skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that isn't discussed about is how Amazon is able to do this, and that is that they are using their position to pay more for jobs that involve manual labor work (lots of positions in that 427,000 figure) but also to pay rates that the local businesses that also utilize manual labor cannot compete with.

So what ends up happening is that Amazon is placing a dent in the over all labor market of all the industries in the surrounding area, not just their direct competitors. That is a lot of manual labor being impacted.

If you have worked in fields with manual labor (factories, construction, fabrication, assembly line of any sort), there is very little employee retention because those employees are just concerned about the next pay stub. Nothing else. This might come across as elitist, and it is, but that is the prevailing mentality of these sort of employees and there is very little to be done about it.
Mostly well argued, but there's some very loose language, such as calling "inconsistencies" mere practical relevance issues (such as nonideal markets, nonprobabilistic decisions, ignorance and the ensuing arbitrage, changes in probability values). A bad theory can be logically inconsistent, but it is not the case of probability theory and its competing interpretations.
The managers are also part of the bourgeoisie, though. It’s not like CEOs are working class, they’re capitalists too.

While it’s true that within the bounds of national markets the old haute bourgeoisie is no longer as dominant, imperialist exploitation is the main source of profits for the bourgeoisie as a whole. This American national bourgeoisie (which might be called “managers”) benefit from imperialism too, even though they may not be its primary instigators.
One way to deal with probability is: defer interpretation until after one has axiomatized calculation by measure theory. I have a quick video on the topic here: https://youtu.be/DnTTAd1TDyQ .
What about that article ties it to Hsieh? Other than being a recent house fire in Connecticut? It's certainly not the only one.
When I joined Amazon (Web Services) in 2008, there were approximately 20,000 employees in the whole company. AWS was maybe a couple of hundred people at most.

Year 2020: Amazon adds double that number, EACH month.

Mind blowing.
I mean, cool, but I was expecting code when I clicked on a GitHub link. Maybe would be better to just link to the preprint instead
I see so the extra kernel IO thread which can be spin waiting is one extra busy core and latency of getting data from one core to the other is the additional overhead.
>you can’t trust one provider at all

The hard part with multi-cloud is, you're just increasing your risk of being impacted by someone's failure. Sure if you're all-in on AWS and AWS goes down, you're all-out. But if you're on [AWS, GCP] and GCP goes down, you're down anyway. Even though AWS is up, you're down because Google went down. And if you're on [AWS, GCP, Azure] and Azure goes down, it doesn't matter than AWS and GCP are up... you're down because Azure is down. The only way around that is architecting your business to run with only one of those vendors, which means you're paying 3x more than you need to 99.99999% of the time.

The probability that one of [AWS, Azure, GCP] is down is way higher than the probability that just one of them is down. And the probability that your two cages in your datacenter is down is way higher than the probability that any one of the hyperscalers is down.
Ideologically, politically and aesthetically Mishima was clearly a dead end, but I’ve always found him of minor interest because his aesthetic was so clearly Westernized in a way that earlier strains of Japanese fascism weren’t. The campy, macho-hysterical aesthetic elements that have been present in western far-right movements from D’Annunzio to Trump weren’t really present in the prewar Japanese military government, but Mishima was really almost their apotheosis. It’s kind of ironic - rather than being a throwback to a pure strain of Japanese masculine identity, he was really a syncretist.
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The gp itemised which sorts of people they were talking about
I don't understand why should I install an extra program for such a simple task and slow down my computer when there are websites on the Internet for everything?
https://savefrom.net for youtube, dailymotion, facebook, instagram etc https://instastory.download for Instagram Stories and https://ytmp3.cc/ for MP3 it's that easy! if you put the websites in the bookmark bar you have everything in one place and the hard drive remains empty and tidy
+N to that!

I don't think Amazon are the best but at least its not "we take your tax dollars and in exchange give police and government agencies information that would be illegal for them to collect themselves" Palantir.

HN seems to consider Facebook the worst and Amazon next worst, but some companies are so much worse.
I think of it this way. £2 is nice and cheap but it's directly funding making the world worse. That's why in this case £3 is better as long as 0 of it goes to Amazon.
Measure Theoretic Probability
I agree with everything except this:

> Still not true. YOU have rest mass ant therefore the faster you go, the more of the energy used for momentum transfer will be converted to relativistic mass, thus preventing you from ever approaching the speed of light in any frame of reference

Rest vs relativistic mass only exists from the outside observers perspective. The traveler doesn't see any change in it's own mass. On a ship traveling near the speed of light, people walking around won't have to spend extra energy to move in the direction of ships motion. Relativistic mass just accounts for the energy being spent to accelerate that doesn't result in an increase in velocity (and thus momentum) from an external perspective.

