skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> market solutions that Charity/Philanthropy offer

In practice, laws ostensibly intended to support philanthropy are used as tax dodges, money laundering schemes, workarounds of campaign finance laws, etc., with all manner of perverse incentives and conflicts of interest involved. The big money is generally less in "market solutions" and more in "hacking the tax code for the benefit of the wealthy".

In my opinion financial gifts to organizations should not offer tax write-offs for donors (especially of estate/inheritance taxes), or at any rate the maximum write-off should be capped based on plausible middle-class contributions; and universities, churches, and charities should generally pay the taxes businesses pay. If people want to spend their money on charitable activities, that's great, but the government should not be in the business of differentially subsidizing them based on the whims of the wealthy. If we want to have direct government subsidies of charities or educational institutions, it should be based on some transparent and democratically accountable grant system.

If we want to help ordinary people, the most effective method is universal direct cash transfers from the government (without means testing, weird income cliffs, or bureaucratic hoops), better labor protections, and restructuring the tax code to be more progressive (e.g. toward land-value tax and away from sales tax, treating capital gains as income, adding higher-rate income tax brackets at the top end, and raising caps on payroll taxes).
Curious - do folks not use swiftkey-like onscreen keyboards? I feel like I'm legions faster using this style on a phone vs tapping. I get preferring a physical keyboard if you're tapping, but I can't imagine going back once I got used to swiping.
> And sometimes I think about how many of the richest have a 100% tax bracket as they've pledged their fortunes to charity after death.

That's not the same as a 100% tax bracket, because those resources are free to be deployed while the person is still alive. Also, with charity, the devil is often in the details. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, for example, is focused not only on helping stop disease in disadvantaged countries but also encouraging stronger IP protection in medicine[1] and pushing for privatization of education[2].

Charitable organizations can be conduits for transforming economic power into political power. This is not the same as a tax.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-gl...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/06/19/bill-mel...
In the case of most US states, I think it's fair to say that the minimum wage is moot. As you say, hardly anyone would consider working for less than that anyway.
But why take away their freedom to do so?
Isn't putting this onto the consumer a little bit of a cop out?

This enormous global system of powerful corporations and nation states crafted this system because it was in their best interest. Feels sort of tone deaf to say "well, you got what you deserved, you created this sytem by buying this specific computer and cheaper food!"

Night/farmer's markets are quite popular here in NZ but we haven't toppled global inquality by visiting them yet and I doubt continuing to do so is going to make a difference.
I'd actually say nvidia wouldn't be perfectly fine giving this out. Their drivers are a big part of the secret sauce that makes things like CUDA so dominant.

Nvidia's biggest product is CUDA.
pitch: Simple designs and solutions for complex problems

Location: Greater Boston / Remote
Remote: yes. prefer hybrid
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: backend. java python go aws postgres mongo django flask springboot. lisp. padis / edifact.
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prefer a local office with hybrid attendance so I can meet cow orkers face to face. No ads. No gambling. No cars.
I don't really understand this problem. Just click the "forgot password" link (perhaps "lost passkey" for passkey-first services?).
It's "free" if you have excess solar energy you're not burning on something else.
Let's just make it an arbitrary number of years after the selling began then, like for patents.
Interesting paper.

> The programming model enables a developer to write a
distributed application as a single program, where the code is
split into modular units called components (Section 3). This
is similar to splitting an application into microservices, except that microservices conflate logical and physical boundaries.

I definitely do see the merits to this. The fact that we always see logical separation of services resulting in split codebases did never sit right with me.

We've been trying to solve the same problem, but albeit in a different way here: https://docs.differential.dev/getting-started/thinking/ (Disclaimer: I'm the founder - would love to collaborate)

Trying to answer the question of - can you build your entire stack in a monolithic way, but split it to domain-driven services at the runtime?

