skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason it's bad is because they are taking all the new wealth. Since 2020- the economy has gone up, billionaires are dramatically wealthier, and yet most peoples wealth did not change or went down.

In the USA, the wealth of the top 25 people is equal to that of the entire bottom 50%.
From the World Food Program:

> Back in July of 2021, U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030.

The problem is that it would mean directing his wealth and influence according to the guidance of others, which would detract from the cult of personality billionaires carefully cultivate for themselves. It’s a difference of emphasis: sure, their fortune and influence could end world hunger/buy everyone a home/pay off medical debts, but they can’t solve these problems themselves because they’re not capable of doing so.

And so they don’t. They let problems fester because they cannot get the credit they want for fixing it. They’re unconcerned with actually solving problems, and solely concerned with recognition.
AI models are compute bound, it's why we use GPUs
Same. When I'm home it becomes a "home phone" and stays on the charger.

I also keep it across the bedroom so I need to get out of bed to turn the alarm off.
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Given Mistral's increasing presence in the US, would they consider an IPO on NASDAQ rather than Euronext?
Really nice, thanks for linking this!
Honestly, if cars were only invented in the last few years, it probably wouldn't be legal without extensive training and licensing
Private capital. That detail seems to derail your whole comment.
Yeah, whoosh for me.
I don't see any interview in the linked article, only some quotes.
Am I missing something?
Not sure what you mean by "wasted"? Like a regular Ponzi scheme, there are many opportunities for the people at the top to extract value out into cash, while people who "got in" on the scheme later are left holding the bag when the bubble bursts.
Show HN: Selldone SLDN – A Token for Decentralized Commerce
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It is worth mentioning that while not as friendly as Pyvista, VTK recently got a new "pythonnic" API with the 9.4 release, that aims to be nicer to use than the direct C++ classes wrapping

https://www.kitware.com/vtk-9-4-a-step-closer-to-the-ways-of...
I went on r/AskHistorians and I found this answer which seems to agree with you :

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4h2rnc/comme...
The majority of voters voted for this. I think it was pretty clear they are just going to cut things.

Unfortunate for some people who may be affected by this.
I could say "so what" to their wealth being in stocks. What does that change?
I did a back of the napkin estimate before from all of the sources I could find and the best numbers I could find was that the top paying tech companies employ around 10% of all developers in the US.

On the other hand, the average CRUD developer in any major city in the US can make $140K-$170K within seven years of graduating with strategic job hopping
This is such an incomprehensible take. Every developer has benefited from SO. I’ve contributed to the site exactly because it’s been so good to me. I don’t need money on top of that. The website is the reward. Nobody cares about reputation.

Websites cost money to run, and I’m glad SO was so well monetized that it didn’t run out of money and get deactivated like so many of the old school forums we used to go to for help before.
very succinct and insightful, thank you!
Philosophically I agree, this sounds nice. A bit false dichotomy-ish, but nice.

But if you think about it, an unstated yet necessary prerequisite is that the definition of "crime" must be morally aligned with what is right. If it's not, well then you're living in a dystopia. Imagine a world where slavery is still legal and being a runaway slave is a crime. How do people like Frederick Douglass escape and survive long enough to make a difference?

And that's before we get into the prerequisite that such a state must apply the laws completely evenly with no special tiers based on class, wealth, political connection, celebrity status, etc, which AFAIK has never been done. Given the leadership, it doesn't look like it's goig to happen anytime soon. IMHO I think it's heavily contrary to human nature and just won't be achievable short of altering human nature.
That is a beige flag at worst. Every organisation has unwritten power structures that (often) exclude newcomers. Some organisations also have additional written power structures that (often) exclude newcomers.
It isn't, people who mindlessly repeat that this administration has a "mandate" are incapable of critical thinking.
Right as usual. This is more like a "promise" to invest a few $B and then continue to invest more and more if things go well
Oh yeah, I guess we can just threaten them into giving us their valuable resources while ours dwindle.

