skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The source from the FT has some interesting other numbers:

https://archive.is/emsQK

But the dirty secret behind this myth is that, while access to equities is widespread, ownership is becoming more concentrated. Two decades ago, the wealthiest 10 per cent of Americans held 77 per cent of corporate equities and mutual funds, according to calculations by Lyn Alden, a strategist. The poorest 50 per cent held just 1 per cent, leaving the middle-to-upper cohort with 12 per cent.
Today, however, the wealthiest 10 per cent own 92.5 per cent of the market — a “record high concentration”, Alden notes. And while the richest 1 per cent owned just 40 per cent two decades ago, their share stood at 54 per cent in the most recent data from 2022.
Wouldn't 1k years just result in an over-exposed photo and thereby rendering it blank in the end? The article doesn't specify if the material can even hold out for that long.
I remember a similar quote that was something like:

<user> :b
<someone> how did you make that backwards d?
Nope, unless he's moved and I don't know about it (haven't talked to him in a long time). Looks like there may be at least two Js running around!
The fact that the same legislation capped the SALT deduction lends credence to your argument.
A lot of the Discords I've experienced have a dedicated channel for gifs/memes, seems to work quite well.
Looking forward to named parameters, they help so much when functions take more than 2 or 3 parameters. By the way, I've been doing some D lately, just as a hobby, but it's been really nice! I had no idea before that D had so many features (I would say it even has too many - but still quite nice).
Hey HN!
I'm Esteban, the founder of Watermelon [https://www.watermelontools.com/].
Coming into 2024 we want to grow and help even more people but are asking ourselves if our messaging is correct. HN is our target of devs and Eng Managers so your input is very important.

Some things we are not changing:
- Webflow is staying cuz it's fast to iterate.
- Our logo happened before the conflict so it's hard to change now.
- We still use GPT so we are not fully open source, but we are planning on allowing users to use their own LLMs, give us some time!

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Modern Google is an embodiment of many of the flaws which allowed them to crush Lycos 20 years ago.
If you're upset about ads, why are you using Brave? It was developed by an adtech company to steal ad revenue from websites and direct it toward their CEO.
thats the meaning of working for engineering-driven company. Engineers are trusted to collaborate among themselves and drive feature roadmap, and to make an impact.

Leadership doesnt trust non-engineers to handhold engineers and spoon feed feature requests, all non-engineer types should be focused on selling/marketing product or customer support
australian aboriginal paintings show similar perspective - a bit like 1-10-100-years "exposure" of what has stayed at certain place.. what lasted.

Bones of some lizard. Grooves in sand.. Remnants..
I have been almost exclusively renting electric cars since late 2022. This makes total sense.

Tesla is very strict about their parts distribution. They will only send parts to authorized Tesla service centers, of which there aren't that many.

This is extremely unfortunate for rental cars, as they get beat to absolute shit and are in a near constant state of repair.

I've rented several Teslas from Hertz and Avis. Almost all of them have had at least one visible non-OEM replacement part on them, and half of them had that part installed incorrectly. Examples:

- A replacement backup camera that was pointed way too far downwards. Because this car didn't have ultrasonic sensors, it couldn't do distance estimates reliably. Parking that thing was like going straight back to 2006 every time.

- A passenger-side window that didn't align with the top of the window frame, causing air to leak into the cabin and kW/h averages to skyrocket.

- Heaps of el cheapo tires. This isn't a problem specific to Tesla, but it's a worse problem with Teslas since their cabins are already loud as they are and non-EV-rated tires throw off energy consumption.

It's not _as bad_ with Hertz since they are a Tesla partner, but it's the wild west with other rental car companies. Teslas offered by Avis are almost entirely bought individually from who knows where and I think every single Tesla I've rented from Avis has had something up with it.

I can also believe their claim regarding low customer adoption. Most of Hertz and Avis's customers are business travelers on corporate expense accounts. When they want to rent a car, they need a car _now_ and do not want to worry about things like fueling and parking the car.

Teslas are a completely different experience from a "normal" car. Their interior is also very polarizing, especially now that Tesla is experimenting with a stalk-less steering wheel cluster. This makes it not only more difficult for rental car companies to put those cars to work, but it also adds toil in the backend from dealing with car returns and clogging the (almost always understaffed) reservation desk with exchanges.

Non-Tesla EVs are also impacted by this. Many business travelers just _won't_ with charging apps, especially when they only fuel the cars either just after getting them or just before returning them.
Because historically doctors were in private practices. I still am, as an anesthesiologist. Many of the surgeons I work with are also private.

