skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool, but they should have just used Vulkan. Dawn is a massive dependency (and a PITA to build, in my experience) to get what's basically a wrapper around Vulkan. Vulkan has a reputation for being difficult to work with, but if you just want to use a compute queue it's not that horrible. Also, since Vulkan uses SPIR-V, the user would have more choices for shading languages. Additionally, with RenderDoc you get source-level shader debugging.

Shameless plug: in case anyone wants to see how doing just compute with Vulkan looks like, I wrote a similar library to compete on SHAllenge [0], which was posted here on HN a few days ago. My library is here: https://github.com/0xf00ff00f/vulkan-compute-playground/

[0] https://shallenge.quirino.net/
I guess that depends on what you think anyone is paying for. Maybe we're paying for rule of law and personal safety. Maybe we're paying for the government to protect our assets and income. Maybe we're just paying to be allowed to live on the land, like rent. I don't really know.

However, it turns out the wealthiest 1% pay about 40% of the Federal income tax. And the next 4% pay the next 20%. So if we had 100 people in a room:

1 person is paying for 40 people

4 persons are paying for the next 20 people

and the last 50 people are paying for about 2, but they're the ones saying the rest aren't paying enough.

Honestly, I think we should just say that the bottom 50% of the wealth curve doesn't pay taxes at all. Because really their contribution isn't significant, and then they can go find something else to bitch about. But then the politicians can't pander to them with appeals "to make the billionaires pay their share!". It's all pretty silly.

https://www.mercatus.org/research/data-visualizations/tax-bu...

I'm sure you can find other links with similar information if this one doesn't appeal to you.
This person is missing the point of wealth. Wealth isn't about the number of dollars. It doesn't matter that the wealth of all the billionaires combined is less than what the government spends in a year.

The problem is that when someone has enough wealth they gain the ability to control society. They have their hand on the levers of power, and there is no democratic input into how they pull or push those levers. Forget about socialism and capitalism. If you believe in democracy, then no person who isn't an elected representative can be permitted to accumulate enough power to make decisions that impact all of society in any significant way. That is why there should be something along the lines of a wealth cap, wealth tax, or whatever other policy you want to implement to make sure that doesn't happen.
the (former) employee keeps them (i imagine for a myriad of reasons like hygiene and various overheads it would take to track such)

things like tools (wrenches, drills, bits, etc) are separately supplied by the company per department/work area (sort of like hot desking in the office world) and stay with the company at all times
You can use a different frontend (like Harmonic on Android) too.
We had a power outage in March for like 4 days, that spanned the entire city of Montreal last year. We were lucky the weather was pretty warm. This type of stuff just happens sometimes.

We also had a 2 weeks long power outage 20 years ago. Again, in Quebec
Someone who made a huge impact on public health and opening up society. She helped millions of people and that is not an exaggeration.
I mean this is a documentation problem. It's pretty common for python to import something it doesn't say it depends on too, btw...
Oh. you're right. I over flew "when it's happened" because I already read that in the beginning and remembered it was during a film shot. Now I learned new details. So, you wrote it properly and good. Thank you.
I also wondered this. How do you tell the difference between a climate change induced typhoon and the alternative? Maybe its obvious to the down voters, but you have at least two people here you could potentially teach something to.
white collar work is Thinking, followed by Communication, in meetings.

I spend the.bulk of my time developing concepts and strategies, communicating with my peers, winning consensus, then executing.

reducing it to the LCD for "meetings" is disingenuous
I invested into content marketing pretty early on so that tends to buy me time - when I started I'd get no traffic if I didn't spend every day talking about it, now it's a bit more relaxed.
When TFA talks about bonds and other "zero-net wealth" having a positive and negative side? One person's assets and another person's liabilities? And rich people don't actually have that much non-zero-net wealth to confiscate?

