skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because money is power, corporations are not democratic, and putting so much power in the hands of one person or a handful of people is dangerous to society. I would also refer you to the entire history of US antitrust law, which will be hard for anyone to summarize in a comment. The whole field of competition law is a question of how to balance the rights of those running a business with the rights of those affected by the business. Often those rights conflict, and there is no way for the law to be "neutral", it has to take a position on how to strike the right balance.

I don't have an answer for how to determine when a corporation is too large, it's a very difficult question that I am not qualified to answer. As for who determines that, I think a democratic government should decide. I disagree with how the current US government makes these decisions, but I still think it is the right organization for the job.
I have only used it as a font in the 3D Text screensaver. Set the screensaver to display the time, max speed and use one of the Wingdings fonts. It confused the hell out of people. :)
This is my first time hearing about him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davis_(programmer)
One of the ideas behind federalism was that government / the state need not have a monopoly on everything.

Corporate monopolies usually only persist due to two reasons: regulatory barriers or technological stagnation. Both are solvable.
Say the national best bid and offer (NBBO) is:
Bid: $10.45
Ask: $10.55

You place a limit buy order at $10.55 for 100 shares.

$0 commission broker that sells order flow:
Your order is routed to the market maker buying your broker's order flow. They sell you the 100 shares for $10.55 since it's within your limit and within the NBBO spread.

$5 commission broker:
Your broker attempts to price improve by searching multiple liquidity sources and gets a hit at the NBBO midpoint: $10.50.

In both cases you paid $5 for the trade.
I was most productive when my office let us take a few hours a week to exercise. I wouldn't use it if I had anything critical pending, but otherwise I would duck out an hour early several times a week to go get in a good long run (5-10km).

It felt like they had more respect for my time and well-being. When they cut it (with bullshit reasons [0]) "productivity" did not improve in the office. Instead, projects expanded to fill the time. Those 3 hours or so we got to use at the gym before became 3 hours spent to produce the exact same total work. There was zero motivation to utilize it "properly" by using it to get ahead on anything. Every project continued to hit the same deadlines they were hitting before.

[0] One reason I say it was BS, we were typically on or ahead of schedule on projects. Teams that were behind weren't making use of this time while they were behind, they weren't permitted to.
I have no need for it. I also don’t care for IBM / Red Hat’s “viral” marketing, it’s really just terrible shilling. Nobody wants Wayland. Nobody needs it. We are tired of hearing about how IBM will pull its X.org developer - just shit or get off the pot already so a proper fork can be made to continue the work on X.
Yeah, you already linked to that article which mentions "A recent Twitter post" but of course has no link because it is probably the aforementioned deleted one because that website is probably complete BS. It does say january 2 but again, the twitter rumor was 1.5 years ago.

Here is an article refuting that twitter rumor back in august of 2019: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-rumors-own-400-mi...
Or is down ranked, innit? The problem was (before the NYT article) that this person is not a public persona so there's no content to uprank above it.
From what I hear they are giving out sweetheart deals to large customers that aren't making money, but hey they can claim to run "X" company's cloud instances.
no need to set a max. Just set the marginal rate so high that earning (or, if a wealth tax, owning) more than some amount becomes pointless.
Anyone that high up in Amazon is going to be laughing all the way to the bank regardless.
I'm really ignorant about all this securities trading stuff. Can somebody enlighten me to what this change actually means? Or maybe point to some "beginners guide", after which I'd understand what he is talking about?
I would argue that America is a terrible example of government and governing, and that you shouldn't be using it as a comparison in your argument.

Good government is hard, but it's certainly better than a corporation that is legally obligated to put profit ahead of anything else.
> And most Western governments are now abdicating this responsibility in the name of political ideals and the stated notion that non-citizens have the right to demand a place in the nation of their choosing.

Nobody is doing that. However, I'd suggest that even if they were, it wouldn't invalidate anything I'm saying.

