skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"an internal communication system" does sound like something like an "RPC framework", but Yegge's paraphrase actually says "It doesn’t matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols — doesn’t matter. Bezos doesn’t care."

I read this as saying different teams/services don't have to use the same thing either. That doesn't sound like an "RPC framework" or "an internal communications system" at all. It seems to leave the door open to everyone doing things in a diverse mishmash. Which isn't what I'd call "an internal communications system" at all.

But was/is there in fact an Amazon-specific "RPC framework", that all Amazon services use, some consistent framework used consistently accross services? I haven't heard much about this before so am curious to learn more. I haven't heard of an Amazon 'RPC framework' before, or what it's called, or what. And OP doesn't specify it either; does the rest of the audience know what's being talked about, and I'm just missing context?

If that is the thing that the OP thinks is really what Amazon got right... then the interesting thing is figuring out how it went from the paraphrased email, which doesn't actually demand such a thing, to.... such a thing. Who designed or chose this "RPC framework"? When? How? How'd they get everyone to use the same one? If that's the thing Amazon got right, there are some steps missing between the Yegge-paraphrased email and there, since the email doesn't actually even call for such a thing.

Or is that not what happened at all, and I'm still not sure what OP means by "an internal communication system" being the thing Amazon got right.
There still is. Nuclear disarmament is going backwards.
Is the implication that trying to break up these companies is an unrealistic goal?
love the new title
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Other comments here incorrectly pointing out that Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China - they do. And why wouldn't they, it's obviously much cheaper to manufacture there given material and labor costs. Obviously they don't manufacture highly sensitive military aircraft in China, but commercial aircraft, sure why not.

What they don't do is the design, testing, and certification in China. This is the real IP - not the materials or the assembly techniques, but how to navigate the regulatory landscape of the FAA and the EASA in extremely complex hardware/software integrated systems. The article mentions certification documents/evidence as a primary target.

The funny thing in all this is that passengers inherently trust the FAA and EASA operated system and inherently do not trust a Chinese-owned, manufactured, and regulated system for commercial aircraft. When really this breach was all about the money - Chinese companies want to get in on Boeing and Airbus' market.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I will say that Boeing isn't doing itself any favors with it's cost cutting efforts on the 737 MAX, and that if it wants to keep consumers trust in its planes over the perception of "inferior" foreign competition, it needs to work much more closely with the FAA to ensure safety is the primary motivating factor on new designs and does not get overriden by fuel efficiency.
In addition to the possibility of distraction and moral license mentioned in another post, there is a problem mentioned in the parent post itself: being anything less than immaculate in your reasoning gives detractors more fodder.

Imagine: we go all-in on villifying air travel. It works! Everyone is shamed into commuting by train. Huge sacrifice, people don't see their extended families anymore. We do it to save the planet! Uh-oh: the needle has barely moved. "Well, yeah, it was only 2%, but it wasn't mutually exclusive with other stuff! No harm no foul, right?" Now you've lost credibility when it matters.

This hyperbole hopefully illustrates the more subtle reality: if you make even the slightest mistake there is a lot of Money ready to trip you up. Don't be caught of guard; stay on point, hit where it hurts: carbon tax. The rest will follow.

(By all means reduce air travel, keep talking about it, don't get me wrong. But never make it out to be more than it is, is my point. 2% is just that, and maybe it's worth it to us as a species to keep doing this, while cutting back more in other areas. That's the beauty of a carbon tax: it will allow people to decide just how important that 2% is to people, personally. Nobody knows that in advance, that's the power of markets.)
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>According to him, the Chinese are a benevolent imprealist,

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You do realize that 'Chinese' is not a race, right?
RPC or REST API.
I suppose that's the curse of the success of Linux. Now that it's everywhere, it also has to answer to all kinds of usage scenarios.
I guess that's the underlying question. In my view, it definitely is. Others may reasonably differ.
> You've already conceded that the armed citizenry is no match for the military

That's not what I said. I said the military probably wins numerically. For what it's worth, numerically the civil war should have been over in about 6 months and an entirely lopsided victory by the Union. "Probably" should most certainly to be understand as "the most likely but not certain outcome". The US probably would have won Vietnam if they had continued fighting another decade - would it have been worth it though?

And the time element is part of the issue. It turns out if you show up, massacre of a bunch of unarmed folks in a day or two and then do a halfway decent job of suppressing it, well, Tiananmen square.

In the US, when we've had the military fire on citizens, the response was a bunch of upset, armed citizens said "We'd really like to see due process happen." And then unlike Tiananmen, the perpetrators were arrested and tried in a civilian judicial system because that was less terrible than an armed population getting rather upset.

