skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now what happens if you include expats in the calculation?

Pretty sure expats are included in Gini calculations.

> And yet you see a lot of Europeans and Canadians founders going to the valley for funding. Yet the opposite almost never happens.

Why wouldn't you raise money from where the money is? Inequality means there's a small handful of people with giant piles of money. That's a good bet to go knocking at if you want some.

Generally if you want to build a successful business you should raise on the best terms possible, and European investors are not known for offering particularly compelling terms.

I should also say, just because you raise money in the bay doesn't mean you have to run your business in the bay. Should you choose to do so remotely, you'll like take a bit of a discount, but it's worth mentioning this year's YC class was entirely remote.

I'm not sure this argument is connected.
Lamprey, a New Parasitic Language to Write Elixir in Erlang
I somehow missed the fact that you were the same person I replied to initially. That in itself is almost poetic in regard to the state of society that you allude to.
“Leaning in” is a body gesture managers use in conversation when they want to appear sincere and committed.

They have since decided that “leaning in” is all you really need to say you’re doing to communicate to others they’re taking you seriously, perhaps with some compassion (implied).

Corporate-speak at its finest!
Ever since the acquisition CentOS has been the odd one out with Red Hat’s open source strategy - being downstream from the commercial product.

Keycloak won’t have a similar issue, it’s already the upstream project for Red Hat SSO.
Publishing a PWA to the Play Store
There is also neuron.

https://neuron.zettel.page/
Bitcoin is not one of those times.
If your adversary is state actors with deep pockets or the NSA, you've lost already. No amount of opsec cosplay is going to save you.

Your solution?

* Magical amulets?

* Fake your own death, move into a submarine?

* YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
Anthem Labs – Fighting back against corporate propaganda
One way things might become more competitive is when more people become freelancers. The freelance market is more volatile than the rigidly regulated traditional labor markets allowing for larger pay increases during good times (and also decreases during bad times), in general, it approaches a more realistic compensation of real added value.

Personally I've greatly benefited from becoming a freelancer in Europe and have never been one day unemployed since I started over 7 years ago (4 different customers in total). The significantly higher income (almost 3 times my old, already decently above average, _net_ income) royally compensates the lack of unemployment benefits or reduced pensions.

I feel that if more devs would become freelancers it would create real upward pressure towards compensation because compensation isn't entrenched in company policies and regulations.

One downside is the proliferation of those in-between rent-seeking businesses, they're probably needed to get started initially but they take huge cuts and have a lot of absurd contract requirements so it's wise to develop an active strategy to find jobs without them.
What portion of gold's value comes from non-monetary demand (e.g. electronics, jewelry, etc.)?

A few years ago I tried to answer that question and I remember getting a pretty low value, something like 10% or 20%.
>No idea what a HSA account is, I guess some form of pension plan?

I think the OP meant Health Savings Account, which lets you put money in pre-tax for certain medical expenditures. There is a limit and IIRC you lose what you don't spend. It's good if you have predictable costs, or you're saving to do an expensive procedure (friends have done this for lasik), etc. You pay the bill then submit a receipt to get reimbursed out of the account.

In the US these are now termed Flexible Spending Accounts, with subcategories of Health, Dependent Care, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_spending_account

It helps, but certainly a different attitude towards social safety nets, defense spending, etc would make a larger difference.
So, what's the correct recipe here? Anonimyze your events before sending to third party analytics? Like event5, mood12?
Ok.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3005334/china-home-...
most of that has to with libraries, not the language. I'd take good libraries with Erlang semantics and syntax over good libraries with other lang's semantics and syntax.
U.S. (NHTSA) asks Tesla to recall 158,000 vehicles for touchscreen failures
My point wasn't about whether he was overrated or not, it was about the article grouping two throwaway meme tweets and stretching out an entire narrative.
Apply here: https://signal.org/workworkwork/
I don't know about the other countries you have mentioned but German residential real estate has very high levels of institutional investment and the legacy of rent control (famously, Berlin...although that changed a few years ago).

So you have very high wealth inequality, average German net financial wealth is equal to Greece and Germany has a significant number of billionaires, but you also have a system that fundamentally cannot be compared with the US. It just optimises for different things.

