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From a pragmatic perspective, dealing with the climate crisis is the pretext.

There's a history of using the judicial system in this way in the US (particularly on race issues), partly because the judicial appointments tend to be the longest, and so judges can take the long view and make decisions that aren't politically expedient in the short-term.

In an era where the failures of the legislative branch to come up with good ways to deal with market externalities are culminating in mass extinction and global crisis, maybe it makes sense to try to get the judicial branch to find interpretations of existing laws that can help mitigate the problem?
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Imagine if the current protests against inequality (and thereabouts) going on all around the world would be reported, scrutinized, and debated as much as when any of the established "enemies" have civil unrest. How quickly would things change?
Voting is flawed in general. It'd be way harder to attack Estonia's e-voting system than those touch-screen voting machines in the US.

I have faith in the Estonian system once they make e-voting completely transparent (which is something they're working on, but it's not there yet)
I’m really surprised this piece was almost entirely about public opinion, only using economics to discuss the likelihood of a recession soon and the effects of inequality.

The levers our governments have been pulling to steer the economy are reaching their maximum. The system where we reduce interest rates to spur spending to stimulate the economy (probably) don’t work when interest rates negative.
Kudos for avoiding a defensive response, it's a hard thing to do :)
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Hah I wish. My experience in a javascript shop is someone finds a library, they add it to the project, then one day in the distant future, long after the developer has left, everything breaks.
And that’s why I don’t use that name.
> Yet much of this software is “open source” — a technology commons that can be freely used and contributed to by anyone, but at the same time, is controlled by no one person or corporation.

That's pretty much the definition of free software; so yeah... Weird choices.
Yup. According to formal logic, the answer then is just yes.

p or true => true
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Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
WeWork postponed layoffs because it's too broke to pay workers severance
Really the inaccuracy alone would be a decent reason to prefer BCE/CE over BC/AD even if devout.
How much extra dollars are needed to soup it up so that it has similar performance as current gen laptops?

I imagine the drive and RAM would be first two items for the change, what about the CPU?
The trouble with this is that the trains have to have both a full set of diesel generation equipment for non-electrified operation and a full set of power conversion equipment for electrified mode, plus some way of switching between the two. The class 800 doesn't seem to have done a terribly great job of this; there's been huge teething problems with their introduction and rumour has it that the underfloor diesel engines simply can't operate at outside temperatures above 30 C or so due to inadequate cooling in order to fit them into the space available.
The fundamental problem is that you can't use interest rates to set fiscal policy, only monetary policy. Central banks do what they can, but it's like chemo: low or negative interest rates create asset bubbles while attempting to start the economy back up (and if wages disconnect preventing the ability to acquire inflated assets, you aren't going to try to acquire assets; Central Banks can keep those asset values inflated artificially forever though). Who have assets? Older and wealthy people [1]. If your government won't act with policy to fix fiscal (not monetary policy), you encounter the Populism response (which should surprise no one but apparently still does [2]). The Federal Reserve chair Powell has come out and said as much ("we have exhausted our toolkit").

TLDR It's time for the government to tax and spend.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/06/25/six-facts...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/30/historian-b...
Nice, should be good enough for now for me. Is there a GitHub issue or something I can watch for updates?
Much, possibly most, of the economic value in a downturn comes from weeding out the weaker companies -- through bankruptcy, acquisition, or restructuring/pivoting.

I well remember the "dot com" crash. It wiped out tons of companies that had no business existing (pardon the pun).

(Of course when it comes to banking, that can be a bit of a special case as we've witnessed multiple times.)

And yes, downturns are hard on people, and this is why a social safety net is invaluable. Gives them time to find a new job, or retool their skills, or otherwise adjust. And I don't pretend that's easy either.
Actually, the value of degrees can often go to epsilon in 20 years because of rampant, under-recognized ageism. As one anecdotal example, I worked at a Stanford department within School of Medicine where several full-time employees conspired with a manager to get a lady fired for the crime of being "too old." This was one point among several others that led me to part ways.

If you're at all "old," stay as fit, healthy, energetic and current on skills, training, practices, techniques and make yourself indispensable so that you aren't deemed disposable easily.
I remember being at Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley in 2001 or 2002. Bill Gates had come to urge students to please consider majoring in CS.
“git request-pull” and confusing diffstats
It's quite possible that these were scheduled trades that were arranged far in advance before either executive was aware of the breach. So, no, not necessarily insider trading. The optics sure look bad, but it could just be shitty timing.
Sweden is one of a number of nations who have cooperated with US Extraordinary Renditions in the past [0] and also has an extradition treaty with the United States. The extradition request probably has a similar chance of success in both countries.

