skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people only seem to demand a fair piece of the wealth after a world war.

I think it's more that war has a tendency to literally destroy capital which is effectively a tax on the rich. When factories get bombed, factory owners lose out more than people who don't own factories.

War is horrible but it historically has at least been somewhat of an economic equalizer.

One of the real tragedies of the pandemic was that it turned that upside down. The virus didn't touch capital but destroyed humans, and the humans hit the worst were those in "essential" but low-paying jobs who couldn't socially isolate. The effect was that the pandemic increased economic inequality.
For anybody interested in gas turbine engineering, I recommend Gas Turbine Theory by Cohen & Rogers.

https://archive.org/details/gasturbinetheory0000sara
There is a bit of irony in this comment since many of the original Skype engineers are now seniors managers at Google still working on communication (they left MS a long time ago).

Google has many issues but I don't think technical competence is one of them.
Look down one more line where it says Trump got less than 50% of the total.
He's trying to make the point that they can't talk peace without material guarantees of security from their allies as part of the deal, which guarantees are absent from the White House's agreement, because they just had an agreement without such guarantees shit all over by Putin, so it's, you know, kinda pointless to do that again. It's making concessions on paper for no guarantee of peace, with an adversary that's already broken a similar agreement, leading to this very conflict. Why make concessions with no guarantee of security in return, when there's zero reason to believe Russia will keep their word? He actually manages to get most of that explanation out, in between interruptions and non sequitur digs from the other two.

The difference between this and the more confrontational corrections of Trump's bullshit in similar situations recently, by Macron and Trudeau, is stark. Trump and Vance were primed to pounce.
It's Ibn Wahshiyya's Kitāb Shawq al-mustahām fī maʿrifat rumūz al-aqlām ("The Book of the Desire of the Maddened Lover for the Knowledge of Secret Scripts"), on hieroglyphics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Wahshiyya -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egypti...
I’ve heard many, many times that one of the biggest problems with nuclear power plants today is simply sourcing fuel. Obviously a large part of that would be due to international scrutiny and security laws, not to mention trustworthy employees to hold up all of this, but I was seriously under the impression that actually GETTING it is the difficult part.

Is that not a supply issue? I admit I only know a bit about the topic, but it’s the only one without a linked source.
What most people have yet to realise is that home ownership is a quite negative phenomenon. The dual of owning a home is the ability to deny others access to housing. People who are particularly attached to the capitalist system will suggest crazy solutions like a limit on the number of houses per person, but the real solution has always been government ownership of all land. There is no advantage to privately owned land except the ability to horde it and create waste, or rent it out and create inefficiency.
Especially if the US opens Starlink for Russia but closes it for Ukraine.

ATAMCs could be somewhat mitigated with heavily increased medium range drone production.

The game of shooting down everything Russia sends was always a losing game. At some point you have to start addressing the source of the attacks - i.e. strike hard at the Russian infrastructure.
"It has a data mining AI. You are not the customer."

You got most of the tokens right, but windows is a paid product, try that with meta or google products and you got it.
I love my car irrespective of public opinion about Tesla's owner. Media narratives don't affect the reliability of my car or the comfort I experience driving it. I simply enjoy the vehicle for what it is.
I too remember where I was when I learned he'd died: at home reading this[0] on HN, first learning about him and his contributions through others' fond memories and discussion... and also where I first encountered the submitted article here :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925044
I don’t think it was some elaborate ruse… he is a trained actor but his frustration seemed very real. And maybe he shouldn’t have shown it but I do think he was simply reacting to what was unfolding in front of him.

IMO he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Maybe he could have been more professional and statesmanlike but I don’t think it would have earned him a thing. The US strategy seems locked in at this point and it’s a pro-Russia one. He could have really flexed the “deal with a heckler” muscles but the risk is far too great.

European leaders are queuing up to restate their support for Ukraine after this and I think that’s probably the best he could have gotten from it anyway.
This is the second big attack found by this individual in what... 6 months? The previous exploit (which was in Arc browser), also leveraged a poorly configured firebase db: https://kibty.town/blog/arc/

So this is to say, at what point should we start pointing the finger at Google for allowing developers to shoot themselves in the foot so easily? Granted, I don't have much experience with firebase, but to me this just screams something about the configuration process is being improperly communicated or overall is just too convoluted as a whole.
I'm 61. I never in my life thought we could be in this situation. As the old saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." We elected Trump again knowing exactly who he is.

