skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I think there’s a lazy argument that tends to get made to justify the status quo, namely that inequality is necessary for innovation.

Of course it is, otherwise why take risks?

But this does not justify the 1000x inequality that we have today separating CEOs from laborers and 10000x separating founders from laborers.

What if those numbers were 100x and 5000x? Might we see even more innovation, and stronger communities?

The payoffs figures of today are also used to justify truly stupid risks. There are ponzi scheme type people who would rather masquerade at being a founder 10 times over in search of getting lucky once, screwing over investors and laborers in the process. Maybe if the disparity weren’t so eye popping, the same people would go into other fields instead.
I think the problem here is the consolidation of an entire industry around a single Silicon Valley company. In any other time in history this would be called a monopoly, and that is a problem.

If AirBnB was just an aggregator, say a cooperative standard where hotels and guesthouses could post their services and the profits of AirBnB would go back to the industry, that would be fine. But it is not, the profits go to shareholders and Silicon valley executives. And that is the problem.
Modern homomorphic encryption schemes only have a ~100x performance hit. That sounds bad, until you remember that computers are really fast and spend the majority of time doing nothing, and that the difference between writing a program in Python or C is already something like 10x.
I find it really cool that Brave implemented IPFS.
It's not as much the number of engines, which troubled N-1. For example, when Soyuz launcher starts, it has 32 chambers - not engines - running simultaneously, and it's a rather robust and reliable rocket.

What was the probable reason is the lack of testing of the huge system of the first stage of N-1 all together - test stands required lots of money and also time, both were in short supply (N-1 is surprisingly a rather inexpensive rocket, in comparison, say, to a better flown Energiya). Engines on the first stage were also untested, by design - they were single-start engines, so they couldn't be tested on a test stand before actual launch.

Both of these problems were taken into account when Energiya was developed. It had a huge "stand-start", both for testing and for launching, and engines were fully reusable, with the idea of later returning the first stage of the launcher (horizontal landing, with parachutes) and flying it again.
Which is very fun, counting that wealthy investor could potentially keep certain areas of the world in an impoverished state so to reap young gifted childs.
Mozilla partners with Nvidia to democratize and diversify voice technology
You have entirely missed the whole point of the situation, which has been going on for a while. Besides, this is about Stallman's own statement.
> So I guess you're right, anyone can call themselves a CEO

Semantics... That's not what I got from GP's point. They are talking about a company of up to 25 people (so, an order of magnitude larger than a two-person company). CEO, general manager, principal, top dog... What does it matter.

The point is you can make bank with a business of that size - possibly the mom and daughter operation you're describing does.
Another reason is the something like 150% memory bandwidth and I'm sure there are other simple wins along those lines.

The M1 isn't necessarily a win for Arm in general. Other manufacturers weren't competing before and its yet to be seen if they will.
When there are two large entities (and I take this to mean way larger than you or your company) then you’re better off rooting for the one that at least releases code you can use.

If OpenSearch is truely open then in theory you can find another provider. But for ElasticSearch you’re stuck with them.
Why “brainstorming” product ideas doesn't work – Stacking the Bricks
Thanks. I like these tools as an easy way to autogenerate and version diagrams. I’ve been using mermaid quite a bit as it’s JS and plugs into Jekyll and static site generators pretty easily.
I totally agree, but was stunned to see DigitalOcean charging $0.10/GB for outbound transfer for their new (quite cool imo) apps service. You do get 40GB-100GB included, but it means it's unusable for bandwidth heavy apps. They include 1TB (which is pooled across all VMs) and 0.01/GB on their standard platform.
Vlad Mihalcea is awesome!
However, Hibernate, while helping in some use cases, in my opinion should not be the default solution one reaches for. It makes way too easy to do things in a way that works for a while and explodes later.
And it is way too easy to be misunderstood, leading to performance and compositionality horrors.
Still it is the only Java solution I know that manages to be reasonably portable between different DBMS.
My initial intent was actually a subtle nod to your efforts at avoiding tenditious, tedious argument. Because I know that feel.

My apologies for the failed levity.
Noticing some consequences does not mean that they are calling for outlawing them.
a constant push to to this idea...

is a distraction...

there is no magic only science... the only thing in the world that met accuracy :)

be rational!

mainly it doesn't help you to cipher your shit... because you still being caught using it... with all the assumptions which it brings on the table...

mathematically biased from the roots

I'm terrible :Ð
Thanks! I looked at some tank drawings, but couldn't tell if they were omitting auxiliary tanks for simplicity's sake. Didn't want to say anything inaccurate.
Note that targeting bash on macOS means targeting bash v3, as Apple is not updating to bash v4+ (due to GPLv3) and has changed the default interactive shell to zsh in macOS 11.0+.
Which is paid to be preinstalled and put in your face every time you open the start menu.

