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The 'personal views' isn't even what this is about. He has demonstrated severe lack of understanding of the current world - he is spreading hatred and lies about people. He donates his money specifically to causes that actively make oppressed people suffer even further. It's not 'simply' a matter of personal views here. I think he does real, physical damage to the world and I don't personally want to support that.

I don't care about your personal views if they are not hateful or actively causing harm to people. But if your 'views' are spreading hatred and also harming people (even killing people by being anti-mask) then I think it's pretty clear that caring about it makes sense.

> When people go to the market, are they supposed to ask "okay, I see your eggs are free range, but do you guys support gay marriage?"

Obviously we cannot discover everything about everyone we deal with. We have to prioritize and live life, and yes it is awful to accidentally do business with hateful people, I do understand it cannot be avoided fully. We have to live life somehow if we want progress.

If it becomes known that the egg people are anti-gay-marriage then certainly I wouldn't buy from them any more.
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Enough individuals set the trend. The trend is not for a corporation to pay all the taxes it can.
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I'm in the northeast, make under $100k, and support my family. $400k is in the top 10% of earners. $5k per month is about a $1M mortgage, which is on the high side, right?
There's nothing on here to say why this is better than just running vim in the terminal. There's literally not even a list of features or anything to highlight how this is different.
There are various ways to do that. Plenty of famous people manage to figure it out. That's not what RMS was after. He's putting this stuff up on his blog, which he uses for activism, not abstract philosophical inquiry.
Thanks for the accurate and considerate response. Interesting to see the comments from people with no exposure to the people or situation.
It’s not just the non tech savvy. It’s substantially faster to dictate text than type it, especially if your hands are occupied with the computer doing something else (ie interpreting radiology exams, dictating a treatment course or visit note while simultaneously reviewing labs).
Why do you even think working with you would be sought after?
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The presumption that Scott Alexander will be quoted long beyond his lifespan really drives home how much of a bubble this site can be at times.
Good point. For exacts in `#lang`, I realized afterwards that it's not just literals/self-evals: there's some "standard library" functions you'd probably want to wrap, to force them to produce exact numbers. And maybe check that there's nothing in standard library that does inexacts internally in a way that would be unpredictable to a programmer who expects exact number behavior.
It's disgusting that the FSF not only snuck the return of RMS into the end of LibrePlanet without notifying anyone, drove out the wrongthinking staff before creating a staff position on the board, and now to cap it off are writing articles instructing people on how to react to these things.

RMS is not a good leader. The FSF should pay him for his work on GPL and leave him off the board. The FSF should also stop writing instructions for other people on how to treat the FSF, and should instead focus on earning the response they want to see from their supporters.
> Non-sequitur. If the technology that there is is sufficiently well exploited by Google, Amazon, Facebook, then where is your supposed opening? We are not at the end of the IT tech revolution now, but we are also nowhere near the beginning.

This is so true. I say the "tech" (~= internet software?) industry is now somewhere near the telecom level of maturity. We can think of these companies selling the raw (cloud) infrastructure as of something related to that. (Although the precise economics of this for customers is debatable, as discussed time and time again on HN). Selling ad placements is not predicated on huge innovation either, rather on trying to find untapped markets (as much as they still exist) and efficiency gains for the same thing.

The next stage, farther in the future, is these corporations becoming more like boring railroad companies. In fact, it's one of the few glimmers of hope for people aware of big tech's ramifications.

> The best VR experience right now is engineered by Facebook, not by some plucky start up acquiring new customers.

Maybe AI is a better example of something that has huge potential for sure, but is mixed in equal proportions with fantasy. To use similar analogies, I'd say it's in its (later phase of) dotcom era. And even then, as you say, it's not really made by startups built to get big, but - at best - by entities hoping to get bought.

But this way, we are still kinda able to sustain the public mythos of tech entrepreneur as a big idea person, and not an industry knowledge and capital efficiency person (related to really driven and good at making deals from the essay). It may be a result of fiscal policy, but it's certainly also beneficial for existing big corporations. Also, the romantic idea is more emotionally appealing.
I started working full time at 15 to keep the roof over our families head after my mothers cancer diagnosis. Until the early death of both my parents I had an anti-safety net, I can vouch that people underestimate the soul crushing nature of real poverty. My own congenital heart defects cost me many surgeries, procedures and money. Thank goodness for medicaid for children, I would probably be dead without it.

I have fought without connections or degree to hit 1% in earnings for my age bracket in my late 20s, but the lack of wealth, the lack of security means developing ideas requiring runway and capital is nearly impossible.

