skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the biggest problem is software changing from under people's feet. We used to have stable version cycles and when it was time to upgrade, users expected change and having to re-learn some stuff.

This. I think it's incredibly inconsiderate to do that to a user who never asked for it.

As a user, I abhor this mentality, and respond to it by leaving. And if I have to stay, I boycott the nag dialogs and just leave them open, to embarrass the developer in front of anyone who may be watching my screencast.

As a programmer, I go out of my way to ensure that my software works the way the user wants, and an upgrade is never demanded.

I design for back and forth compatibility, so that I can go back and forward to any version I desire, as long as there's a commit for it.

It may not work perfectly going back a year, but if it's a stable version, it should run.
https://www.bezosdayonefund.org/
x86_64 instructions can be anything from 1 byte to 15 bytes long. You have to decode the entire instruction, except any trailing constant/offset, to even know how long the instruction is.

RISC-V instructions can be exactly two lengths: 2 bytes or 4 bytes. You can tell how long an instruction is by looking at the first 2 bits: 11 -> the instruction is 4 bytes long, anything else (00, 01, 10) -> the instruction is 2 bytes long.

These things are so different that you can't just say "oh, they're both variable length".

Also, the 2 byte instruction in RISC-V are completely optional. They each exactly duplicate some 4 byte instruction. If you want to build an 8-wide machine like the M1 and you think having two instruction lengths will make that too hard -- you can just use the fixed length RISC-V base instruction set instead. The only downside is your programs will be a bit bigger, and you'll need to compile your own software (as Apple, for example, does).
In the United States there is not such thing as "hate speech". That is settled law.
Even more consequential than the fact from the headline is the preliminary result that a spacing of 12 weeks does not seem to reduce efficiency.

I wish my country and others would take note and give priority to handing out as many first doses as possible, but my hope for such quick adoption of scientific findings has been rather diminished by the whole event.
In 1996 at my first job as a programmer, the company had a system where the password field in the login screen was obscured by using wingdings as the font. :)
But Linux is not a platform in general.

It is already next to impossible to write software that requires “Linux” and nothing more with all the kernel functionality that can be enabled or disabled.

Linux is a component of many different platforms, which indeed do provide different libcs, but also different t.l.s. libraries, different c.p.u. architectures, different Linux configurations and whatever else.

As far as I know with respect to Windows, it only provides stable interfaces viā C libraries, and does not have a stable binary interface to the kernel directly.
> spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves.

Investing in journalism is actually a very good thing.
Since the stars are near 1 solar mass and each has <10d orbital period, I think pairs should be nearer than Mercury to our sun which has 88d period.

Then the paper gives the separations of the systems as 18AU for the inner quadruple and 250AU for the whole system. That would put the inner system within the orbit of Uranus and the whole system larger than our solar system which has Kuiper belt at 50AU.
Effects of Violent Video Games: 50 Years on, Where are we now?
Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon Chief Executive
'Final' would be a weird serial number to assign a vehicle anyway.
Sure, but end of day settlement (like is practiced on TSX!) has all of the reasonable benefits of T+2 settlement, while still taking place in an understandable time frame.
Occam's razor. The fact that someone said take down WSB is way simpler than any alternative.
Never underestimate the adaptability of rhetoric.
I think I get your question now. Honestly, there is an art to it, and you can't always just come out and ask. It exposes that you care more about the information than you do about the person. Maybe bring it up gently the next time it comes up in context. Or, when it's just the two of you, ask if you can bring up a potentially sensitive question with no judgement involved, just to learn.
without Andy (and AWS), I'd posit that Jeff would just be another regular old billionaire who'd own a sports team, but otherwise folks would not know much about.
I live in San Francisco. To be clear, here are some views I've expressed and had others discuss with me while still treating me kindly after both as a human being and as a coworker:

* Universal tracking and rating would allow better standards of living for normative people

* It's okay to exclude low-quality people from some parts of cities since they are generally bad for everyone else

* It's okay for some army of people to be kept quiescent with heroin since it is societally cheaper than attempting to get them productive

* Government employees are mostly rent-seekers. We can create systems far more capable than them.

* Most government services should also have auction lanes where you can just bypass the normal line.

