skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rephrasing has to be a bit hyperbolic to make the point I think.

> Perhaps they are weighing factors you are not which lead them to believe that brexit will not have the outcome you think it will.

I am almost positive this is the case, but I unfortunately doubt that most of those factors are grounded in reality.

I don’t believe there are many experts that believe Brexit is in any way a good thing, and for me those opinions just hold a lot more weight than those of populist politicians.
I don't get your first HN joke.
It's just PaaS. We already had a term.

Some will say that PaaS did have knobs for amount of servers/instances/dynos/whatever but that's a minor detail and the innovation is called autoscaling. No need for an entirely new buzzword. But naming is both hard and exciting so we have "serverless".
Is that true everywhere, or is it mostly a West Coast web dev shop cultural item? In systems engineering / operations / devops / architecture roles in the MidWest, I have never experienced any of that BS.
I think that's great. This notion that corporations exist solely to maximise shareholder value is a neat solution for some real problems (principal/agent) in a neat theoretical setting, but not a necessary fact of life, not a sufficient solution in the messy real world, and should certainly not be dogma.

Now, whenever there's a discussion about what some company should do, and some free market devotee repeats the mantra that the company should just maximise shareholder value, one can point to this.

If hundreds of CEOs agree that the purpose of a corporation is a bit more complex than shareholder value maximisation, then the discussion can proceed to the hard part (how to trade off the different objectives and interests optimally).
Why should I as a member of local labour pool support globalizing my own competition? With globalized competition will come global wages, and I outright cannot survive living here on a global wage. 5-10/h doesn't cover food+shelter for me
My assumption is that all the union talk and action in the last few months has board members scared and they want to put on a show to employees that they're doing stuff to make things more fair, in order to push off folks unionizing. Growing inequality...
>VPN in AWS

at 9 cents a gigabyte, it's definitely going to be pricey.
Based on what he revealed so far, he is probably Pakistani.

Can't wait for the 2nd and 3rd posts...
Agreed. Letting companies bind workers' abilities to remain in the country they'd like to live in is painfully similar to letting dictatorships bind people into indentured servitude.
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the German Computer magazine heise made a tool[0] to verify the capacity by filling it up with random files:

[0] https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539
The Amiga 500 was pretty responsive, and its CPU power was epsilon compared to a Raspberry Pi or any modern embedded system.

It's just that modern software is garbage. That's all.
The data doesn't really support this unless by "their own small business" you mean effectively 1099 contractors with zero employees forever. See figure 3 in [1].

[1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2018/...
We should all agree that organized labor is a net-positive for most industries first and then recognize their downsides and mitigate them.

We don't ask "Should we have government? What should we do to minimize corruption?" We recognize the need for government, then work to make it better.

Furthermore, like most regulations, I would hope that the power of union against corporate would scale with the size of the business - that not every profession would be a guild, but that the larger and more powerful a business to a region, the more power the union has against it. This would be to avoid the last example you cited.

Edit: Lest I draw the ire of mods, I am tired of getting downvoted for a good faith discussion relevant to the linked article. If you have a problem with a statement, please reply constructively.
This has frustrated me the most about when I was getting into web development. I would look it up, and thought surely even Bootstrap or modern HTML supports this? Nope, I gotta sort through hackish approaches instead of having a native solution.

> type they beginning of what you are searching fast enough.

Obnoxious that if you take too long you have to start over. Arguably browsers could add searching in a non-intrusive way that wont require additional code. Gnome 3 does this in a few places.
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Hey just saying as someone who has been in a relationship and then been alone for a long time, there's no magic cure-all involved in being with someone else. And on the flip side you can live a fulfilling and inspiring life by yourself. And if you can take the steps to improve your life and your mental health that in itself will make you more attractive to other people. I've been questioning a lot lately about how much effort to spend looking for dates or a relationship, and it seems like the less I worry about it the happier I feel.
What you describe as a Product Engineer, I call a Senior Engineer/Developer/Programmer/etc.

