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Would this new tax create any more STUFF? The economy does not produce money - it produces stuff. Stuff like food, medicine and video games.

Does taking this money from people - even very rich people - produce any additional stuff for the rest of us to consume? I don't see how. I can't eat money. I can't live in money.

Will these rich people consume less stuff for themselves? Will it be enough less to matter to any of the rest of us? I doubt it.

So what's the point of all this? How about we focus on producing more stuff, so that we have more stuff to live in, eat, or treat our bodies. If we produce more stuff, we will have more stuff.

Taking money from rich people and giving it to everybody else will not help everybody else, since there will not be more stuff for them to buy.
This comment made me gag.

"Tipping culture" has definitely gone too far.

What about the pilot and other members at front? Do the tipped flight attendants kick some bucks over to them?

It definitely feels like an abdication of responsibility (and obligations) of the company that those people work for.
The original YT account associated with the email was created in mid-2010, so not pre-acquisition.
have you looked into funding platforms for those projects? most projects on github have a "sponsors" tab that links to a variety of platforms most prominently github sponsors itself, but also tidelift, etc
You really think Google is trying to steal the 5% market share that Firefox has held on to?

I doubt they think about Firefox much at all.
"There are concerns"

Can you link to something describing the basis for these concerns?
I also see this. Getting an MX record or TLS cert deployed is often a source of confusion, even with "seniors.'
Which operators? The ones running it, or the ones asking it to do troublesome things?
I really like the way Knuth benchmarks many of his later programs. He basically puts a counter for how many times something has to be loaded from memory. Would be curious to know if you could approximate how many times you have to clear cache lines, in the same way?
But... how are they repaying the loan? Selling a little bit of stock now and then, which is then taxed?
No I think open source has its place, especially for foundational stuff like compilers and OS kernels.

I’m less sure about the marginal benefit of more open source in the future. IMHO it tends to create an expectation that all interesting and challenging work should be uncompensated, and the role of most software engineers should be to just cobble together open source components to make some clueless SaaS founder rich.

Not saying I know what the solution is though.
College students, hobbyists, enthusiast outsiders with no formal education.

It's originally the product of amateurs, in the original sense of the word: people doing something for the love of it.
> crazy labor laws in France

What crazy labor laws exactly?
The logistics in the designs surrounding games of any substantial proportions must be hellish to coordinate with the playmaking's unpredictability.

More construction companies should take it upon themselves to start looking into erecting things like what those Warhammer dudes were enacting in one video i mulled over. Establish some crude barracks, keeps, bastions, and whatever else a play site could sustain. Gather a crew with cameras, editors, and a designer or two, then put some attendees on the grounds, and you’ve got yourselves the trappings of an amateur production going in no time.
High-temperature Gibbs states are unentangled and efficiently preparable
funnily enough, that's the name of their recent recommendation algorithm paper

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17152
Sprawling AI Fake Nudes Crisis Hits South Korea
Owning Berkshire is a great way to diversify.

If you own BRK about 25% of your assets are in treasure bills right now. 25% in public stock, rest in private equity (insurance, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing).
Python has open source implementations that act as defacto standard, as specification of the details.
Very cool, love the community projects showcase and the ability to remix them.
If you were starting a team from scratch this is surely true. But, if you can leverage existing teams and infrastructure, it’s very possible.
> I found it impossible to read and frustrating and tedious to write.

Perhaps you've done it wrong? To read any Lisp code one needs a REPL. And you don't typically type directly in it, you connect to it and eval things from source files. Once you get connected to a REPL, you can eval any expression and sub-expression, and with practice, you'd learn to grok the code without a REPL.

And for writing Lisp, you only need structural editing support in your editor. Once you find basic commands - moving structures around is far more enjoyable process than writing things in an unstructured language.

I am far more productive using Clojure instead of Java and Clojurescript instead of Javascript, Fennel instead of Lua, etc. - it's easier to read, easier to modify, easier to maintain. But, yeah, it does require some practice, just like any other skill.
Does this have any impact on J6 and BLM riot cases?
This is almost certainly untrue. The issues is that at any asset level, the tax itself can force a sale, which forces realization of gains. Whether that is on-balance more than the value realized is another question, but it definitely could force a sale at any asset level depending entirely on the ratio of your liquid to non-liquid assets.

So, in effect, the question is, should the government use tax as a club to force you to sell assets? Does this have any benefit for the economy/society?
How else are you going to find evidence of a slow-moving phenomenon? Besides, has human nature changed in the last 150 years?

If the assertion is (for example) "taxation on the rich tends to end up including middle-class and maybe lower", why would an example from Rome or medieval Europe not be applicable?
Your version of history is bizarre. Firefox was the one that stole the market from IE. Chrome saved us from a (at the time) very sluggish Firefox.
I don't know if this is a hill worth dying on.