That way, you get the developer experience of co-location, and runtime benefits of isolated workloads. The service definitions are malleable and can evolve as the complexity increases.
I still do a lot of hand-coded and static HTML. I'm old-school and have a lot of muscle memory, so 9/10 it's just faster for me to throw together a page of HTML for a custom project and throw it in a directory than to muck about with a CMS or anything server-side.

> My main concern is that while search engines can certainly parse JavaScript, I suspect that they still perform best with HTML.

This isn't really true anymore, and the evidence for this is that Google themselves uses user-facing JS for lots of applications. Regardless, you can still assess the SEO friendliness of any page with the available tools.

That said, there is a good case that you should reduce the complexity of your page whenever possible. If you can get away without a bunch of JS calls, you are introducing fewer things that can introduce mistakes or performance problems.
How Incompetence and Bad Testing ruined 700+ lives (2021)
That doesn’t track. I develop a custom model by paying them $x/month and they give me a discount based on usage? If somehow my new custom gpt goes viral and gets lots of usage I don’t see how that is connected with more money, if that is their intent. Its not really clear how this is a store or how money is changing hands here.
Maybe it's just what you're used to - having got a Mac for the "premium experience", I found it sluggish and slow (albeit compared to a stripped down X11 system, rather than a full-on compositor experience)
Maybe for people who already owned assets and had a stable living situation before 2020. If you're renting and had to buy anything expensive like a car in the last few years then your costs have more than doubled.
Those cards weren't good.

I know this because the Creative Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT was what I bought in late 1998 and I was broke in late 1998.

A good setup in late 1998 was a fast VGA card with high quality VGA output like something from Matrox (or a Rage3D with DVD playback acceleration) and then one or two Voodoo2s ($300/ea).

$300 in 1998 is $560 today. So a "good" setup in late-1998 would have been about $1300-1400 today.
> I'm not sure that's true - experience counts in those industries. I speak as a former 18-year-old coffee shop person.

You are assuming that age equals experience, but a 19 year old might be working at the coffee shop for a year already when a 25 year old is just starting. Shouldn't the 19 year old have a higher pay then?
That doesn't mean that enforcing a minimum wage is the correct way to fix the problem. It's not.
That can be true for sure.

Something is weird.
Pledging your fortune to charity is not taxation, and calling this a tax bracket is misleading.
I don't understand this. HCQ is taken for malaria prophylaxis as recommended by the CDC. Are we saying that the CDC is recommending a drug that could potentially kill people? And they recommend it for use in all trimesters of pregnancy?

HCQ clearly did nothing for COVID, but I feel like we're maligning an otherwise quite useful medication. But to the original point, if 17K people did die of it, we should pull it IMMEDIATELY.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/drugs.html
Well considering he's still making wild claims like rendering 20x faster than chrome, it doesn't seem like it's in the past unfortunately.
Disclosure: I work for FusionAuth, an auth provider with a free community option.

If I were in your shoes I'd probably use a library built into whatever framework you are using. Auth servers are powerful but are another architectural component you have to manage (even if it is a SaaS, there's still config to manage).

Not sure what you are building it in, but if I were building it in rails, I'd use devise. If JS, maybe nextauth or passport.js.

When you do this you have to accept certain risks (what if your user data gets breached, what if you want to add more functionality) but based on the little you've shared, I think a local solution is perfectly fine.
Depending on the species. There are factory ships, such as the name suggest have onboard factories that process the fish into filets, pack, freeze and stow the fish, enabling the vessels to stay longer out at sea - limited either by their cargo capacity or quota. Arguably this is good for the quality of the fish as well since it is frozen fresh.
This is a great example especially considering how injuries inside cars have continued to drop (which is regulated) but injuries outside of cars have increased (we don't regulate visibility or hood/bumper height for example)
Intel's woes with ARC stem from the fact their silicon straight up doesn't support anything below DX12, so they have to rely on software emulation for them.