Your examples essentially differentiate between 1) a person who accomplishes an assigned task because it was assigned to them and 2) a person who knows that there is more to completing a task than meeting the defined requirements.
That sounds crazy. How is it not okay to ask about the commute?
I asked a question about this exact topic on Information Security over 4 years ago, which received very little attention but the one answer it received came to the same general conclusion (possibility of protocol differences):

https://security.stackexchange.com/q/91717/78662

However, if these are hosted on the same server, there is a long-standing bug in Apache that forces the same protocol and cipher suite for all virtual hosts:

https://serverfault.com/a/698478/293818
In Firefox you can prepend about:reader?url= to the page that you want to show in reader mode if the icon does not appear or the page redirects too fast by the way.
It's been happening for some time now:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-28/comcast-d...
If it were true, a lot fewer places would have an open office layout, as just one counter example.
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Don't think it really matters, if your device can display a dropdown, then it can display an empty dropdown and load entries within a couple seconds.
My first tablet was kinda slow. At least slow enough that when it got too old, I wondered if I even wanted to buy another tablet, because I rarely used the first one.

Then I bought a new one, which was faster and more responsive and my tablet usage completely changed ;-)

So I can personally testify that performance is a most relevant part of the user experience.
So I knew hacker news was a place to go for tech stuff. But... HN denizens, you have now officially impressed me with your interest in literary matters. (but don't get a big head, impressing me is sometimes not that hard.)
The thoughts and feelings of these CEOs mean a lot, because I am pretty sure that the current regulatory environment underdetermines the choices a corporation has (otherwise it would be General Councel and Compliance that runs companies).

So, CEOs can take externalities into account when making decisions within the legally feasible.
Also read the book and found it deeply inspiring, I’d recommend war of art to anyone that is pursuing creative endeavors.

I’m curious though why did it make you uncomfortable?
Or maybe they made some stupid decisions like making each update query something over the Internet, which works fine when testing, but not when you're on the streets, in close proximity to a lot of other cellular Internet users.
I don’t actually do it. :) my problem is that I work too much when I work from home. I can’t pull myself away. My solution was to have children who draw me away with their siren song of, “lets play legos daddy!”
Porsche occupies a very interesting part of the market. At the low end it competes with BMW/Mercedes.
At the top end (Turbo S/GT3/GT2) it starts to compete with Aston Martin, then McLaren, then Ferrari/Lamborghini/etc. You can spend £45k for a basic Cayman up to £180k+ for a heavily optioned 911 Turbo S and more for lower volume/limited editions like the GT3, GT2 etc. (ignoring eg the 918)

So where the Taycan as a range places within that is quite relevant. All the signs at the moment are that it will price similar to the 911 ie probably starting at £65-70kish. But we only have one data point which is the £130k for the Turbo trim level.
I would say that it all boils to "topic relevance". What is relevant enough to foment communication is too divergent in different IQ levels. That brings miscomunication and specially boredom.
This new purpose stated by the CEOs of America's largest corporations is a welcome change to the corporate ethos that has prevailed in the US since the "greed is good" days of the 1980's. It is also a preemptive response to the growing popularity of politicians like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
> Unfortunately, the current regulatory environment still makes this illegal/impossible, given that executives are still legally bound to create value for shareholders.

It's a myth that executives are legally bound to create value for shareholders.

From [0], "Directors and officers, broadly speaking, have a duty of care and duty of loyalty to the corporation. From that flow more specific obligations under Federal and state law. But notice: those responsibilities are to the corporation, not to shareholders in particular…..Equity holders are at the bottom of the obligation chain. Directors do not have a legal foundation for given them preference over other parties that legitimately have stronger economic interests in the company than shareholders do."

[0] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/02/why-the-maximize-sha...
Given the reduction in size streaming ... not really.

So that same 2 hour movie on Hulu may be as little as 1.25 GB - Yep, 1/1200th of the original…. Or as much as 5–7GB for Netflix or Youtube.
Externalities are considered in shareholder value. It has never been just monetary, contrary to popular opinion.
You don't even need such a tool if you're on mac/linux or have msys/cygwin/WSL installed on windows. just do

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1048576 count=5000 | tee test.bin | md5sum

(substitute bs=1048576 count=5000 with the actual size of the sd card) then do

md5sum test.bin

and check whether the two hashes match.
Right down the street from my house a neighbor hired up some goats to eat through a bunch of overgrowth. A truck pulling a livestock trailer showed up, they ran a 4 foot high electric fence around some of the property, and in went about 6-8 goats. They've been working for a couple of days now, we'll see how they do.

I've been wanting to start the exact same business because there are so many older folks living on suburban properties that are hopelessly overgrown with buckthorn and all manner of nasty weeds.

Not sure what I would do with the goats all winter, though.
Unions are just monopolies. I don't really have a huge problem with that - as long as they are not given the backing of state power. Having a law that enforces closed shops is not something I'd support.