> Ultimately, even a reactionless drive would be limited by the human physique - it takes about 3½ months to accelerate to 30% light speed at 1g constant acceleration. So unless inertia negation devices are invented, that sets the practical lower limit for any interstellar travel time.

This is a really good point! This means the Andromeda galaxy could be only 30 years of travel away. The primary point I am trying to make is that "FTL" isn't important for interstellar travel if a reactionless drive gives us most of the benefits we need (getting to other stars within human lifespans).

Honestly I don't think either reactionless or FTL drives are actually possible, so generation ships or ships full of human popsicles coasting most of the way are most likely how we will get to other stars.
>less experienced white employees

A job in a competitive industry is probably the first area where a lot of people first see social promotion end as younger more capable people surpass them. This is going to be especially true for people who have received the benefits of affirmative action up until this point in their lives.
This sounds awesome so don't take my comment as a criticism, but it is interesting that it highlights a difference between academics and non-academics - academics often publish papers before code, whereas non-academics/hackers publish code, and then probably never get around to writing the documentation :)
This is a good point. Two ideas.

1. What if comments containing a link to “evidence” were more heavily weighted? The evidence could be inaccurate or biased but that would lead to better conversations than anecdotal information, no?

2. What if the upvote/downvote were categorized?

Examples:

- “-1 Commenter appears to not have read post, irrelevant”.

- “-1 Commenter did not provide link to evidence or source material”.

- “+1 Commenter provided link to research/evidence”.

There could be a second layer where people could vote on what they perceive as the quality of the evidence.

From this perspective, HN could maybe let more controversial and even inflammatory comments stay while letting commenters discuss the merits of the evidence that backs/refutes them.

Just an idea but the current lack of innovation in HN moderation feels lazy and half-baked.
In the United States I would say it depends where you live. I'm a Democrat in a forever-red state. My vote for President will never matter as long as the Electoral College is there.

I still vote for state-wide and local matters and that is where my vote really does count.
I did quite a few certification including 2-3 AWS ones, blockchain, java and python, because I couldn't find any better use of my time and company's money. Among all certs, only two that did help me somewhat were python and java certs. I learned python in the process and used it, learned new concepts in Java that still help me.

I don't remember a thing about all others because I don't use them at all anywhere. They look good on the CV but that's about it.
I’ve started to leave my phone at home. It’s great.
I really like the koans format of language learning. I find they pique and sustain my interest more than rote tutorials or trying to glean purpose, feel and function of languages.

It feels much more like a puzzle, the hints can be more cryptic and requires me to be more bought in than an introductory podcast or an online set of lessons.

I'd love to see this format applied to other topics and fields, although none will likely lend themselves to the format as natively as programming languages will.
These are beautiful slides. Is anyone able to tell me which program and/or packages were likely used to create them?
Formula for success:

1. Find a way to afford time to focus on what you care about.
2. Repeat step 1.

For a lot of people, step 1 is a steady job so they can do things they care about outside of work with family and friends. For others, it’s finding time to work on a project or startup you care about.

Ultimately, buying your own time back is the key to it all. What that key unlocks is up to you to decide.
some more context:
This research is done by SenseTime Labs and CityU of Hong Kong

HN discussion on SenseTime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196704
see also https://qz.com/1248493/sensetime-the-billion-dollar-alibaba-...
and MIT partnership - https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-announce-effort-adva...

they were also on the Trade blacklist last year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195107

Interesting paper: "Eliminating Background-bias for Robust Person Re-identification" - https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Tian_...
We have a saying in one of the Bulgarian towns:

"Luck doesn't come to you, you go to it".

Which is to say you are right: if you keep showing up at stuff you will eventually get lucky. Luck can only happen to those who try and get lucky. Our real world resembles an MMORPG game -- you need a team for 98% of everything -- then I'd say both you and your parent poster are correct.
Amazon's dominance and small business' decline this year is mostly the blame of the government. An earlier quarantine would have both been shorter and more effective. Large corporations were the only ones able to survive to storm, and you want the government to break those too?
I think the hiding is the worst part. If a post just floats to the bottom, at least it's still there.
The much more important problem is all the people who are legitimately better qualified who are turned down because of their race.
If quantum is really random, then our universe has infinite Kolmogorov complexity.
I don't think "first forty digits of pi" should be admissible. As it depends on an external definition that's not computed by the representation. I could come up with a mathematical definition for any prefix of digits, give it a name and say the 'first x digits of C'.
Because it matches the timeline and confirmed by multiple sources as him? https://twitter.com/vitalvegas/status/1332560969747238912?s=...
I've been using it for ~5 years. Thank you for creating it !
You don't have to choose a cola. You could simply not drink anything. There's always a choice. Sometimes it is unpleasant or socially outlandish, but there is still a choice.
And here’s the crux of the problem; plenty of people have done the research on this stuff. You just never bothered to read any of it, and instead you had the gall to imply that the real problem is that a bunch of people on HN were too lazy to put together a proposal on what to do. A tad bit ironic, since you apparently don’t even know the names of the core actors in this problem, don’t you think?

