skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a moderate Libertarian tech worker I would have to give the same answer. I hold my position not just because I don't want to pay too many taxes, but because I find the position to be the correct one.

I think that pay has very little to do with effort of the worker. As you mentioned, lot of people work harder and put more effort while making less money than others. IMO the argument that effort should be used as a measure for pay can easily be invalidated with this reductio ad absurdum:
If you pay me for the effort I put on my work I would make more money by carrying a heavy rock back and forth all day than to work on most of the jobs available today.

As economy theory goes, labor is a commodity and, as such, subject to the law of supply and demand. That's really it, there is no other way at the moment to assign salaries. Yes you can reduce inequality with taxation. But there is an inverse correlation between taxation an economic growth, even though there are some exceptions.

My thoughts on automation are that, yes, automation displaces jobs, but it also reduce prices (not just of the final products but those of capital goods used to produce them too), so, while I don't know how a close-to fully automated society will look like I'm sure resources will still need be allocated based on demand from consumers and the economic output will be limited, hence there will still be a concept of markets and currencies. My guess is that Capitalism will be partially automated itself. We will probably need some limited redistribution for those that initially own no shares in automated companies, allowing them to live and invest in these, or to buy automation capital goods to create new automated companies.
Wealth governs the distribution of product, not the quantity of product. Reassign 100% of the wealth of the infirm to the able, and discover that the labor of the able does not change.

“Dependency Ratio” is an iron law.
GitLab CI/CD is amazing. I run a private instance on a VPS with a single worker (probably the simplest setup you can imagine) and it's astoundingly powerful.

I can't say enough great things about it - solutions like Jenkins and Travis CI just feel antiquated and clunky anymore. I always thought it wouldn't really be worth it to run CI/CD on my personal projects due to the complexity inherent in setting these solutions up until I saw the light... I had a coherent "one-click" deploy setup from scratch within an hour with GitLab.
I grew up poor and never had luxuries. In retrospect I believe this is pathological and damaging.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

- when buying computers/phones/shoes/etc just forget the price and get the one you really want

- trade your money for time, it's the more valuable of the two (eg. hire a house cleaning service)

- eat out everyday (if it's something you enjoy, personally I hate cooking)
Consider the requestAnimationFrame API. It will give you a 60hz timer (even higher on high refresh rate displays) but is used for a ton of animation related tasks as well as games. That said it effectively can be used as a timer which in this case would likely be precise enough.

What do you do in the case where a ton of website's use this API for legitimate animations?
But nm are marketing terms now; TSMC's 7nm is said to be equal to Intel's 10nm.

Nodes are still shrinking, but not at the rate implied by their nm names. In addition, thermal constraints mean they can't actually be used at their theoretical capacity.
me too! i was ready for a dark, spooky, deep dive here....
I positively agree with you. You are not going to walk out of a course or two in automata theory and group theory building critical complex systems. But that coursework does provide a lot of exposure toward the "primitives" in which these complex formal systems are defined. They are the first step of many steps.

I am reminded of PGs famous example of the "Blub"[0] programming language .Here's the relevant quote:

> As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.

In the above, the "Weird Language" can also be a formal modeling of the problem domain and solution.

(Note: He should not be presuming the developer is "he")

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
But that's a separate issue, no? The leak issue is all about someone knowing whether you've accessed a resource previously or not (i.e. checking to see if the resource comes for cache or not).

For a lib hosted on a CDN, who cares?! However, if someone wants to track if you've been to myservice.com, they could try and load myservice.com/logo.png - if it's from the cache, then bingo, you've been there. That's a leak.

Maybe I've misunderstood; could you explain your timing attack mechanism in more detail please?
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Delay Is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space [pdf]
> If the goal of a university was research it wouldn’t have any undergraduate students and it probably wouldn’t teach Master’s students either. Some external organization would educate future researchers and then they’d hire them.

What makes you think that the best way of training future researchers isn't having the current researchers train them? This is the model currently used across most universities I think. As part of my degree, I was taught entirely by people who are active researchers in their fields.

> For the huge majority of university students that means they’re at university because they need a degree to get a job.

Yes, and I'd argue this is a negative trait. People should be going to university because they want to learn a thing, not because it's a necessary hoop to jump through to work in a field (unless that field is academia). Fields that require specialist education (law/medicine/etc) already have specialist institutions that do this vocational training.

> The median college graduate might be capable of doing a Master’s degree but there is no way more than 10% of those who matriculates as university students are capable of becoming researchers if that.

