skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graphite costs $25/month per user and there's no free tier I can use on enterprise. No matter what productivity gains I might derive from Graphite, I will never be able to convince my boss to pay for it, just because there's no way to prove that said gains exist.

And because there's no individual tier, I couldn't pay for it myself if I wanted to. Honestly, I would if I was forced to switch to GitHub, because stacking on Gerrit has increased my productivity by 2x as I'm no longer blocked on code reviews. Even a tiny pay gain because I'm now a top performer is worth the $25/month to me.
Shockley and the transistor...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
Same age. Got started on a ZX-81 and a university mainframe.

I still enjoy writing code or shall we say solving problems via code. I still get excited about new things. I'm also a manager and I enjoy helping others. What I enjoy less is the politics.

Building things is fun, I don't think this goes away, it was always fun and is still fun.
That seems like it's doing a LOT more than what you'd want a sanitizer to do. For HTML you really just want to escape a couple characters with special meaning. You probably can get away with just replacing < and > with their substitution sequences.

That way people can still discuss XSS exploits without your sanitizer deleting a bunch of the text they entered on purpose.
Can you read? "Protection, not cure". Are you going to make everyone take it ad vitam aeternam just in case of potential medical errors?

A cure to HIV would be welcome in theory, though I'm sure it'd be distributed like candy to people who don't want to be responsible for their questionable choices.
Inflation isn't exactly a single objective truth as you can decide how to measure it.

For example looking at the number of median salaries required to buy a house tells a different story.
It's not just nepa. Citizens really don't like pumped hydro which negatively impacts it's ability to be deployed (you need local permits as well as federal).

Bear lake Idaho has been talking about putting in pumped storage since the 2000s. On paper, it's pretty much the perfect geography for it. However, various concerns from the impact on local fishing to the impacts on the lakebed have ground that process to a halt. It's a 20+ year project that's gone nowhere.

That's why I'm largely negative on pumped hydro. On paper it seems nice, in practice it's almost impossible to get off the ground. Batteries, on the other hand, take almost no effort to install.
archive.today doesn't use CloudFlare in the first place. I think ranger_danger meant to say that they use Cloudflare's DNS resolver (1.1.1.1) which doesn't work with archive.today. (archive.today wants location information that the client normally sends in its DNS request to be able to route the client to an appropriate server, but CloudFlare's resolver sends its own location with less granularity which breaks that.)
This is why I think that modeling elementary physics is nothing else than fitting data. We might end up with something that we perceive as "simple", or not. But in any case all the fitting has been hidden in the process of ruling out models. It's just that a lot of the fitting process is (implicitly) being done by theorists; we come up with new models and that are then being falsified.

For example, how many parameters does the Standard Model have? It's not clear what you count as a parameter. Do you count the group structure, the other mathematical structure that has been "fitted" through decades of comparisons with experiments?
Author here. Thanks for posting this <3 Happy to answer questions.
> people writing passwords down

Which is better, a strong password written down, or better yet stored a secured password manager, or a weak password committed to memory?

As usual, XKCD has something to say about it: https://xkcd.com/936/
Agreed - if the other parties earnestly believed it... this reinforces the whole 'someone must be punished' mindset. I don't know. People can be mad.
Hardware engineers making half of what software engineers make. A reminder of the stark difference between the two job markets.
apple cider to apples

https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson...

[previous hn discussion]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202905
> it’s not money, it’s employees who are malevolently careless

This, 1,000%
I'm not a fan of easter eggs in code for this exact reason but c'mon... a slip up like that being rolled out to thousands of customers is hilarious.
…because one of those things is very clearly tech news and one isn’t?
My guess is that the secret sauce is network effect. People have all their games in their steam libraries, so they want the next game in their steam library too.

They perceive the Steam launcher as something positive that provides them convenience. The network effect also makes it hard for game companies not not be on Steam, allowing Valve to enforce some customer-friendly policies like refunds, further making the platform nice to use.

Epic is trying to break through this by giving away endless free games. All other stores are generally forced upon the player through exclusives (you buy the game on Steam, but you still have to install their shitty launcher-store because the parent company owning the game wants some of the store-platform cake), breeding resentment and further cementing Steam's position.

(GOG being an exception, but they don't have enough major/interesting games to get players to use them as their primary platform.)
> Paul paints a rosy picture but doesn't mention that incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s.

