skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people like me are creating a lot of value, please acknowledge it. Also there are no downsides to this accumulation of wealth

That is an overstatement of the article, but the article is actually defending the rise in inequality as a nature of the world today with no guilt (of participation) about it.

Reminds me of the call girls in H2G2 who specialize in sociology telling executives that it is okay to be rich and they earned every dollar in a dystopian war field (HanDod city?).

It is extremely important for a creator to truly believe that "they built all this value" (non zero sum value and that is often true) and not merely built an efficient transfer mechanism into their pocket. This in contrast to something like Warren Buffet's "lottery of birth" statements.

He is right about something though, the rules are the same as before.

"Welcome all. Everyone can play, the winners get to keep playing, the rich can play longer even if they lose - those who play longest, win big. Just remember there are no second acts in american life".

The winner-take-all only benefits those who can actually spread their investments around ,so that the investors can spread their money, but the workers can't spread their time around 10 possible jobs.

Also, picking oil and 1982 feels odd considering half the "gas crisis of the 70s" highlighted why oil is critical.

If I said medical tech would boom in the next five years, with vaccines for HIV and bespoke immune therapy for cancers, that would not be a bad bet because of the usual "events leading up to".
The only justice that will work for you & your seeming...

is simply by mastering what you do & what you use...
If you want to avoid the cost and trash of bottled water, try keeping a pitcher of water(or reusable water bottles filled from the tap) in your fridge. The chlorine is pretty volatile, and will evaporate off within a day(assuming the pitcher isn't air tight). Just have some rotating stock so you can always have water ready to drink or make ice cubes. Of course you could also go the filtration route, but that adds the upfront cost of the system, and continuous cost of filters and wasted water.
Yeah. My point is, PG's essays project objectivity and neutrality and even science; but in truth he has an agenda, and it's the same as Thiel's.
That's interesting, thanks for the tip. I would hope they would have a sort of garbage collection that deletes orphaned messages, but this is Discord we're talking about.
Tell me, why are people still willing to listen to PG? He's clearly justifying an existing belief here by cherry picking.
I still use safari on an iphone6 to browse youtube, reddit, and whatever else.

I like that it saves my tabs for me. I have old ones sitting from nearly 5 or 6 years ago that I still go back to occasionally.

I also like purposefully obfuscating browsing social media and youtube so that I spend less time there and am less inclined to use it all day. I can even have a reddit account without ever getting any kind of push notifications. Its great!

That being said, I am probably going to get a linux phone once this one finally leaves me, so I do not represent a large segment of the consumer base.
I still think Nvidia takes it further.
The ability to be an effective leader is not a court of law. I'm totally ok calling for someone to step down after they defend statutory rape, in theory and practice (which RMS did both).
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They took over FreeRTOS for good, CBMC for good, with Xen they were a bit unlucky, but it still has much better security than KVM, and now they take over ElasticSearch.

Good Open Source efforts, much better than until a few years ago.
So, those are both necessary terms due to the US asinine idea that copying data within a system is covered by copyrights, and general enough terms that allow MS to do anything they want with any content you send through Skype.

I don't see how the GP is incorrect. But I also don't see how MS could improve anything here.
I don't understand if your insulting RMS but the comparison is definitely insult to RMS. RMS is the legend.
This is just sad, amazon playing the victim.
Bitcoin – Accepting Online Stores Emerging in Market
Part of me finds it ironic that so many leftist podcasts rake in big bucks on Patreon.
I really want someone to ask Janet "do you have plans to ban Cash transactions because they are used for illicit activity?"

I would guess USD inflation is far worse than expected and they know Bitcoin's initial intended purpose (as an alternative to government money) has come to fruit.

It just sounds better to use the illicit boogy man.
Growth from whom and stagnation for whom? If during this "stagnation", the level of societal wealth remains the same, but inequality decreases, that indicates massive utility gains due to decreasing marginal utility of wealth.

Moreover, inequality now is extremely high, and growth is decelerating. China has less wealth inequality than the United States, yet is growing substantially faster.
Except there are already laws that exist in these countries that need to be enforced. An extra-judiciary force for something that should be taken care of in-house is just unnecessarily power wielding that will be abused. If it was an investigative force that questioned and pushed why certain countries were unevenly utilizing certain laws already enacted, awesome. Sort of like oversights for elections. That I can hesitantly get behind.

All this current concept of political environmentalism does is give another law enforcement and judicial system in the hands of a political few.

Also, don't think I'm for dawdling. You know the best way to get people to stop kicking dogs? Bounce their heads off pavement. I take a very rash and violent viewpoint on how to curb purposeful misdeeds. My biggest thing, make sure you uphold a systematic process of judicial proceedings. Fair trials. Rules and procedures are clear and easy to follow. Evidence based. Ability to fully defend yourself in a court of law. Context. Even legal handedness. The most guilty piece of shit still deserves a fair trial and to be considered innocent until proven guilty. This whole ecocide thing smells of "guilty because we say so".