It is a notion that can be very reasonably entertained; especially since there are a very limited number of Swedish lawyers on HN who can interpret the extradition treaty. Sweden could easily fold like an origami under US pressure regardless of the law too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Sweden
Some Business 101 for you: Salaries are separate from profits. Salaries are a cost to the business just like rent and hosting costs. Profits come after all the costs. (Salaries are also taxed as personal income just like at any other business.)

The $5m over 6 years is $833k in revenue per year. Not a lot, and salaries/benefits probably take up the biggest part of that, leaving very little profit. Which is the way it should be everywhere in my opinion.

I applied to work at Ghost a while back and still would love to work for them. Not only do they get salaries, they have amazing benefits (by US standards). Being a non-profit means two things: a) profits are reinvested in the business rather than distributed to owners, and b) Ghost isn’t, and can never be, an acquisition target by other companies or investors. That kind of stability is a huge appeal for me, both as a user and a worker.
>As for cashless technology, there is significant political backlash to cashless systems. See the efforts by NYC to force businesses to accept cash as payment. I don't think the glacier is going to move much faster until that political resistance is addressed.

But it's political resistance for valid reasons.
Per the FDIC, 18% of Americans are underbanked
https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/ and 8% are unbanked.

The real problem is 1.) banks are a cancer on society. Most banks these days charge you ridiculous fees if you don't have even a $1500 in the account 2.) the unbanked and underbanked aren't introduced enough to credit unions which are ideally their answer to having savings account that doesnt fuck them 3.) unforunately credit unions cant afford to take risk with offering those with poor credit ratings a credit card

Otherwise, consider yourself lucky to be posting on HackerNews from probably working a tech job to be arguing for non-cash accepting stores. Plenty of people don't have that luxury.
Netflix misses its subscriber targets again
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I was working at a large firm (similar to HP), a the changes were gradual, but significant:

- Hubris blow-back: Non-managers with access to HR data within my own organization would query payroll data, and publicly say developers are overpaid. This was a US public firm, not a start-up, and our pay wasn't market leading.

- Domestic hiring froze. Existing offers were rescinded. No new offers made.

- Foreign hiring or visa workers started: The internet wasn't fast enough for outsourcing at first, so new developers were brought to the US Visa from India, getting paid quite a bit less, and living 5-6 guys to an apartment in the woods of New England.

- Terminations/layoffs: The first was a shock, then came the drain of twice a year, every year, eventually becoming the norm. At first, the less technically apt were release (those who learned to program because it was hiring.) Then some really good people, with good ideas and great degrees gone because they couldn't put in the hours or work in the environment, or because they couldn't set aside their pet project.

- Cost management, control, and reduction, everywhere. Need email? billed to your department. Need storage? billed by the MB. Need licensed software? Assemble a business case for a VP, and expect to have 4 tiers of reviews before that. Need a monitor or memory? Buy it yourself, that will never get approved. Have a shadow-IT lab where all your work gets done? Expect auditors to shut it down and claim the assets for the CIO. The correct department expense number is $0.

- Project control: strict waterfall, with systems engineering of everything. Regular metrics reporting with remediation plans to executives. This requires...

- Personnel tracking: hours worked per week were introduced, starting at 1900/year, then ratcheting up. 40 per week became 44, and then it was a whisper. Managers knew, plan your top people at 50-65/week or you would blow your budget. Those top-billers brought in revenue.

- Technical advancement evaporated. Development was for the outsourced teams; if you want to move up, learn how to manage lots of outsourced developers as a "project manager."

- Projects shifted. Latitude to explore new technologies and possibilities went away. Remaining client projects were purely driven by what was needed to keep businesses moving forward, like legal/regulatory requirements.

- Governance. To make sure there's consistency, and no shadow projects, control them through review boards for everything.

Consequences?

It became a grind. The long hours worked during the dot-com era exploring the possible and creating an internet that never existed before became long hours to meet project targets, billable targets, and client deadlines.....

Marriages suffered. People skipped family events for work. People skipped exams or even dropped out of advanced degrees, for work. You could see who was burned out, or was having trouble with depression, or was self medicating in other ways.

Professional lives suffered.

Not a good time.
Imagine if instead of people protesting against income inequality, they protested against value contribution inequality...
So far I have not been able to find a better offer than contabo.com
On a side note most of these systems use YAML and as a dyslexic i really have a hard time spotting indenting issues and issues where i should have been using lists. Getting an ide with support for it doesn't make it better.
Very Baader-Meinhof! I think I heard about this in a recent Only Connect or QI episode (?). I wonder what the overlap of viewers is between those shows and HN.
I agree entirely.

