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Wealth taxes might be the only way to avoid complete inequality in market-based systems [1]. Especially if the market is not growing for everyone. The wealthy kind of are an endless source of loot because the definition of wealthy is one relative to a median, so you'll either end up with everyone roughly equal in wealth (is that a bad thing?) or, more likely, over time new people will enter and exit the wealthy class due to various advantages and market dynamics so that there is an endless supply.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...
The thing is this is not a either question. It should be is it worth to teach yourself coding and get a CS degree.

Many CS degrees do not teach how to code, they might give you some starting help but expect you to learn coding in parallel to doing the CS degrees.

Also IMHO learning time pressure, coding and teamwork
Works best in a good company, where there is some time to give feedback/teach the junior. But the how many of the companies hiring Juniors do that? In how many companies will you not only learn not much, but potentially even mislearn thinks? Are you able to judge this aspect when you just get started as a junior?

My recommendation is to do a part-time Studium spending half the week in University and half at a company as junior programmer. Well at last if the universities you are interested in support this (many German universities do). Note that I explicitly do not mean a dual Studium.

PS: There are other benefits of a CS degrees which only matter in some cases, e.g. learning how to read CS papers , typical CS notations, better understanding of basic algorithmic things. Etc.
The best state schools are generally comparable in that regard.
Good point. Maybe they were really not trained enough to organize a simple predicate/loop..
I did my masters while working. My job at the time paid for it, and there was a good school in the area. I found it fun because I was exposed to things I wouldn't have gotten exposed to in my job (programming language design, automata theory, etc...), but those things also didn't change my salary or future job prospects.

If you find learning in a structured environment fun and can get someone else to pay for it, a masters may be right for you :)
It is certainly frustrating for me that they do little to distinguish "NYT newspaper" from "NYT magazine". The newspaper is still what you remember, in the same quantity and quality. It is just that the magazine has grown a lot and is occasionally more visible. To be clear, the magazine is high quality, but it is not what I am interested in.
Almost all the work done in industry is O(1) programming.

It's difficult work, but not complex.

I'm not surprised every thread started by a person who hires grads undervalues their education, because they probably don't have any work to assign to them that contains any complexity.

This doesn't say much for us as an industry. The simple and avoidable difficulties of 'real world' programming are not much to brag about.

The only difficulties we face nowadays in programming are almost always down to buggy libraries and frameworks that have nonexistent documentation.

I remember when I was starting in the work world, that you could buy a whole wall full of paper bound books for your IBM machine, or Sun, and when you looked up a function in there it was well documented and correct.

Nowadays, I suppose we're too cool to do something like that, better to move on fast and go break something somewhere else.

To any recent grads, I'll tell you a secret. If you want to move up the ladder in this industry, the most important thing is to keep outrunning your mistakes.

Build a system, brag about it, move to another role and let some other poor sucker maintain the stupid thing.
they 'll probably be superseded by some form of quantumly-entangled currency, since their crypto algorithms will have become obsolete. But there is a need for a stable form of wealth (like gold), and fiat currencies are increasingly being used as mediums of control , a form of power that is even unelected. I don't think future societies will put up with that.
I'm genuinely curious, who do you think is "trying to gain" by pointing out the (really quite dire, IMHO) looming crises on several fronts?

From where I sit, activists have been trying to spur movement on major environmental and social problems for decades now, and getting basically nowhere. The people who are getting rich are the ones who have been doing well under the status quo.
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This is not a question for me. It's a godot decision. They seem to know what they're doing and have claimed that platforms that use metal are "not used very much".

https://godotengine.org/article/abandoning-gles3-vulkan-and-...
Everyone uses either CLI or WinBox GUI app, which is excellent. https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Winbox#Work_Area_and_c...
Ah, different use case than what I was thinking (integration).

I think you're talking about offering the FOSS as its own managed component like AWS hosting Redis. One would hope they post back patches, but they are getting pushback like the Mongodb dustup last year: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/mongodbs-licensing-changes-led... etc
> it's always more expensive to treat an illness than it is to prevent it.

It's also more profitable to treat a long term condition than to cure or prevent it.

Just sayin'.
> However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it.

