skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government routinely hides what you're paying in taxes. Case in point - the so-called "Employer's Contribution" to your social security taxes. There's no such thing. That comes out of your pocket, too.

This is because employers have no interest in what your paycheck amount is. They care about "total compensation", which is what it costs the employer to employ you. Seattle added some "payroll taxes" and successfully sold the fiction that it was the businesses paying it. The businesses did indeed write the check, but it was the employee's money.
before tax. Employer costs for 43000 is about 60000. (So employer brut salary + Occupational injury and disease contributions, Unemployment contributions, Health care contributions, Family allowance contributions, retirement contributions)
I noticed this too and I am afraid they wont ever release this on the web app since they seem to have the best lane and road mapping data.
Yes, single click, then Enter, that's the winning combo here.
> The upside I guess is that whenever Safari decides to get their shit together Web Assembly is well placed to get us out of the scenario where we are forced to use JS and as an extension Typescript at all for most things and actually good language choices with reliable type systems like Dart, Kotlin and C# all become viable options.

Out of those three only Dart has nice DX story compared to JS world.
This tool sounds like a game-changer for anyone in sales, from small business owners to seasoned professionals. The ability to manage customer interactions, track leads, and close deals more efficiently is invaluable. The personalized recommendations and automation of repetitive tasks will undoubtedly save time and boost productivity.

Looking forward to seeing how it transforms sales processes and helps users achieve their goals. Best of luck with your launch!
I've always love WinAmp due to the simple reason that it is keyboard friendly. For example, the 5 buttons for Previous, Play, Pause, Stop, Next map to zxcvb. Simple and fun. Operations like searching for and queuing up files to play are lightning fast compared to Spotify, YT Music, et al. Also, I absolutely detest how YT Music keeps A/B testing ALL THE TIME, changing the location of things around. Ultimately, a website is never in your control.
I'm somewhere here as well. Personally I think what I want is the stdlib (without the current legacy/ all but deprecated bits) and ecosystem of c# but with the ease and power of structural algebraic types. AoT is fine, with option for single binary. Ideally runtimeless with clever trimming. If it also ran jitted in the browser all the better.

I also want compiler/type checker niceties like exhaustive pattern matching.
Do those products have worldwide warranties? Often not. That is a real issue with buying electronics outside your home country.
"Based on the testing performed before the initial deployment of the Template Type (on March 05, 2024), trust in the checks performed in the Content Validator, and previous successful IPC Template Instance deployments, these instances were deployed into production."

So they did not test this update at all, even locally. Its going to be interesting how this plays out in courts. The contract they have with us limits their liability significantly, but this - surely - is gross negligence.
Seems strange Apple offering this for free for other platform users.

This also makes me wonder how much does it cost to run a Map services. I assume the actual server and bandwidth cost are negligible. But the updating and Data would be the most expensive part. But what incentive does Apple have to open this up?
It is neither a narrative nor ahistorical in contrast to your claims. A 10 minute walk through Israel would significantly deny your suggestion about it being an ethnostate.

That isn't some misinformation on your part, it is just a malicious lie.
How about every employee instead gets money every month, and then can go out an buy shares in any company they want, their own or others?
Which is fine?
> if the company lays you off, the stock may be down too

Don't most layoffs make the stock go up?
Taxes are not set by supply & demand.

> they can take a hit to their margin instead

Not for long. Low margin businesses tend to go out of business. And if you can earn 5% buying bonds, why run a business that has an ROI of 4%?
Why not work for a company that sucks less?
Um, I'm confused. I didn't think Apple treated Web as a significant part of their strategy.
It is amazing what people do with C64s. It’s like the ultimate hacker computer.

I’m waiting for someone to make a 1Ghz / 64GB model.
Did the Soviet Union ever actually practice effective social policy and embrace control from the lowest working level or did they just run with epilet backed dull grey committees with a promise they'd eventually get to actual socialism and communism post Stalin and all that not socialism stuff?

I'm no fan of the USSR but they're arguably no more socialist than the National Socialism of the Nazis.
One advantage of Typescript in context of performance should be that it nudges one to not change the 'shape' of runtime objects too much, this should allow less runtime overhead in JS engines because code doesn't need to be re-jitted as often.

This doesn't require the type annotations at runtime though, it's just a side effect of code being written against a static type system.
> Even Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is "only" being paid $34M in 2024.

26.6M of that was stock. In percentage terms it's just equity that he effectively handed out before as a founder and is getting back in return for growing the company even more. I don't see a problem with it, considering that the median employee takes almost zero risks and can leave whenever they want.
> renting me the flipchart for $107 for 6 hours

Next time, just ship it from Walmart or Amazon and throw it away when done with it.
Technically yeah but there is a natural isomorphism between struct { int A; float B; } and struct { float B; int A; } so if you're willing to do everything up to isomorphism (which is usually completely fine and standard) then you get a commutative semiring.

