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> We would be better off if we could remove those dishonest people from our communities here and elsewhere.

You mean, only in some non-asshole way, so that we don't look exactly like them?
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You do realize that RISC-V processors aren't free right? Making an open source ISA is no small feat, but all they really did was help save some megacorporations a little extra money.

Perhaps it will lead to a processor startup, but follow that to its logical conclusion: it takes a huge, profitable company to sustain processor delivery for years. There's a very good reason why only a handful of companies make the top 6 CPU architectures. There's still Synopsys ARC, Renesas, Atmel, PIC just to name a few of RISC-V competitors.

In reality, the Berkeley Four just made a handful of semi companies richer. WDC, NXP, NVIDIA, Microchip, etc. don't have to pay Arm for IP if they use RISC-V. Did that really help anything? Meh.
It's kind of sad given that probably all the FAANG companies wouldn't exist (yet) if it wasn't for his work.
jam.dev are good friends of ours (both founders ex-cloudflare and some of my good personal friends!) :) but was thinking about it more as a play on jamstack.

re: excluding branches — we're actively looking into it!

and yes, that error has been fixed AFAIK, but let me double check.
I don't think CSAIL mailing list qualifies as "work" for rms, if "work" is FSF. Maybe "professional", but it's a university, so that sort of inquiry is 100% appropriate and should be protected.
It's also interesting in that if you hear a version that is NOT the master you can easily notice it, even if it's a very close version.

I suspect for lots of "hearing but not listening" as long as you hear the "normal master" version you don't notice, but if it were subtly different it would be noticeable (perhaps only subconsciously).

I wonder if you could do studies on Muzak at stores (original "radio" masters vs live versions vs lounge vs remaster vs ...).
I agree 100%. I've been working professionally as a software engineer for almost a decade now. For the past 5 years or so, I've been focusing on improving my understanding of architecture. I don't really want to be a manager or in charge of too many people. I just want control over architectural decisions. My hope is that I can carve out a niche for myself where I am a senior member of a company(or my own company) who still gets to get their hands dirty.
I think this was once true, but is significantly less so in the context of cloud platforms. It’s very easy from a business model standpoint for Microsoft to integrate Nuance NLP modules with Azure and start selling access to them at list prices very quickly.

You don’t need to hunt new customers with a marketing plan; you likely already have customers with these needs in your pipeline so it’s a matter of making sure your AEs know what’s happening. Everything is simpler at scale in a cloud business model, which is why these 3 companies in particular are eating the world.
The reverse compromise, where the email is hacked would require exactly that though. It's not a problem with one solution. It's many problems that require a human point of contact.
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I think some of this depends on the area. Even in an average area, a $200k salary with a family could give the option for early retirement.

I make less than $100k and support my family in an average area. It does feel like I'll work until I die. If I were making double that, it would be a huge difference.
Electric cars and planes are going to be huge, of course. Increasingly batteries will be replaced by fuel cells, and the hydrogen that powers them will be produced by means of hydrolysis produced by sunlight.

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-hydrogen-fuel-machine-ultimate...

https://newatlas.com/energy/osu-turro-solar-spectrum-hydroge...

https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2017/April/05152017Ren-Wa...
Unfortunately, for the last few years I have noticed more and more people no longer take government inflation data very seriously. Here are two (I am sure there are more) reasons why:

Housing, Health and Education.. these very basic needs have consistently outstripped official inflation numbers. Specifically on the US coasts. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the cost of housing is completely left out of that inflation number. Which in my opinion is kind of silly.

The formula for the index used considers substitutions. So for example, let's say Wool gets expensive, they expect you to substitute it for acrylic. If beef gets expensive, they expect you to substitute it for chicken or turkey, and so on. This isn't the reality people _feel_. For example, I for one, would realize I am no longer able to afford wool socks, and have to make do with acrylic socks. In essence, feeling poorer than I did before.
Github manages fine. I've used my account on numerous projects. Github simply recognizes that you are you and that your account and your company's data are two things.
Woah, can you provide a citation for that?
yep, but then when I expand (click triangle) the {value: 0} line, it shows "value: 1" on the next line, only to rise the confusion.

To be fair, there is also an "i" in a square, reminding me about this behaviour.
Real business-class features we want to know about:

Will they auto-detect workloads and cripple performance (like the mining stuff recently)? Only work through special drivers with extra licensing feeds depending on the name of the building it is in (data center vs office)?
I always see this sentiment here on HN. Everyone says "Why use blockchain, when you could just do X". Alot of the time when people say this, i don't think they actually understand blockchain. There's a million here but i'll only ask one...How could you actively trade a 'contract' if it's not on the blockchain?
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I was thinking more of SS7-based attacks for remote interception.
What number of companies are created vs those that made people rich? I think the numbers would paint a different picture than what is implied by the article narrative.
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Yeah; the ways that small differences lead to big changes in outcomes is super interesting.

