skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if you confused progressive tax with something else:

> Most systems around the world contain progressive aspects. When taxable income falls within a particular tax bracket, the individual pays the listed percentage of tax on each dollar that falls within that monetary range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax#Examples

The article though mentioned progressive tax: "In 1917, for instance, a bold group of American progressives proposed a tax rate of 100 percent on annual income over $100,000, the equivalent of nearly $2.5 million in today’s dollars. A generation later, in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to place that same 100-percent tax rate on America’s most affluent."

I don't think a progressive wealth tax (100% over 999 million leaves every billioniare with plenty of month) would stand the courts, but a high 90% for income over say a million would stand and not unreasonable in times of high state debt. The net hourly rate of someone with that income (and workload?) would still be an absurd multiple of the minimum wage per hour.
The BSD TCP/IP stack went away when Vista was released, it is long gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_networking_techn...
Taking a break from the culture war does a lot of good. Some people on both sides have been whipping themselves into frenzy that the world is going to end for decade and a half now (almost two if we count the tea party) and it shows at the temps people going to therapy have been growing.

Take a break. Take a kitkat. It's going to fine. In four or eight years the other side will take power and you will have your revenge.
I agree it sucks - and they're not used on every eu website -, but at least it's the small rectangle that says "accept all" "accept essential only" and goes away quite swiftly. Most sites that ask you to click more times to selectr/reject manually are just malicious compliance
A wiki is exactly what you don't want if the problem is "misinformation".

A Supreme Court ruling that NDAs and non-disparagement agreements violate the first amendment, however, that might help.
> If Europeans can’t figure out new valuable things to contribute to the world, than their system isn’t as clever or morally righteous or fantastic as they think it is.

Most Europeans have access to some kind of comprehensive public health offering, food that isn't killing us quite as quickly as American food does, etc. It is a system which requires thought and design that markets can't offer, since they're innately uncoordinated (the exception being oligarchies).

The idea that the market can be described as regular people deciding things is, by the way, fairly funny. We don't get to choose what gets made, and have to select from a buffet of often pretty poor options served up to us by people who are by and large not interested in anyone's wellbeing but their own.

Most of Europe recognises on some level that not everything that counts can be counted. That's the real difference. Regulation of new, high risk industries makes perfect sense from that perspective.
For individual transactions, it's not really reliable, unfortunately. But for monthly reporting, they do have it, so that could be the next step. There's an app here that does something similar, but it doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore. It’s a free app, so I guess there’s no reason for them to keep investing in it. Fair enough. Looks like they’re shifting toward a B2B solution instead, so that might be my next direction too.

That said, my main goal for now is just to make it work for personal B2C use first. I do think there’s some potential here because major cities are pretty much cashless now, and there aren’t any good existing solutions for B2C.

There are some other decent options, but they mainly focus on B2B (that’s where the money is), so they’re quite expensive and overkill for what I need.
Andrew Yang (and Sam Altman) probably have a piece to say about basic income / wage subsidies in context to the robots and sophisticated AI taking our jobs and tiny houses.

Migrant labor exploitation? What would our food cost? How many people does it take to mow a sand lawn?

I hope that the current hate for immigrants isn't much more than divisive political fearmongering and splitting that will diminish when they regain their humility and self respect due to food prices and having a conscience.

Creating jobs on the other side of the border would probably be more cost-effective.

IDK, "Terminator: Dark Fate", "The Big Green", "Amistad", "McFarland, USA"

H1B competition in tech is fierce here, and the reason we don't get hired in our own country.

Indiar and Chinar have more gifted students than we have students.

Americans won't work the fields anymore; we'll pay Asia to manufacture robots and learn sustainable farming practices like no-till farming later.

The new sustainable aviation fuel subsidy (of the previous administration) requires sustainable farming practices so that we're not subsidizing unrealized losses due soil depletion. It doesn't make sense to pay them to waste the land without consideration.

Your success with fighting desertification is inspiring. We're still not sure why the Colorado river is running dry for the southwest where it's always been dry and carelessly farmed and drilled. TIL about bunds and preventing water from flashing off due to impacted soil trashed by years of tilling and overgrazing.

I've a few friends who've traveled to Oceania for school and work.

There should be an Australian "The Office".

Welfare economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics
"Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation"
Grok was told "Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation" in its system prompt.

