skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of lottery winners do not mean that all wealth in the world was generated via lottery, or some kind of heavenly manna that a select few were lucky enough to collect.

None of the top 10 richest Americans got to that place via inheritance. Of the next 10, there are heirs of the Walton, Koch, and Mars families, none of whose source of wealth goes back more than two generations. Contrast that to the egalitarian, redistributive European system which allowed the richest families in Florence 700 years ago to still remain the richest families today.
Let's think about this. The moment COVID happened, gas prices went way down because there was too much production and oil storage has high cost. From what I understand, oil production was then ramped down to meet the demand. When things opened up, suddenly there was higher demand but it takes time for production to come up.

This seems to me to be a simple adjustment. The oil company's profits went way down the quarter the pandemic started, due to a sudden demand shift. Now they're going above average due to the sudden demand shift in the other direction.

Oil is also weird since it's heavily determined by geopolitics. The Ukraine war must have had an impact but I haven't looked into it
You have to keep delivering extreme amounts of value for decades, which is not easy. Much simpler (relatively speaking) to make a few million and retire.
There's definitely a factor of diverting the anger from the class issue to race and cultural wars. But happy, well off people wouldn't be angry in the first place.

Same story as in plantation times: Make the white servants feel superior to black slaves by virtue of skin color; manipulate poor whites into believing that any perceived gains by blacks had come at their expense.
It's nor insane if you have capital. The more money you have the nicer your loans are and the more people pay you to let them hold your money so they can leverage it to make more money and give you a cut.

The deceptive thing about this "eat the rich" b.s. the media likes to spread is that they make it seem like there is a pie and the rich are eating a lot of it. In reality it's more like there is a cash river and they're drinking a lot but they won't drink any less if more people got in on it. Most USD only exists on paper and most of it is not owned by individuals or considered part of their wealth.

This principle works in many other aspects of life. If google and microsoft want to hire you then so would 1000 other companies. If you can date 10 women ar once 1000 women want you. If you can defeat all your neighboring countries, you can probably give a superpower a very hard time if they invade you.

Little x little = little

Big x big = very very big
So, wouldn't dedicated high speed lanes by autonomous vehicles be more flexible?

They are talking 220mph here. I would think autonomous electric vehicles could do this too.

Although, possibly rail might be safer because you can build fences to keep animals out.

Maybe a mixture of both in the future?
I'm guessing they lived lives of incredible luxury with no worries about money in any sense other than recreationally. Just like the year before and the year after.
It's a similar problem that the reviewers of experimental papers have. You can't go to the store and buy the same equipment and train the lab assistants and reproduce the result.

So the reviewer checks the paper thrusting the authors, and later other groups reproduce the work (usually with some tweaks, because exact replications are too difficult to publish.)
I hope they can figure out a way to extend the game to level 20 and make it work as a video game while still allowing high level hijinks.
An architect will optimise for liveable space. Whoever pays them can choose less liveable space in exchange for a chase. Most normal house purchasers won´t go for it.
Someone in my constallation recently used "resolved" rather than "finished" to describe the ending point. Right now, I am finding that a more useful way of thinking about the processes of creative works.

When it is resolved, you can see identify the thing the something is.

When it is resolved, the decision has been made.

When it is resolved, the problem has been mitigated.

Not sure if this helps you, I just know it is helping me.

YMMV. Good luck.
I just bought a house this year, the previous owners lived in it for about 2 years from brand new. Thankfully it has an ethernet drop to every room upstairs, and in reasonable places on the main floor. Far better than the situation at the last place I lived in.

