skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wealth concentration has reached historic levels. The top 1% of households control 32% of all wealth, while the bottom 50% only have 2.6%.

> First Generation Investors – Introduces high school students in low-income areas to the fundamentals of investing, providing them real money to invest, encouraging long-term wealth accumulation and financial literacy among underserved youth.

I don't know how to process these two together. Giving $1m to a charity teaching people to invest while lamenting that the top 1% own 32% of the wealth.

The concentration of wealth is a result of the insane inflation created by the spending and endless money printing of the state, not because people are savvy investors bent on seizing all the poor people's wealth.

It's not investors / the top 1% who created the $36 trillion in government debt (except for the corrupt politicians like Nancy Pelosi who are part of the 1%).
Yes. It's important to vote IF you think the elections are legitimate and fair. By voting (blank, for yourself, for Mickey Mouse) you say "I didn't like any of the candidates, but I'm ready to accept the result of the majority", thereby giving more legitimacy to whoever is elected.

Not voting can be dissent (I disagree with the process, I don't think it's fair etc) or simply apathy. But in either case it gives less legitimacy to whoever is elected. And that's important: if you don't think it's a fair election/process then you don't want to give the legitimacy.
I agree with you. And we have MFA anyway...
I absolutely love the landing page. If only there was a web app to try it out without downloading stuff.
Whilst you can do all sorts of variations making basic chips for a casual meal is really straightforward. Just chop up some potatoes, coat them in oil and wack them in the oven at 200C for 30-40 minutes. Works just as well with sweet potatoes as well. Everything else is to an extent gilding the lily which you might want to do at home if you're entertaining or like things a certain way but isn't strictly necessary.
It's clearly meant as a hypothetical example.
You're wrong, and in a pretty obvious way.

It's actually like asking what a database library will do to prevent SQL injection attacks. And the answer is simple - "don't do string interpolation yourself, instead use the `(?, ?)` syntax". If you use that the SQL escaping will be taken care of automatically by the library. If the database library said something idiotic like "read the spec and implement your own SQL escaping logic" it would be a dereliction of duty.

Make no mistake, a frontend library like htmx has a responsibility to not break the front end from an accessibility perspective. If existing screenreaders break when you replace HTML then the htmx approach is broken and htmx needs to address that.
I mean isn't the end-game here growable organs and an unlimited supply of morally justifiable stem-cells for use in a variety of therapies? Given what Interferons etc... already cost, I'm struggling to see how there isn't a direct and established line of profitability for the domain.
I don't care much for labels. I have one rule for websites that everyone should follow (lol): whatever you are doing, keep doing it, stick to the theme/topic, stick to the update frequency. It is only wrong if you change either.
Amortized cost is 10 cents per petaflop hour if you run it 5-6 years 24/7. I'm including the cost of electricity.

This is really game changer.

They should make a deal with Valve to turn this into 'superconsole' that can run Half Life 3 (to be announced) :)
That's not really true. In my experience (London), the trains are on-time more often than not.
>> 34% of adults in America did not exercise their right to vote. Why?

I think that Gilens 2005[1] and Gilens 2014[2] are the references that people usually cite to argue that America is an oligarchy. The 2nd paper made a splash at the time, see for example this summary[3]. There were some attempts at rebuttals that seemed silly even back then, but regardless of what you think about the argument 1 or 2 decades ago, wealth concentration has accelerated, so.. hmm.

If voting has little chance of winning you your policy preferences even when you do get your preferred candidate, there is little good that may come of it but many potential negatives such as: junk mail, jury duty, the smoldering eternal hatred of your differently aligned friends/family, drafted into the coming great space war, etc

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3521574
[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Indeed, it is surprising that you would be able to pull this stunt on such a huge buyer as McDonalds.

Here's an alternative theory that will disappoint the readers of Jacobian - potatoes are a commodity and commodity prices drive inflation. A bad crop, expensive fertiliser, a ground war in one of the largest potato-exporting countries in the world (Ukraine) - all these things would cause suppliers to increase prices in lockstep.

Inflation can be good cover for price collusion, sure, but the reason why it's such good cover is that its effects are almost indistinguishable without a smoking gun. Lets see what the FTC investigation brings up.