But how does the university find that 10%? You presumably can't select effectively, so what better way than to run a 3-4 year program for those who are interested to see if they remain interested enough and are good enough to become a researcher. It doesn't have to have a high conversion rate to be effective.
Same tricks used by governments when reporting inflation!
i knew this comment would be made, we'll see what happens in a few months :) (Note: I haven't bought pall yet, it seems very volatile, if anyone is thinking about it, set your stop loss at minimum 5%)
This was my experience as well. Started off as a libertarian. But then I started working, first in the lobbying industry, then in Silicon Valley.

Meritocracy is not as good an idea as it seems to be in practice.
The justification for a FST is either "OWI Checkpoint" or whatever reason you were pulled over for. I don't know why the laws are the way they are.
> A minimal viable program is the smallest program that solves a particular problem. It is small and beautiful. It has no additional features.

Yet, when a node developer creates left-pad...
The tone is accusatory because usually there is a classist dimension to the question. Why does a high income tech worker vote Democrat when that would cause her own taxes to go up? The question implies noble intent on the part of the tech worked: because it’s better for society as a whole. We don’t extend that charitable interpretation to the blue collar worker in Iowa. Why do they vote Republican even though Democrats are promising them government benefits? We don’t charitably assume it’s because they believe it’s better for the country in the long run. We assume it’s because they’re easily manipulated or too dumb to understand what’s in their own interest.
It is not as if all of the EU has a national healthcare system

The healthcare system in Germany is that the monthly insurance fee is like 15% of the wage of an employee and the employer has to pay half of the fee. If you switch from being employed directly to freelancing, you have no employer, and you have to pay at least twice as much for health care insurance. Twice as much, if you are lucky, since freelancer do not get a wage, the calculation is changed from 15% of the wage, to 15% of all income. In the worst case if you are a fire guy and have a lot of investments you can go from paying 50€/month for insurance to paying 700€/month with the same income, just because you work without an employer. (with public insurance, private insurances do their own fee calculations)

Basically, as soon as you do something non-traditional, you lose the safety nets
Location: Cologne, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (but I can travel)

Technologies: my current stack is based on PHP / Laravel / Javascript / Vue.js with the usual ecosystem (SASS, node.js, git, docker...). In the past I also worked with Java, Python and other techs.

Résumé/CV: on request (I am employed and I don't want my employer knowing that I am looking for new opportunities)

Email: wwtbh.cgn@gmail.com

I am an autodidact fullstack web developer with extensive experience (10 years) in development and architecture of APIs, e-commerces, CMSs and web applications in general.
I speak fluent English and I am learning German (admittedly it is not going as fast as I would like, since I rarely practice it).
Lots of people start startups that they know will never make them billionaires, and even the founders of Google never expected the huge rewards they've reaped.

And there are ways of reducing the risk by not growing too quickly, building a company with actual revenues instead of burning VC cash.

The only thing reduced inequality would kill is the Silicon Valley variety of startup, which would be a good thing for everyone outside Silicon Valley. It would give sustainable businesses a chance to grow without having to compete with companies who burn billions of dollars to buy the market.
You can have a functioning safety net and pay for it via a progressive consumption tax. That's actually what most Western countries outside of the U.S. seem to do, broadly speaking. Some countries even tried out a wealth tax, like France - they had to reverse it real quick because the unintended effects were so dismal.
It's eminently pluggable if you stop running hostile general-purpose code on our own machines, giving it a large poorly-defined attack surface! That's the eventual answer here. Websites have a perfectly cromulent place to run whatever code they'd like - on their own servers. If you knew someone was trying to kill you, you wouldn't invite them into your home for a party so they could easily tamper with your medicine cabinet.
Ask HN: Why are there no USB-C only “hubs”?
It's been several years since the USB-C only MacBook Pro is out. Many manufacturers have followed, and USB-C is very common on many devices already. Virtually every device I connect to my Mac on a daily basis uses a USB-C connector. So it follows that 4 ports are no longer enough when I'm doing lots of stuff. For example, right now I want to connect:

* USB-C External SSD for music/movie library.
* USB-C External HDD for time machine backups.
* USB-C Ethernet adapter for LAN.
* USB-C to Lightning to iPad for Xcode debugging.
* USB-C Power Cable.

As you can see, that is more than 4 ports can handle. I'm sure this will only become more common in the near future as more people buy or upgrade their accessories to USB-C.

Considering how ubiquitous USB-C 2 hubs once were, you'd think that the same thing would happen to USB-C. However there are exactly zero results for a USB-C to many USB-C ports hub, or anything of that sort, for any search term I try, either on Amazon or even on Alibaba. So from this follows the question:

Why? Has the market just not catch up yet? Or is there some technical limitation to creating such a device? Considering the mess the USB3 standard is (and USB4 does not improve on that issue at all) I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.
Click the button, revert master, then fast follow with a fix.
They now have your name, email and address? Why are you not going to get tons of unsolicited mail and email based on how you donated?

