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41,790,600 | comment | elmerfud | 2024-10-09T17:42:59 | null | It's a very short video to present the information which I like because when things like this get overly wordy it's just filler words. I do have a couple of problems with it first there's some language in it that is designed to bias the viewer instead of just presenting information. I'm sure the author is intending to bias the viewer toward their point of view. Obviously the data is the data but the biasing language means that this is automatically and unhealthy thing and that this proposed "ideal" is somehow better. There is no data behind supporting if this ideal is better or not and if the ideal was magically achieved tomorrow how many years would it be until we're back in the same situation? There is no attempt made to even briefly mention or understand why wealth is distributed this way.<p>The other problem is, something I didn't hear in the video but may have missed, is the title that we have here. That wealth inequality in America has never been worse. That is absolutely false when you take a comprehensive look at history of the USA and of the Americas or the world as a whole. Well the distribution now while still being unequal, has been far worse in the history of the USA and across the world as a whole.<p>We seem to forget that there was a time where in nearly everyone lived in abject poverty by today's standards. This includes Kings and conquerors even people like Alexander the Great who conquered and ruled the known world. The kings of Persia from ancient times lived in a standard of poverty compared to what the poorest people in the United States live at. They actually lived in poverty compared to many of the poor people around the world today when you look at what the standard of living is and the things that are available to them.<p>Yet in their own time they lived so far above the commoners that there was no such thing as a middle class. The middle class is we know it is a recent invention within the last hundred years or less. Before the middle class became a thing you had the wealthy and then you had those impoverished and nothing in the middle and that gap between them was massive. The wealthy could do things that the impoverished couldn't even imagine in the day.<p>Yes we still have this gap between the super wealthy and what they're able to do and what the poor are able to do but they can imagine it and they can do many things that are quite similar. a super wealthy person can take their own private jet and fly around the world and enjoy the beaches in some exotic land and dine at the finest restaurants there and do all kinds of crazy fun things. But someone who is in the middle class could easily budget to take a a commercial plane fly to that same destination stay in a moderate hotel eat moderate food and enjoy much of the same things just at a different scale. This was completely impossible before.<p>So while there still is a wealth inequality and without examining the reasons why wealth inequality develops we shouldn't attempt to abolish it willy-nilly the actual inequality in wealth is so much smaller than it ever has been in history. When you live in a first world country the ability to move between wealth classes is available to you in a way that has never been available throughout history.<p>So I take big exceptions with things like this espousing the view that things are worse than they have ever been through all of history because that's just hypersensational language. It creates a false narrative that will result in people making false actions based upon this language. | null | null | 41,790,086 | 41,790,086 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,601 | comment | paulpauper | 2024-10-09T17:43:01 | null | <i>Cybercriminals hail from all walks of life and income levels, but some of the more accomplished cryptocurrency thieves also tend to be among the more privileged, and from relatively well-off families. In other words, these individuals aren’t stealing to put food on the table: They’re doing it so they can amass all the trappings of instant wealth, and so they can boast about their crimes to others on The Com.</i><p>Interesting observation. I think it makes sense they would come from a privileged background. You need the time and resources to acquire the requisite skillset to become good at this, so a high-SES background helps. Family wealth also provides a fallback plan if your get-rich-quick hustle fails. | null | null | 41,790,577 | 41,790,577 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,602 | comment | oldpersonintx | 2024-10-09T17:43:07 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,790,349 | 41,789,751 | null | null | null | true |
41,790,603 | comment | Abekkus | 2024-10-09T17:43:10 | null | If they are actually nominally offering privacy over bing and yandex, while selling anonymous ads on that sticker, that is a valid USP. | null | null | 41,790,326 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,790,604 | comment | Recursing | 2024-10-09T17:43:14 | null | > The PBC model is relatively new. Delaware, where most companies are incorporated, only adopted PBC legislation in 2013 and then changed provisions in 2020 to make the structure more enticing. Of the thousands of publicly traded companies in the US, fewer than 20 are PBCs. [...]<p>> However, it has proved popular with AI companies. Both Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI tool, and Musk’s xAI are PBCs. One person close to xAI said this meant its probability of being sued was reduced if it did not act in accordance with the shareholders’ interests.<p>[...]<p>> “It is intentionally a way for incumbent management and directors to entrench themselves,” he said. “If you can convey the idea to people that you are a good enterprise, a morally safe enterprise and that comes with very little constraints, that has to be tempting to entrepreneurs.” | null | null | 41,790,400 | 41,790,026 | null | [
