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I was in a conversation on Reddit recently where someone suggested Elon Musk could do so much good by donating his wealth. I said yes, he could do valuable things like invest in electric vehicles and solar power to reduce carbon emissions, and make long term investments in making human life multi planetary. The point is his wealth exists in the value of the things he is doing. It’s not a separate thing.

You’re making the same point, most wealth isn’t tied up in piles of money that are depreciating away due to inflation, they’re invested in jobs, goods and services that benefit all of us. That’s what our economy is.

All the other points about the long term good charities can do are also on point for sure, so it’s not either/or, both very much have their place.
Changing the terms post-hoc is pretty scummy. Logically you would assume having something is better than nothing, as I assume most would - simple math. The reality is anticipating more than you actually receive can be more detrimental. You make sacrifices you normally wouldn't if you are lead to believe there is a reward. Perhaps you turned down another job offer since you had been factoring those extra projektbucks and then they suddenly devalue at the end of the race. Maybe you treated yourself or your loved ones to a gift as a small token of appreciation for the effort spent on this rather than them. That $2000 in fairy-bucks turns out to be $500 and those extra hours amount to less-than-legal-minimum-wage.

Regardless of whether it's better than nothing - there is a tangible risk to having something accounted for that turns out to be short.

The game development industry has been a cesspool for worker exploitation for the longest time and this adds to a long list.
It's only opaque if you don't care enough to study the question. Ursula von der Leyen was chosen by the members of the European Council.

The European Council, among other responsibilities, "decides on the EU's overall direction and political priorities", and "nominates and appoints candidates to certain high profile EU level roles, such as the ECB and the Commission". [1] If you have to know only one thing about the EU, it's that one: power lies in the hand of the European Council.

The current members of the European Council are: Alexander De Croo for Belgium, Boyko Borisov for Bulgaria, Andrej Babiš for the Czech Republic, Mette Frederiksen for Denmark, Angela Merkel for Germany, Jüri Ratas for Estonia, Micheál Martin for Ireland, Kyriakos Mitsotakis for Greece, Pedro Sánchez for Spain, Emmanuel Macron for France, Andrej Plenković for Croatia, Giuseppe Conte for Italy, Nicos Anastasiades for Cyprus, Krišjānis Kariņš for Latvia, Gitanas Nausėda for Lithuania, Xavier Bettel for Luxembourg, Viktor Orbán for Hungary, Robert Abela for Malta, Mark Rutte for the Netherlands, Sebastian Kurz for Austria, Mateusz Morawiecki for Poland, António Costa for Portugal, Klaus Iohannis for Romania, Janez Janša for Slovenia, Igor Matovič for the Slovak Republic, Sanna Marin for Finland, and finally Stefan Löfven for Sweden.

If you don't like the direction of the EU, ask your representant to do something about it. Otherwise pick another one. They are all democratically elected (directly, or indirectly in parliamentary systems).

[1] https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutions-bodie...
I recently became a developer for a terrible no good platform that I shouldn’t name (ServiceNow). It’s bad in ways you can’t even understand unless you develop for it. I want to use Firefox for all kinds of reasons, only problem is chromium is an order of magnitude faster working with their shitty javascript. I truly wish it was not so, but if I want to go home to my family as soon as possible, it’a chrome/edge. FF introduces too much lag.
"I don't understand how society became so unfair and cruel"

Society is MUCH nicer than it was a thousand, or even a hundred years ago. Much, much nicer. And people are on average much better off.
Governments are self-executing power vehicles. Ascribing intent onto them isn’t particularly useful when a government has a mechanism for rewriting its reason foe existence through law.

That said:

> The EU sees that it can effectively regulate corporations so they use their government the way it was intended to.

What is the basis for your claims on their effectiveness?
Then they write blog posts explaining the real meaning of things, and they post them to HN, and legions of people will read the post and "learn something new", only to go and inflict their enlightenment on everyone around them.
It says the speaker still works fine. They just aren't manufacturing new ones as they have a different model now. What's the issue here, the name change from Google Home to Nest?
> For instance he donated $690k to wildfire relief in Australia earlier this year. Every little bit counts clearly, but it's the equivalent of me giving 69 cents.

Nope: It's the equivalent of you giving $690K. The value of money doesn't go down based on the wealth of the one holding it.
Re: 33, no really story behind it I'm afraid, we came up with a bunch of candidate names and it was the one we liked.

Good idea re: 86mail :)
I wonder which brain zones light up while writing functional code with extensive usage of functors, monads and such.
Do you mind explaining why you do this?

Genuinely curious.

My POV: Time is money. I'd rather spend my time playing video games instead of wage-slaving. I pay enough taxes.
Her money is mostly in AMZN stock, as far as i am concerned, which will provide far larger returns than the inflation.