Slightly off topic, but I donated to a public radio station in a particular city and within two months I was getting solicitations from every public TV station, radio station, museum, symphony, opera, and charity within three states.

Now I'm more careful about my donations and how they're made.
If your AP has access to PHI in the first place, that seems like a problem.
At least according to this:
https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...

Most tech workers in SF are probably in the top 10-5% range. Adjusting for cost of living means that they are probably more or less middle class.
Well said. The taxes on the value created by the labor of those involved in the production and consumption of the product of said labor(s) is indeed a fair and just re-appropriation.

Likewise, the results of hoarding the vast wealth in the forms of property, land, legal entities that operate and depend on these same communities which generated them is damagingly extractive.

We should, too, somewhat reverse the hoarding of vast wealth and let our communities reap some benefit from the treasures they are capable of producing.
No, that isn't my assumption. I don't think anyone believes that there's some institution or degree program that spoon feeds everyone everything they should know and guarantees a high level of performance. Obviously, the scope of my consideration are people with a high degree of initiative, creativity, and experience. A CS degree in and of itself is neither necessary nor sufficient.
the example given is not wise to attempt to fully isolate in your architecture and design. A NoSQL database brings with it an entirely different approach to your data, and as has been pointed out many times, the core of every software system is its data. If you are choosing a NoSQL database, you should be confident you know why you are doing so, but you should not imagine (or attempt to pretend) that you will be able to isolate your code from that choice.
Legally, it's consensual. Morally, it's an order.

If anyone except a police officer made a similar request, they'd be guilty of brandishing a firearm and any contract (or agreement to have sex) would be invalid. But if you accede to a police officer's "request", when they have a legal right to kill you for any reason during the encounter, it's considered consent.
Why is sourceforge's ui so bad? Why not display the files instead of expecting me to download some random zip file?
Big tech companies are able to try 100 things out instead of 1 because they can rely on their stable revenue streams to pay the bills. I’m not sure how it would be a boon to innovation but am open to learning why you think that.

The major damage big tech is doing is in my opinion dodging regulations or inventing business streams that have no regulation, moving as fast as possible to get a solid footing, and then asking the government to regulate them. Therefore, they lock the smaller guys out. Therefore, there’s little to no competition.
> Right-libertarianism was an attempt to unite the libertarian parts of the left with socially liberal elements on the right against authoritarian ideologies; their main distinction are views on property rights

I don't think this is correct at all. What's called right libertarianism or laissez-faire capitalism emerged in the mid 20th century (e.g. Ayn Rand). It stole the term which had historically been a left term and simply cleansed it of its critique of corporate power.

Corporations are authoritarian, anti-democratic organizations that exercise a great deal of control over our economic lives. Laissez-faire capitalists saw an opportunity to use Left anti-authoritarian concepts to attack democratic state controls and regulations on corporate power. Often they will employ some mental gymnastics to redefine corporations as extensions of individual rights, hence the John Galt cult of personality stuff. This is akin to calling feudalism "liberty" because, think of the rights of kings. As such we have entered an era of unparalleled corporate power, control and concentration of wealth.

What exposes the sheer fraud of "right libertarianism" in Silicon Valley is that much of SV was created by the state and continues to be subsidized to the tune of billions annually. Look up DARPA.[1] So they're not even against state capitalism.

[1] https://unherd.com/2018/06/government-agency-made-silicon-va...
Save it.
Then save some more.
If you have more leftover, save some more.

Sounds like you are enjoying the fruits of life already and the way you described your spending sounds like you're enjoying it.
There are many trees around New Delhi, they don’t do much in terms of air pollution. https://www.greenpeace.org/india/en/story/454/are-the-green-...

At best they spread pollution over a wider area thus reducing the concentration.
I work alone in Japan for my own company but boy people work too much I think. Some people reply to my message after midnight and that is someone who is employed and not someone running a company.

And some other people message me on Saturday morning and again, that is an employee but the good part is that for the people I know, they don't look unhappy or maybe they're just used to that work hours... I don't think I'll want to work like that if I'm an employee.

When I was an employee for the one year in my entire life, I asked for overtime (I was the only person getting it in a company of about a dozen people) and usually worked 9-10 hours for 5 days.
How's that even against your own interest?
Youtube.com is very interesting, it's actually slower using an adblock.
I don't necessarily agree here. An email address is itself a globally addressable primary key. In a lot of real world systems, the benefits of abstracting that are lower than the costs.
"toxic hellhole", "blame culture" - I don't think we need those dark, marginal extremes to make a point

I also suspect that we're going to agree to disagree here. There are so many nuances, it's impossible to properly communicate most of those without writing a chapter of a book.

