skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, staying in that bracket is much harder; you need to have a windfall every year (so, be a successful VC) or be an executive.

That's a good point. When people talk about "the 1%" or "the wealthiest families", they take the group that would qualify to be in that ranking today, and compare them with a different group from the past. But they're not the same people. You really need to do a longitudinal study. Take the same people and see how their wealth has grown.

For instance, take the richest person from the 1980s

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi dominated the richest list in the 1980s thanks to his real estate empire. However, times soon changed for Tsutsumi when real estate values tanked in the 1990s and he was caught up in an accounting scandal in the early 2000s. As of 2006, he dropped off the list of the wealthiest people in the world.

Today he's worth 500 million.

To make it that wealthy you generally have to take highly concentrated risks or be extremely leveraged. And this rarely lasts.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/busine...
Yes, they have refused it a few times.
Functionally it is similar, but trains are very critical civil infrastructure. In the case of John Deere such fraud can also have a serious impact, but it does not affect the public in the same way.

If they want to explicitly claim exclusivity on maintenance or a certain enforced product lifetime, fine, it is a nasty practice but fair enough. But not making the operators aware of these conditions, when they knew months beforehand what would happen when they lost the tender, and while it was seriously affecting the public later on, that is criminal in a way that is not comparable to Apple's practices for instance.
US Freight Rail is among the most utilized and most efficient in the world.

Freight Rail is actually the reason why our passenger rail sucks so much, because in USA, Freight has priority over passengers. So a lot of our passenger rails sit waiting for the freight-trains to pass.
Ah, there's probably still 500 players still playing on PSN. Probably the same on XBL and maybe 2x that on PC I'd guess. The only problem I see is a 'dead sea' effect, where a lot of the folks still playing are very good, and the games can be lopsided and not fun for the average player. I hate to see them stomp on average dudes. I always hold back capturing the last objective, and I never shoot into deployment even if I'm taking fire. The game should be fun and fair for everyone.

As I said, I'm a tanker. I run smoke screen, thermal camo, and LMG. It's an insanely fun play style because everyone relies on their minimap and thermal optics and I'm basically a 70 ton ghost on the battlefield. It's crazy how easy it is to sneak up behind enemy armor or juke incoming shells because everyone is looking for a white blob or a red marker on their map.

Also, given I'm almost unspotable, aircraft tend to leave me alone unless i'm dealing with a pro jet pilot that's looking for me. Sometimes I will piss off the enemy team and by the 3rd strafing run I'm like 'wow bud, you really got nothing better to do with your day, huh?'
dxdy.ru welcomes you even if you don't speak Russian but speak English. This is a hardcore math forum with a requirement to use Latex to be able to ask for some help.
Mistral: Light-weight library for mixture-of-experts (MoE) training
Silicon Valley CEOs for effective accelerationism
Also, there is typically a small hole on the end of the installer bit, just below the tip, that lets you use it as “fish stick” and poke your pull line through after you drill the hole.
If inequality was the problem, redistribution could fix it. If redistribution is the problem, simply doing more redistributing won't fix anything.
What if your buddy is controlling one of the porn actors?
So I have been trying to keep up on the news around the reverse engineering and discovering that the manufactures of the trying used geo tracking to shutdown a train after it visited a 3rd part repair location.

It looks like there are artciles now attempting to hide what happened springing up around near the time that article was release. A link below is to one of the articles.

https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-train-chaos-radio-hac...

Here is a link to the report that Newag SA is blaming this on a cyber crime incident: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/polish_trains_geofenc...

Does anyone have any more information on this, this situation seems really important for the future of technology freedom.
EU's electric dreams short-circuited by EV charging gridlock
> would explain why 99% or so of the US population's lived experience is that we're currently in a recession

No, it wouldn’t, because median wages are up higher than median local inflation. In most zip codes, and for most Americans, real earnings are up.

The problem is we feel nominal cost increases as inflation and nominal wage increases as personal achievements. (Real wages are also lower than pandemic levels after accounting for stimulus, which creates a basis problem.)
> In the US, unions had a good year, but 43% pay raises in union contracts were mostly unheard of, so that part of the population probably isn't keeping up.

Do you have any statistics for that claim? In Sweden the largest union negotiated salary increases of 7.4% over two years (https://www.unionen.se/opinion/ja-till-avtal-nu-har-vi-ett-m...) which is far below the rate of inflation. In other words most workers are experiencing pay cuts, not increases. It would be surprising if the situation was completely different in the US.
Maybe I phrased myself wrong. The actual law in EU countries is that you can return products "no questions asked" within 14 days of purchase. In this context non comformant might mean either doesn't work, or I don't like it.