(Another note - inflation inflates profits as well as prices.)
Expat: I don't recommend anyone not working in tech sector relocating to Estonia
Doubt it. I don't remember NVIDIA ever doing binning and having different SKUs for their Jetson Developer Kit line, which is similar to this Project Digits thing.
McDonalds doing those things in other countries doesn't necessarily show that the parts of their organization responsible for their US operations are competent enough to do the same. Assuming that whatever the corporation is doing presently must be the result of careful rational economic analysis seems like a fallacy of some sort. Just world fallacy? Optimally Run Corporation fallacy.
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2 days is fast. OP left out that most companies nowadays run a separate front end team, so now you need your backend team and front end team to have a meeting about what proper JSON should be returned, then the front end mocks that response and implements the form behavior, all the while the backend implements server functionality, then someone else (usually) tests this integration, then someone else deploys it. If nothing in that multi-team communication pipeline breaks you’re very lucky.

If you can all get that done in 2 days you’re running a very fast dev team. Minus the QA and DevOps team my point is that a SPA/JavaScript-heavy web app is not only a technological choice but an organizational one. Things used to be faster because there were fewer divisions in the software, therefore fewer divisions in the organization.
You're like 15 years out of date.
This is a weirdly satisfying thought, if entirely unrealistic in a corporate setting: what if meetings in general were more of a consensus thing, and less of a rigid time slot thing.
Tried the queens gambit and the computer hung the queen on move three :)
A fix here would be to drop snapshot testing altogether, since being flaky and overly broad is a natural result of dumb diffing of your app's output.
This makes me wonder whether I could achieve such a thing if I removed all my preoccupations of other stuff.

For me what I take out of it is the power to sit down, focus your mind on something then who knows the lengths of what is possible. That, and the author is clearly very talented/skilled and creative.
Same for Science!
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> Could raise a fortune for public transit if we enforced traffic laws and used that money.

If you consistently enforce the law then the fine revenue falls below even its current level because consistent enforcement reduces violations, meanwhile costs go up because the additional enforcement has to be paid for.

The existing system is the one cultivated to maximize revenue by setting speed limits below the median traffic speed so that cops can "efficiently" issue citations one after another as long as there isn't enough enforcement to induce widespread compliance. This is, of course, dumb, but the alternatives generate less net profit for the government.
"The animation of Flow — Blender Conference 2024" - https://youtu.be/fxz6p-QATfs
If you think of the design goals (synchronizing clocks across the train network) and the technology available at the time, the design is actually pretty clever. Knowing the exact second is not important - if the second hand actually completes a whole cycle in only 58 seconds, this is still good enough to be able to see how much of the minute has passed. Having the exact same minute on all clocks is much more important than that - especially since train departure times are usually "on the minute".
The title is "the iconic macOS Dock", which is not the same as "the dock."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_(macOS) comments "The classic Mac OS does have a dock-like application called Launcher, which was first introduced with Macintosh Performa models in 1993" and "RISC OS contains a feature called the Icon bar, which is remarkably similar to the macOS Dock. The Icon Bar was first implemented in 1987 for the first version of RISC OS, named Arthur."
Except that it was all self-generated by AI.
Congrats you're reinventing jQuery. With a worse and more limited API.

Plus jQuery is one of the most battle tested libraries in the world.

That "ops" you made with classlist, you're bound to repeat these mistakes ad infinitum. And they can bite in subtle ways only your users might experience.

People rarely report broken websites unless they really need to.
Also, ultrawide monitors. They exist, provide more immersion. And typical resolution is 3440x1440 which is high and and the same time have low ppi (basically regular 27" 1440p monitor with extra width). Doubling that is way outside modern GPU capabilities
I think the surprise part in under-appreciated. The quicktest tests I write are frequently of the form “let’s spend 15 minutes and see what happens” kind of tests - and I almost always find bugs that way. The return on investment is bonkers.

I do think that immutable by default OCaml + good PBT tooling there helps a lot.
> I'm not saying that any change to Turing's formulation would be bad, just that the paper's variation is specifically bad.

