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It's interesting, I often wonder where people who share your mindset get their philosophies and worldview, as if the world were black and white, good and evil, fair and meritocratic. I thought we knew better than that now?

The reality is that other systems in the world have much, much lower recidivism rates (20% in Norway, where they actually treat people humanely [1] the trope goes). The incarceration rates in the US are off the charts [2] and the recidivism rates are too. So either the people born in the US are overwhelmingly more likely to "just be scum who belong in prison for some reason" or there's more at play here, institutionally speaking. And furthermore, what happened in 1980 [3] that made huge portions of the population (3X more) suddenly "become scum"?

You absolutely can change peoples behavior. People don't want to be bad people. Some don't know how, and the evidence shows if you show them a better way, they grow and respond. Giving people room to live up to your expectations works, whether in your day job in management or in prisoner rehabilitation. The data bears that out. Yeah, definitely not everyone, but it's fair to say that we can do better.

On a joking note, I do wish you luck in your testing career ;)

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is...

[2] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/10/incarceration

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._incarceration_r...
I would be shocked if any CTOs of large organizations browse HN. Large orgs put people in those positions that are more about theory and future thinking over current knowledge.
I have been proximal to the CEO search process at a few different large companies, and at a minimum have anecdotal insight into what drives selection.

CEOs are hired to fix perceived fundamental problems with the business, even at externally successful companies, and are evaluated for fit based on their history solving similar problems at other companies. Many times the business problem driving selection is invisible to casual observers, particularly those external to the company because it involves internal board/investor topics. The CEO's primary job when hired is fixing whatever it is the board deems it necessary to fix, not posting good numbers per se.

Fixing a company is exponentially more difficult the larger the company. The ability of most people to effectively reshape a company in some key way scales very poorly with company size. There is definitely a Peter Principle at work and most successful CEOs fail to be effective at some scale. To make matters worse, most boards have ambitions to grow the scale of the business, so they tend to want to hire CEOs with experience that exceeds the current scale of the business, which creates an intrinsic shortage of candidates with proven experience to reshape organizations at the desired scale. Supply and demand.

It is ironic that this site often has horror stories of working at startups -- tiny organizations -- with disastrous CEOs, but in the same breath people assert that anyone could be an effective CEO of a 10,000-person organization because the job entails no meaningful skill. Most people are demonstrably ineffective as CEOs in a 25-person organization, there is no reason to believe they would suddenly become effective if the organization was a hundred times as large.
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You mention billionaires and then list off new money entrepreneurs. Don’t conflate the two. There are jobless people born into billion dollar family dynasties that do absolutely nothing for humanity. They hide and live out their lives entirely for them.
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New public management and low taxation of the wealthy has been the bane of western society for almost 50 years.
I'm a classical singer and just all around lover of music.. I'm also a software developer. Listening to music while I program is an absolute disaster. It either has to be a video or an audiobook.
I've tried many editors for various reasons, although I've never been forced to learn a new one for work. (The time I worked at a place where everyone used the same editor, it happened to be IntelliJ, with which I was already familiar.) The most difficult was when I switched to Vim fulltime to learn it. It took me about a year to really "grok" it and become productive. I've also done the same with Atom and VS Code, but those never felt as productive for me, so I gave up a month or two in. I keep coming back to IntelliJ, which is what I use now, because it fits so well with the way I work and I'm most productive with it.
The goal isn't to reintegrate, it's to get revenge and make victims and communities feel better about themselves for it.

If they go back into the system after release, then they clearly deserve more punishment.

There is zero tolerance or compassion in such a system so these people are ripe for all kinds of abuse. Rape, for example, is just something to laugh about in that context.
I see, your problem is the new grammar. I have never used OCaml with these features so I wasn't aware of this. Good to know.
Yeah, I find their methodology unconvincing. This is a common problem in research, where some proxy test is presented and simply declared to be a way of measuring creativity, intelligence, empathy, honesty, criminal tendencies, ability to postpone rewards, etc. Eventually each of these methods falls apart due to lack of evidence and is abandoned, but it can take decades. There are still licensed professionals using Rorschach tests to measure personality traits, including creativity, criminal tendencies, and personality disorders, despite there being no evidence that the "test" works to do that. Or consider the use of the lie detector test. Or the ADE 651 "bomb detector". All with about as much evidence behind them as dowsing.
This doesn’t sound very inclusive.