What you said will probably still work out.
This is such an interesting point. Is the value of a future life worth less than a life closer to our present moment? I can’t help but feel like there’s some sort of logical fallacy there, akin to speciesism, wherein we value lives that are closer to our own perspective. It’s ultimately arbitrary which perspective we choose to privilege. I hope that train of thought makes sense!
I'm totally on board with making cities greener and more people-friendly, including carbon and congestion charges and outright bans on cars + increased spending on infrastructure and public transport etc. Virtually all economists are too.

But that article reads like a 14 year olds' clickbait troll polemic on urban planning and economics. It's low quality content and shouldn't be on the front page.
I recall reading many years ago (20?) about a classical music afficianado with a unique ability that was really only useful at impressing other people at parties.

He could tell what record he was looking at by sight by inspecting the groove patterns: number of tracks, track length, and even the patterns of the active part of the song itself. As I recall, he was proud that he once identified the 1812 overture from more than 10 feet away because of the placement of the grooves at the loud parts.

BTW, records didn't necessarily have constant spacing -- the cutter knew the amplitude of the part of the spiral plus/minus one rotation away so it could place the track close as possible without causing collisions. I believe that made it easier to identify songs.
You can forward handling to a provider, like gmail. The idea is that you own your email address and can switch providers more easily if you are not satisfied with them or they turn out to be evil.
Can you give a feedback on the tool developed by me?
In 2001 you could download Solarwinds from an unsecured FTP server. It looks like things have remained the same.
Agreed but I point that not all awks are gawk.
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> do we have charities that we can demonstrate actually cause compounding to happen this well? ... accurately model future compounding returns

No one is incentivized to create that kind of accounting scheme - that is, one that deposits future gains into today's bank accounts, somehow. Charities least of all, who only receive donations if they operate in the red, not the black.

Hacker News is people repeatedly discovering that economics and accounting are different things.
> I wish RedHat would publish the git repositories containing asciidoc source files for their public and freely licensed (CC-BY-SA) documentation (like their LVM docs), does anyone know any of the higher-ups in RedHat who could force this to happen?

Aside: I really wish the CC licenses had a (possibly optional) requirement for making the document's source format (or, "preferred form for making modifications") available.

So many ostensibly Free-as-in-Speech technical documents are only ever distributed as PDFs that are an error-prone pain to convert back into an editing-friendly format, or for that matter, to convert to almost any other widespead end-user format, such as EPUB.
If you added an option to pay with bitcoin, I would pay the Premium tier :)
I was originally surprised by the study and your comment, since I generally find no difference between natural languages , math and programming languages. (I am a math major).

However, most of the people I interact with find my exposition methods curious in sense of structure. So, I shared this study with some of my friends, and they agreed with the study too. When I pointed out my surprise to them, they told me that I speak like a computer program in the sense of structure of exposition.

So, I guess I agree with this study in general, and actually would love to know what's going on in my brain.

For what it's worth, I am fluent in 4 natural languages from two different families and I'm learning a fifth language. Also, I'm fluent in multiple programming languages.
Don't know why being downvoted, it's factually true.
Technology is the only hope we have. We are increasing in number and probably couldn't feed the world without modern technology. Technology is rapidly reducing the impact that human activity has on the climate. Governments can't fix this by edict, it will need a practical solution.
Disagree, he's taking advantage of the freemium model which is probably giving him more chances of getting real users.
Besides the advice in the other replies about choosing good charities, it’s also useful to separate giving to charities (organizations that have non-trivial resources and focus dedicated to handling and seeking donations and often figuring out which other orgs to send that money to) vs. direct charitable giving to colleges, food banks, clinics, universities and other non-profits with a local scope (which many of those receiving donations here appear to be).

Certainly not a guarantee it’ll be used effectively, and that sort of outsourcing of deciding the best way to use money is part of the appeal of the larger charities.
Show HN is where many products (by HNers) start, at which point they'll be making nothing. There aren't many places to launch a product unless you have a big enough marketing budget.
As someone who bought the game as a Christmas gift, I am more concerned about how it will play at a Christmas-day patch level. I am actually happy I was able to get the physical media ahead of time, even if what they shipped at launch was buggy.
> If you think it's not fun -and- it has nothing going on, why play it -twice-?

"If you think the car is no fun to drive, why take it for a spin, twice?"

Playing it twice is what allowed me to form this opinion. The game offers multiple "paths" after all. It's called giving it the benefit of the doubt.
Try delivering to invalid email addresses too many times (too many of course being up to each mail provider), and you will be the one shitlisted (and rightfully so, as you are likely bruteforce enumerating valid email addresses).

For any small provider, getting on the shitlist is catastrophic as unlike the big providers, getting off of it will be hard / impossible.
I have a similar thermostat, and I ended up going the Home Assistant route with the Nexia integration[1]. It still relies on the Nexia cloud, which is unfortunate, but it lets Home Assistant directly control the temperature.

