skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you keep receiving all the income you want and I'll get exclusive rights to all of your wealth, surely you got the better side of this deal then?

I think so, because you can use the income on consumables. Like say you got a no-limit credit card. You go on exotic vacations at tropical resorts. All you have are some (economically worthless) photos of yourself having a great time. When the credit card company comes calling, you turn out your pockets and say "sorry, I'm broke", and walk away to your next plane flight. Definitely seems like a good deal to me, not so much for the credit card company.

The simple fact is that most people are wealth-neutral or even wealth-destroying in that e.g. they wreck their car and just buy another.
I have the impression that if Bitcoin was banned in all major countries, the valuations for cybersecurity companies would be much lower.

Bitcoin as a payment method has been instrumental in attracting the brightest minds to build malware and, as a result, has boosted the cybersecurity industry.
It looks like the Norwegian wealth tax is for wealth above $170M, which seems pretty aggressive to me. Gabriel Zucman and others made a website [2] in 2020 aimed at the US that included a wealth tax; the lowest bracket it had was for wealth above $1M. I like wealth taxes, and prefer Zucman's model over that of Norway.

Progressive income taxes and wealth taxes seem to me like great mechanisms to build a middle class and to increase social stability. I.e. stabilize the wealth and income distributions (in the statistical sense) so that they do not become bimodal.

[1] https://www.lifeinnorway.net/wealth-tax/

[2] https://triumphofinjustice.org/
Me too!

The problem with Golang is that it has the same name as a common verb instead of a noun ("go" is used as a verb like 99.99% of the time).

I remember coming across a thread maybe 10-14 years ago where the Golang creators were asked to change the name of the language. They declined. If I recall, one of the arguments was that the name would naturally become associated with Golang. Here we are in 2024, and the confusion still happens.

The TFA blog was great, by the way, even though it was not about about Golang as I had expected.
This is true. However, when you’re trying to build a company that works remotely then asynchronous communications becomes an almost necessary part of that.

Going from in-office to remote in the same time zone is a huge lift, and increases your target employee market from 1 city to 5-6 time zones (ie a quarter of the world).

But developing your company to work across time zones is a much smaller lift and will quadruple the employee target market for the employer from 5-6 time zones to 24 time zones.

If you’ve already made the significant effort to increase your employee access to a quarter of the world, it’s very likely you will make a slight additional effort to extend that to the entire world.
On the other hand, I know a low level person at Nvidia who has made somewhere near $100m on his stock options.

And if the workers aren't getting stock options, they can still buy stocks on the open market. How much would $10,000 invested into AMZN at the IPO be worth today?

$13,000,000
Ah yes California, Washington, NYC — places where rich people famously do not live
It's weird that you're talking about fission when the thing the batteries are really replacing is natural gas peaker plants.

Peak shaving (i.e. the thing storage is best at) is essentially the opposite of baseload. It gets you over the hump where the demand peak is after sunset but you don't want to have a 100% nuclear grid overbuilt to meet the peak demand that occurs when solar generation is zero, and you also want to stop using natural gas.

You still need something to generate power when the load is back to baseline and the peak shaving batteries are dry but it's 8 more hours until sunrise. Especially if we're going to electrify heating loads that currently use fossil fuels, which are higher at night and higher during the part of the year when solar generation is lowest.
> just say `arc diff` instead of `git push`.

"just" - I bounced off Phabricator because I couldn't use native git tooling, and what mapped to where wasn't clear to me. The pure git approach of git-pr is the exact opposite of that. Sure, someone is going to write just-too-useful-to-skip-wrappers around that later, but you always know what's going on under the hood.
What is special about family farms, that doesn't apply to other family-owned businesses?
> You would think, after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries, that the far left would be happy that labor has finally prevailed. But none of them seem to be. You can almost hear them saying "No, no, not that way."