Non-citizens are permitted to immigrate under various circumstances, defined under naturalization law. Sometimes that's on the basis of being refugees. Sometimes its on the basis of skills and needs. Sometimes its granted in the face of exigent circumstances.

In the case of the DREAMers, it's based on the notion that if you're brought into the country as a toddler, then you didn't intentionally commit a crime and the fair thing to do is to let you remain - in no small part due to the huge role these folks play in the economy. The parents who committed those crimes are not granted any sort of amensty.
Also note that BN1 (which is the booster stage) is getting close to completion! I wonder when we'll see one of those fly?
In pc86's scenario, though, it's much more likely that you're the one with the ego, thinking that reading a few blog posts makes you more informed than a 20-year industry vet.
Does AWS have a Sears-type analogue or was that a new concept?

Just curious, no agenda, I grew up on the Sears Catalogue.
https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/whats-clearing-...

They are self-clearing.
Deplatforming is not an alt-right problem. Users need better options for disputing company policies. When the algorithms get something wrong and your banned how should that be handled?

We are tracked way too much. And companies are usually way to vulnerable to hacking. Again more of a mainstream issue that politicians look the other way on.

#3 youtube is great service in some respects but complete shit in others. The biggest issue is just getting rid of it off your phone. or blocking it off a roku.

And the point was there are some options but people don't use them.
> It’s also quite buggy. I’ve hit crashes several times while working with large drawings.

Hmmm, I am sure this happens to Adobe products too– is Krita worse?
I've got the Manjaro CE version, so it should be new enough. I'm also not flush wish cash, so... Yah, I'll be buying diapers for my toddler, not a motherboard that may or may not work.

It's a shame, 'cause I really like the concept, and bought it for myself as a birthday gift. Thought it would be a fun project to hack on.
M$ would probably pay nvidia. Does linux pay nvidia?
As an American I low key hope they block Google. I don’t want to give up my use but wouldn’t mind some extra competition in the search engine space.
Pay the $10 a month or whatever for Youtube premium and never see an ad again.
That video is pure gold. Lots of lessons you can use even today for any business.
It used to be like this: Every 2 years I bought new Sennheiser cx300II's (until I somehow got a pair that seemed to lack bass) because the cable broke. Now my 16$ qcy's (BT) are 3 years old and still fine.
Might be hard to change anything when you have a core metric that looks like this:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=amazon&tbm=fin
You can see this kind of comment in every YouTube related posts, please, there's no free lunch, either pay for the subscription or use tools to block the ads.
It's very hard for a corporation to get large without explicit or implicit government support. Truly competitive markets do not allow monopolies to develop in the long-term.
If the muscles I built at that gym were incompatible with any other gym, yeah I probably would.

Metaphors don't work as well as people think.
And just because I have to be THAT guy, with Arch linux you use pacman -Ql and pacman -Qo to do the same.

Also, man! Do I love the Arch wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta
I have watched PMs actively contribute nothing to a project by entering false metrics. It really is either you can build something, or you can't and contribute nothing to the project.
Sure, could be. I'd like a few seconds earlier on the shot that showed the landing pad to be sure.
My mental image is that people want to spin off AWS for society’s benefits because Amazon grew too big and abuses the integration. Amazon squarely resisting this idea seems uncontroversal.
It's not. It's made clear in the court filings in the AWS lawsuit, as well as background research into the founder and funders, as well as the data dumps from the site hack/scrape.
I’m sure they are still heavily investing in CapEx given their growth.

You have to remember that AWS had a more linear path so capex investment was spread out over a longer time line. Meanwhile Google had to rebuild all of AWS infra and capacity basically over night.

That coupled with high revenue growth leads to a large loss in the build out years. As revenue increase YoY slows down that loss will begin to narrow.
Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO
There's nothing new about the US not being united. The Democrats dispute every election they lose, just as they did in 2016. There is nothing new about it. The US has rarely been united throughout its history in fact. It's borderline a fluke that it has survived this long as one nation.