If that's the case in the US, I've learned something new. Generally, based on comments, there seem to be fewer consumer protection laws over there.
> This would explain why 99% or so of the US population's lived experience is that we're currently in a recession yet the economic statistics make it look like the economy is booming.

In the context of reporting talking about benefits to the super rich, I actually can't tell if this claim about the 99% is intended to be literal or hyperbole. But the Michigan consumer sentiment and expectation numbers and process seem to indicate that it's certainly not such an overwhelming majority who are worse off and expect to get worse off.

Both ICS and ICE are up from this time last year, even if they're below their longer-run averages. And the inputs of these are variables that are based off of favorable% - unfavorable% for survey questions.
http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/
> We have rampant inflation

Do we? I could have sold wheat for $15 per bushel two years ago. Now I'm lucky if I can get $7. It looks more and more like a disinflationary/deflationary environment to me.

CPI continues to show inflation, but the CPI basket measures that which at the end of the supply chain (it is a consumer index, after all), which means that it always lags significantly behind what's going on in the rest of the world.
There is no universe in which the poorest get the same economic benefits as the rich. If the rich saw that happening, they would label it a "market inefficiency" and make it go away (to their benefit, of course).
Man I really like this, but I'm having trouble convincing myself that $10/month for unlimited searches is worth it.. I guess thats what ~20 years of using Google and other free search engines will do to you haha

I would jump on a $5/month unlimited queries plan though. And I'm sure I'm not alone in that bucket
No local logins? I don't really want that SSO stuff. Just a local username/pw combo would be perfect :)
First, lots of middle class people send their kids to college. Middle class in the US goes up to $200-300k/year.

But I was thinking neighborhoods would chip in together so it’s just a few grand a year. I didn’t mean that every house would have their own robot, Bicentennial Man-style.
Good design has objective and subjective elements. Or... it might be more accurate to say that it is entirely objective, but some/many elements are context-sensitive.

For example, a style of writing that is difficult to follow but rewarding to parse for the dedicated and skilled reader may be considered good. It is good at being an enjoyable reading puzzle. But from an accessibility standpoint, it's not a clear presentation of information, so it's not good.

Mostly we call things that are increasingly accessible well designed. But we're using a specific criterion of accessibility. It's a great criterion and it's one we should generally prioritize. But it's not the only facet of design.

In code, we generally could categorize high quality design as accessibility. Most engineers probably think of themselves as not really needing accessibility features (although how many are undiagnosed neurodivergent?), but writing code that is easy to read and parse and follow is an accessibility feature and an aspect of good design.
>> Wondering if living in my car in the bay area would be better than living in an apartment in Iowa.

The cost of living in Iowa is in the top 5 lowest cost of living states in the entire country. You could probably find a 900sq ft apartment with underground, heated parking in Iowa for the cost of your apartment in the bay area.
Hi Stefan. I use the Q# playground a lot, it's very convenient so thank you sir

https://microsoft.github.io/qsharp/
No amount of redistribution from the bottom to the top will correct inequality.
Given how many extremely high quality, end game, niche items I've ended up buying from Japanese companies, I'd agree.
Broadcom definitely doesn't care about Fusion so selling it to another company could actually be good.
Unfortunately they bury the meatier sales pitch in the documentation instead of putting it front and center on the home page: https://docs.onyxlang.io/book/philosophy/onyx.html
and perhaps also https://docs.onyxlang.io/book/philosophy/wasm.html and https://docs.onyxlang.io/book/philosophy/memory.html

Basically, it's really all about certain WASM use cases, and everything right down to its memory management strategy is optimized for those cases.
You need to spoof at least three records (for the same domain) to get a certificate.
> you'd never know because inflation is outstripping the wage growth so its negative

This is incorrect for most Americans and in most American zip codes [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
There’s an active academic debate about whether inequality has actually been rising: Why economists are at war over inequality:
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/11/30/i...
There’s plenty of evidence that it isn’t. One thing’s for sure is that wages for lower income people in the US have been rising faster than anyone else.
The problem with full communism is the same as full libertarianism; it fails miserably to account for human behavior. In both cases, advocates will tell you "well that doesn't count, they didn't do it right!"

> You are writing your nonsense on a free-market created computer, publish on a free-market created website over a free-market created network.