You have to work up to isomorphism anyway even to get a noncomutative semiring because technically the multiplication isn't exactly associative only associative up to an isomorphism.
Hasn't Kagi been using this for their maps offering for a while now?
Github’s attitude and perception of the terms “privacy” and “security” - it is more important.
Firefox is not supported. Move along. Nothing to see there.
Washington State added a 50c per gallon gas tax. They did it by taxing the oil companies, so when the pump prices went up 50c the politicians adamantly blamed the price increase on the oil companies.
I wonder if this helps explain WeChat’s popularity for payments
To be clear, I meant APIs :)
I do embedded development, I've tried a ton of models and all of them end up hallucinating and wasting my time with the very obscure and undocumented things I work with every day.
Maybe if you're in webdev land, AI will replace you, I don't know
I have as much hope in AI as I had in website builders and no-code platforms
Ha ha ha Apple still thinks 'the web' is Apple or Microsoft
(https://support.apple.com/en-us/120585) and Firefox is not supported at all.
It's time to shake the last rotten apple from the tree.
Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring Senior Front End Engineers
The subject is initially Covid 19 medical interventions but later branches out a bit. The video description has a timestampted list of segments: “Why hackers on Discord had to save thousands of lives”, “How politics crippled common sense vaccine distribution”, “Fundraising for VaccinateCA”, “Why tech needs to understand how government works”, “What is crypto good for?”, “How the US government leverages big tech to violate rights”, “Can the US have nice things like Japan?”, “Financial plumbing & money laundering: a how-not-to guide”, “Maximizing your value: why some people negotiate better”, “Are young people too busy playing Factorio to found startups?”, “Thinking well and finding true rigor”, “The need for a post-mortem”.

Transcript of the first minute or so:

> [00:00:00] California had the most desirable object in the history of the world and rather than adopting any sensible strategy for getting it into people’s arms was bickering over who should get it first.

> [00:00:11] We should be outraged about this and we’re mostly not if you Googled vacine near me before a certain day there was no answer. After that day there was an answer. That answer came from us.

> [00:00:19] The successful project plan was made by a bunch of rank amateurs at this topic on Discord in the course of a couple of hours Society should not rely on us as plan a how did this happen. It is enormously to the United States credit that we have a extremely functional extremely capable tech industry. Maybe we shouldn’t treat it like the enemy.

> [00:00:44] Today I’m chatting with Patrick McKenzie. He is known for many things on the internet, he’s known as patio11. Most recently he ran VaccinateCA which probably saved on the order of high four figure number of lives during Covid.

I did not find this interview interesting. My impression is that it’s much more efficient to read some of patio11’s writings (https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/) and posts in HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11) than watching this video.
I think AOL sold it to a random company at least a decade ago, and then they announced they will modernize it and have a big surprise and shit, then nothing happened for years, and then maybe two years ago they actually released a new update to winamp 5.

Also while it's not open source, the source also leaked years ago, and there are unofficial updates to the old AOL winamp too. No idea if they kept going once the real thing got an update...
Web embedding for Apple Maps (via MapKit JS) has been around for a while now, but this standalone product is new.
Even Chrome on Linux isn't supported.
> often private equity or similar corporations buying assets

What proportion of housing do they own? I would assume it’s pretty small if still significant.
Investing your talent and time in a company is a potential risk.
it's a no for me.

it's like the idea of taxing the rich. it sounds great until you become one of those rich people.

this idea sounds great until you become a founder or an investor yourself.

these are laws, systems, and regulations that sets the first movers and real builders apart from the average laymen. all comes down to risk/reward incentives.

it's poor people telling the rich how to spend and allocate their money. the rich people will just say "the fuck do you know about it?"
Anytime you get something "for free", you're paying for it one way or another. No amount of legislation can change that, they might as well legislate pi=3.
If you have every company owned by its employees, it can cause big problems for society. There are many arguments to make, such as how investment and hiring would decrease but an interesting one is that it prevents people from de risking their savings.

Normally, if your company goes under your savings which are invested in a wide range of companies will be fjne. But since we cant invest in other companies your savings are the ownership of your company. When when it goes under your life is ruined enron style.