Nvidia and AMD both support DX versions below DX12 in their silicon, they don't have to emulate anything which means better performance.

Even if Intel had access to Nvidia and AMD's driver source codes, none of it would be useful because they don't have the silicon.
I don't like MongoDB or Couchbase. I dislike their query languages and designs in general. I built the DB for my own liking and use cases. If others like it that's great, if not it doesn't hurt me. I made it open source to follow the process and I'm not looking for any profit or gain for doing any of it. I'd like honest opinions obviously but that's all. Eventually if people really like the DB and it requires ALL my time then I'll try to expand on the cloud offering because I am mighty passionate about the project and want to see it being used as much as possible and easily as possible!
This is a retrospective written by Rob Pike, one of the creators of the Go language.

I worked at Google at the time go was created and had coffee with Rob from time to time and got to understand the reasons Go was created. Rob hates Bjarne Stroustrup and everything C++ (this goes back decades). C++-as-used at Google (which used far more threads that he says) had definitely reached a point where it was extremely cumbersome to work with.

I can think of some other things that they got wrong.

For example, when I first started talking to Rob and his team about go, I pointed out that scientific computing in FORTRAN and C++ was a somewhat painful process and they had an opportunity to make a language that was great for high performance computing. Not concurrent/parallel servers, but the sorts of codes that HPC people run: heavily multi-threaded, heavily multi-machine, sophsticated algorithms, hairy numerical routines, and typically some sort of interface to a scripting language with a REPL.

The answers I got were: Go is a systems programming language, not for scientific computing (I believe they have now relaxed this opinion but the damage was already done).

And a REPL wasn't necessary because Go compiled so quickly you could just write a program and run it (no, that misses the point of a repl, which is that it builds up state and lets you call new functions with that built-up state).

And scripting language integration was also not a desirable goal, because Go was intended for you to write all your code in Go, rather than invoking FFIs.

A number of other folks who used Go in the early days inside Google complained: it was hard to call ioctl, which is often necessary for configuring system resources. They got a big "FU" from the go team for quite some time. IIUC ioctls are still fairly messy in Go (but I'm not an expert).

I think Go spent a lot of time implying that goroutines were some sort of special language magic, but I think everybody knows now that they are basically a really good implementation of green threads that can take advantage of some internal knowledge to do optimal scheduling to avoid context switches. It took me a while to work this out, and I got a lot of pushback from the go team when I pointed this out internally.

IN short, I think go could have become a first-class HPC language but the go team alienated that community early on and lost the opportunity to take a large market share at a time when Python was exploding in ML.
Sounds like if you don't require 2FA on your site and users are allowed to share data with one another on your site, you're now open for lawsuits.
> Is there a bulk export option?

> Unfortunately, a bulk export is not available, so you'll need to export each document one by one. Please note that our Support team will not be able to export documents on your behalf.

Ouch.
Most (all?) IR lasers leak visible light too. Look into any 1310nm SFP module and you'll see red light even though 1310nm is well outside the visible range.

And no, this won't burn your eyes out. Despite what the clipboard warriors claim, a laser that's designed to couple to fiber will not magically focus itself at the exact distance where your eyes are located. Instead the beam will diverge as if the 1mW laser was a 1mW LED.
I wonder how they compensate COG movement. I guess iPhone will be heavier while typing.
the launch video says that magsafe is supported for charging (see here [0]), but that magsafe accessories (that assume a magnet on the other side...?) are not supported

[0] https://youtu.be/e2n2ftM-MwI?t=443
(I don't get why the post was dead, so I vouched for it.)

He was talking about making good money in IT, so I asked why he didn't continue working in IT. (At least that's how I remember a conversation from over 20 years ago.)

He was originally talking about playing computer games on early computers, so I thought I'd get a story about why he left tech. (IE, laid off and had to change careers, couldn't keep up with changes, didn't like the stress.) I was quite surprised that he was a felon.

