skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evidence is indisputable that workers at large firms have substantially higher productivity than small firms.[1] Big business also pays its workers substantially higher wages.

If your model of big business is that it's a tool for exploiting workers, you'd expect the opposite of this dynamic. Instead the economics is pretty clear that most large firms create synergies that empower individual workers to produce much more than they'd be capable of individually or in small, informal organizations. As a bonus, the sizable bulk of this productivity surplus accumulates in the form of higher wages to the workers themselves.

Big business accomplishes this by consistently applying the best practices in organizational management[2]. In contrast small business tends to be much more sloppily managed with a lot more decisions made haphazardly, with many more decisions being made for individual gain rather than the good of the organization as a whole.

If anything the balance of the evidence would make a much stronger case that small business is really more exploitative than big business.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/117089?seq=1
[2] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.1.203
Neither category should exist. The fact billionaires exist is an indictment against our system and how we allocate resources.
A personal blog would likely qualify for that, however, many personal websites would not pass the test of "no connection to a professional or commercial activity" (from https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-18/) - if you sell something on that site, or have ad revenue, or use it as advertisement for your professional consultations, then it's not purely household activity.

If you have a bootstrapped web startup project that you want to launch (e.g. collecting "pre-sales" signups from a minimum viable product), then it's definitely not purely personal or household activity even before you have registered a company.
> This idea that there is some sort of known risk of a significant issue popping up out of nowhere months or years down the road has no historical precedent.

RotaShield [0] was a vaccine for the rotavirus that was released in 1998 and taken off the market in 1999 because of intussusception (bowel folding on itself). 5 cases of this issue occurred during during trials of 10,054 participants, which was deemed "not statistically significant". After the vaccine was licensed and widely distributed, the CDC determined the risk of this complication from the vaccine was 20 to 30 times over the expected risk and the vaccine was pulled off the market.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/rotavirus/vac-rotashiel...
The metro in Paris had an objective of more than 96.5% of reliability in 2018 according to https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/du-rer-b-ligne-13-... (in French)

All lines fulfilled this objective except line 4, with 96.1%

AS for RER, there is an official governemental website that gives the numbers: http://www.qualitetransports.gouv.fr/les-chiffres-de-la-ponc... (in French)
The most reliable one in 2020 is the A with about 94% of reliability and the worst one was RER B in March, with 78.9%.
That mindset pisses me off so much. Every time someone asks me about advice for an interview and I don't mention doing hours of leetcode studying they accuse me of lying and trying to sabotage them because _obviously_ the only way to pass an interview is to memorize every possible question the interview can ask! It's so crazy to me how people think this and then I'll sit down with them for a mock interview and watch them completely stop communicating or treat me like I'm a binary switch that only comes on when they have the optimal solution.
RNA Vaccine
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I just "won" my endgame :-)

I recently retired after working 29 years in software development. I was always very well paid but a notch below the FAANG-level. I always focused relentlessly on achieving financial independence by saving and investing as much as I could using Boglehead techniques. I can now do whatever I want.
There's also an alternate html output that has more semantic tags (and the html is consistent enough there are parsers to take this html and turn it back into wikitext): https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Albert_Einste...
Curious what percentage of the clothes you buy actually sell? Anyways, nice website, I might try it out next time I'm looking for clothes.
I love Stimulus and am super happy to see this update.

It’s encoding conventions that we’ve fallen into using it for the last year. The callbacks in value changes are going to make my life much easier.
In the beginning JavaScript was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Do you believe in meritocracy? Because ownership of that amount of wealth is surely going to skew the entire system.

How long before we just have a permanent ruling class, and how does that move humanity forward?
They see it as less of a "Big Government" thing and more of a "Tough on Crime" thing, which has traditionally had a home in the Republican party since Nixon and Reagan championed the Drug War.

Its insane to me as well, but the traditional Republican base likes to see "dirty criminals" go away and support police efforts to do so, cannabis is still associated with them in their minds.

Personally I think its changing amongst the voting base but theres still a strong cultural momentum around demonizing these drugs, especially amongst the Evangelical White Southerners that make up the core of their voting base.

Edit: There's a cynical side to this as well - Neither party wants to "give" the party anything without getting something in return. Republicans allowing cannabis reform does nothing for them politically but makes the Democrats look good. Why would they allow that to happen without getting something back?
There is a really good point Democrats were almost universally against gay marriage until it cross the public support threshold. Looks at the stark difference between Obama on gay marriage in his first vs second term. If the polling shows enough people support it Democrats will pretty quickly flip to the support side of the issue if it goes anything like marriage.
Ask HN: Credential Bank for Distributed Teams?
Hi. If you lovely folks have any solutions to the issue of sharing logins securely across a distributed team, I'd love, love, love to hear them.