I was lucky to live in a state where my college tuition was mostly paid for, and with a parent who, despite making very little (worked in the school system), was still able to help support me with a stable home and to help cover some of the gaps (like living on campus). I was very lucky.

I realized later on the advantages other people had though when talking with people; a work colleague whose parents, though not rich, were far better off than mine, and had equipped her with life skills I and my family simply did not have. It was from her I learned about the company 401k, and investing in general, and caused me to realize that I should be investing money, not saving it.
US trafficking laws include the concept of "reckless disregard".
But that is the government inflation, which is considered by some to be fake. Shadowstats [1] says inflation would be about 5%/year if we use the same methodology as in 1990, which gives about 60% over 10 years, i.e. you'd have to make 320k now. I'm just eyeballing the chart but if we use the 1980 method (~7% a year) it's almost 100% (i.e. you'd have to make 400k now).

For another example, Dow Jones with dividends reinvested gives a 180% increase, i.e. you'd have to make 560k. Of course this is not really inflation, but it gives a sense of how much you're missing out on vs. asset owners (please correct me if this is massively wrong).

[1] http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Thank you! I knew I'd read a novel with this premise but could not recall the name.
My own uneducated position is that is a new problem because shareholders don't want their money back. Shareholders have been piling money into stocks [1], so if you gave them the money back they would likely just put it right back into Microsoft (or, more likely, it would signal that Microsoft doesn't know what to do with the money, so people would pull out of Microsoft to invest somewhere else).

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-money-poured-stocks-past...
And how many people got poor starting a new company ?
"working for a corporation day in and out is slavery"

Corporations are the boogeyman de jour but from personal experience, landlords / restrictive zoning / "anti gentrification" activists are the primary cause of my angst. I make more money now than I ever thought I would, but a truly staggering amount of it goes directly into my landlord's pocket.
It's nice that they announce it and that there's some sort of future effort promised. From my perspective we might not upgrade the elastic-stack (with current Elastic projects) too far to not bacome accidentally incompatible in case we want to make a switch.
Zero knowledge proofs for the win! This is one of the things I need to see in a cryptocurrency before I believe it will succeed at scale.

1 Zero-knowledge proofs,

2 shielded ledgers,

3 democratized and energy efficiency mining,

4 inflationary control, and

5 wallet recovery.

No one has all of these yet, but ZKP is a big part of it.
Until you've been as close to rms as the people that have worked with/for him that have tried and failed for years and years to resolve issues privately, whatever silly argument you are trying to make doesn't have a leg to stand on.
> You could sue me for copyright infringement anyway, but you’d need to prove that my program copies yours. Some of the criteria used to prove this include the structure and organisation of the original source code, so even if I were to have used a different programming language, if I use the same code structure (even coincidentally) then it can appear as if I copied your program.

AFAIK, at least in the 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, i.e. they actually copied it. This would seem to rule out most scenarios with a SASS/closed source plaintiff.
This opinion hurts me. Will you apologize now?

EDIT: My phrasing was a bit too aggressive. But I believe that this opinion that people should always apologize if their opinions offend anyone is absurd. People should have the right to be offended. Being offended does not mean that you deserve an apology.
Just the whole notion that Brian is the guy whose life paralleled Christ but unlike Christ he was just some random guy.
https://www.getlektor.com/

lektor offers some of this functionality. editing is done locally through a browser UI, but there may be a way to host the interface. deployments are easy.
> Wow, given the answers to that thread, it seems that the HN crowd has either no notion of conditional probabilities or that their “future is better” mindset is clouding their rational judgement.

I mean it's a tech entrepreneurial news aggregator on a tech incubator's website.
Their whole raison d'etre is that "future is better buy my technology so I can get $$$" -- that's why this site exists.

Is it that it doesn't fit the mental model, or is it failing to read the room?
Oh... so you're talking about build-time dependencies?
California Privacy Act also gives you similar rights.
The entire point of the saga was that she wants to own the masters herself (which she does with the rerecorded versions), so she would be devaluing her own asset.
I remember sitting in an APS talk 7 or so years back where the room more or less laughed at a researcher presenting hypotheses on how deuterium detection might be possible in fruitfly proteins.