Remember, this is the whole reason why the founding fathers were pro individual ownership of firearms - they had been the victims of military massacres, military troops being quartered in private houses, and eventually their own government hiring mercenaries to enforce the peace through force. Part of why the British chose to hire foreign mercenaries for swaths of the war instead of use their own troops was because they were concerned about morale and defections. Likewise, the first thing the British wanted to do once things started going south was to lock up all the ammunition and arms so the citizens couldn't put up any trouble.
Your on-line identity consists of one or more brands and associated brand-specific identifiers. For instance, to me right now, you're HN!JohnFen. HN, or news.ycombinator.com, is the brand. Right now I'm speaking to you also using HN brand, as HN!TeMPOraL. HN is the brand through which the communication happens. I can't use my Twitter!TeMPOraL_PL account to talk to you, because there's no transport between Twitter and HN. And even if it was, now two brands would be involved in communication.

If you think about it, you'll notice that there's no way you and me can ever talk with one another without a brand intermediary, unless we accidentally meet somewhere physically, or unless some direct connection details could be exchanged through a chain of our physical acquaintances (essentially performing an IP routing over meatspace social network).
You belong to a social species and come with built in drives to engage in social behaviors like acquiring status and an interest in others social standing.

These tendencies vary by the individual and life experience.
That's only true if they continue growing reliably after being deplatformed. There's no reason why that should necessarily be true.

I feel like there a tendency to believe that, since censorship is bad, censorship must also be completely ineffective, and we tell stories like "deplatforming is useless" to reinforce that. But I don't think that's a realistic approach. Censorship can and does work, in the right circumstances. Chinese millennials may know that something happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989, but they're fuzzy on the details and inclined to downplay it and keep quiet about it. That's censorship working as intended. Assuming your enemies are incompetent doesn't accomplish anything but a false sense of security.
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We the people have the ability to break up a company.

The company serves the people.

This is why we elect other people to represent our interests.

What value does a virtual skinner box serve? I think at one point Facebook did have value, then it changed
I think per capita emissions are not the right measure to describe the worst polluters. You are right, prices paid for "cheap products" we consume don't include the costs associated with CO2 emissions, but if they did they wouldn't have much to do with a producer's population. A better measure is emissions per dollar GDP, where emissions (a cost) is relative to what gets produced (the benefit).
You are actually making a lot of sense. I upvoted you because I don't want you to fade away into silence. We need to hear all points of view and strive for truth even when it is a hard one.
In its current form, absolutely. That's not to say it needs to be destroyed.
I'm not sure why she's so gung-ho on this. I can't imagine it's a popular issue with the average voter, especially when tech is one of the last true paths to the middle class Americans have left.

On the other hand even my tech illiterate family members would like to see Comcast taken down a few pegs.
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There used to be a list of deplatforming events that had the person, the platform, the date, and the alleged reason for deplatforming.

I have no idea where that is hosted now though.
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Doesn't make the comparison between cars and guns any less stupid.
I've been the subject at least one of these cofounder "dates" and the worst part is it was done under the auspices of speaking to someone who's found a modicum of success in a startup.

The introduction given to me was that it was a person with an idea who wanted a sort of "mentor" in the space who can help navigate the technology aspects. The actual date consisted of them pitching me and gauging my interest.

I was a little turned off. So my suggestion to the author of this article is to add "Be honest about why you're at the coffee shop."

I did see this, though:

> “‘Where do I find people?’ is one of the biggest questions I get when people ask me for advice. There isn’t a ‘Tinder for co-founders’ app that everyone is on. Sourcing is hard,” says Lin.

Anyone up for a new project? :)
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Universities are in one camp?

Define climate alarmist, please
Physicist suggests 'quantum foam' may explain away cosmic energy
An Explanation of the Gell-Mann Effect
I don't think China has to invade Europe, they're quite happy buying real estate, businesses and going on vacation there. Governments like Italy and others are happy to bow in front of the Chinese government in exchange for money.

A military invasion would ruin the whole thing.

The same holds for Russia, but to a lesser degree, because they're not as rich as China.

An actual problem in Western European societies is massive immigration from religiously fundamentalist countries. To them Europe and its citizens are just prey. And they're exploiting the current climate of political correctness to avoid criticism. PC is a massive problem for social discourse.
> Why are some aspects of US law declared beyond the scope of acceptable discourse?

They're not, it's fine to talk about these things, and there are plenty of places where people discuss all aspects of law around sexual offending.

The wrong time and place to talk about them is when your organisation is discussing potential problems because a high profile person linked to your organisation has been accused of raping a coerced child. People in that thread needed a useful way to deal with "MIT has links to Epstein, and Minsky is accused of raping a child". RMS's diversions into "is it rape?" and "is it assault?" were not helpful to that thread.