I understand that, and I'm saying there is no "Turing's formulation". His paper argues for a certain sort of test, and the study you're talking about is the sort of test he advocated. It's not a departure or a bastardization, it's a Turing test.

As for your argument against the study, to be honest I don't see it? AFAICT the participants' goal was just to judge the humanness of a single witness, not to maximize their long-term likelihood of judging correctly over many trials, or some such thing. Even if they'd known the prior chances of speaking to an LLM, there's no obvious reason why that prior should hugely affect their conclusion after a five minute conversation - which also seems immaterial since they didn't know.

Plus, the authors give a pretty straightforward rationale for their 50% threshold, and it has no connection to Turing's 3-player setup or whether the imitator and witness are indistinguishable. If they had wanted "indistinguishable" as a threshold, then obviously their pass criteria would have been for the machine and human pass rates to be equal within an error bar, right? So it's pretty implausible to imagine a connection between that and their 50% threshold.
I think the issue on a commercial scale is the sheer volume of fries you need to make and store continuously versus the benefit to the end result over frozen.
What is his alternative?
Well put. I always have the feeling that any language which has an `eval` function or an invokable compiler can do meta program. That said, I think the "big deal" is in UX/DX. It's really nice to have meta programming support built-in to the language when you need it.
Mojo's compiletime metaprogramming [1] is inspired by Zig's. Though Mojo takes things further by implementing a fully-featured generic programming system.

1. https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/parameters/
Thanks for submitting this! I'm one of the founders, happy to answer any questions.
That's the "Baumol cost disease" graph. Things which involve labour inputs get proportionally more expensive as manufactured goods get cheaper.
> while philosophically I don't want to see any barriers to voting, full participation is not a good thing in the abstract.

Have you ever heard people say, when government policies transfer wealth from the young to the old, that it's because young voters have low voting rates while old voters have high voting rates?

If you believe politicians will naturally favour the interests of demographics who vote, then having equal voting rates across all demographics is required for a just society.

(Not that it's worked flawlessly for Australia, I'll admit)
All this assembly tricks are interesting but not really useful in real production code. Part about the struct packing is quite common and used but I don’t understand why these extra paddings are present and why one is gone. Even with pragma pack 8, should not it be only one padding?
People who study policy as a hobby have an unfortunate tendency to fall into reddit bubbles of like minded individuals, think in theories only and loose touch with with how the world actually operate back on earth.
Link should go to https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/
Who here believes Trump will pull punches because the election wasn’t satisfactorily legitimizing?

If you get killed on the high ground, you’re still dead.
Yes, lost all respect for him. And not only for that. Asking Zelensky what he admires with Trump.. what the hell of a question is that? By all means, ask what he thinks about Trump, but formulating the question that way... and then to follow up with questions about Musk. We all understand Musk has a lot of influence, but is it really neccessary to elevate him even further by those kind of questions.
vs buying frozen french fries --- which takes 10 mins on a countertop airfryer.

It's not that people don't know how to fry from fresh potato, it's just that the time it takes to do so is a lot. For restaurants especially, frozen is also just more cost-effective after accounting for labour.
Intel hate making money even more than AMD.
Something like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?
Thanks, that’s a bingo!

I believe this is (one of) the relevant thread(s): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544879

> I hereby claim that I am able to save you at least twenty minutes of your computer time a day just by looking over your shoulder and suggesting more advanced tools, better methods, and efficient workflows.

https://karl-voit.at/tags/pim/
It's amazing to see FOSS music trackers still being made, each time a bit more modernized. Although the new "single instrument tracks" model may take a while to click for me, I think it may allow for more dynamic songs.

P.S. what's the license for pl_synth? I couldn't find one on the repo.
Show HN: Need to create a progress bar in HTML&CSS?
I would speculate that for learning unknown codebases, fine-tuning might work better than relying on context window size.
That's because making it easy to start your own company will only provide upwards mobility to <1% of the population.

My grandpa worked in agriculture, my dad in a factory, and I'm a software engineer. The only reason I became the first in my family to go to university is that in my country as long as I passed all my classes I was pretty much guaranteed to not pay a euro for attending university. I even went to one of the top 5 universities for CS in Spain, which might be crap compared to US ones, but economically I'm much better off than my parents.

