skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people get hung up on the idea that income is equivalent to dessert. Prices have nothing to do with who "deserves" what. They are merely a way to allow markets to clear supply and demand. This includes salaries, which after all are just the price of labor.

Let's take the human element out of it. Do diamond "deserve" to be a million times more expensive than water? Water's essential for life, whereas diamonds are just decorations. Yet what would happen if we mandated that water must be priced higher than diamonds? It would wreak havoc.

At the end of the day, markets are a social technology. The only one that humans have for effective large-scale coordination of economic activity. It would be great if there was a functional alternative system, but it simply doesn't exist.

The enormous increases in material living standards that humanity has experienced over the past 200 years is only possible because we let markets determine supply and demand. (With a caveat for trained economists to design targeted interventions concerning well-studied and classified examples of market failures.)

If you're concerned about inequality, the correct way to deal with it is with a robust welfare state and economist-designed redistribution schemes. Let markets decide price, and balance supply and demand. Then fix it on the backend with a welfare state. Don't mess with the machinery that literally feeds us.
You're still paying some costs: there might be scalability issues in the scheduler data structures (how long does it take to schedule one thread out of a million blocked ones?), you need memory to store their stacks (hope you're on 64-bit), when they become runnable, you have a lot of context switches (which cost even more now after the Spectre fixes). Probably others that don't come to mind right now.

As for Apache, it spins a number of processes up to a point. When there aren't any free ones, the clients don't get any data.
Ecosia is just a thin wrapper around Bing that allocates revenue towards climate crisis. It’s a noble cause but essentially a middleman, I don’t see why they should be given equal standing to Google/Bing for free.
This was a great story.. thanks to Planet Money for re-broadcast it.
Sure, I know it wasn't your point. I just couldn't resist commenting because I read that article recently :)

Your link is interesting, I didn't know about that book!
People act like they are immortal, but the sad truth is that we all gonna die and no amount of FDI regulation will save us from it.

All our current medical technologies a way to late to the party, if anything else we should've have them 50 years ago.
I say start by getting rid of the corporate veil? Outlaw the institution of the corporation. All company owners are now personally liable for their company's debts. Most societal problems would be fixed. Progress might slow down, but is that a bad thing? We're on a collision course with global warming, so slowing down progress and making people personally liable for the environment might be a good thing.
I would expect businesses to split up. It's physically impossible to keep 100,000 people from ever committing crimes. (By comparison, that's a mid-sized city. How busy are the police forces in a mid-sized city on a typical day, and how many crimes go uncaught?) You'd likely see one CEO after another go to jail until there's nobody with an ego big enough to take the position, at which point the company splits up until it reaches manageable chunks.

...which may not be a bad thing. Lock up all the sociopaths and narcissists, and improve competition too!
Well, you were the one who said it was a cop-out. Are you not of that opinion any more?

IMO, the culpability of the manufacturer should be zero for general purpose tools. For things like guns/weapons, which were invented solely for killing living things, you can make an argument for regulation...

>The fact is some people think use/trading of certain financial tools should be illegal and that those who caused problems with them should be held responsible.

I don't think its right to base any argument simply on what "some people" think. Why not instead, list the pros and cons of the tool, and what you would change?
There are also studies that CEO pay doesn't correlate at all as a predictor of their success.
Yes, we are accumulating buying power as we sign on additional logos. However, that is not our north star. Instead of working towards supplier leverage, we are trying to find the equilibrium price for all enterprise software. That way, companies can buy software with confidence and certainty that they are paying a reasonable price. As long as "Contact Us for Enterprise Pricing" exists, pricing will be variable.

The vendors are the ones that share pricing information with us and we are under NDA with our customers. The reason that the vendors share the information is because companies have indicated that this is the way that they want to buy.
I get the feeling that Rust is going to become, like C++ and Haskell, a language that you have to "live in". That is, if you take a break from the language for a few years, you won't understand the code that people are writing when you come back. Contrast that to, say, Go or Python, where you can come back to the language after five or ten years without any major difficulty.
I have a smart things hub which is pretty good for this purpose - but the main problem is to make sure the baby's milk stays good so I would like confirmation at the end of a power outage that the temperature is still acceptable.

Luckily the power is reliable here, but as they say, winter is coming!
Not quite sure that that's even true
Not sure why this was downvoted - except maybe the "nothing to do with your satisfaction" part being a bit over exaggerated. Google's priority is ad rev. Everything else is secondary.