Essentially, lots of anti-equity stuff, lots of anti-privacy stuff, lots of callous nonsense. People engage with this all in good faith (which is nice, because I'm not trolling them).
Are you sure? Italy has a lot of historical continuity. If you go to Rome, the manhole covers read SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). IIRC the government of Florence still works from the buildings of the Uffizi.
I remember meeting Jeff over snacks at the O'Reilly Etech conference in 2003. We talked about art, if I recall...
yes, the terminology is getting distorted too much. monopolies are not illegal. the problem is if they are maintained by anticompetitive behavior
I don't agree. GME will end up higher once it settles, because there's less long positions now, since there is less short positions.
You might be surprised how much of the modern world is running on CSV files on FTPs.
I don't, Bluetooth works smoothly, I can easily set audio per app, audio flow from BT headset to speaker when I turn off the former, nobody hears me badly in videocalls and a large etc. The only think it can be improved is the plugins management with some neat, optional GUI.
The simple issue that I saw with RH is that they restricted the ability to buy stocks like GME but not the ability to sell. It’s one thing to freeze the stock in place. It’s an entirely different thing to basically create a situation where your actions drive the price down while only letting investors sell. I will be honest I don’t entirely grasp the situation, but this seems to me like it was not just a bad PR situation but rather that they actually did something wrong.
Thank you for sharing the resources and inspiration. What email and calendar apps do you use on your phone?
Absurd. No one is going to kill or beat you for being Christian in SV.
He probably had enough, after all the nastiness coming from DC.

For instance, being paraded in front of Congress committees so each member can get a little sound bite shitting on him.

Truly, we didn't deserve Bezos. Maybe he's realized that.
I don't think a few code snippets prove the point. My conjecture is that any complex enough piece of code with essentially (not accidentally!) convoluted concepts will benefit from OOP more than any other style

Can we just appreciate the fact Python is such a Swiss Army Knife and allows for multi-paradigm approach?

Let's just not use low "bashing" of any paradigm as an excuse to neglect the design.

In some other thread someone mentioned lack of quality metrics. Well, this question has been asked previously, a recommended read from me: http://www.wirfs-brock.com/PDFs/How%20Designs%20Differ.pdf
The CEO role comes with a lot of mundane responsibility (and potential liability) that I’m surprised he held onto for so long. I would expect a guy like Jeff to want to get on another rocket ship (unsure if literal or figurative).
Nobody complains about the W3C because their internet is broken.
Email from Jeff Bezos to employees: Stepping down as CEO
> The author explains that the efficacy number is derived from the the number of the number of people in the control/placebo group infected divided by the total number of infections in the study.

Wouldn't that make a vaccine that does nothing 50% effective, instead of 0% effective (which is what one would expect)?
A compiler backend would have to do it statically, and would not be able to do it based on the workload that's being run.

The argument to expose this sort of control would be because domain knowledge would allow higher level domain knowledge to be used to tune the prefetching manually.
"Someone" said it and all these people listened? You're going to need more evidence than that.
This is robinhood's fault.

He's not wrong that instant (or same day) settlement would be better than T+2, but there were plenty of other brokers who did not restrict trading. This was a liquidity issue for robinhood. This is a risk you run being a "cool startup that moves fast and breaks things" in the arena of securities trading. Additionally, Some of the bugs they've experienced are absurd in the context of a broker that potentially houses people's entire liquid net worth, including a bug that reversed the direction of trades - "oh you meant to *sell* those shares? whoops!"[0].

Why choose robinhood when the alternatives include some of the most well capitalized institutions in the world, eg JP Morgan or Bank of America Merrill Lynch - they have literal trillions in assets each and neither these issues. I appreciate that robinhood pioneered zero commission trades, but that has been largely adopted by the industry at this point. From my standpoint I only see risks versus their peers and precisely zero benefits.

I implore everyone here to stay far away from robinhood.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/technology/robinhood-ceo-...
> Hence, to bear a WMD congress could require you to serve one weekend a month, two weeks a year if you get my drift.

Yes. But Congress has levied no such requirement. And absent any such requirement I should be able to successfully argue that if my right to bear arms extends to a Glock then there can be no Constitutional basis for arguing that it should not extend to a nuke.

My point is no one even attempts to make that argument because everyone knows it would get shot down on some obscure legal pretext because when push comes to shove no one is really a textualist or an originalist. It's all subtlety and nuance and interpretation and, ultimately, politics, even among people who insist that it is not.
It's a good time for another CEO to take center stage at a different company. Any suggestions?
yes, because there are two parts to the trade:

1) the contract

2) the paying of the money

There are ancillary bits as well like unwinding of mistakes.

The problem is this, moving money fast is hard. It can be done, but its far cheaper to settle up at the end of the day, when the total inflow/outflow is calculated.

But crucially there isn't enough liquid capital to service this level of actual transaction.
their hardware adds a noticeable audio lag to the experience though. shoot a gun, like .3 of a second later you hear it go off.. lots of complaints about it, i don't get anything on pc or even phone.. all on the same connection, so its just the chromecast thing they sell.

its a much smaller complaint but the controller choice was strange too, flipped the analog and digital controls - or at least feels like it compared to switch pro controller or xbox. Guess its more like the playstation setup that i never liked
> making things cheaper improves the situation for everyone, especially the poor [...] is absent from the public debate.