Yeah, obviously the whole thing makes no fucking sense.
Do both if you have time. We thought Blue Lagoon was awesome even though we try to avoid overly touristy things. Some things are popular for a reason.
There was doubt by many if Project 2025 was actually going to be executed.
How to design a quick start guide for your API
Question - did you need drugs such as LSD to have that experience or did it lower the barrier to entry?
But now It doesn't feel the same as the original comment
> the reason the charges were dismissed is similar to the reason he wasnt charged initially: because attempted murder charge was unnecessary from the prosecutors point if view

But why were the charges dismissed with prejudice? That's not the normal way to dismiss charges.
I find "Turn the Ship Around!" to be an interesting companion to this essay. It provides an excellent example of how, if you do it right, a well-defined structure can actually be quite empowering to people at all levels of the organization.

Speaking from personal experience, I've seen it myself at one previous employer. The clear hierarchy and delegation of ownership and responsibilities made it easier for everyone to get things done and enhanced everyone's sense of psychological safety. People explicitly knowing exactly what authority they do and do not have means they can make confident decisions without feeling the need to play wasteful and exhausting games of "mother may I" with the latent power structure for fear of accidentally stepping on influential toes.
I'll counter that it does, allowing that it's perfectly fine to adjust the threshold of certainty about a particular thing's purpose to suit the circumstances.

If that fence is stopping the school bus from driving off the edge of a cliff, for example, I would absolutely not want to remove it - and you can bet I'll spare a modicum of thought to make sure that's not the case before I yank it out of the way.
That's not the case. There are plenty of very functional groups of people. They usually aren't flawless, but I don't see why "people aren't perfect" would make you lose faith in humanity.
I think the root of many problems is housing costs

I'm somewhere around your age, and I also wonder what the future of software development work looks like. I don't know that I'd direct my kids towards the field; maybe this is just a temporary bumpy patch and it'll improve, but it is hard to say.

One thing I think is that being 40-50 or so means that there is plenty of runway for a second career. Could retrain for something, nursing, cpa, lawyer, trades? Just have to have the savings for making that transition
I don't think he should have done any time for the drug-related charges. And 10 years is more than enough for a murder-for-hire in which nobody got hurt. So this seems... just.
Yeah, I am reminded of Linus Pauling thinking vitamin C cured everything.

Success is dangerous.
> Monochrome VGA output 400 x 240 pixels

Seen the VGA output on a bunch of retro projects.

I've also seen that there are VGA to HDMI converters available.

But can those do any random non standard res like this one, or are most (or all) of them limited to standard historical resolutions?
On the flip side, Paul Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" is a fascinating read on the benefits of decentralization.

The premise is that in the 1500s, no one thought Europe was going to be the next great power. The dominant civilizations at the time were the Chinese and the Ottomans.

Why did Europe win? Because no one could unify Europe. It was basically a collection of states.

Whereas China and the Ottoman Empire were centralized. The problem with centralization is that if the guy at the top says to do something, everyone must fall in line, even if it's a bad idea.

China used to have the most dominant navel fleet in the world. Then in the early 1500s, their government decided to stop building ships. Which ultimately led to them falling behind in the world order.

In Europe however, even if one country received a decree to stop building ships, it wouldn't stop the others from doing so. This created a hotbed of innovation and competition that allowed them to develop rapidly. And establish dominance.

The trade offs between centralization and decentralization are fascinating.
I am on the ChatGPT pro plan, paying $200 a month, and I've been firing up lots of prompts with the pro model.

Last night, after ~176 prompts in O1 Pro, I reached a limit!

I waited til the morning to see if it would still be the case, and sure enough--still not allowed to use the o1/o1-pro model.

This is pretty frustrating, since I am paying the $200/month and I am not getting what I was promised out of usgae.

Anyone else? See imgur link.
Can someone convince me Sam Altman is not evil? I have no proof he is not evil.
>You have no idea what the evaluations were

Sure we do because, again, the people put in charge of these initiatives spend endless time just making jokes about agency names that they clearly (sometimes explicitly!) have no idea about or mindless promises to cut the government in half.

>Or do you view the government as a well oiled machine that couldn't have any bloat and we should never evaluate and cull feature creep in it?

Since you missed it the first time I'll copy the part of my comment that addresses exactly this again:

>The pushback this gets isn't because people love bureaucracy or hate efficiency but because it's obvious this isn't an actual effort to improve anything, just mindlessly slashing things businesses/the powerful don't like and stunts to make the base clap.