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41,790,605 | comment | px43 | 2024-10-09T17:43:17 | null | Oh hey Greg :-D Did you watch the movie yet? Was fun.<p>I'm definitely still team Dave.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman</a><p>Last time I talked to Peter was in 2019 and he was making fun of me for spending Bitcoins continuously since 2011, and said Bitcoins are supposed to be hoarded like gold or something, not used as money. Definitely not the attitude of someone who supposedly burned the million Satoshi coins (which was a claim from the movie, I guess some leaked IRC transcript or something). I wouldn't be surprised if the leaked transcript came from Peter himself. He seems to get off on weird deception plays like that. | null | null | 41,784,609 | 41,783,609 | null | [
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41,790,606 | comment | ProfessorLayton | 2024-10-09T17:43:26 | null | >The only place to get more tax is to just seize the paper straight. And I think that’s a terrible idea.<p>That's not true, right now there's lots of incentive for the ultra wealthy to not sell their stocks, and instead use the buy/borrow/die strategy. This results in less tax revenue, allows them to capture gains, and can then pass down that wealth on a step-up basis that wipes out capital gains for the recipient.<p>Policies could be changed to incentivize selling assets without actually seizing them. | null | null | 41,790,349 | 41,789,751 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,607 | comment | asdff | 2024-10-09T17:43:35 | null | I don't understand where all the money goes for mozilla. Here is the revenue line from wikipedia for 2022:<p>total revenue | percent from google | total expenses |software dev expenses<p>$593 million | 81% ($480 million) | $425 million | $220 million<p>so basically 168 million in the bank in 2022. the math has been basically this the last 10 years. in 2018 they lost 1 million but in 2019 they gained 330 million. a lot of their software expenses probably comes from the busywork features they saddled upon themselves like pocket or whatever, since it was only $63 million in 2010 and has only gone up by a couple hundred million from there.<p>So just over the last 10 years from my back of the envelope map from that table on wikipedia, they should have a good 1.5 billion in the war chest by today assuming the mozilla foundation did not make investments with it, which they probably have this entire time so probably even more valuable. At a certain point, maybe already, the org should have enough cash socked away in investment to just pay for operating expenses out of dividends alone. | null | null | 41,784,991 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,608 | comment | zer8k | 2024-10-09T17:43:38 | null | > The value of the super wealthy’s net worth is paper. It only has value because we all agree it has value. If you started to seize their paper wealth and give it to everyone else, the value of that paper would immediately fall, not just from the threat of seizing it but their lack of ownership and stewardship would make it crumble.<p>I don't think ownership and stewardship is the problem. The fundamental problem is still there: whether they have 1T dollars, or 300M people have their share of 1T dollars, the dollars in the system will increase the second they spend it. Their "stewardship" is a tenuous position - commanding enough capital to cause massive inflation. Politics aside, it's lose/lose for a single person to command that much power over an economy. If every billionaire decided to liquidate their assets all at once the financial system would absolutely fold. The fact these people can accumulate this level of wealth is not only an income equality problem but a symptom of a cancer in our financial system. The Fed's policies and the existence of lobbying have, by and large, created these people. It's less a money problem but rather a political problem.<p>I agree with you that the idea of charging capital gains on unrealized capital is financial and political suicide. Even if you suppose you only do this for people worth, say, 500M or more history has shown that this never sticks. Eventually, the government will continue to get more hungry and continue to make abhorrent financial decisions. Eventually, it will effect everyone. As you stated, the investment from regular people over the next 30-50 years would trend towards 0 - and then a new way to tax would need to be made. Negative interest rates on bank accounts, perhaps.<p>That's not to say however it's <i>ok</i> that these people are allowed to possess >= 80% of a countries net wealth. The money isn't the problem is the <i>power</i> it brings - and that's a huge problem. The safest way is probably a progressive inheritance tax but it still has the same problem. How long before Joe Plumber is effected by it? 50 years? There's no simple solution. | null | null | 41,790,349 | 41,789,751 | null | [
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41,790,609 | comment | triceratops | 2024-10-09T17:43:43 | null | Genuinely impressive. This guy's tax bill alone could operate the most powerful military that has ever existed for the better part of a week. | null | null | 41,783,332 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,610 | comment | tguvot | 2024-10-09T17:43:43 | null | given that universities produce hackers and military tech, i am not sure | null | null | 41,790,202 | 41,783,867 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,611 | story | PaulHoule | 2024-10-09T17:43:49 | Exxon Mobil says advanced recycling is the answer to plastic waste. Really? | null | https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-28/exxon-mobil-says-advanced-recycling-can-solve-plastic-waste | 2 | null | 41,790,611 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,790,612 | comment | sgt | 2024-10-09T17:43:50 | null | What's left for Web Components to get in order to completely get rid of frameworks like VueJS and React? By getting rid of I mean for 99% of use cases.<p>It may also mean a light framework on top of Web Components, but getting rid of all these dependencies and ever-changing framework is of course an old dream. | null | null | 41,780,297 | 41,780,297 | null | [
