skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's only worse than random chance if the base rate of having bombs (among people ending up in Guantanamo Bay, anyway) is more than 1/3. Were you assuming it would be 1/2 or something? I don't see any reason to conclude that. I can easily believe that the base rate would be under 1/3, and so 1/3 would in fact be better than random chance.
It'd be interesting to know what's the percentage of HN users that use Twitter actively.
The reason market challengers outsource to TSMC is because they don't have enough revenue to support their own fab line, with Intel taking majority of the revenue. The precise reason Intel kept their own fab is because it's the makret leader that wants to keep their competitive edge, that is under the assumption their own fab is more advance, and for their use only. However, now that TSMC as a fab somehow got more advanced. It meant Intel's in-house fab has failed in that mission. That doesn't mean Intel's challenger's gonna hand their production to Intel's fab. Intel obviously won't just turn over their technology for their competitors to use either. It's quite impossible and unconventional to do.
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* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Blender

* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Unity
If you think that's hyperbolic, consider that current levels of inequality are not dissimilar to that of pre-revolutionary France.
Yep, my initial impression of the article was that it didn't do a great job of contextualizing the story and was going to write a comment about that. Then promptly succumbed to someone's-wrong-on-the-internet reflex.
Basically it's a reaction to an NY Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/amazon-critic-...) that (according to Tim) misleads the reader into thinking he's "anti Amazon".

In the "reply" for Tim he states both positive and negative things about Amazon. However his main issue is with the monopoly of big tech-giants.

If the original link doesn't open, then you can use the Internet Archive's copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200728052705/https://www.tbray...
The historical significance of Double-Entry bookkeeping can not be understated. Prior to Leonardo "Fibonacci" Bonacci bringing it to Pisa from the Arabs in Algiers, North Africa, there was no concept of "budget" for most merchants, each transaction was a separate affair, and consequently, finance could not scale. There were several attempts at international lending, and it bankrupted the Bardi and Paruzzi companies who lent lots of money to King Edward III, who ended up defaulting on it. The Medici family succeeded where others failed, providing a level of service in banking previously unparalleled, thanks to being able to manage complex cash flows through Double-Entry bookkeeping. (Fibonacci also introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeral system at a time where most of Europe was using Roman Numerals for arithmetic). It made the Republican city states of northern Italy on par with the political power of noble families, and as other countries caught up with Florence, one could, for the first time, seek an education outside of the Church and in their own country.

Every programmer should be familiar with one descendant of double-entry bookkeeping: the integer. Though its binary representation may be more familiar, the formal mathematical construction of the integers consists of an equivalence class of pairs of natural numbers. In the Chinese "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" they describe red and black counting rods denoting gains and losses, and the equivalence class being that taking away a red and black rod at the same time leaves the "total" or normalized form unchanged. Integers took a lot of time to be accepted in mathematical practice, but they were in use for far longer.
You miss the point. Many people that work at tobacco companies probably like to smoke!
> Really? That is hyperbolic to me, and I was not as interested in reading the rest of his article after that.

That's a shame because if you had continue reading you could have judged if it was really hyperbolic or if there was some truth to it.

Besides why even care about some of the conclusions in the piece if you can also absorb the information and form your own conclusions?
I have the same experience with German reversed way of speaking numerals, yet I speak the language fluently, including a good understanding of Swiss German as well.

But reversing back the numbers into my Portuguese brain, just doesn't work after a certain size.
The article talks at length about the fact that both the F91W and the AK-47 are excellent, sturdy low cost devices, that are therefore widespread both among terrorists and non terrorists.
Also, quit Medium while you are at it.
Basically Amazon is a symptom of global wealth inequality. He’s making the point that no company the size of Amazon, and no person as rich as Bezos, should exist.

The bulk of the article laments the reality that the media, writ large, wants to report on “Tim vs Jeff”, not on “wealth inequality is out of control and we need to at least break up tech darlings, maybe much more.”
This is a great article, but it’d be much better as five much smaller articles
As an employer, why would you choose to hire women who you knew you would have to pay a mandated pre-delivery-full-pay leave to as opposed to a man without that risk?
> So, ban all competitions

I wrote "not encouraging", that's different from "ban all". Why did you reply to "ban all" instead?

