skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't worked out all the details but I think the right thing to do is some form of gradual transition to a Georgist taxation system (perhaps with compensation from the government for those who suffer sufficient adverse effects).

Reducing the value of property to the structures on them by having heavy taxation rates on unimproved land is fairer than the current system and makes access to property far easier. It reduces speculation in real estate which also improves access.

I also agree with the Georgist moral perspective that we have equal entitlements to all land and natural resources. From there, distributing land that is undertaxed seems to give certain individuals and companies unfair advantages. An added benefit is that income taxes and capital gains taxes have always from my perspective been on morally shaky ground as I struggle to find a good moral perspective that justifies them compared to other forms of taxation that seem morally just.

Doing a transition like that will be just as difficult as popping a housing bubble (if not more so) but I think it will be of great benefit to society.
I use Go heavily cross-platform developing DataStation [0] and dsq [1]. I am not an expert. And I don't have proof for it but on some rudimentary benchmarks the Linux-specific file idioms in the Go standard library definitely don't seem to translate well to even macOS let alone Windows. For example some good streaming techniques for reading large files on Linux that work really well there seemed to be pretty bad on macOS.

I think Amos has presented more proof than I can on the topic of just how Linux-influenced Go is. And I think it is fine for the majority of Go users because the majority users of Go are building server apps or Linux CLIs.

Amos has spent some time building cross-platform desktop systems with Go for itch.io and I think I'm seeing some of the same things they are in that scenario.

I think this is a reasonable article. I didn't notice anything too flame-y myself but if for you Amos gets flame-y at any point I think that's worth ignoring because there does seem to be something up with Go in cross-platform applications. Amos does have good experience here. (Go look at itchi.io's github like wharf [2] or butler [3] where they are/were the main contributor.)

I like Go a lot and for most things I'd keep using it still. Just sharing some observations.

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation

[1] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

[2] https://github.com/itchio/wharf

[3] https://github.com/itchio/butler
Yeah I have it linked from the search engine as a top link[1], but I can only have 2-3 of them so I haven't linked to it anywhere in the blog.

Haven't really been a priority to get donations since I've had more than plenty income.

Maybe I should look over the design.

[1] https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/supporting.gmi
The elites that control everything dont really care about social security, medicare, medicaid.

Automation can make all the things they would want. Why do they need you around again? Especially when having you around creates pollution that makes things worse for them....
The definition of fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. Patriotism and respect, while they may be against your ideology, have nothing to do with it.
I think the test infrastructure for the book described in that post is just so smart.

For those who haven't read the post: the test infrastructure compiles (and runs?) the interpreter code as it exists at the end of each chapter in the book. So not only is the code as a whole guaranteed to compile, but if you follow along correctly, at the end of each chapter you are guaranteed to get something runnable.
"Like all agenda driven by emotion and virtue signaling, you can reject with a cursory look at the matter."

Is there a clearer way of saying you're intellectually and morally lazy about a topic than calling it "virtue signaling" and saying that you can reject postulations that have been the subject of a great degree of academic debate over the past several decades "with a cursory look at the matter"?
I had ~1100 CDs in 2000. Now I have close to 0. I don't even own a device I could play a CD in nor rip it. None of my 4 PCs (3 Macs, one Gaming Windows Box) have a CD (nor DVD nor Bluray) player.

Instead I have about 9000 mp3 files.

I find streaming services frustrating because their recommendation algorithm suck. I tried playing "Swing" and it gave me "Volare" by Dean Martin. (that's not Swing), I pick Prince Radio and it plays rap (Prince has no relation to rap). My mom's into Tuba Skinny so I pick Tuba Skinny radio, every song it choose was nothing like Tuba Skinny (Dixieland Jazz). And on and on. It get music similar to the artists less than 1 out of 6 times.
It's not 100% undisputed but most historians would agree that until conquered by the Persians in 525 BC, Egyptian history consists of 26 dynastic changes and 8 major distinct periods. Each dynasty of course usually had more than one ruler. Since we're talking about Socrates, then the slightly extended timeline of 33 dynastic changes (including 2 Persian, and 2 Greek), across 9 major and distinct periods, would represent pretty much the mainstream view that is supported by the available evidence, ending in its incorporation into the Roman Republic in 30 BC.

If anything, Egypt is one hell of a counter example of institutional stability. I would also make the pedantic quibble that the HRE never called itself "Germany" until the term was incorporated into part of its much longer official title in the late 1400s. English usage started in the 1500s. It's not to say that the concept of "Germany" or "Deutschland" didn't exist, but pre-Westphalia it's difficult to make truly apt comparisons to conceptualizations of states today, and the term equivalent to Germany was used, intermittently at that, from Charlemagne's death for the next 700 years somewhat like the status of Scotland or Wales within the UK today, as in, it coexisted with the HRE as an part but not considered to have referred to the whole until the HRE lost its non-German territories an that was pretty much all that was left.
Thanks, note that it's all very much built on the shoulders of giants!