He really didn't tell me much about what he did, either. I don't want to repeat much here, other than to say he got greedy.

At a high level I don't think there's anything wrong with what he did. There's plenty of legal activities that are "grey" morally: Oil companies, tobacco companies, investments (stock, 401ks,) where ordinary people don't realize the nasty things the companies they own do...
> Secure Boot itself is perfectly sensible, for the reasons you describe. What's not sensible is hardwiring a key so that not even the user itself can change it.

Users CAN change the key. If you have a motherboard that doesn’t allow that, that’s on you and/or the hardware vendor, not Microsoft.
mechanically, it's feasible. Scientifically, it's suspect.
As someone commented, it was until the captain left the plane. I would assume that the captain could and would have left earlier if needed. I'm surprised how long he stayed with the fire.

The important measurement is time from plane stopping to passengers getting off.
I have been out for months and months.

Been through multiple interviews, a lot of them totally fake.

My opinion is employers are not actually hiring right now.

They are going through motions, top grading, collecting resumes, gathering info.

They are not sure what to do.

COuld change in the new year, entirely possible.

But rate cuts are coming which is usually quite a recessionary thing to do which means another dump is coming.
Have heard a lot of good things about HTMX.

I enjoy writing JS. It's actually my favorite programming language.

But there are plenty of times when it's unnecessary.
>you would have a superior typing experience

Would you? I don’t think so. All to permanently lose 30%+ of your usual screen space on a device that you likely use to consume 90% of the time and input 10% of the time.
What's wrong with JavaScript? There are many instances of it being used (at large scale too). I've also never heard of Python, Go, and Rust being the "holly three", what makes them so good over other languages like Ruby, Java, or C#.
Open the windows and the recipient can reach their arms in to unlock the doors.
Makes as much sense as QWERTY for thumb typing. In either case you're not touch-typing, so the only advantage is visual familiarity of layout. (As a Dvorak user, I prefer desktop keyboards in which it's possible to pry off and rearrange the keycaps to match.)
Thoughts about Programming Environments (Reflections from Advent of Code 2023)
This is really fun to play around with, thanks for sharing!
Why would an Apple user be using flac?
Right. Regulation is what works, but it's not a magic wand. We can't keep allowing industries to write their own regulations without meaningful public input.
Have they changed the website since you commented this? It is immediately apparent to me based on the hero image that this is a physical keyboard.
E.g. https://jukebox.davi.gq/jukebox_go.html?id=2RxeRHUzmu8TTCU0R... gives me the error "Audio could not be retrieved, provide a youtube link or file on the tune settings". Where and how do I provide a youtube link or file?
> For AuthZ, things are not surprisingly outsourced heavily to the application side.

There's some newer startups working on extracting and centralizing AuthZ functionality. Ones I'm aware of:

* permit.io

* cerbos.dev

* Oso

I'm sure there are more.
If you like Eunice you'll love its 400 million years old ancestor from Canada, Websteroprion
Similar to other 3rd party keyboards, it probably just won't implement that. I don't think I've seen a 3rd party iOS keyboard that does.
I agree. I very much care for the users of the database because their experience if everyone elses in a way. My reply was pretty simple lol. You build something YOU like and have a need for there's a chance others will as well. If you just build something that you don't like and have no need for, others probably wont as well.
A few things that should be noted: US Youth Minimum Wage is only in effect for the first 90 consecutive days of employment. I don't think its use is very widespread- probably used only by some youth summer employment or training programs- almost certainly not by any of the companies whose CEOs are mentioned.

It would also be interesting to show what % of the mentioned CEO's employees make minimum wage... I would wager it would be very close, if not 0. Minimum wage is usually paid by smaller, more local operations.
More discussion and anecdotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012
Okay, that’s all lovely but as a practicing professional (I started making digital games in 1988 and started professionally in 2004) I’m just saying your ideas don’t pass the sniff test in a real setting so I wouldn’t offer it up as advice. Doing too much design upfront can even be detrimental! Particularly outside of the target medium.