So, since neither of us is employed by the hospital, we do our own billing. If we were hospital employees, we could indeed do unified billing. That's a better analogy; your chefs are expecting to be paid by the restaurant, so it collects the bill. I am not paid by the hospital except a stipend for taking call for them - not for any specific services I provide to patients.

It's frustrating for patients and families, it's annoying for us, but it's the price of legal independence for us. If my hospital collapsed overnight (and they sometimes do), my group could go out and start working other sources of income right away, because we already have the business setup to do our own billing.
The question is actually framed in a way that you can't easily Google it.

You could possibly ChatGPT it, sure.

Or you could just answer it, and let someone correct you if it's incomplete or off-base.

We probably won't be able to help with compulsions to "cheat yourself out of learning". That's a "you" thing. =]
VMWare's is because of M&A. I wouldn't classify it's layoffs for the same reason as Cruise, Spotify, and Unity.
I've been getting those separate bills recently and it's driving me nuts. For one small out patient procedure I have received bills from the hospital, the doctor, the anesthesiologist, anesthesiologist nursing company, and a random surgeon I have never met that the doctor asked in for a 30 second consult (I know how long the procedure took) while I was under. Seriously considering ignoring some of these whotf-are-you bills out of spite.
It seems most, if not all, big-successful companies use the formula to over higher and then you prune off the lowest-poorest performers - however that metric is determined.
Good move, but if you have data in GCS colder than nearline it may cost you still.
Let's Block It
Honestly, the baseline models they test and blend are really terrible as well. Especially Pygmalion 6B, which is like ancient history.

A Yi 34B or Mixtral finetune on the same data would blow them out of the water. Probably blow ChatGPT 3.5 out of the water as well.
How is daytime energy supposed to get 100x cheaper and still allow solar, which only generates during the daytime, to recover its costs? Unless you mean for the nighttime price to increase by a huge factor, but then how would that out-compete existing technologies for generation at night?
Works for me. almost an 'AI marriage' saver .
A quick check puts a Ryzen 5 5600 and a Radeon RX 6600 at $360 combined, where the 8700G is set to $330. And a RX 6600 will deliver around double the graphics performance. So even without factoring in motherboard and memory the 8700G is hard to justify for a cheap gaming rig.
Hope AM5 is the last such an obsolete 2-channel memory platform. Was it 2004-2005 as we got 2-channel memory with single or first dual-core CPUs? Now we have 16 cores with... still 2-channel memory. Looking forward to 4-channel AM6 socket.

Memory bound software like OpenFOAM saturates memory bandwidth already on 6-8 cores with 2-channel memory [1]. So actually we should have got 4-channel with first 16-cores CPUs long ago.

[1] https://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/hardware/198378-openfoam-b...
Do you even actually save money, accounting for the financing and installation of the solar panels?

A while back there was a thread on the SolarCity subreddit linked from HN where the OP discussed his savings thanks to nice weather, but still figured he had a 20 year payback period on his setup.

That is crazy.
Saudi Arabia has been bombing the Houthis for years with US weapons. Why would we assume this is more effective?
> 63 fps on Cyberpunk 2077 which when it came out was "unplayable but on the most powerful PCs" is incredibly impressive without a GPU.

Cyberpunk got a ton of (performance) fixes after release, so not exactly relevant.
Look in your email settings for "Forwarding rules"
Wouldn't you want to track the flow through the all components though?

Case management for example - case is created, case is triaged, case is (hopefully) closed. That way there is visibility.

If it's workflow A/tool A, some human using tool B, and then workflow C/tool C, absent integration you lose external visibility at each step, or you have to go check in Tool A to see if work flow made it to Human, and so on.
What about Azure revenues providing access to GPU resources?
ok but gravity scales quite nicely as force right?
>potentially saves people time

And potentially kills people's jobs, potentially helps spammers and phisher to start larger and better campaigns, potentially increases the amount of fake news, disinformation or just bullshit.
when people slack at their jobs and just let other team members pick it up... it seems so scummy. Someone has to have a 'challenging' upbringing to have this be their default mode of operation.
If you want to buy new (which I don't think is unreasonable), there's not much in the market that doesn't cost a lot of money.

Maybe a Radeon 6500XT or a Arc A380; Geforce 1650 are still kind of a lot of money, and you're looking at at Geforce 1030 if you want something for not a lot of money. But why buy a Geforce 1030, unless you really just need something low profile.
Your toxic attitude illustrates your counter argument rather than you argument.

