skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought that modern corporate capitalism in general is a system that makes sure that you never actually meet the people whose weakness you are taking the most advantage of. Consumers and citizens encounter hourly-paid clerks and customer service reps who probably make less than they do, those clerks work under salaried managers who are overworked because they don't get overtime, those managers work under well-paid but even more overworked managers of managers, who work under well-paid, less-overworked, but more precariously-employed project/regional heads whose primary job is taking the blame for failures. Then you get to overpaid, overworked, secure people who dictate parts of the overall strategy of a company, the vastly-paid and secure people who run the place, and the people who passively own the place and take all the profits.

At every step, you are surrounded by people roughly as put-upon and desperate as you are. While profit filters up and compromise filters down, the only people to appeal to are in roughly in the same situation you are, if not worse off.

Not doing a survey for Philip Morris as one of those leaves of the corporate graph who faces the raw material of the consumer just means you don't eat, and they find another person who will.
> I would argue that using postgres today sets you up better for HA tomorrow

The point is, if I have the money I can get enterprise grade HA today. Yugabyte and cockroach are promising but they’re small unproven organizations and as history has shown they’re likely to get bought out and then who knows.

Larry Ellison is an asshole, Oracle the company itself makes me want to vomit but they are a pretty known quantity.

> CTO / Architect / whatever is more at risk by choosing Oracle in 2020.

This trope started reaching fever pitch during the first wave of OSS commercialization hype/fervor in 98. It wasn’t true then and I see no evidence it is any more true today.
I see OP's attitude a lot on Reddit and (sadly) a few times here too. It seems common decency is a dirty word when there's political point scoring to be had. Rebranding it as "virtue signalling" is another one.
Ask people what they want, and then listen when they tell you?

Therein lies another problem: the perceived cost of improvements is modified by the perceptions of "deservedness" on the part of the people paying. Compare post-WWII to post-WOT investment. The Marshall Plan et al. were correctly perceived as being less expensive than the alternative of letting wounds fester and courting another war, but I'd argue that this relatively clear-eyed approach was influenced by who the investment was going to (Westerners, European, white people) and what it was to be used for (returning Europe to its former glory after utter destruction). There has been no talk of that kind of investment in Iraq/Syria/Afghanistan/Libya, whatever their people may desire.
> It might not have been a factor in the discussions of the firings, but it still could be a root cause.

In which case it was a factor.
It's tough to call it self-oppression when our governance mechanisms are literally unresponsive to 90% of the public.

See [1] pdf page 10.

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Basic Operations with Angles
People only say FAANG instead of FANG if it's Apple. Otherwise I could only see it as Amazon. But Amazon had people WFH almost immediately, since being here in Seattle it was the start of the outbreak in the US.
Yeah, great idea. I will add them there as well, thanks!
I thought that the introduction about the climate change issue was supposed to have addressed your concern. I interpreted it as him saying he was equally upset about the equal inaction on the climate change issue but had his priorities set such that it wasn't enough for him to quit until they started directly messing with human lives.
OMG. Thanks for this info. I doubt us in the UK are being any smarter. I might question the probabilites as they've been updated since, see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067785 but that gives zero excuse to do nothing.

This should be the top-voted comment, if anyone would care to read it. I's short and pointed.

Edit: this reminds me of Feynman's presentation on the Challenger disaster, only beforehand.
“Chickens**t” whistleblower firings are “poison,” resigning Amazon VP says
This is just a hollow pro-credential posturing without any substance to it. What is the point here supposed to even be? That software engineers too dumb to understand statistics and probability, and should just leave this to the 'experts' like the ones the original author was citing in order to make his argument?

I don't understand the critique of tone in this either. Is the idea here supposed to be "I disagree with what the author was saying, so he shouldn't have written it well with a concise tone" ? That is what this comes off sounding like the author here is saying. Like he thinks if your idea is wrong, you aren't allowed to write well or something.
> So pretty much as ever, if you're round-tripping to the US, picking up an MBP there is nice.

Just keep in mind that if you stay in the US for less than 6 months, you should be paying VAT on it on your way back (see other comments). Otherwise this probably counts as tax evasion, which comes with pretty hefty fines in some EU countries.
Yes. I worked at a company for many years that was offices (mostly for managers) and cubicles. Collaboration was fine. Culture was open door unless you specifically didn't want to be disturbed/overheard for some reason. I imagine it's different at other places but private office shouldn't be equated to private office with always shut door.
I thought X evangelism is when you aren't paid, like with open source. If you are paid you're just a salesman.
Sorry, I don't understand. What you said may be true for mean (aka average), but the graph shows the median, not the mean.
There are always multiple reasons. As people below had pointed out he is 64 and already planning on retiring per announcements a year ago. This is another reason on top of the previous ones he stated. The straw that broke the camels back?
VICE's Guide to 2030
The disclaimer was added after the fact.