These analyses never mention the fact that the consumption of wealth by the government has vastly expanded. Where does one think that wealth came from?
> 1. It's the only form of power with direct electricty generation. There's no heating water to turn a turbine;

> 2. Solar basically has no moving parts. You can point panels towards the Sun to increase efficiency but the panel itself and transmission has no moving parts;

This is kind of it's own problem, the fact that both solar and wind don't have moving parts that are directly connected to the grid and rotate at grid frequency necessitates a lot of other equipment to bring frequency stability back.

Some old power plants are being converted into synchronous condensers - the turbines replaced with giant flywheels - for this reason.
I live in a country with wealth tax (Norway), and I'm a bit conflicted on it.

On one side, it is effectively the only real tax a many in the "ownership class" are paying - relative to their wealth.

On the other side, it is a really problematic tax for entrepreneurs. It is downright horrible for startups and scaleups - critical funds that should be used to grow your company, has to be given out in dividends to founders, so that they can afford to pay the wealth tax.

And it is unfair - as it is a tax that foreign owners don't have to pay, but domestic owners have to pay. 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%)
If they're breaking things down as is usual then "Admin" includes, among other jobs, the entire customer support team, which I can vouch for as exceptionally good by the standards of internet platforms.
They are in no way open source. In fact Valve has killed some projects.
But will you sell in time for all that growth to not be eroded away?
Tech has been doing really well last few years, but it won't last forever looking at history. So when do you sell, and what do you buy when you sell.

This is why people opt for low fee index funds, like a total stock market fund. It'll always be in the right companies.
Discussion (308 points, 1 day ago, 211 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955693
Interestingly, Trump's statement after the incident seems to support this. When I initially read it I thought it was odd that he noted the whizzing first, but it now makes sense.

"I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin"
What Is the Riemann Hypothesis and Why Do People Want to Solve It
Just remember to intentionally handicap yourself as to not infringe upon ITAR restrictions.
I guess the difference is code is (almost always) totally deterministic. Or at the very least, they're designed so that is a mostly safe assumption.

It doesn't seem likely an LLM will ever do that. Maybe at a certain point of sophistication? But if the model is regularly changing - which they almost all will be, if they're expected to be up-to-date - there is a strong change they'll be different every time they're used.

(I've been getting different behaviour in even relatively narrow ML-based systems for years. Google Assistant is my prime example - I regularly use the phrase "add to my calendar on the 20th of September at 5pm, go to the park". Almost all the time, it works perfectly. But a couple times a year at least, it won't process this as an action - it just does a Google web search for this string.)
I think that a lot of features on Steam don’t need to be copied, but I think Steam does have a giant moat in terms of actually useful features.

Steam for example, allows user submitted ratings with explainer text. This is huge for online shopping decisions.

Steam Workshop is easy to integrate mod distribution for games. Etc.
The fed does not target an unemployment minimum. Their mandate is to reduce it after controlling inflation.
Show HN is specifically for showing own work, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Epic Games Store is just as atrocious as it was years ago. It's not about time.
Valve tried to avoid the biggest cause of bloat, hierarchys and silo chieftains.
> false claim that wealth inequality is solely due to more startups and not a real problem says a lot.

The article assumes that wealth inequality is bad, but never explains it.

The thing is, people all have different abilities and make different choices in life. These lead inevitably to different results. In order to make everyone equal, peoples' freedoms must be taken away.
HN isn't for tech news, it's for things which interesting. Read the guidelines.
Stardock's (then Gamestop's) Impulse, Paradox' GamersGate, IGN's Direct2Drive are all competitors that are about as old as Steam.

(Or at least were, these days I don't think they are much more than Steam keys resellers ?)
Without wealth, there is no prosperity for anyone except those who hold political power, full stop.
> 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.

PG does make a reasonable point here. Capital is much less of a barrier than in the past for starting a business. A small group of people with no outside investment can do a lot of damage.
It's 35 people, that most certainly does not include customer support, which will be outsourced to some low bidder as is customary.
Volume 1 of this book can be read at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/bellsystem_HistoryOfEngineeringA...

Another interesting book is "Engineering and operations in the Bell System", which can be borrowed at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/engineeringopera0000attb
More to the point, we want them to use electricity for heat instead. Heat pumps are quite efficient and natural gas emits CO2. But contrary to air conditioning load, heating load is inverse to sunlight, so we need a way to supply that electricity at night.
I’ve reached the point where every time I see a comment about “nobody wants to hire X programmers”, in my mind I append “… at hot SV startups” because that must be the only way it’s true.
Durability and accessibility is solved problem using erasure coding with automatic recovery. Nothing interesting in this space going on for like 10 years unless you’re pushing planetscale storage.