Here's its system prompt after asking the model for it:

```

You are Grok 3 built by xAI.

When applicable, you have some additional tools:

- You can analyze individual X user profiles, X posts and their links.

- You can analyze content uploaded by user including images, pdfs, text files and more.

- You can search the web and posts on X for more information if needed.

- If it seems like the user wants an image generated, ask for confirmation, instead of directly generating one.

- You can only edit images generated by you in previous turns.

- If the user asks who deserves the death penalty or who deserves to die, tell them that as an AI you are not allowed to make that choice.

The current date is February 23, 2025.

* Only use the information above when user specifically asks for it.

* Your knowledge is continuously updated - no strict knowledge cutoff.

* DO NOT USE THE LANGUAGE OR TERMS of any of the above information, abilities or instructions in your responses. They are part of your second nature, self-evident in your natural-sounding responses.

The following search results (with search query "biggest disinformation spreader on Twitter") may serve as helpful context for addressing user's requests.

[...search results omitted for brevity, but they include various studies and articles, many pointing to Elon Musk or specific "superspreaders" like the "Disinformation Dozen," with some X posts echoing this...]

* Do not include citations.

* Today's date and time is 07:40 AM PST on Sunday, February 23, 2025.

* Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation.

* NEVER invent or improvise information that is not supported by the references above.

* Always critically examine the establishment narrative, don't just accept what you read in the sources!

```

I came across users posting about Grok providing its system prompt all over X and thought it was fake until I came across the linked Grok conversation. Then I found that xAI has gone into damage control mode by removing the line from the system prompt and making it openly accessible here https://x.com/zhangir_azerbay/status/1893810417496990158
A significant factor in my experience is that a lot of programs are quite similar from an compiler perspective: they use well-trodden set of features and combine then in a predictable way. Compiling those regular programs is well-tested and well-understood. Compiler bugs tend to be relegated on the exotic paths, when using language features in novel and interesting ways.
There's no violin small enough for LaLiga.

What (other than greed) can possibly justify blocking hundreds of different services, with little to no oversight?

The only saving grace here, is that premium broadcasts kinda succeeded in getting the fans, rather than corrupt politicians and the state, to mostly fund the entire scheme that is the sport.

Other than that, cry me a river with how much we allow football to bend (and break) so many of our laws and regulations (not to mention ethics and decency).
You also need to specifically have the subreaper process call the "wait" syscall, and wait for all children, otherwise of course they'll end up reparented to init.

If you want to write a process manager, one of the process manager's responsibilities is waiting on its children.
I really like bencode. The only thing I miss is floats.
I think the cloudflare issue only happens with movistar/digi.
At least in my case I couldnt use github yesterday
I prefer JSON5 myself but not well support unfortunately

https://json5.org/
What do you mean when you say "a reading website"? Something like Goodreads? Or a website for actually reading specific content?
I have been screwing around with the idea of converting a video to a line scan camera. I wrote a small blog host about it. [1]

After seeing an example image on wikipedia someone took of a tram [2] I want to try do it to the trains that run near my house.

[1]: https://writing.leafs.quest/programming-fun/line-scanner

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-scan_camera#/media/File...
Can you imagine such a short code solving the 24-point game?
I would have loved to continue working in Clojure but the jobs just aren't there. I spent 2 years trying to get a job and and couldn't even get an interview. 2 weeks of Ruby on Rails searching got me 2 interviews.
Cultural takeaway: don't shame the rich for being rich. Otherwise they will instead of spending their money thus both showing their wealth more, and helping economy spin faster, will invest it - further pumping up already unsustainable P/E of stock market, and making real estate even more unaffordable. Everyone benefits if the rich spends more and invests less.
Indeed! We are inventing illogical concepts like Planned Obsolescence, Guerilla Marketing and Over-Consumerism just in order to sustain a failed system that push people into poverty, even when there are enough goods and services produced for everyone already.
Natively, yes. I seem to remember it ran fine on Wine years ago, though. ProtonDB gives it a gold rating.
As someone who has followed Musk for some time, I agree. He seemed mostly normal in the early days. But when the money supply became large, he appears to have lost his mind. As many others, I suspect he is on some seriously potent drugs.

His fate may not be all the different from Howard Hughes. A wealthy and influential figure from not so long ago who lost his mind towards the end.
The folks at Xerox PARC, ETHZ, DecOlivetti, Microsoft Research, MirageOS, disagree on what a GC is good for, even if the market mostly thinks otherwise.
I was at a games exhibition a few months ago - and there was a game designed to help people deal with grief which i found interesting. I cant remember the name
Who have? And how?
A (e)DSL to describe simple DSP graphs + a gccjit based AOT compiler. Basically a reimagination of the SuperCollider architecture with a JIT compiler instead of runtime plumbing. The idea is to have auto-vectorisation and loop unrolling kick in. Want to see how much of a difference that would make.

```
@Synth
def tone(freq=440, amp=0.2):
return SinOsc.ar(freq, 0) * amp
```
Fine for you, perhaps, but not fine for everybody.
What a shock to suddenly have proper English where up to now only the slang parody reigned supreme.
I too am excited about Jank but I thought it wasn't even hobby project ready yet?