Its fine to do this if you want, but if this compnay in the article goes under, those people will have lost millions. And dont force me to be an owner, I really dont want to be one and resent people who want to force me to own part of the company I work for.
Well, the article seems to hint at a less than ideal situation with visas with Namibian's having to travel to a different country to get one.
That, or they're calling Intel's benchmark before microcode update bluff, and in either case they're upfront about the delay instead of clamming up for half a year while unrest mounts.
It's someone who can take blame to protect branding and is easily replaced.
Nah.... several hundred atoms of gold isn't worth the effort.
I just wish that Apple Music Classical would get a web app. That's the only reason why I'm paying $12 per month. Although I suppose most of the classical pieces are available on regular Apple Music as well...
Pick the real world programming task that you'd want to tackle and experiment, there's a point of diminishing returns from just reading stuff. You can also then get better advice on forums based on questions or problems that you run into.
Found this additional video about the climber in the article, for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIpxbiWb47A
One probably small thing: Having a cohesive ecosystem where you can share links makes a map app more useful.
You can use typescript types to compile functions. You just might need to deoptimize when you actually hit the function.
> But the updating and Data would be the most expensive part. But what incentive does Apple have to open this up?

Seems you already figured it out: Access to more data / updates. Hence the "Have a Business on Maps?" being a prominent feature.
Exactly; is someone who is essentially a replaceable scapegoat really worth millions per year in salary?
Absolute rubbish.

This is a classic trope of the fully-brainwashed. The bread queues that resulted from collectivised agriculture that couldn't respond to market conditions had nothing to do with feudalism.

The mass-murder of the middle-classes in Cambodia had nothing to do with feudalism.

Communism is a brutal, oppressive system that has to erase individual liberty in order to force people to comply with its absurd, unfair rules. If it was so great, why didn't the Russians just vote it back in again?
Comic Sans yields the effect you'd expect.
This will tank price of shares.
I wish to be proved wrong too. The current situation of "LLM" and "GPT" are very much like a hype. I cannot see how they can be used beyond problems that does NOT require accuracy and precision.

IMO the problem lies on "magical thinking" that we can just say a spell and have the computer presenting the best solution ever without even knowing what we specifically want at the first space. Kind of like asking the AI for the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything - "forty-two" (from <<A Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy>>)

Personally, when I use them a lot of time I realised I am basically typing the whole detailed requirement specification out. First, it will be much more efficient for me to just do it myself. Second, in such cases existing technologies like formal methods seem more suitable as we can verify our specification's soundness too. And most modern approach to formal methods can do code generation too.

Latest research (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125v1) on image-text and text-to-image models shows that these pre-trained few-shots learners exhibit a log-linear relationship with "concept frequencies" and their performance on tasks. Hopefully this does not translate to LLMs but my bet is that they do.
I'm impressed with how well they've enforced that as well. I tried spoofing my UA to be safari (which I fully expected to not work), but it also didn't accept when I set my UA to Chrome.

What's especially odd is that Apple acknowledges Firefox's existence in their WWDC videos about web features, when they mention browser compatibility or who they're working with.
Maybe more important over decadal spans:

You also need to align housing policy to demographic changes such as family size, length of time that children remain living with parents, relatives or carers, as well as prevalence of work from home, availability of “local” work within affordable commute range, availability of public transport.

In other words, “planning for the future”.

The neo-liberal project destroyed more than western industries, it bankrupted our perception that there are more than just market incentives that can build healthier, happier, more resilient and, yes, wealthier societies.
Except these might be long term duds.
The latest AI bandwagons hype cycle invites silliness.
One would be wise to look at the entity in questions overall health prior to announcing aome whole-hog AI effort.
Due dilligence, etc
I don't use them directly much, but template literal generic and contidiontal types is probably the closest a mainstream language has inched towards dependent types.

Some examples of TypeScript power:

- SQL database in TypeScript types: https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql

- Statically typed raw SQL queries: https://github.com/andywer/squid?tab=readme-ov-file#tag-func...

- (Someone fill in your TS hackery for me)
Counter point. Most of salary is decided based on how much of a loss it would be if you left. A CEO leaving a company can immediately lead to serious consequences whereas an individual employee can leave and no one might bat an eye
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/227589/what-is-o...
Hiring a Boeing CEO must be pretty hard right now because whoever takes the job is signing up for some miserable work (like testifying to a hostile congress and dealing with criminal liability on behalf of Boeing), and is likely to be blamed for decades of mismanagement coming to the surface now.

Said another way: I’d demand a lot more in compensation to be CEO of Boeing than NVIDIA (or any other role for that matter).
> Why does everyone else need to live in a desirable metro area?

Jobs, mostly. Along with increased access to all the things people like, like food, other people, activities, etc.
You are right up to a point: but this analysis doesn't (fully) apply to American Express, exactly because it has such limited acceptance.