It's like being an airplane engineer for a living, making great money, and then promising your neighbor that you'll fix the brakes on their car for 20 bucks. Maybe...one day, when you're bored, you'll get around to it, but it's definitely not your priority.
If Android were a separate company from Google, and the owners of Android and Google were the same (i.e. the post anti-trust breakup scenario), you'd expect a financially equivalent outcome. Google will obviously bid high enough that they are going to end up in the choice screen. How do we know this? iOS.

As an owner, I don't care if one of my companies pays the other one some money. There are probably some accounting details, but ultimately it matters little. Other search engines would be competing for second, third, and fourth place.

The only material difference between the current scenario and that one is that, IRL, Google will continue sponsoring Android even if this auction were insufficient to keep it solvent on its own. Otherwise, the outcome is the same. Of course, in that imaginary world, Android probably would become insolvent at some point, because a free mobile OS is not exactly a big money maker. I wonder who would buy it? See, even that other world naturally tends to become this one.
> saying good investors don't exist

I am probably misremembering many key details here, but didn't Bogle make a pretty good case for this?
The question might be impossible to answer until after the fact, but it's not ill-posed. Machines either will, or will not, kill all humans.
We recently migrated from splunk to humio at work and not only their query is easier to work with but creating dashboards and reports is simpler and faster. Also, their UI is extremely responsive. Kudos for humio.
Yes, I pointed all of this out in another reply:

> For one thing, threads take up memory and address space, and create work for the scheduler.

It is the right answer. "Cores are waiting" is not the right answer.
In theory, those symbols make it easier to demonstrate you show and claim a mark. Yet, I have never heard of a trademark case failing because of a missed symbol. In practice, they’re mostly about marketing - trust is so important in digital marketing that signs like that get splashed around.
Chess is fun, but will people enjoy fixing old security bugs?

You could imagine an AI that's very good at adding features to itself, but just can't get security right because it doesn't think adversarially. Corporate software groups often have this same limitation.
The victims didn't come forward because they felt so ashamed about falling for the con.

This is such an interesting essential part of scams. I guess it's a part of human nature.

I remember tracking down a phone scam that caught my grandmother once (based out of Montreal) and I eventually got to a point where I discovered that my grandmother had provided a verbal consent over the phone that had kept it just this side of being outright fraud. The scam company played a recording of it for me.

I wasn't sure this wasn't fabricated, so I tried to confirm with my grandmother and she was just like, "Well, thanks for all your help, honey, but really this isn't that important. Let's just move on."

I recognized how pushing it would just cause her unnecessary pain. So I dropped it and we moved on. Good to know there are people like Felipe around helping to keep things in check.

Now when Felipe just lives his life or goes out in the world, he can't help but think everything can be a con, and everybody can be a mark.

Yeah, I guess I see the world more or less the same way. And I suppose it makes me a little unusual. Hopefully not too cynical.
If you think of js bundle size as a percentage of average hard drive space or compare to a ratio of broadband speeds then 30 megs doesn't seem so bad.
This really annoys me when I see it. Partially due to privacy concerns. Just casually say, "You're not recording me, right?" and watch them get very defensive
that would be a good single use solution, we generally only a long power outage once every few years so that could work.
> The place you start is likely to be close to your expertise.

What is their "expertise", though? Being an effective search engine requires expertise in search. If Ecosia is going to outsource that entirely to a third party, like Bing... what does that make them an expert at? Donating to charity?
AWS also offers a managed WAF - https://aws.amazon.com/waf/
Thats not how business or probability works.
That sounds great, but if a CEO has that level of accountability, you better believe they will want some enforcement powers to ensure no one is doing anything illegal.

"Pardon me, RcouF1uZ4gsC, it's time for your monthly scan of your computer and mobile device. Please provide all passwords to any services you login on those devices. Remember, your contract dictates that failure to comply results in immediate termination. Please take unpaid time off while we perform our scan."
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I’m not an expert on this by any means but isn’t this securities fraud? It looks to me like securities fraud.
Music to my ears! SHI and other resellers (like CDW) work for the supplier, not the buyer. That means that when you use SHI or CDW to buy software, you are likely paying list price. Or, you're at least paying more than you should.

Vendr works for the buyer and does not receive reseller commission. That means that we are strictly aligned to your price outcomes, not the supplier.
Well you'd have to make that a constitutional amendment in the US at least since it'd run afoul of many basic guaranteed rights. This system sounds like it'd be more likely to create a true social hellscape before it'd solve any problems.
but really, what about this sine wave? is this some kind of an error in data?
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My sense is that there are already laws that allow for the criminal prosecution of responsible executives, up to and including the CEO if he or she knew. But there is a lack of enforcement, whether because of political pressure or mis-aligned incentives or some other motives obscured from public view. As a result, white collar criminals of this type are rarely ever prosecuted.