That and government sector unions. Those things are toxic because the unions end up supporting providing political support for the people they're employed by i.e. that's like me and my co-workers voting on how much we'll be paid.
I think they share the same incentives in the sense that discovering, patching and reporting flaws is the mission statement.

Where they differ, I think, is the end goal. Non-MS AV need an ecosystem where there is still active threats to make revenue. MS actively doesn't want any threats, because they would realize more profits through their OS being marketable as virus-free.

I'm not saying Non-MS AV is out there introducing threats. But, they are incentivized to play whack-a-mole with bandaid fixes (keeping the ecosystem in check but alive) whereas MS is incentivized to go after root problems (kill the virus ecosystem, profit from OS).
>Collective bargaining means, valuing them about the same (a common agreement means the same outcome for all?)

This is a misconception spread by capital to make you think unions are going to hurt you.

The media company I work for recently unionized. I assure you the junior staff still makes less money than the senior staff. What the union bargaining got wasn't flat wages. What it got was a higher wage floor for new hires, better PTO, more flexible working hours, and a consistent yearly raise/compensation schedule, things like that. No senior employee's work is devalued.

The tradeoff isn't between senior and junior workers. It's between workers and owners.
I read an article somewhere, maybe the New Yorker, maybe the NY Times (a new found goat obsession?) which talked about some, I guess herders upstate who take in goats and then rent them out all around the North East to eat grasses.

Seemed like a neat businesses, and I guess if I’d have been lucky I might have seen them in NYC happily eating grasses in Central and Inwood parks.

Sometimes you just gotta eat away your problems before they eat away at you I suppose :-).
Pomodoro timers are shaped like tomatoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
>...China can (and does) manipulate its currency and that devaluing one's currency is what has led to the shift of manufacturing jobs from the developed world to China...

That's not what the article says, it only really addresses recent events. The main reason goods manufactured in China have historically been cheap is that Chinese labour and land is very inexpensive in absolute terms. They had huge amounts of land that was under-utilised and hundreds of millions of rural people with little or no economically valuable work to do, with very low standards of living. That's the basic source of China's manufacturing cost advantage.

It's also not true that China has consistently devalued their currency, they have frequently acted to prop up it's value especially since the financial crisis. Before 2007 the Yuan was much weaker, at over 8 to the dollar. The recent slide in the Yuan was a result of the latest tariffs. China didn't act to devalue it, they simply stopped acting to prop it up.

So overall yes, a relatively weak yuan has served China well, but much of that weakness is due to structural economic reasons. Labour and land was cheap due to low labour and land utilisation. Labour was also cheap due to very minimal standards of living. Manufacturing capacity was cheap due to enormous economies of scale. Those aren't a recipe leading to a naturally strong currency.
I think the final point is where there is the most leverage- giving preference to long term ownership interests over short term interests. Time based voting preferences, longer minimum holding periods for manager stock grants, more tax differential on long and short term gains and similar policies have potential to create an environment which is not as focused on the daily stock price and the quarterly numbers. Having the company serve the purpose of its owners is not a bad thing, otherwise the concept of ownership is meaningless, but if the intention of some of those owners is to briefly increase its value or liquidate assets to increase short term returns at the expense of longer term returns, that seems worthy of disincentivizing.
> It shows the current status instead of the action you would be performing.

This comment being right next to this one shows the joy of designing UIs:

> I never understood why one would make a control show the state that it isn't in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20737877
To be fair, that confusing amalgamation was your own historical doing.
Why is nypost allowed on HN? It's a trash tabloid. This article completely lacks any substance, it's just generic anger at rich white people.
Anyone here remember how Google/Netflix sold us out when they made deals with AT&T and the other ISPs and suddenly became very quiet about net neutrality?

Many warned then that they it's foolish to think that they can get ahead of competitors this way, but they didn't listen. They had this coming.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/netflix...
Except that would work both ways. Whereas basic is something negatively connotated with everyday activities, not those of the elite (vacationing in exotic places or whatever they do... can't really be called basic even if you're not into it)
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Agree. sports analogy follows.

it won't help you to have 11 'Lionel Messi's on your team.
good compatibility among players is much more preferable. It's probably better to have small robust teams that can work together, ppl who are avg in most required areas and are rockstars in certain specific ones.
I was in a condo with like 8 units. Got in the HOA board, because it wasn't that hard (3/8 owners get membership). I could pretty much stop stupid stiff.

