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That's a great article.

I too an earning money doing something I never thought I'd be doing. But I got here just following the scent of what people appreciated me the most for, and most of the time, it's a good job. All of the time, it's a high paying job. And half of my time, I'm not at it. :-)

Peter Drucker says in one his seminal business books "look for the easy wins", even when they aren't where you think you should be looking. Because they point you at what you can do really well at. Best business advice I think I could give anyone.
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The code you wrote five years ago.
checking if someone has got an account on HN is doxxing now?
Every freakin' username is a direct link to the user's profile.
Additionally, he's personally posted a statement about it here through that account[0] a day ago. It's definitely not doxxing if he already revealed his identity himself.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27234542
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Another common misunderstanding that I found quite irritating lately is the fallacious idea that wealth has a natural tendency to "trickle-down".

By all means, the opposite is true, and I bet this can be theoretically proven.

Wealth (and power) naturally trickles up. (not down!)
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The freenode drama reads like tabloid trash gossip and I question the value of it on a sophisticated site like HN.
> the harm potential by a "not-understanding rich of the poor" is much greater than a "not-understanding poor of the rich"

This seems superficially true, conjuring up a group of callous rich people using their power to make decisions that disproportionally harm poorer people. Obviously this does actually happen.

However, it’s equally true that not understand the nature of wealth causes the poor to make less than optimal decisions, both on a micro scale, and a macro scale.

I don’t mean there is some simple path out of being poor by making better decisions, but I do mean that not understanding wealth means that poor people often can’t tell the difference between a good opportunity and a bad one or how much work it takes to find one.

It also means that poor people end up supporting political ideas that don’t make lasting a difference.

I say this as someone who grew up poor, is no longer poor, and can see now that I have had access to more people with money how much better I’d have done if I had known more about how wealth works earlier in life.
No. Not raising kids in poverty is a matter of social responsibility. I would also argue that most people don’t want kids until they have a certain level of financial security.. That’s why family planning was so successful in decreasing birth rates.
Eh I feel as though you relinquished the channel the second you essentially shut it down. Why would freenode or any IRC server want to just keep a channel that is unused except to advertise a different server? I would understand more if it was some sort of specific channel that the name was clearly exclusively yours but its rather generic and a bot that many people here could also maintain.

Strikes me as sort of 'domain squatting'
Very nice and it is super wonderful to use. Now my workflow is so easy. Most of the time, translation on GIF and images don't work and I have to get them and then use a translation tool. Now it is just snap and my shortcut to translation all in one place.
The hurdle to get a “business” degree is low, so it is a poor signal of drive/intelligence/network, hence the poor ROI.

That’s why there is such an emphasis on STEM education for those looking to maximize income. The higher the hurdle, the more valuable the hurdle is as a signal to others. Hence the competitiveness of entry at some schools.
1. Execution absolutely guarantees that the criminal will not hurt anyone ever again. In prison, criminals can still hurt prison guards and other prisoners. They can also escape or be freed by mistake. There is a clearly benefit in terms of risk to innocent people. There are certainly innocent people that have been spared harm or death by virtue of executions.

I don't view execution as punishment or revenge. I view it the same way I view putting down a rabid animal. I would never take pleasure or vengeful satisfaction in it, even if the criminal had hurt me or someone I knew.

2. It's not significantly more ethical to keep someone that is innocent locked up in a prison for their entire life. Someone being freed after 50 years in prison has had their life stolen from them, even if they were not actually executed. The stakes for life imprisonment are just as high as execution. Arguably, the torture of prison makes it worse than execution in many cases.

3. Execution makes sense in some rare cases, where the criminal is very clearly guilty (e.g. video evidence of them murdering multiple people) but only as a way to prevent them from hurting people in the future. Not as a deterrent, punishment, and not for revenge.

4. If I was a sociopath serial killer that couldn't help myself, I might view execution as a relief. Even if outwardly I was begging not to be executed, I might appreciate that my society had the courage to kill me instead of leaving me to rot in prison for 50 years.

5. Ultimately, we need to be able to cure these people and release them back into society. Science just isn't there yet, so for now we have execution and life imprisonment as our primary tools. No one should be satisfied with either option. They're both terrible options that are not as dissimilar as some portray them to be.
When the death penalty is involved I would argue that discovery should in fact be unlimited
The issue is you are taxed on them when you exercise them before you can actually sell them to get the money to pay the taxes.
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> taking money from people against their will

Yes, that is what taxes are.
5 years ago I was just starting out :)
If you look at Intel's post launch marketing, they stick almost completely to the boring names, and "X generation {product family}".