I don't think it'll let you use Quiet mode, but it will let you do all the other thing you're missing, and it'll be much simpler than building out everything yourself for sure.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nexia/
So fortunately I've never played any open-world game except for Skyrim, which just didn't really hold my interest... or maybe it was the fact I lost my save game due to a faulty SSD, I dunno.

At any rate, I love this game. I love the story. I love Night City. I love the graphics. I won't lie and say I'm a huge Cyberpunk pen & paper fan; I'm not. I knew more about Shadowrun than Cyberpunk, and that was from the old SNES game and Shadowrun Returns. However, I've talked with hardcore Cyberpunk pen & paper players, and they say its un-fucking-believable how well CDPR has brought to life the Cyberpunk universe in this game.

Yes, there are bugs. I have every confidence though that CDPR will iron all this shit out like they did with The Witcher III. This will be a great game by mid-to-late 2021, in every sense of the word.

I genuinely hope in Cyberpunk 2077 II that they'll be able to flesh out the game world, because I really love this game and this world.
Why not extrapolate this argument to non-video games then? Why have card or board games not usurped music as a dominant hobby in the millennia that they've been around?

I won't debate that video games don't have merit as artistic media; some of my favorites from my adolescence have had positive effects on my world view and self in the same way works in television and film have, and I cut my teeth on advanced piano arrangements from video game music (specifically Kyle Landry's). I think that the problem lies in video games being a demanding medium that often rewards mindless grinding and non-transferrable skills. In McLuhan's terms, it's a hot (demanding) medium that only has the benefits of a cool (passively consumed) medium [1].

To say that music will somehow cede to video games eventually, when music has been around for literal eons, is flippant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media#%22Hot%22_...
Smartphones have gotten very good at handling shots with huge dynamic range but I’m not sure if I really like these kinds of photos. Having everything in the photo in range looks very artificial sometimes.
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They have 6 tools listed on their IT Security Downloads:

- Access Rights Manager: Manage and audit access rights across your IT infrastructure

- Security Event Manager - Improve your security posture and quickly demonstrate compliance with an easy-to-use, affordable SIEM tool

- Server Configuration Monitor - Gain visibility into systems changes and easily compare configurations over time with our new change monitoring tool

- Patch Manager - Patch management software designed to quickly address software vulnerabilities

- Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server - Enhance security and control over file transfers in and outside your organization

- Serv-U File Transfer Protocol Server - Simple, affordable, easy-to-use FTP server software

While I wouldn't call all of these security sensitive, but considering some of the other tools that they built:

- Dameware Remote Support: Remote control and systems management tools in one easy-to-use package

- Dameware Remote Everywhere: Deliver the tools IT professionals need in a cloud-based, remote support solution

- User Device Tracker: Network device tracking software designed to locate users and devices on your network

they definitely count as a security-sensitive vendor.
It does.
You think $100 isn't worth more to someone who's homeless than to Jeff Bezos? You're living in dream land.
It is amazing to behold a comment written in wizard-tongue like the above.
Wow, I've never heard this joke before. Original and well-applied to the situation.
People will read it if you link to it contextually. I made a throwaway video demonstrating the 125mhz Ethernet carrier for that etherify HN post a month or so ago. I posted the link in a mid-level comment. 200 people watched the video.

Today we view that number as approximately zero. But that's past Dunbar's number. That's more people than I will have any kind of meaningful relationship with simultaneously. Most people would get a little nervous standing up in front of 200 people and saying anything.

Our sense of scale has been mutated.
I would suggest, instead of spending your money on superficial acts, invest that money into your own company to HIRE people who are less well off and train them with your skills. You would do much better for society.
"Offensive" means nothing today, and I'd suggest you stop allowing yourself and others to waste your time with it.

Have you actually compared the two? You'll notice one is far more insidious if you do.

Also, don't conveniently leave out the inflation of the world reserve fiat global enslavement system.

I know we can always opt to live in the woods, and barter, but you've got to take both into consideration to honestly consider what it is I said.
Consider checking out Earning to Give: https://www.jefftk.com/giving

u/jefftk's one of the most prolific givers on HN I know: https://www.jefftk.com/news/giving
Helping people today also has exponential returns in the long run. More than investment returns since economic growth is tied to people.
If you spot your neighbor through the window manufacturing methamphetamine, and you have been selling them the precursor chemicals, would you stop selling those to them, or say to yourself "punishment is for a court to decide".

If a person or firm has a reasonable belief that a business partner is committing crimes or even just behaving unethically, I would say they have an obligation to curb the activity or end the business relationship.

This idea that only the courts should limit or punish crimes pops up here once in a while and I've always found it bizarre.

