skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would understand the sentiment if there weren't significantly bigger fish to fry. Disposable electronics make up an infinitesimal percentage of non-biodegradable waste that leaves my house. Maybe we should first tackle the literal pounds of plastic waste from food packaging the average person tosses every week before we start shaming people for buying a < 1oz pair of earbuds that only last a couple years.
There are manhole covers in Copenhagen that make reference to H.C. Andersen but he didn't actually have anything to do with them, it was more in the form of a thing to make tourists feel they were somewhere cool.

I might accept some continuity from now back to the time of Garibaldi for Italy as a whole (but then we have to write some notable periods off as aberrations) - As for Florence I would accept going back to Napoleonic times but from there the continuity of government was surely broken.
Not to mention object recognition. If I see something that resembles a car, I know roughly what size I expect a car to be so based on the size it appears, I can reasonably estimate its distance from me. Of course this breaks down when objects don't meet our expectation in terms of size and can be the source of some interesting optical illusions.
Not really trust, but it's the local gang with the physical power and presence to operate conspicuously in the area.
> This was a liquidity issue for robinhood.

The only reason robinhood has liquidity issues is because of T+2 settlement.

I mean why should a broker app need to have liquidity at all. Why restrict the ability to make this type of business to companies with a lot of capital.
It's actually the other way around: Buffett followed Gates' lead on large-scale philanthropy, designating the Gates Foundation as the benefit of his largesse. Yes, each man had long-standing intentions for philanthropy, but it really reached fruition together.
Legality aside, imagine being an RH customer with a $300/shr position in GME locked in. Look where the stock is now, and where it's heading.
The issue with x86 is that instructions can be any length, and that their length is a nontrivial function of their encoding. This means there's an unavoidable sequential scan over, effectively, every byte of the input when doing decode. (This isn't implemented as a sequential scan like it would be in software.)

With RISC-V, compressed instructions are still 16 bit, and all instructions are 16 bit aligned. Further, the instruction length is fully determined by the first two bits in the instruction (11₂ for 32 bits).

For an 8-wide decoder, this means routing is fully determined by 15 bits, after a single AND reduction, this can be expanded early during a fetch pass, the worst case is an 8-way MUX for the last instruction, and even doing decode fully in parallel at every possible offset would at worst require interleaving eight 32 bit decoders with eight (much simpler) 16 bit decoders. None of that really matters a great deal since RISC-V is so trivial to decode.
You are right, re-reading the OPs post, it is not clear where they are located just that they work remotely. I a inferred more from that than was said.
Robinhood could start by arranging that when you withdraw funds from Robinhood, you get them in real time. Minutes. Naw. They settle cash on T+1.[1] Still, that beats PayPal.

[1] https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/Customer%20...
Is that in case he's still stuck somewhere in the purgatory with potential last minute changes to his itinerary?
OK So I cannot find the videos in question I have no clue if they were or were not flagged by algorithm and that mistake was fixed or if they were flagged on purpose. I also believe this article is click bait as heck.

I want to discuss what I've found out about ivermectin and why videos about it should not be flagged by an algorithm.

Ivermectin is being proposed by Dr. Kory as a preventative drug which reduces (in trials) rate of infection from COVID down to nearly zero. To that end he believes that this should be investigated as urgently or more urgently than vaccines. His reasoning is that this is a off the shelf drug that has not been disproven in any peer review so far.

To support that the NIH has changed their recommendation from

"The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel recommends against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19, except in a clinical trial (AIII)."

to
"The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) has determined that currently there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19."

Which can be considered a great indicator that ivermectin is gaining steam.

So, to treat the discussion of ivermectin as if it were some fringe group's conspiracy science, is ridiculous. We've thrown billions of dollars towards finding a vaccine, which is arguably a better long term solution. Dr. Kory's point is that we should be researching this treatment as quickly as possible to save lives today and let the vaccine save lives in the future. He's been saying this since well before the vaccines were a sure thing.

I'm not saying ivermectin is going to work. I'm saying it if it does work that we moved too slow in identifying it and we had evidence that it may have worked very early on.
Most countries do not settle in real-time, or even close to it.

