skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that a 91% top marginal tax rate would stifle investment or innovation is misleading. Sure the ultra-wealthy will always use deductions and shelters to lower their effective tax rates, but even with those, they still paid significantly higher rates than the ultra-wealthy do today. And the economy didn’t collapse under those high rates—in fact, it grew at about 4% annually, and we built a thriving middle class.

Wealthy individuals and corporations still invested because the tax code encouraged reinvestment into productive ventures like infrastructure, research, and business expansion rather than hoarding wealth.

Reagan’s reforms didn’t simply eliminate crummy tax shelters—they slashed the top rate to 28%, which kicked off a massive concentration of wealth. And the idea that the wealthy always reinvest their money into productive ventures is a just-so story that is more myth than reality. A lot of that wealth today goes into stock buybacks, speculative assets, and offshore accounts that don’t create jobs or grow the economy.

Musk and his ventures are a terrible example. SpaceX and Starlink wouldn’t exist without billions in government contracts and subsidies. Public money was a huge driver of their success, not just private capital.

The idea that lowering taxes for the ultra-wealthy benefits everyone just doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

But let's flip things, What tax rate do you think the ultra-wealthy should be subject to? Why that number? Personally, I don't claim to know enough about economics to be certain about this but I feel that the 1950s-1960s in America was a time of great growth for the middle class and government funded technological development and that the tax policy of the time likely played a large part in that.
One Day, I Briefly Understood
As long as the tools work the same way as GNU coreutils, I mostly don’t care which language they’re written in.

One reason I never adopted tools like exa or bat is that the first deviates from ls flags, and the second changes cat’s buffering behavior. The yield from changing the behavior of these fundamental tools isn’t worth the cost.

Also, if memory safety and security—not just performance—are the reasons to rewrite them in Rust, we could just as well write them in Go and get better community engagement. These are mostly CLI tools, so Go’s performance would be more than sufficient. I don’t really buy the Rust evangelism here.
That’s my assumption and why I said something. I’m guessing they didn’t know.
> I'm not sure how you create a better world

I go into more depth in my other comment, but the short version is that building everything nice that you listed takes energy, and Net Zero just doesn't have a viable story for how to provide that energy economically and reliably at the scale that we need.

> we wish we'd spent the last 20 years not razing forests, polluting air and water, and so on

You're painting a false equivalence. Continuing to use fossil fuels doesn't mean chopping down the Amazon and belching foul smoke everywhere. Similarly, building wind and solar doesn't automatically mean you are a good steward of the environment; one could just as easily raze a forest to mine coal as to build a solar farm.

In the end, I want those nice things, too! I'm not advocating for pollution and destruction for the fun of it. I just sincerely doubt that Net Zero will get us those nice things.
Both of those prices are considerably more expensive than what I pay for service in the US. Even the cheaper one is more than 2x more expensive than what I pay per gig, including unlimited calls and texts + roaming to a lot of North America.
A while back I stumbled on a way to crash my company’s Jira server simply by sending an email to it containing an emoji. Makes me wonder if that could have been abused by malicious parties if they knew the email address we used to forward new support issues to Jira.
> Without [mutable-xor-aliased], verification becomes just as hard

i get graydons point but as a counterpoint: at the point where you're adding a verifier to X-lang, you might as well put mutable xor aliased in the verifier instead of in the compiler.
Sure, but if you can synthesize carbon chains directly then you can make pure compounds. Probably things more valuable than sugar. So you would compare energy of growing plants/microbes + downstream processing or chemical inputs and processing energy (which will never be pure) to whatever this can make - not much right now it seems.
I miss it so much...
You could also call it USSR.
If I can give one piece of advice on cable management it's this:

Get a "Cable Management Box", actually get several.

Everywhere you have a power strip you should have one of these. It helps contain the mess of cords, hides it away, and prevents them from being dust/spider/hair traps you don't want to touch. Shove the extra cable inside the box so you don't have a extra wires laying about. You will absolutely love not seeing a rats nest of cables, even if it's just behind/under something.