I'd go as far to say it is adware.
Fun

But you should proofread it for typos.
There are clearly jobs that require high talent and have a shortage of labour that pushes up salaries. This includes things that require mathematical talent, like quantitative finance, but it also includes skills like motivational speaking or playing sports to a very high level.

However, I think most jobs are ones that, frankly, anyone could do if given the opportunity and a bit of training, but access to these jobs is controlled via gateways such as fancy schools, culture, family connections, your accent, etc. There's a kind of mediocre upper-middle class filling seats at large organizations but not really doing much. These are sometimes referred to as bullshit jobs.

But this is just speculation... I would like to see some data around it.

The number of people doing start-ups is a blip. This is not how most people accumulate wealth.
Richest 1% of what? Globally, the richest 1% is something like $35k IIRC. In the US, I think it's closer to $450k.
It's utterly amazing to me how far up the wealth pyramid you can go and find people saying "Me? No, no, no, I'm not wealthy - it's the people above me who are the wealthy ones."

Perhaps it stops at like $500k/yr?
Yeah, it's like the old Yahoo / MSN / ICQ messenger model - you have to add the users after finding out their unique user name / id.
Officer who shot Daunte Wright accidentally pulled gun instead of taser
angular? i thought we are all using vue now.
Some things are just very hard to explain for various reasons. One of them is that it's painful to look at how stupid some processes are.

But like the rubber duck technique, sometimes trying to 'document the bullshit' connects some dots in your brain and lets you either avoid the most frustrating part or at least chip away at it. And sometimes chipping away at a problem gets other people to contribute as well. Hope is a powerful thing.

It's kind of a Hail Mary Play but even the 'bad' outcome is far better than inaction.
Establishing Twitter's Presence in Africa
Everyone argues about this but for most people in tech - $400k/yr does not give you a "very comfortable" lifestyle. You cannot afford a $2m home. A $2m home isn't even that comfortable in the peninsula. (Varies on location but it'll probably be under 2000sqft, still 3-4 bedroom, 4000-8000sqft lot, 2-car garage if you're fortunate, will likely require $200k+ in renovation/repairs on move in, nothing lavish) Good luck trying to get one anyway - you're going to be beat by cash offers anyway.

If you extend your reach to very far out areas - you can get a better home and your dollar goes further but you're sacrificing on commute and then you don't have a very comfortable lifestyle because you're commuting really far.

A very comfortable lifestyle for most people in tech would be: two luxury cars (bmw/mercedes/porsche/modelsx), good public schools, safe and pleasant to look at neighborhood to purchase a home in, short commute distance (<30 min), and the usual lake tahoe trips, one-two vacations abroad a year, plus the usual smaller vacations, etc. You're not doing that on $400k/yr in SV. If both partners make $400k/yr then sure. I'm skipping out on the nanny, private school, prepared meals, and so forth because I think that's going above and beyond.

People I know who are at $400k/yr (household) are not buying homes in the peninsula or - just generally - close to work.
You've a reasonable point but the other poster said

>but the "TV size vs distance" charts I've found say nothing of what you're claiming either. And they're by people trying to sell TVs!

The people selling TVs actually say you ought to buy a big ass TV.
Def Leppard, to name one artist, did something similar:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/def-leppard-re...
The best: https://12factor.net/ legendary. The worst: sold to salesforce. Salesforce smells like enterprise software, no room for fast and simple software hacks using heroku.
Two things bother me about this article: One is the message that "'the richest people got rich by winning the lottery, therefore buying lottery tickets is good' says rich lottery ticket seller".

The other is the unspoken (and thus unchallenged) assumption that getting rich is what you should strive for in life, which I personally disagree with.
You (government currency regulators) make it illegal to convert fiat to crypto, and then monitor crypto ledgers for that last bit of folks who still attempt to use crypto. When exchanges break the law, you ship the folks who own the exchange to jail [1]. Crypto folks think they're the former cartoon panel, when it's really the latter how nation state enforcement works [2]. Governments crack down on money laundering with fiat all. the. time. Playing with fiat amounts more than $10k at a time? That's a currency transaction report (CTR) [3]. Try to avoid the CTR? That's structuring [4], also illegal, and a suspicious activity report (SAR) [5] is filed. So, when the question is asked, "how do you crack down on crypto?", the answer is "with the monopoly of force governments possess."