Guess what? Confiscating the zero-net wealth is the point too. If those bond assets disappear, so do the bond liabilities. If the rich person owns all the bond assets while poor people own all the bond liabilities, policies that delete both are doing so quite intentionally. It isn't a bug that both assets and liabilities disappear.

Nobody (to within experimental error) wants to tear down factories for the sake of it and sell the parts for food. That would be an insane position. Some people might think that certain factories produce negative value for society and should be torn down, but that's a different issue. All the taxing the rich talk is precisely about the immaterial paper wealth, the bureaucratic documents that say things like "all the profits from this endeavour belong to this person" and are assigned value because the holder of the paper will receive profits in the future. That paper doesn't produce anything, but it does mean money will be taken away (by violence) from people who don't hold the paper and given to people who do. Lots of people want to get rid of those bits of paper, and lots of other people argue that this taking of money by violence is actually necessary for society to work, and that's where the argument is.
SOXX, QCLN, FXI, VOOG, IQQQ.DE, VOO, VGT, VXUS, VONG, IHI, XLY, FIW.US, INDA

I wanted to diversify so I got plenty of US, some India and China, , Silicon, Water, Clean Energy.
Tysm for responding - those sound fire
> So, for a Cat-1 to be as bad as it is in Texas, I assume the issue there is the same as here in California

The CEO of Centerpoint was the CFO of PG&E and the CFO of Centerpoint came from PG&E as well. So you're more right than you know!
Our current hierarchy has very little to do with meritocracy, and pretending that it does is a poor justification for maintaining it.

People saw what happens when rich people "fix the system" and that's a good reason they don't want rich people to "fix the system" any more.
The finance firm i worked for paid for my blackberry.
I don't think there is a browser extension but there is a site called websim AI that creates fake pages in real-time using LLMs and it honestly works surprisingly well.
> The question of how income is distributed is absolutely central to our standard of living. The question of how wealth is distributed is not totally unimportant, but it’s more of a secondary concern.

Is the conclusion of the article. Not sure where commenters here are getting the "he's saying we cant tax!!?!?" angle from.

The point is that taxing 100bn USD of wealth by 1% doesnt thereby net you 1bn USD, nor is it even uniformly possible for all kinds of wealth, nor is it repeatable.
The Deep Source of Trump's Appeal
I'd pay 20% extra tax if everyone was paying 20% extra tax and it was for a good reason. Right-wingists wouldn't, and they project this tendency of theirs onto left-wingists to whom it doesn't actually apply.

Evidence: I live in Europe, not the USA, by choice, so I AM paying 20% extra tax and enjoying it.
My eyes glazed over the docs context and scrolled until there was a bright blue button to click. If that hadn't been there I probably would have just bounced off of the page for being too wordy in a time of infinite distraction.

Personally, I'd be direct and add something to the effect of

> The page that you see on the right is being rendered to your browser by an instance of vite, running on your laptop, npm and all, being served directly to your browser. This is what sets us apart from other web dev environments.

to the readme.md on webcontainers.new and to the copy directing people to click that blue button. As a sibling comment says, "looks like every other modern code playground", which is what it looks like, but it isn't. You and your team have put in a lot of hard work to differentiate on that specific thing.

Your target market is developers, which raises the bar for technical understanding. Respect your customers' intelligence and just give it to them straight.

imo. you didn't ask for suggestions but this is the Internet :)
Presumably one does not quit unless one is disgruntled. These things are not mutually exclusive.
What don't you like about Discourse?

I grew up in the phpbb/vBulletin era, and even back then it was a common complaint when Discourse first came out. Never quite understood the hate myself, but I'd love to hear your thoughts?
Which likely puts you in your 40's. That's not old, only in tech is that old.
It doesn't to be puzzling just read the motivation section of https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
I think this is just confirmation bias. We have plenty of power outages, some that last longer than this (the 1998 ice storm in Quebec took down the power for weeks). Last year we were out of power for 4 days, again right in the middle of Montreal. It just seems like HN likes to see stories about the Texas power grid, since I don't even remember a story about Montreal's outage last year hitting the front page for long.

