever the equivalent function is called in your language of choice.

"Find the last occurrence of any one of these strings in a longer string" is just the first problem again but with all the strings reversed.
Sure, but that’s also true for an iso8601 string unless you’re extracting things directly. But also you’re assuming that your iso8601 string is in local time which it may not be (eg string generated in London but accessed in New York). Localizing things to be time zone aware in a way that meets user expectations is hard because it’s a squishy domain specific UX problem, not a technical one so arguing about it like a technical issue feels like a wrong approach.
This doesn’t appear to breakout by country. This isn’t surprising for more socialist countries like in the EU where it is harder to start and build businesses (wealth) in general. I’d be surprised if it was the same in the US where studies have shown that the majority of wealth is not inherited.
Agreed. It’s not like readability is purely subjective either. Ruby and to a bit lesser extent Kotlin sacrifice readability for conciseness, which in my view is a terrible trade-off.

We read code much more often than we write it. Conciseness is great if it’s reducing boilerplate. But when it hides type information and linkage, it tends to obfuscate more than clarify.
Yes, exactly. If you live like you're making minimum wage as a millionaire that's obvious, but if you're living like a multi-millionaire instead of a billionaire how could you even tell?
This is what the much maligned "world's police" role the US military actually plays. It's a shame the NeoCons didn't understand the point of the threat is to never have to use it. the first gulf war didn't need a round two.
That should be their official motto, IMO.

Drupal: Never again™
> all seem to have the same minor speech impediment

Ah, that is called an accent.
> An imported container of hangers, shipped to Kingbridge’s cleaning facility in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, cost about $3,500 in 2019. During the peak of the pandemic, the same container shot up to $22,000. It’s now settled at about $14,000.