I hated that entire room and what it stood for. Philistines masquerading as professors. No scientific talk which was done systematically should be laughed at like that.
he does elaborate, he said "after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries" whereby he describes the aspect of the left he is talking about. He is a pro capital-ist, and he's referring to the part of the left that is anti capitalist. There is a lot of the left that is not anti capitalist
Why would players in an oligopoly undercut each other when their implicit agreement around pricing makes all of them richer? Also, second tier cloud providers like Oracle give deep discounts and still can't compete with AWAZGO so pricing isn't necessarily a main competitive advantage.
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We don't know that it didn't happen either. My understanding is that the relevant section of the deposition in question (which was part of a civil suit, not a criminal matter) is redacted. The unredacted contents were reported via a leak to a journalist. And it's not clear if Giuffre was even asked if sex occurred, as it wasn't relevant to this particular suit and the attorneys present weren't law enforcement or prosecutors with a mandate to chase the kind of evidence.

A reasonable guess is that Minsky probably did have sex, he just wasn't ever actually accused by anyone (being dead by the time this blew up).

Could that be wrong? Sure. But jumping in to argue that the absence of evidence proves innocence while failing to recognize the gravity of the crime involved is EXACTLY the rake that RMS stepped on.
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> An informed patient will get better treatment than an uninformed one

Absolutely true. Yet that does not turn them into a doctor. The statement I made is very specific.

Personal note: My mother is going through pancreatic cancer at the moment. She is reading everything in sight. Good. Bad. Ugly. She is not intellectually equipped to understand and evaluate it. She is not a doctor.

Well, she is driving her doctors insane. She is refusing certain treatments and asking for bullshit treatments. One doctor has already refused to work with her and asked her to switch to a different doctor. Her current doctor is pretty tired of burning valuable time with this google nonsense.

So, yeah, in general terms, informed individuals --in any field-- are better than the uninformed. The twist, however, is in the meaning of the term "informed".

The internet has created this paradox where millions of people believe they are "informed" or know something, when, in reality, they live in deeper ignorance of facts than before they became "informed" by google and social media.

It's the difference between "Practice makes perfect" (which is a lie) and "Practicing correctly makes perfect".
>>> Indeed, we should expect both the number and wealth of founders to grow, because every decade it gets easier to start a startup.

In my view, this isn't guaranteed. I don't think there's any inherent reason why the "tech" industry can't consolidate itself into a few huge "gatekeeper" companies, and make it harder to start startups that are actually successful.

At any moment, we could be at the beginning of an era, or at the end of one.
"...because they’re actually getting paid what they produced."

Do they really though? That's really the owners getting paid that, not all the workers. And a lot of that is really valued on the potential rather than what was actually produced to that point.

"10x the median income just isn’t that much. If you have three kids, money is still tight."

That's about $400k, right? That seems like an insane amount of money (I'm not in the Bay area).
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> Did he ever correct his statements about no women volunteering to work on GCC?

He wasn't aware of women working on GCC. There's nothing to correct. I'm not aware of women working on GCC. GNU has thousands of people working on it, he's not aware of most of them. So much criticism of him is taking his comments out of context and misrepresenting them, including so many things that are just complete fabrications that it makes it hard to actually understand what "real" problems there are.

> Did anyone ever tell him the Emacs virgins thing is very inappropriate?

Yes, and he agreed and stopped.

> And no, it's not normal for adults to be sexually attracted to teens.

K. You totally lost me there. Ever been to a porn website?
Pg looking at the top 100 people and giving his essay the heading "How People Get Rich Now", makes for a very distorted definition of "rich". How many hundreds of millions or billions does it take to be rich in his eyes?

When argumenting based on statistics, labeling of the graph or text is where the ideology really shines through.
What is leveraging family? Thats kind of broad. I.e. having parents who were able to afford you extra time for learning, paying for secondary education so you have no debt, exposing you to interesting people/ideas or something more Trumpian like offering up a multi million loans for free?

I'd agree top 100 is too small a data set.
He didn't write that; it was reported as that.

It wasn't appropriate but RMS being RMS wrote about a situation in which the girls were being coerced into presenting willingly, which Minksy then could have believed.

RMS is technically correct - this scenario could have happened - but I don't believe it as Minsky couldn't have been that naive.
No, but even in an ultra high cost of living area, on a high salary, $200k would let you retire a year or two earlier than you would have otherwise. Might not be life changing today, but personally I get excited at the prospect of money that would give me the option to retire even a few weeks earlier than I would have otherwise, even though that's likely 25 years out for me.
> Maybe I am just unlucky or unskilled, but I spent roughly 20 years working at startups or innovation labs. I was "close" to some big events where I could have made big $$ but made 0.