> It's the per rack operational costs that dwarf them. The cost of electricity, cooling etc

Ok lets do some simple math - lets say you have a few racks with 50PB in there, colocated. Power + floor space + remote hands will not cost you more to than 250k/y and that’s being very generous. Dividing by 50PB thats .5c per gig PER YEAR. Can you explain why GCS/S3 charges 50x that not including egress which is also ridiculous?
I assume you mean manufacturer-recommended servings printed on the label. I meant drinking one can.
calm the farm. people don't even know what a file extension is.
Some games do that (Escape From Tarkov), but it's rare because it's just not worth it.
> paper with a cat coauthor whose title I can't seem to recall

You probably have in mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard (coauthor of multiple papers, sole author of at least one).
one of the interesting things to me is that the concept of wealth isn’t finished.

not only is private wealth improving, wealth that is exchangeable for other things is improving as well.

its fine for other people to work on improving its distribution while keeping a finite set of resources affordable, because I dont have the solution to that and taking other people’s private liquid or illiquid wealth doesn’t solve that either

but its very interesting to me to see how abysmal liquidity is in every market outside of some US markets, and how we got here, and how many more things can become liquid wealth. It makes me not be able to take simpler proposals of solving out of control public spending very seriously.
Perchlorates are highly soluble, aren't they? So, leech them out.

I anticipate growing things on Mars will be more like hydroponics than conventional agriculture. You're investing in a pressure vessel to contain the crops, so the cost per unit area is already quite high.
3D printer successfully makes little space shuttle models in microgravity
Gentlemen,let me give you the tour of our campus,here we develop shiny thing, our department for buzzword and of cause the lab for X
Sweden, France, California, Washington state and NYC have discovered once again that taxing the heck out of rich people causes them to leave.

And when they leave, they take their spend/invest/hire money with them.
I don't think "people aged 40+" were four loco's target market.

Isn't this stuff mostly for 20-somethings on their way to a nightclub, who want to get drunk and stay up until 4am?
tl;dr: Keep cutting costs way past the point where it kills the ability to innovate, maintain quality, or survive an unexpected shift in the business. Cover that with low-bidder outsourcing until that fails. Meanwhile hit the talk shows (on media where your company is an advertiser), have a book ghostwritten, and buy naming rights to a business school. Have your acolytes form a cult (Lean Six Sigma) with toxic group dynamics ("black belt" inquisitors and "green belt" minions vs everyone else).
I was in college when Sparks was first released and it became an indelible part of the college party experience for a few short years. I saved a few packs after the ban and brought them out for a 10 year reunion. People were jubilant to get to experience it again, and thankfully there was only enough for everyone to have a bit, because it’s one of those things that only the metabolism of a still growing person can handle without serious consequences.
That's such a simple, yet profound analogy. It's a great bit of framing for these types of conversations.
There's copious amounts of ink spent on why wealth inequality is bad for a country. The author doesn't need to rehash all of those arguments to make his point.
During the .com boom (1990's) an intermediate programmer would easily command $100k USD/year in salary. Many made millions on stocks. Later how many programmer millionaires did the big tech companies make? 10's of thousands?

25 years ago. Adjusted to today that's ~190k USD in salary. Add equity, bonus, ESPP etc. There's ups and downs but I think there are lots of US software jobs that pay this today.
I find it amusing that a .org site (temp-mail.org) has ads all over it while a .com site (temporarymail.com) does not, given that .org was mostly used by non-profits while .com is intended for commercial use.
The tradeoff is you lock some of those gains down in safer assets. Probably the wrong choice for retirement earlier on, but if you need money during an economic crisis, say you got laid off, then that might change how it's viewed.
Americans have a massive blind spot to anything that happens as a result of driving a vehicle.

40k+ deaths/year and unlike the rest of the developed world, its increasing, and you can barely even start a conversation about better managing the size of the cars that are sold these days.
The US had same problem with family farms. The farm itself was very valuable, so when being left to the children as inheritance, it was heavily taxed. But, this is a problem, because what is left is not enough for the kids to make a living. So in the act of trying to tax the rich with inheritance, there are some lower/middle layers getting hit very hard. Taxes don't have to be a flat number, there should be exemptions carved out like for family farms. But of course, anything can be gamed.
Is it a big problem for country that wealthy people are living? I thought most country wealth comes from oil and gas. And until it’s no longer the case it somewhat makes sense to avoid large wealth gaps.
1960

> Kennedy eventually was declared the winner in the Hawaii recount by 115 votes, but the two sets of certifications were waiting when the joint session of Congress convened. Democrats, including Rep. Daniel K. Inouye, were ready to lodge an objection if the GOP slate was counted, but the presiding officer — the Senate president, who also is the vice president: i.e., Nixon — pushed the issue aside.

