skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Feel free to email me for further discussion.

Why not just have the discussion here?

> I have the impression you don't understand my definition of free will compared to your own definition.

I think you are trading on the ambiguity in the term "free will" to avoid having to confront the actual issues involved. That's why I used the less ambiguous term "making choices".

If you don't think people can ever make choices that make a difference in their situation, then you and I have a fundamental disagreement that I don't think will get resolved by any discussion. Also, if that's your belief, I think you are being inconsistent; you talk about "designing better social systems", but that very process involves people making choices that will make a difference in their situation (as well as the situation of many, many other people).

If you just think the amount of difference a person can make in their situation by making choices varies with the situation, of course I agree with that. But that's not a problem that can be fixed by "designing better social systems". It can only be fixed by being willing to call a spade a spade when people in power make choices that disempower others, so that people in power can be stopped from doing that. The biggest barrier to people being able to change their situation by making choices is restrictions put on them by other people, not some abstract claim about free will being an illusion. "Designing social systems" makes that problem worse, not better.

> I fundamentally think it's morally wrong to keep someone in the dark from reality by deceiving them about their will or life outcome

I think you are confusing your opinions with "reality". Telling people they don't have free will, or that free will is an illusion, is just as much of an opinion as telling them they do have free will. Neither is a statement of "reality". That's why I say free will is best viewed as a right: because in my opinion, believing that people have free will is respecting their right to make their own choices, and believing that people don't have free will is not respecting that right--which just means arrogating to yourself the power to make choices that disempower them. Respecting people's right to make choices is not a factual claim about people; it's a policy, which I think should be adopted because it will end up helping people.

> especially if that person is homeless or suicidal for example

I don't see how it's any help to a person who is homeless or suicidal to tell them free will is an illusion. Nor would it be any help to tell them it isn't. A person who is homeless or suicidal has much more pressing things to think about than whether or not free will is an illusion. And helping such a person has nothing at all to do with your own opinions or beliefs, much less foisting them on others in the guise of "telling them about reality".
It’s more of a future feature. Until we have most things sandboxed with SELinux there isn’t a whole lot of point adding a permissions dialog. But all of this work pays off in the future when Linux can match macOS in security.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/146786/democrats-lead-ranks-uni...

Across federal employees, that doesn’t seem to matter much. I also wouldn’t expect republicans to care so much that they’d put monetary source before job type/location — it’d be quite difficult to be a republican teacher and find a job that’s not significantly government-funded
Challenger? What's your point? That Russia didn't beat the US into space? I thought the west at least accepted that fact. Or do you just have to believe the US is ALWAYS "superior"?
> I don’t think motivated devs want to go home at 2pm.

That's the beauty of it. Motivated engineers will use the spare time after 2pm to study and improve things. Or run some errands if they have to, without feeling their butt has to be glued to the chair until 6pm.

I've often solved many problems at work in my spare time or when taking a dump or something. It's pretty difficult to really get into deep thinking at the office because of 1. noise and 2. looking unproductive when you actually think hard.

Paradoxically office slackers bashing keyboard when chatting on facebook look more productive from a distance than somebody who actually is deeply thinking about system design and spinning in a chair or staring at a ceiling while doing it.
isn't planning on giving his money to his children

1. none of "giving pledge" signees pledged 100% – they do pledge most of it, although inheriting "almost nothing" of billions is still pretty comfy.

2. the biggest cushion the heirs of Giving Pledgers will inherit is something money can't buy: influence. After all the Gates foundation is a family trust and as such will be run by the trustee's heirs, when their parents die [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2017/jul/2...
My understanding is that it does. One example (there's more like the instant deposit): when you buy a stock with money from another sale not yet settled, you are basically using margin (a loan) and thus RH have cash requirements which are a % of the cost of the trade to be settled.

If you don't allow that, and only let people trade on a cash basis after the trades have been settled, you effectively have 100% of the money you need to settle the trades you closed.
I like how it's now a "feature". This is what zoom originally did, and "full zoom" was the feature.
I'd love to hear more. I've only used the datacenter and flagship consumer GPUs, which work great. I hadn't heard of Jetson, but looking it up, it's a bummer to hear that something that looks that cool for hobbies doesn't hold up.
But what about the antitrust issues!?
Engineering activities are economic activities.

Engineering activities must make sense as economic activities.

