skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the far left, there's a saying "there is no ethical consumption under capatalism". The idea is that 'voting with your wallet' comes from a position of privilege that by it's very nature can't receive the critical mass necessary to create change in inequality. The vast amount of people won't have the spare capital to spend on simply fighting inequality, so instead what you'll see is boutique industries that make upper middle class, center left consumers feel better, but don't create any actual change. See Toms.
Thanks for pointing that out. I was not aware libuv provides facilities for running code in separate threads, since I haven't seen it actually used in any of the of native addons I've looked at yet. It's too bad that node-sqlite doesn't use it.

I retract my comment about "no matter what", but it still just boils down to running sqlite on a separate thread. In my opinion it's probably a lot easier to run sqlite in a separate thread (or process) yourself at the app-level. The code for writing async native bindings in node is very complicated (not even considering the thread pool), and you probably don't need every single operation to be async. That just adds a lot of overhead, when you probably just need a higher-level layer that says "execute these queries on the sqlite process and give me the results".
It isn't the quality of the service or product that is being compared. It is the fact that when you buy from companies with really good/popular products you are doing so with a bunch of other people and that puts more money in the pockets of the people who made quality products. If you don't like them having lots of money, spend your money elsewhere.
> Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free

> The assets, built at a cost of over $12 million...

It's a common mistake to assume that something is worth what it cost to create it.
You assume the ability to gain capital has anything to do with the ability to invest well. A quick check of sports stars shows this is very far from the case.

Talent is not universal, being a great Doctor has little to do with being a great painter or investor.
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Yes, how dare they? I imagine Father Coughlin [0] and the NUSJ are spinning in their graves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin
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I take it you haven't worked in the industry? There's literally an industry term for it ("crunch") because it's so bad.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/257143/Working_time_amon...

http://www.gameinformer.com/themes/blogs/generic/post.aspx?W...

https://kotaku.com/crunch-time-why-game-developers-work-such...

https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/20/why-crunch-time-is-still-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/opinion/work-culture-vide...

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150120/234443/T...
Loss-Making Companies Flood the IPO Market
It's a real shame tbf, the drop in laptop prices means a lot more stuff is just thrown out and turned to e-waste instead of repaired / refurbished and resold, with fixing electronics having reached such a low point that it's become a somewhat rebellious volunteer job now.
> The biggest problems with PKI are that there are too many CAs, who can each go rogue, and that X509 is a horrifically awful format that takes a gigantic TCB to parse. Mitigations include browsers firing CAs and severely impacting their business (so effectively, there is regulation), certificate transparency and more and more testing.

Those are problems with XPKI, not with PKI in general. SPKI (RFCs 2692 & 2693) fixed them both — it really should have been picked up. It could be used to ensure that you really are talking to someone authorised to use a particular IP address and host name; it also uses a much lighter format than X.509's ASN.1 (and it's human-readable to boot!).

I encourage anyone building a modern protocol to take a look at SPKI. Some parts of it need to be modernised, but that's easily-enough done.

I'm not so worried about DNSSEC needing to trust TLD & root servers, because with domain-verified certs that's all you get anyway. I contend that domain verification (and IP verification, which to my knowledge no-one does) is good enough for most of what most of us need or want, and the customised SPKI certs could be used for the edge cases.
Had to explain this to my now aging mother who likes to post photos of me without my permission. She gets it in the moment but weeks later back to the same behavior haha. I can't control it if I tried.
57% of tech workers in SF are foreign-born (https://www.theatlas.com/charts/SkTkDFUHb).
> “I don’t see where innovation necessarily comes from diversity,” [the executive director at Progressives for Immigration Reform, the group that paid for the ads,] said.

I can't claim to know Lynn's exact thoughts (Lynn being the person quoted here), but this kind of rhetoric is common among racists/xenophobes.

Diversity (in some respect) is inherently good for innovation. You could have a room full of CS PhDs, and if they all come from similar enough backgrounds then they may all come up with the same solutions to certain problems. "Merit" on its own isn't always enough. Simply having a different background could give someone an edge in such a group when it comes to innovation.

I think skill-based immigration is important and useful, though I do think that there should be some sort of regulation to ensure that (1) immigrants are not exploited (they are paid fair wages equal to what a non-immigrant would be paid for the same job) and (2) some effort was put into recruiting from the US first (because I think US-based companies have a duty to the United States and its citizens, at least to some extent).
I believe that's a debunked stat. 30% might be native born, but that doesn't account for foreign-born U.S. citizens, even ones that grew up in the U.S.
Apologies, I may not have been clear enough in my formulation there. I meant the social contract, as in: You pay taxes and get something in return. For some people it may also be something like 'you work hard and therefore get to live a reasonably comfortable life'. The social contract, for me, is simply about making sure everyone plays by the same rules.