This one really threw me for a loop. Do startup founders making or seeking a big exit really think of themselves as "labor"?
The part everyone always glosses over is:

If the rich are taxed more, will the government equitably distribute that money to the middle class?

Defense contractors make hundreds of millions of dollars from government funds.

We just assumed that tax money will go to the middle class but it's also likely to go to another rich person.
Debugging the Sprinkler System
Don't make the mistake of bringing about Roko's basilisk too slowly.
Redaction is not simple.
What should the software do if the user's black box is drawn over an image, some text and part of a spline on a page? Modify the image and recompress it even if it's lossy?, find the text run and remove the obscured characters (what about a half covered letter?), somehow modify spline and possibly replace it with several smaller ones if the redaction is in the middle of it? All while taking into account any transforms that have been applied to the page. Also what if the black box is over part of a pdf form? Is it just the appearance that gets redacted or the form data (which is separate). Same questions if the black box is drawn over annotations. And what about other page content like embedded videos or 3d content, good luck redacting those. But if you only redact some things the user might then justifiably expect it to redact everything.
> One natural consequence of this has been that the wealthy people are simply...leaving the country. (our total / combined max wealth tax is 1.1%)

I assume that was to be expected. The more interesting question would be: Is this a net gain for Norwegians?
> Because that’s what excess wealth is, a power dynamic powered by a suboptimal system masquerading as shades of a meritocracy that does not exist.

What does that mean? It's millenial Marxism unmoored from any specificity or facts.
Very cool! Love the project. Thanks.

I watch Jeopardy a lot -- that bartender from New York achieving 9 days of wins, was an amazing thing to watch.

Curious: are you using questions from the game or built your own database?
HMD is basically former Nokia executives and employees though.
Ouch :( 125°F is well above the pain threshold.
Right now, there is a guy in a garage founding the next billion dollar company, doing something we all will wish we thought of.
Schleswig–Holstein Question
One of my (many) favourite parts of the sutra:

"If you are caught up in the idea of a dharma, you are also caught up in the idea of a self, a person, a living being and a life span. If you are caught up in the idea that there is no dharma you are still caught up in the idea of a self, a person, a living being and a life span. That is why we should not be caught up in the idea of dharmas, or in the idea that dharmas do not exist."

The analogy I like to use is that of the waves and the ocean. You can look and see both. You can tell where one wave ends and another begins. You can see the waves forming and dissipating. But can you tell where the ocean ends and the wave begins?

The sutra strikes down the idea of dualism and yet it at the same time it says:

"Do not think that when one gives rise to the highest, most fulfilled, awakened mind, one needs to see all objects as non-existent, cut off from life."

It is most wonderful. :)
Long-Distance Call
It's a bfd cause they spent around $600 million on it.
We pretend wealthy people are special when they’re simply lucky. They then use wealth to wield power and control (politics specifically, Citizens United, but I can provide other examples), with a narrative that they are special (not lucky! special!) and that maybe you too can be special and wealthy if you work really hard and are exceptional.

Are the wealthy lucky? Yes. Do they use their wealth to shape the world as they see fit? Yes. Is the narrative that anyone can be wealthy if they work very hard and are exceptional despite the math showing this is not true? Yes.
I think the answer for some area's is sheep. They can graze under the panels and don't chew on stuff like goats.

There is a whole interest in agrivoltaics as it's become apparent that the land under the solar panels remains productive. In the western US there is a lot of completely unproductive land to put solar panels on. But in the east and midwest being able to continue to use the land for agriculture is a win.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/agrivoltaics-solar-and-agr...

Random thought about fallow land under solar panels is the soil probably absorbs carbon over time.
Why We Sleep has some issues, but for a primer, it's a good intro.

I read that before I got into working in the neurotech/sleeptech space.

The Cambridge textbook The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams[1] I found surprisingly approachable. I've long had an interest in neuroscience, so it wasn't a completely new subject to me, but it wasn't a bad read.