I won't link to any product because they are all the same. It's just a plastic box with 2 holes/slots on the sides and a lid. It's stupid-simple but it's worth every penny. If the box is visible I guess you could spring for the more expensive ones but I usually get a 2-3 pack for $20-30. I don't think I've ever bought the same brand twice since are all the same and I just pick the cheapest that fit my needs (size).

Search for "Cable Management Box" and you'll find it.

You'll probably also be interesting in "6-Inch Power Extension Cable", they are great for wall warts. You can plug multiple of these into a power strip and then hang the large heads off to the side (instead of blocking multiple ports). And all of that stays tucked away in your cable management box.
Yeah, no.

When I was younger, I thought, "wouldn't it be nice if Canada could join the EU?" (this was when the UK was part of the EU)

It would mean: (1) I could live work in the EU indefinitely, and there are a ton of great cities to live in like Lisbon, Amsterdam and Barcelona; (2) I could take all the high-speed rail I wanted, and travel every weekend. (3) I wouldn't have to worry about healthcare, education or any basic needs. I would have 4-6 weeks of vacation every year. (4) mostly, it meant I could be "European" = refined, liberal, worldly, speaking many languages.

It was very much a young person's dream.

But I've traveled all of Western Europe over the course of 20 years, and I realized while the above was true in some sense, there were some essential trade-offs. If you wanted to work on leading edge stuff, the EU was not the place (I worked for a German company, one of the largest in the world and the marketing made it look very cool and advanced, but peel off the layers and I found a culture that was very conservative and risk-averse). Europe is also not friendly to immigrants -- unlike North America -- which meant I had to give up the diversity of food and cultures from other parts of the world in favor of only European diversity. Also, the pay is relatively low in Europe. Which is ok since all the expensive parts of life like healthcare and education are covered, but you have to be realistic about whether that is the life you want.

The European economy (outside of pockets like the Nordics and the Netherlands) is also less dynamic than most of the emerging world and North America. It's the sort of a slower, more mature economy that has had a good run over the last few decades, but is starting to show strains under a more competitive ecosystem.

As an older young person, I no longer believe Europe is the place to be if you want to be part of a dynamic economy.

As a Canadian who just wants to work a bit (not too much) and enjoy life, joining the EU makes sense. But if that's the reason motivating most people, it's a bit of a perverse incentive -- it's not going to lead to growth.
Actually we do know what the trade off is.

The trade off is we spend that money on fossil fuels.

And therefore we spend the money on more air pollution, dirtier rivers, dirtier seas, more heavy metals in our soils and air, etc.

So the comic absolutely works even if climate change isn’t real.

The only argument that’s left is the idea that we may possibly spend more money on clean energy than we do on fossil fuels for the same amount of energy.

However, renewables are already on par with fossil fuels pretty much across the world, and their costs are dropping considerably, even if we do not consider climate change impacts. For example, in the U.S., which is particularly unfriendly to renewables from a cost perspective due to expensive labor, new solar energy is cheaper than burning coal in an existing coal plant (so without even considering the cost of constructing the plant in the first place).

But the comic undersells its message even further. Due to the fewer steps it takes to get electricity from the energy of the wind or the energy of sunlight to your outlet, compared to getting the energy of oil or coal buried underground to your outlet, the actual primary energy we need will be lower with renewable energy. So the actual cost will be even lower than a direct calculation of the current total energy supply of the world to meet the same energy demand.

Your concept works in theory. What it fails to recognize is that in the real world, the primary factors keeping fossil fuels around are:

1. The power of the dominant energy companies which are trillion dollar business and include massive governments who have bought politicians to ensure they do not get disrupted.
2. Status quo benefits. The fact that they are the status quo provides benefits like people not being as comfortable with new tech, and the grid and other energy transport systems setup for fossil fuels. For example, gas powered cars being the status quo have led to tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars being spent in setting up networks of gas stations, networks of roads to carry the trucks that move the gas to those gas stations, and the many tens of thousands of trucks that have been designed built and are operated to carry that gas around. If we were starting from scratch, it would cost a fraction of that money to beef up the power grid to supply that power to electric cars in the form of electricity instead.