If inclusivity is so important, why do the loudest advocates for it eschew it whenever they get the chance to turn the tables?
A corporation is a person, but it's a legal fiction. The corporation is simply a gathering of non fictitious people who come together to collaborate and earn revenue as a collective. Each of those people pays taxes from their salaries like anyone else - they pay their fair share.

So what is a tax levied on a corporation? It's simply an additional tax levied on the human people who make up the corporation. They're already paying their share, now they should be paying more?

If you're just a lowly employee with no control or insight into a corporation's finances, you might think it doesn't matter to you. Wrong. You're part of the corporation too. Money the government is taking out of the corporation is money that could potentially be added to your paycheck if the corporation prospers and you play your role.
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Obviously there can be surveillance for dangerous people.
> There is a huge push in Poland now, to introduce non-refundable revenue tax (of 1.5%) on larger companies in place of income tax. This would solve the issue entirely.

Well, only if you're content with a 1.5% tax rate and a tax that punishes smaller non-vertically integrated companies.

They would probably be better off with something like DBCFT using a normal tax rate instead.
Another saying, “broken gets fixed but shoddy lasts forever”.

Edit: this seems like I’m suggesting rust makes shoddy results. Didn’t mean to imply that. I’m actually very excited to use Rust in prod soon.
> Do you ever wonder how people felt when they say Magellan or Captain Cook set off? Or, when they watched the Apollo missions happen?

Yeah, I do wonder: https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?t=24

I think how they feel probably depends on their perspective, their financial situation, their susceptibility to public relations, and so on. Let's say everything goes "great," and there are a million people living on Mars in 50 years. Will it matter to people dying in a war, or ailing next to an open sewer, or what-have-you back on Earth that there's some depressed Martians trapped in smelly cans and covered in perchlorate- and iron-laden dust 4 to 12 light minutes away? I don't think it will.

I think that when many of us "wonder" or "imagine" what people felt like when they watched or participated in these events, what we're really doing is projecting the relief and and other pleasant emotions that we experience when we imagine them, when we use imagining them as an escape fantasy to cope with our own anxieties, to that imagined audience.

Frank Borman actually went to the Moon, and his feelings about it, are definitely situated inside of his own perspective: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/655/the-not-so-great-unknow...

It's probably important for us to face this phenomenon square on, to check in with what's really going on with our "dreams of space" or sense of Solar "manifest destiny." There's a reason that space-age propaganda seems so successful, both in its own time, where its object was removed from us only by the impassable gulf of 10 km/s, and now, when it is behind the second impassable gulf of nearly 60 years. If that reason is escapism, we should possibly check in with what it is we think we're escaping from, what we actually, really, fear. If our hope is in a fantasy, perhaps it indicates that we feel our reality is hopeless.
"A government is a legal entity, but it's also a legal fiction. [..]

So what is a tax that governments collect? It's simply an additional income that human people benefit from. [..]

If you're just a lowly citizen with no control or insight into a government's bureacracy [..]"

etc etc

Sorry, you can't have it both ways - pretend that corporations and governments are somehow different. The cognitive dissonance here is hilarious.
Please I want to pay this tax and avoid the 30% Profit tax.
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Your problem isn't hard to solve in Rust. Reasoning about allocations is a foundational idea of Rust and is solved using lifetimes.

Basically, lifetimes are allocators as a first-class language construct. You can reason about what happens if values are stack or heap allocated and specialize your code based on that. Lifetimes are definitely an advanced feature and I think you can do some crazy optimizations with them. But your use case is not hard to implement. If you show me the C++, I'll show you how to achieve the same semantics.

Cargo helps because Rust lets you build cleaner abstractions and abstractions that compose nicer. So integration is super easy.

> For typical web front-end projects NPM or Cargo probably make sense.