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=crypto+exchange+jail

[2] https://xkcd.com/538/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_activity_report
I have a Valve Index. It is the most mind blowing thing to me. I’m really excited for AR to get going. I’ve only seen it for shopping (see what item x would look like in your house). I think it might be cool for collaboration.
Nothing beats Svelte and Postgres for most web apps these days. Hasura can be a great addition to PG.
Data or gtfo
Uh, the people who supported developed and promoted her got, 300 mln when they sols the company and 11 years of revenue of her. Ive seen the rest of their artists and Ill assume like 90% of revenue came from T.Swift. A smart move is to not piss off the client who basicly is your whole cashflow.
>Secondly, there's absolutely no data on what proportion of income flows to which decile.

Is this true?

If I simply look at the Gini wiki, there are clearly tables showing this data with percentages of population by income brackets[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#Limitations

See [Table C. Household money income
distributions and Gini Index, US]
Imran Khan who is the current prime minister of pakistan was pro women rights and individual liberty but as soon as he came to power, he was forced to let go of his ideas and stick to religious preaching to stay in power. This is the state of Islam. No change is possible.

Even more outrageous is when well read muslims migrate to other countries they expect their religious rights to be respected. This is very sad state.
Some of things like API documentation generation and automatic cloud provisioning looks cool. It looks interesting and different from other frameworks and has a lot to figure out and understand.
I mean if they were truely best of breed they wouldn’t have needed a license change now would they?
Downvoted not because you're right, but because you're mostly wrong.

I mean, you're maybe 10% right. You take that 10% and inflate it to the point that it's almost completely wrong, though.
The argument isn't that he contributed nothing or that his contributions are worthless. Few people are advocating for burning everything he built to the ground simply to exorcise his lingering influence once he is gone or whatever and even fewer are doing so in good faith.

The argument is that by retaining his position he is actively alienating people. Do you think he is such a phenomenal genius that keeping him is worth ten good people quitting or not joining in the first place? A hundred? A thousand? Where is the break-even point where it becomes more beneficial to keep a "genius" than being welcoming to new people who feel deeply uncomfortable around his behavior. And are you measuring him by what he has created in the past, or are you really considering his present value and likelihood of future contributions?

What if he's not so brilliant after all and you're allowing one "genius" to cost you equivalent or even superior "geniuses" with less abrasive personalities?

We like to tell stories about individual heroes, but if there is one recurring pattern in history it's that we're always standing on the shoulders of giants -- and even that imagery is misleading as it is not really just a handful of giants but armies of them, mutually supporting each other as they carry your weight.
The front page giveth and the comments taketh away
I don't really see how this is possible for an independent artist unless I go the route of "Once this Kickstarter reaches $10k I'll release my song for free"
I didn't comment on the court system, but having practiced in the area of business and tax law for over a decade, WY is without a doubt, the forerunner in developing LLC law: it not only originated the concept, but has also originates essentially all of the LLC practices and treatments adopted by other states today, including the permissive management structures and other beneficial properties of the LLC form.
This happened in 1977, and none of the people who signed it are public figures today, certainly not in the tech sphere. Academics who study philosophy and literature are well aware of the checkered past of the influential figures throughout history.

The implication that leftist thought is rooted in pedophilia is, I'm sure, intentional flamebait. I will just point out that, whether or not people are right to vilify Stallman, no one here is suggesting that we abandon the free software movement because one of its most prominent figures said unsavory things. So there is no logical inconsistency.
How do you count wild rhinos? Carefully and with Elephants
Are you asking me to educate you on how disease transmission occurs? I'll need help understanding where you're coming from here. Do you know what a virus is? Do you think the Earth is flat? You at least seem to be able to read, so that's a good start -- you're somewhere between the stone age and the bronze age then.
The former head of the aclu (a woman) defends Stallman and his various positions. The post was shared a lot last month and is a good read about the entire stallman situation.
https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web-rms
So in the 1960s the rest of the world was rebuilding their bombed out cities. The US had no competition to speak of and provided “mature” at the time manufacturing to the rest of the world. There’s a lot of cracks and hand waving in this article, it’s a very roundabout way to say that income inequality isn’t a problem. It is a problem, and PG is so far removed from it he’s just thinking about how to justify keeping his and his friends’ money.
Ask your doctor if Kyndryl is right for you.
Fujitsu flying under the radar while having the fastest cpu ever made haha
The official Python installer in the Windows App store installs a handler for python and python3 .. or rather, the stub of the handlers already on your system calls into the app store and it's behavior changes after installation. Regardless of the technical implementation, after you install Python3 from the app store, running python3 from the command line will open the Python interpreter.

No clue why the standard non-app store installer doesn't add python3 to the path to mimic this behavior.
I mean I'm not sure what it would even mean for becoming rich to be accessible to 90% of the population since the definition of rich is having above average means. It seems like only the lottery would fit there. On the other hand it seems much more accessible to go to school and get a degree in CS than to be born into wealth. For example, plenty of foreign students come here from poor countries and find there way into the startup world.
What's worse is the second order repercussions. Future open core/open source SaaSes will go straight to something like the Business Source License or the MongoDB license instead of traditional libre licenses. Amazon has done an incredible amount of damage to the open ecosystem.
Indeed. How many people know who HL Mencken is?