> bus lanes

This exemption is completely ridiculous.

I recently asked "What would the outcome be of a total taxi ban in a major city" in a similar thread [0]. An interesting answer was the disabled would struggle. I've since discovered Dial-a-Ride [1], which is good to see and now strengthens my convictions against black cabs in London.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268807
[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/dial-a-ride/
I haven’t had a bad experience with Catalina, but the new app sandboxing has broken a few minor tools like BalenaEtcher. Not a big deal as it still runs fine under sudo... and they’ll surely release a new version shortly.
Oh whoops, should have mentioned I am and have never been affiliated with this service. I only posted this because I was a huge fan of http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/, and I assumed the hn audience would respond more to the VPS offering. I think they may have changed a bit over the years, seems like the "no support = dirt cheap" may not be true anymore.
Faces of Open Source seems to be a one person project (Peter Adams) who is a photographer and personally takes the picture of each subject. Since Ian has passed away I don't know how they would be able to be included. Also the site obviously isn't exhaustive since there there are thousands of people in Open Source and is always a work in progress being updated.
But is that what WeWork is?
This answer is undoubtedly long but interesting on the fact that it represents a state of mind of the industry. Also I don't think that being against Facebook is an argument for not being recruited by other companies in the future. If even people working for giants have decided to take a stand, it may be interesting for companies to focus on ethics to attract talent.
Most young people are paradoxically for unfettered immigration and against capitalism, but one is an economic policy and a result of the other. Simultaneously they are pushing for policies that increase competition and lower their wages (immigration), whilst railing against capitalism. Ideology has gone so far as to confuse young Americans about what is helping them and what is hurting them
My comment is only part blood thirst and part just wanting to simplify my credit report tracking from a consumer perspective. I would also like as few companies as possible having my personal information as possible especially after problems like this.

The other part is if I'm applying for any kind of credit, I assume the most conservative lender would look at all three results and just go with the lowest credit score.

But I agree, even in a semi free market, competition is good.
Or you could install it yourself for nothing (other than your time and hosting costs, of course, but if you have the time spare and a server/VM with available resource already...): https://ghost.org/docs/setup/
I was told I would not be hired during an interview:

"...you are more of a client-server programmer. We are looking for more of a mainframe programmer..."
It's a noble effort, the amount of tracking going on is just digusting, I have 1.9k blocked trackers in just the past week and I visit a small set of websites.
If Mozilla had any sense of the future, they would start working on Brave instead of Firefox. Chromium already won on technical reasons. Now someone needs to professionally maintain a privacy fork of it.
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Sorry, I guess it wasn't clear that I wasn't complaining or anything, just confirming the facts on the ground.

But (in a vacuum) when developing a solution to serve diverse needs and stakeholders, the HiPPO effect is definitely an anti-pattern.
I think this is a great acquisition for Mailgun. IMO, the biggest pain point for implementing Mailgun is that backend developers don't want to manage email templates, deal with email client compatibility, or manage A/B testing within a backend codebase. This acquisition should fix that disconnect by allowing the marketing team to perform these tasks via the Mailgun control panel.
All traffic laws are state-by-state (or even more local) in the US, in general.

In practice, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red#North_America everywhere in the US has had right turn on red unless otherwise signed since 1980. Except for New York City, apparently...
This is great! On another note, I'm wondering when I can remove uBlock Origin?
Irony at its finest:

> GNvim - Rich Neovim GUI without any web bloat

> sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

:-)
Doesn't it say in the quote that these were not scheduled? !
> Technically UTC is not the same as GMT. The two can differ by up to 0.9 seconds.

It’s UT1 and UTC that differ by up to 0.9 seconds. GMT and UTC are equal unless you’re in a specialized field (navigation) where it is considered to be UT1. Otherwise, GMT is just the name of a time zone UTC+0000.

TAI measures seconds. UT1 measures the earth’s rotation. UTC combines these by using TAI plus a changing offset to keep within 0.9s of UT1.
> The downside of all of this is that I feel like sites are now intentionally being designed to break if this kind of stuff is blocked.

That's fine by me. It's an up-front indication that I don't want to use that service. In the case of bill pay, I would just change my user agent string.
I think you underestimate salaries. They are allowed to pay themselves. Extra money can be used to pay future salaries, fund other projects etc. They can probably even accumulate it to use as an endowment, I'm not sure about that though.

I'm not exactly sure what happens if the founders decide their salaries will be $1m/year. I'm not aware of anything explicitly stopping that - some charities pay their CEOs hundreds of thousands.
I was expecting to see Matz^ there but ...