There's a system already in place to deal with the problems. The issue is, average people aren't educating themselves on it and how to utilize it. I can't speak for every country obviously, but I'm pretty sure most 1st world countries have some similar functions that allow petitioning and suing corps and gov like we can in the USA. The ability to sue is a dangerous tool as well, that is obviously abused. But it's useful as hell too.
>Apple has had some decent ones. P.A. Semi, notably

And, let's not forget, NeXT.

Probably one of the best U$400 something million ever spent.
Uhmmm I’m pretty sure David vs Goliath is talking about scale between competition. Saying that $11B is Goliath just because you’re sitting at $1M doesn’t mean they’re not in a crazy mismatched fight against a $2T company. In the same way you could be in a David vs Goliath situation yourself if you with $1M in wealth tried to sue someone with $25K of wealth. Everything is relative. Doesn’t mean it’s not a crazy unfair mismatch that doesn’t deserve sympathy and regret.
You're looking mixing up cause and effect

You're mad about "cause": Evil startup stiffs tons of small players across the world

You're lashing out at "effect": Lots of money gets concentrated around the evil startup's headquarters

A lot of really bad stuff has happened in history because of this sort of bad logic, so you really need to rethink your position
No nastiness on the Shuttle tank; gimballing and RCS were left up to the Shuttle itself. It's basically just two tanks and some plumbing.
SPACs Bring More Opportunity – and Competition – To the Private Equity World
This editor is missing way too many vim helper shortcuts to claim to be vi-like, maybe vi-inspired would be better wording. That being said, the editor looks really nice and jump mode feels extremely intuitive; I might give it a full shot once they get language server support
I would like everyone to know I am posting this inside virtual reality, a space Paul Graham personally thinks will be full of rich people.
These variations are why I brew coffee with distilled water - gives very consistent joe. Have a distilling machine.
> That kind of disruption is at odds with every value FOSS devs claim to hold-- meritocratic, decentralized, etc.

You're mixing things here. :) meritocracy and decentralization are completely orthogonal to free software. They [edit: s/are/could be construed as a/] part of the open-source ethos as explored in CATB & explained by esr, not a sine-qua-non of free software.
“most people haven't read the Facebook terms of service and it is probably unreasonable to expect everyone to not only read them”

I completely disagree with this thought process. If a website is asking your birthday, every like / dislike , every detail about relatives and is able to predict if you like someone even before you do .. you better know how they will use all this data.
If it’s ethereal value can only be realized by banning competitors, what is that really worth?
Hackenews allows to register anonymously (doesn't require an email)
Would it be legal (and feasible) to create a community that requires a phone number verification but the number is not stored anywhere?
Arguably, most memorably, Tegra; the CPU/GPU which powers the Nintendo Switch.
Yeah, but if feels not right , people should use the down vote button , then if the majority pressed down then up then is clearly something it should not be discussed. It is not right that a small number of individuals could hide something, because there is not an equivalent mechanism for a similar number of people to un-flag it.

There were different articles about RMS, so why an article that has Red Hat in it's name should stay and other that has an author less prestigious should be hidden, I mean let the community decide, we always repeat ourselves in comments when we talk about latest Apple,Facebook or Google shit so if the users upvote and discuss something then don't fucking hide it, it means it is on topic, the nes that don't want to engage can skip the article or downvote it and upvote soem other article instead that is more interesting.
Dude is obsessed with money and wealth. Why?
Modern Americans seem to be very conflicted and in a need of a shrink.

On one hand, they seem to have this quasi genetic memory of things being an abomination unto the Lord[1], while on the other hand, it's not hip to be openly religious, so they won't openly mention the Lord[1], all the while maintaining their puritanic shackles and even have outrage at the people who don't have those shackles.

Just you wait until they realize what you wrote about Foucault and denounce any and all of his achievements ;-) It seems to be very trendy these days.

[1] The ironic bit, of course, is that the Scripture doesn't state what the age of consent should even be.
Domino’s, Nuro to begin autonomous pizza deliveries in Houston
Hogswash.

Nuclear diamond batteries are a subset of betavoltaics, a reasonably well established technology with niche applications where a (very) small amount of power is required for a long time. Their energy density can be significantly greater than chemical batteries. If you have a little sensor that needs to run for 20 years, betavoltaics are a good choice.

However their power density is abysmal. For context, providing the 0.2 W of power your phone needs would require approximately 70 kg of such batteries. Driving an electric vehicle at 100 kph would require 5000 Metric Tons of such batteries. These low power densities are good, because the amount of radiation shielding needed is proportional to power output. The radiation source for a few microwatts is generally harmless as long as it's outside of your body; but standing next to an unshielded radiation source producing just 1 watt would be equivalent to a full body CT scan every second, and would kill you in about 5 minutes.