> When was the last time a major politician said something a long the lines of

I can only answer considering Brazil, my home country. Despite the mess that we're currently in, even we have these points in the public debate. Fixing the income tax progression to rebalance the tax burden, reducing tax on goods and compensating on services, prioritizing investments on public services essential but currently too expensive for the poor (e.g. infant day care). More often we discuss that taxes are not following the "principle of contributive capacity" than we discuss increasing taxes (except for stock dividends and other super-rich stuff, which are also always mentioned).

I won't say that we're having significant progress, as there are always some profiting from the current state of affairs to block the road, but if you pay attention to the right politicians, those topics pop up constantly.
Many services will auto-translate :) into something else, like a colourful unicode icon. If you prefer to keep your smiley looking like just a smiley, (: is an effective workaround.
Weren't Jassy and Wilke co-CEOs already? I guess Jassy was "CEO" of AWS and now gets to be (actual-) CEO of Amazon.com?
He mentioned a few focus areas:

- Day 1 Fund

- Bezos Earth Fund

- Blue Origin

- The Washington Post

So a combination of philanthropy, crazy cutting-edge tech, and media. He'll still be pretty busy haha
This is robinhood's fault.

He's not wrong that instant (or same day) settlement would be better than T+2, but there were plenty of other brokers that did not restrict trading. This was a liquidity issue for robinhood. This is a risk you run being a "cool startup that moves fast and breaks things" in the arena of securities trading. Additionally, Some of the bugs they've experienced are absurd in the context of a broker that potentially houses people's entire liquid net worth, including a bug that reversed the direction of trades - "oh you meant to sell those shares? whoops!"[0].

Why choose robinhood when the alternatives include some of the most well capitalized institutions in the world, eg JP Morgan or Bank of America Merrill Lynch - they have literal trillions in assets each and neither has these issues. I appreciate that robinhood pioneered zero commission trades, but that has been largely adopted by the industry at this point. From my standpoint I only see risks versus their peers and precisely zero benefits.

I implore everyone here to stay far away from robinhood.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/technology/robinhood-ceo-...
They are very often ambiguous and different arbitrators of rules will come to different conclusions, and their own political opinions will definitely play a factor in which way they will swing.

If an editor hold political opinions that the arbitrator agrees with, he will suddenly find various things to not be insults, which he would have, were he to politically disagree with the editor.
Thursday – learn how to make Excel pivot tables work on live Snowflake data
but the !g does make it easy to get Google results when needed.
Social media companies often check for things that are against the TOS when a media storm is brewing, this is not new. They're trying to stay ahead of negative press.
Amd should work but you will most likely require the proprietary drivers which implement openCL. Amd has a second project called rocm which is meant to work with blender and be open source but it has shocking support for their products (no support for the 5700xt)
Not the OP but I think their point is that while you might not think a quarter of a century is that long of a period, relative to most products in tech, it is a stupendously long time for a product to be still in use. It would be like using a phone from 1996 today.
Another programming exercise: writing own userspace VFS (Virtual File System).
Elon Musk Discusses Build Quality Problems with Sandy Munro
I can’t have “fun” listening to uneven headphones. It drives me bat shit. :)
I agree. There was a case that I cannot remember about a company town that banned people from handing out religious material in the town square, but the Supreme Court (I believe) decided that since the company was effectively taking the place of the government it had to abide by the same rules.

If we continue to go down this path then soon enough we will be taking away the phone and mail service of whatever group of people are out of power.
Let alone that almost no other language has the JVM ecosystem.
i understand what you mean, but why would you say that when it's dumping ?
It is interesting and informative to compare SN9 to SN8.

SN8: https://youtu.be/ap-BkkrRg-o?t=6884

SN9: https://youtu.be/_zZ7fIkpBgs?t=704

With SN8, you can clearly see two engines lighting and burning properly until just before it (crash) lands.

With SN9, you can clearly see one engine lighting and burning properly, but the second engine did not light cleanly and did not stay lit.
I'm quite sympathetic to your point of view. I'd love to see governments ensuring a plurality of media is available and higher quality, factual, pieces are promoted.

Sadly this isn't that. This would further entrench the murdoch empire that's a blight on most English speaking countries' media econ systems.
In my experience, it mostly requires nuance for those who want the rules to be arbitrary and who want different men to be treated differently based on whether they be friend of foe.

It is often quite easy to make black and white rules with no ambiguities, but then one would have to accept actually not having dual standards.