I mostly don't shop at places that accept American Express, exactly because their prices are higher to pay for this cross-subsidy. Thus I don't pay for this cross subsidy.
someday but not too soon.

i fucking love claude 3.5 but i still catch it slippin.

as johnson wang of nvidia said, ai wont replace you, but you will be replaced by people who uses AI.

i think the former will eventually come, but the latter is already here.
That's beside the point: the idea of hedging your bets has its place. You already sink 8 hours every day into one company, it makes sense to invest parts or all your compensation into other things instead of dumping it all into the same company. Unless you are balls-to-the-wall bullish on this one business.
What they probably meant was writing 'import "file.ts"' and have tsc emit 'import "file.js"'.
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/49083
Thank you. I wonder: is FTP that old? I kind of thought UUCP predated FTP. My parent mentioned email possibly being a special mode of FTP.

_some poking around in Wikipedia_

Indeed, FTP is from 1971 and UUCP is from 1979. And the SMTP page describes that it all started as a mode in FTP.
Maybe we should create some sort of super-stock that can be any company and give employees that. We could also make that super-stock valid tender for burritos or houses or bulldozers.

Oh wait, it's money. Fungibility is great!
A whole generation of workers has never seen red numbers on their 401K statements.
Yep, that's what it leads to. But it all began with "good" intentions. They destroyed well-developed empire, took the land from the rich and see where it all now. Trust me, you don't want "to take money from the rich and spread them across poor" in USA, it sucks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization. Pleas, keep being a place where anyone can build a unucorn company and become rich af
I haven’t heard of an ESOP before. As I understand it, this is an (additional?) pension fund where the value of your pension is tied to the company valuation in the form of a promise to sell you stock units when you either retire or leave the company.

Sounds like a nice perk to have but one would obviously be unwise to rely on that for retirement.
Genuinely want to know, what is the scientific interest here? The synthesis of super heavy elements always seems to be the same story, they detect its presence for a tiny fraction of a second, and then it decays away. What is learnt from doing this?
Weird. They claim Firefox is not supported, but with some user-agent switcharoo it seems to work fine.

Ugh.
Maybe, I'm just irredeemably liberal, but thinking of "ethnic continuity" as something worth preserving gives me the ick.
I have to ask: given the vanishingly small half-life of these elements (order of milliseconds) and tiny, tiny number of atoms produced ... what is the point of these experiments ? What can they possibly teach us ?
No, the risk for regular employee is higher due to downside vs upside. Once you cross some wealth threshold, it's not possible to lose everything (e.g. become homeless) unless you do something deliberately stupid like gambling or drugs. There's always plan B if you're rich. Like, rent out property or something.
guy literally tested on 600k machines in prod. imagine going home and telling it to your wife haha. kids will say you a legend.
How does that work when 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck?

When you're not sure if you'll manage to pay the electricity bills to keep your fridge turned on, is your first thought going to be "let's invest in the market!"?
Except that any process that has obtained root (through a security flaw or otherwise) can extremely easily hide itself, as shown here.

I will admit that it's likely that the same thing could be done with loadable kernel modules, that said.
Your name is Alexa, isn't it?
There are many advantages to having employees own shares in a company. However, I would add that it depends on the industry, type of company and other circumstances.

These are factors that play a role and should add to a more nuanced discussion:
- Ownership also implies responsibilities and risk. There might be capital risks or surety needed for certain industries. Not all people want this in their lives.
- For any chance of high reward, there is a also a risk of failure/loss. This side is often forgotten and a one-sided view of ownership is often romanticised.
- Thus I think a popular discussion of this topic needs to be infused with a more realistic view of reality.
Yes, but it's not a pure dilemma between American Express and cash. There are other ways to pay without cash and without American Express.

I see a few explicit discounts (or surcharges) for different payment methods here and there, but mostly the system works by segregation: the cheaper suppliers with lower margins don't tend to accept the more expensive payment providers.
How do you define socialism? I think it’s one of those terms that people define differently for themselves.
If I were Microsoft I’d be thinking of investing some of my deep pockets into guaranteeing, for some sites, the lost revenue from losing the search placements.

If the news was saying “x many popular sites will no longer be available on anything but Bing”, that’s a lot more damaging to Google than the reverse is to Bing, because Google is the default for most people and it would shake confidence in them.
Have you used a language with algebraic data types? I assumed some familiarity, and also with the terminology sum and product types.

Admin = Name x Password defines a type called Admin that has a Name and a Password.

In OCaml I would write something like

type Admin = Name * Password

In Scala I'd write

final case class Admin(name: Name, password: Password)

The construction

User = Normal + Admin
Normal = (Name x Password)
Admin = (Name x Password)

in words is:

A User is Normal or Admin
A Normal (User) is a Name and a Password
An Admin (User) is a Name and a Password

In Scala

enum User:
case Normal(name: Name, password: Password)
case Admin(name: Name, password: Password)

In OCaml

type User =
Normal of Name * Password
| Admin of Name * Password