This site is clearly trying to rely on people's lack of understanding to overhype a buzzword-heavy technology that could never pan out.
It is great that RMS is trying to explore his emotional capacity and relate to others!

Shocking in these comments how many people believe that people are not responsible for their own emotions. No one can "hurt another" emotionally. It is up to each person to take the mature (and logical) stance that "I am responsible for my emotions". If something someone does or says "hurts me" emotionally, it is because I have chosen to allow that emotion, or I have not sufficiently dealt with the circumstances that have caused it to arise such that I am unable to process it in a manner which does not put the responsibility for its arising on another.

I'm not saying that if someone shoots your mother you shouldn't feel angry or sad, but that the anger or sadness is not CAUSED by another. It arises solely within you. You can see that this is true because people react wholly differently dependent upon the individual. It is within human capability to positively act from a place of clarity rather than negatively react from emotion.

It seems clear from this short page that RMS understands this.
Is it? Does most inequality rise from value creation?

Most wealth in America is held by the top 5% wealthiest households directly as a result of inheritance, not hard work or value creation.

How is arguing that the inequality produced by inherited wealth needs to be restrained a "commitment to prevent the creation of value"?
How?

How do you 'crack down' on a currency that doesn't require any existing state or bank controlled apparatus to operate? Other than the exchange point, which private exchanges for cash can circumvent, how do you crack down on what is essentially math conducted via computers that everyone has access to?

Neither the article, nor the linked one from December say.
datomic is the only database that i know that does this, afaik.
I really think they did. The first two were some of the only things I knew about RMS before the current controversy prompted me to learn more.
> U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other officials have warned about the use of cryptocurrencies for illicit transactions.

Wait until you hear about cash.

More seriously (and hopefully less reductionist) i feel nations who embrace cryptocurrencies early will see mixed results as the landscape matures. I am more confident that nations which turn their back on it, or shut it out completely, will see a loss of otherwise valuable businesses and mindshare.

Whatever your stance on cryptocurrencies are, what is of little dispute is the business opportunities they have created. Binance and Coinbase are large, successful companies. Poloniex was sold for ~400M.

Knowing the US has soured on cryptocurrencies doesn't make me any less interested in them, it just makes me less interested in holding them/working in the space on US soil. I'd be surprised if i were alone in this sentiment, and in spite of its negative reception on HN, the tech space around cryptocurrencies is quite literally growing as we speak.
It means ~"Comes so close to confirming that it does everything up to it, except actually confirming" -- the actual confirmation is all that's missing. Once I realised that, it stopped annoying me.

Auttoiko?
Cert-manager works with at least Ambassador to do this, but basically any web server that can read a tls certificate from a Kubernetes secret should work with cert-manager.

Beyond that, though, there really isn't a solid "turn on TLS" option because security is hard and TLS is not a panacea. It ostensibly encourages that a client on the Internet will only send data to a domain name that currently has a matching TLS certificate (practically relying on an intricate web of trust between DNS and PKI), but that isn't even a guarantee. Web servers often still listen on port 80, clients can be forced to ignore certificate errors, and TLS does zero client-side authentication or authorization by default.
Well, PCIe 6 x16 will do 128 GB/s. Of course, the real question is how many transactions per second you get. For the PCIe 6 16 lanes it's about 64 GT/s.

Speaking in general terms, data rate and transaction rate don't necessarily match because a transaction might require the transmitter to wait for the receiver to check packet integrity and then issue acknowledgement to the transmitter before a new packet can be sent.

Yet another case, again, speaking in general terms, would be the case of having to insert wait states to deal with memory access or other processor architecture issues.

Simple example, on the STM32 processor you cannot toggle I/O in software at anywhere close to the CPU clock rate due to architectural constraints (to include the instruction set). On a processor running at 48 MHz you can only do a max toggle rate of about 3 MHz (toggle rate = number of state transitions per second).
Make your own GPL alternative if you don't approve of the FSF and how they conduct themselves. It's like saying Ford is in a leadership position, if you don't like their product, drive something else.
All my Vercel (NextJS) apps are proxied through Cloudflare without any issues
> A French critic cleverly wrote that "with Autumn Sonata Bergman does Bergman." It is witty but unfortunate. For me, that is. I think it is only too true that Bergman (Ingmar, that is) did a Bergman.... I love and admire the filmmaker Tarkovsky and believe him to be one of the greatest of all time. My admiration for Fellini is limitless. But I also feel that Tarkovsky began to make Tarkovsky films and that Fellini began to make Fellini films. -- Ingmar Bergman

And PG does PG. It's a classic pseudo-contrarian, startup rally cry, PG post. Which isn't to say it's worth getting annoyed at it. It's simply on brand.
>At the end, there's a massive claim that isn't fully stated but implied. "Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing" translated means "income inequality is not a problem".

