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>interest rates are set by the market

Aye, mostly. It's important to remember that the Federal Govt. has the ability to manipulate the money supply by printing money and the ability to nearly indefinitely borrow whenever they get into trouble. Note that borrowing implies issuing bonds, which will lower interest rates.

So the Fed cannot simply dictate interest rates, but if it wants to manipulate the rates there is not a whole lot stopping them. In a recession scenario I imagine they would not have much trouble justifying more borrowing to the American public.

With regard to the effect a Chinese selloff would have on the market (both the US bond market and the wider global economy) I don't know enough to comment. However, I am fairly confident that if such a selloff resulted in a major economic downturn the Fed would try to lower rates to stimulate the economy.
Sure, you could charge a lot more depending on your role and resume. My friend is getting $165/hr doing Sr. Software work, writing code for satellites. It's a steady 40ish hour/week role, so I think that, compared to salaried senior devs in the area(i.e. not silicon valley or NYC), he's doing quite well.

For comparison, I know a local engineering staffing/design services firm that charges $200/hr for principal engineer time. You're getting more out of that sort of company though.
Back when I got out in 07 that was about the going rate, give or take 40k and this is HN, I try not to use acronym bingo on audiences that might not know it. (and not all mercs are on PSD, a subset of the many different functions of a PMC)
The irony of Gartner commenting and appraising 'digital ethics' is rather delicious...a common criticism of the company is that they are market makers with their business model that both takes money from the companies they appraise (who often also buy the rights to use the resulting glowing 'reports' as marketing) and also from people who want to research a market segment.

There are lots of talented, perceptive people at Gartner but their business model sails very close to the wind ethically.

Gideon Gartner never intended the notorious 'magic quadrant' to be so central to their offerings but boy has it been a money spinner via marketing buys and for exec powerpoint cut and paste graph proof points.

https://youtu.be/g7zzl1RM02U
I think the problem is it can't replace Travis etc. if you are trying to use it for open source projects, since it only works for private repos.
Honestly, I think we as programmers have the opposite problem. We value simplicity so much that we neglect planning for complexity, because we think our simple, elegant solutions will last forever.

It's really fascinating to study modern CPU design. Modern high-performance CPUs are horrendously complex, with the very notion of superscalar architectures and pipelining resulting in guaranteed complexity explosion. Yet, as far as we know, there is no way around this. You need pipelining and superscalar execution to get adequate instruction-level parallelism in real-world code. Unless you want to use microcontrollers for everything, that complexity must exist.

Compilers are another example. Many people who go to implement compilers read the Dragon Book and think that all the complexity in GCC and LLVM is needless bloat. Then they quickly discover that they can't compete with them in performance.

It is of course desirable to avoid complexity where possible. But all too often the response that we as engineers have to discovering that difficult problems require complex solutions is to become defensive, stick our head in the sand, and stand by our simple "solutions". This is how we ended up with crufty Unix APIs, the security problems of C and C++, the pain of shell scripts, and so forth. We need to learn how to accept when complexity is necessary and focus on managing that complexity.
My kids watch this stuff constantly and it's just too much and too random to vet it all. I'm putting a lot of trust in YouTube Kids to filter it to quality content.

That trust was shaken the other day when they said "daddy did you know you shouldn't sleep under trees because you can't breathe properly?" I'm like who told you that. "A video."[1]

Turns out it was a "learning" video produced by one of these outfits, not ChuChu but a competitor called AumSum. It's some weird urban myth that has traction in south asia.[2] It's a bastardization of tree respiration biology. They think it puts out enough CO2 at night to impact humans. So don't sleep near it because then you'll be oxygen deprived.

So yeah, apparently someone green-lit that stinker and turned into a cute animation. Which is funny until you realize AumSum as a whole has 139M views. Their singular mission is to make educational science videos.[2] And my kids are 100% addicted to YouTube Kids.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_L7JOYz7U

[2] Compare the locations of the authors with pro-myth vs anti-myth answers. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-trees-produce-carbon-dioxide-CO...

[3] "We try our level best to create highly creative and refreshing videos of Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This channel can prove to be useful for students studying in schools, colleges as well as for people of all ages who have a curious scientific mind." https://www.youtube.com/user/Smartlearningforall/about
Perhaps you are trolling, but if not...

In the absence of a nation-state framework I think things would rapidly devolve into some sort of feudal state framework perhaps with some interesting "armed-corporation" variations. Probably lots of violence and death until some new meta-stable configuration established itself. Civilization is fragile.
He’s quickly becoming the de facto poster boy of how social media can adversely affect your life.
Our oldest recently started kindergarten and the teacher related that she’s seen a marked decrease in social skills the past few years. She blamed increased screen time which is generally videos on YouTube.