Plasma 5.17 on Wayland gained fractional scaling support. Works good for KDE apps, blurry on XWayland apps such as Thunderbird and Firefox. However, when you start

GDK_BACKEND=wayland firefox

firefox isn't usable, but sharp. Still a long way to go as it seems.
To think you only learn soft skills through a degree is bizarre tbh. I've interviewed 32 developers without CS degrees that are doing great without one! ( and didn't need a degree to learn soft skills) https://www.nocsdegree.com
I'm quite concerned as a self-employed American contractor abroad. Shifting the costs to employers might very well include myself. While I don't mind my taxes going up per se, expanding current Medicare to all ages as the system currently exists means I still wouldn't get coverage as there's no deals with foreign systems or vouchers or exemptions for Americans abroad from the bill that I read. This would mean I'd more than likely have to pay even more than the current compulsory 12.4% for Medicare to still not get any usable health coverage outside the States. The current health system lets me exempt myself from the healthcare tax being based elsewhere.

I'm very much in favor of Medicare for All as a whole as it's shown to definitely bring down the average cost per American as well as remove the middle-man insurance companies taking their cut and give the government better leverage against drug prices and services. However, considering many proposed M4A plans are covering green card holders and undocumented workers, it would be nice to know that citizens abroad could be in the loop too with a name like "for all".

Also, can change the abbreviated version to "M∀"?
> dealing with complexity in large systems,

This is very important if you are working for a big company. As a self-taught programmer, having never dealt with large systems, I had to struggle a lot early in my career.
Given that the gap between the rich and poor as a share of GDP has been growing for quite some time, it kind of suggests the rich already do have a "magical, endless source of loot".
Taleb cares most directly, so that matters.

I also think that plagiarism is a detriment for society as it presents knowledge grounded on a lie. So it poisons knowledge’s ability to help, I think.
If the young people's contributions can be largely replaced (or rather, supplemented to the necessary aggregate contribution) by technology, does it really matter? There'd be no question of a ponzi scheme.

You can sort of already see it happening. Productivity is greater than ever. But wages have decoupled from productivity, because it's not human labour, but rather technological inputs that have become the drivers of productivity.

I won't sit here and predict that we'll have healthcare, food & beverage and cleaning robots within a decade and we'll only have leisure left. But we're definitely moving in many small ways to singular superpowered humans, who use tech, that can replace entire shifts of employees.

Take machines like these: https://www.tennantco.com/content/dam/tennant/tennantco/prod...

Replacing half a dozen people doing the same manually.

I mean who am I kidding, there's a billion examples like this. Yes, we still have to do our laundry clean, but we have washing machines that do 95% of the work. We still have to drive our busses, but 95% of bus ticket sales are now automated. At some point we'll probably get to that last 5%, too.

I'm pretty confident that the demographic age inversion will not be as catastrophic as a ponzi scheme falling apart. Because we the productivity of young (and hell, old) people has a technology multiplier that's ever increasing.
> They have fractional scaling working perfectly there

Hear, hear! So you are not using firefox? All the XWayland apps are blurry.

KDE/Plasma apps are crisp. But to be fair, Gnome had experimental fractional scaling on Wayland two years ago.
Consultants are often also just hired to work on projects. Big organisations often have issues finding competent people to work on projects, and those they have are often overworked already. In such cases consultants are very useful. At the end of the projects, they are often let off. Of course, this presents other issues, and capable consultants are often kept around for far longer than the project they initially got onboard for.
Yes, that's indeed nowadays happening. In practice if they cancel two days before you arrive and you have fly to another continent to stay somewhere, it still sucks. Add to that for example a fair like CES and no normally priced hotel alternatives, and it's a big issue.
> the one linked is especially bad, i allows anybody to read the admin password.

Only if you have exposed management port to the internet, which you should never do.
> most of the people live on the southern portion of it.

Yeah and the 'south of Canada' is at the 49th parallel more or less.

Singapore is at 1°N.
Is there any pointers on how to write your own DNS server? Google does not seem to help much as it shows up mostly hosting your own bind server.
It is used for things like printf and JSON marshaling. I’ve been using Go regularly since 2012 and this isn’t a real problem. The reflection in the standard lib and popular third party libs (and most unpopular third party libs for that matter) is rock solid. Moreover, reflection probably accounts for less than 1% of Go code—not sure where you’re getting “everywhere” from. So I guess I’m calling your bluff.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-13 this link probably works better
We’ve (2 year old boy and 40 year old father) just finished an ancient babylonian opera. So much more rewarding when translated into Farsi, a beautiful language.
Companies selling consumer products - the world is going to hell in a handbasket, you might as well drink a White Claw, buy a Prada bag, and eat a Popeye's chicken sandwich. Damn the future, spend now.

Politicians - if you can pump up a crisis, and present yourself as the solution to that crisis, gold and power flows into your hands.
But the thing is: This is not a wealth problem.