The problem is you're assuming good faith when there has been ample demonstration that there isn't any here.
Memory makes computation universal, remember?
You also don't need to sell your company when you innovate, your well-connected oligarch has either already gotten what you're doing or can seize it without consequence.
Trump yesterday: “I like both sides of the argument, but I also like very competent people coming into our country, even if that involves them training and helping other people that may not have the qualifications they do. I don't want to stop…”

"We want competent people coming into our country. And H-1B, I know the programme very well. I use the programme. Maître d', wine experts, even waiters, high-quality waiters, you've got to get the best people. People like Larry, he needs engineers, NASA also needs... engineers like nobody's ever needed them"
> Puppet is easier to scale to thousands of servers

I would have expected the opposite. Pushing changes as required seems easier when the head node is the only one with smarts deciding on what happens next. Unless Ansible has some hard cap on how many servers it can direct in parallel?
All of those things would put them out of business if realized and are just a PR smokescreen.

Have we not seen enough of these people to know their character? They're predators who, from all accounts, sacrifice every potentially meaningful personal relationship for money, long after they have more than most people could ever dream of. If we legalized gladiatorial blood sport and it became a billion-dollar business, they'd be doing that. If monkey torture porn was a billion dollar business they'd be doing that.

Whatever the promise of actual AI (and not just performative LLM garbage), if created they will lock the IP down so hard that most of the population will not be able to afford it. Rich people get Ozempic, poor people get body positivity.
Trump is predictable. This was his side of a transaction designed to secure support from a voter contingent. His personal opinions don't matter much when he is making a deal.
One wonders how they can buy private jets, luxury cars, and mansions with their modest liquidity, right? It's as if they could extract their wealth over time and not all of it at once, so the remainder doesn't lose its value.
You could debate it forever - some people obviously think drugs are relatively harmless and pose no societal threat, others think drugs are poison and anyone involved in selling or distributing them is a potential murderer.

The OP made a dumb comment about the length of the prison sentence in comparison to a murderer, I pointed out a) that while the OP thought it was too long, the same exact logic could be used to say it was too short and b) his original premise about the relative degrees of the "badness" of crimes was not an absolute.

You're welcome to disagree, however the comment above is unconvincing. Ulbricht dealt in drugs which he knew from day 1 were unquestionably illegal in this country.
Yes, by cultural shift if you mean, moral bankruptcy.
Not a good look for BugCrowd to try to intimidate users on their customers' behalf.

Lots of gaslighting in that email, which shows the real purpose of platforms like Bugcrowd: to provide control over the narrative back to companies. They have completely subverted the meaning of "responsible disclosure".
I would hazard a guess the photographer got creative with a UV flashlight given the eerie blue glow on the stone that is not florescent

https://www.minershop.com/pages/uvandourhobby
> If he’d abused his access, he probably could have obtained website encryption certificates (SSL/TLS certs) that were authorized to accept and relay web traffic for affected websites.

> “We have looked into the matter and there was not a risk to our systems,” a MasterCard spokesperson wrote.

One of them have to be incorrect, and both have the incentive to lie/embellish.
I'm no Trump fan and won't go to bat for him, but being anti-drug and anti-cartel is literally one of his schticks.
It could be any of that, but it could also be as simple as libertarians requested it, he told them he would, and he didn't feel any reason to renege on that.

(I do think there's probably an element of deliberate disrespect to federal law enforcement and the justice system, but that alone doesn't answer the question why Ross specifically?)
It is though, so maybe they didn’t watch the video?
Mastercard: "We have looked into the matter and there was not a risk to our systems"

Also Mastercard: has expressed concerns about the public nature of this disclosure.