Struggling and succeeding through the financial equivalent of having you head held underwater by life is very very different than even a lower middle class upbringing.

Thank goodness software development exists, it has the closest thing to effectively 0 signaling/gatekeeping to a very good income.

I'd still kill for a couple years of runway and the money to hire two or three devs.
I've been considering writing a graph database on top of SPARQL and RDF. Beyond the official docs (which are pretty good), can you recommend any other resources for easily getting the hang of SPARQL?
Hey man, I don't have a horse in this race. But I asked my friend, she says you are dead wrong >:(
It's a little tricky to buy, but anyone can do it. I also like that it gives you multiple activation keys out of the box. Unfortunately it's a little pricey compared to OEM; it's about $300.
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So no point in 'apologies' of any sort. Let the cancellations continue and the medieval mob run wild over any letter spoken by this being.

Oh dear.
I hope they make workstations. I want to see some competition for the eventual Apple Silicon Mac Pro.
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Thanks. This is exactly my current understanding of the situation regarding NFTs, only articulated better than I could
> completely independent of whether he's the best choice as leader for the FSF

It's not independent, you can't just drop the context. RMS the 9-5 software dev at some nameless corporation having this discussion is, while still unacceptable (because the relevant society has decided that it is obvious why sex with minors is harmful), not nearly as impactful as RMS the respected-by-many leader of the free software movement. The clout he has from that position and work makes him influential even outside of the sphere, as well as affecting people who might join the movement but are pushed away because they find his other opinions unacceptable.

That's why we're talking about it in this comment thread instead of ignoring it like we do most of the weird takes on the internet.

> I'm also not sure why "inclusive" is a good criterion for FSF leader, it seems like just a hollow shibboleth buzzword at this point. People who harp on "inclusion" are usually the most interested in exclusion.

The paradox of tolerance explains why it might feel like being inclusive of many groups of people involves exclusion.
Also his conclusions are what some people want to hear, that confirms their worldview.

This is not at all unique to PG, you and I and everyone does the same thing, at least to some extent, in choosing what argument/opinion pieces (now the dominant form of textual media?) we are tickled by.
I feel a certain degree of guilt over my (relatively low, even in Canada) developer salary. I didn't do anything to deserve my comfortable life. I can't imagine how people with billions sleep at night.
I guess other people agree with him because I'm getting downvoted.
Given I have skipped last year (due to COVID) but we'd been in France every summer for the previous 5 years and it's gotten hotter and hotter - resulting successive record breaking summers.

I think the decline of the jet stream is a bigger deal for Europe than the US. Hotter summers and colder winters.
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Thanks, I just ordered the first one, I appreciate the recommendation!
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The use of Airbnb seems odd to me. People around the world use it because they don't like the alternatives.

Why shouldn't they be allowed to do business?
I need a new video card and there are no Nvidia to buy, all is bought by miners. Will it go the same with this card?
> But this level of wealth concentration and inequality is detrimental to the fabric of a society. We’re not better off, we’re not more innovative, we’re not healthier or more cohesive or happier when this happens.

I agree 100%, but you're ignoring the other factor that is detrimental to society: social factors. Notably, the divorce rate and single-parent rate among poor and working class Americans of all races has skyrocketed. Now, top earners will often tell you that there's nothing wrong with divorce or single-parenthood, but observe what they're actually doing themselves! Their low divorce and single-parent rates have remained steady over the past few decades, even as everyone else's is plummeting [1].

In addition, the middle and working class are losing their social support networks. Church attendance is down, union membership is down, and volunteer organization participation is down among those groups. In contrast, most top earners have large and robust social networks.

I could go on and on about other social issues. Yes, wealth and income inequality is a big problem, but it's only one aspect of the decline of America's middle and working class (excluding the upper-middle class, which has continued to rise). We need to stress and incentivize social factors as well. The non-wealth and non-upper-middle-class should emulate what the top earners do in their social lives, not what they say.

I still strongly support a wealth tax, and higher income taxes, as long as they're distributed directly to our citizens and not used to build additional government bureaucracy.