Probably holds for many people, but we mostly hear the success stories only.
No, that was already patched before Erastothenes. Some simple branch predictions based on behavior patterns of the Bronze Age civilizations were enough to get the change through management.
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An interesting exercise is to go through the wikipedia lists of the richest people in different countries. Follow the links for the the top 5 or 10 individuals listed, and see how they made their fortune. It's a rather high-entropy information dump - you can infer a lot about different parts of the world, from not much reading.
He held a visiting scientist title and an office. The affiliation was less substantial than a professorship but not nothing.
Does that mean ElasticSearch documentation won't be relevant soon?
Ask HN: Why isn't it easier to get former coworkers hired at my current company?
I always hope that I can get friends of mine hired wherever I'm working. Some of these people I haven't worked with, and I refer them to submit a resume and go through the standard process. But quite often I have friends that I have worked with that are interested in joining my current company. Even though I can vouch for these people as being easy to work with, fun to be around, and remarkably talented, they are still funnelled through the exact same process that often ends with them being rejected.

This experience has been consistent across multiple companies in my career. Why don't companies loosen their process based on strong referrals?
Is this under the radar?
Market segmentation is practiced by every chip company that you use. Intel: ECC. AMD: ROCM. Qualcomm: cost as percentage of the phone price.
The concept of the master is unhelpful in inhibiting artists from setting out a version of a song in studio conditions once they've had chance to live with it and play it live for a while. Live recordings are more spontaneous but we all know that the sound can be less than ideal.

I've been listening to a few recordings of Little Feat's Rock'n'Roll Doctor [1] - a wonderful song but one where I'm convinced by far the least interesting version is the 'master recording'. How many songs languish because the master is not that great?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-r-qi_cJs0
As someone who tried buying services from ES and had to deal with their smug sales people that had a total disdain to those who wanted to give ES money, I am happy I will never need to deal with them in future.
You can't look at the richest 100 people and say anything at all that's useful to regular people or even super smart tech folks, because they're outliers of the largest magnitude.
6 months from start to prod is... not bad at all? You must be a wizard programmer if that is your typical turnaround time.

I don't remember AWS saying something like "it will be ready in weeks" in Jan...
Let me guess, start-ups is how people get rich?

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
They did not even only bully him for his actual flaws, but for stuff he is not even guilty of too...
In the next decade, there will only be 3-4 companies that own everything tech. We will only have the illusion of choice
Never mind the usefulness of contact tracing. The issue here is that Google and Apple clearly said "Thou shalt not create logs of user locations". NHS (i.e. government) first said "OK", but then tried to sneak in user location logging as part of an update.

To which Google and Apple said "hard NO".

Which is the correct response to privacy-violating function creep.
Can Facebook legitimately pivot into any other service/product and still make money? It seems like they're always going to be at odds with privacy/public trust.

One one hand, it is extremely sad to see talented engineers at Google/FB work hard on products designed to spy on people, but OTOH, I suppose it could be far worse if these were companies who simply sold our data.
No, the problem isn't that the critics disagreed with me - the problem is that every critical write up I found said this new release was amazing, breathtaking, incredible, brave, [insert extreme superlative here] etc.

Not one review I found had the guts to say "eh, 15 is abysmal on the new record, especially compared to the raw energy and feeling of the original". It's OK to like the new version, but to say it's brave is really stretching belief.

It's like if a bunch of art critics fawned over Da Vinci making an exact copy of the Mona Lisa again. Sure, he might knock it out of the park the second time, but it's not the same.
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This appears to be about events that are at least 15 years old, if not older?

Does sound like a pretty terrible manager. An unpaid volunteer position on the board doesn’t really seem like the position where these problems would happen again. And they weren’t the reason he got in hot water - that was all related to a media firestorm over Minsky/Epstein.
Nobody ever bought any music "to support the publisher" - the middle man is just that, the middle man.
Indeed. The lettering is not Tolkien-map-style, and it uses the movie "style" of dropping unnecessary (and incorrect) tengwar diacritics all over to make it look "fantasy".
misleading title: it’s not complicated, but you can make it complicated. Just use cc-by (sa or nd) and an osi approved foss license. A good read: https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/owning-your-own-copyright... or see https://blog.codeforscience.org/intellectual-property-in-ope... to keep it simple!
The incentive here is economic, not some governmental force. If some company stopped paying dividends, the stock price would crash. Some governmental entity coming in after the fact and forcing the company to pay dividends would be null at this point as the company would most likely be bankrupt. The same thing would happen here, the price of alex would crash to nothing making the other 90% that he owns worthless.
He was 73 and she was 17. Are we supposed to believe he thought she thought he was cute? It’s unreasonable to imagine he thought sex was something she wanted