I like MMA and UFC, however, the fighters get brain scanned to find out about underlying problems, and if you get knocked out, you cannot compete again for a long while (because of TBI risk).

Whilst the sledding sports seem to ignore brain injuries.
> Debits come in and credits go out.

That is the complete opposite of common usage. When I get a credit on my credit card statement, it means money is coming in to me. When I get a debit on my debit card, it means money is going out from me. It's not rocket science, or at least it shouldn't be. And yet somehow accountants have managed to turn it into something even more confusing.
I did finish the article.
China doesn't need to invade Taiwan. It just need to create this pretext that they will to prevent Taiwan from becoming a US military base.
It's common for people to conclude that we're moderating the comments we personally disagree with, and to draw personal conclusions about us based on that. I've been called Hitler, Stalin, and everything in between.

These conclusions are all bogus. We don't moderate HN based on any of that; we moderate it based on the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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Aren't most women's rights advocates asking for more maternity leave, not less?
> because employee turnover in the software industry is much higher than for most professions

I wonder if that's actually true, and if so, to which degree. On what basis are you saying this?
Maybe. On the other hand, I would argue that a violent protest is still a protest, thus the need to specify non-violent.
How would cheating make you a sale? I don't see the causality.
I feel like the GW-M5610-1ER is smaller, try out one once.
I think we need to move past the genderization of capitalism (an abstract force) into "patriarchy" -- Capitalism has no interest in gender, age, or pretty much anything relating to human qualities. The trending force for capitalism is to have humans automated away -- let alone be given free money to have a baby.

I actually find the notion of "patriarchy" incredibly sexist -- were not men the canaries in the coalmine -- the original victims -- for the dehumanization of capitalism?

I happen to support capitalism as a means of production -- but it should be understood as an abstract, inhuman force like an optimization algorithm. "Patriarchy" is a red herring.
I just didn't trust the tools to do the job properly so for now I just split it up myself.
Footnotes _are_ great when done right, but I have to say that inline citations are incredibly frustrating as a reader, because they're harder to skip over. A footnote marker is small enough that your eye can continue over it, whereas a citation like (Just-OK 2020) is much harder to read.

My personal preference is to use footnotes as you suggest -- as a "here's more information for the curious" option -- whereas citations should be linked to a "references" section -- either at the end of the chapter or the book or the overall article.
I admire Tim Bray's contributions to our industry, his tireless pursuit to use his privilige and status to advocate for improvements to diversity and inclusion.

I also believe in his genuine reasons and motivations for resigning, and the integrity it showed. (Obligatory: yes, he's in his 60s who's made millions, at some point you gotta retire, and it's easy to show integrity when you clearly don't need to work again)

Having said that, I'm kind of surprised he's surprised by the overall reaction that he got when he quit, and in interviews since then.

It's popular, easy, and desirable to dunk on Amazon. It's the best form of mainstream journalistic clickbait because it brings in and unites the left (who want improved worker rights, and Jeff B is a poster child for wealth imbalance) and the right (who are mad at Jeff's perceived left-leaning politics and criticism of Donald Trump via the Washington Post).

It is NOT popular to question the very fabric of our western capitalism. Overtures about unsustainable wealth inequality do not resonate well in the mainstream. At the fringes, the right blames the rest of the world, and looks to isolate; the left is readying the guillotines.

I think Tim should have known that his message would be misconstrued by both other Amazonians who remained and wrote defensive blog posts, and the rest of the world who's holding him up as some Anti-Amazon Crusader.

I believe his mistake was to immediately start talking about worker's rights when his actual ethical qualm was about the chilling effect of silencing whistleblowers. But...then he wouldn't have had the NYTimes writing follow ups months later.
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I've bought a bunch of these to give away to newly elected patrol leaders in our boy scout troop because they are cheap and get the job done... the job being to tell time. I wonder if that means I'm on a list now.
I use it to follow a bunch of academics. They share papers and ideas. It is nice as long as you avoid politics.
"It was called the Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal consensus, and it was wrapped up with lots of high-flying rhetoric about this freedom and that dynamism and those flexibilities, but you don’t have to be that cynical to see it as good old-fashioned class war. It’s obvious who’s winning."

Since Reagon was president, the US population has grown by 82 Million people (32% increase). At the same time, jobs went to China and so on.