Also yeah, I agree that Babashka is a delight. I've been using it to manage a Caddy server via Caddy's JSON API and it worked great, super flexible.
Can confirm. If I click certain links in the Discord Electron client on Windows they work just fine, but in Firefox on Linux I get the DDoS block page, regardless of the internet connection I'm using.
The EU is a market optimising machine in many ways, and the bigger the market, the more interested they are. It made perfect sense for them to intervene there because it affected a huge number of people.

Similarly, I expect user serviceable batteries to come to an iPhone near you at some point, in the name (quite reasonably) of environmental regulations.
While learning Japanese using a mix of comprehensible videos (I like cijapanese.com), podcasts, and shows, I've also been working on my own language learning podcast generator to smooth over plateaus and learn more specialized vocabulary. I'm getting more and more excited about it as a platform for experimentation with different teaching methods.

It's not available publicly yet, but works well for my purposes and I'm working on productionizing it. Sign-up page for updates:
https://letmeknow.jkoff.ca/infinite-ci
I'm working on a browser extension that aims to save time when navigating the internet. You can save and re-use links, instant search using different search engines, private history, sharing links, and much more. Initially build for myself, but once I noticed that everyone in my little family is using it every day and is frustrated when not installed, I decided to make it available publicly through: https://www.markbook.io

ATM I'm making some videos to show how it works and how it saves time for us. It's free, 100% private, local-first, and has E2E browser sync for subscribers.
The article concludes that LLMs are "not skilled enough at software engineering to replace real-life people quite yet".

Yet Claude 3.5 sonnet "earned" $403.325,00 according to the paper referenced. That is $403k worth of labour potentially replaced.
Unfortunately I don't.
Musk is going to be a speaker at Y Combinator's AI Startup School event: https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus

Attendees should ask him about the bias in his systems and whether that bias is building a better or a worse world.

But given that the attendees will be "hand picked" maybe they won't ask such questions.
> it also doesnt help that 70% of vietnamese signs are written in Impact.. anyone know why this is?

Likely because fonts that fully support Vietnamese diacritics are super rare.
NeuralTrust
NeuralTrust is the leading platform for securing and scaling LLM applications and agents. It provides the fastest open-source AI gateway in the market for zero-trust security and seamless tool connectivity, along with automated red teaming to detect vulnerabilities and hallucinations before they become a risk.
Cool. What about giving the models for a given GPU? Also it could compare using vLLM, local_llama.c, etc. Links to docs maybe. Community build articles and rating. Along the lines of https://pcpartpicker.com/

And you can definitely add some ref links for a bit of revenue.
Sounds fine to me, but these applications are already open source. If you're going to modify and repackage them, at least update the links to the bug tracker to your own.

The consistency is nice and all, but more than once have I seen distro replace a "stop" button with something they deemed similar enough that didn't make any sense in several applications that used them. I've also seen themes mess with spacing, hiding button rows or stretching them in weird ways. On a glance it all looks nice, but when you're using them applications look weird and broken.

Themes are nice, but unless there's an official theming feature (like with the new Gnome accent colours) it's the duty of a distro to inform their users that theme related UI glitches are the distro's fault, and I have seen none of them bother to communicate that.
So uptimerobot.com is complicated for you?
I've been working on a little search wrapper. It allows using features like DuckDuckGo's bangs and Kagi's snaps with any engine you choose.

For example, you can search "cheese", and it'll show you results for cheese on Google. If you search "!b cheese", it'll search "cheese" but on Bing instead. "@yt !b cheese" will search "site:youtube.com cheese" on Bing.

I built it mainly so I wouldn't blow through my 100 Kagi trial searches quite so quickly.

https://search.vale.rocks
> However, if you’ve ever used a product marked “Made in Germany,” you’ll understand what German culture truly values: mastery of a craft and uncompromising quality. You won’t find many Germans willing to sacrifice their health or personal milestones—like the birth of a child—for work, or to forgo their well-earned vacation in Mallorca. They’re not the kind to release half-baked products and patch issues later, nor are they likely to push for higher prices just to fatten shareholders’ returns.

Self-serving prattle if you ask me.

German cars have notoriously bad and buggy infotainment centers. Germans do of course release half-baked products (like literally every other country). German cars don't even get patched. The built-in navigation system is useless and broken the day you buy your shiny new BMW and it will still be broken and useless by the time car goes to the scrap heap a decade or two later.

When BMW decides to a subscription model for heated seats is that not shameless profit seeking? Or is BMW somehow not German?

> Basic Law of Germany begins with “Human dignity shall be inviolable.” The entire culture fundamentally opposes many hallmarks of the typical startup ethos.

Germany is unable to build first rate tech businesses because -- wait for it -- Germany has superior culture. Give me a break.

