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It's always interesting to read about different management styles. As someone who leads a large development team, this breaks two of my golden rules. 1) Don't micromanage and 2) Don't assume a "Daddy knows best" attitude. At the end of the day, we're shipping a product and as long as everyone is meeting their expected goals, I don't really care if they spend 8 minutes or 80 hours in the office. I tell my kids when to go to sleep, not my employees. If they want to work longer hours and get more done, they'll receive comp time and a nice bonus.
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I'm sure someone trying to survive on $10/hr in America today would be heartened to learn it's better than living in the Middle Ages.
I got tenure (last year) after having a kid (two years ago). We do have family in town, which as you say is a big help. We both took leave, and I basically did not do any research during my 12-week leave. I did meet occasionally with my students (they don't go on leave, after all).

So it is possible, and I strongly encourage men (or anyone who isn't the birth parent) who are on leave to do this -- the birth parent is much more constrained and this difference has been shown to lead to measurable difference in outcomes in the future for their careers.
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I’m amazed to hear this from programmers. You can learn this for free, anywhere, at any time.

I’m no longer in software and when I want to upgrade my skills, I’m doing it on my own time and my own dime. Often doubly so if I have to take time off work (hourly) for training.
Why would insurance companies prefer higher prices?
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When you think about it a bit, you realize there just cannot be "generations" in that sense. People are continuously being born in each and every year. In a family tree there are generations sure, based on the levels of the tree, but not in a population.

The exception is special baby boom periods and their echoes, which do create some more "lumping" or births.

The worst is when people try to apply American generational stereotypes to other countries. Like, no, Hungarian "boomers" didn't grow up in plenty. The 50s were a period of terror and deprivation, not the "good ole days" of prosperity.
10 years ago, Tesla had only sold 937 cars. Now, they sell 937 cars every day
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I've just had a preliminary conversation about people's next set of objectives.

Training is on there (with a 5% of time budget for it), and if they don't achieve their objectives, their next appraisal will go badly. Pay rises and promotions and so on depend on good appraisals, and I anticipate some quarterly review meetings in which I tell people that they're on track to do badly because they're not meeting their training objectives.

If having their training objectives written in black and white, and being reviewed quarterly and appraised annually on whether or not they're meeting their objectives doesn't make it "okay", well, I guess I'll have to come up with something else, but I sure hope that will make it clear.
You realize that Qt is dual licensed?

If you work in embedded like me, you already know that we make actual money. Nobody cares about license cost of Qt. It's quite low compared to everything else. We don't use LGPLv3 in Qt. We buy commercial license.
>The minimally invasive technology involves a rod that enters the prostate gland via the urethra

Ouch.
Old Jack seems a little wild these days--like some of that Paul LeRoux / John McAfee outlaw energy has entered his soul.

Will keep my fingers crossed.
Companies that can productively reinvest capital at attractive rates of return get a strong valuation premium in the market. Every company would love to be in this position. Companies that can make a compelling case to shareholders for long-term investments get to make long-term investments and like Amazon often get super valuation premiums.

If a company can't reinvest capital at attractive rates then returning it to shareholders is the best option. Forcing companies to invest in unattractive investments is the path to a zombie economy. I can't count the number of companies that should have returned money rather than going on some unprofitable growth binge.
The buybacks themselves would also presumably result in capital gains for the sell side (ideally) & thus taxation?
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So where do online drug dealers fit in the first 2 options?

Or Saudi / Chinese / Russian business types that are trying to extract wealth and avoid the blowback of a regime change?

They probably fit under #2 but I certainly wouldn't call a lot of those libertarian in ideology or even in practice, just opportunists.
> Most people can't afford to do effectively anything other than go to work and flop on the couch.

You're definitely right about this for folks who are barely scraping by, working multiple jobs, etc.

But for folks in IT, taking the time to read and comment on HN... we make the time for what we choose to make the time for.
Seems like Twitter is looking to embrace, extend and extinguish Mastodon, etc.

This is good, in a sense - means Twitter is feeling the competition. But any open source developers out there should trust Twitter just as far as you can throw them.
>4 hours a month for professional development

So half a day a month? That's pretty much nothing. Maybe time to work through a couple chapters of a book on some new topic.
Well, what they actually seem to be saying is that network neutrality should protect against discrimination based on user, application, content or other details that are irrelevant to network transit. The argument is that performance requirements are something a bit different and there is a need for market to allow for competition on performance without allowing discrimination based on the other aspects of the traffic.