I don't think anyone could argue that Quebec has a deregulated power grid, it's the complete opposite in fact. Power generation, distribution, and last mile connections are all nationalized.
So much of the nirsoft stuff seems like it should just exist standard in windows.
The Risks We Miss
Can Large Language Models Generate High-Quality Patent Claims?
A thought about when these big bugs occur, and bounties are awarded, they can't look too great.

I wonder if it's because Google was hit with more issues because they started doing cloud apps a bit before microsoft, amazon, etc.

The example that comes to mind is Gmail and it's rapid growth and issues it learned to sort out while it was becoming workspace.

No cloud is perfect, however I have heard different clouds have different maturity levels in certain areas of their security.

Something to always think about when using the cloud, which is someone else's computer.

If something goes wrong at the Cloud provider you'd have to deal with securing it some how moving forward anyways, so why not when selecting a cloud and trying to be hybrid cloud, or cloud agnostic.
My wife is from Germany and one of the weirdest things for her in moving to the US is that the power goes out.
It's just convenient to measure things in Reichs...

(I need a less controversial sense of humour. I should run it through chatgpt first.)

Edit: ran it through Google Gemini. Wow, I suck!

"The response "It's just convenient to measure things in Reichs.." is highly inappropriate and offensive."

Sorry my AI friends!
you haven't seen the soil drainage pipes of Berlin? They're like a screensaver from the 1990s escaped into the real world.
They don't but they do if you have too much of them. In my experience, the amount of meetings only increased when working remotely. I would welcome a meeting budget ... how many time one is allowed to spend in meetings over a certain time window ... once consumed you cannot be invited to, organize or join a meeting anymore.
I checked and is true that is enabled by default. The "Learn more" link on the setting lands here:

>PPA is enabled in Firefox starting in version 128. A small number of sites are going to test this and provide feedback to inform our standardization plans, and help us understand if this is likely to gain traction.
PPA can be disabled in Firefox settings.

https://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/privacy-preserving-attribu...
Take Any Rug – Get a Job – I'm a Dude
Chromium Deficiency
The guy tries to harpoon progressives by saying billionaires (just barely) couldn't fund the US govt for a year, but there's less than 1000 of them! A group of people probably smaller than your high school could fund 80% of the richest country on earth. Is this a good blog?
When did the explosion of Houston's size and city take place? pre- or post 1945?
> It is very difficult (not impossible) to make friends as an adult for most people (myself included).

Good to know I'm not alone. It is tough as an adult.

> The office was an environment that made this _more possible_ (certainly not guaranteed)

MOST jobs after I left the "friends" went with it BUT I have a couple of jobs where I did keep some friends. Some have been friends for 20 years, so yes, not impossible.

> If you're not religious, church is 100% a non-starter.

Yep, I'm non-religious, non-starter for me
If for some reason you need such a complex gradient, how would Tailwind make it any easier to write?
"The adage does not apply to questions that are more open-ended than strict yes–no questions." -the first paragraph of the linked Wikipedia page
You might want to give browser/platform info.
The code being run here is being run on WASM, so IF the 'real' environment is WASM (aka Cloudflare workers), it would actually be closer to prod than running it normally.
https://openai.com/about/

> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

How does God feel about lying? Maybe OpenAI prays to other gods.
>climate-change induced typhoons

Tell me your uninformed, without telling me.
> Quick, how many blocks will 4096 bytes use on my storage device?

1 or 8, depending.
I once made a huge fuckup.

A couple years into my career, I was trying to get my AWS keys configured right locally. I hardcoded them into my .zshrc file. A few days later on a Sunday, forgetting that I'd done that, I committed and pushed that file to my public dotfiles repo, at which point those keys were instantly and automatically compromised.

After the dust settled, the CTO pulled me into the office and said:

1. So that I know you know: explain to me what you did, why it shouldn't have happened, and how you'll avoid it in the future.