Ultimately the comic isn’t just right, it undersells its case, and the only reason we keep choosing the worse tradeoff even if we don’t consider climate change is due to market distortions caused by politics and the fact that the trillion dollar companies who traffic in fossil fuels are way more politically powerful than the future renewable energy companies, which are just little startups right now relative to the fossil fuel giants.
Fwiw, Google X predates the Twitter -> X rename by more than a decade.
If this happens to me then all my Rokus are going in the trash.
Down to the Planck scale?
Why is this meme always pasted in to threads about missile guidance?
From the 2nd example:

class Rect(left, top, right, bottom)

fun rect_like_to_rect(v):
match v
| Rect(_, _, _, _): v
| {"LT": [l, t], "RB": [r, b]}: Rect(l, t, r, b)
| {"TL": [t, l], "RB": [b, r]}: Rect(l, t, r, b)

rect_like_to_rect({"TL": [0, 2], "RB": [10, 5]})
// ⇒ Rect(0, 2, 10, 5)

Isn't this wrong? I'd expect to see Rect(2, 0, 5, 10) instead.

It also seems like "RB" was meant to be "BR".
Antirez on innovation outside of Silicon Valley (Italian)
Slow R&D is fine for innovation for sure, Waymo mostly completed the R&D part, similar to the stage I presume Taara is at. The difficult part is then scaling it up into a large self-sustaining business. The hard economics realities tend to come about quickly after that and competition starts nipping at your heels.

Google itself replaced many of the early big name search pioneers like Altavista.
Was author's big tech experience with Amazon?

Because Amazon oncall is ... well it's something. But I'm not sure it's really indicative of the rest of big tech oncall.
Well, I see two issues.

The first is getting mass adoption of your app, and tell people what makes it so much better than what we already have (facebook/twitter/nextdoor/instagram/etc).

Also lost pets are common, but they might rarely happen to you. That might lead to the second issue which is notification fatigue and uninstall the app. Or people will forget, and simply uninstall the app since they never use it.

I think a better solution is putting an airtag (or an rfid tag) on your pet, along with a telephone number on the collar to call.
So I need a job on the recruiting team. Got it.
A lot of international students receive scholarships from their own country to study at the best universities. Brains are a strategic resource.
The fission primary is used to trigger a secondary fusion reaction in modern weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
No. Just 'Bhang Lassi'. But not in India :)
Graaah, totally missed it. Thanks!
> that thumbnails which … induce more people to click through

Entirely conjecture on my part, but I imagine this _was_ true, has now been done to death, and no longer has any juice left in it. It’s how all the marketing stuff goes: discovered, early adopters get great results, everyone starts doing it and it loses any value.
Why not just go for the MBA instead of the MBP? The MBA is lightning fast and can have 32 gb RAM. It seems like exactly what you want - a touch lighter (.7 lbs lighter!) and smaller but still crazy good.
OK, this doesn't inspire confidence then.
such an amazing track though, I use this to test every new speaker / headphones I've had for like 20 years running.
Their answer to Nix is snaps, which will never be the right answer to anything. They're stuck in an old mode of thinking and missed the boat.

NixOS or something very much like it is the future. I personally won't go back to the snarled mess of state that is traditional distros like Ubuntu.
What possible use could this have for a place that has to have some of the best connectivity on the planet?
Likely the latter. But the article expresses no interest or desire in changing it.
Hey, all the Black men who voted for this are probably psyched it happened so fast.
I'm actually working on a voice controlled, tldraw canvas based UI – and I'm a designer. So I feel quite seen by this article.

For my app, I'm trying to visualise and express the 'context' between the user and the AI assistant. The context can be quite complex! We've got quite a challenge to help humans keep up with reasoning and realtime models speed/accuracy.