I'm not trying to "silence" anyone. The author should be free to write whatever he wants. I just think it's irresponsible and I'd like to encourage people with any influence or audience to do better.

EDIT: lots of criticism of me not mentioning that the author added a disclaimer later. It's a fair criticism, I've updated my article.
I'm going to pick on the particular case of redlining, because I'm a bit more up to date on it than some others. The others are important too.

Redlining is abhorrent behavior. It's also caused by people. We can look at a specific city where Redlining is a major problem, and pull the rezoning documents and contracts and actually point to specific people who acted with bad intent. We can say "Bob over there is a jerk and engaging in this prohibited behavior" (and hopefully do something about it like punish Bob).

That's not some particular case against capitalism. Redlining occurs in non-capitalist and less-capitalist (mixed capitalist/socialist societies), it doesn't occur in all capitalist societies or areas, and it's not directly capitalist driven (instead having heavy racial and religious discriminatory elements). That doesn't mean redlining isn't bad, it means that it has nothing to do with capitalism being good or bad.

> Here's a source for rent vs. income...There are plenty of other examples available via your favorite search engine.

There's also plenty of examples for my points which I've been carefully citing as we go, and in general it's poor form to leave finding evidence as an exercise up to the reader. I realize it may be inconvenient to you to have to cite evidence for your arguments, but that's the nature of trying to have an argument about a real world thing and not just a partisan talking point.

You'll notice your source stops at 2014 (which, it was written in 2016, that's reasonable) and it doesn't take into account the significant median income increase behavior from 2014-2020 per [^1] above. Yes, rents do rise, that part isn't very surprising in and of itself. Also note that comparing the increases as percentages of each other is misleading - a 130% rent increase compared to a 110% income increase is not 1:1 given the original 1960s figures are dramatically different [^3]. This also doesn't account for the decrease of family size [^4]. In general family units have shrunk, and we've gone from multiple generations sharing a house to people moving out sooner (which would result in median rent increase).

[^3]: https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/gros...

[^4]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...
That's a pretty amazing comment. I worked at Amazon many years ago and recall many convesations where it was generally agreed that we were surely being paid better than at other tech companies because the compensation at other tech companies included all of the perks. It wasn't remotely true, but it had to be true, because we were all smart people, and we were still here, weren't we?
well, at the time, worthless labor was all there was, especially if you had less than 3 years experience. It was a different time. You had senior software engineers commiting suicide because they couldn't ever imagine getting work again. for people in tech, it was truely a hopeless time.

i think a lot of young people haven't ever experienced that, and assume that the "more balanced than most other markets" conditions will continue in the tech industry forever. But, there's nothing that says it needs to continue. There's no regulations in place that prevent more and more workers from entering the software industry (unlike say doctors who have regulations in place to prevent more medical students than a certain number each year). So, in SE, over the next decade, the supply of workers can continue to increase more and more
I'm not sure what you are saying? I don't know what Clarence Thomas has to do with this, and "he" is incorrect as well if you are referring to me.
Do you have an example from the last, say 20 years, where an actual amateur made any significant scientific contribution to an established field? I have strong doubts such a person exists. Simply because science, at the very least, requires you to be aware of what has been done already. Of course there are collaborations between researchers but this is a totally different point.
(We already do do this in some cases; these crates are authored by "The Rust Project Developers". For example, the regex crate is one of these.)
The touch bar forces you to look at what you're doing in a place that should strictly be muscle-memory, and it's a flat surface that isn't safe to touch in an area where you rest your hands.

More than once I've hit the "back" button and inadvertently evicted myself from a browser video call, just by putting my hands on the keyboard.

tl;dr - Glad they brought back the escape key, now get rid of the rest of the touch bar.
Just out of curiosity. How was the "debate" about disabling Flatpak support by default?
I knew a guy in college in the early '90s that had a summer job in the facilities department at State Farm's corporate headquarters. According to him, they would get work orders to upsize/downsize people's cubes overnight. He said that people would come in the next day either delighted or pissed. It sounds Orwellian enough to be true but I have no idea if it was.
It's still the exact same potato-cam in every model, from the Air to the $$$ MacBook Pro "16.
I could be interpreting it wrong - folks are nervous because they generally don't have favorable conversations with 6'4" white guys. I used the 'invisible' label because its how some folks, notably older women, describe how they feel. But that's a reach and I apologize if I got it wrong.
I'm really interested in seeing how the Zsys management tool develops. The article claims that what Canonical brings to the table is "a solid background in producing GUIs that make tools like ZFS more accessible for users". Is that really the case? Or is that more the realm of desktop environments like GNOME?
So he didn't think he needed a disclaimer, had a discussion around it, then added a disclaimer. That's exactly what I want from another human being. Someone who is open minded enough to have a discussion, opinionated enough to back up what they think, but in the end plyable enough to make an important change when they see it.