The idea being that if your ISP owns a game company that makes a popular FPS, they shouldn't be able to charge higher rates for packets that need high performance based on the fact that those packets are carrying content for a competing FPS.
Only 30% of people make more than the average.
Intrinsic value of the company > devaluing cash pile

(Presenting as "record stock growth" but in reality just trying to hold even value.)
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For perspective, 18k a year in the US puts a person in the top 5% of income worldwide.

http://www.globalrichlist.com/
> And small family farms are an ever-decreasing share of where our food actually comes from. Over 70% of the farm acreage was held by the top 10% of the largest farms in the US in 2011[1].

Those large farms are also small family farms. I know a guy who owns 15,000 acres but it's a 3 man operation: him, his wife and a single hired man. That's the norm in Saskatchewan.

> as to it being "totally harmless" to humans,

Of course it's not "totally harmless". It's just better than the alternatives.
There are a lot of different reasons.

The cynical take is that the time to ROI is too long. If it is going to take 10 years to turn a profit the executives do not want to pull the trigger on that because they will be out the door in 5 and never get the payments.

Another possibility is that all the low hanging fruit is gone. So the marginal improvements do not return large financial gains.
I'll try to sum it up: Kong notes are electronic devices which allow whoever has access to them to use a smart contract which after a given date can retrieve a given amount of cryptocurrency. They hold a key which allows them to operate on this smart contract, but don't reveal it, and are designed to be physically impractical to tamper with (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_cryptoprocessor).
even if this is true (and it definitely can be) this would fall into the accidental category of complexity and be a magnitude less impactful than the essential fact that "building software is hard because it is".
To add further to your point, while no one in the EU is currently mobilizing their armies across the Oder or the Neman, a synoptic view of history shows that the present situation is rather unusual, geopolitically and historical speaking. And just because armies aren't involved does not mean a kind of "soft" economic and cultural imperialism isn't at work, often through the abuse of EU institutions. Sadly, the Western media (which includes >80% of the media in Poland) ignorantly or maliciously misrepresents the ongoing political realities in Poland, employing simplistic, boorish and slanderous slogans to discredit anyone that could possibly disrupt the comfortable but corrupt status quo in the country and on the continent. Too often, people eat all that up because, frankly, Westerners known next to nothing about Poland and the region. Years of propaganda during the Cold War and before only encouraged crude and bigoted stereotypes that make it that much easier to push false narratives.

N.b., for those interested in a brief introduction to Polish history, Adam Zamoyski's "Poland: A History" is worth a read.
How much of that is because they are accruing credit card debt while simultaneously living without health insurance knowing a severe illness will leave them in even more crushing debt. While also feeling that they don't have real access to a greater life and the wealth they see around them in their own countries while being barraged with advertisements tempting them to spend money on goods to temporarily ease the built up day-today frustrations they experience. And the physical toll that their labor intensive jobs take on their body?
Nothing will stop unwanted posts. But crowdsourcing moderation could theoretically give you a cleaner feed.
I think there's more nuance to it than that. I could not build any of her "shitty" robots. They were almost certainly a learning experience. That she also managed to entertain and even inspire others through that learning experience is a great accomplishment.

She shouldn't be so hard on herself. If calling the projects "shitty" gave her permission to fail, well, failing is also a part of learning.

Now she's ready to progress to "useful" robots—or other projects altogether. That makes sense.
All those people still exist when you leave the City. You and everyone you are claiming "cares about people" are still ignoring them.

It's not that people in the city don't care. There you are forced to realize that nobody is.
That’s a difference, but they are still analogous. Not realizing the gain is actually a helpful tax avoidance strategy. I’m investing long term, I’d rather not realize the gain.
I would recommend making your entire database of songs available from the web page. Is there any technical reason preventing this?

None of the bands in your "small sample of songs" were really what I wanted to play, so I didn't bother downloading this. It seemed like it would probably be a lot of work to download, install, get past the security errors on macOS Mojave, presumably create a login, and then find out what songs you have.

However, maybe the library of songs isn't what your main target audience cares about.
I'm not trying to be obtuse, I'm genuinely curious how this would work and what changes to tax law would need to be made.

Would you tax the entity buying the stock (in case always a company since it's a buyback; which I think would be the only example of taxing a stock purchase), or the entity selling the stock (either an individual or a company, which is already potentially taxed as capital gains)?

If the goal is to tax it similar to dividends you would tax the person selling the stock but it's already taxed as capital gains, either long term (0%/15%/20%) or short term (marginal bracket rate).
This sounds like you are saying that reclassifying ISPs to be regulated under the FCC instead of the FTC would ban traffic shaping.

Obviously not all packets are equal. VOIP is an example of a high priority protocol. BitTorrent is low priority.

