skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All have seen an exodus of rich people, mostly leaving for Texas and Florida, which are booming.

Musk famously decamped from California to Texas. Bezos from Washington to Florida.
Maybe you know this better than me. Were non-JVM native languages available 20 years ago for Java applets?

My conception of it is that they were pretty much Java only (with Clojure and Scala also available in the later years before they got deprecated?). Is this conception wrong?
Such a declarative statement is very reductionist. Yes, some folks will accumulate wealth but there needs to be some additional limits on it.

I am in favor of progressively increasing tax brackets that eventually get up to near 100$. Spend it or lose it. And if you lose it, it goes in to the very bottom income bracket where it will be used imediately. Trick up economics if you will.
Notably done for the first time irl in "Least square fitting of an elephant", James Wei (1975) Chemtech
No, but we do get NASA
The US had a tax rate of over 90% for the wealthy in the 1950s (although with loopholes they could push it lower, like now). Didn't seem to have much of an effect on the wealthy, and the US working class did very well.
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Wealth tax 2% at $1million was a platform policy of the very left Green Party in New Zealand - and NZD $1M is about USD600k! Although they did increase it to NZD2million asset limit.

Governments (or maybe voters) don't seem to understand incentives: New Zealand government and its taxation structure discourages building or growing a profitable business. Why should anyone build a business when any winnings will be slowly taken from you over the years? However the NZ government plays/pretends to be supporting innovation - lots of innovation "dress-up play" (the sham appearance of innovation) and taxpayer money dumped into ineffective programmes: e.g. https://youngenterprise.org.nz/ https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academic-study/business/a...

Some countries lead political changes - I'm not sure New Zealand is one of those - but the crap we do could be the crap your government does next...
These are available for purchase from a number of companies in mass production today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery
Lonely Planet Founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler Revolutionized Travel
But if they are receiving free houses from their grandpa, they didn't build the wealth themselves.
"King Æthelstan’s name now resonates in few places in contemporary Britain and finds little recognition beyond these shores."

No shit! Even in England, few people actually understand or really care about what happened between Romans and that (55 and 54BC and then finally: 43AD until about 410AD) and 1066 and the Norman invasion.

Something, something Saxons and Vikings and a round table and some burned cakes or something.

Its all rather sad, really because if you talk to a historian, that period is absolutely fascinating. Across the entire world, although we are here focusing on 400 until 1066 in England. Post 1066 it's all change ... of course it isn't - English would simply be French otherwise.

That period is (or was) nominally described as the Dark Ages because there was not much written evidence found and proper modern archaeology was not a thing until recently.

If you fancy a decent read then "The King in the North" by Max Adams puts things into perspective. By the way, I also think King Oswald was the real geezer. A couple of famous Hollywood actors now own a Wrexam (Wrecsam) footie club off of Wales. Just up the road is Oswestry. That's: Oswald's Tree.
I retired in 2017 and sometimes I think I got out at just the right time, or close to it. In the past 7 years we’ve had the pandemic, remote work then the clawback to the office, and so. many. JavaScript frameworks and changes. And now layoffs all over the place and having to keep up with AI to stay relevant, AI and LLMs are changing faster than React and its ilk.

Instead I now program in a great language, Elixir, working on projects that I want, and reading books that I’ve been putting off for decades.
Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI
https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/sqlite/overview
That is the notion that the only value in a business is that of labor, i.e. the labor theory of value.

Business needs two other things:

1. capital

2. taking a risk

in order to function. To get capital requires a source of capital, which are investors. Investors take a risk in exchange for possible gain.

No gain => no investors => no capital => no business

Let's say you want to start a business. Where are you going to get the startup capital from?
Ok but a lot of the games I’m seeing here seem like they would have vastly different schedules. Like Risk of Rain 2. Like is it really feasible to run ocarina of time in parallel with risk of rain 2 given the difference in completion time?
Manual laborers (distinct from skilled labor like plumbers or electricians) will never have high status because the job is, relatively speaking, easy to attain. The pay will certainly fix the staffing problem but it will never be a high status career unless the pay gets you to a cushy retirement 15 years earlier than a desk job.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. To me it looks like a race to the bottom. We have a very nice society, and most people are happy to pay taxes.

We also don’t tax rich people more in relative terms, it’s just that it creates a threshold level of wealth where you can choose to move.
Stop wanting and start doing!
Think he named The Rocinante after the one from The Expanse?