In every society where some people are working ("the young") and some people are not ("the old"), and everybody is consuming, the young people have to work for the old. There is no way around that. There are not much goods or services that you can store for more than a year. They young always have to do the work. You can think of different schemes how you transfer the buying power to the old (taxes, dividends, interests, rent, ...) but in the end of the day, some are working, some are not and the young always have to do the work for the old.
Most commits are from unpaid contributors: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/commits/master

My guess is that a lot of it comes from companies using Godot fixing bugs that affect them, plus hobbyist as well.
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And even by walking, a 15 minute walk is just a 15 minute walk. I live a 15 minute walk to a DC Metro station that I use for commuting and I consider myself to be quite near it. To me, transit deserts are places where the routes to the mass transit sources aren't walkable at all (which there are plenty of).
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> I just realized that life itself is basically a gigantic Ponzi scheme, and the pyramid is dangerously close to collapsing. In the developed world, we have evolved a society in which a relatively small number of old people have many of their needs cared for through the financial contributions of a larger number of much younger people.

He's not describing a property of life or even human life, but of an economic system shortsightedly based on economic and population growth and externalizing costs.

Human societies have lived without growth in many places and times for hundreds of thousands of years (and collapsed after growth many places and times).

Change the system's underlying goals and you change the outcomes. I'm working to replace the beliefs from growth to enjoying what you have and from externalizing costs to stewardship.

We can change those goals. If we don't, we're only forestalling the inevitable result of any Ponzi scheme.
> the job was this is how things actually work when you're coding for clients with unrealistic schedules just trying to make rent

This description comes with an important disclaimer. You learned how things worked at a particular company and for the one or more projects that you were assigned. There's no reason to think any of the knowledge you pick up in a specific job will be valued outside the company, or even in a different team within the company. The PHP you learn at one company won't help with a different company using the latest JS framework, and the skills you learn at a small company might not even get you an interview at a large corporation.

This is not to say there is anything wrong with your answer. I see similar statements all over the place, but seldom does anyone clarify the part about how specific those skills are. "I have a degree in CS from Stanford" is not specific at all.
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Sarcasm aside, don't bother is great advice. There are many ways to approach improving the world, many of them cancel out and most of them do more significant damage in retrospect.

My own belief is to do as little as possible unless a lot of factors are known. Taking travel as an example, doing the least and cheapest is a good bet, it took me considerable research decide to pay more for trains than planes. Where is the additional money going? Even if trains vs planes are environmentally better there's a high risk of financing a military with the energy taxes only the train systems pay. A military can do more environmental damage with 10¢ than you can do with a dollar and then there is what they do with intention.

Governments are trying to game the world to maximum GDP all the time, but what on offer is mostly garbage and enough people turning down all offers forces them to rethink the total economy or (since they are simple folk,) go into recession. Recession is supposed to be terrible, but isn't it actually better than the fast road to a life in an inescapable mall?

That the bad actors of the 1980s are still attacking us and often seem to be back on track for their dream of shitting on the world is bad, but has not been as bad as getting there in 1990 and that is thanks to the path we took with lots of economic upsets.

We are like children who dream of a life of eating only cake and it is our good fortune that keeps us from the world we want long enough to understand a little about what is wrong with it and build some marginally better dreams.

/Ramble
This sounds like an AI whose value target is concise truth. In a perfect world, I would really like that feed.

I think the closest we got was in the late 90s Google was heading toward this with their “organize the world’s information and make it useful.” Then they pivoted to “organize the world’s information and make it useful to us to profit” and noticed that outrage makes more money than truth.
I wrote about my TDD setup with PHP
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But he mentioned 2FA?
OP here. For data crunching shops like my company who happen to run on .NET, the introduction of hardware intrinsics is an awesome addition to .NET that we had been looking forward to for a long time. This library is still a tiny compilation of our most pressing bottlenecks. Naturally, both feedback and contributors are welcome.
It's easy to pick up on lots of little things, but this is still extremely impressive. It's also more than good enough for people who want to practice singing/playing over the song by themselves.

I think the next step would be to train a network that can un-robotify songs and then run it on this.
The irony of creating opensource to improve the world freeing it from private-only alternatives only to be majorly financed by one of the worst parts of modern society: instant online money gambling
I would prefer returning NXDOMAIN for that host; with blocked IPs, once ubnt changes their dns, your rules will be obsolete.

On the other hand, I never understood how to configure dnsmasq on usg in a permanent way (not only blocking hosts, but also static SRV and TXT records). It it supposed to be done via gateway.config.js, but finding the right json keywords is the issue. Is there someone who can drop some hints?
University professor is the only viable career path for basic research. Similarly anyone interested in extraterrestrial robotics can basically only find a job doing that at NASA. It's much easier to attract brilliant people if the private industry doesn't offer any jobs in the field.