If child porn was not a crime would you be ok with Visa and MasterCard doing something then? Is it in your view that should they only not do something because it's a crime?
She didn't suddenly end up with billions. She's been a billionaire for a long time. She's basically a cofounder of Amazon. She's just legally separate from Jeff now, so legally it's a separate fortune, but it was always hers.
That only works if they didn't staple it to the wall or bury it in spray-foam insulation. I ended up having to run a new one but was lucky that the floor-board was under the garage. I ran a piece of cat5e as well in case there is ever an option to get a thermostat that can use it.
I don't know, I still think you're much more likely to have a frontend dev get annoyed by having to kick off 20 requests (and seeing that perf impact in their own devtools) and ask backend to give them an endpoint that can get all the content in one go.
I worked at EA for five years (2015-2019) in Sweden and during that time I heard a lot of talk about minimising overtime and new measures to prevent it. Every game new alternatives and policies would be introduced. Then, when it became clear that we couldn't deliver on what everyone always said was over scoped, all of that was thrown out the window and we went back to ordinary crunch.

We did sometimes get compensated, but always in comp days, never money, and it was usually very uncertain ahead of time if and how it would work.
A bit of hyperbole in that comment, but yes that was my thought while writing it. I suppose you could make the case for a few more eastern seaboard cities as well.
Maybe because it is believed (or known, or anywhere in between) that they are presently actively doing things of this nature...

Attackers also leave breadcrumbs behind; fingerprints, in a way. Sometimes the actions taken are the fingerprint, sometimes the effort to cover up those actions is the fingerprint.

If I am an investigator and I see trademark actions or cleanup that I've seen before in a russia-sponsored attack, it is not a huge leap to strongly suspect I am investigating a russia-sponsored attack.
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Yes, this is what all university endowments are and do.

She gave away 6% of her estimated wealth, extrapolated from the public holdings of her Amazon stock. All wealth estimates pull from a snapshot of a public event and assumes that person never trades in anything at all.

With that aside, her estimated wealth jumped 67% this year, and she is donated 6% of the net amount.
You're donating to the wrong charities.
This is incredible!! Happy Birthday also
>To make use of David Friedman's observation about a similar remark, unfortunately this sentence remains true if you take out the last seven words.

I don't disagree with that statement, but reasonable people can debate and disagree in a hypothetical fantasy world where central planners are thoughtful and competent. This is why I find it more useful to address the situation in the actual world we live in, where stupid, incompetent and corrupt people like Chirlane McCray (wife of NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio) are appointed to spend billions in taxpayer dollars to do the "planning".

Unfortunately with this issue, as with every other, most people are more interested in ideology than reality.
Because slavery is illegal in the US. Have you not seen the electronic factories in China
What is he sacrificing? He makes a huge difference for a number of people.
You are still talking about different systems dispute them both having to do with temperature. An AC unit can only be on or off, so you need a window, hysteresis, to keep from toggling on and off constantly. If you can input an analog signal, like control how much power goes into the heating coil in a BBQ, the PID is applicable. PID, if tuned properly, will find the right amount of power to feed the heating element to keep the oven at the desired temperature. This is not possible if you can only turn the AC on/off with significant lag, so you need hystereiys.
... shouldn’t consoles be an easier target to develop for, since they’re more consistent and stable?
This might be a coincidence but if you replaced pallets with GMO plants, it almost fits. An open market, one company tries to corner the market, uses strong arm tactics, lawsuits, and spies, but in the end convinces large corporations to follow suit which cuts out smaller competition.
But it’s not actually factually true - it’s her money according to the laws and contracts in place. If it were his money, he’d have it. He doesn’t, so it isn’t “factually” his money.

It’s only “his money” in a non-factual basis where we are implying something akin to “he earned it and she didn’t”.
> Hearing MacKenzie giving away 4B of her 60B is not really impressive

In terms of disposable net worth, how many percent do government employees - on average - donate to charity? How about the average person?

If it was 1%, that would be impressive.
In Poland most of developers run own companies to pay linear income tax (19% flat) plus €350 a month for state pension instead of paying 18% tax for first €20k earned plus 32% for overages plus mostly hidden to employees installment for pension scheme. So when your cost to the employer is €100k a year:
- under labour law you take home €5.7k per month
- running a company you take home €7k per month

For a country with a minimal wage of €610 this is a significant difference.

Most of the companies will offer paid time off to contractors, end even companies offering high-paying jobs like pilots do in do the same: https://www.ft.com/content/b8f77f16-d865-11e8-ab8e-6be0dcf18...
One really cool thing the founder of eBay did right before the company went public, he established a foundation and moved 10% of his personal stock holdings into the foundation. So as eBay stock grew, so did the foundation's endowment. They slowly sell off stock as they need to fund their initiatives.