But annoyingly, it's all Cat5e! Sure, it's fine for gigabit, but now that I have proper networking equipment, I wish they'd have spent the extra few bucks and put in Cat6A or Cat7 so that I could get 10Gbps to my office from the rack in the basement...
> Bad abstractions are a time sink

Yes, but contrary to the general perception, I fend them to be far less of a time sink than duplicated code. It takes almost no time at all to bypass or rework a bad abstraction, but code duplication necessitates either a literal multiplication of your efforts wherever you need to add features to duplicated code, or to refactor the duplication into a non-duplicated form, which also takes a lot longer than dealing with a bad abstraction. Abstractions are cheap and disposable, even if they're bad. Duplication is expensive and hard to get rid of.
sigh... I know, I know.
cheap copycat. As for Bluesky created too much hype and exclusivity that people gave up. got a notification last week inviting me to join and lol'd. kinda like magicleap with vr.
I think the person you're replying to tried to address that point that classes are primarily a way to organise code when other possibly equally good or better options exist like modules. An F# module might (for example) look like below.

module Hello =
let say() = "hi" // returns the string "hi"

There are mechanisms to encapsulate implementation details (private functions), to have multiple modules for different "domains" and specifying public contracts.

A class seems to imply more than that: each class specifies how to create an object with a constructor (where an object is something with the class's methods except modifying some state only owned by and accessible by the object itself).
What autonomous vehicles?
> The overwhelming majority of fortunes are made and squandered within three generations

people keep saying this but I can't find a rigrous source when I google it, it's always just LinkedIn puff pieces or Quora... would you have a link to the original by any chance?
You don't need a baseband exploit for that, just a jammer.
The two Chomskys the US military's greatest enemy worked with military funding
Absolutely true. The comment, however, very, very strongly implied that the client wasn't made aware that the demo was faked. If the client was made aware, then why would they have someone hiding in the next room to "make it seem like it was working"?
French revolution for one was not about income inequality per se. It doesn't seem the idea itself was in people's mind - and too many other issues instead.
But in this hypothetical, Bezos was legally compelled to sell--there is no signal for the market that "maybe Bezos is losing confidence in the company."
It is not categorically false, as evidenced by your quote which says they are allowed plainly, and as I caveate'd my statement with quotes. Perhaps we should replace "proxy" in my statement with "clones".

WOTC, judges, players, do not check for "dupe/clone" cards. How can they? why would they? To prove the player/opponent is poor in this individual set in the middle of a tournament?

When we're taking about proxies in sanctioned tournaments, we are not talking about what WotC is talking about:

No one declares at tournaments "This is my proxy" and presents a hand drawn liliana, that then prompts the inspection you quoted in which the judge has to unsleeve my very valuable card for the judge to inspect, and can only be used for the tournament. What a waste of time and lack of professionalism, for no reason. WotC would stop paper magic tournament support.

Instead they play a "liliana of the veil", in mint condition holo somehow, and we all know what's up.

Players fake/clone cards very easily/well, for obvious reasons. You would not be able to determine my commander deck is entirely "fake". There's no mechanism in tournaments to prove it. I simply don't want to support Hasbro/WotC and TCGPlayer admins.

I assure you, as a frequent bottom 2048 loser of these sanctioned tournaments, every single player is playing with clones, WotC is aware, and they would be foolish to enforce any ruling on that.
Not really; they're an entirely different type of clue than traditional crosswords. As the poster above found out, if you go in expecting crossword clues, you're going to be confused and disappointed. The comment you're replying to is making this distinction to explain this to them.
Thanks for pointing this out. I thought the wave logo was very clever and clicked away, but the demonstration of a handful of building different (and really well done) subjects with the same simple technique blew my mind.
TShark (the CLI companion to Wireshark) does with the `-T json` flag.
They identified a thing that changes, but in a consistent way across the sample population. That's a very important distinction, because synchronizing vocalizations is not easy. Humans spend a long time learning it. And failure to do it "correctly" can be everything from an accent to a speech pathology, depending on how "wrong" it is. (Scare quotes purely because the definition of right and wrong changes over space and time.)
This is what Tesla Semi is focusing on. The demo from Elon many years ago showed the Tesla Semi trucks autonomously driving and following each other within a couple of feet so they could take advantage of lower drag. He specifically talked about how the Tesla Semi in trailer mode or whatever it is called will be able to be cheaper than rail.
2008 was pretending assets were worth more then they were due to fraudulent income claims from borrowers.