Legislating traffic shaping at this level would be absurd. Have I been living in a cave? Are Net Neutrality advocates arguing that it should be illegal for network operators to perform any kind of traffic shaping, even that which would prioritize the traffic for latency sensitive applications?
Same shit, different year.
Does this do cost of living adjustments?
> Today (2019) we are at an average of ~500KB

This. Stuff like this is why the modern web feels so slow and eats absurd amounts of memory. Think how big that is in memory once it's turned into some data structure that can be queried & modified by Javascript, and re-calculated, and consulted again as screen size changes, and so on. And think how much memory has to be allocated to effect that transformation in the first place. And cycles burned actually doing it.

Well, that and no-one cares about shipping massive media files with the initial page anymore (remember thumbnails? Anyone? No?)

And, you know, just all of Javascript.

But still. This is a problem.

I think when your CSS passes short-story length you maybe need to re-evaluate what you're doing. Consider sitting down to write a short story, like a 5,000-10,000 word thing you could sell to a genre mag. It's not all that short. It's a fuckload of text, actually, if you are facing having to write it. That's a lot of CSS. So much any sane person would hate to have to sit down and read it beginning to end. Should be more than enough, even for complex layouts, even for fancy pages, even for responsive. 500K is almost half a Moby Dick, for comparison. There's no possible way your team even knows what most of it does.
They should at the very least evaluate ActivityPub. It's a W3C standard that reached "Recommended" status almost two years ago, is flexible enough for future use-cases, and already has multiple implementations like Mastodon.

In fact, any app can be made to act as a source, sink or both of ActivityPub events. I recently added ActivityPub support to learnawesome.org so that reviews can be consumed in any ActivityPub client. Implementation was easy and the data model is quite easy to understand.

ActivityPub is real-time pub/sub for the entire Web, something that Twitter could have been.

https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/

http://activitypub.rocks/
> they don't degrade gracefully for blind users

why not? there is a canonical plain-text description for every unicode emoji. at least in theory, i see no reason why a screen reader shouldn't be able to handle emojis.
Your lead made a mistake there. Someone with understanding of both FE and BE is worth as much as one of each, especially when they have intimate knowledge of your actual code.
Hey, the fed's giving free money. Why wouldn't execs do this? Imagine being at the top of a public company, with unlimited borrowing ability and retirement in a few years. Why wouldn't they?
Raw income and purchasing power are substantially different things.
Congrats on shipping! This is pretty great product to teach yourself coding on. Thoughts on corporate licensing, and integration with expense reporting software?

The name/url is GREAT btw.
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I agree. I was thinking along the lines of linking the code into the app, rather than an included kernel module.
The actual twitter thread is more interesting IMHO: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106
If the needs of the internet using public change, the networks that server that public should also change. The internet should absolutely care about how well it is serving the needs of its users.
I'm thinking probably not because the investors, who are either High Net Worth Individuals or investment banks, should be hedging their tax exposure appropriately.
In addition to having space to learn on a daily basis, more tech companies should consider offering a week of study leave in addition to what they offer in their vacation policy.

I'm imagining the type of week that Bill Gates and John Carmack take.
Your time isn't free. Doubly so when you are spending it to benefit someone else.
Fan intended.
Isn’t that a double tax? Taxed at buyback time, and taxed when shareholder cashes out and realizes their gain? Though I guess a small (10%??) tax could still make buyback tax + dividend long term gains is still less than normal income tax.
It's a double-edged sword
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Hello, everyone. This is my first time with Hacker News. I became aware of this through "keybase. io", I'm creating a German presentation. Now I wonder how I can increase my karma (>= 2). Greetings Erik
I've worked with some secure enclave chips that go into tamper mode (self-erasing of keys, hard fault, etc) when the voltage deviates outside a certain range.

But this chip seems to have programmable voltage changes. Seems like you could prevent crypto access unless the registers were all in spec.
10 x 8 x 22 = 1760$ monthly salary
where I come from, minimum salary is 250$
sure COL is cheaper but not 7 fold
also a phone, a car, and everything else is the same price for both US citizens and me
actually some are even cheaper for you, because you manufacture them

but yeah, i agree with the comment bellow

just because there is worse, doesn't mean it's good
With all due respect, you know nothing about me, and nothing about this issue. I'm not talking about homeless shelters, SRO are modern tenements.

I worked in this space, including working to set up pilot programs to transition section-8 voucher recipients into homeowners, and helping to advocate for the rights of families stuck in slumlord situations in unsafe apartments. My family and I fundraise and work a couple of days a week in a food pantry about 500 feet from my home that supports folks in our neighborhood.

My disagreement that prompted my post is that the factors that drive people to last resort housing, whether that be scummy hotels or SROs are almost always tied to other things where people need some sort of support. If your idea of humanitarian action is sticking people in a room, I understand that but deeply disagree.