Yeah, no. The government and publicly-funded universities invented the internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#History) and publicly funded CERN invented HTML and the Web.
We would love to do this, and we are waiting for the right technology to do so!
I'm glad it's not just me. I've given up on bug reporting to Debian on at least ~two occasions because the email sent via reportbug simply wouldn't go through without any indication as to why. Fortunately somebody else was more successful and all got fixed.
Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming
Inequality is usually measured by Gini index and a quick search will indeed tell you that inequality rose since 2000 in USA.

Inequality gives rise to populism and extremism all the way up to civil unrest. If the middle class ignores the woes of poor it is swept by revolution aimed at rich.
> U.S. citizens cannot be denied entry to the U.S. for any reason

https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-r...
Hm. I thought it was one of the dishes mandated in China, to replace the old decadent menus with party-acceptable simple-ingredient menu item?

Anyway, point taken.
I am not sure I see the problem. There is a business with a reputation behind that service. There is a contract and it no different than a contract with another provider like GitHub.

Who are you to judge "real projects" BTW? It might not suit your security profile, but it might for other businesses that have different security concerns.
You don't even need a controller for roaming/handoff (although it increases efficiency).

Any standards-compliant 802.11 access point will support basic roaming, even across different vendors, since it can be entirely client/station-driven.
Could Better Buses Fix Your Commute?
I mean, there must be something seriously bad happening. Despite the economy supposedly booming, homeless populations around where I live are obviously skyrocketing.

What I also don't understand is that official statistics show maybe a ~20% homeless population increase in the last decade, and still a long term trend of big drops. Yet there are obviously 10-100x as many homeless as there were a decade ago in Northern California. It's so obvious that the statistics cannot possibly be even remotely correct... I've been living here and seen it happen first hand.
You make good points and I appreciate the frame work. Obviously I am not adversed to paying for things that most consider “free”. The issue ultimately is I’m wary of subscription creep. I keep a very small list of things and 10/month times X amount adds up and without my active spending reviews could ballon quickly.

For me, 5-8 a month I think about less than 9.99+. Probably psychological and financial. Obviously will be different for everyone and isn’t purely rational thinking.
Not OP but this is how it is for me.

Also, anecdotally, from people I've spoken to, it seems they get either caries or tartar. It's a decent sample size, more than a dozen.

Yet the last time I went to a dentist, 2010 or so, she claimed to have never heard of this, and I couldn't find any good studies either. Do you know of any?
If someone is good with using it just once he wouldn't pay anyway.

A 1 day return period should be enough. Once you return the product you cannot trial it again without purchase.
Ok, I'm going to investigate you for child pornography as the state.

Don't worry about it when I ask your friends and coworkers about your internet browsing habits.

And oh, after all that I'll not tell anyone "Sorry, we had a mistake in the algorithm and DeathArrow had nothing to do with it at all".
Before someone says conduit in all the walls, that only works if the conduit comes out where you want something. Your intercom system probably terminates by each door at around waist level - which is unlikely to be where you want Ethernet cables to come out in the room - but perfect for an intercom. In the 90s people were starting to run phones to more rooms, but not to all rooms, at least those phone jacks would be in the right place. Likewise in the 90s people were running coax to more rooms - but a TV in every room was still seen as a sign of wealth and so most bedrooms wouldn't get it (the master would. though often that coax would be near the ceiling for watching in bed and thus not a great location for Ethernet.
I mean, we have zigbee/zwave/Lora/matter now, the wireless comms game is changing to allow low power low bandwidth devices ad not just super duper 'i'll run my data center comms over the medium of air' level wifi
The entire environment surrounding this war is becoming so openly hostile to nuance and non-binary thinking.
You do realize that the quantity of food you're throwing out matters, right? How many pounds of food did you throw away during those events?

You're a jerk, because you're trying to defend someone who probably behaves worse than you, by equating yourself with that person.
VMs are a necessity if you are serious about security and isolation guarantees. I'd hope everyone else also uses it.

I haven't run benchmarks but this comment provides a glimpse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571518

VM startup speed has many levels to it. Right now, we are doing the inefficient job of having a pool though we have some items in the roadmap to fix this better.

In terms of speed up, we are doing things differently. For instance, we are baking in container layer caching natively so that users can benefit. This leads to speed ups of 2-10x depending on how the dockerfile is structured for caching.

This is just the first step - we have a very exciting roadmap :-)
wealth measured in fiat money, which is worthless in long term
The one child policy was only ended in 2016. Several generations grew up under it, changing the culture significantly. That’s been true in all Asian countries.

> People just don't want to have big families, and now that they have a choice, they don't.