And if you think it's bad now, it's going to get dramatically worse yet. The largest groups that make up the US today, that dominate its politics and culture, have absolutely nothing in common with eachother and will grow further apart as the years pass. The rancor will get much worse. The populism will get worse. The end result is obvious and unavoidable (and I'm not talking about civil war, that's a redneck fantasy; it's tyranny, oppression, endless strife, and ever worsening dysfunction as the Feds try to contain the unspooling and get ever more paranoid).
Its a garbage product run by heinously rude people

https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86

If you run it you are choosing poorly
So what is that true way to measure productivity you alude to? By the way, engineering can be an economic activity, but it doesn't have to be. Could be an art as well, for example.
> because they targeted a different kind of user than the average HN engineer/startup person.

It is not, sometimes GNOME devs even say outright that the project is for their peers and those who share their vision. They do their testing on other GNOME aficionados. In the days of Unity, Canonical did some of their user testing on regular people, those days are long gone.
> A corporation that didn't take its customers demands into account would be quite likely to fail.

Meeting customer demands is only one way to compete. A better facebook is going to still have a hell of a time not being out-competed by facebook. Likewise with amazon sometimes throwing its weight around to take a loss to undercut competitors until they starve.
Running Debian on a $5 Single Board Computer – The Lichee Nano Pi
So no business should be allowed to refuse whom they can do business with? (other than illegal deals)
> I still don't understand how they successfully managed to make people think buying shares of a bankrupt company for $350 a pop was a good idea.

Just because GME-as-ownership-unit may be overvalued, does not necessarily mean it is overvalued for GME-as-contract-closure-instrument.

If you want to focus on GME-as-ownership-unit, as a share in a retail business, that's perfectly valid. But that's not the only perspective.
Wait how do you tell if it got upvotes?
HTML, as demonstrated by the article, is accessible by default.
The atmosphere on Mars is not as thick as ours so there might be an issue with that winged glider vision. And then there is the moon...
They were made for a time when we were not so poorly educated that we trusted leadership to people so far away, with so little in common with ourselves and our way of lives.

I tell you what, though. You design an effective, smart and transparent government and I'll never say a word about how big you would like it to be.
Why is increasing efficiency always net good?
Side note: cryptocurrency exchanges perform brokerage, settlement, and clearing continuously and in real-time.
This is terrible advice. if your slippage risk is such that you aren’t protected by NBBO you have absolutely no business on a retail broker of any sort. Meanwhile limit orders minimizes the most likely risk a retail trader has to overcome. Either you don’t understand the advice you were given, you were duped or you are trying to be duplicitous.

In any case, terrible advice to be repeating in the context of retail trades.
Try Cauldron.io.

Here's their demo: https://cauldron.io/project/1311?from_date=2020-01-26&to_dat...
And amazon.com today still works exactly the same with JavaScript turned off or on.
With Itanium, they had advanced loads to decouple the pipeline from unknown memory latencies.

Also Itanium was a heavily superscalar design; I think you meant out of order.

Cell just plain didn't really let you directly address main RAM, so you never saw unknown DRAM accesses stalling the cores. Access to the local memory was always single cycle.

In neither case was unknown RAM latencies an issue with the design.
Absolutely. One of my strongest opinions about TS is that you should use it pragmatically. It's not worth burning hours of time trying to placate the TS compiler if you know the code works okay - throwing in a `type $FixTypeLater = any` and moving on is an acceptable workaround depending on the situation:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2019/11/blogged-answers-le...
I mean they did this: https://apnews.com/article/9b6f6f5ba5be2408ff0502c7fb8abd5b

Seems silly. Should they overturn Jesus' conviction too? At a certain point the conviction is part of their story.
Some other effects of "voluntary interaction":