Good for him for making it all public. The only way to (sometimes) get big companies to fix their mistakes (besides the legal system) is to shame them into it.
> Ten? Oh man. Have you read about [list of older historical events I suggest you were foolish to ignore]

Slow down there cowboy, it's "ten" because the other poster is referencing a conviction which occurred on February 5th 2015, uncannily close to exactly ten years ago.
This place seems to have been overwhelmed by bitterness and envy over the last 5 years or so.
There was and is a whole literature about unstructured and less-structured and alternatively-structured organisations; it even used to get a fair amount of coverage in mainstream news publications. But some time shortly after the year 2000 someone rang a bell, and now the only way to discuss the subject is to reshare "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" (which to be clear, is very good) every so often. (EDIT: And to re-emphasise, I'm not criticising yamrzou for sharing it!) Pasting one of my earlier comments on one of the earlier reposts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36292289

> This is really a good essay and surely deserves a high profile, but it's disappointing that it, and some bits of angst about Valve's internal situation, seem to be the only discussions of organisational structure that get widely shared these days. Back from about the '70s to the early '90s it seems that there was quite a lot of management-theory/theory-of-the-firm research into different organisational structures and how they affected innovation, ability to change and other desirable or undesirable characteristics of organisations. And it didn't just stay hidden in academia, as the results got a fair amount of coverage in newsmagazines and the like in the early '90s. (Which is how I heard about it: I'm no expert.) As you might expect, the findings on relatively "structureless" orgs seem to have been pretty compatible with Freeman's observations. But there was also research on many other unusual forms of structure and hierarchy, for example the "matrix management" which famously got implemented at Dow Chemical in the 1970s https://hbr.org/1978/05/problems-of-matrix-organizations .

> But for some reason interest and attention seems to have completely faded out, at least at the popular level, by about 2000 or so. So the Valve situation gets reported on as if it's some kind of unprecedented novelty, and not an example of a sort of situation whose outcomes had been hashed out pretty thoroughly a decade or more earlier.
Direct line to the head of the agency, who is in a position to help advance the goals of the members?

Without the direct line, the association has to rely on lobbying/bribing politicians for access.
How so? Does this capital being private ensure "this time will be different"?
I had thought that the thesis of seeing like a state is that when you attempt to rationalize a complex system, you necessarily simplify it and sometimes destroy the value in it. E.g. If a government wants to raise money via taxes on food production, growing food becomes disincentivized. Or the simple fact that maps can't show everything about the piece of land they represent.

I think the opposite of the tyranny of structurelessness looks more like our legal + regulatory system where sometimes you need a team of experts to tell you where you can build a building, or the military where everything is so regimented so that you need to fill out forms to buy toilet paper.
I know so many people 20 years ago who "I'll sell my CA house and retire elsewhere" was a majority of their plan.

As of now, I can only count a very few who actually did it, turns out it's hard to leave where you've lived your entire working life to move somewhere you've never been, and the price differential isn't as amazing as it once was (since Covid flattened that out somewhat).

The ones who did end up doing it ended up following their children (who were priced out of where they grew up).

Normally you'd expect measured, predictable, steady inflation to be the method to "defuse the bomb" but so far that hasn't been really tried (if houses keep going up 1-2% a year, but inflation is 5%, you have a 3% drop in value each year even though on paper, you have an increase).
Why AI Investors Should Worry About the Self-Driving Car Crash
Pretty sure it was a solid bipartisan achievement.
This should be a top level comment. This whole thing is so much more complicated than, "man sells drugs and gets life sentence." I too cannot wait for the documentaries
A very small nitpick but the discretionary budget of the US is far smaller than most realize - in 2024 it was only 1.75 trillion.

And notably, most military spending is discretionary, so the remaining funds for basically all the neat dynamic things government can do is less than a trillion.

A million is of course still a rounding error at e.g. $900 billion, but it adds up really fast, especially when you consider that these are ongoing costs.
They should be free to decide how to spend their money?
Show HN: Turn Figma into working apps without coding (Designer –> Production)
Hey HN! Last summer I was struggling to get my Figma designs shipped - stuck waiting for dev bandwidth and trying to hand off every iteration. Got really frustrated and decided to do something about it.

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Obviously this was a huge mistake on Mastercards part, but does anyone else think it's a mistake to even /have/ domains that are literally one letter away from the original TLD's? For instance .com and .co, .net and .ne. It just seems to be asking for trouble. If those didn't exist, they couldn't be registered and the erroneous DNS request would just go nowhere.
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