skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have mentioned the size of projects, which might be true.

Another factor is the incentive structure. There's immense pressure to obtain grants (due to indirect fund income) and focus on h factors increases this as well. The best case strategy given both of those incentives is to have large groups of people who each submit as many grants and papers as possible, and put each other on each submission. That way, even with a high grant failure rate each will bring some money in, and self-citations to a paper will be multiplied by the number of authors.
So every dynamic code is a "super fast" banged out clever code, and every static code is a well thought out architectural masterpiece right? Could you be more biased?
Exactly, I don't see why Zoom would open another front of negative press if they break the law on disguised advertising.

Unless there's a culture problem of "break things and move fast".
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>How did Zuckerberg maintain his majority voting power throughout every funding round? VCs have to look at that very suspiciously.

MZ didn't actually have majority control through every funding round. They key is that other investors (e.g. Sean Parker, Accel Partners, etc) gave voting control of their shares to MZ.[0]

So the ingredients to maintain control (or eventually consolidate majority control) is to have leverage in some way. Multiple forms of leverage:

+ startup has real revenue and is cash flow positive and thus is not desperate for VC funding: Microsoft profits in 1981 would be an example. They didn't actually need David Marquardt's VC money before their IPO in 1986.

+ startup has exponential growth: Facebook is an example. Facebook was so popular that Accel Partners sought out MZ and not the other way around.

+ demonstrate amazing management skill: Jeff Bezos would be an example. He doesn't have majority voting power via dual-class share structure. Instead, other investors let JB control their votes. Even his ex-wife who he cheated on recognizes that her Amazon shares she got in the divorce settlement would be worth less if someone else besides her ex-husband ran Amazon. So she signed over her voting rights to him.

Another thing that worked out for MZ was the older Sean Parker acting as a defacto "consigliere" to warn him how VCs strip power away from founders. And as noted earlier, when Sean was kicked out of Facebook, he turned over his voting rights to MZ.

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2012/02/01/zuck-power-play/
While I agree, large population densities happen due to poverty, the more poor people get, the more children they'll have.

Western countries have lower population densities than many Asian countries. On one hand these are richer countries that maybe could afford the bill.

On the other hand this is also a tax for having a lower birth rate that could have unintended consequences. Like raising poverty levels, or pro-imigration or pro-child policies. With enough economic incentive to grow the population, the population will be grown via government policies, exactly what happened in many countries post WW2.

The other issue I'm seeing is that developed countries export a lot of goods and services, being efficient at it. Just as an example, agriculture in Holland is extremely efficient. Raising prices in Holland due to CO₂ emissions will move some of that production locally elsewhere in the EU, possibly yielding greater CO₂ emissions overall. This may be good for local farmers, I'm all for eating produce grown locally, but not necessarily for the environment.

Basically some countries are exporting much of their pollution and by imposing limits per country some of that pollution might get worse when moved locally.

I agree that "per capita" is probably the best we have, it's unfair to impose harsher restrictions on developing countries, given that developed countries yielded much worse emissions in the 20th century. Since 1960 we've had great progress in eliminating extreme poverty across the world. If that progress continues, we can expect a flattening population level, which is already happening.

But in calculating allowed emissions per country, it isn't so clear cut and I hope all variables are taken into consideration.
"To replace out MediaWiki with a Java-based alternative (XWiki) ended up taking a total fo 24 dev-years over 4+ calendar years for the team, not counting the interruptions to pretty much every other team at Amazon as their pages were getting constantly migrated and un-migrated"

I would love to hear more about this. I'm guessing that's a cost of at least $4M? How was this approved? How did they allow it to continue for four years?
Thanks for highlighting the GitHub discussion of the issue.

I'd imagine the maintainers are extremely busy and may have a sense (or incentive?) to respond - in any way - to issues swiftly, and that closing them may in many cases be the most time-efficient way to keep their own work under control.

That said I agree that situations like this are frustrating for users, especially when they expose what appear to be genuine and reproducible issues.
Thank you for being worth the whole reason I clicked on this link. I could have used this forever ago when I was trying to figure out how to do this to bypass a firewall (now I don't need to but this will be useful in the future).
The problem with public transportation in suburbs isn't the spread out nature of them so much as the lack of straight lines to run transit on. While it is annoying to wait that long, a bus every 10 minutes can be self supporting in the suburbs, but you can only get that frequency and ridership if everyone rides it and nobody will do that unless it is reasonably fast to get to the destination. The crooked roads in most suburbs mean that the bus is slowly winding around. Not only do cars corner better, but they also spend less time winding because they leave the local neighborhood for a main road which isn't bus friendly.