"Concealment at scale is the secret to Amazon’s success. Customers enjoy a seamless one-stop shop experience from the comfort of their homes. Out of sight is a ruthless game of regulatory arbitrage, as Amazon installs itself in low-tax jurisdictions and exploits legal loopholes around the world. Even further away from the customer lies Amazon’s environmental impact, scorching frontline communities in the global south while executives in Seattle roll out their latest greenwashed PR campaign."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/01/amazon...
Ubuntu Core 20 adds secure boot with hardware-backed encryption
Well, one way to think about it is to consider what the effect of the growth might be. What good is a corporation doing getting that large? Who benefits from the amassing of so much wealth? Are they acting for the benefit of many people, or are they more like a black hole -- mindlessly absorbing money and growing over time?

Certainly if a corporation can grow to get so large, it's hard to argue against it. It becomes a bit like a force of nature in that sense. But there are possibly repercussions to that, just as there would be repercussions if a black hole were to suddenly appear in our solar system.
He's already pumping a billion a year into Blue Origin, which incidentally has quite a few management issues.

So that would be a logical step, although I'm doubtful how effective the Amazon principles would be for spaceflight.
Google Cloud lost $5.6B in 2020
How much is Spotify? YT Premium ~= YT Music + Ad free videos + YT Originals.
Yes, they have an army of "rogue salespeople" with "isolated incidents" doing this constantly.
No, AWS was definitely not part of Jeff's early vision. And as many people have said, major credit to Jassy for making it what it is today.
Regular old tests, I imagine
I feel bad for him. Everyone knew this was coming and I hope that as few as possible have gamed away money they cannot afford to loose. I think once the dust clears, one will find though that the wolves, after having talked a good talk, exited several days ago leaving the sheeple left holding a bag of turds.
I have now memorized all commands (and stopped switching distros), but I used to regularly look at this rosetta stone of package management commands:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta
That's because Ive left. The product pipeline is now getting to the post Ive point and you can see a distinct change.

IMHO Apple are stepping back from the form over function precipice and are being more pragmatic, to the benefit of customers.
It's a decent deal if you also want the YT Music (Formerly Google Play Music) library, not a great deal otherwise.

(I do want the music library, so I've been a subscriber for a very long time.)
> trying to figure whether I need "Elastic Beanball3"

Just wait until you have to try to figure out how much that's going to cost you...
How did you find the right therapist? If you're in the Bay, do you mind dropping the name of them? Email on my profile if you prefer.
I resonate with literally everything you're saying, I just don't have kids.
> Not Treasuries. Cash

The way it should be. The quicker we do away with interest bearing and yielding assets, the better. It's the cause of the vast majority of the economic mess we're in today. We've literally known about this issue for thousands of years, interest and usury have been prohibited in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. We still think we're smart and not going to be bitten by the dangers of interest, yet that won't happen.
> had a component that was "a multiplier based on their opinion"

I'll chalk this up to colloquialism. The DTCC has very little discretion in what they do. That's why they're trusted to do it.

The "opinion" component could be a reference to their line of credit banks, who adjust the rates they charge the DTCC based on their varied risk models. There is a valid argument that there isn't as much transparency in that layer as there could be. But that isn't relevant to this case.

Any off-the-shelf collateral cost estimation tool should have told you, given GME's realized volatility in the week prior to the fiasco, that it was a high clearing risk. If the CEO is getting blindsided by the DTCC at 3AM, it's a oversight of internal controls.

> RH negotiated with them all Thursday last week and reduced the required payment from $3B to ~$0.7B

Negotiating collateral requirements involves netting out trades and delaying settlement on some trades and accelerating settlement on others. It does not involve recomputing collateral rules. (The DTCC can't recompute collateral rules for one member over another.)
This is not at all how NBBO works. Effectively all retail brokers sell order flow and if they dont they still dont have any obligation to improve your price beyond NBBO.
A New Way to Look at Fibonacci Numbers
There are definitely things I didn't delve into.