For example, the "Chromium Legacy Downloader" just adds automatic updates (and some tweaks) to to an existing project. Chromium Legacy itself—a branch of Chromium kept in sync with upstream which retains support for legacy OS X—is maintained by a Japanese developer I don't know much about. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy.

Other downloads, like the Dolphin emulator, are basically just source recompiles, which use MacPorts tooling to support legacy OS X. MacPorts has incredible legacy support.
Pensions are insured but not at 100% of what was promised by the employer’s pension plan. Thus, getting only 10 cents on the dollar is certainly possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpo...
Has it not occurred to you that we actually need tighter gun laws if we want fewer dead children?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/guns-became-leading-killer-...
Agile meets Architecture Conference
Ur-fascism essay needs to be a "required" reading - every year in high school and get it debated
Actual is going open-source
> I did stipulate until Vatican II, and my point is rather how little the preceding millenium of reformations and Avignon popes and so on actually changed the church

Clearly, that was your point. It's just completely wrong given things like the Gregorian Reform.

You'd have a better argument that the Catholic Church has been largely unchanged in the nearly 1000 years since the Gregorian reform (or, even better, the 700+ years after the series of reforms starting there and running through the 13th century councils) than the 1600 years between Constantine and Vatican II. It’d still be making the qualifier “largely” do an unreasonable amount of work, though.
I'm just wondering why the author keeps making those articles about strongly disliking Go, ok we get it your favorite language is Rust, you don't like Go.
Why does the author does not move on, exactly?

"Fine. It may well be that Go is not adequate for production services unless your shop is literally made up of Go experts (Tailscale) or you have infinite money to spend on engineering costs (Google)."

This is really wrong on so many level especially coming from someone that has shipped what exactly in production? What is the expertise of OP to tell people to not use a language that was proven to be very successful.
Deutsche Bank HQ in Frankfurt raided over suspected money laundering
I haven't heard "Borland's OWL framework" in over 20 years. Wow, that brought a flood of memories and nostalgia back. I used Borland products starting with Turbo Pascal back in the 1988-1992 time frame before switching to Microsoft C/C++ and MFC. Thanks!
2018 Rome Escalator Accident
Semi-NSFW video of this incident here: https://youtu.be/KaGNZi36znA

How do escalators even fail like this? This really makes me think through the engineering challenges that we face when designing critical infrastructure.
This is a good way of putting it. Having graduated high school in 2008, it's felt my entire adult life like I've been reaching for brass rings just within reach (for me), barely clinging on, but still doing better than so many people who weren't even in position to do that.

We'll see about 'stable', there's some work I need to do if I want this to be sustainable/not something I'm at risk at crashing down from, but I've made it on the train while feeling the flames lapping at my neck.
I believe that you are perfectly productive with Go, the article hasn't claimed otherwise.

I used to be quite productive with PHP. That does not mean PHP is a good language.

> The problem is that there are a ton of less experienced people reading stuff on HN (just as I once was) who will take this to heart but have nothing actionable to gain from it, except to think they're a bad developer using a bad language. They aren't, and they're not.

You are replying to an article mentioning many of Go's problems, without rebuking any of the article's points. Perhaps these poor people are using a bad language? (Also perhaps some people reading this are "bad developers", whatever that means? Perhaps I am! What does that matter?)
> None of the usual 90 days Visas allow you to perform working activities.

They don't allow you to perform work within the jurisdiction. But no one cares if you're working remotely, and I'm not aware of any tourism visas that preclude it.

Digital nomad visas are not about legalizing an otherwise-illegal arrangement, they are intended to expand and promote it with longer visa terms that traditional tourism visas allow. It's about increasing the length of the visa, not legalizing it. But neither a tourism visa, or a digital nomad visa allow you to work in the jurisdiction.
what is your biggest worry for society? Also...what does society mean to you, and would you consider in the context of your reply that there may be different perspectives and possibly multiple societies simultaneously so perhaps clarifying your scope of society and it's impacts.
Does the environment really lose? Along with this comes the reduction of commuting. Curious to see how the math works out on that one.
Honestly, any kind of linking is broken in long-term...

Sometimes the content on the link doesn't exist anymore, sometimes the eg. newssite changed their url scheme, so the content still exists, but not on the same url, sometimes the media changed their story, so linking to the "same" article, now paints a different picture, and of course, sometimes old domains get hijacked by spammers... and more related, sometimes everything works except the url shortener.