I am not giving you or anyone else advice. But the electro-chemical reaction is also happening in your mind and the software you choose to run there.

There is no finish line. Life is suffering.
Incredibly relatable
Not every corporation, if I remember correctly Apple was quite restrained.
...and that will come to fruition during a subsequent administration. It was one of the many time bombs set up to make the opposing party look worse come election time.
You should getting better than that. What's your AP and clients?
How exactly does it reduce "the potential for human error" by effectively adding countless other humans responsible for writing the software and maintaining the rest of the infrastructure necessary for it to work?

All it's doing is shifting the blame away from the one who should actually be responsible for the work.
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yes, I didn't try to say there is an requirement to keep them the writeoffs are base on what they are assumed to have produced not them being there so they would go one

but when keeping a job position (not necessary the same person tho) through overlapping writeoffs it will lead to a consistent 100% writeoff

not doing so can lead to spkies of little writeoff when increasing company size and the opposite when shrinking it. This would make new hires on a limited budged harder and in turn should motivate more long term planing when it comes to head count and that might lead to less head count fluctuations maybe
Funny enough, this is already a response to a tax. 174 capitalizes software and general unproven R&D as the default now… ruining the cash position of many businesses that “made taxable GAAP profits”

The rules of the game have changed. We were allowed to expense all employee compensation tied to software or R&D in the year in which we paid it. Now we can only expense a small fraction of that because we have to capitalize the expense. That means if you paid and developer $100 to develop a piece of software then sold subscriptions totaling $100 you now have a profit. The old model you have zero dollars in profit the new model says you have something like $80 in profit that you know have to pay taxes on… with what cash?
You shouldn't just lazily lay down and accept the negatives of changes like this, you'll just create a techno-oligarchy. You should fight for change to be slow and deliberate to protect your neighbors instead of taking their floor.
Ask HN: Is This Funny?
Hi folks - looking to get some real feedback outside of my own team / circle here - good, bad, ugly - whatever.

I'm a developer advocate at a startup. Over the last few months my team and I have been working hard to build and launch our own little content hub. We wanted to create a bunch of shows that developers find entertaining and educational.

We've gotten some really solid feedback about several of the shows but one there's one I'm on the fence about continuing. We'll start recording the next round soon and I'm need to decide whether it's worth spending more time on this particular one.

It's a parody of the old Saturday Night Live skit - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy. So it's a very very very (haha) dry style of humor.

Of course, I think it's funny and I had a blast recording the episodes. But I'm also a mid-30s dad of three little girls so I wouldn't really call myself a "tastemaker" . I'm worried a lot of the context is lost if you're not familiar with that SNL skit.

So my question is – is this actually funny to you? Does it resonate?
Or does it just miss the mark? Waste of time to record more episodes?

Thanks in advance!
Bryant G
https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/
What reforms exactly would fix that?
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Sure, I think most people would agree with you but why the strong warning about macos being unusable by 2026? They're making plenty of cash and seem pretty privacy focused under Tim Cook.
> non-tech management MBAs running Google are all using iPhones

That's a kiss of death. I remember while working at Windows Phone team at Microsoft, a lot of program managers and designers were using iPhones and Macs. Unsurprisingly their own product never got off the ground because they failed to develop a vision for it. Android at Google is in a slightly better position, but this kind of attitude of not using your own product but preferring a competitor's one leads to inevitable decline.
>Bullshit. React is almost 11 years old, the only other two really popular competitors are 10 and 13 and use the same paradigm.

React has been changing a lot. And before react it changed even more. There's all kinds of change in the front end world and you know it. Not even close to bullshit.

>Everything else in this area is very experimental and tentative, as it should be, but it is mostly celebrated by people who, surprise, complain that "the web is too complex".

Webgl and svg are experimental? I don't think so. Using CSS + HTML + Javascript to build an Windows like application is more experimental.

>Even "new hotness" like Tailwind is based off quite old Atomic CSS ideas that started in the late 2000s and early 2010s at Yahoo.

I never talked about whether something is based off of old technology. I'm just saying all the state of the art is always changing constantly as people build new things. Whether those new things are recycling old ideas is besides the point. The main problem is that each "new" thing is placed as this big ugly layer above something that was designed to be a high level interface anyways.
Generally this is true. For anything over a thousand, I try to negotiate. Most of the time they rather compromise than fight/sell it at a % to collections.
> if that's profitable to do at house scale, then it's probably even more profitable to do at grid scale

There is a reason home generation wins. It's because retail prices are 3 times what the generator is paid. (That's true where I live).