A more nuanced take would have engaged more with the various segments of the media. On the other hand, there's a great sociological article by Kieran Healy called Fuck Nuance. As he writes:

"Nuance is not a virtue of good sociological theory. Although often demanded and superficially attractive, nuance inhibits the abstraction on which good theory depends. I describe three “nuance traps” common in sociology and show why they should be avoided on grounds of principle, aesthetics, and strategy. The argument is made without prejudice to the substantive heterogeneity of the discipline."

I believe that models at different levels of abstraction have value and that sometimes too high a resolution picture obscures useful patterns at a higher level. In this case, I think there are things that can be usefully be said about the mainstream media - in particular that there is something of a culture clash, that many journalists are struggling or went through a period of struggle to get where they are and that there is some level of jealousy towards overpaid programmers straight out of college.
Just one question - 'elastic beanstalk' - who the fuck came up with that name?
Corporations are not legally obligated to put profit ahead of everything else. That's a bad myth that refuses to die. There is absolutely no substance to that claim.

There is no legal obligation to maximize shareholder value.
We're not giving out grants after this build sprint. We're going to focus on giving more feedback to founders -- on at least 1,000 applications to YC.
Nah, that's like a ship where you only replace the sails and rope.
Here is an idea: measure added value. Realize it's produced at the bottom and consumed at the top of the hierarchy. Remove yourself from the organization as a pure consumer of added value.
It's worth looking here : https://github.com/dkobak/excess-mortality for clear statistics. There is a big difference between what is reported and what the actual numbers work out to be.
Google has a reputation issue here: no one wants to build serious products on it's platforms since it killed so many products in the past.

Legacy support sucks, but if you don't support your old products people won't trust your new ones.
I presume it was the target orientation since they held it for so long, had they wanted to actively leave that orientation earlier I assume they would have done so.

Especially subsonic I assume their orientation does not matter a whole lot when just trying to fall with max drag.

Not sure how much energy they'll save doing the flip maneuver earlier though, seems like they want max drag as low as they can go, then flip to powered flight at the last moment possible -- and their problem seems to be keeping the engines lit.
FHS makes sense from a system developer standpoint — entire system is a project

/lib for libraries
/usr/include for C includes
/etc for configs
They must have turned off the redirect sometime in the past few years. diapers.com also used to land on amazon.com :)
In the US, Congress decides the rules, the FTC and the Department of Justice decide when they believe a corporation is too large, and the court system decides if they're right. The corporation can then be stopped from acquiring other businesses, stopped from executing certain business practices, or broken up into smaller companies. Generally a judge ensures that the plan is carried out.
what makes you think you are entitled to using youtube for free? The ad-free experience in Premium is great.

And don't forget they are paying a huge sum to the content creators as well - it is a delicate balance.
What is an intercalary month and why might we need one?
Yeah. That’s kind of what I mean. I have no problem paying some money to support you guys and not have to host it on my own. I generally prefer my monitoring etc to not be done by myself anyway cause I take myself offline way too often

Only point was of there was going to be a smaller plan for homelabs or the like that doesn’t have the raw amount of Traffic or features as the enterprise plans do.
Thanks, appreciate the reply from an authoritative voice.
Thanks :)

Your approach makes sense, have you managed to validate that these signals are equivalent in-platform (Facebook)? I don't know how deep I should go, but there's also a distinction between events tracked in Events Manager vs those tracked in Ads Manager, as well as a suite of changes w/ regards to Aggregated Event Management (AEM) that's rolling out now.

For your server side integration are you using the Conversion API or are you reconstructing the GET signatures for their FB pixel?
That does sound vaguely familiar. Jeff did have a handful of other "name candidates" sitting around, and this seems like one in keeping with the sort of thing he was thinking about. I don't specifically remember it though.
Oh hey, I dropped a quarter the other day too! /s

Sarcasm aside, we really need to up fines. These are pathetic.