Is it certain that Reagan is to blame, and how? What if poor people just stopped having kids? Why is it assumed that there are good paying jobs for everybody, no matter how many people there are? Where do they come from?
Not only it could, it did. Adjusted for today’s population Spanish flu would kill 2 million. Yet lockdowns were way less severe and schools, for example, reopened. Moreover, looking at current numbers, covid is not on track to reach 2 million by any degree of imagination.
Because you're aware of the broader picture around employing practices that are sustainable for society at large, and not only focused on your immediate selfish return of investment?
What would you define as active?
Good catch, did not see that initially in the article.
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Yes, reluctance of going to the hospital is definitely the biggest factor for rapid changes in hospital-treated, non emergency health trends.

So what's the advertising campaign going to look like to get people to start going again? "Get that hernia repaired" just doesn't sound that catchy.
Because you value the diversity in your workforce, not only because it looks good, but because it brings a unique culture to your company (as well as being fair)?
REI, really? What are the superior competitors? And do you mean specifically the house-branded gear or the store as a whole?

Genuinely curious, since I still shop there. Prices aren't the best but I like the selection and the return policy. Plus the salesdroids actually seem familiar with the gear.
Did they have Walmart in pre-revolutionary France? Or maybe that comparison is rather misleading?
I have the same problem. I just started at FAANG, make good money, and I. Am. So. Miserable. I studied so hard for this job and now all I want is out. The day to day logic is burning out my mind and making it hard to enjoy life
In Denmark, maternity leave usually starts 4 weeks before the expected birth day. This actually seems to be shorter than the EU average, many countries start the leave 8 or more weeks before birth.
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I generally agree with the message of the protests but I feel like what's going on in Portland isn't being widely covered by the media.

I am a long standing democrat for many years and it is becoming really difficult to stand behind the message when the activists have no agenda, want to continue doing this and there is no end in sight.

I absolutely resent federal forces defending the courthouse. If protestors want to burn it down (there are many videos of them trying to), what do you do? May be we just allow these people to burn it down if that means it is going to bring change.

Then there is this: How do you defend protestors who want to overthrow the United States?

Proof:
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/128451275993426739...

Had to create throwaway account just to hide my identity - I am kind of terrified of everything right now. Both left and right are going insane, truth is smeared and it is difficult to have a level headed, HN-like conversion which is what makes this place wonderful.

We need to be extremely vigilant. Please I beg every one of you. I know it is pretty taboo to even be centrist around here, my plea is to fact check everything. What I am seeing as a 10 year subscriber to NYT is simply no coverage of extreme violence and absurdity of demands these protestors are creating. I have and stand by a lot majority of protestors that are actually peaceful - like the NY City march and SF protests, but Portland is on another level. I no longer support it.
Would it be illegal for a newly pregnant woman to go and interview for 10 jobs, each of which she then never sets foot in because she immediately goes on pregnancy leave while still being paid for them all?
Asking for a friend...
Rust is now a top 20 language in all of the 5 major language popularity listings
In my case (in the UK) my employer would have diagnoses of diseases from sick notes, occupational health assessments that include medical information, pension details, payslips and personal details of my next of kin. All this would fall under GDPR protection which a) doesn't just apply to websites and b) includes the "only ask for the minimum you need to do the job" proviso so I can see Facebook's point that it's problematic for them to hand over this information. But I'd be surprised if there wasn't a law enforcement carve out that this falls under.
Generally, there really is no point to using Twitter.

There's evidence of manipluation of threads [0], shadow-banning / blacklisting of users on the 'platform' in light of the admin tool leak [1]

Not only 'Trends' are subject to manipluation artificially, but it now matters more about 'who's tweets' actually do show up on Top or Trending sections; even with similar Likes, hearts and comments. Take this tweet [2] for example which proves that they are 'shadow-banned' on the trends section and still has similar stats like the trending tweet.

I won't be suprised to see the same in Instagram, TikTok or many others these days.

[0] https://twitter.com/ArcVRArthur/status/1282436347421171712

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-ac...

[2] https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1287903462689103872
I spent a couple of years doing consultancy for life sciences research labs, most people were just using Excel and Tableau, plugged into OLAP, SQL servers, alongside Java and .NET based stores.