I'm a life-long insomniac, you didn't go into the details of your sleep problems, and I initially read Why We Sleep because I was trying to understand sleep and fix my own problem. Unfortunately, I it's still all the same CBT-I stuff, sleep hygiene, etc etc.

We're not working in insomnia, I haven't found anything in the peer-reviewed literature which is convincing that anyone is near a solution in this space.

[1](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/neuroscience-of-sleep-a...)
Just today a friend who sold their house couple weeks ago told me this: they had an internet-connected Wi-Fi lawn irrigation system. After selling their house, they had their internet service cancelled. Along with it the Wi-Fi system turned off of course. The irrigation system loosing the internet connection decided to turn on the irrigation with nobody able to turn it off as the new owners had not moved in yet. The lawn promptly flooded with water flowing to the street for two days straight. A worried neighbor called and the buyer's agent had to go to the house to manually turn off all water in the house. So much for smart IoT systems...
Seems like whatever representation allows a daw to playback a synthesizer in time is the right notation. It’s algorithmic in nature.
First UK Covid inquiry report to set out 'appalling failures' during pandemic
The USSR did not have lobbyists nor wealthy people.

Didn't work out too well for the commoners.
Funny because Broadcom is where IP goes to die in general lololol.
Yes, read "The little book of common sense investing" by Bogle.
Bezos cries, as I wave a tenner in his face. "You don't have any real wealth, you only have stocks!"
Compliance and security are extremely important. Because of Talos’ single purpose nature and extreme small size it hasn’t needed patches for the recent “big” CVEs (xz utils, SSH, etc) because we don’t even have that software present.

When you get sick of patching let us know
I've been happily programming since 1965, and I've been doing C++ since 1995. There is still so much to learn, it's never stopped being fun.
However, Apple Notarization may just be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Tell us one of them.

I'll give an example where everyone was equal. The USSR. That worked out great, right?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962626
> wealth inequality is bad

There’s an interesting economic science paper from awhile ago where the researchers examined an economic simulation as wealth inequality increased, and their finding was that it’s like temperature in that it causes phase transitions. At some level of wealth inequality, agents stopped being able to trade (most agents didn’t have the funds to trade most goods), causing a “freeze” - going from liquid(ity) to solid.
It's a pretty big list of names that I've scraped together.

There's barely and load on the server to generate the names and it only happens once for the new users so it wouldn't be worth putting that load on the client just for that one time, especially not with the traffic it's currently getting (currently around 1k users/day).
It's not "any"; it's "fewer". Anyone remember when we blew a hole in the deficit to give them a tax cut? Definitely would help to solve that problem by rolling that one back.
A statement like this probably needs a source or two to first show it is true (wealth taxes actually are causing rich people to flee) second, show that they actually do take their spend/invest/hire money with them and finally that it is harmful that that happens. Leaving creates a vacuum and if the rich really are leaving then it would be a big vacuum that clearly can't be filled with someone else that is rich since they are all leaving. Without someone big there to fill the vacuum it that implies it is being filled with a lot of smaller companies. This actually sounds like a good thing to me to tell you the truth. Can we emphasize this effect?
Google Readies $23B Deal for Wiz, a Startup, Despite Antitrust Scrutiny
I know at least Preview on MacOS has this feature now: if you try to put a black bar over text it tells you this isn’t secure and offers to redact for you using a method that both visually replaces all characters and removes the embedded text underneath It is non-destructive until saved meaning you have a window in which to make changes before the data is gone.
Gabe Newell has a nice superyacht. Part of the profits surely went there :)

https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/rocinante/
I find discussions of economic desert rarely get anywhere since everyone has a different idea of what is deserved.

I like to talk about incentives. We have a massive under supply of housing across the developed world, in part because so much labor is training for desk jobs rather than construction jobs.

If you want to solve the housing problem, you need to change the incentives for young people to shun construction jobs. That means more money and eventually status for manual laborers and less money and eventually status for desk jockeys.