Does not seem similar to today.
We don't enforce concurrency limits. It is not something that we want our users to think about. I'd hate to worry about it too.

In general, we should be able to deal with spiky workloads of that scale without issue in a couple of minutes.

I'd love for you to try us out.
You can search for the full science behind it, but metal cans that have a breaching dent will allow air and bacteria into the can. Plastic liners make it very unlikely for small dents to actually cause a breach, whereas with old “naked” cans that was not the case.

Cans with deep dents are not protected however, and these should always be discarded.
Personally I don't think NeRFs are an elegant way of representing scenes, I'd prefer something more structured than a blob of weights. But maybe it's still a good intermediary to go from images to the final form, I'm far from an expert.
> IPv6 support is useless to you if your ISP doesn’t support IPv6.

I can't upvote this enough. It is my experience that IPv6 advocates deflect hard when this gets brought up.

The vibe I get is people stuck with IPv4-only IPSs are insignificant and unimportant. They simply do not matter.
But this is the case to some extent for all of the extremely wealthy. Musk doesn't have billions lying around in a Scrooge McDuck vault somewhere; it's mostly on paper.
Any highly competitive market for workers (e.g. silicon valley software developers) is going to be much better for wages than a union, and even they won't generally make 43% more YOY.
This knowledge applies to Sperm Whales. The space probe was specifically looking for Humpback Whales. The continuum is doubly safe for now.
Anything that interact with the kernel needs to be tested on the actual OS. Simiarly if you call native libraries. And Apple Clang masquerading as GCC or not having all upstream LLVM patches is also annoying.
Show HN: Intelligent Recipe and Meal Tracking Tool
I started building this tool for personal use about a year ago, but eventually decided to flesh it out and put it up for public use.

My partner and I frequently adjust recipes to our taste, then forget what we did by the next time we make them. This tool aims to solve that by storing a canonical version of your recipes that automatically updates according to the notes you write.

If you like to cook and fine-tune your recipes over time, check it out and let me know what you think!
Cat5e is rated for higher than 1gbps for lengths you're likely to find in a home.
>and some commensurate declines in other goods and services

Pray tell, what has declined in price the past 5 years?
There are Computer Engineering programs and a few universities that really emphasize internships and hands on practice. But at many universities, the CS department came out of the Math department and is focused on theory. Chemistry isn't Chemical Engineering either. I think that's okay. University isn't just a trade school--the idea behind almost any degree is to train the mind and demonstrate an ability to master complex material.
Not sure, i don't use image search that often and if so, it's fairly technical stuff.
Let's say an (extremely) successful businessman wants to create a new business that requires a 250m investment to launch. Wouldn't this prevent that individual from starting the business?
I don't know, but it's definitely keeping me on board. I don't even call generally, I just text.
I took an Amtrak from Portland to Seattle recently and was amazed at how slow it was, it had to slow down and speed up a lot. I think it had to do with turns too.
The LLM accidentally declares war on all whales... :/
Yep. This kind of forethought is rare in home design, but magical when present. It doesn’t sell, though (not like the latest color or cabinets do).

I put thought into long term maintenance and upgrades for my current house and for the first few years got nothing from it. As I’ve had to do repairs recently I’ve saved literally thousands of dollars because the wires, pipes, conduits and fittings are all easily accessible.
I think you'd need to be in the 10s of millions to register for top 1% in US. Mere "millions" might not be enough.
The app says I have an unpaid ride and prevents me from booking rides.

I have submitted screenshots of the issue to CS. I am getting a message telling me I have an unpaid ride.