Don't get me wrong, density is better, but putting the blame on lack of density gives suburbs an excuse they are not worthy of.
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> That’s all that Agile means to me.

This is the most concise, honest summary of "agile" I've ever come across. Well put.

The amount of person-hours spent bikeshedding about various sundry "agile" procedural details is absolutely breathtaking. A perpetual, real-life Dilbert punchline taken seriously by armies of *Managers.
> green energy capacity that is lost due to bankruptcy

I think large capital intensive infrastructure is never truly lost to bankruptcy. The name on sign might change and the people profiting from it might even be different but once it's been constructed and operational there is very little incentive to remove it.
Poverty == children was true back in the 50's, but not so much any more.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#how-has-t...
Also serverless = server from another person
This is an extremely bad faith response.

Nobody suggested that experts are infallible or should be followed blindly, that’s just an obvious straw man. Experts disagree and make mistakes, and other experts regularly help point that out and make corrections.

What does not follow is the idea that expertise doesn’t matter, and that I have to listen to everyone single person’s hot take on a subject that they just started studying last month.
This is how all of SV works, and has always been. Pump up company valuations with hype, then eventually they dump it all on institutional and retail investors. In some cases the companies actually work out so they might hang on to their stock, but in most cases they get out before the companies' eventual demise.
We need to look at the role more broadly, being a developer isn't just churning out code. A lot of young talented guys just follow their passion and hack away abstraction after abstraction instead of trying to see what the product really needs. So you could say they're amazingly productive, or you could say they actually provided very little value.
And a toxic wreck can't be productive by definition; if you demoralise everyone around you reduce productivity! The fact some people can get away with is a bug in hiring.
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“didn’t you read my message? I said at 19:00.”

You said “9:00”.

“go check”.

and that for a simple interaction, imagine a complex argument...
WeWork has more liabilities with its long term leases than the real estate it owns.

Adam set that company up for failure and Son funded that stupid vision. Appropriately it was with the SoftBank Vision Fund.
Ha, cool trick! Reminds me of the Trello trick where if you press the 'copy' keyboard shortcut while hovering over a card, it will copy a link to that specific card.
Move somehere you can ride a bike, walk, or take electrified transport, heat and cool your extremely efficient NZEB timber-frame home with a solar or wind-fuelled heat pump, eat little meat (restore the grazing land to peatland, forest, etc. too), have 2 or fewer children, and take holidays via rail instead of plane, and you're mostly there.
I have no directly relevant credentials whatsoever and don't claim to. (I actually considered saying as such in the writeup but it's already so verbose that I felt it wasn't worth it).

This doesn't really pass the sniff test. You wrote 7500 words on this topic, but felt that including "I have zero experience in any relevant fields" would be overly verbose? Are you sure there wasn't another reason?

arguments should be evaluated on their merits, rather than credentials

It's not about credentials, it's about relevant knowledge and experience, without which it can be very difficult to actually properly evaluate the merits.
A common term used in software development for "throwing crap at the wall"

My instincts tell me it was coined in the 90's amid the disgusting/edgy phase after the long "dad jokes" phase of the years before. (Unix, byte, nybble ...the list continues)
Didn’t realize that it was already time for the annual HN slogan contest.
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that's an awesome trick. Thanks!
> despite being very desperate

Could this be why? Desperation has a way of putting people off?
Why all the downvotes? Is HN only for the cool kids?
Wood Is More Precious Than Gold
This is an awesome development for building out machine vision or microscope cameras. It'll be great to adapt the Pi to an Amscope or Dinocam for inspecting small part features in an industrial setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_mount
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I've read the whole thing and I have these comments:

- I think the part about the freedoms is unnecessary because I feel the vast majority of the pro-lockdown people do not share your enthusiasm for freedom and public discourse. While your main argument may shift their opinion, the part about liberty may cause them to stop reading and discard your other arguments.

- I think some claims would sound more persuasive if there were more links to research. For example, the claim about 0.1-0.7% mortality. There's a study about China (0.66% mortality) and a bunch of others that could support your point. You could also add mortality stats for influenza in the US from the CDC website (I think it's 0.13% on average).

- The TLDR sounds bitter and childish, in my opinion.

Overall a great summary and I'll share that with others.
I don't understand your point or how it explains how HFT companies can "front-run" other HFT companies?

Front-running is when someone with a fiduciary duty - typically a broker or dealer - takes an order from a client and then trades on their own book BEFORE executing the client's order knowing the effect of the clients order on the market and knowing that they can exploit this effect for their own benefit.

