skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) There are privately held companies who are not answerable to shareholders (certainly not a large group of them), and who may not even operate with profit as their primary goal.

(2) There are more nuanced definitions of "working class" which might be useful in this context. As much as I applaud class solidarity, there are ways in which software engineers currently are not subject to the same issues as other people who sell their labor to capital in order to make a living.

(3) Empowering the working class has not been a particularly successful strategy when done at scale, from a historical perspective. It seems more effective to focus on empowering people you know, the place you live, organizations that have something to do with you. "The working class" is, at this point in US history, far too amorphous and ill-defined a group, riven by division sown by capital in its own interest, to really be the focus of much empowerment.
I’d say we shifted our signaling to laptop stickers, Vessi snickers or “life long” classic style worker boots that were only used to go from and to the office in the old times. I kinda like some attention is still on shoes, somewhat.
This is all I'm interested in as well. Kinda surprised Family and Premier plans aren't reversed, i.e. $20/mo for individual premier and $30 for adding family members. Seems like that would be simpler and a lot more appealing.
Facebook uses the term "inauthentic" while the memo's author and the BBC use the term "fake".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477933
true, but no extremeophiles had the environment similar to Venus to evolve the ability to survive in it.
Have you ever played monopoly? We are far along the path to the same type of conclusion -- one or a few people owning everything and setting all the rules, with everyone else living marginally and unable to avoid incurring further wealth extraction from the winners of the game.

The government is there, supposedly, for the benefit of a healthy society, not to enforce some capitalists' idea of what they think is fair. It is the same reason why the rules change for a company when it becomes a monopoly (there is that word again).

"I want society out of my business."

This sounds like the libertarian mindset that takes for granted all the benefits that come from being a business operating in a healthy society.

Although worker productivity has gone up tremendously over the past 40 years, nearly all of the incremental gains in wealth has accrued to a small fraction of the population. Yet that form of unfairness doesn't ruffle the people who think taxation is theft.
That is interesting, what sort of NGOs did you find to have the most socially meaningful and ethical work available?
I'll give a concrete example. Health care systems. Free market works okay. Socialized (a la Britain) works okay. The middle -- where the US is, with a mixture of free market and regulation -- is prone to corruption and works less well than either extreme.

Killing, stealing, rape, and murder are bad. I'm going to go to the far extreme there too.

If I'm running a business, focusing on one thing and doing it well (and outsourcing everything else, or following "industry practices") works better than trying to innovate everywhere. That's actually pretty general -- if you're extremely good at a few things, that works better than balance on a personal career level too.

It's a fallacy to split down the middle and balance. There are times that works, and times that doesn't.

Life ain't about balance. It's about thinking things through.
In September? Wow. It should be warming, with those crazy days you leave the house ready for 4 seasons. 34C is nuts.
Foreigners are in a special class in the UK, so you were already pigeon-holed.

The subtle signals are about who your parents are, which of the different educational streams you went through, and - more than anything - who you know. Clothes will display all of that indirectly, but the core is always about families and networks.

The idea that opportunities exist is very much a middle class mindset, and anyone who pursues it will inevitably run into the class ceiling. You can make a huge pile of money but it won't buy you entry into the upper classes. At best you'll be a nouveau "someone we can do business with" - or the technical help.

Under the considerable surface polish and politeness the defining characteristics of the upper classes are effortless social - not just professional - confidence, personal entitlement, and exceptionalism. Members are strongly encouraged to believe in all of the above from birth, and it's very hard for outsiders to understand this. There's also a curious affinity with more successful - let's say almost managerial - working class criminals.

I used to live in an upper class enclave, and it was quite astonishing how much time these people spent trying to screw each other over with disputes over family inheritances, property and land rights, various investment scams, and so on.
When I tried shopping online for it as a research project, it explicitly excluded intentional damage in the fine print, and there was no extra option to purchase it separately. Could someone show me a policy that has that explicitly, or at the very least does not exclude it explicitly like I found?
Not in my experience. I’ve spent a lot of time reading documentation since switching to a Linux desktop about two years ago. Of course, lots of software is poorly documented, but I’ve learned far more from the systemd man pages than I ever learned from Windows knowledge base articles. And even when documentation is completely lacking (as it is for a lot of proprietary software), you can look at the source.
The first version of Adreno had some fixed-function blocks from AMD (and Bitboys), but the programmable shader core came from Qualcomm's never-commercialized Qshader architecture. The result was a buggy mess which took a ton of effort on our drivers to debug and correct.