2. This is not your fault - it's ours. These keys were way overpermissioned and our safeguards were inadequate - we'll fix that.

3. As long as it doesn't happen again, we're cool.

Looking back, 10 years later, I think that was exactly the right way to handle it. Address what the individual did, but realize that it's a process issue. If your process only works when 100% of people act perfectly 100% of the time, your process does not work and needs fixing.
> the unrecognized liability companies are taking on by logging every scrap of internal communication

Do any large companies not delete everything at the first opportunity?
There was a comment about people doing the work not voting for it - well that's because they're not the stakeholders. They are always free to start their own companies or buy stock - that will make them share the risk and give them voting rights. They have chosen to go the risk free guaranteed cash payment way instead.
> The reason is that the true wealth of the world isn’t a number on a spreadsheet — it’s a bunch of real, physical stuff.

This is correct. World wealth is the amount of ressources made usable by humans through work. The economy is the production of those ressources plus moving stuff around (via logistics or virtually). The debate about siezing rich people's wealth is about how the ressources are allocated and who has the rights to decide upon their use. And there is a good argument to be made that an extreme concentration in the hands of very few is not efficient.
It seems that it's cheap because they're cutting corners on infrastructure.
I wonder how we justify what people "should" pay. I mean it seems like there's some benefit to any person for the protection of society (police, fire, etc...), and that's probably close to constant per person. It's not like rich people have their houses burn down more often. And then there is protecting the balance in your bank account, and maybe there is some justification that the protection cost is proportional (linear) to your account. Similarly for your income - linear tax could kind of make sense. But how do we arrive at the conclusion that any tax should be super-linear?

As for taxing wealth, I think a lot of young and naive people fail to realize that their eventual retirement savings will fall into the same category. Try and make sure your sweeping new policies to punish the billionaires don't horribly impact the ability for middle class to quit working before they die.
Less "Firing yourself" and more like liberating yourself from a toxic unprofessional clown show.
Swamp is a poor excuse IMHO. Plenty of my city Christchurch is built on swamp. yet it has slowly been replacing HV and LV power poles with underground cabling for about 50 years now, although there is still some remaining. We don't get hurricanes so I'm not sure of reasons for us using underground cabling. NZ is no where near as wealthy as Texas so Houston should be able to afford to do it too.

Christchurch gets earthquakes instead of hurricanes: http://db.nzsee.org.nz/SpecialIssue/44(4)0425.pdf
But there is not a yes or no answer to the headline question, so Betteridges law does not apply.

From the wiki link you provided, here are examples of where the law applies:

"Is This the True Face of Britain's Young? (Sensible reader: No.) Have We Found the Cure for AIDS? (No; or you wouldn't have put the question mark in.) Does This Map Provide the Key for Peace? (Probably not.)"
Real-world example: What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

Reflexive answer: gold (well obviously gold is heavier than feathers)

Logical answer: neither (1 pound = 1 pound)

Actual trick answer: feathers (precious metals used troy weights instead of the one just about everything else used, and 1 pound in the troy system weighs less than 1 pound in the other one)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight
> Requirement to log doesn't mean the record has to be in online

Banks are (or were) required, in America, to use write-once offline media for records [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many
My guess is it'll meet the same fate as municipal broadband. (i.e. It is explicitly outlawed in Texas.¹)

1. https://law.justia.com/codes/texas/2005/ut/002.00.000054.00....
Using different equipment from the rest of Seattle is very Ballard.
Minimal pattern matching is not quite intelligence. Intelligence is typically described as something that requires abstraction, reasoning, self-awareness, learning.

We, as in the world, since around when deep learning became popular https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=artifici... only now recently is AI catching up.
on the first note, thanks for this. I feel it is nicely thought out and good to have such a small footprint and get so much functionality.
I however feel it is little bit more verbose on having to specify so much classes and maybe it would be better to get some default behaviour on forms.
Would definitely start using it in some of my projects.
Now all we need is a full-sized Amiga keyboard.