Nuance and letting human heart play a factor, is a requirement for the man who espouses dual standards.
North American post-pandemic travel recovery report
"Low-cost airlines to lead travel upturn
A post-pandemic U.S. travel recovery will happen, but we see a critical distinction between companies leveraged to domestic, personal and alternative travel and quick-service dining vs. those dependent on international trips and indoor seating. Local travel bodes well for sales of Southwest, Wyndham Hotels and Visa. Vendors exposed to business and international travel may have to wait until early 2022. These include United, Marriott and American Express."
In one of the states of Australia, there is a law that mentions someone by name:
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/bill/cab2014300/
Was done as a stopgap just to make sure that it was impossible for him to leave jail.
Robinhood's actions could be independent of whatever happened with Facebook and Discord.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26006656
Wholesome, and tangible results to boot. A great role model of 'growth mindset' for other people who are interested in technology.
I wonder if he doesn't want to be the one to deal with what looks like increased regulatory pressure…
From his email to staff:

As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions. I’ve never had more energy, and this isn’t about retiring. I’m super passionate about the impact I think these organizations can have.
I think retirement is more of a time to ponder life. I doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure. He'll probably invest in multiple companies.
That 8.6 figure comes from the paper linked below [0]. It’s an average. For many benchmarks, the difference is less than one percent, for others it’s 20 or more. In the freebsd article, they see around 1%.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
Hopefully the latter. We've got an excess of billionaires trying to mould society with their vast sums of wealth.

Blue Origin would be a great use of his time. Massive long-term benefit to humanity, few implications on global governance or the lives of most individuals.

Or his own private charter city, so people have to consent to live in his world.

Or he could blow it all on yachts, hookers and blow.
Note that Bezos announced that he will retire...in Q3 2021. Amazon uses the calendar fiscal year, so this means sometime Jul-Sep.

AWS head will take over as new CEO.
> Don't get started with "it doesn't really cost Google $1 an hour to host a $1 hour server" because Google is forgoing $1 they could have gotten from selling it to a real customer.

Are they though? This seems to imply that Google cloud customers are desperate for additional compute that Google can't give them because it's locked up in Stadia instances. Same story with bandwidth.

They're not losing the dollar unless they'd have booked that sale but for Stadia.
Amazon gets new CEO as Jeff Bezos transitions to executive chair later this year
Their hangars seem to be filling up and I am sure they want to make room for SH1 and SN11.
Looking deeper into it (been meaning to anyways) it seems to be the typical Wayland compositor specific issue, and ironically I'm using ddevault's compositor sway. Pipewire doesn't seem to care what you send it but your second window looks to be part of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk if I'm not mistaken. Since I'm using sway/wlroots I need to use xdg-desktop-portal-wlr instead. In the FAQ for this package:

"Will this let me share individual windows?

No, only entire outputs. It would take significant work in wlroots, and likely a new protocol, to make this possible. A second rendering pass would be required, which would significantly reduce wlroots performance, so this may not be implemented any time soon (or ever).

Will this let me share all of my outputs/displays at once?

Not yet, no. It will likely never create a single stream that combines all of your outputs, but once we implement better output selection, there is no reason xdpw cannot create multiple simultaneous streams of different outputs."

So it looks like I'm shit out of luck for quite a while on sway/wlroots. Looks like Gnome figured it out. Not sure about KDE.
Definitely. So many tax loopholes to exploit.
Especially if you can change the narrative from "evil capitalist who forces his workers to piss in buckets" to "pioneer O'Reilly tube colonist"
Jassy was the CEO of AWS. I'm not sure what role he had regarding leadership of the entire company, but his title was CEO of AWS.
With my statement following the claim that UI/UX is not an architectural issue, I'm not sure how you are getting this reading.

I maintain that separating the ui/ux from the architecture is a fools' errand. Any other reading of my statements, while almost certainly my fault, don't make sense here.
Perfect example (in the scheme) of an explanation/background/key concepts/discussion/whatever you call it document.

That's where you weigh up options, discuss alternatives, etc. If it's something you could read about in the bath or talk about over dinner, it goes there.
This makes sense; but it still doesn't feel like the right answer. Facilities should exist for runtime type checking based on TS definitions, and syntactic features should enable a 'hard check' of the actual object when necessary
1.3 million employees, wow!
Yeah, that's pretty much how monopolies (anti-competitive companies) work: you could replicate the entire Google ecosystem, but without doing all of that you can't compete with any segment of Google. It is not reasonable to require of any competitor in the search engine field to offer their own ad network, mail service, cloud service, cloud computing service, enterprise offering. This is illegal, as hopefully the anti-trust lawsuit will show. It's a smart business practice, but once you cross a certain threshold it is regulated by the government because it is no longer good for society.
His ex gave away 4.2 billion last December FWIW.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/style/mackenzie-scott-pri...
Crashes with my Radeon card, open source drivers. My system is setup properly. Crashed with native game (Stellaris) as well as Proton. I'll give it one more time.
Horizontal scrolling perform disastrously badly in UX testing.
> Edit: glib not glibc

glib 2.0 was released in March of 2002, and has preserved ABI compatibility since then.

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-changes.html