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41,790,613 | comment | AndrewKemendo | 2024-10-09T17:43:55 | null | “Wealth” as a static number is extremely fickle and tells you nothing about reality<p>The Waltons have a completely different kind of wealth than Musk - In many practical and theoretical ways.<p>So even within this subset of insane wealth hoarders, there is a difference in kind, type legal structure, ability to liquidate, etc…<p>We have thousands of examples where someone’s “wealth” disappears overnight because a handful of “analysts” downgrade future expectations of what their percentage of equity is worth in a secondary market. That’s not really going to happen with Buffet, Gates but very possible with Musk and similar.<p>On the flipside arguably Musk has the most political influence within the right wing (See: recent Trump stuff) compared to for example, the relative influence of the Waltons on the “liberal” wing.<p>Similarly I could point to a ton of people who aren’t on on this list but fall into the >500M$ category who have a lot more influence on power and economics than some of the people in the top of this list.<p>The fact that this is not calculated within this framework, means that this ranking is pure vanity and says nothing about economic, power, political power, or anything other than an arbitrary, monetary leaderboard. | null | null | 41,789,751 | 41,789,751 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,614 | comment | JohnMakin | 2024-10-09T17:43:59 | null | > Could the richest people liquidate holdings for the value Forbes estimates their worth at? I doubt it.<p>Of course, if someone like Elon liquidated his TSLA holdings he'd be worth nowhere near the estimate. I don't think it matters though, because he can use those holdings as leverage for cash that makes him effectively as liquid as his estimated net worth. | null | null | 41,789,887 | 41,789,751 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,615 | comment | catlikesshrimp | 2024-10-09T17:44:02 | null | I am Spanish native, but the way I structure my sentence seems a google translation from chinese. People around me often don't understand the meaning, so I have to speak slower to structure my sentence in a more proper Spanish way.<p>I suppose languages evolve around the way their corresponding population brains work. People can still learn other languages, or be native to other languages, but there is a language way that is the best fit to some people which is related to biology. | null | null | 41,789,554 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,790,616 | comment | mc32 | 2024-10-09T17:44:27 | null | If they only divided it into information search ("library" knowledge) and business search (Yelp/YP) where you can tweak your preferences.<p>When you search for "vacuum cleaner", you either want online stores or you may want a local store. In either case it's a business query rather than looking for reviews or specs.<p>What's really polluting search, including Google, is the on-demand content generation based on your query. It's a sea of flotsam. | null | null | 41,790,063 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,790,617 | comment | paulpauper | 2024-10-09T17:44:30 | null | An IP was leaked in 2009 though tied to Satoshi in Los Angles | null | null | 41,786,710 | 41,783,503 | null | [
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41,790,618 | comment | a_c_s | 2024-10-09T17:44:31 | null | Why would you earn a credit?<p>You created a tax event and paid taxes on it and you got a loan for x% of $100.<p>If you sell the stock at $80 you'd pay no taxes on the appreciation (-$20). No credits, investing is risky. | null | null | 41,790,119 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,619 | story | andrearaponi12 | 2024-10-09T17:44:31 | Dito – an advanced Layer 7 reverse proxy server written in Go | null | https://github.com/andrearaponi/dito | 168 | null | 41,790,619 | 91 | [
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41,790,620 | comment | bluGill | 2024-10-09T17:44:33 | null | Most middle class don't have to work either - they are just not willing to accept the lifestyle that forces. Even poor people could find enough savings by 30 to not work if they really want to live that lifestyle. (I don't blame anyone for not wanting to live like that) | null | null | 41,790,408 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,790,621 | comment | gbraad | 2024-10-09T17:44:35 | null | the device is unlikely to also provide at scale if restored, which probably would also be a consideration. if you are serious to use it as a pill press, you would not go for this inconvenient option.<p>I wish her luck in getting it sorted, ... | null | null | 41,787,288 | 41,784,713 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,622 | comment | dang | 2024-10-09T17:44:38 | null | Please don't perpetuate hellish flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a> | null | null | 41,787,341 | 41,785,265 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,623 | comment | throwaway_43793 | 2024-10-09T17:44:40 | null | My question wasn't clear enough I'm afraid. It's not that I don't want to work, it's more about the fact that I don't want to participate in meaningless rituals. There are absolutely zero reasons to have the 9-5. Software can be written also from 8 to 10, and from 4 to 8, but for some reason the entire world has gone mad and married the 9-5. On top of that, nobody really writes code for 8 hours. So instead of the 1-3 hours that I waste in a corporate world for meaningless "cooler talks", I could spend with my family, or workout. But no, I need to conform to 9-5. | null | null | 41,789,105 | 41,788,960 | null | [
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41,790,624 | comment | neves | 2024-10-09T17:44:41 | null | Here's why I didn't access the link: I'm never interested in any product that the main feature is the technology it uses.<p>Which problem does it solve? Not how it is made. | null | null | 41,749,680 | 41,749,680 | null | [