Knowing that a not insignificant part of the thousands I've spent on Steam over the years went to fund that.. isn't a great feeling.
At least half of the recent YC batch is in AI, and building models is not cheap (or startup cheap any how).
> To rebase the part-2 and part-3 branches, we would have to run something like this:

# Rebase commit 4 and commit 5 on top of the part-1 branch
git checkout andrew/feature-xyz/part-2
git rebase HEAD~2 --onto andrew/feature-xyz/part-1

# Rebase commit 6 on top of the (now rebased) part-2 branch
git checkout andrew/feature-xyz/part-3
git rebase HEAD~ --onto andrew/feature-xyz/part-2

What's the supposed benefit of this over simply the following?

git rebase andrew/feature-xyz/part-1 andrew/feature-xyz/part-2

git rebase andrew/feature-xyz/part-2 andrew/feature-xyz/part-3
Elizabeth Holmes didn't have problems raising funds. She was rather spectacular at it.
There is also the deleteRecords API specifically for this. It's easier than the retention shrink -> increase dance, as it is a single API call and retention does not kick in immediately. The log segment must roll for retention to apply, either due to size or time.

https://kafka.apache.org/11/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients...
Ah I didn't mean your experience was a horror story; I've read others that are
Hey they weren't wrong, they were just 30 years early.

Yes, the movie was 30 years ago, we're all very old.
Supporting both is part of the problem unfortunately.

In principle I agree on how the user agent should behave, in practice leaving viewport as default doesn't necessarily match what the user wants or what the developer wants. E.g. user zoom settings are still applied after the viewport scale setting, just now in a consistent way across mobile devices.
Defense contractors employ a lot of (real, not javascript) engineers with good salaries

and then those salaries get taxed again

and then they pay for government meteorologists

and then those salaries get taxed again

and then they pay for construction

Government spending is a fantastic deal because they automatically get a huge discount in the form of being able to tax what they give you.

That's why privatization is theoretically far below optimal.

After all, when there's a big fuckin' hole in the road at least you can call someone, which wouldn't be true if Google were building roads.
I may have misread the graphs, but I didn't see the article feature the comparison between the throughput when going over a fully-contiguous linked list vs. randomized linked list?
Perhaps if you like it you should add "My skills are undervalued":

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/05/19

Should strike a chord with the software devs and the way they perceive their skills.
Yes, just like all other email providers nothing is encrypted and you could totally look at the emails.

The difference here is though that there's nothing of value.

If I wanted to use this for malicious intent, then I think the most valuable thing I could get away with would be a 5% discount coupon.

I like that you bring this stuff up though as it could perhaps be good to mention this on the site down at the FAQ so people don't think I'm doing something shady with the service since there are no ads.
let's just do away with any attempt at sticking to the facts, and stick to the vibe of the thing.

to me, you are doing the nitpicking. picking 2001 was generous, the growth is far greater if you look back to the 80s.
Category theory is the mathematical formulation/foundation of this "Uber Network".

Graphs are the most basic unit of meaning.
> an audio play with the narrator voice plus a voice matched to each speaker

Oh, please don't! I find this extremely disorienting! When I am listening to an audiobook, I am not listening to the voice. I am transported, envisioning another world, and changing voices often breaks the immersion by forcing me to re-calibrate to their cadence, tenor, accent, etc.

> We can all have it our own way.

Ah, well, yes. Of course. Nevermind, then!
Presuming this is correct, what's the better alternative?
> spending a lot of money in a local economy makes it more prosperous

Do these people really spend a lot of money in the local economy? Realistically, even assuming they pay a couple dozen people $100k/year for service and indulge daily in 3 $500 meals, what will be the actual influence on the local economy?

> The Rust Belt is an example of the latter.

The Rust Belt is an example of what happens when the state allows companies to leave, build their gadgets for a tenth of the price across the Pacific, then sell them back home without serious tariffs; not an example of what happens when Mr. Studebaker or Mrs. Bethlehem Steel leave for Florida.
Windows 95 had a huge marketing campaign. Just checking wikipedia:

It was estimated at $1 Billion and also had A 30-minute promotional video, labeled a "cyber sitcom," featuring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, was also released to showcase the features of Windows 95.

Not to mention using the Rolling Stones 'Start Me Up'
I'd rather say that good ideas keep on returning, no matter whether they are remembered or getting reinvented.

It's not that those who reapplied the old concept in new circumstances are not innovators; they are! Much like the guy who rearranged the well known thread, needle, and needle eye and invented the sewing machine, completely transforming the whole industry.

But seeing the old idea resurfacing again (and again) in a new form gives you that feeling of a wheel being reinvented, in a newer and usually better form, but still very recognizable.
Android provides carrier phase access for a while now, and with that relative positioning between such devices in about the same neighborhood can be done with enough precision that you have to care about where in the device the GNSS antenna lurks.

That alone isn't too fancy; it gets good once you throw in the accelerometer and gyroscope in each device. Because with that you get this not only in realtime, but also with only minor degradation due to the changes in the GNSS pseudo-range measurements being predictable despite not holding still.

Other interesting things enabled by it are e.g. auto-land of a model plane in a truck bed without needing wheels on the plane (and still preventing it from getting scratched up/depending on a grass landing strip).