Engineering activities productivity can be measured the same way the productivity can be measured for any economic activities.

See "Internal Market Economics: Practical Resource-Governance Processes Based on Principles We All Believe In",
Book by N. Dean Meyer.

The posted article came so close to the idea of the right measurements, I was intrigued and was like "yes, say it!", but the author didn't say what I expected, instead they pointed at quantifying calendars and commit logs. What a bizzare self-contradiction.
> what I could argue against people doing under the belief that people have free will

What sorts of terrible things do you think people do under the belief that people have free will?
In the article Scott Morrison mentions that he's spoken personally to Satya.
Again, for many people it's not about making money.

And many (most?) people are aware that billionaires will still get rich on this trade.

You keep explaining this to me as if it's something I don't already know. The part you are failing to understand is we hold fundamentally different values.

Diamond. Fucking. Hands.
The general recommendation is never use limit orders - do not reveal your intention to the other side.
What about starting with the premise that "a successful corporation offers goods or services people want for less cost than competitors" whereas a successful government organization "exhausts their budget every fiscal quarter and successfully demands more". Which is doing more good for the people? I've worked for both and know which I'd choose.
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When you get issued stock options at a company, you immediately become liable for taxes on them, since they are treated as income. This is true even if there is no public market for the shares at that time (something that caused headaches for many early dotcom stock option grantees).

It's is an obvious precedent for taxing somebody who has "received" wealth via the route that Bezos has done.
> Bill gates is still renting.

What does that mean?
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Ah, sorry about that! Just posted it again without "Show HN:" in the title!
I mostly agree - This doesn't seem to be adding any real visibility that velocity tracking (a la - agile) wouldn't give you already (not that I'm advocating for agile, mind you...).

Consider -

I have two teams, with the same staffing levels and the same general seniority. For this example, lets assume each is a team of 5, with 1 tech lead, 2 seniors, and 2 juniors.

Both teams have the same approximate meeting count, both work on the same stack with the same dev tools.

Team A consistently releases new features faster than team B. Why?

Because if the answer is "Find the blocker" aren't we right back at

> "your engineering leaders will simply justify failures, telling stories like "The customer didn't give us the right requirements" or "We were surprised by unexpected vacations.""

except with blockers this time?

Maybe Team A is actually just better than Team B.

Maybe Team B is actually working on a feature set that has more inherent complexity.

Maybe Team A releases faster but also has more incidents in prod.

Maybe Team B releases a larger changeset on average.

None of this is getting addressed or answered.

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None of that is to say that measuring blockers isn't a useful idea, but it's certainly not some silver bullet.
$650USD on sale but point taken.
Company and owners from the US. Employees living everywhere. I'd say 40% if not more are currently living in the US. No office. Incorporated in US.
Sphinx tabs supports that https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-tabs#grouped-tabs, haven't used sphinx-inline-tabs
They are making total bank on those things. And the users are paying, just not with dollars.

Can definitely be robust and should be.

In this scenario, it is a mutual problem. Nobody has to use the software, true. However, it again is all about managing expectations.

If it is oversold, people will end up with bad experiences and that does impact who delivered them.

This has already happened. Will again too.

On a short timeline, maybe no big. On a longer one, higher order impacts may actually be painful.

Say a decade of negative public sentiment sees a brutal regulation kind of painful.

Entities putting billions in the bank can and should make reliable software.

There is a YUGE diff between Gmail, Excel and friends, and rando OSS.

This discussion ranged far away from the initial premise.

So, let us take it back a bit.

Weyland. Wants to be the defacto display solution. Does not have the same priorities many users have. Also does have priorities many users have.

Replacing X11 was made an explicit intent too.

Well, if it does not actually do that?

"All that Weyland shit talk" is the outcome.

Maybe subtract the replace X11 part, or maybe find a way to actually replace X11, or maybe just ignore the shit talk?
The tooling isn't the problem, time is. Every device and resolution you support takes time and at some point you hit a point of diminishing returns.
Probably, it has made the rounds before.

I like the 'shopping bag' building, you can even zoom in to see the people in the glass lounges.
WSB: “Vomiting diarrhea, shitting blood. Savings on the line. Not selling”
@shomedmoni:

"Retard strength at its finest. I just bought another AMC with the only $10 left on my investment account, I’m ALL FUCKIN IN LETS GOOOO."
As chairman and being involved in the WaPo newsroom and possibly K street would actually help Amazon. But you'd probably have to enjoy politics and does Bezos? Bezos built Amazon so is he OK with it being chopped up if it comes to that or not?
How are you measuring "efficient allocation of capital"?