Affordable university education can provide upwards mobility to a lot more people.
> Back in the day McDonald's or one of their fast food competitors would have built their own...

Where does Costco, which famously went vertical to make its own hot dogs, source its fries? (Admittedly, that was for their food court. And I don't recall that they've got fries on their food court menu.)
The tasteful thickness of it.
Laments price inflation, without mention of the inflation of the money supply. Laments the increasing cost of education, without mentioning guaranteed student loans. Laments the cost of healthcare, without mentioning the increasing regulatory burden on the healthcare system or the gov. enabled cartels. Laments inequality, without addressing the central bank driving the over-financialization of markets via easy money.

Maybe there is a case that can be made where more central planning can fix these issues, but it is unserious to leave it unaddressed.

Why don't more people vote or engage with state institutions? Perhaps it is because we regard these systems to be immoral and politics to be a fruitless endeavor. The US was founded by individualists who claimed they wanted to limit government's role in our lives. Today the US government accounts for 27% of the US's GDP. Those who aspire to cut this spending are labeled as "un-american" by the author.

Even after the author's journey of upward mobility, he engages in classism. We rightly condemn those who condemn those who use pejoratives for racial classes, ethnic classes or genders, but somehow it is socially acceptable to blame social issues on "The Rich". Even on this site, I regularly see articles which use, "World's Richest Man" as a pejorative.

I listen. I get it. I understand people are unsatisfied. Those who do not seem to understand the latest electoral outcome seem to be asking, "Why can we not double down with even more gov. central planning?"

https://www.aha.org/guidesreports/2017-11-03-regulatory-over...

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

https://www.google.com/search?q=cantillon+effect
Cartels don’t mean low quality though, that’s a completely separate and largely orthogonal issue. You don’t even remotely need a cartel for leadership to focus on value extraction and tank the products.
You're correct, thanks for the clarification. I was going more with the colloquial understanding of the two (analog = continuous; digital = discrete) and was trying to touch on the vagueness of no true analog clock with the reference to ticks/resolution.

However, your explanation is definitely much better.
Reading Jeff's story, perhaps he should put some of the money towards fighting alcohol (mis)use in society. So many families destroyed like Jeff's, not to mention being a major component of expenses in the health sector.

Not to downplay the other contributions which are fucking awesome.
Especially with the current high polarization, I am becoming more and more appreciative of historians. They are not perfect, but do find useful parallels from time to time. My favorite recent talk was by Niall Ferguson [1]. And sure, it's probably a good idea to take him with a grain of salt since he is incentivized to push the idea that all universities are bad and only his university is good (he is co-founder of an university), BUT with that in mind I still thinks he makes great points. One of his points in the talk is that the left nowadays appears to be more busy with feelings than economic inequality.

He also compares the current environment to Nazi Germany. Now a lot of commenters on YouTube think this is inappropriate. Nazi's were bad. End of discussion. If you think that too, I would like to defend Niall a bit here. You can disagree with Nazi's and still listen to Nazi's. How else can you learn from their mistakes? How else can we figure out what went wrong and avoid it happening again?

[1]: https://youtu.be/aazlO39MPMg
Those aren’t fries, they’re bad roast potatoes.
Would have implies they didn't use lead buy if they had it would have lowered IQs

May have lowered IQs based on extrapolation and modern studies

Might be a better way to put it
I've seen some claims that it can do 512 GB/s on Reddit (not sure where they got that from), which would imply a ~300 bit bus with LPDDR5X depending on the frequency.
For context: Belgian fries are traditionally fried in animal fat, which makes them even worse for your cholesterol level than fries fried in oil (but also gives them a unique taste). In Germany it isn't even allowed to offer this version in a restaurant...
I always look for an integrated usb-c / thunderbolt Dock. Really convenient to have only one cable
I'm in similar situations, I jump between many environments, mainly between Python and Typescript, however, currently testing a new idea of learning algorithm in C++, and I simply don't always remember all syntax. I was very skeptical about LLMs at first. Now, I'm using LLMs daily. I can focus more on thinking rather than searching stackoverflow. Very often I just need simple function, that it is much faster to create with chat.