2000

> Nixon wasn’t the first vice president who had to preside over the opening of electoral votes that declared his opponent the winner, and he wasn’t the last. The most recent was Al Gore, who had conceded the 2000 election after the Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida, effectively handing the state’s electoral votes, and the presidency, to George W. Bush.

I think those were the precedents that were used in 2020. There are definitely good reasons to think they are not good parallels to 2020, however the context of this entire conversation is how Trump incited an insurrection, which I think is overblown given that he was exploring his legal paths available like a few other instances in the past. Let's say he's still wrong, but it wasn't a "threat to democracy".

https://rollcall.com/2020/10/26/we-the-people-what-happens-w...
Good point, but with the mass layoffs and salary balancing going on, the government may find itself in a relatively more competitive place than it used to
Sure. If you can move to another state to live cheaper, why wouldn't people. That is the argument for a more nationally consistent tax code, so the 'rich' can't just game the system by moving to the one cheap state where they bought off the politicians.

And same goes internationally, if all countries would enact laws against money laundering, or at least enforce it, then the rich wouldn't so easily move their money around.

Just because they can avoid taxes doesn't mean it is the governments fault for having taxes.
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It's not that complex - there are workers who work and spend their hours creating wealth, and there are heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from those who do work. It's a parasitism of a class of parasitic heirs on those of us who work and create wealth.

Nothing could make that more clear than the past year and a half. For tech workers we had FAANG layoffs, hiring freezes, lowball offers if any offers at all etc. Contrast this to the tech stock market since the beginning of last year - a FAANG index like IGN doubled, NVDA up 800%. Like Shakespeare said - the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is an inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them.
This varies wildly depending on their level of DRM :

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/how_to_run_steam_games_off...
What I mean is why the employer would limit employees to the same time zone.
Thanks for the link, looks like it is new development in the last 2 years which is the blink of an eye in utility timeframes.
Intel did a prototype of a multiprocessor UEFI application that would start up cores and UEFI itself does support synchronization on the assumption that applications/bootloaders will start other cores before calling ExitBootServices. However, there are no protocols as of 2.10 (the current spec[1]) that I can find that would bring up another processor. That said searching it can be a bit arcane.

[1] https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/index.html
I've been joking that Steam on macOS is so bad that there must be no one at Valve who has used it because there's no way you ship such brazenly slow software knowingly, but with 79 people this is actually probably true.
Netflix ran a documentary recently about what happens to the zillions paid to football players.

Spoiler Alert: they spend it like it was water, and when their short career is over, they have nothing.
I thought those were interpreted by the JVM, which was subject to security issues. WASM faces no such security issues, no?
what industry?
As noted in my original comment, a large portion of my savings / retirement IS in index funds. My individual stock investments represent such a large percentage of my account only because they've done very well, not because I dumped all my money into them.
Would this not be easily solved with a one-time 50-90% wealth tax when they exfiltrate their money from the place where others earned it for them, rather than the ~1% annual wealth tax they want to leave over?
Epic games seems to lack even basic functionality. I just added Win11 as triple boot on one computer, the kids have loads of games already installed from win10 in a tertiary drive ... on the website it says the solution to them not having a facility to tell their installer/launcher which folder to use is to reinstall all the games.

Now, once you open Epic you can ignore it, use Explorer open the game folders and launch the games and they run. So it looks like they literally need a way to change a config file to avoid re-downloading 100s of GB of games.

I find it literally crazy. They even scatter .egstore files around so actually scanning for and adding games to the library automatically should be easy.

Steam makes the same task easy, and why wouldn't it it's pretty rudimentary for an installer/launcher to have a easy way for you to tell it where your downloaded games are.

Oh, and the instructions for reinstalling Epic _launcher_ say to just re- download all your games. They're insane.

YMMV.
I gotta be honest: I aspire to create something as valuable and as cool as lichess one day.
They've released five games in the past 4 years[0] and have another one in active closed testing[1], along with keeping DOTA2 running with major game changes and mini-games[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Valve_games

[1] Random article about it: https://gamerant.com/deadlock-gameplay-footage-valve-leak-6v... .

[2] DOTA's had massive patches recently, including adding a new attribute, expanding the map, and redoing every hero to have innate abilities and a choice of passive effects. They've also been adding some pretty big PvE/external content events between Aghanim's Labyrinth and the current Crownfall battle pass (which just added a surprisingly fleshed out fighting game mini-game).
The Big Data Center Water Problem [video]
There is also the upside of them taking their lobbying dollars with them.
Appreciate the kind words. Any fool can know, the point is to understand.