I know of no HFTs which have such a relationship with rival HFTs and can't even imagine such a relationship existing never mind it being a frequent cause of why strategies perform poorly for HFTs.

Front-running hasn't been a feature of markets for decades at least. Any sniff of front-running would have the SEC or CFTC fine your company into oblivion and possibly result in jail time or at the very least lifetime bans from the financial industry.
While I do agree, I find that marking a message as 'edited' (like Telegram does) makes it less of a problem for me. Bonus points if I can click to see the original message!
> I mean it is literally the holy grail of dieting.

Slightly related but I have recently visited the US and I have been shocked how supercharged high sugar (ie addictive) high calorie foods are everywhere, like desserts above 1000kcal alone. It takes much more effort than in the other countries to manage caloric intake here, even eating random junk food where I live it’s hard to go above 3000 per day.
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You’re shadowbanned, just FYI

Edit: you’re not understanding me. People on HN cannot see your posts unless someone vouches for them. I vouched for 2, but I can now see that was a mistake and you are shadowbanned for a reason, and that is because you are acting like a jerk.
This is precisely why we switched from AWS to DigitalOcean. This cut out monthly hosting costs by 80% and vastly simplified our entire setup. We also saw some solid performance gains in some areas (wrote up our benchmarks: https://goldfirestudios.com/blog/150/Benchmarking-AWS-Digita...).
I know plenty of devs who are 40+ and still writing code and getting paid well to do it. In fact I worked with a consultant who was over 60 not too long ago.

I am almost certain there is something else going on here other than your age. In fact, I've never once been asked my age in an interview, and I'm a couple of years into my second career doing this after I retired from my first.
Not sure what you're trying to say. Both population growth and poverty have been plummeting since ~1960.
You don't have to do a full lockdown if you just want to protect nursing homes; isolation of just the nursing homes/other high-risk concentrated populations would have the same effect on those inside
"I’m a software / site reliability engineer based out of Santa Barbara, California."

From someone living in NYC: fuck off. You have no business telling anyone anything regarding health and safety.
For anyone who wants to take a look inside one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4qiPhjW4us
I don't see any tracking code. (no code from FB's domains, just some wordpress social share widget where if you don't click anything, the respective social platform is not contacted).
You are right if you only consider individual users on their laptops, but companies also have to set up conference rooms with compatible equipment.
A startup CTO role might work for you if you can build the product grounds all alone (frontend, backend, DevOps).
The guy behind http://www.buildfire.com enabled companies to offer mobile apps without coding experience. He now has the means to race McLarens and sky dive religiously.

Unlocking human ingenuity while making our species less depending on learning to think like a computer is always going to be a big market.
> Lombardy (the region of Northern Italy where this was concentrated) has a very very good health system.

To be honest, it was good, but it was not as good as people hoped. Massive errors like allowing infections to run rampant in the hospital in Alzano Lombardo contributed a lot to the spread of the disease in the area around Bergamo and Brescia.

ICUs were also at 80% utilization when the pandemic hit, because beds have been slashed a lot in the past years.
It's an interesting comparison, but I don't really think it's in the same ballpark as healthcare being provided by your employer. It's cheap (less than $90/month for mine) and it's optional - nobody's dying or going bankrupt because they don't have stravenky. It's better to think of it like the free coffee, fruit, breakfast and snacks you might have in your office. I'm sure someone's made an argument that they'd rather get a few extra bucks each month than have free coffee in the office, but not many :-)

"Making employee meals tax deductible" sounds like I have to keep receipts of what I ate and file them with my taxes to receive the benefit. But it's just that some amount of the value of these vouchers is subtracted from the subtotal used to calculate my income tax.

It's a small thing, but honestly it's a really nice benefit
> when the effect is large

You mean when the effect is guaranteed. Cyanide is reasonably guaranteed to have the expected effect every time which is why you don't even need the control.

With only 4 test subjects you can't really draw a strong conclusion.
Much depends on the Java. Having spent a lot of time on personal projects using the language, it doesn't deserve its reputation -- Java may 'require' an IDE to avoid spending too much time on boilerplate, but modern Java is a good language and the programming experience once you do have that IDE is one of the best, most effective I know.

At the same time, it's absolutely possible for codebases to become "enterprisey" to the point where even the tiniest change takes weeks. Some of the libraries out there use absolutely horrifying patterns.