Edit:Read the post again and corrected an error :)
I think the tech in that paper was demoed for this podcast: https://youtu.be/MVYrJJNdrEg

The big roadblock to commercialisation for the moment is the original capture — for the paper they used a 110-camera capture rig under ideal lighting conditions.

In the above podcast Zuckerberg mentions that in the future people will be able to use their phones to do that same capture, but I don’t think that tech is coming next year.

I wonder if there’ll be an interim period where people who want high-quality avatars will have to book an appointment.
The union? I didn't respond on the busting part, just that Tesla refused to negotiate for 5 years.
But from what I read Tesla brought in workers from elsewhere, does that count as union busting?
email as a login flow is gonna cause problems. Email can be delayed for days.
Waymo type vehicles.
> I don't see the value of, say, dot_product(vector1=x, vector2=y) compared to dot_product(x, y).

I would include functions which implement (especially unary/binary) mathematical operators where the operands either are interchangeable or have a clear conventional order, in languages where you cannot make them actual operators, within the exception for operators.
Yeah I had the same problem with Witcher 3 back in 2015 it’s a sign of a true masterpiece.
If the Biden admin truly cared about the environment, they wouldn't be making it easier to get to Las Vegas.
If the law didn’t have a way to get a refund for a loss in value when you sold to pay the tax then you could potentially owe more than you have.

I was assuming such a law would have to have a provision for that.

If you get assessed at 100 billion, start selling off the assets and when you get to 50 billion you have nothing left because of the loss of value, you’d still owe 45 billion? That wouldn’t be fair at all.
This is such an oddly bad and unsupported article for ars it makes me, and the rest of the ars forum users wonder if "Robin Warner" was an AI or something: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/electric-vehicles-are-... . So bad they even put a disclaimer "promoted comment" up explaining he was a real person.
Ads Are For Suckers

reads more succinctly. (And no offense to OP.)
https://archive.ph/hMB5X
It's not dependencies, it's bottlenecks that you need to fix.
>It sounds insane to me that the security of anything would depend on the validity of a DNS record

Ahem. "The /etc/exports Configuration File" - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
A very common use case for macos runners is iOS builds.
punk is an attitude
It is more likely a new type of joke, whereby the poster pretends to be a really bad chat robot, perhaps implying that the article itself could as well have been produced by an (equally mindless) AI system.
Forget about my support for Palestinian genocide! Look, trains!
> It will be necessary to deliver software without bugs in time.

Seems like a pretty bad premise to start an article on quality software. If you believe you can ship bug free code, it's time to switch careers.
Parent comment said "possess", not "earn."
I really like the new notepad. The WinUI overhaul is beautiful and minimalist.

The features added so far are all useful without bloating it. Tabs and sessions are fantastic enhancements.

Large file support still needs to be improved, and I assume they know that. The only new feature I want is a Recently Used section in the File menu.

I would say that Notepad++ now basically serves no purpose on Windows. Notepad obviates its use as a tabbed notepad, with session support. VS Code subsumes its role for code. And that is good because it means I can uninstall Notepad++, and reducing attack surface is good.

Notepad++ still has a speed advantage for large files but it is ugly, and in a space where it is too complicated to work as a nice minimalist notepad, and too basic to handle all that VS Code does.

I will continue to like the new Notepad as long as they don't add any support for extensions, rich text, or code.
Oh really!? This would be a wonderful thing to spread across the nation (and the world)!
When it says "Get 2000 build minutes for free," is that per month?
Interesting. I have iphone xs max which was made in 2018. It doesn't feel obsolete at all. Works great, in fact.
I wonder how much customer confidence was lost with Jack Dorsey effectively abandoning Blue Sky for Nostr right at the time Blue Sky started gaining traction.
This law also covers layoffs, even to the point where it dictates in what order employees can be laid off. In general the IF Metall collective agreements don't have any additional worker protections for the case of mass layoffs or individual terminations, they usually only cover temporary lay offs.