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41,790,625 | comment | WalterBright | 2024-10-09T17:44:47 | null | If you want to get an accurate accounting of CO2 emissions, sure. | null | null | 41,781,468 | 41,765,580 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,626 | comment | zmnayt | 2024-10-09T17:44:49 | null | As many people have observed here, this is a couple of Steering Council members showing activity. Getting one's PEPs accepted has a totally inflated weight in the Python "community". The more, the better (by contrast very few people care about perfect and bug-free code).<p>So, if this thing is accepted, it pads the resume of certain people even more. And many software orgs will have one additional week of job security by rewriting existing code. It's a win-win situation.<p>Ever since the walrus operator coup Python has descended into madness and make-work initiatives. | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,627 | comment | wyldfire | 2024-10-09T17:44:55 | null | > Currently, Python allows catching all exceptions with a bare except: clause, which can lead to overly broad exception handling and mask important errors.<p>The fact that this pattern catches NameError and other things which are obviously design errors means that it is a really bad behavior which is unfortunately common.<p>Of course, many folks in this comment section and the PEP discussion thread point out the pitfalls with the suggested remedies. It would be great if some amount of linting/warning/static check could be devised to help people uncover the problem though. | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,628 | comment | jcranmer | 2024-10-09T17:44:56 | null | > Is English just badly pronounced French?<p>No, English is a Germanic language whose conjugation rules have severely atrophied, with (mostly specialized!) terminology liberally adopted from Latin, Greek, and other roots. In things like tense and aspect structure, I believe that English hews a lot closer to German than French. | null | null | 41,790,384 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,790,629 | comment | throwaway_43793 | 2024-10-09T17:45:08 | null | Would you mind to share how and what do you do? | null | null | 41,789,182 | 41,788,960 | null | [
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41,790,630 | comment | newaccountman2 | 2024-10-09T17:45:09 | null | > Is this something like clojure.spec by for TypeScript so you can do runtime validation of data instead of compile-time<p>not really "instead", more like "in addition to". Even if your code compiles, if you are receiving data, e.g., via API, then you need to check that it actually conforms to the type/schema you expect. What is run is JS, so it, sadly, won't just crash/error if an object that is supposed to be of `type Cat = {name: string, ownerId: number}` lacks an `ownerId` at runtime.<p>Have you used Pydantic in Python? It's like that, but feels worse, IMO lol. I say this because Pydantic fits into writing Python code much more naturally than writing Zod stuff fits into writing TypeScript, IMO. | null | null | 41,790,292 | 41,764,163 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,631 | comment | kyletut | 2024-10-09T17:45:19 | null | Sync engine > state machine | null | null | 41,790,380 | 41,790,380 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,632 | comment | allears | 2024-10-09T17:45:22 | null | I dunno if the submitter actually read the article, but there's nothing about AI in there. They're replacing line judges with electronic sensors. They're actually late to the game, since other tennis venues have been doing this for years. There will still be a chair umpire on the court. | null | null | 41,790,184 | 41,790,184 | null | null | null | null |
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41,790,634 | comment | YawningAngel | 2024-10-09T17:45:33 | null | It's not a conjugation issue. "Champagne" is letter-for-letter identical in both languages, but pronounced differently for phonotactic reasons | null | null | 41,790,384 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,790,635 | comment | idle_zealot | 2024-10-09T17:45:35 | null | At a time of their choosing they can subject themselves to marketing material (yellow pages) or simple word-of-mouth amplified by the Internet. Treating "knowledge of your product/service" as a market commodity is bizarre and has overall negative effects on competition (more money buys more awareness equals more sales). | null | null | 41,790,322 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,790,636 | comment | inglor_cz | 2024-10-09T17:45:40 | null | But, for some weird reason, modern Bulgarian mutated gender of "evening" to feminine:<p>Тази вечер<p>even though in the greeting "good evening", the old masculine form remains:<p>добър вечер<p>Bulgarian in general seems to be the Chad of the Slavic language family :) | null | null | 41,790,457 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,637 | comment | bluGill | 2024-10-09T17:45:40 | null | Most of the right wing who is against taxes still agree to pay taxes on something. They disagree what taxes should go for and how much, but they generally agree some are needed.<p>Society is about the compromise. However that compromise makes nobody happy. | null | null | 41,790,105 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,638 | comment | NikkiA | 2024-10-09T17:45:43 | null | As is .hk which is perhaps a better example | null | null | 41,784,099 | 41,781,827 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,639 | comment | jandrewrogers | 2024-10-09T17:45:44 | null | The vast majority of assets held by the ultra-wealthy are non-liquid. Thinking that these assets are "stock" that you can just "sell" is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the problem. You can't force realization for tax purposes because in most cases there is no feasible way to realize notional gains. Reality doesn't care if it is inconvenient for the government that assets with unrealized gains have no realizable value. The problem of asset value that is non-realizable is endemic in finance.