Yes, people are angry. Yes, people often scapegoat on complex issues. No, the actual problem is not that we just want to get angry without actually doing any of the work to propose a solution.
Yes! I completely agree with the need to hire people who “give a shit”, but to me this means e.g.

- Dogfooding

- Fixing a bug even if your manager doesn’t notice

- Proactively noticing strange system behavior and investigating

- Actively contributing to strategic discussions; showing genuine interest in the problem space

- Jumping in to help when the server mysteriously starts crash looping, even if you’re not oncall

All but the last one have nothing to do with working more hours. Even the last one is intended as an exceptional event, not a baseline expectation.
Spent the week with my 20 months old niece and quickly taught her a new word: "almost." She used to say "uh oh" when she failed at a task, or would ask for help. Instead of praising her for at least trying the task, i would say "almost" and soon I saw her saying this to herself, and it seemed to encourage her to try again until she succeeded.

I'm not a parent so I have no idea if this is good or not.

But it strikes me that there is more to giving feedback than just quantity of it, or positive/negative. "Almost" introduces another dimension, and potentially activates a different set of motivating emotions as well.
That's a great idea, thanks. Filed an issue: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ripgrep/issues/8
"lol" :-) - but I checked, it never got over 4 Mbit/s.
At the same time, you can also mitigate risk from government, not everyone is being investigated, arrested, or jailed.

Due process is not a "myth" from a tv show, it is a right from the constitution, if you are an American: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt5_4_2/

I do agree with your later two points though, that there is an misalignment of goals for criminal justice, but, it isn't that bad because it is an outlined process, and it does not happen overnight, behind closed doors or behind a company friendly terms of service. At least you know how the meat is made, somewhat and there is transparency.

There is none, per se outside financial obligation for corporations.
Conventional wisdom is often just fine, as physicist M. Gell-Mann said!
Personally, I think what he's asking for is entirely reasonable, and I was also disappointed to see a lack of hard evidence in the hit-piece.
The goals here are kind of sideways from heat dissipation.

* Different parts from different processes — for example DRAM and CPU need different processes, so it doesn't work to put them on the same chip — this integration is a step closer than on-package.

* Yield — if you really want sixteen cores, and you're pushing the edge of your process, your yield for perfect eight-core chiplets will be dramatically better than for a sixteen-core chip or chiplet.

But yeah concentrating all that into multi-chip chip will also concentrate the heat.
It is tricky to make optics that focus an image onto a curved surface like that.
Wow! You definitely are smarter than me, the gp, at least! You’re right that my claim isn’t right in general. Hell, not even past 10, I can now see!

I’m curious, how did you find that counterexample? I kind of ‘overfitted’ my mental model to the first 10 integers. But as a statistician I’m only in the business of being approximately right...! Nice catch.

23x9=207 starts with 20 which is 3 less than 23... 24x9=216, and 21 is 3 less than 24. 11x9=99 and 9 is 2 less than 11, 12x9=108 and 10 is 2 less than 12. So 0-9 are offset by 1, 10-19 are offset by 2, 20-29 offset by 3, 30-49 offset by 4?
Multiple un-named sources according to "VitalVegas.com". The vitalvegas.com about page says "One of the most baffling things about us is we’re just one person, Scott Roeben".

There's speculation elsewhere about a different house fire in Stratford. And I suspect many other house fires match the timeline.
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Most airlines already try to do that in Premium Economy. Typically it's the first 8 rows in Economy where there is more leg room and distance between you and the person in front. The gate agents will try very hard to separate (block middle seats) for all the passengers in this zone unless it is an extremely full flight and not possible.

Just upgrade (use points) to Premium Economy (do it at the gate once you know how full the flight is) for a fraction of what a middle seat would cost to keep empty. Good chance you might luck out.
FlashFloppy: Open-source Firmware for floppy emulators
Solution is to merge one git branch with three commits: new feature+new tests, (optional) new tests for refactor, refactor. I do this using git reset --soft when I'm done, even if it means having to split up changes made to the same file across commits. Save the original work and diff new complete changes with original set.
I think its due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow%27s_Hierarchy_of_N...
Given that IBM had saved them from the Depression, and given the way people in those days formed voluntary civic associations -- probably a lot of them fell in earnestly with the crowd. I think company loyalty was real. You worked there your whole life and retired with a pension.

(And things like forming a large congregation and singing were not alien to these people. Most of them did that every Sunday. Which itself is remarkable. The only other global religion that comes close to this level of collective mass-participation is Islam. It's built into the architecture of the different religions' temples! Who else has row upon row of pews?! I digress...)