I might misunderstand your sentence, but neither Rust nor cargo are for front-end?
You need to take into account all the simplification it would imply in tax collection / paperwork / regulations etc. The cost of our current ways of taxing wealth and profits is huge
This is not at all outdated. GraalVM and SubstrateVM are still very new and only support a subset of JVM features. The Vert.x article itself mentions that, as well as this:

https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/LIMI...
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Maybe because the people excluding them don't do anything about it. If you're not getting a slice of the pie because other people are eating it and not inviting you, it's reasonable to make your own damn pie.
I also have a classical music education and cannot write code (or anything really) with music playing. Vocals, non-vocals, doesn't matter, no matter how hard I try I find myself getting distracted in trying to dissect the music.
I'm not so sure SOSUS is largely an anti-submarine tool and the main countries the US would worry about tracking with subs are Russia and China.
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Even people working for Google on Android tell me the tooling is pretty garbage, so I'm less surprised than you might think ;)

The interesting thing with Kubernetes is that it's basically a re-imagining of Borg, which one assumes was not a few million lines of code when it was already running all of Googles infra more than a decade ago. It's obviously not solving the exactly same problem (e.g. Google correctly recognized that DNS isn't so hot and wrote their own replacement protocol, BNS which wouldn't fly for external adoption etc.). But I'd be curious to know how Borg's code quality and size back when it became the standard way to run stuff at Google maybe 12 years ago compares to Kubernetes today.
Music is a huge distraction while working. White noise or nothing. Some people on my team listen to podcasts while coding, and most of them were watching Cohen's testimony in the background on Wednesday. If they're not fooling themselves about their productivity, I'm really jealous.
Bingo. If you look at successful people you’re probably going to find a pretty diverse set of backgrounds in addition to the developers with CS majors from top schools. But doesn’t mean that spending your 20s as a ski bum is actually a recommended path for most professional careers—even if it does make for a cool story if you get to the point people are writing magazine articles about you.
That sounds like a version of VAT that favours large integrated companies. What are the proposed benefits?
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Law enforcement and prison unions have a financial interest to support mass incarceration. They lobby against drug legalization and have a history of systematic violence. I wonder which way union members vote.
Humans aren’t special but what we have as an AI today and for foreseeable future is capable making as many decisions as your microwave.
Also, wanted to thanks all you guys for reviewing Polar and there's a lot of good feedback here.

In a nutshell:

1. I'm working on more document formats including Markdown and ePub.

2. I'm working on some preliminary support for reference management so we can lookup the full reference info via DOI and have reference formatters for you to use for your research. Some of the DOI storage is already done.

3. I'm working on a webapp and mobile support. Probably a month away.

4. The captured web content isn't actually converted to PDF - it's actually a cached web archive. Full HTML is kept in your repo.

5. Polar 2.0 will be more web aware. You can annotate anything without actually having to store the full thing in Polar. We will just store a URL.

6. Pagemarks will be improved her shortly so you can toggle them on and off and possibly even highlight through them directly.

7. There are definitely small bugs and fit and finish issue we're working on. If you have an issue please report it: https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf/issues

8. Yes. Polar isn't fully self hosted but that defeats the point. My cure hypothesis is that knowledge benefits from being social which is the main thing I'm trying to test. By the time I'm done I think 95% of you would agree that keeping it private is insane as you don't benefit from the community.

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Let’s have this talk in 3 centuries then.
> it doesn't mean we don't have to be hard on "not elite" criminals.

Does being hard mean scamming them? Because that's what we're talking about here, not about applying longer sentences or other harsh punishments.
Governments and corporations are very different. A corporation needs to generate profit. If they don't profit, their shareholders don't get paid! If they continually don't profit, they go out of business and lose the investments they put into the corporation.

Government has no obligation to profit. Quite the opposite. Government enterprises simply spend (other people's) money. If government worked on a profit motive like corporations, everybody would love governments and there would be no complaints. Imagine that instead of paying taxes, you got paid a bonus when your country prospers?
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I don't generally think it is that big a concern. You are unlikely to outwork people, especially with something like 20%. Or more specifically there are always people with less to lose than you do. It isn't something that European countries can compete by, and especially not smaller countries. I think greater concerns are systematic defect. But there is no meaning to have a lack of education, apartments or other things that would mean good conditions for being productive. Those are the things you can't afford as a smaller country that wants to be competitive.
Small businesses are already penalized by our current laws and ways of taxing profits. I believe the alternative I am proposing (that will never come to reality) is easier for everyone
> "hey, hope you get better, now do you think P == NP?"

That was my read of it and I found it heartening.