Now let's say I work for a hypothetical Walmart union. 1 million members or whatever. What can I do to check and balance anything? How can I bet anything except a tool to be used for various warring factions to extract more money from each other.
Part of the problem with Tesla though is that things like the stock tyres really aren't as good as they should be for a car costing what they do.
Imagine a hypothetical metro system where the drivers were unionised. Imagine driverless trains were possible from a technology and safety perspective. And imagine they were only planned for new lines, and future automation was guaranteed to happen below the rate of driver retirement, so no union members would lose their jobs.

Would you expect the union to oppose such automation? If not, what should happen if they did?
Right. I like to make a distinction here between "hard state" which needs to be persistent for correctness, and "soft state" which just needs to be around often enough for efficiency. Lambda's function re-use behavior, and the fact it lets you use static variables between invokes, is ideal for soft state.

Data locality, and amortizing the cost of expensive operations across multiple requests, are still things that matter in the serverless world.
So now we agree that freedom of movement will immediately end, as always expected.

Nothing in what they have just said implies that the "temporary transitional arrangements" will no longer exist.

The only worry, which is real, is that the government may not have time to set them up.

I don't see that as a change of policy, more like posturing by the government before a new negotiation push, and over the top reaction from the opposition.
This is mobile where at least it is limited, at least with 4G.

Wired on the other hand has no excuse.
Thanks, I've been wondering if something like that is possible.
Microsoft and Nvidia team up for more realistic graphics on Minecraft
Looks pretty cool!

I was delighted to see that the page loaded almost instantly, and the transitions, spring animations, all work super smoothly ! I’m usually frustrated with Material Design components because they « feel » slow for some reason, but this implementation works perfectly.
Yeah, because the WHATWG folks changed the spec after 20 years. Not because IE implemented the wrong thing. Not surprising folks in this thread remember the old spec, which was valid for longer.
FWIW, our estrangement from Nature is easy to overcome if you try.

Here's the beginning of the scientific basis for understanding e.g. what they do at Findhorn:

"What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698
If they want to make a real change, they can convert to cooperatives and commons trusts along the "Capitalism 3.0" model[1].

[1] -- http://peter-barnes.org/book/capitalism/
https://guzey.com/personal/how-to-use-your-wife/ :-)
Does a corporation’s own definition of value really matter if it’s publicly listed? It seems to me that if it is listed on the market then there is an implicit “exchange rate” between whatever definition the company chooses and the US dollar (or whatever currency the exchange uses), as anyone can buy into the company with the latter, regardless of how the company chooses to value itself.
Let me guess, Cambridge to KingsX to work at Google?
What does it mean when a public github project has no LICENSE file?

Am I only legally allowed to view* the source code, but can't download and run it locally? Or can I run it locally, but not publish it publicly?

* The source for the app doesn't have a License file as of dae0f0f:
https://github.com/longsangstan/color-app
I really disliked that book, I found nothing actionable in it. I only read it to the end because it is recommended so often and I hoped to find something useful in it. Sadly I didn't.
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> Any slavic language is similar to Russian.

Nope.
I wish I still had my music videos and more of the art I made. I found stuff I created when I was a teenager and younger that I'd totally forgotten about. Things I modeled in software, things I sketched, things I built from Lego, things I wrote, music I made, things I crafted from wood and leather by hand.

I almost got teary eyed thinking about how amazing adult me considered the work of child me and all of the free time and creative energy that came with it. I'd do anything to be able to get that kind of creativity back. But I suspect it was a function of both youth and not having a job that draws upon my mental resources so heavily.
Friday I mentioned on HN in another thread [1] that my CEO paid himself 16.6 million dollars in compensation last fiscal year. That's 16-22x what I need to retire today, or 474x my gross pay.

While this claim from these CEOs sounds nice, I'd love to see if they even remotely keep their word or if they just find ways to shuffle money around to still benefit themselves and their friends.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707473

Edit: ahahahaha said CEO is one of the members of the Business Roundtable. Well sir, put your money where your mouth is.
You can only do about four hours of solid work a day.

That is the only trick I know that really works. Took me forever to relearn to.

I went to school in Mexico where school is divided into two shifts, AM and PM; choose the one you want.

1-5:30 are my work hours unless the water around the business gets a little turbulent, in which case, I dunno, depends on if i consider you a friend or not.