In hindsight, I'm amazed at how well it worked given the schedule and the magnitude of the work involved in fusing those two architectures.
Yea! An informed, intelligent discussion about my now-favourite language. I've been near fanatical about it for the last 3-4 years mainly using Mecrisp Stellaris on the STM32F4xx. I find the elegant simplicity and raw power so refreshing after all the bloatware and nanny-knows-best typed code. Even the stack juggling is absorbing puzzle-solving fun. I've successfully built OLED and MIDI drivers from scratch and am now tackling DSP SIMD assembly FFT routines - stuff I would never normally attempt without this experience. It harks back to the simpler days of the 1980s yet it is really is only limited by one's approach - given some thought, you can adapt it to just about any programming paradigm - should you actually need it, that is. I'm probably not currently considered a full Forthwright yet not having built myself a Forth from scratch (yet). I know Forth is not perfect, but it's the closest I've found yet and deserves a renaissance, if it withered on the vine that would be a travesty - it's too good for that.
Different interviewers look for different things. Just watched moneyball, one thing the scouts looked at was the attractiveness of the candidates girlfriend. Low attractiveness equals low confidence and was a mark against the player. If the movie is to be believed, such inane metrics were used be people whose entire job was scouting candidates. I would not be shocked if there are similar dumb metrics used by a hiring manager when hiring candidates may just be one of many roles they perform.
Advertising itself is not inheritly bad: healthy socium needs product and price discovery.

Even targeted advertising, if done right is very good for both buyer and seller.

Bad part is data collection and predatory targeting, like for (rather mild) example “easy money passive FBA business” targeting aspiring enterpreners.
I read a study a while ago arguing that reactor cost was as expensive as it is because nuclear plants are so large, complex, and infrequently built that each project is essentially bespoke.
What externalizes? Most talk of the externalities assumes some quantity that exists somewhere, but without a good reason to believe they exist why should we?

A simple example is the current cost of recycling plastic: it's too expensive so it won't happen. Consequently putting these on the sheet as an externalities doesn't make sense Forcing it to happen is probably nonsensical, why not fund research into plastic recycling instead instead of deadening the economy through unintended consequences?
In addition to what others mentioned, even if Cockroach is written in Go, they could have used Rust, but the trade-off is that they would need to use cgo which introduces extra complexity for building, debugging, and has performance trade-offs that a pure-Go based solution doesn't necessarily have.
AFAIK personal liability is something like when someone comes to your house and slips on a puddle you have on the floor and hurts themselves and then sues you. It's not about damage you did yourself, on purpose, to the property you rent from someone else or someone else does on purpose against a property you rent out.

All the insurance policies were about accidental damage on either side.
The cost is upfront for nuclear and that's what doesn't align with society's immediate goals. France is no exception to that (and in fact if you know more about the state of research in France for example you can see that long-term investments aren't valued highly enough either).

That's why despite the knowledge being there (and exported, just check out what french companies do in China) the main obstacle is political and societal: people are still scared, and politicians oscillate constantly on the matter of nuclear energy (Fessenheim, EPR etc) and therefore cannot actually develop a consistent position over the development phase. France actually has a ton of benefits from using nuclear (check out maps pollution-related deaths, check out hybrid car CO2 emissions per km, etc) but it takes a long-term vision to make big commitments that can pay off handsomely, and most of the world is fairly myopic (and my country is no exception).

I could point you towards [1] the perception of nuclear risk (nuclear waste first, nuclear reactors second) in France being much higher than the perception of floods/fire/medical risks/terrorism, and much higher than the real numbers[2]. There is a HUGE disconnect between what people THINK nuclear power plants and nuclear waste are in terms of risk and what actually is problematic, and this oscillation has been very strong in public opinion (after all, it was Hollande 4 years ago who committed to closing a perfectly fine Fessenheim following public opinion more than anything else).

So no, it's not about being buildable or not. Nuclear power plants are buildable. They're just not giving the private sector a good return on investment in today's market, and therefore it's on governments to get moving but for them to enact change their voters need to be consistently wanting it too. It's not even just a nuclear problem: just look at how public transportation can often be a constant fight between parties which delays advancements by decades (see: Toronto).

[1] (in French) perceived moderate and high risks for various items in social awareness: https://i.imgur.com/iPpS6rM.jpg

[2] (in French) actual amounts of deaths related to many of the items of the previous image: https://i.imgur.com/fOwKjka.jpg
> Each file is not "the Software".

Can you give any support for this which is not your own "I say so because that's how I understand what I have read"?

That is, can you give a link of some court case where your claim was confirmed, or a link to a project where some big company changed the copyright lines in some library source files, when these lines were previously MIT licensed?