I'm not disappointed in Trump; he remains exactly who I thought he was even before running in 2015. I'm disappointed in how many of my fellow citizens applaud his buffoonery, ignorance, and malice. While Trump himself is not competent, he has surrounded himself with people who can actually do the damage.

To conservatives who are about to say I'm a snowflake liberal, I ask you this: if Biden had invited George Soros to run wild through the government and ignore the laws, demanded a $800B reduction in the military budget and reallocated it to distribute to those in poverty, commanded schools to hire only gay people, fire anyone who didn't declare loyalty to Biden, and had minions collecting all your data for whatever purposes, and threatened to wipe out Israel unless they gave over their country to the Palestinians, what would you have done?

I can't even construct a proper analogy because those goals above are just a parody of what the left wants, whereas Trump/Musk are actually doing that about actual right wing wishes.
At that point he knew things were done. There is no more US aide and he decided to call them on their bullshit.
Apparently 1,172 characters on that machine. No mention I could find of composability of characters, which is possible in theory (many characters are combinations of simpler characters, but combining them alters the representation, shrinking the component characters/substituting slightly different marks).

Something else I didn't see mention of: can you easily switch the cylinder or the rows to get different character sets? I can imagine a business making due with ~1,000 characters because their subject matter is narrower than a newspaper would generally need.
That’s some creative mathematic gymnastics you’re doing there. “Anyone who didn’t vote chose the one who gamed the electoral college best.”

But that still does NOT mean anywhere near half of Americans actively chose the current situation. To say so is wholly, maliciously, egregiously disingenuous.

EDIT - Showing my work:

US Census in 2020 - 331,449,281

2024 Trump votes - 77,284,118

Even skipping any possibility for growth since 2020, 77.3mil/331.5mil is not “>50% of Americans” by any possible mathematical definition.
Relevant Calvin and Hobbes: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/11/29
They were uninformed then, but people are misinformed now.

I think the latter is worse, because it means those in power now have an information lever they can use to manipulate the masses. When there were no broadcast or network media sources, those levers didn't exist and the powerful had fewer tools to control people.
Even if your builders are downloading dependencies on the fly, you can and should force that through an artifact repository (e.g. artifactory) you control. They shouldn't need arbitrary outbound Internet access. The builder needs a token injected with read-only pull permissions for a write-through cache and push permissions to the path it is currently building for. The only thing it needs to talk to is the artifactory instance.
Apart from the Sentinelese, I can't think of one civilization that hasn't warred and taken over land and resources from others. And we really don't have proof the Sentinelese didn't do this at some point themselves.

History was full of violence.
I think it’s interesting that Russia has been using donkeys to transport equipment.

I wonder if in a year or two we’ll see them use catapults.
The European countries that aren't closely allied with Russia and don't have nuclear power plants all over the place have collapsing economies because they're paying 5X what they used to for Russian gas.

It's really grim.

I don't think the EU thinks it can afford it at this time.
Fair enough. But doing so 3 years into a war with a now half dead Russia is a different matter. It was the US and UK that took a leadership role in the beginning of the conflict ("for as long as it takes.."). It must be pretty convenient to have a big ocean between yourself and the consequences of your actions.
You make a good point about higher paying fields in the younger generations. While there is a spread of occupations that I replied to another commenter with you may have hit on something. Nearly everyone has an occupation in a higher paying field than their parents/grandparents and everyone is dual income whereas, I assume, this was less so in the previous generations.

Thinking of one (not me) it’s delivery driver -> enlisted service -> mid level finance (not London)

Hmmm, food for thought, thank you
In a personal setting? You may be right.

In a corporate setting? "We already have Microsoft accounts for all of our users, do you want us to maintain a separate user list? No way. Teams may be bad, but it's not bad enough to warrant that."
Indeed, you can indeed punch out from an actions runner. Such a thing is probably against GitHub's ToS, but I've heard from my third cousin twice removed that his friend once ssh'ed out from an action to a bastion host, then used port forwarding to get herself a shell on the runner in order to debug a failing build.
What value can most US educated bring to the economy? I count myself included.

They’re not hardcore enough to do meaningful research.

They’re too expensive to work in factories. (And not going to compete with Chinese slave labor)

What’s left? Hard to automate or offshore labor: service, or menial labor.