(Even sports teams! You see remnants of this too, with older people being avid fans of their city's baseball or football team... yet to a younger person this is at best a marker of low class and at worst a kind of prelude to authoritarian populism... The collective political protest is the one ritual coming-together we really have...)

(Or college "fight songs" and the like? Most again are from, I'd say, 1920-1940...)

Anyway... Surely there was, at the same time, self-interested scheming -- John goes home to his wife Betty, and they talk about how they really need to invite the Joneses over for dinner (because Mr. Jones is John's supervisor), and by the way you should really make sure your shoes are polished, John, because what will other people think?

I don't know if the more cynical or at least individualistic mood really took off until after the war, with people like Vonnegut (Player Piano is basically about IBM), Heller, and so on.

Mostly I think these were depression-era people, and depression-era people were grateful for a job. If you have relatives still around from that time (or who were children at the start of WW2), you might still see a little of this attitude.
I think the linked Youtube demo video is pretty impressive, compared to what I see in most video conferencing software.
Hey,

Seems like the app isn't open source. But they are apparently having a Big Dataset of scraped Github content as GitHub API provides limited search operations with rate limiting.

But here's the API -> https://grep.app/api/search?q=test, you are going to parse hits > hits > [0:9] > content from the JSON.

Also I feel they are simply using BigQuery or, BigQuery data sets on the backend.

Cheers
FTA,

> Can you make yourself more independent-minded?

Very bad question. The good ones were : do you need to ? do you want to ? would it help others ?
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Is it OK Google tracking us through cellphones
> we can easily imagine suddenly going from 1 human-like AI program to a hundred billion instances of it, and then humanity becomes an insignificant minority from the point of view of democracy.

What do you mean?
I am wondering if,in a couple of years, Apple might face the same legal pressure to open up the architecture that Intel once faced..
I really want this feature. Filed an issue here, thanks: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ripgrep/issues/9
The first two posts, perhaps more?

Considering the OP is calling into question why this person was booted from some social media, posting lies about public hospitals and their staff during a pandemic seems a fair reason.

Shame the posts on Twitter remain and a shame Twitter themselves have not taken action.
The's a lot driving this change. Shipping costs, shipping speed, selection, membership and retail's refusal to adapt to change. Ecommerce, and not just Amazon, has in many ways become a better experience. Will be interesting to see how retail adapts because at the core, selling something for more than you paid for it is really what business is.
Hypersign| An identity and access sol'n that protects user's privacy
Vikram and @vishwas_bhushan here, co-founders of Hypermine. We love blockchain and make cool products on it.

We’ve been developing Hypersign for a year now and we recently soft-launched it because we need this product now. The data breach is on rising and this is due to the fact that enterprises fail to implement good authentication. In this the passwords are a major backburner for companies, The existing 2FA comes to the rescue but we all know how painful it is when we lose one of the factors.

Hypersign is a privacy-preserving authentication protocol for an enterprise. It leverages technologies like PKI and blockchain to provide end-users with the ability to control their data and the service provider (SP) ability to verify credentials without making a request to the identity provider (IDP). Furthermore, the Hypersign can easily be integrated with existing IAM systems like Okta, Auth0, and Keycloak to provide passwordless authentication.

The existing passwordless solution just verifies device id, But Hypersign combines the user’s real identity property to the device and generates a credential that has the signature of issuer and holder both.

Hypersign is seamless to integrate and supports one-step login & registration, making it frictionless for the user onboarding

Let us know what you think, and we are of course happy to answer any questions.
Since the lowest levels of our understanding of the universe are probabilistic, it seems reasonable to assume probability is the most real thing we currently know. It might be that will change some day, but at the moment everything we take to be non-probabilistic is just a simplification of underlying probabilities.
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Thanks, that's interesting. Googled:

https://www.dayton.com/lifestyles/things-you-didn-know-about...
This is a beautiful and profound take on a brighter future despite the huge changes we’re all seeing. It is very possible that while local mom and pop basic retail dwindles, it is replaced by more enriching social opportunities. People will have marginally more free time due to time saved running errands, and marginally more dollars to spend. hopefully more meaningful local experiences can fill the void.
Intel fabs plenty of stuff at the 22 nm node, including chipsets for their CPUs[1], RF and other analog uses[2], novel RAM technologies, and their Lakefield/Foreveros thing. Given Intel's expanding product portfolio, there's likely additional internal customers for older nodes.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-14nm-shortage-h310c,...

[2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9075914
What if stocks don't always go up? Advice for millennials
No, we understand fine; we disagree with the claim that M1 is good because of the ARM ISA. Had Apple picked something else a decade ago we’d probably see them pulling ahead with that, too.