Even fairly good GNSS receivers aren't expensive to build, as long as power consumption isn't very critical, so why can't I just buy a pair for a hundred bucks?
Disclaimer: I'm not a financial advisor.

Whenever I'm tempted to buy individual high performing tickers (e.g. NVDA, TSLA, AMD), I restrict the purchase to no more than 2% of my portfolio and I only allow myself to bet on 2-3 "race horses" at a time. I think this fulfills the desire to gamble a little and see 100-200% YoY returns. NVDA cracked 300% cost basis when I finally sold, which is wild.

The reason I can do this is because the rest of my portfolio is a boring mix of low-fee ETFs that track major US and international indices. As a retail investor, it's good to remind myself that if I actually had the skills to invest professionally, someone would probably be paying me to do it for them.
> steam is big, but it's not a product so complex you'd need over 100 people to maintain it

I dunno, I think Steam is pretty complex:

- The steam store (credit card processing, optimizing search, review bombs, gift buying, features around various ways to hide games you've purchased, marketplace)

- Workshop (Uploading, managing people's subscriptions, SDKs)

- Cloud Saves

- Remote Play, works remotely without any port mapping (so they're running a service for that) (clients for macOS, Windows, iOS/iPadOS/tvOS, Android)

- Controller Mapping (DualShock 4, Dual Sense, various Nintendo Controllers, Xbox controllers, pretty intense UI)

- New Video Recording with SDK for games to integrate with

- Friends / Chat

- Broadcasting games

- The client itself, for Windows, macOS, Linux)

And a whole lot more (forums, profile customization, guides)
Disagree, the narrator for Harry Potter has always been a male in my head. I don’t think people read the book in the tone of the author, more in the tone of the main protagonist.
What do the stats say about poverty, access to healthcare, retirement, etc etc in those countries? What about the size of the middle class that you imply are eventually harmed by these policies? If you only bring up stats about GDP and tax rates you miss the point. It is about more people living better lives. History has a lot to say about countries that allow income inequality to get out of hand. Are there actually any good stories of countries that got on the path to massive income inequality and survived?
Also car parks. Shields the cars from weather, and provides power right where you want it for charging. Can even aid guiding rainwater runoff to avoid contamination with petroleum products. And reduces the amount of heat absorbed by giant swaths of black asphalt.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-021-00599-4

I can't promise that this happens in the EU, but it does in the US. Literally any child using a chromebook for school, as many are forced to by the schools, is forced to hand massive amounts of personal data to Google. Google may claim that they aren't keeping the data they are collecting, but they are collecting it and their services wouldn't function if they were not. This leads to some weird situations where a student who violates youtube's ToS can be locked out of the chromebook their school requires them to use to take tests and do homework (see https://old.reddit.com/r/k12sysadmin/comments/109cn00/suspen...)
Not sure if any counties done this but a solution to wealth tax on startups could be if the government allowed the 1% or similar tax to be paid in equity rather than cash. The shares could then go to a sovereign wealth fund.
You're more than welcome to pay the API cost for it yourself.
> from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an American non-profit press monitoring organization.

That MEMRI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963894 seems like a start. You don’t need to throw the entire system away and start from scratch, simply refactor the suboptimal parts piece by piece.
“not increasing in frequency” - is this a hoax then?

https://climatemodeling.science.energy.gov/news/more-frequen...

And yes California is another state with a poor grid. 100%. On the bright side i see some action being taken to improve things:
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-puc-power-line-u...
I think there's one significant flaw in the analysis. Section 4.3.1 states:

>> In CURLoRA, we decompose the original weight matrix W as: W ≈ CUR

… but C and R are chosen with respect to the inverse of their contribution towards W, with lower-norm rows and columns more likely to be chosen. In some sense, the CUR of this fine-tuning is as far as possible from the full weight matrix W while still being drawn from it.

To the extent the method works, it might work by defining a very low-dimensional space for the fine-tuning that is vaguely compatible with the original weight matrix.

I also think that there's something a bit off in the results (section 7). Neither the test nor control (LoRA) results show improving accuracy on the first (MRPC) fine-tuning task with increasing rank, suggesting that this task was never constrained by the dimensionality available to the fine-tuning. The orders-of-magnitude difference in the number of trainable parameters also suggests that LoRA-1/2/4 could have been fairly considered; it's not obvious that CURLoRA-n is even approximately equivalent to LoRA-n.
Show HN: I Made an App to Turn Any Image into Unique Sound Effects
Hi brothers,

While editing and creating new content, sometimes it can take hours to find the right sound, especially when you are trying to find that perfect sound for your video.

Being a software engineer, I created an application where this process is minimized from hours of searching to a click of a button.