Amazon has been very successful at squeezing "efficiency" out of their employees, where "efficiency" is defined largely as abusive conditions and poor wages. While they may be a large employer in raw numbers, vast numbers of their employees depend on public assistance. UPS, USPS, and FedEx seem to pay consistently higher wages. And on top of that, like most "supermassive" companies, they are very "efficient" at dodging taxes.

Yes, this is "efficiency" in the financial sense, but it is by no means net positive at the societal level.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-turnove...

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/amazon-thrives-fedex-deliver...
In Defense of Punch Bug
RISC-V is just an instruction set specification. It says absolutely nothing about the peripherals that need to be attached to a RISC-V core to produce a usable system.

Whereas the IBM PC was delivered as a complete system (including all the peripherals and glue logic) and to achieve 100% compatibility the clones were exactly that: they copied absolutely everything about the PC, down to level of the individual logic gates in the "glue" that interfaced the CPU and memory and peripheral controllers.
It's more funny that both primarily used thousands of Germans as their rocket technicians, and both german parties used their german style, based on engineers as heads.

This all changed with Lyndon Johnson taking over, getting rid of the Germans, introducing the well known inefficient NASA/gov-style management style known from the Shuttle era, and moved the technicians out of Alabama to Houston. This was the anti-modern democratic approach.

SpaceX simply went back to the old modern style, which worked well for the US and Russia.

The trick was not using smart people, but experienced engineers in control, and not fresh anti-engineer PM's out of college. Everybody can control a budget, esp. engineers, but only engineers can control engineering problems.
I strongly dislike nits like this. I don't think this clarifies what I was saying or provides any value. I also don't find it humorous.

While writing, I was thinking of the thundering herd problem and imagined that individual users is more literal (than many processes), more like the thing for which the problem was named.

If I'm not not mistaken, I think you can also refer to a group of humans literally as a herd. But I very rarely think such prescriptivism (saying one should not use terms inappropriately) provides value, especially on a word that is so far past being used correctly with any consistency.
Starship SN9 engine debris ejected prior to crash
When the app can't do what it's supposed to do (buy/sell securities), the nicer interface is pointless.
Metaplane: “Is this dashboard broken again?”
When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is the Real Wealth
How about land? IP? Or a private company? Surely, only people that get issued options aren’t subject to a $1B max.
There was competition. Bookstacks.com had been in business with a telnet-only interface for more than a year before Amazon.

As noted by others, the shipping cost-to-item-average-cost ratio is precisely why Jeff chose books to start with. But yes, he also looked way out (even if he couldn't see as clearly as some people seem to think he could).
I can maybe see T-0. But I am pretty sure Vlad is talking about near real-time. Even with T-0, most of the trading is done in the last ten minutes at 3:50 EST (due to vwap). I don’t see the benefit in settling T-0 outweighing the value of safety net provided by extra time overnight.
RH is giving a loan - these are margin accounts. That is why it had to raise $ billions.
In the UK it is £12 a month for YouTube premium which is more like 15USD. Feels quite expensive when Netflix is about half of that.
> famine and homeless can be caused both by human choices and accidents or events outside of human control

Yes, I agree that accidents or events outside human control can cause bad things to happen. I would also point out, though, that how bad those things get has far more to do with human choices. There are many choices that people can make to be better prepared for accidents and events outside their control if and when they happen.
While cute, it misses the point. If I say a car is coming, it is then up to the person to decide whether they step into the street or not. This is not a rhetorical argument.
I dont normally randomly send out song links but this one is very fitting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
I run NixOS on a variety of laptops as my daily driver. While there's initially a steep learning curve, the time is well spent developing a reproducible configuration that you can quickly install on a new machine. I adapt the same configuration to generate a custom ISO that I write to a USB drive so I can boot into a familiar environment in a few minutes on almost any machine (running in RAM if there's enough room). It doubles as an installer (as does any NixOS installation). This approach is also handy for booting ephemeral servers on any hardware (DNS, DHCP, etc.).

One of my hobbies is recycling older machines. I've installed NixOS on Chromebooks with 16GB internal drives. It's possible if you remember to garbage collect after each successful upgrade (and stick to 64-bit machines).