For example, here's intels product listing for their Xeon Scalable Platinum product line (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...)

They use the code names prior to launch because they don't have SKUs out yet, and also because they are actually talking about different things, that sometimes don't have clean ordering.
Totally agree with all of this. If you actually have the opportunity to make good money and you still wreck your finances through excessive spending, well, that is on you (barring something like a legit mental illness). Big difference between that and starting off with few skills or opportunities.
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Good point. If it is for the main living place.
I asked this same question last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108910
My favorite is when Elon Musk, the messiah of the clean energy future, uses his for a hop from LAX to Hawthorne.
Often lowest stakes and highest drama go hand-in-hand.
The free market caused this situation in the first place.
I’ve never had these abuses working for a startup. I feel like you have to push back against things instead of just going with it. Or choose the position better because they sound like bad jobs regardless of the type of business. That’s what I can’t help thinking when I hear that because I’ve now worked for 5 different startups and while there was some crunch time occasionally the majority by far was an 8 hour day and then I was out, even for one of the companies when I was the 4th engineer. And they just closed another 20 million round recently.

I really don’t think people do enough due diligence about where they should work plain and simple. Work is a mutual contract where you want to try to extract as much value from your employer while negotiating to the point they’ll still hire you. And a lot of the negotiation is figuring out if it’s a good job anyway and walking away to another option if you get the sense it’s not a good from either a financial, time or social perspective.
In the best of circumstances working for a startup is akin to playing the lottery. I worked at a startup almost a decade ago and I took (nearly) no equity in exchange for a much higher salary. The startup failed not long after I left.

If you just want the experience of working at a startup, go for it. But don't do it expecting any financial reward beyond of your salary.
You have a valid point but in the IRC netiquette there's a strong (very strong) taboo against server/network operators abusing their permissions to interfere with channels, particuarly taking over a channel that is registered.
I wholeheartedly agree. Wittgenstein's arguments are rather uplifting in the sense that they make very clear the commonalities of being human, that, with all of the incredible variations of culture, you can take steps for "bridging the gap" so to speak, and often that just means communicating and interacting with other people, learning a form of life to learn what animates the people that live it.

The private language argument had a similar effect for me, but more-so in dissolving the insistence some people make over subjective vs. objective. Through the private language argument, you see that that opposition is really more about personal vs. public. Wittgenstein does not dissolve the personal; but the private language argument does dissolve the kind of fundamentally private subjectivity that people often reference or hold in that debate on subjective vs. objective.
What you can do, which is a little meh, but still usable is reterminate your cat5 as two rj45 jacks. For rooms with nothing with ethernet, put a small patch cable; for rooms with wired devices, put a switch with a cable to both ports plus whatever devices.

You should be able to run at least gigE on cat5, and shared 1gbps is probably better than what you get on wifi.

I've heard good things about MoCA, but it certainly costs more than regular ethernet.
80's became a huge boom to individuality and cut-throat competition, just saying.
I'm surprised IRC is still a thing with the rise of Matrix, IMHO a modern replacement.
You underestimate the role that Freenode has in open source software and geek culture.
Cant edit this post on this HN client but just to note, personally I dont have much knowledge of freenode specifically so I dont know if this is exclusively a bad thing because its freenode and not slme other server.
The entire concept of reactive objects brings back memories of extreme pain from KnockoutJS days (and terrible performance in complex scenarios to boot). I prefer just working with plain old data structures.
What has the network produced in the real economy?

It’s possible bitcoin may produce something someday. But look at it from an outside perspective: a bunch of people, motivated by an idea, have got together and commissioned the burning of coal and oil on a vast scale.

Bitcoin more or less operates as “proof of carbon”. Imagine if a crypto network operated by “proof of art burned” or “proof of buildings destroyed”. And people got together and directed capital towards buying up art and burning it, or buying real estate and knocking this down.

And this secured their currency network. You’d have to have some very good output from the network to justify such waste.

Because proof of work is proof of waste. That’s how it’s set up and secures the network. Unlike existing systems it is antiefficient. And currently it is setup to waste carbon and GPUs.
The ten year expiry is an IRS rule for issuing an ISO.
"I don't believe in free music."

--Bono
Yeah of course. You still hate to see it, though.
It definitely is more risk. However when I evaluate startups I'm comparing them against other jobs. Stable income it may be but the runway is short, and depending on the founders it may or not be well communicated. So it is much less stable than a job in a big company. So to me I want a good multiplier.