I might suggest you edit your post to include a nod to his disclaimer, as you've shown now that you know about it but don't mention it in your article.
I can't emphasize enough how much overvoltage, overcurrent, and reverse polarity protection has saved me when wiring stuff.
Absolutely. Ostensibly, we have a "free" society where people are "free" to make their own decisions. Functionally what we have looks a lot like serfdom.
Yeah, Reddit is a good idea, thanks. Something I haven't utilized yet
I bet in patent office got no one really understood what quantum communication entails.
Sure it works, and is well tested and mature, and so are most of the jdbc drivers, never had any problem with any jdbc driver, aside of digging to code to understand some not documented behaviours. I don't see why put the Java driver as a benefit point of Oracle, most of the developers problems and issues don't occur at the JDBC level. It might be true for .NET but I'm really supicious if the Oracle support is that better over others

I didn't say code quality, I said usage of obscure and internal hacks from the JVM and JDK
This is a huge opportunity. It would serve a great need to create a structured, low-pressure activity for potential business partners to participate in as they socialize over video chat.

Given the potential to democratize socializing to form business partnerships, it would catch on all on its own as a way to be inclusive during the pandemic in a way that golf never was.

Semi-related, I was reading a sociological research paper by Irving Crespi about playing cards in Endicott, NY and in his conclusion, he speculates that people used the structure of playing bridge or what have you in order to more easily tolerate each other's company. He was trying to explain why most card players weren't gambling seriously and I think he was right about structured activities providing a social lubricant analogous to alcohol.

Perhaps the eu-social aid of structured activity is even stronger than alcohol because we're given a detailed script to play out and distract ourselves instead of simply taking the edge off of our ability to waste energy over analyzing the social situation.
The point of TFA is that reading and debunking is a precious resource, therefore it is disingenuous to present your work in a way that encourages more reading and debunking that it actually deserves.
Where it doesn't matter that the maxed out specs at which point you can call the machine "Pro" cost something like €3000?

I'm sorry, but 8GB LPDDR3 and 256GB SSD with 2 USB-C ports and jet engine fans aren't really that "Pro".
I haven't had a Dell in awhile, 4+ years, but I have to say, the Macs that I've had felt just as sturdy as the day I bought it. My personal MBP I got is from early 2017, and my new MBP I got for work less than a year ago feel exactly the same, besides one having stickers I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Every dell I've had starts creaking at the hinges after just a few uses. Doesn't feel as sturdy, the $600 difference is worth the longevity and integrity of the macbook hardware alone.
+1 to TouchBar hate. It was a major factor in "upgrading" my personal machine to a 2020 Air, which is the best (least-worst?) of all worlds: Touch ID + F-keys. Luckily the size/performance tradeoff works for me; but anyone who needs the fastest Mac portable is boned.

My work machine is the new 16" MBP, and while the new keyboard is the best they've ever made, and the return of Esc is welcome, the goddamn TouchBar still drives me up a wall (especially when tweaking audio volume, which is something one wants to do instantly and reflexively).
Someone else has probably mentioned this, but looks like they're trying to sell off old inventory (8th gen, two ports, etc.) with the lower spec versions. Hopefully they'll refine the product line once those are all gone.

Coming from a 2010 MacBook Pro, I'll be stoked to snag one of the higher end 13" Pros sometime this year. The 16" just isn't portable enough for my taste unfortunately.
> There's no basis in evidence

It's hard to rise to the top in a morally lax organisation without making some compromises on the way there.

Furthermore, it's easy to take a stand when you're financially secure because of those compromises.

So in my opinion the OP is right: it's good for Tim to take a stance if truly, deep down, he feels this is morally wrong, but ultimately him being outspoken means little when compared to those who did the right thing from the start
and as such never got a position to make a headline on HN in the first place.

Tim is assured of a cozy job with a "good guy" startup regardless. If genuine, it's certainly a personal victory for him, but it doesn't mean much for the rest of us (except, cynically, that selling out and then raising your profile by denouncing the party you sold out to is a valid career path).
The journal Nature respectfully disagrees: https://www.nature.com/nature-research/for-authors/write

> Nature journals prefer authors to write in the active voice ("we performed the experiment...") as experience has shown that readers find concepts and results to be conveyed more clearly if written directly.
I downgraded from a 2015 retina mbp 15" to a 13", and the 15" just seems monstrous now. I love the size of 12"-13" laptops. They weigh less, are much more portable, and I don't actually need all that real estate.
Bernhardsson’s razor. Someone should make a Wikipedia entry for that.
Still limited to 2 USB/TB ports on the base model (and precious little else). Want more than that and you're paying a minimum of $1800.