1. https://www.brookings.edu/research/middle-class-marriage-is-...
It's less a pledge to do better and more an assertion he puts adequate effort into improving already.
Can you explain what you mean by shielded ledgers?
This is going to make it significantly more janky but why not just put it into a list inside the curly brackets? That should preserve order while still triggering the object debugging feature
No need to feel bad. The CEO sold a lot of his shares prior to the license change.
I'm gonna drop this again where ACLU's former president Nadine Strossen shares her view which is more sophisticated and thought through than mine is anyways - https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
No, I read it as "somewhat less dishonest". But since anyone who is able to read and understand English at a high school level knows that "presented herself as entirely willing" means something different from "was entirely willing", both statements ("defends Epstein" and "says she was entirely willing") are deliberately stating complete falsehoods. Which is entirely dishonest.
Heirs will probably be diversified. Their returns will be about average. Founders will win bigger and lose bigger, so when you only look at the top top top winners, those outliers will be outlierier. Wider variance means higher highs and lower lows.
The biggest leg up they have is that their product works in a very controlled domain. Siri is out there trying to be a complete interactive AI human and failing miserably. The Xfinity remote just controls your TV and does it smashingly. I found the Alexa-driven voice control on my FireTV to also be a pleasant experience compared to regular Alexa.
A good friend of mine lives in Asia off 400$ or so a month.

If I was to retire near him I'd be able to make a million last for a very very long time.

Whoever says 200k isn't a lot of money is full of crap. You can live very well off 70k in most of America.
Back in the 70s-80s, housing was very accessible and jobs were simpler and equally available (now you probably need to move to a hot city). So people could build considerable real-estate equity from being a salaried man.
Amazons ARM chips are performance competitive as well, for many workloads you can expect at least similar performance per core at the same clock speed.
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I don't think that merely being a good writer will allow him to be "quoted beyond the lifespan of his contemporary readers." I agree with OP that I really don't see anything special about his writings, compared even with contemporary writers on technology like RMS.
It's important to keep in mind that RMS is a controversial figure, and a lot of people disagree with the FSF mission/philosophy. So, naturally, you're going to see a lot of baseless rumors from anonymous assholes on the internet.
Even before 1991 many of these theories could be disproved.

James Oberg was uncovering info about phantom or missing cosmonauts in the early 70s, including photos of the original class of Cosmonauts before & after some were airbrushed out. At least 5 men were removed from the photos and they have all been traced (Grigoriy Nelyubov being the most high profile as a member of the "Sochi Six") despite Soviet space officials going to significant lengths to excise these men from their history.

Since the Fall of the Soviet Union we've had revelation after revelation about embarrassing episodes in Soviet history (including previously covered up issues with Vostok 1 during its flight), yet we've discovered nothing about further missing cosmonauts. Of course there could be much better covered up episodes, I'd just expect we'd know a hell of a lot more about them by now.

(As an aside, this info is from Oberg's 1988 book "Uncovering Soviet Disasters" which has _fascinating_ little passages about how much more open the Soviet Union has been "recently" with regards to publicising disasters under Glasnost and how that will continue into the future. So interesting to see as someone born shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union.)
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Well, according to [1], NVIDIA lists NVLink 3.0 as being 50 Gb/s per lane per direction, and lists the total maximum bandwidth of NVSwitch for Ampere (using NVLink 3.0) as 900 GB/s each direction, so it doesn't seem completely out of reach.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVLink
> Engaging in genocidal polices is of course not inevitable but an active policy choice.

It was an active policy choice, and an abominable one at that, but it was not the primary cause of the destruction of indigenous cultures. If it weren’t for the residential schools, Canada’s First Nations would still be a marginalized minority in their own homeland, displaced by English and French-speaking settlers. Without the wholesale depopulation of North America via infectious disease, English and French-speaking settlers would have never been able to come here in great numbers at the time they did in the first place.
boy howdy, with all the flak i hear about this and the awesome talent in tech, you'd figure an entrepreneur or 1000 would take a stab at this, make it better, charge less. apparently there's gazillions to be made by even charging 50 percent of what AWS does.

so, when should we expect this gloriously efficient competitive market to kick in to action?

my guess is that the AWS ecosystem, despite "price gouging", is simply the best and will be because this is really hard, non-glorious engineering, where solid reliability actually matters. anyone who wants to can go ahead and co-lo, so, whatever. people who want cloud will pay, and those who can't or won't, will not.
If you like well-documented bootstrap processes, I can recommend this:

https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...

The steps go from a binary seed of a few hundred bytes to (almost) gcc. It is still being actively developed as part of the Bootstrappable Builds project:

https://www.bootstrappable.org/
This is why I said it's ARM's for the taking.