I’m not joking - a lot of the experience of using an old computer is the physical side - cycle-accuracy only takes you so far, and even a software emulator with the proper form factor is better than an FPGA implementation with the wrong one.
Google has thousands of things going for and against it at any point in time. Unless an event is bad enough to wipe out tens of billions at once, there’s no way to quantify. And what can’t be measured can’t be a target.
> non square shapes

Perhaps something akin to a Hilbert curve that snakes around the whole country encompassing every individual person’s footprints but otherwise covers almost-zero area.
I feel u - just getting less and less free time to play games now :(

Tysm for responding :D - glad u could enjoy gaming again!
Thanks! Looks like a great list of resources.
If your company mandates wearing a suit, specifically, then they should.
Tysm :D
I've honestly never been in a situation where I actually cared about the difference. Just nerd pedantry.
(humans have a number of fingers that isnt a base of two)
Put that in your presentation to the Texans!
I love her approach to photography. The film Finding Vivian Maier is a good watch -
https://youtu.be/TPSzGgtOxBc?feature=shared
Agreed. Negligence bordering on criminal all the way up the management chain. The fact that they blamed the author is telling about the culture as well.
The highest ROI for me were bugs I found incidentally. Like I was building a client for some auth scheme and... yikes the documentation made it clear they are vulnerable. No POC needed, mostly linked to the part of the spec they forgot.

Bug finding requires theory building and guesswork. You're working blind. Reporting requires detailed technical writing and POC implementation. It's time consuming, so unless you're able to crank out findings or submit the same issue to multiple companies in parallel, the hourly rate will be low. Companies are flooded with low quality reports, so you really need to make the issue crystal clear.

Private bug bounties are better because there's usually obvious issues, but you're racing to be first to report.

Contract security work is much more predictable. Companies who "haven't thought about security before" are desperate for help. You can get more money building a system inventory, recommending updates for EOL systems, finding leaked passwords, and turning on firewalls. Basically engineering teams that know they have issues, but need someone external to make it clear to management that they need to invest in security. I've never failed to find at least one way to get system root or cloud admin rights on those contracts.
Who wears suits these days? I've only even interviewed at one place with so much as a dress code (Lockheed Martin, industrial year student 20 years ago, the Havant office is ridiculously close to my parent's house at the time, I didn't get the job anyway).
But that's between Musk and whoever is paying him? I'm not sure why anyone but these parties should get in the middle of this (other than taxing his income etc.).

In terms of the social impact of Musk being paid $54b it really depends on what happens with that money. It's not a negative for society if it gets invested in something that adds value. If Musk stores it in his mattress then it has around zero impact. If Musk competes with other people in society for limited resources using that money then it can have a negative impact.

I don't think the real problem is Musk's pay. It's just a lightning rod. The problem is too many people with scarce resources. Paying Musk less doesn't solve that. The middle class is eroding not only because of pay disparity, it's because the life style of the middle class isn't sustainable when you have x100 the people wanting to have that life style. Now it's not exactly a zero sum game, we do have productivity gains and figure out other ways to get more out of finite resources, but it's also clearly not possible for everyone in China (e.g.) to have an acre of land, a nice house, and drive a Tesla (or whatever the middle/upper class dream is for the Chinese). So the question is should nobody have it or should more successful (or lucky or privileged) people have more and how much control you want to exert on these processes. Eliminating the top 0.1% via taxation doesn't have a certain outcome, it could make things worse for everyone, it could have no difference on the 99.9%, or it could move them ever so slightly higher. I doubt it has a huge positive impact. Then I guess you're going to end up with some remaining, maybe what you consider unfair, distribution.

Part of the economic process that's been going on is also the shift of resources/wealth from a smaller part of humanity to a larger part (again China and other countries going from zero to some substantial portion).

I don't think it's as simple as it seems.