^ Yukihiro Matsumoto - creator of the Ruby Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto
They should have accepted the buy out offer when they had a chance, but were arrogant and insisted that their valuation should be greater than VMWare at the time. Of course this never really made much sense if you understand the behind-the-scenes tech Docker uses.

This is a great precautionary tale to founders and an awesome example of hubris at play.

Docker's biggest problem was that they provided tremendous value with their opensource product, leaving few to have any justifiable reason to pay them money.

They courted Riot Games for years, until finally they flat out told them they would never see a penny from them. There are many things that can be learned from a business perspective here...
I remember when Ghost was released years ago, and I remember thinking "wow, these people have actually gone and released a solid blogging platform to replace the shitshow that is WordPress!". At the time, I was making some decent freelance money from porting botched WordPress builds onto the Umbraco CMS, so my opinion of WP has always been pretty low. Ghost looked like a fantastic publishing tool that was ahead of its time.

Obviously, things have changed a lot since then, and to be honest I never really kept much of an eye on Ghost until two people I used to work with started working for Ghost. Now, Ghost is being pushed as a headless CMS, and seems heavily aligned to the JAM stack.

From what I've seen and heard, this looks like a fantastic release and you should all be proud of this milestone, and just how far Ghost has come. With that being said, there's a niggling thought in my head that won't go away.

What's to stop Ghost from becoming WordPress v2?
From the parent:

> These sales were not made pursuant to a Rule 10b5–1 trading plan.
> lived and worked in China for several years

...

> I saw no evidence of any such effort to create a fair system.

As fast as China is developing, it takes more than a few years of a snapshot expat life in a tier1-2 city to appreciate the scale of uplifting. The evidence is everywhere if are familiar with Chinese development goals and rate progress in context of the Chinese system where inequity and corruption are both intentional and deliberate development strategies.

Inequity: Deng wanted to direct development of coast regions first to rapidly cultivate an economic model (all the SEZs). The lessons learned would be used to improve the interior. The goal is to become a "moderately prosperous society" by 2021 with per capita GDP of $10,000 (current forecast is $12,000), followed by complete urbanization and poverty alleviation by 2030, followed by "China Dream" of per capita GDP of $40,000 by 2050. Some of the coastal cities are currently at $20,000 or $40,000 by PPP.

The system is working as intended, the big current efforts is to redirect coastal manufacturing and wealth into interior development which has "unfairly" languished, but as someone who spend a decade travelling between tier1 and county level (i.e too backwater to even be on the tier system) in the 90s, there's been improvements in aggregate everywhere. It may feel uneven depending on time and place but the trend is undeniable.

Corruption: to preserve the political narrative of "socialist economy", corruption was a mechanism used to transfer state resources to meritocratically selected local party officials that was still beholden to the goal of development and growth to ensure future promotions. This is why corruption has bad in India, Russia, Indonesia, Ukraine, etc but good in China. China is the only country where increased corruption is correlated to increased growth. This is posited by Yukon Huang, former World Bank director for China, Russia, and Former Soviet Union Republics. Power and connections only go so far (and sometimes too far), but most low tier bureaucratic arise through performance. They're welcome to gaft a little on the side but they better build X new residential units, Y infrastructure to meet Z urbanization goals.

E: It's not perfect, especially rule of law, but these institutions usually take a long time to build. Somethings can be rushed (construction), somethings can't (integration), but it's China, despite perceived "patience" of Chinese grand strategy, they'll try to rush things anyway (love them 5,10,15 year plans), frequently it's unethical, sometimes it'll backfire, but moving this fast is an unending series of trolley problems with 1.4 billion lives. Overall, IMO they're doing well. Prioritizing elimination of poverty at the expense of some corruption and inequity is the correct short-term moral calculus for me. And it's not like they're not trying to address the latter (anticorruption, HK etc).
I hope this means the MJML project was part of the acquisition reason (it underlies their builder) and won’t see its support reduce.
Google may have a wider range of words, but DeepL is definitely much better in grammar and idioms, which Google tends to translate literally.

Moreover, Google often provides a single target word; whereas DeepL allows you to select from a range of synonyms clicking on a word, and will adjust the sentence accordingly to use the new word. When Google gets the context wrong and provides the wrong meaning for the translation, DeepL's capability to translate with a different meaning is invaluable.
Put the Thor back in Thursday! Damn secularists
Any plans for a multi tenant setup with memberships?
Happy Mailgun user here. Sending 1MM+ transactional emails/month and 9MM+ marketing emails/month. Working flawlessly, given that you setup everything correctly (separate domains, dedicated IPs at least for transactional emails, SPF, DKIM)
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