That's just one example.
To clarify at the time Chong “resigned” from Harper’s cabinet… it was one of those things where Harper kept everyone’s resignation letters in a drawer and when he wanted you out he just “accepted” your resignation
Because most will leave as soon as the law is announced before it becomes law in that case.
So the gnostics were right? Demiurge spatial-temporal firewall of reality nodes
https://archive.is/eKJbc
This is why I said that Glacier’s hash should not be emulated.

FWIW, using a (root hash, data length) pair hides many sins, although I haven’t formally proven this. And I don’t think that extension attacks are very relevant to the OCI use case.
I remember when this was a thing like back in the early 2000s, but nowadays everyone bombards their users with ads regardless of TLD.
I had to tweak a few things to make it work on my Alpine Linux. This tutorial helped a lot: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/wiki/%22I...
What’s a lawn dart?
FWIW Talos has DoD users from multiple countries. The areas that need a lot of security have repeatedly chosen Talos when they compare it to traditional Linux distros.
> they can still buy stocks on the open market

Well that's my point - people who do the work and create the wealth don't get that wealth in wages, it is parasitically expropriated by stockholders.

I am arguing on the side of those who work, that the wealth they create is kept by them. You argue for idleness and parasitism - that those who don't do the work can be rewarded via these various mechanisms, by being parasites on those who do work.
Developing this a bit; I get that founders might object to being lumped in with the asshole-rich-guy demographic associated with the term, but "capital" doesn't mean people who never had to work hard, it means capital. When we talk about laws and regulations that advantage capital over labor or v.v., we're talking about money rather than people. The fact that founders get rich via stock options rather than by paying themselves huge salaries is an example! If labor had won, wouldn't pg be trying to pick a startup to work for rather than one to invest in?
NYS is fucking obsessed with rolling its own everything. It has its own shitty equivalent to login.gov sso that's buggy as hell and even can cause you to duplicate accounts with no deduping possible. They recently launched their own mobile driver license app instead of just integrating with Android or apple wallet. Given the state of other IT projects, it's most definitely political kickbacks to companies like Infosys.
Partly helped by guys having it easier fundraising.
This is interesting, with online editors it's definitely possible today. The real question comes down to how to engineer the UX to actually make it comfortable to use. I hate typing a lot on mobile (maybe copilot can mitigate this) but still can't imagine a UX that would feel right. More likely I think is we get to the point (arguably possible today with apples m chips) where we can use an iPad instead of a laptop but that gain is kind of meh. Fixing bugs while on my phone while riding the subway sounds pretty cool.
> Not by clicking through AWS' terrible website

Look into IaC (infrastructure as code) which all major clouds, and even smaller clouds support. Much more sane way of managing resources.

> trying to reformulate a ChatGPT prompt for the 17th time

Is the company mandating you use AI to solve problems... or? Anecdotally I don't use AI very much at $DAYJOB, nor do any of my co-workers.
Maybe it is a sun room. I hope it is a sun room since I am in one right now and I want to be that person!
This is another place where 80% of the time one way works but 20% of the time you need to go the other way.

Of course once the product is in production you can swim one direction but not fight the current going in the other. You can always move to escaping output, but retroactively sanitizing input is a giant pain in the ass.

But the problem comes in with your architecture, and whether you can discern data you generated from data the customers generated. Choose the wrong metaphors and you end up with partially formatted data existing halfway up your call stack instead of only at the view layer. And now you really are fucked.

Rails has a cheat for this. It sets a single boolean value on the strings which is meant to indicate the provenance of the string content. If it has already been escaped, it is not escaped again. If you are combining escaped and unescaped data, you have to write your own templating function that is responsible for escaping the unescaped data (or it can lie and create security vulnerabilities. "It's fine! This data will always be clean!" Oh foolish man.)