That being said, whilst recognising those differences, lower wealth inequality is not the result of most of these systems. Income inequality is generally lower but the cost of this is usually: low competition, high structural unemployment, weak unions, low levels of business creation...it isn't free. It is readly apparent from the EU that whilst the US has high inequality, it also has a far more dynamic economy that results in more people actually becoming wealthy (to take Germany as an example, most billionaires come from families that got rich in the 30s and inherited...the level of downward mobility is very high in the US) and higher levels of innovation.
The wealth inequality debate is about Bezos and wall street ceo's type thing - I don't think many people have issue with some making $50k and others making $200k.
The salaries aren't low because of equality though. You're just shifting the high earners from the people doing the work to the managers of the people doing the work.
No shit. It wasn't some broken, barely adopted start up that created this mess. It was the largest social platform in the world where this insanity spread for years. Break up GAFA with antitrust laws.
Stopped at Coelho ...
I am missing a lot of context from this post because this just sounds nonsensical.

First they're conflating storage with transport. SQL databases are a storage and query system. They're intended to be slow, but efficient, like a bodybuilder. You don't ask a bodybuilder to run the 500m dash.

Second, they had a 150MB dataset, and they moved to... a distributed decentralized key-value store? They went from the simplest thing imaginable to the most complicated thing imaginable. I guess SQL is just complex in a direct way, and etcd is complex in an indirect way. But the end results of both are drastically different. And doesn't etcd have a whole lot of functional limitations SQL databases don't? Not to mention its dependence on gRPC makes it a PITA to work with REST APIs. Consul has a much better general-purpose design, imo.

And more of it doesn't make sense. Is this a backend component? Client side, server side? Why was it using JSON if resources mattered (you coulda saved like 20% of that 150MB with something less bloated). Why a single process? Why global locks? Like, I really don't understand the implementation at all. It seems like they threw away a common-sense solution to make a weird toy.
I'm pretty much at the top end of the salary range where I live. I don't make an extra $150,000. I make a sizable amount. But outside of a few niche places and a few niche companies in those places, people aren't making an extra $150,000 in the US.
That is a great point.

It is a public company with RSU grants, so real money at play.

Do you think it reflects particularly poorly to give no notice or a weeks notice?
Which is not an issue for people immigrating from Europe.
I’m happy to see this get addressed yet simultaneously disappointed that Pirate Bay can’t knock North Korea off the Internet anymore.
I suppose I was going off the examples in the post I was replying to. Comparing Google Drive sync to Dropbox and Google Keep to Evernote.
Маybe, but currently the world is going towards decoupling, not internationalisation.
We will be fine. Pat is a great leader and this is a net loss though
No, js is not powerful enough for getting the same features that Emacs have, because emacs is almost an operating system.

With js you could create a very simplified version, if you remove 95% of the emacs codebase.

Most people just use 1-2% of emacs anyway, and there are editors that just do that, control a simple text editor with js.
Do workaholics earn more, on average? Or is money something they generally don't care as much about as the actual work?
There is also logseq.

https://logseq.com/
Wind Power Overtakes Coal in Texas for the First Time Ever
That’s not a good enough reason to deplatform facebook or parler, to that matter.

The summer riots were freely advertised on all social media apps and WaPo. How is that not incitement of violence.

What’s happening is an unprecedented attack on free speech in disguise of silencing “insurrection”.
Sadly in UK they are, even though in practice they can be challenged (since the right to work trumps it, basically). To be honest I don’t think they are much of a factor when it comes to compensation though. It’s largely a cultural issue: SV was largely built by engineers for engineers, so there is an awareness of what a happy engineer can deliver to a company. In Europe anybody technical is just that, a technical resource, a cog. That also links into the degree of freedom they are (not) granted, freedom to choose their tools etc.
Johnson and Johnson's One-Dose Covid Vaccine Promising in Early Trial
Thanks this helps put things in perspective.
Facebook should be receiving some of the same scrutiny parler did. Improve moderation or get out
I like to say "eat it or I'll beat you purple", loudly and in a crowded restaurant. Then my son and I laugh about it later. A routine we started when he was 4- or 5-years-old after we both watched an old episode of Gunsmoke, "Harper's Blood", where a dying mother enjoined the father to strictly discipline their two boys, worried that one of them might grow up to be like her grandfather, whom she reveals to have been an infamous, murderous outlaw. After the mother dies the erstwhile gentle father steels himself, promising his sons that if they ever disobey him or get into any mischief he'll beat them purple.
Wow that's really quick. I can see why that would be very desirable.

It would create a nice flow to get feedback from your test suite that quickly.
The limitation is only on the DFS channels. Channels 36–48 and 149–165 are free of radar. And also crowded in a modern urban environment.