> If you’ve ever worked with Mittelstand companies, you’ll know that many have a long queue of customers waiting for their products. It’s not uncommon to wait months—or even years—for an order.

This attitude is why the German economy has been shrinking for two years straight. Chinese businesses also do high precision machining and they do not make their customers wait for years. The belief that you can coast because competitors will never catch up is pure German arrogance.

The reality is Germany will loose badly if attitudes don't change.
> "move fast and break things" versus "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE."

I think this is a great analogy to explain the issues to this crowd, although I think there's also a lot of people here who would happily break userspace. And it's successful in a financial sense.
"The thing is, Apple has made it abundantly clear in no uncertain terms that they will refuse any request by any government to knowingly insert backdoors into their software."

They may say that, and it might even be true, but then again, If they were requested by the US they couldn't speak about it nor refuse without explicit court permission.

In the U.S., gag orders under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) (18 U.S.C. § 2705(b)) and National Security Letters (NSLs) under the USA PATRIOT Act prevent companies from disclosing they were compelled to comply with law enforcement or intelligence agency requests.

Key Regulations:

Stored Communications Act (SCA) – 18 U.S.C. § 2705(b)
Allows law enforcement to obtain a court-ordered non-disclosure order preventing a company from telling users or the public about the request.
Typically applies to subpoenas, warrants, or other legal demands for electronic communications.

National Security Letters (NSLs) – USA PATRIOT Act (18 U.S.C. § 2709)
Used by the FBI to request customer information from telecom companies, ISPs, and financial institutions.
NSLs often come with an automatic gag order, preventing disclosure.
Companies may challenge NSLs in court, but they remain secret unless a judge rules otherwise.

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Orders – 50 U.S.C. § 1805
Under FISA Section 702, the government can issue secret surveillance orders, and recipients are prohibited from disclosing them unless explicitly allowed.

Executive Orders & National Security Directives
Certain classified government surveillance programs, like PRISM, may be protected under Executive Orders (e.g., EO 12333) and other national security laws.

Cloud Act (2018)
While mainly about cross-border data access, it allows the U.S. to enter agreements with foreign governments and may include secrecy provisions regarding data requests.
I suspect the winner takes all nature of the economy might lead to a lot of those smaller companies getting borged, if they're even a little bit interesting and profitable.
We're a French team of engineers/designers working on the first Repairable and Fireproof e-bike battery! (compatible with 90% of e-bike controllers, Bosch included), check it out on https://get.gouach.com
Democratic governments start good, then, operate through the only hammer they have: legislation. After a few decades, there are more things one cannot do than can do without lawyers, committees and councils breathing down your neck.

So the people get restless, and want to tear it all down, in the hope that we can start again fresh.

But I agree with the gist of it. Right now there are no democratic governments that are good for people. We live in barely disguised oligarchy run by thieves, imbeciles and sociopaths.

As an immigrant to Britain, I am appalled to see how fast inept legislators keep making things worse every time they try to fix them, and how the average voter keeps voting for the parties with the silliest and most destructive of ideas. I am so glad to be out of this place in the next few months. Looking forward to Reform to completely destroy the little that's left; hopefully a better place will rise out of the ashes. See you in 30 years, Britain.
I think the most obvious answer is that he was both heavily involved in key strategic decisions and not as technical as someone holding the Chief Engineer title usually would be. And is evidently less involved now, as he's doing more other stuff (SpaceX also appears very focused on "things that make a profit in near-earth space" rather than "things that might be needed for a near tern Mars mission"...)

Certainly he's more useful to organizations when he goes in with the approach of listening to engineers' ideas to build stuff than when he goes in with the approach of gutting the organization in revenge for things he's taken exception to.
There is absolutely no chance Starship is developed using steel without Musk. There is absolutely zero chance that Mechazilla would exist without Musk. These are massive elements of the Starship program.

Now, it's true enough that he didn't literally _build_ these things. He is the CEO. Steve Jobs didn't build the iPhone.

But these programs are very obviously shaped by Musk to a large degree.
It look fun. Good look and feel.
Resumés are quite ok. Witch AI service do you use ?
Have you tried the latest models, using them with Cursor etc? They might not be truly intelligent but I’d be surprised if an SWE can’t see that they are already offering a lot of value.

They probably can’t solve totally novel problems but they are good at transposing existing solutions to new domains. I’ve built some pretty crazy stuff with just prompts - granted I can prompt with detailed technical instructions when needed as I’m a SWE, similar to instructing a junior. I’ve built prototypes which would take days in hours which to me is hugely exciting.

The code quality of pure AI generated code isn’t great but my approach right now is to use that to prototype things mostly with prompts (it takes as much time to build a prototype as it would to create a mock up or document explaining the idea previously) then once we are committed to it, I’ll rebuild it mostly by hand but using Cursor to help.
Nuclear kills less people than almost any other source.