The best example of this is probably the entire Great Financial Crisis from 2008 on. Rampant illegal and criminal fraud but - from what I remember - only one executive went to prison. Mostly the Feds levy billions in endless fines. Money might be the best solution after all: if you make whistle blowing lucrative enough, you will make illegal activities very difficult to scale.
That's a great discount from "criminally responsible". Also, that is the current practice - managers and executives are judged and disciplined for failures of their staff (fraud, theft, CSR failures etc). These actions are not publicized because of optics, but the consequences are proportional to rank. You just don't see people complaining about this on Twitter, or going to the media with examples of consequences. Different rules.
it's disappointing that the tensioner of all things would fail in that situation, but long intervals between use is a problem for all cars.

if your dad regularly lets a car sit for five months without driving it, he's going to have a lot of car troubles. ought to at least take it out a couple times a month, just for 20-30 minutes (ie, long enough to get fully warmed up).
I've been really meaning to see more devices taking advantage of raspberry pi compute module and selling it as ready to ship packages. I wonder how much this is being sold for.

What I'd really love to see / make is a pre-packaged raspberry pi robot with wheels, cameras, microphones, simple LIDAR, IR lights for night vision and a simple grabber arm. Cheap, nicely built, durable robot.

I'm not a hardware guy but if someone wants to partner, I wanna do a kickstarter someday.
I mean... it's neither? It is a real estate company. Why is everything a "tech company" or a scam?
Wow, hard disagree for me! I feel like Rust is the easiest language to maintain that I have ever used. I'm never afraid of changing things around since the compiler will always catch my mistakes and it is impossible (without unsafe) to introduce undefined behaviour. Whenever I'm using Rust my confidence levels are pretty much 100%. Having said that I don't know how the situation is for web dev since I'm a game dev, do you think that's the reason we have such different experiences?
If a student and teacher, parent and child, or a general/president and solider selfishly conspire for their own benefit, they should be dealt with.
I'm referring to transducers as in clojure. You can compose 2 'map' transducers, and that results in a single 'map' of the composed mapping-functions. That's to say that the two expressions you wrote would result in the same computations if you expressed them in terms of transducers.
You’re welcome :)

There’s more discussion here:https://mobile.twitter.com/Shub7241/status/11570049077753241....
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I remember a lot of the office sharing type companies selling that whole having an office anywhere thing as a big selling point and then ... they didn't mention it.

I also suspect it just wasn't a common thing people did.
Thanks for taking time to reply. You've engaged with folks in this thread admirably and that makes me think the effort at curbing prevelant tracking is genuine... just that trusting BigTech with privacy has gotten a lot difficult over the years.

I'd wish Apple encouraged a secure plugin based ecosystem to flourish in the AppStore, so that folks could write content blockers that block apps from doing as they please [0]. I understand the security implications (for healthcare and financial apps, for instance) and the ability to get this right in face of spyware but in my own naïve way I feel this a decisive way to signal the intent that Apple is a privacy-first company.

[0] With VPNs a lot of content can be blocked already, but that's at the network level. It'd be great to have something at the runtime level, like WebKit here is trying to do.
This argument can apply to any means to constrain profit motivation for the benefit of society. Equating punishing why collar criminal to mainly impoverished people selling or using drugs is a massive simplification

It's similar to why tax a corporation? They will just move elsewhere. Also, a dubious assertion. Not all corporation will simply pack up and move out of an economy like the USA.

Or why raise minimum wage? It'll cause an equal rise in inflation. There is no law stating the inflation will be exactly proportional to rise in wages.
> there was no such thing as the "Dark Ages", and it wasn't a particularly illiterate or barbaric age

I don't think that's true: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/
Isn't that exactly what Google has to do to be the default search provider for IOS?
There are reasons why this isn't a good analogy.

You're talking about controlling human behavior with no alternative. In other words, as a parent or teacher, you do your best to teach and guide and give them direction and rules to follow, but they still might act outside of those boundaries. And these are children, who will try to be creative and go outside the lines, even if (and because!) it's against the rules. But when that happens, you can discipline, teach and talk. But you don't fire the student or your children. (You can, in extreme cases, expel a student from school. But you're even saying that any discipline should land on the teacher's shoulders!)

A CEO is running an organization where everyone involved is in adult, likely vetted (interviews are really common), and if they make mistakes or choose to break the rules, it's perfectly OK to remove them from the organization entirely.
The question isn't really whether the CEO provides more than 1000x the value of the average worker, though, it more like how much value does he provide compared to someone else in the same position, and how much does skill matter. If I offered a successful senior manager with an MBA, say, $500K to take the CEO role, would he statistically do worse than a CEO I hire from outside at $10M? With such a wide disparity in compensation, it sure feels a lot more like a club than any kind of meritocracy.
Its the same threat vector as BlueKeep, so I would imagine the prime exploitation window for Win7 (which was/is vulnerable to both) has already passed.