I hope all my fellow hackers are staying healthy and happy. Cheers!
My boy goes to a European School (schools set up for employees of the Union), because my girlfriend works for a European institution. I sit on the parents association of the school. That said -

There already is a common language and it's English. It may not be officially recognized but it's what everybody working for an EU institution uses.

Not knowing any MEPs by name is your choice and not a deficiency of the EU.
Maybe different teams are different, but on my previous team within Google AI, we thought the goal of google's pubapproval process was to ensure that internal company IP (eg. details about datasets, details about google compute infra) does not leak to the public, and maybe to shield Google from liability. Nothing more.

In all of my time at Google AI, I never heard of pubapproval being used for peer review or to critique the scientific rigor of the work. It was never used as a journal, it was an afterthought that folks on my team would usually clear only hours before important deadlines. We like to leave peer review to the conferences/journals' existing process to weed out bad papers; why duplicate that work internally?

I'm disappointed that Jeff has chosen to imply that pubapproval is used to enforce rigour. That is a new use case and not how it has been traditionally used. Pubapproval hasn't been used to silence uncomfortable minority viewpoints until now. If this has changed, it's a very, very new change.
Inverse the phrase to be 'Make something people do not want'.

I doubt people have built successful companies, and become 'billionaires' by building something people do not want.
In the case of 83b, the unvested shares are returned. Even the bonus-to-cover can be returned contractually—- the bonus-to-cover never even has to hit the employee’s bank account.

RSUs are probably better but the equity games are set up right now such that startups issue options.
Because the Republican party is, really more than anything else at this point, the party of white supremacy. Marijuana laws help prop up the existing paradigm, where black people are disproportionally harmed, a leftover (intentional) remnant of Nixon's inherently racist War On Drugs. Repealing that would help black people more than white people, thus the Republicans are against it.
No, the correct thing to do is to break the accreditation agencies and professional associations' grip over medical school admissions and massively increase the supply of surgeons.
> Most people enjoy creating/building/earning...

That's kind of the issue though. At a large enough scale, donations can undermine the value of creation / earning. A new show shop might not have much value in an economy that has a large enough supply of donated shoes constantly thrown into it. Since it's not valuable to build these shoe suppliers, they do not get built. The population becomes dependent on the donations, as existing infrastructure does not exist to support them if the donations suddenly stopped.

I believe this is why the original comment separated disaster relief from charity. Giving people their first pair of shoes for free from an external economy may not be necessarily bad, but subsequent pairs hinders growth of a local shoe economy.

DISCLAIMER: Shoes are pure example. If you disagree with the idea of this comment, please do not focus on the shoes.
Here's a June 2020 article that says they have ~1,000 people: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/google-deepmind-alphago-buzz...
I'd believe that it is, but why would they publicize that they've unlocked "the secret to quieter drones" if that were a classified development?

Even if they can't say that "the secret is to change the fans like so", they'd at least say "thanks to this work, the latest drone prototypes are now half as loud as the old ones" or something to indicate the progress.

If the fact that a noise reduction was achieved was itself classified, then the headline would trumpet an advance in computer modelling, which is what the article actually talks about.
"Family values". Because I don't see them racing to help provide mandatory days off or sufficient wages for people with lower incomes to be able to spend time with their families.
Tip: Check the Arch Wiki's HiDPI page... There is a bit more to it thank QT_SCALE_FACTOR.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
“But... what about countries such as the US and Brazil, where far more people have died of COVID than of any recent influenza? Less than 10,000 Brazilians die of the flu each year compared to 180,000 covid deaths.”

“Those... don’t count!”
China Claims Quantum Supremacy
> Big policy changes spends your political capital.

That's the point, though. It's not a big policy change - the map demonstrates that. Decriminalization is already the de facto situation in nearly the entire country.

Federal law with regards to marijuana is completely and openly ignored in much of the country. Dispensaries operate with relative impunity.
Materials research is an exception to your claim. Aviation and weapons research depend heavily on exotic materials that are almost certainly NOT found in civilian applications. E.g. nuclear weaponry, stealth coatings, metamaterials cloaking devices, camera systems, hypersonics, directed energy weaponry, plasma generators, etc.
It's an electoral system issue. Voting is voluntary, which causes highly-motivated single-issue voters to be overrepresented. Then there's the primary system, which is the same problem squared.

It used to be that politicians could pander a little to the base during a primary and then "run to the centre" in the general. Those days are gone, because "being primaried" is a real and persistent risk.