Even ones moving towards it are still allowing 5 - 15 minute windows on settlement.
I think this is jumping the gun. Robinhood takes some fault yes, but why are people ignoring the DTCC/clearinghouses role in this?

It seems they raised deposit requirements potentially more than was standard. This needs to be investigated.

WeBull's CEO claimed their clearinghouse told them to stop selling these securities (no mention of deposit requirements). If they really weren't even given an option to deposit more, that seems to me to be an abuse of power by the clearinghouse.

Finally, was the DTCC not having the long side cover the risk on the short side? It seems to me, the vast majority of the risk was on the shorts. The short side seemed to be made up of mostly large hedge funds, so if one went down, it would have been extremely difficult for the DTCC to front the cash on all of their trades, and of course shorting has infinite risk. The long side was finite, was distributed among multiple brokers and then even more distributed among retail investors. It seems like the risk was low there.
Yeah maybe he should've worked a few more years to shore up his net worth a bit, a 50% drop in the market might force him back to work
That's actually insightful. Wish I'd known this early in my career. Often, I'll be doing a great job with no complains from peers or project deliveries but seemingly 'tolerated' and not liked by any management types as they had no influence, I just did what needed doing of my own accord. Or maybe I didn't need to know, ignorance was bliss.
WaPo has publicized quite a few articles critical of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, even after WaPo was acquired. So this is something that seems to be just another baseless "jeff bad" take.
I kind of agree. But without AWS, Amazon could never have become the Amazon that we know today. AWS brings in the vast majority of the profits (sometimes >100%) for Amazon, despite being a modest proportion of revenue (~10%).

This is what generates the funding necessary for Amazon to do the crazy things that make Amazon amazing. Amazon - AWS = digital Walmart. Big and profitable, but not Amazon.
I think he is totally doing this wrong, firefox has a zoom text option (that was the default years ago).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/font-size-and-zoom-incr...

That keeps the layout/images/etc the same, while bumping the font px/em.
Its easier to fight past injustice then current injustice..
It was the EU pushing for the Commission to negotiate even though it was clear the Inclusive Vaccine Alliance (IVA) composed of the four countries were planning to supply all member states. There are multiple sources on this deal including the official AZ press release, although the harsher criticism of the Commission's role is from Spahn as you say.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccin...

https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-s-vaccine...
We could probably eradicate a single cold virus if we wanted. The reason why we didn't is that there are a great many.

SARS-CoV-2 is nothing like influenza.

Technically, we could certainly eradicate this virus. It would take years, but it would be possible. It's just that it seems many countries just don't want to.
Replacing the surrounds on a driver is a thing that an amateur can do with the aid of a YouTube video, on the order of replacing a dishwasher but not as heavy or dangerous. It involves glue and being careful.

Replacing ear cushions is even easier than that: you order replacements, pull off the old ones and tug the new ones into position. It takes slightly longer than changing the batteries in a remote control, but much less time.

I have a 60W stereo amplifier from the 1970s that works and sounds great. I have an FM tuner from the 1960s of excellent quality.

I no longer have cassette tape decks, but I have a reel-to-reel machine from 1962.

There are speakers from the 1960s and 70s that are worth owning and using; there are lots from the 80s and 90s that are not.
That may have been an issue in some cases, but even if RH had all the money in hand, they aren't (if I understand correctly) allowed to use their customer's money as collateral. So, RH has to put up their own money as collateral, and it's tied up for two days. They apparently didn't have enough funds to do that, given the trade volume they were experiencing. Also, under normal conditions the collateral requirements would have been a lot less.
I remember in the late 90's when Amazon competed with Barnes and Noble (here in the US) to sell books online. An interesting fact that stuck with me about Amazon back then is they didn't use any crazy javascript or front-end emerging tech- it was really basic HTML that drove the website and shopping cart.

Their current logo, which smiles from A to Z (buy everything from A to Z!) hasn't always been the logo- as they started out just selling books with a vastly different image.

Here's an interesting journey through the logos:
https://www.freelogodesign.org/blog/2018/09/10/the-amazon-lo...
That's certainly controversial, but seems to avoid the major Hot Buttons Of Doom i.e. anything coded on (or insufficiently coded on) the officially important kinds of identity label.
Is this necessary? This article from 2008 seems to indicate that his sentence had been rescinded.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111230060902/http://www.telegr...