I'm not familiar with how ARM's memory model effects the cache design - Source?
I'm really glad even Hacker news is calling out PG's bullshit now.
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> US, coincidence in and of itself is just fine, to prove infringement the copyright holder has to show that the defendant had access to the work

That's right, which is why the Phoenix BIOS and others on IBM compatibles was never successfully challenged by IBM. The developers were given the API and were able to prove that they had never seen the implementation.
Former Paddle customer, don't believe the hype. Everything is duct tape and half assed with the API, the checkout process is happy path or bust, and you're going to have a hard time migrating to a different processor.

Stripe + TaxJar was cheaper and easier to implement and maintain.
Makes me think of quantum tunneling
While not a dictionary definition, I've seen "the wealthy" described as the subset of "the rich" where their money is self-sustaining (passive income that spans generations).

By most definitions, many of us on HN are rich, but few of us are wealthy. Most of us still have a day job and rely on that salary to pay bills and save for retirement.
What about those billion-dollar companies that never made money but got acquired by FB, MS etc? Their founders did build a company, but if it wasn't for FAANG's insane profitability, which makes the cost of their moat so high, they wouldn't be worth that much. They essentially joined facebook as employees to make their billions.
Making economic recommendations based on top 100 richest people is like making dieting reccomendations based on top 100 anorexia sufferers.

Any statistician jnows that your sample neess to be representarive of the population. Define your 'rich' and take a random sample.
I'm happy to see a couple of good choices made here:

- Sticking with Apache 2.0

- Asking for a Developer Certificate-of-Origin rather than a copyright assignment

This bodes well for the future of this fork. Amazon also has the resources necessary to keep up consistent and quality maintenance of a project on this scale.

Elastic would definitely like you to view AWS as the Big Bad here, but their response to the Elastic betrayal is very good, and I would like to see more like this in the future.
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Back in the mid-1990s I paid more for rent than I did for tuition. And the rent was affordable working part time as a code monkey.

If you can manage to max out your 401k contributions from college graduation all the way until retirement, it would be hard not to have at least $4-5 million.

Is that even reasonable right now, for someone that graduates today? I have no idea. But it doesn’t seem like something that would be restricted to tech workers in the Bay Area. It might even be harder to do in the Bay Area than in Des Moines.
I think the big part is that farming with hard drives is a much more approachable thing to do than to try and mine BTC/ETH, considering both of those at a minimum require crazy GPU hardware, if not full blown custom chips, that no normal people will buy. Also, insane energy usage too, which Chia doesn't really have.

That being said, yes, with the right amount of investment, someone could try and take over the network. That being said, look how many Full Nodes are already in the network...

https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/nodes
Arm's Neoverse cores are doing pretty well in the datacenter space — on AWS, the Graviton2 instances are currently the best ones for lots of use cases. It's clear that core designs by Arm are really good. The problem currently is the lag between the design being done and various vendors' chips incorporating it.

upd: oh also in the HPC world, Fujitsu with the A64FX seems to be like the best thing ever now
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I really don't see a tooltip having that much pull on the web development zeitgeist
However, this essay is specifically about wealth so at most I'd criticize this use as somewhat ambiguous instead of assuming that PG meant income Gini and therefore confuses income with wealth.
How is it price gouging if the price is on the tin? It isn't like there's a "surprise" as to how much they charge, and it isn't like there aren't a dozen alternatives including DIY.

I'm the first to say that AWS is too expensive, and I vote with my wallet (and the company I work for by proxy). But I'll never claim that there's any gouging involved.
Macs show an advert for iCloud after most large updates.
Maybe it doesn't show up if you're signed in.

And "search with google" keeps pushing you to safari
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With 50Gb/s per lane, that would be 144 lanes to reach 900GB/s. Quite impressive.
... and TraceMonkey was based on open-sourced Macromedia/Adobe code from the ActionScript 3 VM. AS3 was loosely based on a draft of the ill-fated ES 4, but I'm not sure if it was a strict superset of an earlier ECMAScript standard. It's possible that the Flash AS3 VM had been JITing all of ES2 or ES3 earlier than TraceMonkey came out.
It really is price gouging - bandwidth is actually cheap.

A couple of comparisons:

Oracle Cloud give you 10TB of bandwidth for free, with overage charged at around €7.5/TB.

You can rent a VPS from the likes of Hetzner, and they will throw in 2-20TB of bandwidth for free, with overage charged at something like €1/TB - AWS charge an eye-watering €125 for each TB!

I think the reason the big 3 (AWS, Azure, GCP) still charge such huge amounts is that they profit so greatly from it, and there is more than enough business to go round.
Is that a startup in stealth mode?
soil science influenced agriculture, watch 'kiss the ground' on netflix.