If not, repeating your own claims in many posts here doesn't make your claims more believable.

I still understand that every source file (as in, having the lines that produce executable code) containing a copyright is a "software" where the copyright lines have to be preserved as soon as the author initially wrote the lines, and I need some independent evidence, as stated before, to be convinced otherwise.
It just irks.
I work in the security org now, and so I deal with a lot of exmilitary and exfederal employees. Considering that the military is a institution in this country that helps a lot of working class kids get education and training...

It really comes down to choices and consent for me. If you're in the military, that may have been the option for an 18 year old and certainly I wasn't thinking about ethics when I was 18. But if you're able to work at an organization with a high bar such as Facebook, surely you have other options - unless you're a new grad - the stark reality is that when you get out of college, you take what you get.

I would definitely be a little tougher on someone who joined Facebook (or the NSA) in the last few years and already had job experience (senior/staff level) versus a Jr engineer or someone who'd been there since before a lot of these issues came to light (although that raises the question: why are yo u still there?)

And, my opinion on Facebook has changed drastically in the past few years.

So anyways, it's really contextual and empathetic. I'm not just trying to "GOTCHA" some guy who joined the military out of high school before fully appreciating the ramifications of their actions (I wouldn't have!).

But if you have 10 years of experience in software and you go work for the NSA... well, I have some questions.

I know there's a lot of gaps, and I'm ashamed to admit I don't really have a strong framework - this is a personal failing, and something I've really been thinking about more recently.

edit: i got downvoted. I'd like to know what I can improve on, please reply, thanks. I'm trying to be better!
Looks like the thing that makes it economical is the size, at which point the pilot is a small cost.
Agreed, imo transparency, accountability, and general corporate "goodness" are probably at all-time highs. The thing is the public's level of awareness of the remaining shadiness is also at an all-time high, so it can feel like things have gotten worse because we see more of it, even if the amount of things that go unnoticed has gone down.
Especially finance, I might add.
That's an interesting coincidence - the biggest parser I wrote was also an SQL parser using Antlr. In fact, SQL was only part of it - it was a programming language that supported multiple flavours of embedded SQL (DB2 and Oracle). It worked but I always dreaded when it would have to be changed to support a new feature in a new release of Oracle (or DB/2).

I don't think it's an LR vs LL thing either. I feel that there is no sense of locality with parser generators; it's a bit like quantum mechanics - every rule has a "connection" to every other one. Change one seemingly small part of the Antlr grammar and some "far away" seemingly unrelated parts of the grammar can suddenly blow up as being ambiguous.
I believe the cost of construction labor has outperformed inflation & materials have tracked inflation. But the cost of energy has underperformed inflation.

If the trend continues for much longer, energy sources which require less labor will become more competitive (solar).

If you're a greenie - this is a good thing. Because oil has almost nothing going for it beside how good a source of energy it is for jet/rocket fuel.
This doesn't line up with my mental logic. If the companies are paying X amount, they have to be getting at least that much value back, or they wouldn't have that position.

Now sometimes after a new CEO or an acquisition you do see some internal shuffle and some positions deemed redundant are removed, but that's rare, and generally the positions are transfered from one less profiting category of the company to another.

So from my point of view, you could argue that the employees are worth ("value of company" / "number of employees") - "value of patents" - "value of brand recognition" - "value of production equipment".

I would bet that, especially at FANNGS, that equation would result on a much higher compensation per employee then what is currently given.

The reason people arn't being paid that amount though I believe is due to investors having the option to invest in someone else.

As an investor (an employer is an investor into an employees career). You always take a bigger cut of the value of what you invest in, and you're allowed that leverage because you tend to have the option to not invest in some particular X, and have a plethora of alternatives you could invest in as well.

Thus as en employee we tend to be paid market rate, instead of by value, because there are other possible employees who could provide similar value that be willing to undercut you.

If companies go full remote, it could mean that there are even more options for employers to hire someone who could provide the same value and is willing to undercut you, for example if they have a much lower cost of living, they might be happy with a lot less money.

My bet will be that if remote dev work becomes the norm in the industry, you'll see compensations level off, Bay Area compensations will go down as employer can hire from cheaper places, and places that currently had low compensations will increase, because local companies will now have to compete for talent with big companies like FANNG.
The people reacting like you have an awful take must have forgotten what story they’re commenting on. Personally I may not spend 5+ minutes on it, but the question will be raised, and only a well considered answer is getting the thumbs up.
it is possible to go from working class to upper class

You can't really do that for "traditional" definitions of upper class (which isn't based on anything as simple as having loads of money).