The practical upshot is that the system is structured to favour fringe voices rather than the median voter.
What's the "size" of pressure and vibration?

All parts, remain as parts of the environment, the whole.
If I had a billion pounds of rice, and millions of people were starving, would it be immoral for me to stockpile that so 50 generations of my family would be taken care of before the millions of starving people now?

Edit: because i can't reply right now:

I'm curious if a direct application of your question to something you need to survive would get a different answer.

We think of money as something we can accumulate without limit but if you replace it with other things in a similar context it seems different. Why is it okay for billionaires to exist, but not for someone to stockpile too much food?

I'm curious if anyone has an answer to both.
As someone who has had a luxurious career based on adding full-bleed photography to the websites of companies with more money than sense, all I can say the look of i.reddit.com is just beautifully minimal. UX is about more than intuitive controls, it's about speed and comfort and I can use that site with so quickly and smoothly. The color palette doesn't even register in my head anymore. It's also a somewhat forgotten rule that designing for occasional is very different than for habitual use. Habitual users don't need training wheels, they need shortcuts.
> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit.

There's an entire cottage industry dedicated to doing reputation management for brands on platforms like Reddit. I don't think Reddit cares that they aren't using their ad platform directly, because the companies that manipulate Reddit buy awards for their posts and what not.
China plants its flag on the moon as lunar probe heads back to Earth
A piece of writing everyone finds level-headed and making total sense is likely not worth reading as it's merely restating what’s on everyone’s mind. Your comment shows this article at least isn’t that (thus being the cue for me personally). You can’t write something really good without pissing at least some people off.
Street space is even more limited than parking garage space. If space is so constrained that there isn't any free garage space how can there possibly be free street area available for parking?
Thank you for detailed and easy-to-understand explanations. This is why I come to HN.

As someone who used to work in adjacent field, I have a question that I hope you can help me with. DL usually requires a large volume of data, but I don't know whether there is a huge pile of experimentally determined protein structures for training. Did DeepMind find a clever method to get around data-size issue or there is really a lot of known protein structures? I skimmed one of their earlier papers and it seems training data was in tens of thousands. I am surprised that is enough for training DL structure prediction.
Jeff Dean on Timnit Gebru’s case - Google's approach to research publication
> If you are a disabled person living or working in Paris this might put you in a really bad spot.

Can you share some link to the complains of the disabled community? I see you position posted quite often, but I have never seen any details and I am interested in there nuances of the situation.

I have experience with Barcelona and the public transport was adapted a decade ago. Is that an unique case?
> Seems like lip service to their bases.

Awesome! What's the problem?
That's rather the point. MacStadium is only on two continents.
Not to get too deep into your daughter's medical history, but what facts could possibly demonstrate that the vaccine was the cause of the harm to the degree of certainty that you seem to show? It's my layman's understanding that there is a small but non-zero population of people who do not tolerate vaccines well, but they are heavily outnumbered by people who wrongly believe vaccines have caused them harm.
>If you use spaces to indent code, or in any way rely on a fixed width font to "line things up", you have a fundamental misunderstanding.

What if I just like the aesthetics of consistently-indented code?
The NYC Subway has a timetable, except no one gives a shit because it has very little relation to real life.
I think the point is that entrepreneurial endeavors are not a zero sum game. Politicians and people sometimes act like billionaires are hoarding a big slice of pie selfishly for themselves, but the reality is they made the pie bigger by adding value to the world. By the definition of how markets work they had to have added more value then they got compensated.

This is how it works with idealized new products. With highly competitive fields it is more zero sum, in that you take some pie from your competitors. But that's still good overall as it's adding value and making the market more efficient.

The only true zero sum game is the market for attention and why I despise social media companies. Everybody has a fixed amount of time, you can only grow that pie by adding more people.
> It literally makes things faster, cheaper, more secure.

How? I'm pretty sure if this was true, everyone would be using it for database work now, except no one does. So these claims are baseless.

> Bitcoin's blockchain will disrupt (evolve) something. The leading use case is a store of value. If that is to be adopted then bitcoin's value will be in the trillions.

Evolve what? You don't even seem to be sure and are just guessing that it's novel and surely has some value, but you don't know why. Trillions? Where do you get this number from? Do you somehow take the size of an existing market and assign a value per consumer? Where is the rigor behind your claims?
...but, but, but. I voted.
> There is a strong debate to be made Biden is more fiscally right leaning than Trump.

Despite having the word “conservatism” in it, fiscal conservatism isn't a Right position in that more of it makes you more right. It's basically a position whose apex is in center-right neoliberal corporate capitalism; go farther left or right and it becomes less of a priority.