Having a voice input and output (in the form of an optional text to speech) ups the throughput on understanding and updating the context. The canvas is useful for the user to apply spatial understanding, given that users can screen share with the assistant, you can even transfer understanding that way too.

I'm not reaching for the future, I'm solving a real pain point of a user now.

You can see a demo of it in action here -> https://x.com/ojschwa/status/1901581761827713134
TBH I think a lot of it is many people still don't understand the product or misunderstand their actual needs/usage. Plenty of "normie" households can easily meet all their needs with a decent 5G fixed wireless install. As we see more cord cutting we'll probably see continued growth in fixed wireless.

FWIW, most other ISP types are treading water in terms of overall subscribers while the only real growth overall in new subscribers is fixed wireless. Your gut probably wasn't wrong that fixed wireless will probably grab 20-30%+, but just timescale-wise off a bit.

https://www.opensignal.com/2024/06/06/5g-fixed-wireless-acce...
I did not know any other similar software, I learned Gimp first, so I have no previous bias. I use GIMP for simple things like fixing bad lighting in a picture, cropping or removing backgrounds. I think the most complicated thing I did was using the resinthesizer plugin to remove some objects in a photo.

Unpopular opinion, but I think the UI/UX works just fine? It never got in the way of what I wanted to do, and now I am familiar with where all the options are.
You're probably right on RDNA, since I haven't done any work with it myself, but for SASS I'm reasonably confident that depbar (probably the equivalent you're thinking of) is not going to be inserted after a load from global memory. You see it for things like inter-warp long latency ops, but not within a single thread AFAICT
> I really hate about using terminals: you can't just click to move the cursor quickly!

alt-click?
Summer in the northern hemisphere = winter in southern hemisphere
Israelite is a historic term for a people from a long ago time, the term you were looking for is “Israelis”. “Globalist” is an anti-Semitic dog-whistle term.
> The UK doesn't have enough renewable energy and storage yet.

As with everything else, the marginal cost of additional renewable energy and storage will rise. At some point, all the low-hanging fruit is picked; there are only so many locations suitable for wind farms and pumped hydro. It's fallacious to think that the £0.15/kWh price will hold as it gets scaled up to meet more of the demand.
> no pictures

Damn, never heard of someone passing on a language because of pictures. First time for everything I suppose.
I just opened this up on macOS and the very first thing I noticed is that the bold font rendering in the UI looks like shit. The letters are all squished into each other. Is this just something weird with my system? GIMP 3.0 has been in testing for long enough that it's hard to believe this is a widespread issue that wouldn't have been found and fixed before release.
It's really embarrassing at this point. Even once-respectable content creators feel that they must now resort to absurd mugging in every thumbnail.
Thanks. It’s nice to see at least a few in the FP community recognize that Lisp dialects, with their parenthesis-ridden S-expressions, are hard to read and write.
The music is Telefon Tel Aviv , first track from their first album, Fahrenheit Fair Enough. Absolute masterpiece of electronic music.
Waymo's milestone SFO mapping permit comes with strings attached
Yeah, I was similarly confused. My experience has been that on-call is a roster of who will keep their laptop with them on the weekend. Incidents involve little to no customer comms, because if anything more than a sentence once an hour is necessary then there's someone else on call to handle it.

Support work is a necessary nuisance, but it's also not what on-call is meant to be.
Even worse are headlines that say

TOP 10 BEST

When you have "top" and a word ending with "est" in the same headline, you've done it wrong.
I’ve tried custom launchers but never found anything as good as the Nvidia Shield interface before Google fucked it over with ads.
> But first, ask yourself why you are designing a binary format, unless maybe it's a new media container.

> When would someone ever want a binary file that's not zip, SQLite, or version controllable text?

Maybe I'm not getting the humour here, but in case you are being serious binary files do have a few advantages over text formats.