Surely you can’t become wealthy that way?
I just happened to blunder my way into tech despite subpar education.
I'm gonna get flak for this, but both Trump and Biden are heavily to blame for nuclear proliferation. Trump due to his actions against Iran in ripping up the nuclear deal just because he didn't like the person who negotiated it in combination with his decision to assassinate Soleimani. But Biden is just as much to blame due to his refusal to do anything of consequence when Russia broke the agreements of the Budapest Memorandum. We should have had boots on the ground when they invaded, but we waffled back and forth on selling them 50 year old weapons technology for months and now years. Unacceptable, and now the whole world knows that the major nuclear powers can't be trusted to come to anybody's aid.
Others disagree.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-s...
> The Americas had no horses before Europeans brought them.

> Long since debunked

I mean, the linked article says horses were introduced in the 1600s (brought by Europeans), and then spread throughout the Americas without requiring further European distribution.
> Yes it is. It's the first model at this scale.

Is it? Bigger than Grok 3? How do you know - just because it's expensive?
antirez's series looks awesome. My two cents w/ composer:

Don't rely on the LLM for design. Start by defining some tests via comments or whatever your tools allow. The tab completion models can be helpful here. Start the interfaces / function defs and constrain them as much as possible. Let the LLM fill in the rest using TDD. The compiler / test loop along with the constraints can get you pretty far. You'll always need to do a review but I find this cuts out a lot of the wasted cycles you'll inevitably get if you "vibe" with it.

For Cursor specifically, you'll want to aim for prompts that will get you from A to B with the least amount of interactions. Cursor will do 25 tool calls (run the tests / compile, whatever) with one interaction. A little planning goes a long way to doing less and paying less.
In the story, wine is one of the topics of conversation between Carrie and Zima. The first mention of it - and the question - "Red or white?"

Zima indicated that I should take one of the seats. His hand dithered over two bottles of wine.

‘Red or white, Carrie?’

I opened my mouth as if to answer him, but nothing came. Normally, in that instant between the question and the response, the AM would have silently directed my choice to one of the two options. Not having the AM’s prompt felt like a mental stall in my thoughts.

‘Red, I think,’ Zima said. ‘Unless you have strong objections.’

‘It’s not that I can’t decide these things for myself,’ I said.

Zima poured me a glass of red, then held it up to the sky to inspect its clarity. ‘Of course not,’ he said.

The use of wine and the decision is one that goes through the entire story and plays a role at the conclusion.

The "AM" is the Aide Memoire. It is a small robot resembling a hummingbird in size that accompanies people and is an assistant for remembering things for humans who have a lifespan of hundreds of years.

I strongly recommend the story - it is so different from the animated version.
I will miss Skype. It has a special place in my memory.
Trump doesn't understand soft power, nor how much he has destroyed in such a short span. I have hope that a some future point we can repair these relationships, but they will never be like they were. So stupid. Such a waste.
I guess what I'm surprised at here is that a popular ? IDE would be delivered over a delivery platform like this (immature or not)

I would've expected IDE developers to "roll their own"
I feel like I'm currently experiencing failing upwards.

I had a kid recently and have been putting less into my work, mostly just pushing back on asks and delegating because I don't have time.

All of a sudden I have senior management potential haha.

Feels like I'm living in the movie office space
That’s exactly what the Ukrainian government is doing with their men, so you’re right in an ironic way. If I was Ukrainian I would be praying for my government to collapse.
The truth has always been and will always be that the people who are most technologically advanced will end up with the land, weather by force or purchase.

Simply due to the fact that it's more valuable in their hands. Driving out some campers to build a town is the rule, not an exception.
> Spanish settlers likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519

This seems very compatible with what I just said.
Okay, so a lot of ~£40k a year salaries (outside of medicine and finance) to afford a £400k house when your parents might have had a £20k salary to afford an £80k house? There's a real disparity when you consider what they did too. If your parents are anything like mine, they were in the pub 4 days a week, drinking and eating with friends. I can managed that just a few times a month. Wealth compared to income from my experience is significantly lower by .lost metrics.
I agree with you on the timescale of a single generation.

I disagree with you on the timescale of n ≥ 2 generations: kids/teens/adults will pick up new habits and ways of seeing the world.

Just like someone like me can appear like a grizzled old fool for not seeing the appeal of TikTok, it's 100% possible to be blinded to the very real appeal of a 24/7 sycophantic "friend".

And I'll give you a concrete example: I was at a business conference 3 weeks ago where I talked to the group about the trap people could easily fall into, of ditching personal/professional support for AI support (the trap is: it's easy for the "digital friend" to get you roped in by just being sycophantic enough - "it's never your fault").