Many of the payoffs I've seen for startups that did well for early employees put earnings on par with what I've done at a large company without the startup risk. And that's for the ones that do very well which is a low chance.

So in the end I personally would get a lot more stress and a lot less income to usually being equal in a great case.

So generally it doesn't seem that worth the risk, low control, and probably low payoff.

I'd actually be more likely to join a startup in some years when I'm financially at a retirement or FIRE point. But then it's like, working for a founder on their idea, and maybe the pressure to hold out for 5-10 years there for the actual payout.

Just my mental space around it.
a lot of immigrants have both the experience of starting their life poor in their home country. starting poor in america and then ending their life rich.

so we do understand what it’s like to be poor. and in a way i think sometimes we have less sympathy because we can see how good decisions can lead to wealth.

there’s countless stories of jewish or asian immigrants in new york working insane hours for little pay as textile workers and all of their children become doctors or lawyers.
The key thing I recommend is to *prioritize who you want to work for* (or have as clients). People who will care about your well-being. Find what they need and try to match your skills.

I had my own startup at some time, and worked for both other people's startups and for big corps. I used to maximize career and CV over quality of life. I was easy prey to assholes/takers/sociopaths. Burned 15 years of my life without much to show. On the upside, I really appreciate now working for good bosses and good leaders. I could easily earn 1.5-2x in a soulless corporate job. But I know my current employer would go out of its way to try to not screw me over while the 2x employer will throw me under the bus the second I stop being useful.

You can study or do research on your spare time. Good bosses will understand if you eventually move on. And some might even help you progress against their convenience.
doxxing, by definition, is revealing previously private information. On his hacker news profile he’s listed his email that links that account to him. It’s all public.
I feel the same way, but I think it's really simple: people who care enough about being mods to become one are the same people who are likely to let it get to their head.

Mod drama on reddit for instance is fairly incredible in scope and dedication. For some people being a mod seems to be effectively a full time activity and getting to mod as many subreddits as possible an objective, regardless of whether you have any particular interest in the sub in question. It's absolutely baffling to me because you'd have to pay me to do that job, but clearly some people thrive on this type of power.
There is a fish implementation me and my friends used for years (used it first around 16 years ago) that had an implementation for every major irc client (or at least those I used namely irssi and weechat)
The 128K Mac had a lot more memory than most other computers in 1984

They very issue where Byte shows the Macintosh had a lot of computer ads with PC's starting at 128K and being expandable to 512K or 640K. The Macintosh was under specified in memory compared to non-GUI PCs of its era.
It's funny how often I got rejected after saying that I am not 24/7 available and that I believe that, if someone needs to have this kind of availability, it means that something in the company is not working and needs to be fixed. The words they used in the rejections were always something like: "we feel like you are not willing to put enough skin in the game" or "everyone else sees the opportunity here is is willing to work their asses off, why are you different?" It's specially funny to hear all this after the CEO has basically told me that they are planning for an exit in a couple of years, and being someone who has seems this first hand a few times., it usually means everyone works til the point of burn out and, in the end, the CEO gets handsomely while everyone else has a regular Wednesday.
10second read+summary: Iran burns oil to mine Bitcoin
In Austria these units are part of the paramedics equipment for years. They are especially convenient while moving the patient on the strecher (no kneeling anymore :) )
I’ve never used IRC before so maybe someone can explain what the problem is here.

My takeaway from reading this is that there are multiple irc networks. The author decided to move his bot and channel to a different network, and is angry that the freenode operator took back the abandoned channel.

Is it expected in IRC channels that whoever started the channel owns it forever? What do they do to prevent people from quickly founding a channel around a new topic and squatting on it?
This person did the hard work of sitting down face-to-face with people in financial distress and discovered that helping them is not as easy as it seems when looking down from an upper middle class perch.

Then you come in and argue that their experience can’t be true because you read something on Reddit. What an absurd and rude display of privilege.
I'm talking about whomever ex-fnstaffer is. That's this person's name on Freenode?
The US also has done the exact same in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act
You probably should read up on the history of the Shah of Iran, Western oil companies, the CIA and the Islamic revolution.
Do you really think that's what the GP was implying?
There are a lot of 'deliberate' policy decisions which both depress low-skilled workers' wages, and lead to higher property prices. On the wage side, good examples are that:

1) the minimum wage doesn't get increased with inflation

2) many jobs require a higher degree (which takes capital to pay for), or effectively require working for free via internships (which requires capital or someone else subsidizing you)

3) many higher paying jobs preclude you from working there if you have a criminal history (which is very disproportionately likely to be true for some demographics than others, in many cases just due to disparate enforcement), which effectively suppresses wages for many millions of people.