Socialism is a completely different topic. I wouldn't even know how to define it, considering how many wildly different definitions of it there are. I think the regulated markets, like Germany and Scandinavian countries have a nice model, but even the crazy American model would be fine, if the rules were the same for everyone.

Again, I was not talking about socialism or how to fund it.

By the way, you mentioned that this consumption tax is not how you fund socialism. How do you fund socialism? I'd be very interested to hear your perspective :)
Let's go with homeless. Plenty of hard workers end up homeless.
I'm also pretty skeptical about this story to be honest, but FWIW it was repeated by the BBC. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43463195 The link I submitted is the nearest I can find to an original source.

The truth is probably either that a smaller amount of californium was seized (possibly 1.4g) or the californium was part of a 1.4kg assembly including some other elements.
I would disagree that a prerequisite of a corporation being benevolent is losing money.

There was no requirement of giving away the assets in order to gain the tax benefits.
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"With hard work you can be successful in the sense of being able to afford a basic living or being moderately middle class"

There is plenty of empirical evidence that this is not really true. One of the pernicious things about the typical American narrative of success is that it often gets used in the contrapositive. This lets people feel good about discounting anyone viewed as "not successful" (whatever definition you want) as having been personally responsible for their own difficulties, so they can be safely ignored.
Fortunately, you can increase your skill through training, reading, etc. You can increase your opportunity just by trying when you fail. Someone who only applies to a single job is less likely to be employed than someone who keeps on applying until they are hired.

But then that would mean that luck is greatly a matter of how hard you are willing to work and that doesn't seem to be a popular opinion these days.
That was intentional, see [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/Gw4WJJoDl3U?t=14m30s
That was in the set of 15 questions we still had for them, but they cut the call after only 45 minutes or so.
The 17-18 century companies are of course not adjusted by inflation, they are adjusted by nominal GDP, i.e. as a fraction of the worldwide or their host country GDP.

$7.9T in 1617 means about 20-30 billion UK pounds of the era, which is an absurd amount of money, much more than the total worth of all assets in the world at the time.
I don't see how job opportunities in any field reflect on whether or not hard work is effective?
People will spend a lot more on VR this year, IDC predicts
> Essentially, it will die because it's the Harvey Weinstein of corporate America - and because all the #metoo victims find their voice, with a little help from the other studio heads which would like to see the monster disappear.

What exactly are you trying to say about Facebook with this forced metaphor?
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I used to share a lot on Facebook - with intricate control over privacy of my posts using Friend Lists. Over time my usage decreased until I finally cleared out my profile, likes, activity, apps, friends, and devices. Now I only use it in a separate desktop browser once every few weeks as a means to check the profiles of family and close friends.

I harbor no resentment towards Facebook because they've been largely transparent via their terms of service, privacy policy, and developer API. Nobody forced me to use it. In the end, I am responsible for sharing my own information, not Facebook.
Let's hope in the future that we won't judge others so harshly, either past or present.

But I doubt it, because we have an oversupply of friends / job candidates / political aspirants, all vying for a piece of us.
Um. England? (Except the BBC and parliament, and I have no idea why.)
> Plenty. Some have kids. Others are in grad school. Some are even dealing with both.

Yes people who go out and have kids without thinking through how they will provide for them usually have to work pretty hard at first. Still most of the people I've seen in this situation aren't really as bad off as they think. If you didn't plan for having kids, you likely aren't in very good control of your budget either and a small investment of time in learning how to manage and budget your finances can take off most of the financial strain.

(That isn't to say there aren't some people who are in really bad situations due to random events, but I still find it rare to see people who are struggling from things that are/were completely outside of their control.)
What keeps most of from 'shipping' our home-grade, hacked-together code to anyone else is the fear of having to support it, though. "OK, grandma, now shell into the RPi and tell me what crontab -l says..." - you would think that aside from any sort of professional ethics (or even pride) that companies in these situations wouldn't dare ship something that 'mostly worked' (unless they had superhero lawyers...)
It’s because of the stupid overhead that SSH has out of the box and the complexity of installing and managing db certs. A db admin will say “eh it’s fine; we’ll just use iptables to restrict it to prod server” and then somewhere along the way they’ll get a second prod server and someone junior will somehow fuck it up then the whole thing is open.