Biden is definitely closer to the center-right than Trump, but he's not more right-leaning.
I'm not sure, but it looks that OTP is much stricter measure than what I meant. I was talking about: I want to change from line A to B on station X (or exit on the station X)... Station X is closed, and I learn about that on station (X-1), or even just by not stopping on the station X.

It happened in Paris more than "extraordinary" number of times, so I have to put extra 15 mins to every important travel.

OTP sounds like: the train is scheduled at 3:25, it arrives at 3.26. Correct me if I'm wrong here. But if the normal margin is 5 mins for total time of travel, making it 15 mins is not nice.
How would you implement and test something something like C++'s unordered_set, a set with constant insert and lookup, using type-level constraints instead of unit tests? How would you represent this with types?
> users just have to spin off into a new subreddit.

Which then get taken over by SJW mods after some time any way.
If your startup makes your investors billions, you are probably becoming a billionaire in the process or pretty close.
Agreed. Also just wanted to note I have a smirk on my face every day as I open firefox and go "news.", enter, ctrl+t, "old." enter
We have support for multiple formats already in mediawiki (Special:changeContentModel). For example you can mark a page ss only containing plaintext. There however is a lack of political interest in changing markup formats. Imo changing to markdown at this stage would be a bad idea.
It can be fixed.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Boot_managers
The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. It makes reading through comments much faster.

The main drawback is that it's really too heavy for what it does.

I don't understand the complains about the new design being image-heavy, or in general so much different from the old one. Once you set it (once) in "classic view", it's basically the same.
I love this idea! I've kept around a lot of old sentimental value shirts with a similar, albeit more vague, idea of putting them together in some form that makes them visible. Keeps the memories and lets you actually look at/revisit them.
No, I believe you that it sucks. But probably not as hard as, e.g. Florida.
Wouldn't that just be a contrived session ID?
Show HN: A small web app to test SSHFP record
I created a small web application using Vue, Vuetify and Flask to test SSHFP records. The tool is Opensource and released under GPLv3 and can be downloaded from the GitHub repository (https://github.com/dbsentry/sshfp) Docker image for the tool can be downloaded from the Docker Hub (https://hub.docker.com/r/dbsentry/sshfp). In addition, demo for this tool can be found at Heroku (http://sshfp.herokuapp.com). Take it for a spin and let me know what you think.
Well, of course. They need the dithering to negotiate their payouts, situate their investments, and set up their grift schemes. Don't forget the fingerpointing, moral grandstanding, and endless media appearances, jockeying for the spotlight.
Not really, the very idea of conservatism is based around not doing new things. Without passing judgement on whether or not that's a good policy standpoint, it's clear the parties are asymmetrical - one wants to pass new policies to change something , the other oppose that.

The GOP policy website this election was literally copy pasted from 2016 - it infamously contained references to how they need to change things the incumbent president did.
It's funny to me that this is framed through such a negative lens, when they're basically just saying that ever more people are being lifted out of poverty, to the point where our trash is no longer of value to them. I struggle to believe that old clothes will ever be a top ten most important environmental issue.
I assumed she was paid out her 2 weeks. Do you have reason to believe the didn't or won't do that?

I think the wishing of luck was circumvented by the media firestorm. Her first tweet was about losing corporate access which is usually the first thing H.R. does once a decision has been made.
> For existing owners, that would mean a severe increase in cost of living.

And if you force the government to inefficiently reserve street space for cars, society has to incur the same costs, except non-car owners are forced to unfairly subsidize car owners by bearing those costs.
As a devoted i.reddit.com user, it's by far my favorite way to enjoy the site, but it's getting harder to use every year as the main site adds more features and gates that don't work in the i. site. The most annoying part of the new site is the embedded video player and there's no way around it right now.
There is actually something called "service minimum" by law for public transport workers during strikes. Without it, there would not be any metro or RER at all during strikes in Paris.
Why the Gerhard Sabathil spy probe fell apart
I think a lot of users would be against this. Not saying it’s a bad idea, but it’s not completely trivial
> ...illustrates how out of touch legislators are with voters. If there was a nationwide referendum on legalizing (not just decriminalizing) it would pass in a landslide today.

In your own echo chamber, that may be true, but I hope you understand, there's a large number of voters (myself included) who oppose legalization. They may not be as vocal about it online, but their votes count just as much as yours.
Do you consider an internal mailing list a public square?

Researchers are used to having more freedom. IBM didn't pretend to be egalitarian and fun. And part of the controversy is Google firing her but characterizing it as accepting her resignation.