Honestly, if I ever link anything that will be read after a long time, I only use archive.org/ links, and I cross my finger, that the snapshot will still exist in X years.
Right now our only mechanism to indicate that we don't think a post is appropriate is to flag it. We don't have the ability to downvote posts that we don't feel meet the quality bar for being featured on HN.
Just go read the sister thread right now on myocarditis in Israel… people are calling for tribunals on medical malpractice for forcing people to get vaccines…
> They want a standard of living that requires competitiveness globally, but in this country, we no longer want to work for it.

That’s not what I see at all. Most working people in the current generation are working more hours, at more skilled jobs, with more education than their parents, and yet the lifestyle they can afford (aside from tech gadgets) is worse and less secure than their parents.

I’m pessimistic about more young people studying subjects that are not useful, but I think in general this generation has gotten a bad (financial) deal in comparison.
Sure, and it could be jammed or blocked potentially as we've already seen in Ukraine. Assuming Starlink can eventually establish and maintain an exclusively space based internet connection anywhere then any site accessed could potentially circumvent local laws/censorship.

Here is an article from 2016 about an Iranian using his satellite connection to get access to banned content... https://www.wired.com/2016/04/ingenious-way-iranians-using-s...
IIRC European bases are strategic for USA's Middle East war operations, I doubt the military would just leave if ordered, there would be significant diplomatic, and maybe economic, pressure to stay.
This article should get unflagged. This is an eloquently written article and a good discussion about Golang. I think we need more articles critical of Golang.

Edit: I'm really shocked by the downvotes. Can someone explain why my comment is worthy of being downvoted?
> The most obvious solution to this is raising the age of retirement, but that's always politically difficult and somehow seen as cruel.

There is another problem: many people go into decline as they get older. My company retires some people at 40 with a full pension because most people physically cannot do the job anymore (I'm not sure if they are able to do much else after that). Airpline pilots are required to retire at 60 (I don't remember the exact age) because we are sure none are very far into mental decline even though a few could work for 30 more years.
Any new or existing municipality can take over those bonds. They do it all the time. And as a fallback the state could take those on and refinance them and pay then off. It's really not difficult, but the author makes it seem to be.

As for the millage rate, if Reedy Creek is higher than the state maximum, I'm curious for what valuation Disney appraises its own property, since the millage rate is only part of the story.
The flagged feature needs to be tweaked on HN; it's being used far too often to censure opinions others simply do not agree with.
Pensions paid directly by current workers are not really so different from pensions paid out of investments. The thing that one "owns" in most of today's public equities is not physical capital (plants and equipment) but the "nexus of contracts" that allows you to make money from other peoples' labor. In other words, you are still living on backs of the working generation, same as Social Security or similar schemes.

Until we invent self-replicating physical capital (i.e. a Santa Claus machine that can make other Santa Claus machines), this will always be true.
You have to be careful with unknown scripts/apps on GitHub.

They may not be reviewed, may disappear or not maintained next year, file formats might be specific or not supported by other tools. The benefits are also dubious over well established tools like OpenSSL (if you just want to encrypt a file from command line).

Use widely-used well-known tools. File encryption is a commodity!
Generally for different reasons though in my (anecdotal) experience

The left thinks silicon valley/social media has taken too light of a touch dealing with hate speech, racism, conspiracy theories, etc. and has enabled more radical/loony/violent people to increase their reach and support

The right thinks silicon valley/social media has been taking moderation too far and that their speech is being censored or their audience artificially limited to prevent them from reaching more people

These statements are probably a bit too generalised, but it does remind me of how many people in the UK see the BBC (the left says it's too conservative, the right say it's too liberal)
I couldnt disagree more. Maybe if your goal is to start a company with the people you work with this might be true...

But work friends should not be your main friends. It's like saying your main friends should be a group of bowlers but at any moment on any day your local bowling alley could decide you are banned or that if you decide another bowling alley is better you dont get to bring your new friends to it.

Having a social group at work is great but having boundaries between work and personal is much healthier.
What ends up happening in that case is that people disagree in defining "What is a human?". That's not about facts, it's about values and conclusions. That becomes uncomfortable very quickly, because we've seen what happens when a society excludes some people from their definition of humanity.
> “The fact that Erdogan’s Turkey – one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists – is citing NetzDG as inspiration for its new draconian law on “The Regulation of Publications made in the Internet Environment” should send a clear warning signal to democracies that this model is a good faith effort gone bad.

This just sounds like the author was easily fooled by Erdogan's narrative. The nazis cited british laws to justify their genocide and I'm sure that Putin tells his people that every other nation has opressing laws similar to Russia.

Remember kids, don't believe a single word said by dictators and autocrats.
Agreed, but I think many of the ways that manifests can be acquired with experience if you're looking at one thing. I think the idea we are both getting at is capacity for learning, or quick thinking, and for that you need to see that person perform in a suitable environment, which the workplace is probably not providing.