Our kids get about 20 min a day, 45 on weekends. I’d like to be rid of the devices entirely. Honestly withholding devices is the best discipline tool I have. What’s sad to me are the kids who are on them all day.
Those are some really good photos, thank you.
>I'd much prefer a dollar spent in the private sector so the government doesn't have to spend two just to accomplish the same thing.

This is a false equivalence because the government and the private sector spend money on very different things. If the tax cuts end up being funded by reductions in entitlement spending, for example, the private sector won't funnel money into Social Security and Medicare to offset those reductions.

>If the Republicans are right, they'll spur enough economic growth to be a net gain across the board in both new economic activity (wealth)

CBO projections imply that the nearly all of the long-term gains from the tax cuts will flow to foreign investors [0], so it certainly won't be a net gain for the US as a whole.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/05/10/cbo-estim...
It only works on private repos.
> The primary debt problem in the US, is the public debt of the US Government.

This is absolutely false. The US has been in debt it's entire existence. Debt is a problem for the private sector, not the public sector. Why? Because the debt the US is denominated in dollars, which it has the sole ability to create. Imagine a household with the same power, let's say you "adventured" are able to print "adventure dollars". When you give out these adventure dollars, you run a deficit of X adventure dollars. You are now X dollars in "debt". That's exactly how public debt is measured. It's silly to think the US could not pay any debt denominated in dollars.
aside from the significant engineering required, my guess is that most people who could afford to construct or live on such a structure don't actually find libertarianism that appealing.
Isn't this a bit like Ant or Gradle specialized for version-control perhaps? What's wrong with using Ant or Gradle?
That's a bit unfair, but you're right that "Raised by YouTube" is not a good title for this profile. We've changed the title to use more representative language from the article.
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First, that leaves a trace: location where you used that number to connect to GSM network (ok, there are also services receiving messages for you).

Second, this is inconvenient: if you change your IP address or log out, the server will require you to provide a SMS code.
> What's worse is their current definition technically qualifies MongoDB as open source.

I don't agree, the modified section 13 appears (at least to me) to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of section 9 of the OSD:

> 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software. [...] For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.

The new SSPL requires that all of your server configuration and tools be distributed under the terms of the SSPL. This is so badly worded that it could include your operating system kernel (which, on Linux, would not be possible since GPLv2 is incompatible with this new license).

Also, the scope of "providing a service" isn't limited to network services (which is what you'd think). No, it applies to any service "includ[ing], without limitation [...] offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Software or modified version.".

I'm sure you can easily come up with some examples whether this concept of "providing a service" will run into strange consequences when your accountant is giving you a download link for MongoDB as well as all of Windows.
Maybe. On the other hand a lot of terraform's implementation has been shaped by how they themselves designed hcl, right? Things like multi-nesting function calls inside quotes and what not. All the dollar signs. I can't even tell if that's terraform or HCL, to be honest.
I’m naturally friendly and I keep in touch with people I’ve worked with. I go out to lunch with them every now and then, etc. I keep in touch with them because I really do like them but a happy side effect is that decades after I last worked with them, they’ll contact me with work.

I know some people can go 30 years and not have any friends they used to work with. At the very least, you should make contact on LinkedIn for your (former) colleagues when you leave a job. Drop them a line once in a while. “Ping” them a text at Christmas, etc. You don’t want to wait until you need work to start building your network.
Is there an article that explains this? Source on the NSA backdoor being the same one referenced in the bloomberg article?
I think you are mistaken to judge a 3,000+ year old poem by your own moral standards.

I also think you need to pay closer attention to the text itself. You say that Odysseus "gets his men killed over and over due to his capricious, pointless acts of ego", but the seventh line of the poem says that Odysseus' men perished because of "their own recklessness" (αὐτῶν ... σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν). Their own recklessness. Not Odysseus' ego.

"It's not at all about justice."

The poem is intensely interested in justice. The very first speech in the poem (1.32ff.) is all about justice, as is the second speech (1.45ff.). Characters in the poem, both gods and mortals, reflect on justice all the time. It may not be what you consider justice, but it's justice in the poem's own terms.
Three! Disclaimers to hide at bottom of page on mobile! That’s 3 taps on the X! Jeezus.
Why do you let your kids watch Youtube? I never understood this. You as a parent have sole responsibility for what your kids consume.
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All capitalist economies are State Capitalist economies. A free-market capitalist economy is a fiction.
I could spend years automating my workflows and never actually providing value in the form of deliverables haha
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> This is literally how democracy already works

No it isn't.

