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>but not as the second arm of a binary choice

There very clearly are two parties in a binary situation, and it is implicit in what you wrote:

A. The unpaid programmer who created the new language. Apparently, because she/he negligently "let other people run their production systems" on the new language, somehow she/he has a moral obligation to support this commercial use of the new language until her/his dying day.

B. The people and companies (in fact mainly companies) using the new programming language in production who are not just "some people playing around". These entities presumably chose to use some hot new language in production, because it might solve some business problem. Apparently, they don't have any moral responsibility whatsoever to have a plan in place for what to do if the apparently critical individual who created the new language walks away - for example contracting or employing either the original programmer, or suitable substitutes perhaps.

>if you removed such paid contributions to the open source world then you likely would not have much to run in the first place

That's very true, but also completely irrelevant to the case
under discussion. We're talking about new programming languages created by an unpaid programmers, and still critically dependent on unpaid programmers.

>But that doesn't mean that there isn't a cost to fielding a new programming language due to fragmentation

Sure there is cost - I don't disagree. Though, there is also a loss-of-innovation cost of not creating new programming languages.

My objection is that both you and the author of the article are being coercive, invoking morality in an attempt to control unpaid programmers who are not obligated to you, or to society, and certainly not obligated at all to people/companies that chose freely to use their work in production.
I think the problem is just the unreasonable demand to be in the Bay. Why would any company or their workers want to be in the bay? This is the part I don’t understand.

Sure, as a bay developer I could make more money, but my actual spending power would likely be way lower than it already is.

Sure, you as a company are near other tech companies but does physical location really matter in this day and age?

I have a ten minute commute, live in a burb and commute to a neighboring burb. My rent is dirt cheap. I don’t see the appeal, it feels like mass hysteria to me.
It's all relative. If minimum wage workers get their income doubled, but my income does not double, then they are doing better relative to me than they were before. And I do not expect my salary to double upon passing of such legislation.
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Can we have this without forcing it? Ideally browsers would be extensible enough for you to build these things. I miss the document days of yore where implementing a browser would be a reasonable endeavor. And that the limited size of the choices is now seen as a benefit to enforce change is scary. Sure, some see it as a good thing, I mean look at all these features and all the places they've steered the web (e.g. HTTPS). I see it as too much bad with the good and I'm becoming wary of the non-neutrality of my browser. I'm at the point where I want them all to stand still or work backwards fixing bugs and improving what exists. When you get what you want by browsers leveraging their user share to make sites change their practices, you just have to know you fostered the environment for them to do that in places you might not want.

> like removing JS access to cookies and/or making cookies opt-in only for sites storing login info

To this point specifically, making a simple AJAX call to have my web server set and/or send me back the cookies from the HTTP headers is trivial. A browser is not going to be able to tell the purpose of the cookie, and opt-in is user hostile to the point that never-ask-me-again will become the norm.
But here in the real world outside of the HN Silicon Valley bubble, most would be statistically better off working for a company with a mostly guaranteed combination of salary+guaranteed stock over a known vesting period that is competitive with the market.

If the company is private, negotiate for a salary that’s competitive with the market.

“Competitive” doesn’t mean that everyone is going to move to SV and work for a FAANG.
> Then everyone loses.

Inflation certainly counteracts some of the wage growth, but it's a much stronger claim that it will result in a net lose.

Any evidence for that claim?
It would be great to do it via a generic plugin interface, if possible.
The GDPR is about a lot more than that, which can't be simply covered by a one-click TOS.

https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/articles-of-the-gdpr
There is a difference between everybody being 'rich' and simply paying a living wage. Note how Ford got as big as it was in part not just because he made a damn good automobile but because he paid his employees a wage large enough that they could afford a car.

A couple of billionaires less and a higher standard of living for the masses is a good thing.
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The problem with working at a large company is dealing with all the large company BS. A small company with a business model and decent people is a much more enjoyable work environment. (OTOH, a small company with bad people is much worse). A company with revenue and a plan can afford to pay a reasonable salary, although it might not be fully competitive with total comp at a top firm.

If either job comes with a lottery ticket, I guess that's sort of nice?
What is the far out giant planet it mentions?
I'm not even sure he was as wrong as people claim. They used to do a lot with very limited memory. Now, modern computers "need" hundreds of megabytes for a chat application, and slow down for the latest Gmail revamp. The quote serves as a reminder of how well we used to economize on memory.
It's really the exceptional case I'm thinking of here.