Everyone’s process is different though and as long as you’re enjoying your own then more power to you. Hopefully one of your binders (or Lego models) makes its way to completion one day!
What society reduced it's rich people and increased the average richness? When I think of the concept my mind jumps to stalin eliminating the kulaks, or mao and the cultural revolution, or pol pot, which ended up helping destroy their society, not make everyone wealthier.
Which Root Certificates should you trust?
I think they just mean wireless charging is supported but a MagSafe mount/holder won’t work because the case doesn’t have the proper MagSafe “magic” in it (that ring you see on a clear iPhone case).
It's one press per key, even if the letter you want is the third letter.
That's a good name! :)
The value it’s brought to Google has definitely not been worth the cost. It did not really replace other languages. If you join Google now as a new engineer, you will likely be writing C++, Java, or maybe a web language
My current take is “program with if statements all the way down”->CPU,
“Multiply these humongous matrix multiple times per second”->GPU.

What is FPGA for?
Someone has to collect the garbage, clean public restrooms, produce our food, etc.

We can't all be CEOs. Society depends on these "lowly" jobs. If the three jobs above ceased to exist we'd all be in trouble. They're all important enough to warrant a dignity wage.

In first grade we all learn that food, shelter, and water are the most basic living requirements. Add standard-of-living necessities such as internet, education, and healthcare access into the mix if you feel generous.

How can we afford NOT to provide basic requirements for these keystone jobs? Sure, they aren't "innovating" the newest phone or providing value to shareholders (gross), but in many ways they're far more important.

If you really want to own a Ferrari, or really anything extraneous, sure you should have to pull on those bootstraps. But not for food. Not for water. Not for shelter.
The cables look reasonably thin because they are water-cooled. That means that the power loss in the cables is so great that without active cooling the fiber would just melt.
Take a look at this page https://www.photontec-berlin.com/power_delivery_fiber_cable.... which contains actual specs of the cables, for instance https://www.photontec-berlin.com/pdf/ld80.pdf or https://www.photontec-berlin.com/pdf/ld80-water.pdf
> I left because they weren't like me.

“they” is doing a lot of work in this sentence, and also none.

No one in Microsoft is like you? Or no one on the team you were part of?

I leave places when people ARE like me. I learn a lot from those that aren’t like me.
I don't like Pascal. But must admit, it shaped our modern world.

As I remember, Pascal was just begin, next appeared Modula, Oberon, which was partially influence and partially just become main languages in some important niches (Modula-2/3 as I know, heavily used in military/air-space).

RIP.
> Good for them for quickly deleting it.

Thanks. I posted that comment and then I was like... they can believe whatever they want. I don't want to waste my time arguing with random people online
I usually use:

C-h f runs the command describe-function (found in global-map)

If the command is bound it has "It is bound to..."
Australian giant earthworms are larger than this by far.
I picked up Go in 2012 as a Python dev in need to doing some bit twiddling over the wire for Modbus. I never shipped that code but it blew my mind how easy it was to just twiddle those bits and bytes and it just worked.

A decade later and a couple almost full time Go jobs under my belt and it still surprises me how well most things Just Work™.

I love the Go language and I love the Go community.

I appreciate what Rob, Ian, Russ and the others do for Go and I appreciate that this talk / blog is honest about the "bumps in the road" working with the community. There's not much point in beating a dead horse around this but having lived through it I find it very hard to believe they didn't know exactly how they were behaving, especially in regards to the package management debacle. Never the less the blog is also correct that we have landed at a very good solution (Drew's legitimate complaints aside).

Here's to another 10 years of Go and the inspired / similar languages (Zig, Deno, etc) and hoping we continue to grow as a healthy community.
It's even worse than that. If it saves me 10% bugs per unit of code, but I have to write 20% more code, am I actually even ahead in the bugs department?