And then in the very same meeting, one of the keynote speeches was this influential female CEO explaining how she had "taught her custom GPT to become her spiritual leader" and how this GPT spiritual teacher was acting as her guide, therapist and coach (complete with a name, backstory and profile picture). I was rolling my eyes so hard they might have fallen out of my head.

This is where we're going towards, and people like this misguided CEO will lead their audiences and followers straight there (especially when that is combined with financial incentives or social rewards).
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England goes into some detail about logistics and the flow of goods, how town markets operated to distribute goods to people in remote areas, and the role of cities and towns.

I don’t know how much detail you’re looking for, but it’s a fascinating look at daily life for the lower classes
How to communicate effectively as a developer (2022)
I wish that were true. Every enterprise I've seen has thrown their hands up and said "we already use microsoft for everything else (generally email, ad, or office) and teams is bundled why would we use anything else". So instead of getting good chat and VoIP apps, the decision makers just stick with the cheapest option (Teams, they're already paying for it in one of their tens of other Microsoft subscriptions)
> Spanish settlers likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519

No they don't.
You entered ww1 in 1917, almost at the end of the war after German submarines attacked American ships, if I remember correctly. So the US tried to stay out for quite some time.
"Free" for OEMs, or as long as you're already in the system. Outside of enthusiasts, those are the two groups who matter here (not that I'm happy w/ that situation, not at all).
That doesn’t answer the “why?” at all. To what end?
The big limitation with Azure Trusted Signing is that your organization needs to be at least 3 years old. Seems to be a weird case where developers that could benefit from this solution are pushed towards doing something else, with no big reason to switch back later.
Congress can easily fund USAID if they have the votes.
In the mid-80s, I was dating someone who was studying genetics at Sac State. One day, I read an article that made the claim that a female dog that has been hit and injured by a car can later have puppies that are inherently afraid of cars. Although I didn't think about it with any rigor it seemed within the realm of possibility to me.

I mentioned this to her and she *adamantly* refused to accept the possibility.
His best outcome was peace with security guarantees (not on offer from the White House—who knows what might have happened if anyone else had been invited to these patently absurd two-party talks, to maybe sweeten the deal for Ukraine? Christ, how ridiculous).

Failing that, this is a pretty good outcome, in the scheme of things. He outed Trump as a committed Russian ally, not behind closed doors, but on international television so nobody (who matters in this context, I mean world leaders, not Trump voters) can ignore it. He may have just kicked over the final leg holding up the American-centered security apparatus, in such a shocking and spectacular fashion that others will be compelled to form a new one without us, which is something they absolutely need if they're going to keep fighting and the US is withdrawing support. They need other countries not to follow America's lead.
> The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

THANK YOU California for this definition of selling data, which is accurate, and representative of what people think of when discussions of selling data come up.

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners

Ok, so that’s pretty straightforward. According to CA and other states Mozilla is collecting and selling your data. Which is exactly what everyone is upset about and means exactly what everyone thought it meant.
Nice! This was one of the missing parts of the Vercel AI SDK.
signal also allows you to turn off discovery by phone number.
Thomas Piketty lays it all out in "Capital in the 21st Century"

Basically he compares two kinds of growth rates : the growth rate of the 'real' economy and the growth rate of wealth itself. You need the wealth rate to be low enough that rich people want to invest some of it in the real world, not leave it in the bank.

If you do tax the rich, they do very well and you also have money to pay for things like education, roads, affordable housing, medical services, scientific research .. which benefit all and lubricate the general economic market.

If you dont tax the rich, you end up with a gilded age of emperors and kings or a few robber barrons, a small rich coterie around them and the gawping masses of poor eeking it out.

Postwar 70s and 80s were a unusual period of relative lower-inequality, in which we had money in the real economy to develop things.

Garys Economics made an interesting point that inequality _itself_ is a problem - because the actual real value of the world remaining the same [ goods, energy available, land, workers, housing, technology ], when there is higher inequality, then the poor are losing a proportion of that real wealth to the rich. Extreme inequality itself starves almost all the population of a share of real wealth, for them to use their skills effectively - renovate a house, invest in stocks, get a masters degree, do a garage project, travel, have kids, install solar panels etc.
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That's kind of a shame, although the product has obviously been neglected, I still used it on mobile to make local calls over wifi while I'm travelling internationally. The app is... rough, but it gets the job done.
This article is saying the native Americans spread the horses faster than the Europeans spread. They still sourced the original horses from Europeans in the 1600s.