And anyway - everyone is middle class these days. Nobody claims to be working class and there are so few actually upper class people that most people will never meet one.
My problem is the yellow banner looks cooler than the logos..
Should you desperately want to go down this rabbit hole:

"Look at my fucking red trousers" blog -> http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/

followed by a piece in The Guardian "in defense of red trousers" which cites a YouGov poll saying that almost half of Britains hate them -> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/01/in-def...

followed by a piece in The Telegraph about how that blog ruined the ultimate upper-class fashion statement -> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/style/look-at-my-fing-red-tr...
Do you want trains full of other cities' nuclear waste passing through your city?
Technology can be understood and reasoned from first principles. Can you really say the same about human relationships, especially the complex kinds that can result in such a logical mismatch? There is a lot of irrationality in the real world.
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At his age healthcare is covered by taxpayers, just like in most other countries.
> The basic argument against the estate tax is moral. It taxes virtue – living frugally and accumulating wealth

If you have the means, there’s nothing moral about living frugally. Spending money creates jobs and strengthens the economy.
I hope so.

I wish I could give more information but maybe it's best to keep names out considering the context ;)
You could make that argument, and in doing so you are implicitly stating either:

(a) I believe that the government will use its money to impact the world in a better way than billionaires do, or

(b) I concede that (a) is false, but I don't care. It's not about the impact we make with the money, it's about dragging billionaires down.

Personally, I'm interested in impact. I have little faith that paying taxes to the US Government is a more effective way to generate positive impact in the world than personal charitable donations.

If I could pay my taxes to Bill Gates I would – my tax dollars would be used to eradicate polio or malaria, rather than on bureaucracy and starting wars.
Public health accounting/medical billing software. Right now we are "sponsored" by the CTO, but he's quite hands off and leaves us a lot of autonomy. Our charter is heavily influenced by the scientific method and intense, rigorous study, which is paradoxically not as regimented in the business-level work we do because ever changing priorities and customer influenced decision making by our project managers and enterprise leaders.

The guild, not beholden to the enterprise itself we are INFINITELY better about scope creep and velocity for the projects originating from and ultimately brought into maturity by us-without that outside influence of the rest of the business.

Metrics was actually the topic of our most recent congregation, looking into new and creative ways of establishing both performance and delivery metrics aligned with the DevOps way for our own "pet projects" as a guild, which we (hope) translate back up and into what we do for the day-to-day business objectives. So none. Yet :)
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There is the ACM Code of Ethics, which includes:

> Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing.

> Avoid harm.

The document is a lot bigger than the Hippocratic Oath, so includes a lot of points about Professional Responsibilities and Leadership, but at least it's partially aligned with that kind of thinking.

https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
What are the odds that he'll call it 'Ye Combinator'?
Was that study by chance suggesting a large number of small mass produced reactors?

It's a workable idea unless you think the problem is that every reactor, no matter how large, has to deal with red tape and lawsuits from NIMBYs.
Yeah all those terrible anti-nuke environmentalists making nuke expansive as hell and never done on time! They are the worst!

PS. nobody stops you from building a reactor. Get it approved, come up with the money, build it and sell the power but stop begging for tax money. It's over in the civilised western world. Get over it.

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron...

https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.74261...
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Yes yes yes. Saved for copying and pasting, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I've been studying plastic waste for years as a member of the Surfrider Foundation, and right now I'm in a BBA program called Business and Sustainability, and my colleagues are having a really hard time getting past the idea that recycling+electric cars=sustainable.
Perhaps a slight twist on that would be to be if society as a whole considered paying taxes as if it were "pay it forward" philanthropy.

In fact if the government recognized honest taxpayers as if they were forward thinking "philanthropic donors" (replete with award dinners for the million dollar donors) - perhaps there'd be more excitement for April 15th - and such people would not be so quick to figure out ways to avoid paying taxes.

Fun thought video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTAE5m3ZO2E
Ironically, if nobody but Google can benefit from Section 230 immunity, because people must obey Google's content moderation rules in order to remain viable in Search and Ads, then it's even more fuel to remove Section 230 to level the playing field.
In the US, according to the CBO[0], the people who are in the top two quintiles of income pay for all services and infrastructure. Saying that these people benefit more from this infrastructure than a middle income household is very odd. It's like I decide to be a farmer and need more water, so I dig a well to water my farm. Then my neighbor sees the well and asks if they can get drinking water from it and I say sure. Then they tell me I get more benefit from the well and I have to pay to maintain it.

0. See page 31. https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-...