If you're just coding for yourself, you can avoid those. In a company maybe not so much, and even though the company would be better off avoiding them, maybe they have old code remaining from when such things were considered good.
The UK (and Ireland) have an _extremely_ annoying fetish for concrete block-built houses. I don't understand it, except that perhaps old wooden structures rotted. Or, more likely, it was a consequence of deforesting their islands with overgrazing (the green fields of Ireland are an artificial landscape representing huge destruction of biodiversity).

Talking to the planning officer now and they'll begrudgingly allow timber frame but insist you cover it in plaster, hideous pebble dash, etc., which of course is cement based and carries a large carbon footprint.

If history is any indicator they'll catch up to what the rest of the world is doing and start embracing timber frame homes (which are easier to hit NZEB standards with) about 20 years after everyone else.

Timber frame homes have a much, much, much lower embodied energy footprint, and of course sequester carbon in their wood.
If you only educated those who could pay, they would be able to get educated more cheaply than our current system. However, this would eventually destroy the economic productivity of our country.

The private sector tends to do poorly in any area where the returns on an investment are not captureable by the investor individual but instead accrue to society as a whole.
> 2) When an auto-capitalized correction is retyped by the user, don’t preserve capitalization

Seriously, this isn't even a feature for anyone ever, it's a straight-up bug I seem to get hit with several times a day.

But my absolute biggest problem with autocorrect isn't even on this list.

It's when I swipe-type a word and the correct word comes out. Then I swipe-type a second word, and my iPhone decides the first word was wrong, and changes it to be more probable with the second word.

Now, it's super-frustrating but wouldn't be the end of the world if I could just easily tap somewhere to restore the original first word. Occasionally it's listed as one of the options at the top of the keyboard, but not usually. Usually I've got to backspace through both entire words, retype the first word again, hit space twice so the iPhone "forgets" about being in double-word-correction mode, hit delete twice to delete the period-space, hit space again, and finally type my second word!

It drives me nuts. I read what I'm typing as I type it. I don't ever want my phone to fix a word earlier. I wish so badly there were an option to disable this.
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There is something in-between where many engineers end up linking together a bunch PAAS and maybe a bit of front end to come up with a app or website.

In the old days you had to understand pointers and backups and efficient joins in your rdbms, the level of abstraction now is much higher.
Going back to the basics on this one.

Has any government presented a cost benefit analysis of all the available options to address this situation?

Like most things in life this isn't black and white, so where is the analysis of the pros and cons, worst case projections, etc of not doing anything / going into lockdown / other alternatives.

I for one have not seen it.

Shouldn't such an analysis be the basis of any decisions we make? It follows therefore that it needs to be first of all DONE, then publicly presented and argued from all angles before a decision is made.

But, no. A decision has been made and presented to us. We can rest assured, they say, the science CLEARLY shows that this is the right decision. Then - at least in the UK - later they admitted that the economic impact and the following consequences have not yet been looked into.

The arguments should not be about lockdown or not. It is fair and everyone duty to scrutinise government decisions, not because they should have done the exact opposite, but simply because they haven't presented a robust case for what they're doing.

Let's not forget, it is their ONLY job to represent us - a job all of us are paying for -, and do things that are in our best interest, yet they fail to properly justify decisions.

Anyone who without question agrees to locking down the economy might want to consider that bailouts, stimulus packages, unemployment benefits, and anything else the government does is paid for with our money.

Add to this the borderline misleading way covid deaths are classified and a dozen other similar issues and you have yourself a very interesting situation which should be raising questions in everyone.
I've had this problem quite a lot with both the default keyboard and with GBoard, although seemingly a little less frequently with GBoard. I also find that the speech-to-text often fails to grasp the contextual clues and blatantly uses the wrong "your" or the wrong "their."
> We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts.

Is it considered acceptable use to create a throwaway Google account specific for this service?

It’s be nice to have a video chat platform not controlled by China for the common man but I wouldn’t want my personal social activity on it to be directly linked to any real Google account.
It really is an article about board politics. It's a different kind of game where control isn't only about shares in the company but also about controlled assets and influence outside the company.

In Facebook's case, Zuck already has control of the company but "asserts control" through strategic moves at the board level by "firing" Hastings and Bowles (who both disagreed with his fumbling on political ads).
Outside the company he "asserts control" thanks to his increased acrimony towards regulators while appeasing the Trump circle.

A board member who goes after Zuckerberg not only risks getting fired from the board but also getting heat from the White House. This is a very unusual situation for a company in a democracy and in the tech sector.
Right. My bad. I was looking at the lockdown extension date sorry.