Basically, you screw up such that the data you've collected is meaningless. Sure, you could do the statistical analysis correctly and get a result, but it ends up being the opposite not because the relationship is actually different, but because some part of your design is flawed. In that case, you would never end up with a correct result.

(This is of course the worst possible outcome, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention it here.)

Although I have no background in it, I suppose the same could happen in the other sciences if there are side effects that you don't anticipate and don't measure accurately enough.

^ This again is why reproducibility is important. Earlier in this thread, @majidazmi mentioned that a major focus of their thesis was to prove that a prior experiment was incorrect in its findings.
For context the Australian minimum wage is 12.94 USD and has the 12th highest cost of living in the world.
This is why I backup videos with youtube-dl. Internet history can be completely erased at a moment's notice, and some things ought to belong to the public if they're to never see the light of day again otherwise.
Take a look at the FIRE community, or anybody who is interested in a self-funded retirement.

Most people who are the ones renting and investing large amount are not buying single stocks, they are buying broad index funds that encompass the entire market and are rebalanced to keep an even representation.

These broad index funds going to zero is not a very likely scenario outside of total anarchy. It would mean all publicly traded companies becoming worthless and you would be much more worried about acquiring water, shelter, food, and protecting yourself from looters than anything else (in this scenario I would imagine the piece of paper saying your house is yours would not be worth very much either).

Now think of the much more likely scenario of a local real-estate market collapsing, uninsured natural disaster destroying your house, or climate change making your area unliveable, and you can see which proposition is really the riskier one.

If you don't sell your house you don't profit you only pay more in property taxes.

The thing is it doesn't, that's the point. If I want to rent to keep flexibility and invest my money in stocks in order to retire I am at a decided disadvantage than somebody who buys a house and has it appreciate to double its initial value. In the vast majority of countries this appreciation is free from capital gains tax, or the house's value is not taken into account in the wealth tax. So why is the house owner rewarded for saving and putting money in a mortgage and the renter penalised by capital gains/wealth taxes?
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This is super interesting. I would like to see a real (learning, à la AlphaGo) A.I. play on Showdown OU someday, without cheating (i.e. about the number of matches per day a real human player would play).

I think there are a few challenges not found in most other online games, one being that strategies that win on different strata of the ladder are not the same (e.g. hyper offense is the most efficient on the lower ladder, but at some point around 1500 / 1600 you will start losing using it...). Also, I wonder how well an A.I. trained on the ladder would do in a tournament (e.g. SPL), where the metagame is a bit different.

Your code looks like a good entry point for that, all that's needed is to write a new bot using ML libraries...
Maybe that's why Google Chrome was created, to prevent anyone ever again suggesting that any particular amount of RAM should be enough.
Define "living wage". Please be specific, no vague dancing around.
Here's the thing though. Engineering workstations existed. There's a good argument that the "right" approach was to use an MC68K and, while you were at it, a "real" operating system whether a Unix or one of the 16-bit operating systems in use on minicomputers at the time. But there's also a good argument that, had you done a more open and mass market-oriented engineering workstation (whatever that meant exactly) at, what?, 2x the price point of an IBM PC--which, remember, didn't even always have a hard disk at the time--you'd not have been competitive with Z80 or 6502 machines.

Even using the 8088 vs. the 8086 was a cost-saving move. A premium IBM PC might well have simply flopped rather than accelerating the industry.
it's not childish, it's a control tactic. combined with making the laws themselves long and complex, it discourages the populace from trying to comprehend what is actually being done on their behalf. this leaves them in a position where they are more likely to just accept what their side says the legislation does at face value.
Oh definitely, the charging at in my garage is a main reason that I would like an EV. My issue is that my family lives in Michigan while I am in upstate NY. So the super charger stations would be super useful for that trip when I don't fly. That definitely is a small amount of my total travels but I only have one car, so it is a consideration.