<p>Additionally, in the minority of cases where it is plausible to force realization, doing so would destroy the notional value of the asset in many cases. The government will have to issue a tax credit, undoing any tax revenue they hoped to gain, but the business is now destroyed so there is no future tax revenue either.<p>Trying to prematurely force realization of asset value is either impossible or destructive in the vast majority of cases. | null | null | 41,789,517 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,790,643 | comment | mvdtnz | 2024-10-09T17:46:03 | null | google.com is a search engine, regardless of what drives Google's revenue. Weird to say it's not. | null | null | 41,790,433 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,790,644 | comment | throwaway_43793 | 2024-10-09T17:46:07 | null | My question wasn't clear enough I'm afraid. It's not that I don't want to work, it's more about the fact that I don't want to participate in meaningless rituals. There are absolutely zero reasons to have the 9-5. Software can be written also from 8 to 10, and from 4 to 8, but for some reason the entire world has gone mad and married the 9-5. On top of that, nobody really writes code for 8 hours. So instead of the 1-3 hours that I waste in a corporate world for meaningless "cooler talks", I could spend with my family, or workout. But no, I need to conform to 9-5.<p>I'm fine working 8 hours a day, I just want to do it on my terms and build my work around my lifestyle, rather than morph my lifestyle to suit the stupid notion of 9-5. | null | null | 41,789,273 | 41,788,960 | null | null | null | null |
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41,790,646 | comment | BitwiseFool | 2024-10-09T17:46:13 | null | My absolute favorite example of this is the suppression of "podcast" in favor of the far more romantic "audio à la demande". | null | null | 41,790,465 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,647 | comment | cen4 | 2024-10-09T17:46:14 | null | Pretty sure there is a similar graph for Britain during the wind down phase of their Empire. | null | null | 41,789,751 | 41,789,751 | null | [
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41,790,648 | comment | ruthmarx | 2024-10-09T17:46:15 | null | > What other services don't have perfectly reasonable replacements ready and waiting?<p>How about which single reasonable replacement offers the same services with the same level of integration?<p>Using Yahoo Mail and Amazon Cloud and Office Online and whatever other products isn't quite the same offering as what Google offers. | null | null | 41,789,862 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,790,649 | comment | 1penny42cents | 2024-10-09T17:46:16 | null | crazy double whammy:<p>1. US gov trying to break up your search monopoly<p>2. ChatGPT disrupting your search monopoly | null | null | 41,784,287 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,650 | comment | asdff | 2024-10-09T17:46:18 | null | Used to be the worlds top supercomputer infra was in national labs or such places and not private companies. Some of the largest are still there. In my hypothetical that would be the case "assuming same resources." | null | null | 41,790,489 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,790,651 | comment | matrix2003 | 2024-10-09T17:46:26 | null | Yeah. That's what I struggle with. However, I guess increasing dependence on methane is not something we want to increase (to encourage more fossil fuel usage). | null | null | 41,790,137 | 41,764,095 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,652 | comment | carlmr | 2024-10-09T17:46:27 | null | In Germany you need approval for business names. | null | null | 41,790,236 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,790,653 | comment | catlikesshrimp | 2024-10-09T17:46:29 | null | Imagine either England or the USA accepting to vary their language towards a common standard. I expect strong opposition would stem from pride. | null | null | 41,790,450 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,790,654 | story | VelNZ | 2024-10-09T17:46:40 | Nintendo announces alarm clock hardware Alarmo | null | https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/463519/nintendo-alarmo-alarm-clock-new-hardware | 9 | null | 41,790,654 | 2 | [
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41,790,655 | story | OmarShehata | 2024-10-09T17:46:44 | Bo-En.info | null | https://bo-en.info/ | 3 | null | 41,790,655 | 0 | [
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41,790,656 | comment | emaro | 2024-10-09T17:46:44 | null | It's the first time I see a company's name used like that. | null | null | 41,790,030 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,657 | comment | FactKnower69 | 2024-10-09T17:46:48 | null | How else would he make two hundred billion dollars? Paying employees coerced into selling their labor a wage which is less than the value their labor creates? Ridiculous | null | null | 41,790,579 | 41,789,751 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,658 | comment | anigbrowl | 2024-10-09T17:46:56 | null | Let me save you a click: <i>Goldsmithing Was the Klimt Family Business</i><p>This is TMZ-level art journalism. | null | null | 41,761,409 | 41,761,409 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,659 | story | Michelangelo11 | 2024-10-09T17:46:57 | John Gray and Peter Thiel: Life in a Postmodern World | null | https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/01/john-gray-peter-thiel-discussion-post-modern-world | 3 | null | 41,790,659 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,790,660 | story | thunderbong | 2024-10-09T17:46:57 | Hacker alleges top Star Health Insurance exec sold data of 31M Indians | null | https://www.digit.in/news/general/hacker-alleges-top-star-health-insurance-executive-sold-him-data-of-over-31-million-india-users.html87563.cms | 3 | null | 41,790,660 | 0 | [
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41,790,661 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T17:47:00 | null | null | null | null | 41,790,466 | 41,790,466 | null | null | true | null |