But “choice” is individualism! There are American subcultures that are more educated and affluent than average, like Muslims and Mormons, that have much higher fertility rates than average. And that’s because those cultures exert strong social pressures to conform to expectations about family life instead of leaving it to choice.
Congrats! Arch is my first and only distro and it's amazing.

Looking forward to possibly contribute.

I know this is off topic but does anyone know how are we on having packages with lto by default and multiple -march? Is the new pkgctl going to allow multiple automatic rebuilds?
The economic statistics that show the economy is booming are medians (eg, median real personal income and median household income) and population ratios (ie, things like prime employed percentage of population), which are insensitive to small numbers of outliers like the richest families.
> It is mostly not smashing people with regulations that do not let them even compete in fair conditions.

But making regulations is much easier if you’re very wealthy, so you advocate for regulations that keep you wealthy with a very expensive loud voice and that creates a pretty strong feedback cycle.

One way out (seems to me) is chopping the top off the wealth curve and redistributing - it might matter less that poorer folks are getting money and more that extremely wealthy folks have less insanely disproportionate power to make a world that suits only them.
I don't know about Fortnite codes. Is there any specific formatting scheme, or are they purely RNG-generated? Whatever it is, it's one of those rare cases of a random number generator that could ruin someone's life.

https://twitter.com/Tajudin167/status/1733166320760603107?t=...
Earth had elements needed for life within it all along, not from meteorites
So that is why we need to print extra money...
Is the case really a factor in the scenario of an upgrade? I.e. why not remove the iphone’s case and upgrade when/if your phone breaks?
The monetary cost of living in Iowa. The opportunity cost, however, will vary greatly person to person.
Now add the "All-Transactions House Price Index for the United States" line to the same chart.
>We've also had pretty good wage growth, but you'd never know because inflation is outstripping the wage growth so its negative

Source? BLS data[1] shows that CPI-adjusted wages are marginally up compared to pre-pandemic levels. There was a spike during the pandemic and current levels are down compared to that, but that's an issue with data collection rather than workers getting magically getting pay hikes during the pandemic. Specifically the lockdowns hit retail and hospitality workers the hardest. Those jobs also tend to pay low, so if those people aren't employed, the average goes up.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
> It would be the same thing as me asking my friend to invest $1 in my business, giving them 1 share out of 10 billion shares, and then claiming my net worth was 10 billion dollars.

Or selling one share for £50, be richer than Elon Musk, and then get accused of fraud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHfJRON3b-w
One of my favorite products -- been using it for note-taking, journaling, and miscellaneous stuff for almost a decade now!
Yes, but then I would have to work a job local to me in Iowa.

I haven't found remote work willing to deal with that yet.
How exactly are you meshing through non-permeable walls?

And if it does work (e.g. due to access points having better antennas and maybe positioning), it wastes spectrum like nothing else, which exacerbates that problem in high-density apartment buildings.
> Reusing a function C in functions A and B makes A and B dependent on C. If the definition of C changes, the definitions of A and B also change.

To pile onto this example, in some cases the mastermind behind these blind deduplication changes doesn't notice that the somewhat similar code blocks reside in entirely different modules. Refactoring these code blocks into a shared function ends up introducing a build time dependency where previously there was none, and as a result at best your project takes longer to build because independent modules are now directly dependent or at worsr you just introduced cyclic dependencies.
Ray Dalio is a bullshit artist
Interesting. In my country (Poland), pretty much most of the benefits and perks are taxed as income, so there is no tax advantage in paying employees with them instead of cash.
> Would this allow you to run each expert on a cheap commodity GPU card so that instead of using expensive 200GB cards we can use a computer with 8 cheap gaming cards in it?

I would think no differently than you can run a large regular model on a multiGPU setup (which people do!). Its still all one network even if not all of it is activated for each token, and since its much smaller than a 56B model, it seems like there are significant components of the network that are shared.
I've found Claude.ai to provide better responses than chatgpt 4 in the project planning arena (user stories, test cases, etc.)
Its stock is still significantly up since the Gemini announcement -- and still not too far from its all-time high -- so the market would definitely disagree.

If you believe in wisdom of the crowds and all...
> Na, you probably don't do it, but you think you could do it.

That's a weird response.

I actually do it, there is no reason for me to lie.
Keep in mind that I don't use any gems. That is why it works.

Crystal is not an drop-in replacement because some features Ruby has does not work in Crystal, but you can just write it in another way that Crystal supports.
Photographer is the word you are looking for.
Not that good news

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impacts_of_lithi...
What is not remotely correct is comparing local anecdotal statistics to unrelated national non anecdotal statistics.