The gas turbines are clearly intended for transition from prime to standby generation once the local utility approves additional capacity to the site.

NOx emissions from modern gas turbines are not that significant. Utility scale turbines can achieve single-digit ppm. If we were talking about a fleet of diesel generators running 24/7, I would understand the concern.

This is about the cleanest and most reliable way you could power a datacenter (of this scale) off-grid for an interim period of time. In fact, if you look at the generation mix of the TVA, you may find that these gas turbines are potentially a cleaner way to power the site than the grid itself is. TVA has 25 active units burning things like coal.
A friend worked there and he constantly complained about the company.

He said it was common for companies to pay extra for servers that had been burned in. But when they got them, it was obvious that they paid for nothing. The servers not only didn't boot, but they were missing parts and could never have booted.

On the other hand, I have friends who work in data centers and like their servers and rack them in large quantities.
I think that's because a lot of Hacker News readers are autistic and/or ADHD (I am). As autistic I love to catalog things and as ADHD sufferer I need notes to be able to function in the modern works.
I can recommend leechblock a lot. It allows you to block websites using Regex and some time based rules.

You could for example block reddit from 0800 to 1900 but still open individual posts you found while using a search engine. For me (I have ADHD, but I don't think that makes the difference in this case) that's the perfect balance between usability and avoiding endless scrolling.
HN has had plenty of major threads on Israel-related topics.

Your submissions are getting flagged and moderated, not because they're Israel-related, but because you're using the site primarily for political battle and flamewar. In fact it looks like you've been using HN exclusively for that. We ban accounts that do that, whichever side of whichever issue they're doing it about, because it goes completely against the intended spirit of the site. That ought to be obvious to anyone who has read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I'm not going to ban you right now, but if you keep this up, we're going to have to.
After some discussion in this thread, I found it worth pointing out that this paper is NOT describing a system which receives real-time user input and adjusts its output accordingly, but, to me, the way the abstract is worded heavily implied this was occurring.

It's trained on a large set of data in which agents played DOOM and video samples are given to users for evaluation, but users are not feeding inputs into the simulation in real-time in such a way as to be "playing DOOM" at ~20FPS.

There are some key phrases within the paper that hint at this such as "Key questions remain, such as ... how games would be effectively created in the first place, including how to best leverage human inputs" and "Our end goal is to have human players interact with our simulation.", but mostly it's just the omission of a section describing real-time user gameplay.
I used to be bullish on creating ERDs, often using them as an onboarding exercise, even for databases with 100+ tables. However, comprehensive ERDs are becoming rare, and that's okay. Their value is short-lived due to the high cost of maintenance. While polished ERDs can be nice to have, they aren't essential.

For creating ERDs as code, tools like dbdiagram.io and eraser.io are popular options. ERWin is the original tool for UML/ERD diagrams, but it's expensive.
That's a flight risk if I ever heard of one.
> In addition to Russia and France, Durov is also a citizen of the United Arab Emirates and the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

So four citizenships? It's getting hard not look at this as dodgy.
Them enforcing their laws is a good thing.

But the laws they've chosen to have are definitely not good for business, and in my (mostly irrelevant) opinion not good for a free and open society either.
If the tools to set up a network actually did what I asked them to, this page would be simple. In another comment you compared it to a node.js script.

The difference between networking and programming is when you call a function it will actually do what you say, every time. In a network you can waste hours and get absolutely nowhere.

I've been in IT and software for 25 years at various levels both as a job and a hobby, and I can confidently say that networking is the biggest waste of time, most frustrating, and least rewarding aspect of working with computers. No matter what I try to set up, it never, I mean never works the way I want it to. And I've done plenty of projects to get a healthy sampling, some of them include NFS/CIFS, RDP, DHCPD+PXE, VPN, IPFW, BIND, iptables, SMTP/IMAP. Working with anything networking is absolute hell. Every single time. Guaranteed.
You'll get a second system, that searches your code against index of copyrighted code. If found say > 70% matching against some unique code, it will be flagged for rewrite. It can be automated in Copilot to simply regenerate with a different seed.
It could be just easier for AMD's automated tests
Well, it's a bit of a spoiler to encounter this video in this context, but this is a very good video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRFMuGBP15U

Even having a clue why I'm linking this, I virtually guarantee you won't catch everything.

And even if you do catch everything... the real thing to notice is that you had to look. Your brain does not flag these things naturally. Dreams are notorious for this sort of thing, but even in the waking world your model of the world is much less rich than you think. Magic tricks like to hide in this space, for instance.
> more plentiful than ever and accelerating.

sounds like a good thing at first
Landlords are part of the problem though; due to landlords, property managers, investors, etc, the cost of housing / rent / owning a house has gone up, meaning that a job that would get you a decent apartment 20, 30 years ago is no longer enough.