Still you see many great professors being hired away into private industry.
Two things I thought were most useful about university were being able to talk to peers learning the same material at the same level, which is one of the most efficient ways to learn complex things quickly that I have come across, and regularly being able to talk to professors and experts with plenty of time for you.
I think technology limitations. Directtv/dish would have used it already if it was cheap enough since it's easier to install.
That's not quite correct. Hospitals can't turn away patients with life-threatening conditions until they are stable. In practice that means everyone gets triaged. A better system would run public clinics, staffed by PAs and nurse practitioners (with possibly a physician) near the ER, and force the people who have had a cough for two weeks to go to the clinic first. Work everyone near the top of their training, and give hospitals safe harbor for sending non-emergency patients to the clinic first.

That's just one sensible (I think) proposal. We don't need to refinance the current system, we need to completely reengineer it.
Mine here in the UK covered quite a lot if networking protocols, so yes, there are some out there. In fact, it's never occured to me that this wouldn't be covered. I'd be pretty disappointed if a new grad couldn't figure out how to how to at least approach diagnosing an issue :(
I imagine it’s easier to persuade people who are used to and depend on trains that they should build more train lines. For better or worse, most Americans are happy with their cars and train transit is at best a nice-to-have.
I can't provide stats on your questions, but as per your example, your ISP can only add headers to non SSL traffic. Any website you access with HTTPS is safe from this type of privacy violation.

So as "Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%" [0] I'd guess at least this type of tracking is gone.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21421195
There also have been plenty of collapses. The difference is that we live now in a world that is way more globalized, connected and we have a far greater impact on the ecosystem.
After reading the short article, I can’t agree on all the points the author made. But, this really depends on your situation.

In my case, I taught myself how to code over a few years.

I got a job with Georepublic and I love it. I’ve learned a lot.

But, in my case, I had the skills that the author mentions already. Time management, communication, etc.

All that came from my previous careers ( Navy, then teaching.)

And quite frankly I’m not really interested in studying computer science. I studied criminal justice and psychology.

For my Masters, I’ve decided to study Geoinformatics (which is directly related to the kind of work I’m doing at Georepublic).

So, in my opinion, I feel like if someone is getting into programming, they should study something related to the field they are in. Of course, this is assuming the person is older, changing careers, etc.
Ignorance of “current events” is a good thing when what is presented as an “event” is largely a twisted, biased misrepresentation of truth.

Far easier to see the bull for what it is when you’re not acclimated to being deceived 99% of the time.
Right, so targeting is one thing, and $300 will certainly be a good price point. But we'll have to see if they hit it. Many, many others have tried and failed.
So Jonathan Coulton is now the new Suzanne Vega?
It's because the scale is small. The size is set to 80x80 pixels, presumably for icon exporting. However there's nothing stopping someone from opening it inkscape and exporting a PNG at 12000 DPI (which results in a 10k x 10k raster resolution). I don't think the logo scale should be so small and I don't think browser should have such limited zoom capability. I place the most blame on the browsers though.
Can someone flag this? I'm fine with criticism and political debate, but this comment certainly crosses the line.
This has nothing to do with growth, but a change in the ratio of working age people to retired age people.
That's not true. Some are mixed with fable to an extent such that they aren't people any more.

Jesus. Guan Yu. Siddhartha Gautama. Winston Churchill. Steve Jobs.
Have a look at https://jameshfisher.com/2017/08/04/golang-dns-server/

DNS is actually pretty simple if you don't want to implement DNSSEC.
Do you mean actually build a PCB? If so, there are many tutorials using different types of tools on instructables.com For best results you'll want to get access to a laser cutter or small CNC mill, perhaps through a local makerspace. That being said, there are now many short-run and one-off PCB manufacturing houses you can use for much higher quality boards than you can make yourself. People seem to like seeed for this - https://www.seeedstudio.com/fusion_pcb.html

If you want to learn the design side, there are many other threads on HN with tool recommendations. Ex. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16533475
Black market for something that is clearly visible on your dwelling and can be seen by satellite is extremely risky. Black market for other things like movies make sense, because nobody knows you have them.
Cool - but your website needs some work. It looks like a landing page to gather interest rather than something backed by a real product. Show us some videos and singing, before and after, etc.
> I don't think my college education has been anywhere near as valuable to me as reading software engineering books and coding a lot

But how would you know that? I thought I was a pretty decent programmer when I started college - I had been programming since I was 5! But a five-year engineering degree gave me some much-needed structure around the things I already knew, and filled massive gaps in knowledge I didn't even know I had.