I haven't seen what they are actually asking for in the case of Tesla Sweden. In Germany the discussion is mostly related to wages, safety/accidents and shift planning.
Doesn’t that require powered converter boxes, similar to MoCA? The nice thing about ethernet is being able to plug in anything anywhere in the house without a power brick.
Can I stick a 4090 to it?

I know it's a terrible idea, and I can't afford the mortgage, but can I?
When that property is billions of dollars and they have so much of it that they start warping market economics and political organizations around them because of their own gravity, that becomes a public problem. If we want a functional democracy then we very much do need to think about the influence of billionaires. Accepting the notion that "it's just private property, who cares" is an ignorant view on the actual situation.

For example, I was listening to a discussion on how Bill Gate's philanthropic organization causes many problems. They've basically taken over the field of malaria research by virtue of spending a ridiculous amount of money, and Gate's personal influence has limited the directions of that research. There are people in Africa that are trying to tell the Gates foundation to leave because their solutions are poorly suited to the on the ground situation, but the neo-colonial nature of this organization means you have many "smart" people in Washington and Geneva dictating how the global poor should run things. The influence of the organization has on public education apparently been disastrous, with the charity reorganizing public schools in ways that are unproven and harmful to students. The foundation is a revolving door for corporate actors like pharmaceutical employees, and they take and use public tax dollars in ways that are unaccountable to the public. All of this is because one man has more money than god. It's anti-democratic and ineffective.
Like I said, people don’t understand. When he got divorced he was legally compelled to transfer to her. Stock dropped anyway.

When the CEO of Netflix had to sell because his options expired, the stock still dropped because the headline said he sold.
Sounds like they took the first step.
>and just budget an extra $100K or so for it.

Yeah, I can't believe everyone isn't jumping right on that.
If they can't secure loans for it, I suppose it would. Do I think the loss of the ability of extremely successful businessperson to independently launch a business that needs $250m up-front is a huge loss to society? No.
I think the workaround in the Apple community is to make the app free, and then have an in-app purchase for the full version. This often has a free trial.

As an example, I recently tried a sleep tracking app. It is a subscription service but has a 1 week free trial. I tried it for a few nights, hated the mechanics of making it work, so I canceled the free trial and uninstalled the app. $0 spent on a paid app, completely supported by Apple.

It should be something available by default, but the workarounds seem pretty widespread. The advantage of this approach is that many developers offer "pay per month" or "pay a lot once" for their paid apps. The user can choose which one they like better.
But you get charged for that 1 instance running all the time which kind of defeats the whole point of it being serverless?
In the 90s Microsoft tied their dominant Exchange/Outlook to Active Directory which depends on DNS/DHCP.
I think we are saying the same thing.

Not taxable until it is over $12M. The only difference is that I didn't state that it wasn't taxed as income (which it shouldn't be) - it should be taxed as inheritance if it should be taxed at all.
It just takes one cargo company to fuck it up for everyone else.

The cargo car that had a wheel break in the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland created damage so bad that it will be closed until September 2024. 7km need to be completely redone at a cost of over 100 million.

All of this because some low cost cargo company ran their wheels way past expiration.

The train was inspected twice by humans and once by an automated system before it entered the tunnel but such catastrophic wheel failures are almost impossible to check for. It is up to the owners of these cars to ensure the equipment doesn't have too many km on it.

Additionally cargo cars are dumb pieces of steel so the train operator does not notice right away if a wheel is gone unlike with a passenger train. The locomotives have so much power they will easily keep chugging along dragging the damaged cars behind them ripping out the track.
Our material wealth in the US is way way higher than it was in 1900 but people aren't happier. I don't think I agree that well of people would stop being happy. Unless you want to define well off in relative instead of absolute terms.
> $4500

Which is more than a price of RTX A6000 48gb ($4k used on ebay)
A vanilla browser is genuinely malware that needs an adblocker to act as an old school antivirus.