Suppose you have a country C with a legislature of 56 members. Suppose that legislature votes 35-21 to impose a tax on whiskey. So, there is a now through a democratic decision-making process, a law on the books that says that you have to pay a certain amount to the government when you sell whiskey. Now suppose that the residents of some smaller area P of the country say "no." and decide to pick guns and torture the local government official who is responsible for organizing and collecting the tax.

How does the will of the majority of the country (as expressed by the legislators' vote) actually result in the tax being paid?

(For those unfamiliar with the relevant American history, the answer was that the government sent in an army to enforce collection of the tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion)
https://www.cnet.com/news/paul-allen-gates-ballmer-tried-to-...

> Paul Allen: Gates, Ballmer tried to 'rip me off'

> "One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve speaking heatedly in Bill's office and paused outside to listen in," he writes in his memoir. "It was easy to get the gist of the conversation. They were bemoaning my recent lack of production and discussing how they might dilute my Microsoft equity by issuing options to themselves and other shareholders. It was clear that they'd been thinking about this for some time."
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Hey guys,

Was hoping to get your thoughts on CreatorPool, a tool i've built to help product makers discover online content creators interested in sponsorship. Right now, I allows creators to sign up manually and I also analyze specific domains to scrape creators that might be interested.

The tool is based around the ability to simply search the content creator database and export creators that you're interested in.

Any thoughts/comments/critiques would be greatly appreciated!
Bring back letters of marque and writs of assistance?
This would be futile. The forks could still implement the protocol changes as long as they didn't take code from upsteam to do so.

I believe there is also case law that supports the legality of reverse engineering for interoperabilility as well. I wonder if that has implications on this.
I think your sarcasm detector may be broken.
The typical way I've seen this used is almost like pair programming. One user will write a draft of something, or add an image or chart while on a conference call with the other editor(s). Honestly, I see it a lot more with spreadsheets than with rich text, but the use case is there. It was one of the features that put Google docs on the map back in the day.
Paul himself told that story in his autobiography, "The Idea Man" [1], in colorful details. The first half of the book is full of anecdotes of those early days, the relationship with Bill Gates, and the beginnings of Microsoft. It's a great read.

Really sad he went so soon; RIP.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Man-Memoir-Cofounder-Microsoft/d...
The point is that most of us won't get premium Azure support.
>The median income in Beijing is around 18k RMB/month. The one bedroom we were renting was 7500 RMB/month.

The median income in Silicon valley California is around $7000/month. The one bedroom rent is $2000/month.

so it seems, Silicon valley and top Chinese cities comparable when it comes to expensive housing ...
Everytime I think of YouTube and kids I think of those bizarre videos featuring Elsa and Spiderman that are oddly disturbing and borderline erotic.

This TED talk sums up why I'll never allow my child to go on YouTube. What a mess they've allowed.

https://youtu.be/v9EKV2nSU8w
> 9. At no time and in no event can you do anything, including without limitation an action that involves a remark, piece of writing, picture or video, that may have adverse effect on VisionStar or EasyAR Open Platform.
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just charming!
Seven Strings Over Iowa
The same can be said for docker?
Weren't your criteria 'not misleading or clickbait'? This doesn't seem to be either. 'Good' opens an even bigger can of worms of title bickering.
I know, I'm a shitty parent, and I'm solely responsible for my kids being exposed to shitty things in the world. I should throw out their iPads and read books to them constantly (more than the 20m/day I do every single day after 2h dinner & bedtime process) as well as have a large assortment of crafts and novel activities for them to engage in every morning while I do stuff like bathe and eat. Sorry for being shitty.
I think this is particularly interesting because there are many toy Prolog implementations in Lisp (some of them critically deficient), but very few Lisps in Prolog. That probably says more about the relative popularity of the languages than anything else, however.
If any phone makers actually have the courage to try to bootstrap a new non-google ecosystem, bravo to you.
Oh, no doubt. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, just to present a hypothesis on why I think people perceive some jobs as requiring talent.
Yeah how about accurate documentation, properly followed standards (just lol at Azure AD’s version of “OIDC”) and sensible architecture so that one doesn’t need so much hand holding?

Our experience of Azure has been nothing but delays, misery, vendor lock in, expensive consultancy fees and bewilderment. We started our move to AWS last year and things are 100x better.
hollow points are banned by the hague conventions, not geneva, and notably the us did not actually sign that section.

it is sort of silly though. if i understand correctly, hollow points are not terribly useful in a typical military engagement because they are easily stopped by body armor. modern military rounds like 5.56 are designed to have a small cross-sectional area at impact to penetrate armor.
If Google ever rolls out a search engine where if you type "Tiananmen Square" you get back nothing of value, but your identifying info goes into some government watch list, people will remember that. It's disingenuous to pretend it's not important. And whoever authorized that will have to live with themselves and what they did.
They had better keep the wave programs in a .wav file.
Religious flamewar is not welcome on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that do it here, so please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228931 and marked it off-topic.
I certainly learned some things today. I didn’t realise ‘open source’ had such a specific meaning, and I understand why it’s useful to establish the definition so there is no ambiguity.