I'll accept that inflation is a fact of modern economies, but rent and the cost of housing has gone up faster than inflation, and income has not kept pace with inflation: the US minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, while inflation never stopped. And minimum wage itself as it is today is broken; on the one side, it seems to be more of a suggestion anyway, given that the service industry does not need to conform to it (because the assumption is that wage is stipended by tips).

And the other thing to consider is that if an employer pays you minimum wage, they would pay you less if they were legally allowed to.
Huh I guess you can just avoid legal liability by laundering through a chatbot
Thanks!

Let me know if you have any input on what we could add, we're iterating super fast on the exactly right form factor.
The same thing that happens if you write a song which happens to have the same pattern of four notes as another song: absolutely nothing, because that would be an insane standard to hold copyright to and would lead to nothing ever being produced without a tidal wave of infringement suits.
If corporation x uses my thing to cut labor costs and doesn't pay me anything while actual employees get to sit around and make six figures adding fields to jsons, that's a shitty arrangement for me

If corporation x didn't exist, I probably wouldn't worry about it. But the second money becomes involved it changes the calculus

And I do think some projects like ad blockers are worth it because corporations don't benefit much from them, but regular people do
This illustrates the lasting power of bad decisions.

I wrote off Signal when I heard about MobileCoin, and didn't look at Signal again, and didn't known MobileCoin left.
Inertia and I have some very Windows specific programs that I’m using for my current project and using the alternatives will just be slower. I’m using windows LTSM so I’m good for another few years.
Do you tip the mortgage specialist at the bank that prepared the mortgage for you?
I do industrial controls so very familiar. IP is a lot of overhead that doesn't really do anything for the user in a tightly defined automation network local to a machine. EtherCAT goes a step lower and drops IP in favor of just sending Ethernet frames of type 0x88A4. It uses a unique ring topology. It does not use traditional switching or repeaters with the IO devices containing a special controller called the ESC, the EtherCAT Subordinate Controller. The master only needs a standard Ethernet controller. You can get cycle times in the 10's of microseconds allowing for up to 50khz update rates on IO devices. This allows you to do do high performance servo motor control where you close the current loop in the master CPU over 100mbit Ethernet and easily reach 10+ kHz update rates.

With FPGAs using commodity SFP or Ethernet PHY's you can certainly build stuff that runs circles around traditional Ethernet and associated overhead from protocols like IP.
What are the alternatives to YouTube these days?
> Nova YouTube

looked this up out of curiosity. the only thing resembling a description is "Combine small plugins, expanding the possibilities of YouTube." which is pretty useless.

what all does this do?
696 Days of Consecutive Casting
It's a billionaire thing.
Yes, this is better framed as a new Alternative Minimum Tax on people with net worth >$100M than a blanket tax on unrealized capital gains.
No, it's still part of the official Signal build.

I wish such cruft would be removed from Signal.
Nothing can be assumed to be take a symmetrical return path. Even if I send a normal packet to some server on the Internet, the server's reply may or may not come back using the same path. As a former Google employee, I remember vaguely that this is something Google occasionally does on purpose.
Nice, this is cool :) Thanks for sharing
> The judge argues that copilot “rarely emits memorised code in benign situations”, but what happens when it does? It is bound to happen some day, and when it does would I be breaching copyright if i, unknowingly, published the code copilot wrote?

That's irrelevant to the case being made against GitHub, which is why it is addressed in the decision.

> Just a few weeks ago a very similar suit for stable diffusion had its motion to dismiss copyright infringement claims denied.

The case against Midjourney, SAI, and RunwayML is based on a very different legal theory -- it is a simple direct copyright violation case ("they copied our work onto their servers and used it to train models") whereas the Copilot case (the copyright part of it) is a DMCA case claiming that Copilot removes copyright information management information.

It's not really surprising that the Copilot case was easier to dispose of without trial; it was a big stretch that had the advantage for the plaintiffs that, were it allowed to go forward, it doesn't admit a fair use defense the way a traditional direct copyright violation case does.

They aren't really "similar" except that both are lawsuits against AI service/model providers that rest some subset of their claims on some part of Title 17 of the US Code.
That’s only a mapping of face-hash to username.
you mean like curl, samba or sqlite?
> Having worked with automakers that agonize over pennies on a component how does Tesla amortize this much expense, if they even achieve full self-driving at all?

Or Elon is using the resources of one company to do work for another company (?):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

* https://electrek.co/2024/04/03/elon-musk-xai-poaches-enginee...
Another way to look at it is anyone can look at source available code to learn how to program without breaking a license.
I bet that if this bit of history was more widely exposed, "tipping culture" would be exposed as the degrading practice that it actually is.
Most of those people are self-employed? Citation heavily needed.
Not if there is a risk that you will run away. That jail time shortens a potential prison sentence.
> Once the door to a new government power is unlocked, it never closes it only gets more open.