41,790,662 | comment | PaulDavisThe1st | 2024-10-09T17:47:02 | null | That's one metric, that only reflects Amazon's function as an income generator.<p>I view businesses through other metrics as well, including their impact on society in a variety of different ways. From some of those perspectives, it is not clear to me that Amazon (where I was the 2nd employee) is a net benefit. | null | null | 41,790,089 | 41,786,101 | null | [
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41,790,663 | comment | pragma_x | 2024-10-09T17:47:11 | null | GPT? Probably not. But there are AI products out there that can be trained to do that kind of grunt work with text that has semi-regular features to it. Amazon Textract is one such tool. | null | null | 41,790,109 | 41,788,246 | null | [
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41,790,664 | comment | bell-cot | 2024-10-09T17:47:21 | null | Not sure whether I'd call that "spin", or "reality distortion".<p>Here's a bit-more-objective page, from a couple weeks ago:<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/longshot-space-closes-over-5m-in-new-funding-to-build-space-gun-in-the-desert/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/longshot-space-closes-over...</a><p>Notice that they only seem to have a few $M in funding. And even the "giant optimist" version of their launcher would still subject the payload to 250g's. | null | null | 41,790,421 | 41,790,421 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,665 | comment | tencentshill | 2024-10-09T17:47:25 | null | It's essentially AirPlay/Wireless carplay but can be initiated from the receiving device. Any attacker would have to establish a direct wi-fi connection. The new Remote Support feature still requires on-device initiation. <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/request-give-remote-control-a-facetime-call-iph5d70f34a3/ios" rel="nofollow">https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/request-give-remote-c...</a> | null | null | 41,790,558 | 41,790,558 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,666 | comment | mrtesthah | 2024-10-09T17:47:27 | null | Nice, so when do we get to elect the billionaires? | null | null | 41,790,546 | 41,789,751 | null | [
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41,790,667 | comment | relistan | 2024-10-09T17:47:29 | null | Hilarious to see all the people lamenting the break-up of AT&T. That break-up sparked the long distance phone race, which became the driving force for the massive laying of fiber optics... which enabled the Internet boom of the 1990s. | null | null | 41,784,287 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,790,668 | comment | paulpauper | 2024-10-09T17:47:29 | null | some other person not listed | null | null | 41,783,922 | 41,783,503 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,669 | comment | adrianN | 2024-10-09T17:47:45 | null | Because proving correctness for complex software is difficult and very few people have relevant experience. So it is both labor intensive and you need to pay high wages. I believe the safety improvements are marginal because of my experience in safety critical development. Almost all the bugs we did not find by testing turned out to be problems with the requirements that led to interoperability issues. Proving the correct implementation of wrong requirements would not have helped. | null | null | 41,785,784 | 41,771,272 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,670 | comment | WalterBright | 2024-10-09T17:47:46 | null | There are a number of cheap-as-dirt things that could have been done to prevent the disaster. Putting the generators on a platform was one. Venting the hydrogen outside instead of inside, another. Having emergency repair parts on site is a third. Having a gravity-fed way to cool the reactors with external water, a fourth.<p>And so on. | null | null | 41,782,934 | 41,765,580 | null | [
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41,790,671 | comment | V__ | 2024-10-09T17:47:52 | null | This was the prompt I gave o1-preview:<p>> There is a geometric thought experiment that is often used to demonstrate the counterintuitive shape of high-dimensional phenomena. We start with a 4×4 square. There are four blue circles, with a radius of one, packed into the box. One in each corner. At the center of the box is a red circle. The red circle is as large as it can be, without overlapping the blue circles. When extending the construct to 3D, many things happen. All the circles are now spheres, the red sphere is larger while the blue spheres aren’t, and there are eight spheres while there were only four circles.<p>> There are more than one way to extend the construct into higher dimensions, so to make it more rigorous, we will define it like so: An n-dimensional version of the construct consists of an n-cube with a side length of 4. On the midpoint between each vertex and the center of the n-cube, there is an n-ball with a radius of one. In the center of the n-cube there is the largest n-ball that does not intersect any other n-ball.<p>> At what dimension would the red ball extend outside the box?<p>Response: "[...] Conclusion: The red ball extends outside the cube when n≥10n≥10."<p>It calculated it with a step-by-step explanation. This is the first time I'm actually pretty stunned. It analysed the problem, created an outline. Pretty crazy. | null | null | 41,790,504 | 41,789,242 | null | [
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41,790,672 | comment | Retric | 2024-10-09T17:47:54 | null | Singling out COVID is misleading because of the short timeframe. Overall I’ve been more impacted by Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates choices than any single president in my lifetime.<p>A President has limited power for 4 or 8 years, and that’s it. We don’t put 22 year olds on the Supreme Court or let them act unilaterally. Sure laws stick around but that’s the result of what hundreds of people and other groups of people not changing the rules in a few years. | null | null | 41,790,546 | 41,789,751 | null | [