Also it is good to hear that it only takes about two cards for charging. It is something that you think about but can't really test how it would work with your driving until you do it.
You're out of touch with the job market and reality itself. It's not easy for these people to just "get a new job". They get paid minimum wage and are probably living paycheck to paycheck. If these people just "move jobs", they're out a paycheck for weeks and may lose their car, their home, not be able to eat, etc.
I made this mistake as a starry eyed 20 y/o. Blood sweet and tears, and the end of the day my piece of the pie got turned into nothing as some VC money moved in. My 6 years there working in the data-center at 2am and 70+ hrs weeks became worth just my salary, and then the company/VC decided to IPO in 2008 (yea that's right) within a 2 months of the IPO failing they sold off our clients, gear and let all us go with 1 week notice.
I don't think YIMBYs paper over this issue at all. Their views tend to go hand-in-hand with advocacy for public transit, parks, and various other community services. Their plans often involve crafting more "walkable" downtowns, where you bring dense housing closer to commercial districts, and make areas easier to travel to by foot.
Each generation faces annihilation. Just because humans survived so far - and it has been close [1] - doesn't mean it was a lot of luck involved.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/h...
If you compare by price per sqm you are probably right, but places are just generally smaller so you are in the same boat as everyone else. People can typically afford to rent their own apartment.
I used to use Chrome on iOS but actually switched to Microsoft Edge for my go-to browser. It works perfectly. I rarely click a web link from an outside app so going into Safari on a rare instance isn’t a problem.

My ad blocking app uses a VPN configuration so it works in every single app on my iPhone.

I found it’s actually quite easy to use alternate browsers on iPhone.
They are talking about the Tesla fan groups that have meetings, do test drives, demos, etc. It's no different from say, Hot Rod culture or Harley culture.
Except it doesn't work like this. Employment is not an unlimited supply, and when you have the choice between starving (yes some people do not have any money saved) and working for $7.25, you choose to work for $7.25.

Almost nobody who goes to work for a minimum wage job can afford to say "it's okay, I will find a better, high paying job later".

"Basic economy" is not an argument.
You're quite right. I had regrets after posting that knee-jerk comment. Oddly, my dissatisfaction is heightened by the ridiculous number of upvotes I received from that post. I shall strive to improve.
I'd much rather be told that six-figures is a sure thing for basically eternity then know one day I could lose my job without warning,

You can lose your job anywhere without much warning. The trick is don’t depend on your job for your long term livelihood. Instead, depend on a marketable set of skills and a network that can help you land another job quickly.
Dear people who downvotes this comment, care to elaborate why?

Is it just because you don't like to see something negative about the provider or is it something else?
As a non-american leftist this is the first I've heard of it and it is hi-la-rious!

But maybe I just have a sense of humor.
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I used this library in a lot of my University assignments. It's a really great way to add controls for 3D renderers, simulations, games, et cetera. I mostly used it for debugging purposes myself, but I could see it growing comfortably into a production-ready UI.
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I'm reluctant to say it's cynical because it's not necessarily negative or pessimistic so much as matter of fact. The Op isn't taking shots at Amazon by exposing their motivations.

A higher Minimum Wage is coming and possibly be a priority for Liberals and Progressives after the November Election. Amazon has been receiving a lot of negative press recently for labor conditions and wages. Regardless of the benefits to others, there is a direct benefit to Amazon.

Now if you want cynical... I think it's borderline delusional to think that a publicly traded multi-national corporation would do anything that isn't in it's business interest.
This is incredibly slick! There are lot of static blog generators that just use text files, but this has a great gui with a WYSIWYG editor and everything. It really looks fantastic.

It took like one minute from downloading the AppImage version to create a simple test blog with one post, so it's probably the easiest to use blog software I've ever seen, too.

Edit: I think this post has sort of gotten overlooked because the link is just an announcement about linux support, unfortunately, but I know there are lots of people who will want a static CMS with a decent gui, so hopefully it will continue to get more attention.
He had at least 2 other cofounders, and the company had raised $50 Million from investors. He didn't get much of that $130 million.
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Really strange that the Brave website of all places includes a Javascript that hijacks your native scroll. Why is that smooth scroll library so popular? It's really obnoxious.
No interesting opinion to voice here, but this is one of the best article I read for a long time and will go back to this one later on.
Yes...and I also had Ted Neward's book "Shared Source CLI Essentials" to go along with it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shared-Source-Essentials-David-Stut...

The problem with Rotor was that they ripped out of all the good bits and replaced with not so good things, for example they replaced the garbage collector with a naive implementation.