It’s really hard to move fast and stay secure. You have to nail so many things and you’re either running out of money or running out of time 99% of the time.
To me all this hints at an emerging religion like idea that data is important and of value. I think society is going into quant/science/algo because of a mix of trend, boredom, distress, desire to control and predict more (probably caused by distressing times). And now everybody is scrutinizing every little fact, piece of text, "citing sources"; because many believe it's truer than just babbling around as most of us do.

Side note: after diving into a lot of research topics (as a semi educated newb), I realized that there's a focal point of science, above it you're ignorant, on it you know the mainstream accepted battle tested science of the day, after that you enter another domain of blur where a lot of things are "maybes" including possible refutation of accepted ideas (maybe not in physics, but medical domains for instance).
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But there are times where I want to see everyone vouch for their frameworks in that exact manor in the stack overflow format by the stack overflow crowd.
I don't think your definition of inequality, which basically equals popularity, is a useful one. The article is about income inequality. While it is true that people always making the unpopular choice would reduce winner-takes-all effects, it's not worth it: it requires great personal sacrifice, and as an individual there is almost no gain: society is hardly going to benefit when you intentionally hamstring yourself by running TempleOS, or when you choose to eat at a bad restaurant instead of a good one.

Surely creating laws that try to limit income inequality makes much more sense, especially when looking at cost/benefit?
Revenge porn. You just have information. The ex-girlfriend shouldn‘t make a drama ouf of that. The photo is only a number!
>reduce their tax burden

Why do people always make this argument? Loss is loss. You're financially better off if you make money, even if you have to pay taxes on it.
The fear is justified that somebody would naively use this library on a network-heavy app and block the event loop. The readme should probably do a better job describing how this should be used. It's not too hard to run it in a separate process and create a "db service" that you query async. For many small apps or certain use cases the sync api shouldn't be a problem.
In many real estate markets in the west, gainful employment substantially above the median income is still not even close to enough to secure a reasonable sized 'home'.

Then there are places like Vancouver, where the average yearly income is less than the average yearly payments for residential properties.

But if you got in and leveraged yourself to the hilt starting in 2008, you could own a sizable equity stake in a growing stable of 30+ detached dwellings if your relationship with your local mortgage broker was on point.
> People are waking up to the harm caused by Facebook everywhere.

If you think people are "waking up everywhere", you're probably inside a bubble. Where I'm from (outside the US) Facebook is just doing business as usual. If anything its new features are growing (anecdotally, Marketplace).
Really sounds like he needs to stop paying for art assets and start paying someone to handle marketing...

While I haven't played his games, I don't think the game play really matters as long as it's "good enough". Most games aren't going to be the 0.01% smash hit; you just need a regular audience that appreciates what you're doing, and enough eyeballs that are caught to say "hey, I'll gamble my $5 on something that looks fun".

I think this is partly hubris. I see startups fall into the same pattern - "well it's a great product so our customers will evangelize", "if we add X feature we'll get more sales [even though no one has asked for it]", "if only it was faster, we'll get more sales [even though no one complained about latency]".

No, you need to figure out who you're selling to and how to make the customer aware you even exist. It's a big pond.
What's wrong with iOS? I use Google-Android right now, which is arguably the worst possible choice. iOS seems to be a lot better for privacy.
Well, old laptops really suck, so it's not that bad.
And a review of a production unit: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/21/planet_gemini_pda_p...
H-1B workers aren't immigrants - they're foreigners being exploited for cheap labor, driving wages down for everyone - including themselves.

I think your typical anti H-1B person would have no problem blanket granting all H-1Bs citizenship in order to equip them with the agency required to demand fair wages for themselves, which would level the playing field for everyone.
> There's crossover between the rubber tires and fiber optics, apparently

Nokia also started as a rubber company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nokia

They got into telecommunications by buying a cable works. I don't know if that was just random empire-building, or if there are material connections between cables and rubber. I suppose you need a lot of rubber to insulate the cables.
What do you mean "our" god? You do know there are many other understandings of god that are different from the mainstream stereotypical Abrahamic definition of god, right?

"God, therefore, is the one most simple essence of the entire universe"

-Nicholas de Cusa

"We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything."

-Meister Eckhart

"The superior devotee sees that God alone has become everything...He finds that everything, above and below, is filled with God."

-Ramakrishna

"In order to attain perfect union, we must divest ourselves of God...The common belief about God, that He is a great Taskmaster, whose function is to reward or punish, is cast out by perfect love; and in this sense the spiritual man does divest himself of God as conceived of by most people."