1. Quick detection (say, for dispatching to a handler)
2. Rapid serialisation, both into and out of a running program (program state, in-memory data, etc)
3. Better and safer handling of binary data (no clunky roundtrips of binary blobs to text and back again)
4. Much better checksumming.
I don't quite understand, in what way is it not wrong to say that "physics (or smth else) is stuck", except maybe a small subfield?
IMO it's when the incident response and readiness practice imposes a direct backpressure on feature delivery that you get the issues actually fixed and a resilient system.

if it's just the engineer while product and management see no real cost then people burn out and leave.

> The most successful teams I've seen treat on-call like a leading indicator - every incident represents unpriced technical debt that should be systematically eliminated. Each alert becomes an investment opportunity rather than a burden to be rotated.

100%
isn't that illegal?
You can start a project just fine? Cargo does not require a connection to function - you only need one when it’s time to pull in external dependencies.

And if you really dislike Cargo, nothing is stopping you from using rustc + make directly.
They're called TLV (Tag, Length, Value) and are used extensively in payment transaction systems.
It does sound silly, but it also points to shallow nature of YouTube content. If you don’t have a good thumbnail it’s going to limit the success of your video because some percentage won’t click on it. It’s just how it goes.
What possible use could Trump—who doesn't drive—have for a Tesla?
>. Also, companies often fail to reward silent, but effective and solid people, and instead opt into creating a loud, noisy rockstar culture even if the overall quality suffers. This in turn motivates people to seek other means of being recognized, including workplace politics.

But that's also a management failure. A lot of managers ask "What can you do for my team or me so we can be more important?" But instead they should be asking, "What can my team do for you?"
Windows 95, of all things, was actually a good example of a company doing 'proper' research driving UI work.

Btw, I loathe the term UX, because 'interface' (in UI) should already be a big enough term to not just mean pretty graphics, but the whole _interface_ between user and program. But such is the euphemism treadmill.
if you open a bank account at all, by default you are under some form of surveillance
> Do you have data backing this claim?

I read it as a scenario / "even if" for the presented thought experiment, not a load-bearing assertion about reality. As in the argument being made works equally well whether either way, and trying to challenge it misses the point.
Oh yes... yes... yes. I hate to be enthusiastic about this for a lame reason... but I can't believe the bloated labyrinthine expensive hellscape of Photoshop. With the myriad extra software one needs to install just to make it work. Thank YOUUUUUUU!!!!

> This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members

Gratitude!
That's completely asinine since it can't be made to work properly with inlining (including LTO), architectures that use a shadow stack or don't use a frame pointer, and also ridiculously inefficient and requiring assembly code for all architectures.

Use C++ or __attribute__((cleanup)) instead.
I bought a Hisense QLED model and run it in "store mode" so it acts like nothing more than a dumb display. A connected PC provides the "smarts" that I can control.
For channels I already subbed to, I forgive that if the quality remains consistent. PBS Space Time's videos have remained stellar, as always.
Why are you being so weird about this?

Traditional print publishers put lots of efforts into making the covers of their books and magazines attractive and indicative of what you can expect inside.

You _can_ judge a book by its cover, _if_ the publisher is doing their job right.

Why would online video be any different?
Switch to Monero (via permissionless swaps) and say goodbye to surveillance (once you are in Monero).

Here is a decent episode on it: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podgenai/episodes/Mo...

If you keep more than $1000 worth of assets in it, please use a cold storage wallet for your safety.
I guess we know how long it takes to make a redis clone.
"in a world where money readily translates to political power, voice, and influence, the superrich have virtually endless resources at their disposal to make sure that doesn’t happen"

Citizens United has entered the chat.
Google food isn't actually all that great in most of their offices.

Sydney, where I used to work for them, is pretty good; New York is decent. But I was rather underwhelmed by my visits to Mountain View.
I was so eager to get non destructive editing on Linux that I downloaded it and compiled it from source when it was still in beta. That is the biggest game changer of 3.0 if you ask me.
I guess it's a typo and the second line should say "BR". I just send a PR to fix it.