So yes, in absolute terms power generated by home solar costs more than a utility generating it. But it's not 3 times more, so if you install home solar and use the power, it's always a big win. It will be the same with batteries.

The traditional forms of generating power, coal, gas, hydro and nuclear only win because home generation costs using those technologies (eg, putting a coal mine and generator in your back year) costs far more than 3 times. You can't put wind, or pumped storage in your back yard either.

But solar and batteries are different animals. They are different in other ways too. It always makes sense to over provision solar. The question is not whether to do it, but by how much. So home generators will always be looking to sell power, and since it's free selling it at 1/3 of what they would pay for the same power looks like money for jam to them. It makes you wonder how many utility generators will be left standing if solar takes over the world.
I bill Blue Cross Blue Shield and the cost of a service was $125.

A different insurance was $70.

The medicaid patients are $40 (and our company would collapse if we only had these patients). They are basically break even, or a loss when they call off.

Now we aren't part of the hospital or physicians cartel, we are a tiny offshoot with no lobbying power... yet. Medical is a legal squeeze, not a technical one. Sorry for playing the game too. You need to fight against Medical.
That's all going to NVIDIA.
As someone who joined pre-pandemic, my opinion is that we were unsustainably lean at the time. I was shocked at how small the infrastructure team was when I joined the company and things were honestly a bit rickety at the user scale we were at then. While engineering was probably the single biggest department, a large chunk of that 200 were in departments like Trust & Safety and Customer Experience (support).

We saw a huge amount of user growth during the pandemic, we massively increased the number of users that could be in a single guild (server), we launched features that asked a lot more from our AV backend (stage channels, camera video in guild voice), had to deal with a massive increase in spam during the crypto boom, expanded voice calls to Xbox and PS5 and had to deal with an increasingly fraught regulatory environment.

We also shipped a lot of user-facing features during that timeframe. Some of those ultimately got removed because of poor results and depending on your use of the platform I imagine some of those that stayed may not be particularly visible, but we really did ship a lot of stuff and I'm not going to attempt to list it all here.

Obviously, in hindsight we should have had a tighter focus and probably hired a bit less, but this sentiment that we are/were hugely bloated feels pretty wild to me from where I'm sitting.
Ah, yes. It's the funny signs that are dangerous, not the colossal pickup trucks with a hood higher than many adults' heads. Thanks for the great work regulators.
I've been using kubuntu for ~2 years now at work and I feel like I need to watch some KDE tutorial videos so that I can learn these tips and tricks too, because I love KDE and what you describe sounds wonderful
I don't favor single return per function myself, but in C code bases where that was the norm, I liked being able to add a debug print in one place which logs the return value.

DEBUG("%s (%s) -> %d", __func__, str_arg, ret);
return ret;

Single return doesn't necessarily mean nested ifs; it can be linear.

bool success = true;

if (condition(arg1)) {
success = try_that(arg2);
}

if (success && condition2(arg3)) {
success = other_thing(arg2);
}

...

return success;

Resource acquisition:

widget_t *w = widget_create(arg);
gadget_t *g = w ? gadget_create(w, arg2) : 0;
char *gncopy = g ? strdup(gadget_name(g));

if (gncopy) {
// we must have g and w */
}

Early returns can cause bugs; they can be premature. The coder though that if a certain condition is true, none of the other cases matter. And may be that was true, but now some of the cases (perhaps new ones) do matter. Someone wrote code to handle them, but didn't notice it's not reached because of that early return.
I don't think we are using the same meaning for the word "jurisdiction".

Or has the US declared war on Iran?
I'll need to investigate that, thanks. Any pointers? In 2021 TurboTax included all that pages in my filing, it was 100 something pages!
Thanks for sharing, and creating! This is great - solves a real problem we have at home, too.

First impression was great, worked as advertised and delighted with the auto-categorisation. Handled a ‘not a tangible item scenario’ (snacks for a share plate at a party) smartly.

I can see a want for multiple lists in our household over time (seemed like I could only have one locally but didn’t try too hard to find if I could).

Love that it is native, lightning quick UI and launch.
Right? Magnitude matters.
My Wi-Fi has already been working just fine for a long, long time, new developments there are irrelevant to approximately everybody. Recent developments in AI, not so much.
As I understand it, it's because they could pass "temporary" tax cuts with only 51% in the Senate through the "budget reconciliation process. The Republicans at the time did not have the 60 votes necessary to defeat a filibuster. Not quite the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act