To me, the implied message simply reads as "Startups and private equity is the number way to make money in 2021. Come do business with us."

Makes sense given PG's primary business.
Do remember that Microsoft is a very large company and each team operates differently. It's not especially useful to declare the whole company a political nightmare.

Disclosure: former Microsoft employee. I have no trouble speaking my mind about how I feel about the company but I prefer more honest nuance.
Weird how different these systems are. Anything involving something like a social security number could not be emailed. HR would be explicit telling you not to reply back with the filled PDFs via email.
> "...so that anyone with some computing background can build a processor, freely."

They could already do that. I designed and laid out in silicon a 32 bit processor as part of my undergraduate studies in computer engineering.
Fascinatingly, NVIDIA's own docs [1] claim GPU<->GPU bandwidth on that device of 600 GB/s (though they claim total aggregate bandwidth of 9.6 TB/s). Which would be what, 96 and 1536 lanes, respectively? That's quite the pinout.

[1] - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/nvlink/
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You could argue that the availability of Linux saved countless megacorporations from having to pay Microsoft, IBM, or Sun. Yet the availability of Linux has been a boon to people across the board.

While I agree there is something not right about cutting into ARM’s profits for the benefit of megacorporations, I think that a royalty-free ISA might genuinely be good for civilization despite that in the same way Linux is. It’s tough though, I’m still not fully sold on that opinion.
You can't downvote articles; you can only flag them [if you want to express disapproval].
Grace, in contrast, is a much safer project for NVIDIA; they’re merely licensing Arm cores rather than building their own ...

NVIDIA is buying ARM.
Lead isn't good for the brain or nervous system, but does it have any benefits?

Some poisons for example help disease resistance because the disease pathogens are harmed even more by the poison than we are.
I'll partly agree. I live in a HCOL city, and $200k is way more than enough, even with a kid. But $1M with a safe withdrawal rate of 3.5% gets you $35k/yr, which won't leave you "happily ever after" anywhere in the US with kids, particularly with healthcare concerns. Of course, one could move abroad, but that's not always feasible.
Do you hear yourself? Because the flu kills more people, it's OK to drive drunk? It's OK to throw rocks off of highway overpasses and tall buildings? How can you call people who do that killers, when they're causing fewer deaths than the flu!?

There are plenty of countries where people do wear masks during flu season if they feel like they might be sick. Yes, an anti-masker who would berate and assault people on buses for wearing a mask during flu season is fighting for the explicit goal of increasing random, avoidable deaths of strangers and is therefore a killer/terrorist.
Teen Crypto Entrepreneurs May Be the Real Adults in the Room
Console.group is one of my favorite features but Chrome does not handle filtering it very well. Basically, if you want to filter on a certain term, all the groups will remain, even if nothing from those groups (title, subfields, otherwise) matches. There has been a Chromium bug open since 2014: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=363796
The middle man is a load balancer for risk. The middleman makes a bunch of artists moderately rich, and they lose money on most of them and make money on some of them. They take on the risk of letting an unproven artist spend a few years doing something that could turn out to generate little money, and in return they get a big share of the ones that do make money. Now, thanks to the internet, the ones that do make it big can cut out the middleman.

Now there will be no middleman to take on the small risks of many unproven artists, and because of the relentless greed and ego of Chapelle and Swift many young artists will never have the opportunity that they did.
Denali’s Muldrow Glacier is surging
People have been saying this for a decade, and several failed exchanges later plus a few attempts at banning US persons from using crypto, the crackdown has yet to really arrive.
A Swedish gallery called Timeless pulled that scam recently, they sold art in galleries in Sweden and Poland (and Miami and Dubai) with the promise buy it back N months later with a yearly appreciation of at least 20% (I see here that Polish customers were promised 36%).
I disagree. Sure I am not able to just give up work entirely but those sort of figures you mention lead to a very comfortable standard of living, even supporting my entire family on one salary.

I guess it is about expectations about what you think you should have. I don't have a Tesla for instance.
This is kind of like a Clippy suggestion: hi there, it looks like you’re criticizing the forum. Would you like to establish a reputation on the forum?
https://www.fonoa.com/ These guys also have an API for dealing with different tax laws around the world. Founded by some ex-Uber people.
It depends on the treatment method your city uses. Chlorine gas will evaporate out, but chloramine won't, and will also react with a lot of things downstream to make nasty tasting organics, for example if you use the water in brewing.
Libgen added a feature to download files with ipfs. It is ridiculously faster than a normal download.