Reading the replies to this thread is like watching hippies fight over the definition of free love.

Open source doesn’t mean anything unless we all agree on one definition, and while idealistic developers might reject the idea of central authorities to uphold the meaning of things now, they forget that it was idealistic developers just like them that realised an agreed definition was required and established the OSI 20 years ago to uphold it.

The OSI is not the man telling you what you can and can’t do - a shared and agreed definition of what open source is clearly benefits all of us, and if you just invent your own definition through ignorance or sheer bloody mindedness then you’re not legally in the wrong, but you could find yourself embarassed, exploited, or otherwise screwed through not understanding what the consensus definition is.
I wouldn't advise sleeping under a Manchineel or a Water Hemlock, but for entirely different reasons.
Seconding BitWarden. It’s the only open source/self host able password manager I could find that provides all the features that I wanted from closed source/hosted password managers (1pass/lastpass). The chrome extension and iOS app are great, have auto fill support unlike some other open source password managers (KeeWeb).

Self hosting it is super easy to setup, they just give you a docker compose file, and a few commands later it’s ready to go. It’s also fairly easy to modify the compose file to deploy it to a Docker Swarm cluster, which is how I have mine setup.
I think in the era of mass literacy, language, religion, and ideology would re-emerge as the boundaries between communities and armed groups.
When you accuse Anjana of (admitting to) intentionally biasing the survey, I think you're referring to this statement:

> [we sent the survey to people] that we thought we could get a high response rate from.

I understood that to mean that they sent the survey to people they expected would fill it out, not that they sent the survey to people they expected would fill out the survey in any particular way. Is that an interpretation you considered and rejected for some reason?
It looks interesting! There are two issues for me.

1) There is a bit too much copy and it took a while for me to see what you’re actually selling. I think you’re selling too much without letting the content do the talking.

2) I couldn’t find any example videos that show how you teach. This is important. I want to know if I’ll enjoy your course.

Otherwise, thanks for investing the time in this. Good luck!
I like NAT and the associated partial anonymity it can provide. (At least, you may have to hit up multiple organizations, maybe in different countries, to trace the endpoint(s).)

I'm not looking forward to IPv6 enabling/escalating yet another factor in tracking everything and everyone, online.

Maybe this is a grossly (as in, large) wrong and ill-informed perspective, on my part. If so, please disabuse me of it. I remain concerned.
Here's an example of a nested function call from one of my infrastructure files:

public_key = "${file("${path.root}/../ssh/id_rsa.pub")}"

Is this terraform's implementation, or hcl's? HCL has to implement that syntax somehow, right?
No, the lesson is don't use your dominance to unfairly promote yourself. Do you guys really find this confusing?
For those looking for good things on YouTube, check out storybots and Great Big Story.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

I understand it is one of the easiest pacification mechanisms for parents at the moment, but there is a cost.

Don't defer your parental responsibilities to Google's algorithms,designed to increase engagement, not "learning".

Does anybody read books to their children?
He can also expect prosecution in the target country.
I believe this man had a silent partner in creating doge, who also ended up holding nothing. Not mentioned here though.
Something seems to go wrong with WDC 6TB.
After all, we all are looking for technical challenges and want to implement interesting projects.

In my experience everyone does, but the difference between the complexity-worshippers and (for lack of a better term) simplicity-worshippers is that the former like to take a simple problem and blow it up with complexity, while the latter like to take a complex problem and make it simple. In other words, some people like the challenge of making things more complex, while others like the challenge of making things simpler.

To make a concrete example, complexity-worship would be something like using half a dozen different new web frameworks/languages/libraries to set up a personal blog, while simplicity-worship would be more like an H.264 encoder in a single file[1] or a self-compiling C-subset JIT[2].

One thing that seems somewhat obvious about the complexity-simplicity divide, and which could also explain the prevalance of complexity-worship, is that it is relatively speaking much easier to generate complexity than to reduce it, and unfortunately it seems the majority of developers just don't have the skill to reduce complexity. It's easy to glue a bunch of existing code together without really understanding how it all works; it's much harder to take a spec that dozens of experts have worked on for many years, and condense it into a concise implementation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045494

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822