Having had a near-fatal illness myself I was bummed at the time by all the moaning about it. People were really talking about their issues, not mine (OK, kid freaking out about becoming an orphan was something for me to address).

My own head was still full of stuff I wanted to do in the future (and what to do about my own therapeutic plan) and I would have been delighted to talk to someone who would think that way too. The great thing about the net is I could (textually) talk to friends far away who had no idea I was sick.
Video or audio books sound a lot more distracting than music
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I don't know why you're getting so downvoted. I mean, living on Mars for people in their 30s is probably a stretch goal, but getting to space is realistic.

Realistically, Starship won't fly regularly until around the mid 2020s and even that beast of a ship won't be cheap enough to commercialize space properly. I think you'll have to wait until Starhip's successor or the Blue Origin equivalent (~2040, ~15m diameter) for any chance to go.

If SpaceX manages the feat of launching the Starship for $50 million (unlikely, probably 2-3x more) and carry 100 people, it still means 500k/ticket. And that's just launch, for actual missions you'd need operational support, extra space (ie fewer passengers) for life support etc. So maybe around 2030-2035 you'd be able to ride around the moon for a few days (like the pre Apollo 11 missions) for $1.5 million.

If the successor rockets manage to lower the cost further, maybe around 2045 you'd be able to spend a week on the moon for 500k, or a weekend in low earth orbit for 200k? Maybe that rocket will make it possible to take a trip to mars for $1 million? I'd imagine rent would be pretty expensive there as well.

These are certainly not middle-class prices, but if you sell your house instead of leaving it to your children, or don't have children, or are pretty very well-off it's not unrealistic. You'd also have to make sure you're in tip-top health at 60-something though, so some luck would still be required.
I think that climate change absolutely is faith based and political. And we shouldn't be afraid of that. Lots of changes in human behaviour have a faith and moral component. Just think about hand washing. People don't need to understand microbiology to wash their hands. They need social pressure and a sense of morals.

Climate change deniers see environmentalism as a faith based political movement. Well it is. Even if you believe in climate change, there is nothing that says we have to do anything about it! It is perfectly reasonable to just shrug your shoulders and not do anything. The drive to protect the planet is a matter of conscience. And that is how people need to be pursuaded. Science is just not very convincing in everyday life, even among educated rational people.
same. I think this tends to affect people with musical training or experience; my non-musician friends can happily listen to music and work, but I can’t.
> I don't think anyone is surprised that it doesn't help at all.

I know you're purposely being sensationalist, but there is pretty incredible value in the networking by doing an MBA...which IMHO is actually what makes good CEOs - having strong networks of people around you.
Not an economist so I don't know the official reason. But a corporation can theoretically accumulate profits indefinitely without making a payout, while governments need stable yearly revenue.

Maybe more material from a public policy point of view is that we like to tax different things at different rates, to favor or disfavor spending on various things. Hard to tax a salary based on what the employer spent their money on.
The photographs are amazing (the volcano spewing a Milky Way is just awesome), and I empathize with the photographer's frustration.

However, if his complaint is that, in general, people are too quick to be skeptical of things they see on the internet, well, I can't exactly get behind him on that one.... :)
So cheaper for large integrated companies? Sounds like it'd really hurt competitors starting up.
I wonder how far you'd need to shim before you can stamp out detection. I.e. does it really matter if you shim the Filesystem API? A program can just write some data and try to read it back. If the shims just no-oped those API calls, it'd be pretty easy to detect, no?

Chrome Canary's workaround is to store blobs in memory, which one can argue is akin to actually implementing the API and not disabling it.
A dollar of savings is not the same, because your savings needs are proportional to housing costs. Whether it is to make a down payment, pay rent while laid off, or maintain your lifestyle in retirement, you need a much larger savings balance to buy the same capability. Even if it’s a kid’s college fund, as an upper middle income worker in a flyover state you will probably qualify for financial aid; even with the same take home budget, in a high wage high cost scenario you will not.
…so would Cargo? If you install a new package, why wouldn’t you expect it to show up in your lock file?
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If it were me (and you asked how I would do it) I would make the program open source and give it away. I would then build revenue around 1) Accepting donations, 2) selling custom feature development/consulting, 3) Selling additional products and services related to weightlifting.

You said that you have no interest in building a business out of it, so maybe you could just work with donations and maybe occasional feature request bounties.