I’m not sure what the device manufacturers are doing to prevent unauthorized use of DFS channels, but I have a cheap router with a QCA9887 (GL.iNet GL-AR750) and it doesn’t use DFS channels no matter what firmware you put on it.
That wasn’t what was in question, it was whether or not Twitter censored them, which they did. See the sibling comment to your post here for additional info from Twitter even on the topic. Even though they reversed the censorship, they _did_ do it.
Seems at least a little unfair. I don't blame the paper company if someone writes a letter i find repungent.
It is a public companies RSU grant, so liquid. I don’t have a clawback. It looks like my only option might be really short notice.
I've never even heard of them. How is there a national chain with what appears to be a billion and half locations that I've never heard of? Do I just hang out too much in posh neighborhoods full of Karens????!!!
You can!

KinD[0] is a project to do just that, although production workloads are an explicit non-goal.

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind
> It's summer in the southern hemisphere and don't say you got rid of sars2 in your winter, you didn't

Victoria had a large outbreak in winter, a (way too late) lockdown bought it under control. New Zealand had an outbreak in winter and a brief lockdown bought it back under control. I agree winter is hard mode, but we were 6 months ahead of the world in that regard, we were the warning that was ignored, we found it the hard way that soft lockdowns don't work in winter.

> and there's still cases recently.

Bought back from overseas, unfortunately flight crew are looking like a major vector. Current cases are low enough that good contact tracing is probably enough to keep on top of it, it's already stamped out a minor outbreak in Victoria and NSW just hit zero cases and will hopefully stay there.

> You have to remain globally isolated until the virus is completely eradicated.

We'll be globally isolated until enough people are vaccinated that exponential spread isn't possible. This is preferable to being personally isolated while a pandemic rages.
Really well done by the NHTSA demanding a recall on these MCUs. They're ~$2500 a pop to have replaced when they're out of warranty (EDIT: some additional research is showing Tesla might be able to replace a $120 daughter board the eMMC is attached to instead of the entire MCU), and Tesla has been attempting to push the costs onto the owner as much as possible (even though the flash memory longevity issue was Tesla's fault and should've been mitigated long before it was with a software update).
> but provide no facts

- more active podcasts:

https://www.fpcasts.com/

- more conferences:

https://purelyfunctional.tv/functional-programming-conferenc...

- more books:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Clojure

- more companies:

https://clojure.org/community/companies

- more jobs:

https://www.google.com/search?q=functional+programming+jobs

I've maintained an active interest in FP languages over the past several years. I'm not arguing here about the merits of choosing Haskell over Clojure, etc., or about other blogpost opinions (I'm afraid I have to disagree with many of them). I'm merely sharing what I know about the current state of FP in the industry.
That regulation already exists, at least for international trade. The act of selling items at less than nominal cost is forbidden by anti dumping treaties. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
Remember the whole drive to push all the Techies out of SF? Remember rocks getting thrown at the Google busses? It's both.

At the end of the day Bezos makes headlines but his personal largesse has very little effect on most people in the country. It has very little impact on the lives of folks getting "pushed out" of SF. That's the folks he employs.
That doesn’t make what they did okay — if anything it shows exactly how much power and influence they wielded in suppressing a news story at a critical point in informing people during an election cycle. That cannot be understated.
Is there any security to short Bob Swan? Seems like a good bet.
b/c they hired expensive executives who get bonuses and their greed drives the whole thing. Plus the investors expect it plus you could probably say something about fiduciary responsibility.
> Glenn Greenwald a.k.a. “the guy who helped Snowden get the word out” and could be described as a disillusioned liberal,

Greenwald might be a disillusioned Leftist (not liberal), but then, so the original neoconservatives were disillusioned Trotskyites.

Disillusionment is what spawns radical conversion and radical converts are often the least-open-minded, most most fact-averse, ideological crusaders.

> if we’re going to, in the secret little court in each of our minds, “hold Parler liable for its moderation decisions” despite the fact that Section 230 won’t allow that in a real court,

Other than civil liability of the types which are specifically dependent on status as a “publisher or speaker”, Section 230 doesn’t prevent them from being held liable.

Criminal liability, or civil liability not dependent on status as a publisher (though some courts have, controversially, extended Section 230 to liability as a “distributor”) is generally outside of the scope of Section 230 protection.
What I find missing from a lot of the conversations on HN is why the power was used, and an overfocus on tech.

The people who marched on the capitol did it because their reality tells them that their country is being stolen, by Democrats. People will actively oppose the current administration, because they believe this is illegitimate.

Trump and the info bubble he inflates, collectively believe that American elections were a farce. Trump holds a 40% approval rating, down from 42% on Jan 1st. His party, and media enablers repeated and enforce this idea. If the coup didn't happen, they would continue to argue the point.

Parler? For all its claims to free speech, it enforced ideological conformity, as do a lot of conservative boards. Their reasoning is that you get banned for being a conservative. However they don't mention that they get banned for saying "COVID is a hoax", "Trump won" and the perennial "some communities just have problems". Death threats, hate speech are all too common.