The better solution is to push the formatting down the stack. But this is a rule that Expediency is particularly fond of breaking.
I'm always a little suspicious of these services. People use them to create throw-away accounts, which they abandon after one use. Those accounts remain active and are useful for botting (vote manipulation, comment spam, etc). Whoever owns the email domain can do a password reset to do an account take over.

I'm curious about the privacy policy. The title says that you don't have ads, but there's tons of discussion about sharing information with ad partners.
I'm a bit hesitant to describe $NEW_CONCEPT/TECH as just $OLD_CONCEPT/TECH. Echoes of older things in a new context can really amount to something different. Yes, VMware didn't create the idea of virtualization and Docker et al didn't create containerization but the results were pretty novel.
I don't think MS did all of the books. For the ones they did do, you could just link your visitors to the audio on archive.org.
I've never seen these companies (that are supposedly everywhere) that have all this "deadweight". Every company I've worked at has had 4X to 10X more work than enough staff to do the work. We beg for headcount to hire more so we can actually do what we set out to do, but we never have enough. I guess these places exist, but I've never really seen it myself.
Jeff Bezos famously left the state just before the Washington's new cap gains tax targeted at him was set to go into effect.

I know other people with 8 figure fortunes who left, too.

I didn't know it was controversial that spending a lot of money in a local economy makes it more prosperous, and when a big spender leaves, the local economy goes down.

The Rust Belt is an example of the latter.
Hitting a company with fines for not doing maintenance required by regulation, when the fines cost more than compliance, works well. Given sensible regulations, of course.

Look at airlines: rather strict and reasonably good safety regulations made flying the safest form of transportation, safer than driving and maybe even walking. Nevertheless, we don't see exorbitant prices either; if anything, the cost of air travel is surprisingly low, often competitive with rail, even in EU.

Of course, unreasonable regulations are a bane, see the leaded fuel situation in general aviation, or the whole nuclear industry.
I find it hard to believe the lack of housing is caused by a labor shortage in construction.
That's not really true because they used to have the same mail server so if you found one domain, then you could easily find the rest of the domains too.
On the other hand, you have to guard against being that person who is in a perpetual state of "Benn there, done that. Didn't work the last 5 times we tried it." Because sometimes the circumstances/market/tech ecosystem genuinely are different.
LibriVox does this with people who volunteer to read everything. It’s an extremely time consuming endeavor for the readers but they ultimately choose to do so unpaid. Why not create a system that covers the cost of the TTS model at cost as to avoid profiting off of what exists in the public domain? That’s the spirit of things being in the public domain.
There’s only two public boards: “Animals”, which I clobbered together awhile ago just as a demo for folks to test Buzzinga with.

I later added the “Millennials” game, which I created myself and played with friends on a game night.

Neither have clues from the Jeopardy! show itself AFAIK.
That's like saying your entire hard drive is a single number.
Tech workers at the FAANGs have salaries that are multiples of those typical in the EU say. If those who employ them are parasites they are still doing quite well for the host. Of course you could sweep away the parasites completely to let the workers enjoy the glorious rewards they do in Cuba and N Korea.
It's not just the people designing the hardware but also those maintaining it. I work in an "Infrastructure Engineer" position (I hate that since it also correlates with construction but mine is strictly expensive servers in data centers) and I make less money than the people running the virtual infrastructure even though that all runs on top of the machines I manage, lol.

I once had an internal customer open an on call event to ask why one of their machines was running so slowly. I said "it's because one of the DIMMs has thrown about 30,000 correctable errors within the past month". I was able to correlate that by mapping the EDAC label for the DIMM recorded in /var/log/messages and some gzipped archives of the aforementioned log file.

Of course I deal with CPU, memory, motherboards, GPUs, add-on NICs (OCP or PCIe), storage controllers (HBAs mostly, some RAID controllers), BMCs, and of course I also have to evaluate the link width of PCIe bridges interconnecting all the PCIe devices.