Feel free to roast my software, I am big on learning :)
https://youtu.be/dIe5hqTuB4k?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/diASDVdMaN0?feature=shared

Talks by authors

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571995
The problem is, ultra-rich people don't pay income taxes because they don't have incomes. And they type of income earners who earn high are often those who spend years studying for no/low pay like doctors, lawyers (yeah, yeah), local small biz owners, etc.

The tax experiment I'd like to see is a very progressive sales/VAT tax that exempts certain used goods, essentials (groceries, etc) and hits luxuries, sin tax (that burden public healthcare) hard. Augmented with certain tariffs, natural resources, etc. This gives people the opportunity to "choose" their own tax rate.
> Not by clicking through AWS' terrible website.

Most places with a decent level of engineering maturity are using some form of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu, Cloudformation, etc). Though more broadly speaking, it's true that software developers are now frequently expected to move beyond just compiling a JAR file and calling it a day. Expectations of knowledge of the underlying infrastructure that's running your code and how to operate it is more common than it was 15 years ago. I consider this a good thing overall though.

> Not through taking a deep breath and trying to reformulate a ChatGPT prompt for the 17th time.

I don't know anyone who's doing this at their programming job. GenAI is really good at 1) acting as an enhanced, customizable StackOverflow replacement for specific one-shot algorithms ("given a pandas dataframe with these columns, write code that groups by X and gets the median of the top 3 values"), and 2) pumping out boilerplate code that wasn't interesting to write anyway, like object mappers and certain unit tests. The tougher problems around software architecture, class design, and the trade-offs are still fully in the realm of humans, for now.
I was a project manager in the construction industry for 7 years, then another 4 in real estate investment. This wouldn't work, I'm too tired to go into it and it would take a few thousand words to even start explain why it wouldn't. In theory it could work if new construction was subsidized and price fixed on a per square foot/meter basis but free markets are the "enemy" here and there's hundreds of different inputs to consider and balance.

Simply paying people more (and just fyi, we already do this. Get a quote for a kitchen remodel in any major metro and you'll realize real quick that there's carpenters making more than mid level SWEs) isn't going to motivate young people to break their bodies, work all day in the sun and shorten the length of their careers by 10-15 years compared to a desk job. There's a ton of reasons why young people don't want to dedicate their life to manual labor (and for good reason), neither money or nor status are the sole drivers here. Its simply not a great existence and is less rewarding all around, no matter how much you make. This is sort of why I don't see the argument against looser immigration policies, as the incentives you're mentioning actually exist in those communities, but that is a whole other can of worms I'm not going to get into.
to say useful is an understatement, there are forensic collection tasks that can only be done, at least to my knowledge, only using a nirsoft tool.
Archive link for anyone who like me is stuck in a "Verifying you are human..." loop (Cloudflare settings too aggressive?):

https://web.archive.org/web/20240714160259/https://www.perfe...
I think gerrit seems to use this same kind of workflow, but with a git frontend (but just for transmitting the patches). More convenient than arcanist IMO.
Comes up a fair bit in Ask HN - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You can widen the search a bit by taking out 'implementation' and trying some other terms like 'book', 'internals', etc.
i didn’t know the full details on the california rolling blackouts. Thanks for sharing!
And a lot of those programmers in the .com boom ended up with stock that was worth zilch and a ton of people ended up leaving the industry in the 2001 or so period. I was incredibly luck to get laid off a couple weeks after 9/11 and to get another tech-adjacent job about a month later based on a lunch I had with someone I knew a few days after I was laid off. That was not a common experience in that period.

(Mind you, that wasn't a great stretch for me in terms of compensation. But a later job made up for it at least by my standards.)
Where are the screenshots
Yep you're right, thanks for the correction.
> taking a risk

You are only taking a significant risk in production investment in an unplanned economy.

So it is tautological, circular reasoning. Capitalists want an unplanned economy and then say they deserve their profits for the risks of an unplanned economy.

(Theroretically - of course, the US economy is not unplanned, but semi-planned - we type on chips paid for by US military spending sent to Fairchild, over IP packets on a network created by DARPA handing taxpayer money over to BBN etc.)
This is a tired argument.

Success in life will always be a combination of luck, and hard work to set yourself up to take advantage of the luck when it arrives.

For some, the luck will never arrive. And for many, the luck will arrive, but they won't be ready for it. The only practical advice to give people is to prepare the best they can for when and if it does.
so there are investors who want to lose? I'll happily lose money on their behalf :D
Piper is great, but nowhere near the quality of the OpenAI TTS voices.

I'd find Piper too jarring for audio books because of the big quality difference, but I actually prefer it for things like AI assistants as I don't necessarily "want" AI assistants to sound perfectly human, and prefer the stylistic choice of having them sound more computer-generated.
Housing crisis is more of a political issue than supply/demand i feel like