I don't think "slippery slope" is a reasonable defense here, especially with the situation you're using as an example. The top 40% of earners is a lot of people, and pretty close to the number of people that pay positive income taxes today (50% of earners pay 97% of taxes). The slope you're using as an example doesn't look very slippery, especially given that 100+ years of the US changing completely has happened in the meantime.
Clojure codebases may be easier or more difficult to maintain depending on factors such as team experience, project complexity, and code quality. The ease of tracking down bugs varies across programming languages and is influenced by development practices and tooling. Clojure codebases are not more difficult to maintain than any other PLs.

- Clojure has strong type inference, catching many errors at compile-time.

- The REPL provides immediate feedback and testing capabilities.

- Clojure's immutability and functional paradigms reduce bug-prone code.

- Tools like core.spec offer runtime type checking and data validation.

- IDEs like Cursive provide advanced static analysis and refactoring support.

- Clojure's simplicity and consistency make bugs easier to spot and fix.

- You also completely ignoring Clojure's rich ecosystem of testing frameworks and tools.
Having not used Claude artifacts, maybe a better introduction to how the tool works/looks before signing up?
Okay so are you just against progressive tax policy then? I don't really find myself having a lot of sympathy for people with over $100m in wealth, who seem to not be paying much in taxes relative to that wealth.
>> It's getting hard not look at this as dodgy.

Well, if he dodges this warrant by fleeing, Telegram will be persona non grata across western Europe.
> Sure, it's possible the law will be written in such a short-sighted way that it won't take inflation into account in any way.

And when it's you that's likely affected where such short-sightedness to happen, and when there are multiple examples of such short-sightedness just in these comments already, I think that is a worry. Also, since the party proposing the law tends to have socialist and postmodern-Marxist leanings, there's even a potential motive for some less honest short-sightedness. Because, after all, inequality is a serious issue.
The US is a democracy. Unpopular laws are not enacted. Why do we need any other argument for why an unpopular version of this popular law wont be enacted?
It implies that some blogger had a few thonks and nothing more than that.
Can you expand on why you think it’s performative?
Legal conservatism is somewhat different than Republican Conservatism in the same way that legal progressivism is somewhat different than Democratic Progressivism.

The two might agree on certain issues in ways that seems contradictory at the political party level until you look into it more.
It didn't (leave), see sibling comment.
It’s also ludicrous and wildly inaccurate from an American point of view. I wouldn’t overindex on this take.
Recent and related:

Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342017 - Aug 2024 (1365 comments)
Thanks for link. Gleaned from that prior discussion that Paul's will says "sell everything to donate to philanthropy".

Standing up an endowment for a museum is philanthropy.

Such a shame.
With the additions of Gorsuch and Jackson, we have the most 4th amendment friendly court we've had in a long time.

That said, it still looks like a 5-4 tossup, with a clustering that will likely confuse the media. I'd wager Gorsuch, Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan as a bloc here with hopefully one more in either Roberts or (less likely) Kavanaugh.
Sounds like cheap anti-evil insurance.
Yeah that's why I said at most, so assuming still air and perfect piloting. The worst case is lawn dart, 0 glide.

35000 ft x 20 ratio x 1/5280 mi/ft
I'm glad you feel supported in your payment of the extra socially expected tax that should be included in item prices.
Show HN: An API for iOS Memoji's character mockups
TL;DR: Tapback Memojis is a free and open-source API that generates appealing avatar images inspired by iOS Memojis for your web apps.

As developers, we've all faced the challenge of finding suitable avatars for our web applications. The clean, expressive style of iOS Memojis has always caught my eye, and I wanted to bring that aesthetic to the wider web development community.

Key Features:
- iOS Memoji-inspired design
- Free to use
- Open-source
- Simple API integration

With popular services like Boring Avatars moving to paid models, I believe there's a growing need for high-quality, free microtools in the developer ecosystem. Tapback Memojis aims to fill this gap, providing an easy-to-use solution for developers who want to enhance their apps with attractive, personalized avatars.

Try it out and let me know what you think! Contributions and feedback are welcome.

- https://github.com/wimell/tapback-memojis

- https://www.tapback.co
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228630
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Hits $1T Valuation on Wall Street
I recently wanted to edit out a huge background image repeating on almost every page of a PDF and found out there's no obvious way to do it.

Would appreciate any tool suggestions!
I’m a citizen of three countries. I don’t know that it is all that unusual to have multiple citizenships, particularly for the very rich (a group I am most deinfitely not a part of) who might access citizenship via investment in a country.
The 5th circuit is responsible for a lot of garbage rulings, which doesn't fill me with confidence in the quality of their reasoning. If the 5th is the lone circuit ruling this way, I'm not holding out much hope that the SCOTUS will side with it.