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41,790,673 | comment | jacobolus | 2024-10-09T17:47:59 | null | That's fine. Such people can renounce their citizenship and pay the required exit tax, convert all their assets to gold bars or whatever, and go move somewhere in the world without a functioning state, where they can hire a private militia, build their own basic infrastructure, etc. | null | null | 41,789,956 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,790,674 | comment | Bjartr | 2024-10-09T17:48:00 | null | I only see second-person "you" and not first-person "I" in the linked documentation. Am I missing what you intended to point out?<p>In any case, this might actually be a good use for an LLM to post-process it into whatever style you want. I bet there's even a browser extension that could do it on-demand and in-place. | null | null | 41,790,418 | 41,764,163 | null | [
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41,790,675 | comment | nanoxide | 2024-10-09T17:48:01 | null | Yep. I distinctly remember reading an interview in the German GameStar magazine in '99 or something with him where he talks about his early work with Bullfrog. Over the years I read his name from time to time as he moved towards research. Pretty amazing career. | null | null | 41,786,662 | 41,786,101 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,676 | comment | ezekg | 2024-10-09T17:48:20 | null | > What if the producer moves into a field that I'm in and is now a competitor - have I suddenly run afoul of the license, even though I wasn't before?<p>If a user moves into the producer's field and becomes a 'competitor', or the producer moves into a user's field, the user simply cannot upgrade to the latest version of the software. But they're access to previous versions would remain unaffected, as far as I understand.<p>Here's more explicit language from the FSL:<p>> A Competing Use means making the Software available to others in a commercial product or service that: ... substitutes for any other product or service we offer using the Software that exists as of the date we make the Software available; or<p>As you can see, terms are "as of the date we make the Software available", so nobody can retroactively be in violation of the license, but they can be restricted i.r.t. upgrading to newer fair source versions. Since they now compete, they will need to use the open source version released under DOSP moving forward, typically 2 years out of date.<p>I'll be honest and say that I think that's totally fair. | null | null | 41,789,213 | 41,788,461 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,677 | comment | psunavy03 | 2024-10-09T17:48:24 | null | It's not just being able to come up with the idea, it's being able to build a team and execute without the company going under. | null | null | 41,790,521 | 41,789,751 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,678 | comment | BenjiWiebe | 2024-10-09T17:48:25 | null | I would hope Google would help out, but I would also realize that it's ultimately their own choice if the license allows them to use it without donating time/money. | null | null | 41,790,498 | 41,791,369 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,679 | story | Shihab_8 | 2024-10-09T17:48:27 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,790,679 | null | null | null | true |
41,790,680 | comment | makeitdouble | 2024-10-09T17:48:30 | null | If we're going for accuracy, your statement would have to explain how it goes for other situations, for instance:<p>- words spoken by toddlers: what's the spelling of a word that doesn't exist outside of a kid's brain ? In particular parents can accept it as a word without ever setting an associated writing.<p>- written words that don't have a pronounciation: typically Latin is dead and how any of it is pronounced is up to how we feel about it.<p>That's without going into words with phonems unrelated to their written form (XIV as fourteen for instance) and I assume there will be words that exchange spelling and pronounciation with others.<p>Languages are plenty weird, we should embrace their weirdity IMHO. | null | null | 41,790,379 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,790,681 | comment | dzikimarian | 2024-10-09T17:48:31 | null | Imagine you need to email code to someone to be committed :-) | null | null | 41,786,038 | 41,775,238 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,682 | comment | dang | 2024-10-09T17:48:34 | null | Nationalistic/racial/ethnic/religious/whatever-this-is slurs will get you banned here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Please don't post anything like this again.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a> | null | null | 41,789,250 | 41,785,265 | null | [
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41,790,683 | comment | bluGill | 2024-10-09T17:48:39 | null | In Singapore and a few other places. However in the US housing is not a government monopoly (sometimes low income housing is). You can always find a landlord in a different town. No need for a new job as you still live in the same metropolitan area. | null | null | 41,789,905 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,790,684 | comment | joshlk | 2024-10-09T17:48:47 | null | Would it be possible to move all the language developers to work on packaging?<p>IMO the Python language is feature complete but the packaging system needs heart surgery. | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,685 | comment | zer8k | 2024-10-09T17:48:52 | null | The point is to not allow a company to be able to buy out the entire country. Maybe Novo Nordisk is a good steward but historically companies like Google and Amazon act only their own best interests. Breaking up these massive companies ends up doing the better thing anyway - a surge of competition emerges and offers better and often cheaper services. Look at the break up of Bell. The short term was marginally negative (higher long distance costs) but the market was better for it.<p>Google has a substantial amount of control over the flow of information in the United States. To the point it can literally redefine truth. This is a problem - and one that is easily solved by breaking up a de-facto monopoly. Moreover, the acquire-and-kill strategy stifles innovation. Imagine what we would have if Google didnt have the capital to buy and kill so many small companies. | null | null | 41,785,018 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,686 | comment | angelareitz | 2024-10-09T17:48:55 | null | [flagged] | null | null | 41,790,085 | 41,790,085 | null | null | null | true |