On the housing side, any policy that restricts the building of new housing in order to limit supply (and there are a lot of them) will drive up housing prices. This includes things like minimum lot sizes, enforced parking requirements, etc. It's pretty much universally accepted in the US for local politicians to talk about 'protecting home values', which usually has a subtext of [by keeping poor people out of our town]. This is probably the _most_ common policy topic in my well-off suburban community - every proposal for multi-family housing gets fought tooth and nail, it's virtually impossible to build more than 1-bedroom apartments 'lest our schools become overcrowded [by poor people]', etc.
The point is that a developer could have a lot of fun experimenting with the tablet form factor and inputs, with the full power of a desktop system (including hardware x86 emulation which is currently unusable!) but we can't because Apple says we can only use the hardware we bought in the way which they intend it.

Imagine how you would react with any other product you paid for, and brought into your home, if the company which produced it had the right to dictate how you could and could not use it.
You don't misname a performance hack or bug workaround or whatever this is as a "PCI Driver" by "incompetence" (quite literally it's got nothing to do with any device enumerable on the PCI buses -- it tweaks MSRs on the local CPU!). This was very clearly an attempt at obfuscation. We don't know why (or even what it does), but anyone can see what it is.
"Arguably, the torture of prison makes it worse than execution in many cases."

This. Whenever somebody says we shouldn't abolish the death penalty, I ask them how it would feel to be locked in a cage for 23 hours a day for up to 60 years (which in most Supermax prisons for people who committed atrocious crimes, is very much the case). If they admit that would be torturous, I then point out that the death penalty is death, abolishing the death penalty is torture and death. Which one is preferable? Which one is more humane?

I think that when you consider how much it costs to house a prisoner in a Supermax prison for that long, the sense of justice on behalf of the victims, and just for the prisoner's own sake to avoid being mentally and psychologically damaged by being solitary for so long (which we scientifically know will happen), the death penalty makes more sense than people give it credit for.
I've seen part of police training in a big city and was impressed. They have a good portion of their training already on all the different methods of deescalation. With simulators (I tried them it is pretty impressive and immersive), role-play and so on. My guess is that the problem is after training.
Seems pretty reasonable to me if it's as useful to people as it appears to be judging by the comments here.

Personally I'm willing to even pay a slight premium for non-subscription options too.

I find it's important to know what you're buying though; particularly if the thing it's targeting is changing rapidly, like an IDE for a modern language, or something else they know will be made obsolete in a short time.

A book on Android 1.5, or Kubernetes Pod Security Policies doesn't (didn't) have much of a future.
Companies provide too much freedom and they are too afraid to punish employees for not doing actual work they are paid to do. Not to mention not punishing those who create toxic unproductive work environment for others by pushing political agendas at work. This leads to workplace radicalization when arrogant self-proclaimed judges of other people morals and executioners of other people careers behave as uncontrolled passive-aggressive troublemakers.
Advertising/marketing/PR persuades people to want buy certain things, not by telling them these things exist at a certain price, but by influencing them psychologically in deeper ways. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

This in turn has actual effects on their behavior, including but not limited to making certain purchases more likely. Obsessing about power and speed and commanding the road definitely has an impact on how people drive - especially younger folks.
Hehe I’m poor and I’m no stranger to Taco Hell runs.
I had the same thought. "M1" sounds fresh. The Intel names and numbers seem like a relic from the 90s.

The should start fresh. The "Intel One"
Trust me, in 2026, you'll be more embarrassed by the code you wrote in 2021
than in 2016. True for everyone.
It's generally the fault of pip rather than numpy, but yeah, this is pretty common.
A CS-specific analogy might be to give the students a compiler that has a bug in it, such that the students' code is deliberately mis-compiled. The standard of evidence to believe that the compiler is buggy is much higher than the standard to believe that my code is buggy.

A lab exercise like that could really just be selecting for chutzpah (feeling charitable) or arrogance (less charitable).
You could solve this with OS-level permissions for this kind of thing, the same way Apple now handles cross-app tracking
Even for a life sentence, evidence like this shouldn't be ignored. Eyewitness evidence is one of the most fallible types of evidence.