Alexander is a good writer, and I appreciate how he is able to tackle assumptions and challenge mainstream opinions, and does so systematically.

But he's writing 10 pages of what could be summed up in 10 bullet points.

The intellectual collateral is nice, but he's not really breaking new ground, and I'm not sure what he's going to share with the next generation of readers
this is soooo cool.
One-time donations were not originally an option, but I'm happy to see it's been added since. It's now enabled. Thanks!
I understand the comparison, but the FSF can exist without RMS. PG on the other hand solely supports HN, I doubt he would continue to pay for a site that vilified him.
That'a American/USA reality my friend :) It saddens me that you (plural - the nation) allow big corp to bribe politicans openly and shamelessly (lobbying).

Brokers: for $1k per month you can subscribe to a service that will feed you that same info, in real time. So.. your argument half-stands.

Banks: Most big banks are good/strong enough. Some smaller banks (1-20 branches) are weak. They haven's scaled enough. In the UK we now have 'open data'. It gives you the 'freedom'(?????) to share your data with 3rd parties. "what can go wrong"...

Equifax: thank US politicians for that. Bribing FTW!!!(aka Lobbying).

Credit card: they "can’t sell raw consumer data to third parties unless they provide the customer with a notice and an opportunity to opt out. In some states, customers have to opt in. They can sell anonymized data, with all personally identifiable information stripped out or hashed." (https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2018/07/22/mastercar...).
I appreciate your well-defended and reasoned argument. I learned a lot from your countless examples of what I got wrong and given that I’ve missed the mark on earning your vote, I’ll be sure to factor your feedback into my future comments.
Space booster stage flying on Proton and Zenith, Blok D, is also derived from the fifth stage in the Moon expedition stack. Its engine is also the predecessor of the main engine of Buran. Lunar spacecraft technology helped with later creation of space probes, like Vega, and flying today space booster Fregat.
It's really interesting to see the world through PG's eyes. Kudos to him, I guess, for actually saying out loud what most of the mega-rich are unwilling to.

Everyone who isn't like PG (so, 100% of the population) is finding it difficult to make enough money to have a life in the most basically fulfilling sense: education, retirement, support for loved ones, and good health.

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/129/4/1553/1853754?logi...

So, PG: great news about the Forbes 100, I guess?
> DNA digital data storage is the process of encoding and decoding binary data to and from synthesized strands of DNA.

If each "bit" of DNA can be either A, C, G, or T, why call that binary?
Vim isn't vi. You don't have to have many features to be "vi like". That said, the site itself doesn't say "vi like". Their wording seems close to what you're suggesting.

"Amp is inspired by Vim's modal approach to text editing, which is reflected in several of its default key bindings. That similarity aside, there are several key differences". https://amp.rs/docs/

Edit: The amp key bindings: https://github.com/jmacdonald/amp/blob/8b917ac720e7513e5c5bc...
Nvidia Announces A30 GPU for AI Inference
> x86 instruction decoder may be only about ~5% of the die

What percent of the die is an ARM instruction decoder?
> Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing

Ya this confused me, because the geni coefficient measures inequality, the higher the number, the more inequality.

> A Gini coefficient of one (or 100%) expresses maximal inequality among values

So is PG saying it's normal the world is becoming less equal? Because of more people starting companies?
for real?

Taylor Swift an artist?

:facepalm:
What competitive market?

Nobody else can give you bandwidth out of Amazon data centers. Amazon's advantage is having a ton of services that work together, and they take advantage of it to price gouge on bandwidth.

If you're buying a standalone CDN service you can get massively better rates.
A Mysterious Suicide Cluster
> We are about to rebuild our Android app in Flutter from scratch now…

Why not use Java/Kotlin if its just on android? Flutter has its advantages sure, but from my experience developing with flutter is the apps end up a bit slower than native, and often you end up interacting with the Java ecosystem on android anyway so the experience doesn't end up being that much better.
This might be useful:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-gover...
It's a weird sentence. Doesn't "The company is not targeting people who use Google Chrome and Firefox as default browsers." imply that they aren't showing it to Chrome and Firefox users?

The former part seems to imply to me that you get this suggestion even if you've already used the feature.
Yes, and those trails from airplanes are considered by some to be mind control chemicals.

I wonder why the whole "secret inflation" theory seems so popular among techies, I see it multiple times a week on HN.
Dustin Moskovitz presented that point in the invaluable How to start a startup series - https://youtu.be/CBYhVcO4WgI

A good resource when deciding on your future ambitions