I tend to treat my laptops as disposable and keep my important data on a file server so I don't rely on local disk space.
Google isn’t doing all that well under Pichai, they haven’t launched a successful product under him since Chromebooks (I guess GCP, but when you are that size and <10% of market share, I don’t know if it’s successful), and they are just coasting on ads, YouTube and GSuite. Whereas Apple (say what you will about Cook) has launched AirPods, the Apple Watch and Apple Silicon-based Macs, which are all raking in cash. It’s possible that Google is only ever going to be an ads company, but based on their corporate rhetoric I don’t think that was the goal.

Apple Silicon Macs aren’t really raking in cash yet, but Mac sales are up $1B in the last quarter, so by time transition is complete they will be.
Bezos achieved amazing things. But Amazon stole more than $60 million in tips from delivery drivers. If Bezos knew about it then he should go to prison.
I agree with your sentiment, but for people who have used RH for a while, this is basically par for the course as far as RH support/PR goes. I'm surprised people haven't dumped them in the past for their reliability issues, and they shouldn't get a pass for this event either. For instance, Amazon wasn't the first e-commerce or compute resource provider either. Their competency and dedication to customers have put them ten steps ahead.
#2 was about getting banned from services if you talk about the wrong subjects. I think one example given was youtube banning people talking about crypto.
I'd hardly call America a country with a governmental system that's representative of the people
A corporation that didn't take its customers demands into account would be quite likely to fail. There are many governments that continue to exist by enriching and providing for a small segment of society, and uses force to suppress the demands of the rest of society. A corporation generally doesn't shoot dissatisfied customers.

Even in relatively liberal democracies, governments are clearly more beholden to forces other than citizens and their vote. There's a reason why US governments did little to respond to massive BLM protests this summer, as government viewed its responsibility as more aligned to police unions than citizens.
I don't understand why space rockets and lunar lander is important except if they help us clean our planet. It's a long bet on a long time horizon. But maybe it's a good way to spend government money.
Amazon's customer support is mediocre at best. I tried to buy something from them and the card transaction failed because I had some protections in place. Instead of them trying again, they asked for all kinds of documents to prove the ownership. I sent them a receipt from a local store, but it wasn't good enough for them. I guess they don't want my money :-)
Governments exist as a collective to the public to do what one individual cannot do on their own.

Corporations exist to enrich shareholders and nothing more.
That's crazy! How are they losing so much money on such a high-margin business?

AWS and Azure are basically printing money.
Back before the .com crash Amazon was one of the few .coms with an actual business plan.
It is really trendy for billionaires to be interested in space right now. I think they want to make money there. They believe that too big to fail on earth means that they should go where nobody has made any money.

O'Neill was product of academia, a physicist and not a head of corporation.
You don't really "compile stuff yourself" on Gentoo. There's still a package manager, and it does all the building and installing for you. Yes, compilation happens as a result of the user invoking the package manager, but there's a huge usability difference between "emerge foo", and download foo.tar.gz -> unpack -> configure/build/install -> track updates and repeat as needed. I would call the latter "compiling foo yourself", but not the former.
history is the multiple re-writings of our understanding actual events, in as much as we can understand them
Elon and Woz are very rich -- I had not heard of Bjork. A billionaire can well afford to put some play money in Bitcoin, but that does not mean a mere millionaire should. No mention is made of what fraction of their net worth they have invested in Bitcoin.
I am impressed by the camera angles. How do you think they filmed the last parts? With a drone?
I like it too, but I think it misses something crucial: how often is the team unblocking others? This, naturally, is at odds with minimizing interruptions.

On one extreme there is no shield around engineers and they experience constant whiplash with "code oracling", shifting priorities, obscure trivialities, and other things that can drive people insane and can prevent meaningful work from being completed.

On the other hand, sticking perfectly to "we're committed to this sprint and unless its on fire you wait in line" and much of your business becomes unnecessarily rigid and painful. That, IMHO, is much worse.

Finding a balance is crucial, and to me thats just as interesting of a datapoint.
retail IS the economy.

Sure, you can pump money into building fighter jets and aircraft carriers, but those don't last long, nor are they helpful for economy in the long term.

In the long term, the only backbone of the economy is making and selling things to people that they want, a.k.a retail.
It's still referred to as amd64 in Debian.