Either RMS was oblivious to the distress and distraction his comments would cause, or he knew and didn't care. Neither is good.
Also, a lot of polls seem to lead users with extreme. Offhand, I'm not sure of the legitimacy of this site or its polls (it's very self promotional, with my attention immediately drawn to this guy's book), but I'm sure many people have seen screenshots of campaign email polls where, say, you're asked if you support Candidate Y and your choices are:

- Yes I support candidate Y

- No, I support commies, nazis, etc.

Not saying that's what this poll is, but like I noted this website does not seem overly trustworthy. Also doesn't 29% mean 29% of this site's audience who replied to the poll as opposed of all voters
Also, if you're on Linux, PulseAudio can do this pretty much out of the box.
Young people are constantly bombarded with the climate change hysteria and their grasp of time is usually less accurate than that of an older person.
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One man's "fear-inducing" is another man's "results-driven"
This also assumes no risk of losing the plane, of course. If each sortie drops two bombs and has a 1% chance of airframe loss, that increases the cost/bomb for the drone by 500k or the stealth bomber by 5 mil. (which is part of why you use cruise missiles for suicide missions, of course)
Isn't she also targeting Comcast? I know she's made similar criticisms of them, but maybe I'm just assuming that means she wants to go after them explicitly.
Boeing is having problems with its new planes... Designing and building airliners from scratch is not easy but China will get there because it's of strategic importance, and then the current duopoly will be broken.
In case anyone is interested, here's how the figures break out on an hourly basis, for output per capita and hours worked. The OECD average on hours worked per year is 1,763.

Country | Hours (year) | GDP Per Capita | Output Per Hour

--- Best results (low hours, high output) ---

Denmark | 1,410 | $60.7k | $43.05

Netherlands | 1,430 | $53.1k | $37.13

Germany | 1,363 | $48.3k | $35.44

--- Mid or mid-upper tier outcomes ---

Ireland | 1,879 | $76.1k | $40.50

United States | 1,783 | $62.6k | $35.11

Australia | 1,669 | $56.4k | $33.79

Sweden | 1,621 | $53.9k | $33.25

Austria | 1,601 | $51.5k | $32.17

Finland | 1,653 | $49.8k | $30.13

Belgium | 1,550 | $46.7k | $30.13

France | 1,472 | $42.9k | $29.14

Canada | 1,703 | $46.3k | $27.19

--- Underperforming (too many hours vs output) ---

UK | 1,676 | $42.6k | $25.42

New Zealand | 1,752 | $41.3k | $23.57

Japan | 1,713 | $39.3k | $22.94

Israel | 1,889 | $41.6k | $22.02

Italy | 1,730 | $34.3k | $19.83

Spain | 1,695 | $30.7k | $18.11

South Korea | 2,069 | $31.3k | $15.13

Portugal | 1,842 | $23.2k | $12.60

Greece | 2,035 | $20.4k | $10.02

--- Some other miscellaneous results of note ---

Norway | 1,424 | $81.7k | $57.37

Switzerland | 1,590 | $82.9k | $52.14

Iceland | 1,883 | $74.3k | $39.46

Chile | 1,974 | $16.1k | $8.16

Poland | 1,928 | $15.4k | $7.99

Russia | 1,974 | $11.3k | $5.72

Turkey | 1,800 | $9.3k | $5.17

Mexico | 2,255 | $9.8k | $4.35
> Second, I don't see a way for political resolution here

Typically, the resolution is some form of mandating that kids get vaccinated.
Is Varoufakis someone that should generally be taken that seriously? The last time I heard about him was during the election for the European Parliament, where he was pushing DiEM25, which seemes like a rather idealistic (in the unrealistic sense) movement full of attention-hungry personalities.
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4. A couple of years later you want to stop an obsolete interface but you can't because a handful of systems use it and they dont have budget to change.
No, unfortunately I made this assertion based on unscientific anecdotes I've read previously.
Oddly enough, it doesn't even do the cooking. The bit you cited says the humans do the baking. I'd have thought that'd have been an easy bit to integrate - places like Pizza Hut already bake on readily automatable conveyors.
If it was easy to get academics to disseminate their work in a different way, we'd have far fewer problems in academia...
> Anyone up for a new project? :)

Ah, you mean good old 7885 Attend receptions, dinners, and conferences to meet people, exchange views and information, and develop working relationships.
I wish more websites would include a publishing date right at the top (like some newspapers). I think that they don't care if the information is outdated as long as it brings in visitors. Too many websites do this.
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