That said I still learned quite a lot from studying and playing around with it way back then.
> Why do supposed “rationalists” insist on trying to advocate everything through dispassionate, logical discourse?

They generally don't; reacting negatively, as here, to what is seen as a particularly egregious example of emotional manipulation without accompanying substantive argument isn't the same as insisting on all promotion being purely rational, and very few “rstionalists” take the extreme position you describe.

Still, they do tend to object to egregious examples because the nature of emotional manipulation is that once you recognize it directed at yourself, it naturally produces a strong negative emotional reaction and a reactive deepening of skepticism (the nature of such manipulation is that it is most likely to be noticed, even by sophisticated information consumers, when deployed in favor of a cause the listener is already skeptical of) of the substantive justification of the party deploying it.

> Do they have zero understanding of human psychology and sociological group dynamics?

It seems that, aside from the strawman problem, the question you ask demonstrates exactly the problem you complain of.
It might not be easy to come up with perfect equation for regulating the minimum wage.

Bumping the minimum wage by law seems like an arbitrary temporary fix, that will need to be adjusted in another 25 years.

But a temporary somewhat arbitrary fix, might be better than nothing. Don't let perfect get in the way of good enough for now.
Well in this respect: Amazon chooses to link the two discussions themselves. They could have easily made their communication less open to an easy attack by pledging $15 an hour while lobbying silently, or at least communicating that on another moment. They could have noble intentions with both moves. I'd even expect them to have noble intentions since $15 seems an unreasonable large increase from $7.25. Why link to two discussions? It's an error of their communication department IMHO. You've got to think as the receiving party. The receiving parties of both messages are separate: communicate them separately.
Might try that, thanks!
> China can’t be world competitive if a 70sqm apartment goes for a million bucks, people/companies will start relocating to cheaper places like say San Francisco.

"China is Now More Expensive than the USA": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32t8d2eQJAA

Almost everyone laughs when I say they should get some of their news from people who actually live in China rather than thinking something needs to be printed in the newspaper before it is true.
> All it matters is people interacting voluntarily

My point is that it is most certainly not voluntary. There are people in the world who are not as lucky or intelligent or resourceful as you, me, and most others on HN. Try to empathize and put yourself in the shoes of the disadvantaged, they do not know the world as we do, they cannot shop around for high paying jobs, and if they miss a paycheck, they may very well lose their housing.

Given this asymmetry, society absolutely needs to step in to enforce basic protections that the free market cannot solve.
Now that I've got quite a bit of experience behind me, I've started to become very attuned to "savior-seeking": somebody (or a group of people) who underestimated how difficult building a business was going to be and is now underwater, desperate for a lifeline. Although I (sort of) sympathize with the position they're in, I also know that I don't have the magic that they expect, or the 24/7 availability they're going to need, to dig them out of the hole they've put themselves in.
"(note: you may want local 128-bit virtual addressing for other reasons than accessing more memory)"

Yes, that's why IPv6 is as big as it is. We could fit pretty comfortably into 64 bits for a long time, really, if you assume we fairly tightly pack everybody in. 128 bits is really to give us some routing headroom, not because anyone seriously thinks we're going to use IPv6 on 2^128 distinct targets any time soon. (By the time we have a "galactic internet" it sure won't be using IPv6, not because it's bad or wrong but just because we're going to need something designed to handle the very different challenges involved.)
I know you're joking.

But it's not true that rising the minimum wage would immediately be cancelled out by inflation. That would be true only if everybody was earning minimum wage.

Increasing the minimum wage from 5 to 50 dollars is unlikely to cause a 10x inflation, it more likely would cause a 3x or 5x inflation.

The poor would have more and the rich would have less.

It would likely reduce the spread of wealth in the society, improve social cohesion and in general may turn out to be a good thing.
Serious question: Could not a similar thing be implemented by running the "main thread" in an iframe using the browser's own DOM and the postMessage API? It might lack the optimizations of a virtual DOM, but would probably require a lot less code to achieve.
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It's all relative. Someone in life always has it worse than you and these positions just cant be compared like this in any productive discussion.

Being a CEO doesn't mean you're the boss. It means you serve everyone, from employees to customers to shareholders, and are responsible for every single thing that happens. If someone doesn't do well, it's your fault. And being responsible for others livelihoods with every decision you make is definitely not easy.