Appreciate your points though. Great food for thought right there.
Yeah that's a lot of "citation needed" and conflating incentives with corruption.

Or maybe incentives are corruption and the oil and corn businesses in the US are the worse offenders
I doubt it. As someone outside the US looking in, real rage towards companies like Facebook/Google only really became a mainstream topic after Trump won.

The rage induced by that event got directed at Facebook initially and has now broadened to include all the big tech companies that profit from data collection.

If Hillary had won or in a theoretical world where Obama was still president then talk of breaking up Facebook/Google would still be a niche murmur.
Not sure about the priorities here. Fingerprinting should be the main concern, so steps 1,2,3 are obscuring IP address and disabling cookies and JavaScript. Even beyond that, not sure how chaining VMs etc helps much more than a single VPN.

Although an ideal solution would spin up a random VM, browser, screen size, and tor connection for each new web page visited...
I don’t think this extends to libraries, which are units of composition and each unit comes with a more-or-less fixed amount of overhead for managing the trust relationship with the maintainer (as well as other things, like managing the version to pin against, etc).
"Oligarch" originally meant the post-soviet kleptocrats who were handed control over formerly state companies at discount prices.

They're not rich because they built a company and bought their way into political power (which is how many Western billionaires are made) but because they had political connections and used them to capture state assets. The result is that they are dependent on the government for their wealth- if they piss off the President, they'll get thrown in jail or slipped polonium. So they ended up becoming unofficial conduits of government power.

In the West, it can end up being the other way around, with governments becoming instruments of corporate power.

Whether it makes sense to call both kinds of wealthy people "oligarchs" is up to you, I guess.
Judges aren't particularly motivated by fines. Unlike police officer, they don't get a cut or a bonus for collecting fines.
AFAIK this distribution of expenses is why "Medicare for all" isn't that much more expensive than just "Medicare + Medicaid" (which is to say, public health care spending as it exists already). Consider also how many of the most expensive younger folks, being the ones with major chronic illnesses, are already unable to work and on Medicaid. Everyone else is relatively healthy, on average, and so pretty cheap to cover. I'd bet by far the largest remaining expenses among that mostly-healthy-and-not-already-covered-by-public-programs segment are pregnancy, births, and first month or two of care for sick or premature newborns.
> A major factor behind the high pollution levels at this time of year is farmers in neighbouring states burning crop stubble to clear their fields

What is the obstacle to fining these farmers? (Most agricultural systems have moved past burning stubble.)

Do the farmers form a blocking bloc? Or are there other factors at play.
So, exactly the same as drunkenness.
It depends on the implementation currently. Some implementations consider subdomains isolated and others don't. See Chrome's implementation experiments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U5zqfaJCFj_URrAmSxJ0C7z0...
please take a look at Lessig’s talk if you have 15 min
Their subscription model gives Unity the ability to change the TOS under dev's feet. [0]

Unity eventually walked back this change after a prolonged negative press campaign on Twitter, but counting on Twitter mobs to solve your future problems is a really bad business strategy.

I occasionally use closed-source programs for development, but I don't use programs where the output is constrained by a license, and I don't use programs where the TOS that binds me can be changed on a whim. I'll use a closed-source program like Aseprite or Reaper, I won't use Creative Cloud or Unity. The benefits aren't worth the risk.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/unity-engine-tos-chan...
I don't argue that it's a great technology, but some of the neighbour commenters wrote things like "perfect", and to me it doesn't sound like "perfect" yet.

For example, in the beginning, if you listen to the phrase "from the office ...", in original recording it sounds smooth, like a single phrase (and the voice is warm and pleasant), but in the separated track it sounds like it is synthesized from pieces that are not properly connected, like vocaloid songs. It sounds little harsher. Transitions sound unnatural. And the phrase "heya Tom" in the separated track is split into "heya" and "Tom" with some unnatural sound between (or maybe in the beginning of "Tom"). It is like transitions you can hear in vocaloid tracks. Or the kind of artifacts you get if you over-compress an MP3 file.

And "it's good to see you" part also sounds robotic.

Maybe it's losing some of harmonics, but in a different way for different syllables and they don't sound like a single phrase anymore.
Night-shift workers should sleep during the day.
A bit like https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example
Not sure which switches you are using.

I have hundreds of Unifi switches deployed. There is no downtime with normal setting changes(port/vlan assignment, link speed/duplex changes, etc...)