Stuff like Arrow doesn't come even into the radar of IT.
WordPress has an API and dashboard.
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You are making a very large assumption about what types of work people are willing to do and dangerously that losing these opportunities is predetermined as an advantage for the US. Making strong statements like that and then ridiculing any opposition in advance of a reply is antithetical to reasonable debate.

Automation takes time to develop and can leave you inflexible depending on the task even with the wide variety of programmable robotics. Some products may not have profit margins, expected sales or complexity high enough where automation is worth investing in. You don't want to be in a situation where you need 300,000 of something in 3 weeks and the only way to get them is from a country that isn't an ally or refuses to trade with you.

Humans can easily do some things immediately and machines can easily do other things immediately. The more universally applicable a machine is, the more expensive it may be and possibly even priced against the highest value tasks it can do.

Universal Basic Income has many problems that aren't solved and there are many potential negative side effects, so it's premature to promote it confidently.
No, they decided not to buy, from the full article.
I liked this. It serves as a useful followup to and expansion to the CGP Grey video "This Video Will Make You Angry" which explored the phenomena of how groups talk about events and each other. In short, people tend to self-segregate into opposing groups that don't talk to each other. Instead, they talk amongst themselves about how horrible the other group is.
As Steve Jobs said:

"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
Wonderful post.
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The hand-wavy hippie arguments are "because it's the right thing to do" but of course the real answer needs to be "because we made the benefit equal for dads to remove just the situation you refer to".
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HCQ safety and efficacy in treating Covid-19 is extremely well documented
(Author of the page here.)

This was discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520545 :)
I thought the plot by patriarchy was trying to keep women at home instead of in the workforce?
I tried Protonmail then I noticed they don't freely allow you to easily download all your data, as Google does. Denying a free easy access to your own data is borderline illegal, but Protonmail is probably too small to draw attention about it.
So I agree with Tim, and in a way he’d probably find too radical.

But for the hacker news crowd, I’d point to this: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-wa...

TL;DR the income growth of the 0.1% is having a chilling effect on mid-level executives at Amazon and Google, too.
Once private equity is in charge, people are going to lose their jobs anyway.
> Interestingly, it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization.

The UK, Belgium did the same. The whole Communist Bloc also did it (for different reasons).
I started using Twitter a few months ago and it's been a pretty universally positive experience for me. I'm more connected than ever with the Elixir community, am able to stay on top of new libraries and developments more effectively than I ever have in the past, and am able to ask questions of experts in fields I'm still new to.

This has directly led to me being more involved in open source, submitting talks to conferences I'd previously felt are out of my league, and has demystified hard topics like formal methods.

Twitter, like all social media, seems to be what you make of it.
I would actually be curious if one were to start charging for each social media, which of them most people would be willing to pay vs which ones would disappear.

Out of:

Snapchat

TikTok

Facebook

Instagram

Whatsapp

Twitter

Reddit

Quora

HN
It is the bytecode compiled language like any other that uses LLVM as their backend.

The alternative to Spark will be Spark, as JVM slowly improves their memory APIs from release to release.

People tend to hand wave how much it costs to reboot an ecosystem.
Quit all social media and spent more time offline.
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Single-purpose accounts are not allowed on HN, and neither are accounts that use HN primarily for political or ideological battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Your account looks like it has been doing both of those things. Please don't do that on HN.
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If you are a seasoned software professional, who knows how to build stuff, and you are now looking to level up and become a Full Stack Entrepreneur, this course is for you.

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Building a profitable business is not hard. What is hard is choosing a profitable idea, building a community around it, and promoting it. The best way to figure it out is to work with people who have done it.
People like having kids. Unemployment, especially future one is not a concern with this.
So I see 553,742 people homeless at last estimate (2017, unfortunately). 11M would 20x this amount, an amount that seems catastrophic and unmanageable.

Moreover, this seems like a situation where an emergency event is treated like an ordinary, non-emergency situation. And the reason for this is apparently that America's system of governance is so polarized and dysfunctional that no entity either can or will put forward a broad plan to escape the situation.

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
Oh no... shades of RealPlayer.
This comes up a lot, and it feels like my response is the same every time. Twitter’s great, but you need to be careful who you follow.

Ruthlessly unfollow or mute those who pander to the lowest common denominator, avoid general interest politics at all costs, follow only experts in their field and keep following count below 200. Refuse to play the game of becoming internet popular - unless you have a blue check, it’s rigged against you anyway.