Between limited ports and soldered in storage/memory, it feels like Apple has gone all-in on disposable computers.
I bet I make at least twice the money with half the RAM. ;)

Weird thing to belittle someone over there man.
Kailh might make something lighter than MX blues. Not sure what's out there on the light side. I'm sure cherry or someone must make something nice that still clicks. I also use linear switches around 60-70g.
Although if those who are predicting a lot more WFH (but with companies still maintaining some level of physical offices), I would expect hoteling to become much more common whatever the physical space looks like. If many/most people are only coming in a couple days a week, it doesn't make sense for employees to have a dedicated space in general.
The MacBook Pro with function keys was retired when they introduced the new MacBook Air. So this is now a new development.
I think it essentially always has been. It was there first, [GCP copied it](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/xml-api/overview), [OpenStack has compatibility middleware](https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/middleware.html#modu...).
Voting doesn't ensure that the most accurate comment/submission will show up on top, instead a wrong but popular claim (as "many people agree with it") can easily get to the top.

That happens all the time on HN and Reddit.
It takes a village to raise a value based corporation. Many act like kids with no love, guidance.
> All epidemiologists seemed to have agreed at that time

No, the 4% was based on academic papers and epidimeoligists. Granted there was and is disagreement, but the whole "it's less than 1%" thing was from nonreperts.

> but this is widely regarded as a cover-up

By who? Some people believe China wasn't forthcoming with evidence, sure. That's possibly true.

> Which is identical with not restricting global air travel.

Well no, general travel restrictions and reductions, and travel bans instituted by areas under outbreak are both within the WHO policy.

That is, Italy can ban all travel out (which they did). But the US shouldn't ban all flights from China.

> They wrote for individuals without respiratory symptoms

Yes, and if you read into the underlying papers, not just the headlines the reasons they recommend this are to prevent shortages and because it's easy to mishandle masks.

I am not sure what your goal is here, you seem to be disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing.
> A $600 price difference for this machine is probably worth it in my mind.

Agreed. Recently bought the 16 inch MBP after considering Lenovo and Dell. Prices between the machines weren't that much different (Lenovo came to 7200 minus some discount to bring it down to MBP price).

End of the day I didn't want to deal with Linux drivers (no M$ for me) and I wanted something that worked. Plus, the touchpad on an Apple device can't be beat. It's not a perfect machine, mainly Catalina issues I suspect, but worth it IMO.
Is "team" a measure of how good the team is in general, or how well-suited they are to the area they've chosen to build a startup in?
Ah, it's not the laws of physics you care about! It's causal paradoxes!

In other words, you want the patent office to not only know the laws of physics (reasonable), but also have a deep knowledge including where there is future potential for change in understanding (maybe less reasonable).
What Do AR's 'Exploring 20s' Have in Store?
Yev here -> It's not so much a standard, though S3 is generally the most often used suite of APIs. 100s of integrations exist with our B2 Native APIs (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html), but a lot of folks only know how to write to S3 Compatible APIs and don't have the resources to write to multiple API suites, so this makes integration easier for them!
right now I'm getting a high deductible plan with the premiums fully paid by my employer. for a young healthy person, it's hard to complain about that. if you decoupled insurance from my employer and made them add their contribution to my salary but changed nothing else, I would be strictly worse off. the premiums would go up because it's no longer a group policy, and I would have to pay for it with post-tax income.

at least in principle, I am convinced by the argument that single-payer healthcare is cheaper on average. I do have my doubts that partisan politics in the US would actually realize that potential for efficiency, given the usual sabotage of public services in this country. I also doubt that my income bracket would end up saving much even in an optimal implementation.

so at the end of the day, I don't oppose some sort of national healthcare, but I don't really see any personal incentive to rock the boat. possible outcomes for me range from "about the same" to "a lot worse".
Why shouldn't students be willing to eat the costs in order to help save the vulnerable population of COVID-19? Why is it the schools fault for this happening?
Splitting AWS off from Amazon Markets is one split-up I would support the government doing. Without the cash-cow, it might reduce Amazon Markets domination, and allow more competitive alternatives.
Maybe, though it's that detail which is lacking and making it all just a bit too vague.
Digital Ocean, OVH and others seem to use the S3 API. It does give you the benefit of clients written against S3 can now be used for your platform, and unlike a lot of AWS the API contract seems pretty reasonable and well kept.

Edit: Confused Hetzner and OVH, sorry
It took me quite some time to realize that TRX is actually a brand and not some abbreviation for the trainers :)
The cost? Because Americans don’t want to be paid EU wages that are 1/2 to 1/3 what they’re making in the states?