SROs aren't social services endeavors. They are private enterprises focused on exploiting the desperate and extracting as much money as possible from these folks in minimally viable buildings. Here's an example of one in Brooklyn preying on young people:
https://gothamist.com/news/slumlord-matchmaker-brooklyn-land...
Basically, which is very advantageous, because you continue to reinvest otherwise paid taxes.

To say nothing of the fact that the stock might never be sold. Or the fact that capital losses can offset a gain from a buyback, unlike dividends.
That's very interesting because that is what you would do if you wanted to liquidate a company and shut it down (on a leisurely timescale). Exactly how much of the US economy is being wound down? Maybe this is a great opportunity for new businesses with an appetite for R&D risk, maybe this is the US laying down so that China will replace it faster.
aka you're blackballed by other orgs or seen as a liability.

"if this guy already was taking bribes, why should we give him access to critical system $SYSTEM when he may sell that knowledge to others?"
I get the feeling that is the idea. They want a "neutral" platform where they have no responsibility.
From the union discussion the other day, one thing that always struck me was how weird it was that more conservatives don't encourage labor unions in the private sector.

I'd have thought, since fundamentally union membership is about private contracts between employers and a group of workers, that conservatives would see it as an alternative to government stepping in and setting up minimum wages.

If we had friendlier labor laws and we allowed more groups of workers to organize, the need for the federal government to step in with wage floors would decrease and, importantly, there would be more flexibility for employers AND employees -- like instead of paying above a certain minimum wage both sides could agree to more generous healthcare and/or retirement packages.
This maybe too political for HN. It's nice to bring attention to a change agent but the more important part is the issue: there is a climate change emergency that depends on getting CO2 to 290±10 ppm rapidly. We better mostly agree that and on taking action or we and most species are all effectively dead sometime <1000 years.

So, if you had a trillion dollars (less than student debt and less than the wars in the Middle East) how would you spend it on remediation?

0. Bio carbon capture & sequestration (CCS)

Some ideas:

- ferrous oceanic seeding of phytoplankton - only small amounts needed (See IRONEX I)

- Kelp farming + underground sequestration - there's an absolutely massive kelp forest between Mexico and Africa, and thousands of tons wash-up on Mexico's beaches daily

1. Solar radiation management (SRM)

- numerous ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radiation_management

And please don't say planting trees because it doesn't scale well [i] and they aren't a permanent sequestration solution. More trees + increasing wildfires = more soot falling on glaciers = faster melting glaciers = more sea level rise = a really bad idea.

i. https://youtu.be/Z5uuIcS4kqE
Exactly. I somehow doubt Dorsey doesn't know about ActivityPub - why not just endorse it publicly if he genuinely cared about decentralization?

Are there genuine technical shortcomings in the ActivityPub standard that Twitter's engineering team has identified? Why not talk about that and contribute improvements to the standard?

Are there shortcomings to being part of the standardization process in the W3C? Then talk about that and make the processes better.

Is it that he needs his name stamped on a new protocol? I'm not sure we can do much about the terminal egotism of the ultra wealthy and its pernicious effects on our society. Solving this will take a tremendous amount of collective effort.
(I also do not use clippy very aggressively due to disagreeing with a lot of lints)
there is a big lack of information in theses poor written 20 lines, and probably misleading on purpose.

- Are theses low-wage jobs only considering full time jobs?
- What about student jobs?
- If some people have multiple part-time jobs but all of them individually fall under the median annual wages of $18,000, then they are increasing the statistics
Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Was Named Time's 2019 Person of the Year
the publication announced Wednesday. Thunberg embodies the youngest generation of activists and their chosen cause, which is pressuring politicians and world leaders to tackle the climate change crisis. She famously lives by that mission, choosing to only travel by methods that are least damaging to the environment. Time editor Ed Felsenthal announced Thunberg on the "Today" show. President Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the whistleblower who set off the impeachment inquiry and the Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters all made this year's shortlist. – CNN
Other Read --- Question on @Quora: What does climate change have to do with socialism? https://www.quora.com/What-does-climate-change-have-to-do-with-socialism?ch=99&share=f2c60fa6&srid=uQDqk
While it's probably just an extension of Jack's obsession over blockchain, it's a bit interesting that you'd have to use Twitter to apply: there are a few truly-decentralized/or federated solutions that have been proposed and have an active userbase, and the authors of those don't tend to be on Twitter.
It's insane to me how quick some folks are to dismiss what they deem "bullshit degrees".

It's our culture that has turned education into some kind of "investment" in future job prospects. To put it simply, education was never intended to be that way, nor should it. It's as if studying the arts is some kind of luxury for those who are already financially well-off.

Education is supposed to be about learning just for the sake of learning, which benefits all of us. If there is not a place for people from certain fields of study, that's a failure of our economy and priorities. Yet it seems that too many have just accepted the current reality as "just the way things are".