41,790,687 | comment | mrkandy | 2024-10-09T17:49:01 | null | A great example of an article that appeals to emotions (negative ones) by manipulating facts. | null | null | 41,789,751 | 41,789,751 | null | [
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41,790,688 | comment | philistine | 2024-10-09T17:49:05 | null | Frame perfect moves are exceedingly common in most top fields. Just watch any video about the latest speedruns.<p>The thing with latency is it needs to be consistent. If your latency is between 3 to 5 frames you blew it because you can't guarantee the same experience on every button press. If you always have 3 frames of latency, with modern screens, analog controls, and game design aware of those limitations, that's much better. Look at modern games like <i>Celeste</i>, who has introduced <i>Coyote Time</i> to account for all the latency of our modern hardware. | null | null | 41,790,495 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,689 | comment | jcgrillo | 2024-10-09T17:49:07 | null | That's impressive! Doesn't run for very long at that rate haha | null | null | 41,790,181 | 41,733,390 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,690 | comment | winrid | 2024-10-09T17:49:14 | null | I was going to write a comment agreeing with you but then my audio started to get scratchy for no reason this morning | null | null | 41,788,937 | 41,788,557 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,691 | comment | PaulDavisThe1st | 2024-10-09T17:49:15 | null | I am not aware of a Unicode concept of "the latin letter o followed by an apostrophe followed by another latin letter". Unicode would identify the glyphs for such a concept, but I don't see how Unicode is involved in this in anyway as far the process of deciding what "capitalized o'reilly" means. | null | null | 41,784,756 | 41,774,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,692 | comment | kragen | 2024-10-09T17:49:17 | null | There are; VNC doesn't know about IP, for example, and TCP doesn't know about Ethernet. IP is just as happy to run over PPP or Wireguard as over Ethernet. HTTP/1 knows about TCP/IP, but only a little bit, and you can easily run HTTP/1 over other protocols like TLS. Character-cell terminal protocols know very little indeed about the protocol layer under them and work almost equally well over telnet, rsh, SSH, a serial port, a modem, or a bare pseudo-TTY, the main surviving exception being window resize handling.<p>The problem is that ① the layers don't have a fixed relationship to each other the way the OSI model proposes, ② several of the OSI layers don't exist at all in real-life TCP/IP protocols, and ③ there are other layers in current stacks that have no analogue in the OSI model, like Wireguard, MPLS, SSH, TLS, and HTTP. If you want to understand the services HTTP provides to the protocols that ride on top of it, you need to read Roy Fielding's thesis, not X.225. | null | null | 41,771,983 | 41,766,293 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,693 | comment | diego_moita | 2024-10-09T17:49:26 | null | Well, communication needs standards.<p>As much as we need someone to define what is http, TCP/IP or Posix we also need someone to define what is English, Spanish or any language.<p>If you don't believe it then try to understand whatever language a Venezuelan or Dominican speaks. That blabber is anything but Spanish. | null | null | 41,790,161 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,790,694 | comment | mistercheph | 2024-10-09T17:49:27 | null | That's a good point! | null | null | 41,789,990 | 41,779,952 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,695 | comment | monero-xmr | 2024-10-09T17:49:27 | null | The government has a monopoly on violence, and it can (and does) print as much money as it wants. There is no "threat" of a private person having money, they are still bound by the same laws. They became rich by creating a business that provided value for others - the most noble way to acquire wealth that exists. That's not a danger or a cancer of the system, that's a success | null | null | 41,790,608 | 41,789,751 | null | [
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41,790,696 | story | wg0 | 2024-10-09T17:49:34 | Why Vertical LLM Agents Are the New $1B SaaS Opportunities [video] | null | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBVi_sLaYsc | 4 | null | 41,790,696 | 0 | [
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41,790,697 | comment | TuxSH | 2024-10-09T17:49:45 | null | "except:" is explicit enough and "except BaseException" is redundant.<p>Moreover I think there is a real risk people are going to write "except Exception:" instead, which breaks in the fringe case an exception that derives from BaseException (enforced by interpreter) but not from Exception is thrown.<p>Even if catch Exception is what users usually mean, changing code from "catch (BaseException):" to "catch Exception:" may break some code if improperly reviewed.<p>It's also not worth breaking production code over this. | null | null | 41,790,399 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,790,698 | comment | LargoLasskhyfv | 2024-10-09T17:49:48 | null | /me thinks the 'zoning' is rather grey. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute</a> | null | null | 41,790,202 | 41,783,867 | null | null | null | null |
41,790,699 | comment | Negitivefrags | 2024-10-09T17:49:50 | null | The main concern with this is how do you actually get the records of what the cost basis was from someone who is dead? | null | null | 41,790,496 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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