A quick Shodan query already does what you're thinking.
I have no intuition for this.

Compensation is already so stupendously high that I just can't imagine marginal dollars one way or the other, uniformly applied to all CEO positions, having any effect on a CEOs willingness to do their job at all. Maybe fewer, or different people would want to be CEOs if it came with this risk, but given that I have no clue what drives current compensation other than a zero-sum competition between companies for scarce abilities (what are you gonna do if the salary is not high enough, not be a CEO at all? Nothing comes close salarywise, so being a CEO at a lower salary should still be your best option), I wouldn't want to speculate about it. If it's just companies bidding over who gets the CEOs, then it's limited by how much they can pay and the size of the pool.

And I just can't see the size of the pool changing if you increase the salary. There can't possibly be any dynamic range left at these levels.

Its like: I'll pay you infinity dollars to do this. Yeah? Well that other guy will pay you infinity plus one! That's how it feels from down here on mean income. Maybe I lack perspective and a bigger yacht is more of an incentive than it seems.
google translate ?
Indeed. I was pretty off-put by the auction. Rather un-googley.
I was really quite disappointed about fountain hooks being removed - they were an extremely high skill, high risk high reward maneuver. It was also ridiculously fun to watch NaVi pull it off game after game in TI3 - part of what made that my favorite year for the spectator aspect of the tournament.
Neural nets are one way to program which use the computation power available. It's a way to keep getting the benefits of Moore's law.

The hardware is co-evolving with the software. GPUs with SIMD architecture, or TPU which are even more specialized will give a computational advantage to methods like neural nets which they have been designed for.

The magic comes from the memory/computation power combo.
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The difference used to be significant when inflation and interest rates where in the order of 10% year over year. It's not the case anymore since they dropped to near zero, unless you really don't have the cash on hands to pay now.
besides being unethical, it can't really work, as it's a pyramid scheme, no?
> Is meritocracy only for the poor?

Isn't it obvious that's how our society is structured? The success of the sons and daughters of the hyper-affluent is non-negotiable - they'll get fancy jobs through family friends and continue making bank without being very competent.

Those at the bottom, if they work really really hard, might be able to join them
Really? When has that happened?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hayward

>Anthony Bryan Hayward is a British businessman and former chief executive of oil and energy company BP. His tenure ended on 1 October 2010 when he was replaced by Bob Dudley following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He has been chairman of Glencore Xstrata since May 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Legere

>John Legere (born June 4, 1958) is an American businessman who is the chief executive officer and former president of T-Mobile US. His leadership at Global Crossing was controversial, which included large executive bonuses and filing for bankruptcy.
If we are going to start locking up people for not stopping others from committing crimes without their knowledge, why stop with CEO’s? How about parents of kids that commit felonies? Teachers that don’t stop bullying.

Not a society I want to live in.
Yes, they truly do... https://aeon.co/essays/is-there-something-weird-about-our-ta...
Stock compensation spiking a year before their IPO doesn't seem unusual. It's likely an employee incentive.
Is this all simply the side effect of having transparent pay for executives? If worker pay was similarly transparent, if companies were required to post pay ranges on all job postings, we would see a similar pattern?
So if Uber's model was subscription-only software that enabled ~unlimited~ fair usage many rides, it would be a tech company, but as it is it isn't?

I'm not disagreeing with the conclusions about WeWork and Uber, I just think it's hard or not possible to define what it is, and what does it really mean anyway: to varying degrees any company in any sector is enabled by 'tech'.
If only people directly working in ML notice these advancements, I don't think it makes sense to be astonished that some people do not consider them "major breakthroughs".
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Would you say that AlphaGo is really just statistics?

Even AlphaZero, which, iirc, is trained entirely using self-play, with no starting data from other players?
> When one of the oldest and still unanswered issue in the Hyper HTTP library is "how do I read the body?", there is a conceptual problem.

Is https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/issues/1137 the issue you are referencing?
Sure, but it's not like "Vendor didn't quite implement a spec the way they should have, requiring driver quirks" has never happened before in the history of Linux drivers....
Yet these neural networks are capable of exceeding human performance on tasks that just a few years ago people like you were saying no machine could do.

Look: maybe ML is just curve fitting. But maybe human consciousness is too. As the scope of ML expands, we're going to have to confront the reality that there's nothing special about our own minds.
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Sounds like a good time to start a company.
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