That is how far things had gotten, before tech firms acted. If anything, they acted late, after the costs of inaction are obvious, and Trump is leaving the stage.

If you are uncomfortable with their power, know that research from 2016 shows that conspiracy content gets stronger the longer it is available and gets repeated. A fact absolutely not lost to tech firms.

Tech firms kept material they knew was dangerous, up longer, because they did not know how to handle the repercussions of doing the scientific thing when people think its the wrong action.
"It's just too late to turn them around" is pretty much what people said about Apple when Steve Jobs returned, though (in fact, it's more or less what I thought as well).

As Adam Smith said, "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation", and likewise, big companies generally get more opportunities to reinvent themselves than one would expect.
On the technical merits, I think Bitcoin is actually rather behind other blockchains. But, remember that money is a Schelling point. There's a huge first mover advantage.

Money, in any form, is only valuable because we expect others to continue to value it into the future. The reason that gold is used as a monetary asset, whereas rhodium is not despite being as rare, is because gold arrived earlier in history.

One could also that the Bitcoin community's conservative nature also lends it credence as a long term store of value. Ethereum as a protocol much more amenable to technical innovation. But if you're in the "stay rich" business, instead of the "get rich" business, than that can be a bug not a feature.
Do you or somebody else in this thread have some tips for those of us who never freelanced but would be interested in giving it a shot?

What’s the best way to get started?
Any thoughts on what made him special (either from your perspective or from those choosing to promote him)?
> Remote work will take care of this.

If by "take care of" you mean put downward pressure on European wages, then sure. Unrestricted remote competition would benefit 3rd world developers and the 1st world employers. But not the 1st world employee.
MGM up for sale for $5B after 'preliminary talks' with Apple failed
In what way? Unless I've missed something significant the visa options for those emigrating from Europe to the US are limited. What options are there other than the H1B?
Also twitter takes more active steps to remove direct threats of violence etc. Far from perfect, but much more of a good faith effort than Parler.
Robert is the best. Looks like he'll be involved with this project too.

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/riscv64-multiplatform
It's because most people in Europe don't really make enough to do so.

Also if you somehow manage to increase your income, over half of it disappears in taxes and social security contributions.
Parler got destroyed and fb gets what? A slap on the wrist
Franklin's Lost Expedition
> Let people like the things they like

Does that include writing blog posts? Or, liking Erlang over Elixir? Or, bashing Elixir?

How do any of those stop people from liking what they like? Unlike, what you did.

I'm not really sure this needed a hypocritical comment.
I have zero interest in administering my own services like it appears Nextcloud, even with Hetzner, would require. I've been there and done that, but I'm too far out of the sysadmin game now to do a good job of it. It's a bad use of my time, and not something I enjoy as a hobby.

I'm unwilling to use Google services if I can avoid it.
J&J's statement: https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-candida...

New England Journal of Medicine Paper ( possible paywall) : https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034201
I am not sure what that alludes to either. Germans and Italians save huge amounts of their income (typically, higher than the US).

You still need to save for a pension in almost every European economy, one isn't given to you (state pensions in Europe, even in the UK, are contribution-based). Welfare systems in Europe are not redistributive like in the US, they are typically contributory (you get out what you put in). So there is no sense in which your fundamental needs will be met irregardless of anything else.

I think the issue with the US is that you have a very redistributive political economy, and so many people believe that those elements are the same everywhere AND they could have all the free healthcare...it doesn't really work that way (marginal tax rates on middle-class incomes are above 50% in some European economies, and top rates are usually lower than in the US...try doing that in the US).
Because WaPo weren't encouraging people to go and "riot".

The police already have the power to deal with things like that, the vast majority of it was people protesting.
I can’t find it now, but somewhere I read about the FORD method, and it always worked: Family, Occupation, Recreation, Dreams. I keep trying until something hits. At professional gatherings, I usually do a sequence of ODRF: what do you do? What would you do if you won the 100mil lottery? What do you do do fun? What does your family hope fo you?

Reading over the above, I now realize how much I agree with the author’s thesis: good icebreakers use both commonality and creative prompts.
> I don't know that I have seen a solution I like for this

End the infinite growth model once and for all. The only solution to all these issues. The shift has to be cultural before legislative.
Well if your company is doing well then someone is getting rich. Could be management, CEO, investors or whoever else. Sure you may be okay with it, but clearly not everyone is (hence the question).
Our SaaS Startup's Equity Allocation, Expenses, and Results After 4 Years
While I'm not saying Google hasn't done something like this (I have no proof either way) there's a strong legal argument to be made that forcing a company to produce binaries is compelled speech which goes against the first amendment.