-Henry Suso
Appealing to luck is absolutely unscientific.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839690
It would be great if SSB [1] or something like it took off as the next-gen platform, but I just have a hard time seeing people actively change their online habits.

[1]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
>Every pixel on the panel must work, otherwise the whole panel is useless

And that is not so far fetched. The most high yield semi processes can give you defects in single digits for a fully exposed 300mm wafer.

The challenge here is that they will have to be grown on a substrate different than silicon for anything bigger than apple watch screen.

Growing inorganic semiconductors on glass, organics, non-crystalline materials is what is hard
Left my job to become a consultant (to my former company initially), did that for 5 years, then used the money I made and saved to bootstrap my current project. Still did some part time consulting on the side for a couple of years until we raised.
I thought honestly last year it would die. I am on it, but my MBA program posts all their announcements/networking on it. Would otherwise go through and delete it.
I agree with the ads. I don't see them as being anti-immigrant. It is calling for reforms in the H1B system. We need to reform the visa system and the subsequent GC process. Why do the loud voices on the Left (&the Right) conflate everything with whatever agenda they are pushing. Merit based immigration might help me and thousands of immigrants. In the whole spectrum of immigration issues, there is a sliver that both the left and the right can agree on. Employers viewing H1Bs as lower cost dispensable workers is definitely not desired by both sides. FWIW, I am an immigrant on H1B with both bachelor's and masters degrees from US universities.
Do you see the binary code? It’s right below her left elbow!

It takes someone with astute observation skills to see this.
This issue is a great example of a real-world “leaky abstraction”: we use this mental model of a market’s function, where prices are set by the interaction of supply and demand. And it’s a great model! It’s almost indispensable if you’re selling apples or buying a home.

But the IT job market, specifically in Silicon Valley, is an almost pathological failure case.

There have been hundreds of attempts to replicate the unique success of Silicon Valley across the world. Even within the US, where the regulatory environment, market size, and other confounding factors can be ruled out, they have all failed to varying degrees. The not-so-secret secret to SV’s success is now pretty well established to be very similar to an airport’s “meeting point”: It doesn’t actually matter that much where it is, as long as there are enough signs leading you there. And there needs to be just one meeting point, or the concept falls apart pretty quickly.

SV is the meeting point of tech. Throw the best people, some good universities, a lot of capital, and maybe a decade of experiments with LSD in one pot, stirr, wait, and watch it bloom.

Tech immigrants in the Valley are competing for jobs on the micro level. But zoom out just slightly, and they are a necessary ingredient of building the world’s most competitive innovation pressure-cooker.

It may be useful to make the analogy with capital: just like people are competing for jobs, VC firms are competing for deals. Yet you never see attempts by that industry to restrict foreign capital to flow into the Valley, even though they would have all the resources to make their case to legislators.

On a moral level, there is something not quite right about professionals with $60,000+ starting salaries to be antagonistic towards those using education and dedication to seek a better future among them. But even if you reject what some will surely call “SJW virtue signaling”, you should pragmatically choose to advocate for policies that help both you and your presumptive competitors: advocating for some of the practices that are close to indentured servitude will do just that.

But that’s difficult to do, in practice: are you actually advocating for their benefit? Or are you trying to drape so many gold chains around their neck that they’ll sink, I. e. pricing them out of the market? If you are in SV, you have all the possibilities to discuss these questions with those affected by them. Make sure you do: that ability is but one of the perks of living in the world’s best place to find smart people of any background.
This is really concerning to anyone who values privacy. Even if Google doesn't comply here, this won't be the last request they get. Eventually there will be an event where public opinion is in favor of Google releasing said data (like the Florida school shooting), and it's hard to imagine this not becoming a polarizing topic in the media.
1.4 grams would be more than 4 years total world production.
Thrift mostly solves the problem of crashing a lot and being an undependable mess.
I started working on a prototype smartwatch back in 2008 while I was doing undergrad at UWaterloo. iPhone didn't have a Bluetooth API then so I actually hacked together a small 30 pin dongle with an nrf radio. Quickly moved to Blackberry which had a semi working BT API.

I graduated in 2009 and decided to work on it full time. Funding in early days came from oversized novelty cheques from pitch competition wins, some interest free loans ($15k personal loan from Canadian government - CYBF) and personal savings from my coop work terms over previous 5 years.

Got $20k YC funding in 2011 which kicked company into higher gear before our Kickstarter campaign in 2012.
Amazon is refusing to list Google products on its site.

How is it any different if Google refuses to list Amazon products on its search engine?