And again, these are all components of intelligence but missing large parts of the bigger picture. What about the ability to make a point or debate well? Or charisma? Those are social skills, you might say -- social intelligence? So then is intelligence simply the sum of ones skills and ability to pick up new ones? Maybe, but then how does that apply to your specific situation?

My point is that intelligence is probably undefinable. "I am better/more experienced/more capable than this person at X and Y" is probably what you should be saying to yourself instead.
>It seems that we've strongly overgeneralized any fake news to be anything that is antithetical to the idea du jour, whether there is any merit to the idea or not.

This will also lead to deep cynicism when when it comes to fact checkers and whether or not a particular narrative is "true."
What concerns me more than the collapse of many of our intuitions is the fact that the Neocons have emerged from the rubble. Regardless of party or political leanings there was a time when Neocons were universally reviled. Watching people like Bill Kristol, David Frum, and The Lincoln Project get so much press and attention makes my blood boil. Heck, they even brought out Dick Cheney(!!!) for the J6 anniversary.
Did you ever run into the problem of the system running out of file descriptors? If each client gets its own database file, each connection will require a file descriptor.

For example, Linux limits the number of file descriptors to 1024 per process to each process can open up to 1024 files at any point in time.

I ran into this problem in the past in another project (the system ran out of file descriptors for another reason).
Meanwhile, Big Pharma is racing to sell millions and millions of vaccines for the <5 year-olds while keeping EUA! They have such a very, very low risk that you have to ask why ($$). Yet, parents have been scared into thinking it's very critical to get their kids vaccinated. I had COVID over a year and a half ago, have traveled a bit, and I have not had it once. At work, double-vaccinated and boosted co-workers have had it once or twice. I am over 55, but not obese, or diabetic, and my COVID bout was like the flu or less. If I had to get vaccinated to support my family, or travel for work, I would try and get Novavax or J&J, if my doctor approved. It's a crime that countries have adopted mandatory policies on this issue, and don't compare it to chickenpox. If you have natural immunity, nobody says you need the chickenpox vaccine to enter the country. I am sorry, but 1-1/2 years of data is not long enough to convince me of the long-term safety of the mRNA vaccines no matter how many have been vaccinated in the short term. How the word 'safe' can be used so nonchalantly in such a short period of time compared with other vaccines approvals and safety studies is beyond me. Speeding up paperwork does not speed up studies done over the years.
I have heard truth and lies from every single media source out there. Both are to be found on Fox, CNN, ABC, and Infowars.

We've lost the meaning of journalistic integrity. No one is interested in in-depth factual reporting anymore. Instead, everyone is "building a brand" for himself and, secondarily, for his or her network. It is far more important to Jones (and to Rachel Maddow, and to Tucker Carlson) that their brands get attention than that they stick to the facts.

As a 53 year old, this is disturbing. I distinctly remember a time when journalism wasn't build on personal brands but on the quality of the investigation and reporting.
> If you want backups, Restic or Borg.

This. Backup is too important to make the mistake of rolling your own.
It sounds like you need a career counseling therapist, yes. Basically a psychologist or psychiatrist that has a specialty in career counseling/transitions/issues. I think it's great that you're focusing on dealing with your feelings rather than trying to troubleshoot the career aspect.

I don't think you're stupid at all. Many of us (most of us?) make career mistakes and do things we regret. We cannot turn back the clock, but we can always start to build the future we want. Believe in yourself! You can do it!

I couldn't find much online in the way of search for therapists, maybe someone has a better way to search. Psychology Today shows some results (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york?ca...)
That said, likely nobody will check, care or notice.

Even if noone cared, relying on the apathy of others seems like a poor part of a business model. Unfortunately, they do seem to care at the US-Canadian border entering the US. There have been a few Canadian professional wrestlers, like Mike Bailey and Super Smash Bros., who were barred entry to the US entirely for 5 yrs because they were caught trying to work in the US without a visa.

More on the topic of musicians: https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/us-border-canadian...

I think this is all silly, of course, especially because American acts have seemingly no trouble working in Canada. I shouldn't take for granted when I saw the Canadian band badbadnotgood in the US last month...
Alternate source, with fixed formatting: https://gist.github.com/mjdominus/3841427
I don't have extremely high confidence in Qualcomm as a company either, but there are many different paths to Qualcomm becoming competitive, with the right management of the Nuvia team. They can (and should) manufacture on the Intel (TDM 2) or TSMC nodes to stay competitive, and Microsoft is clearly willing to partner on the software side to make the x86-to-ARM transition possible.

I suspect Samsung might actually get there first since they are more similar to Apple and have long produced good (if not top-of-class) phone chips and are integrating AMD's RDNA2 into their Exynos chips.

Still, it's clear Apple is a good couple of years ahead, I don't expect 2023 Qualcomm or Samsung platforms to be competitive with M1, let alone M2.