Also, it looks like he was convicted under the Holy Roman Empire, which doesn't really exist anymore. I'm not sure who there is to overturn his conviction.
You write dismissively of capitalism is my first note.

Capitalism isn't the boogie man people make it out to be. It's the optimization criteria for increasing financial capital over other forms of capital (natural, labor, etc), and corporatocracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
*on the web
Great interview with Bezos from 1997

https://youtu.be/rWRbTnE1PEM
Time to call Pontius Pilatus descendants to correct a historical mistake.
Well, he had the original pneumonia for weeks and it hasn't killed him, catches Covid and dies in 3 days. Must have been a coincidence. /s
Strangely, this news went under the radar: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n149 23 deaths in Norway, possibly from vaccine.
Well. Yes. It appears to be a fully functioning launch vehicle and just as reusable as its predecessors, don’t see much downside in making the landings more “interesting”. When they work out the dynamics of it then they really have something that will revolutionize launches
The lead that is a bit buried here is that AWS is so essential to Amazon now that it’s Amazon’s future is AWS not necessarily retail.
Yeah, he's just one health crisis from complete bankruptcy. What if he goes to the hospital complaining of a headache and they charge him $182 billion for an aspirin?
Sounds like Jeff Wilke felt a little bit left out?
As GameStop stock crumbles, newbie traders reckon with heavy losses
> It's only vmem though is the point

With 8M/4M/2M/1M/512k stack size, 4K page size, you get about 800M/800M/800M/600M/500M RAM usage, of which only 400M is usable, rest is overhead. At 16K page size, it's ~1600M. Compared to 200M if using 2K side-by-side stacks, in any configuration.

Yes, probably not too excessive, even though it is noticeable when you spawn theads for anything and everything, and run more than a single application on a non-SV-developer PC.

I think main problems start when you actually touch more than the base allocation of the stack (or just use 16K pages). Maybe segmented stacks grow from 200M to 300M, 500M or whatever you actually use at a given time (with say 20-60% efficiency), but your C-compatible stacks might go from 500M to 3G¹ if you on average touch just 32K of stack per thread with some unlucky function, even though at any given time only the same ~100M of memory actually stores useful information.

¹ or more, no idea how high it typically goes, but that in itself is a nasty gotcha, and a likely reason you won't find "lightweight" threading in combination with native per-thread stacks
I anticipate this comment will not go over well, as it seems I must just not see the truth that Bill Gates is a perfectly benevolent being who has ascended from human qualities

He’s not benevolent or lead a perfectly good life. But he decided to spend his billions on trying to improve the world and you all are still hung up on the anti trust things he did at Microsoft. Or think he’s doing it to “gain power and influence” or as a tax dodge.

You don’t have to forgive him. But stop coming up with weird conspiracy theories about why he’s spending his money and let go of the unscrupulous business decisions.
What are the incentives?

T+0 would enable the Robinhoods of the world. Are the big players and the regulators they've captured and the legislators they've paid for interested in enabling Robinhood et al. after the events of last week?

DOA.
a living wage (as defined by the internet's favorite vermont politician) is immiserating?
The Capote Tapes
Now I'm waiting to see how will Elon Musk insert himself into this news story. It's a matter of time, mark my words.

(This is a snarky comment that deserves to get downvoted, couldn't help it.)
You also get a better view of the road the higher up you mount the camera.
Pretty sure that was meant to mean "customer reviews" the amazon product. See also in the list: "marketplace" which I don't think they expect anyone to believe they invented either.
Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic
Why do you think it is mundane?
I think gp means that bezos would not be a mega billionaire without aws. He would be like any other nameless CEO in the public's knowledge.
A family friend is a bit of an audiophile and has been using his Stax SR electrostatic headphones since 1985. His sony amp is also from around the same time. My gran is still using household appliances from 30+ years ago, so it could be a generational thing or it could be because expensive items were better made. Bit of both perhaps
Some opinions about effective software development after 20 years
Ecma TC39: JSON Modules: Stage 3 Review
without AWS would Amazon have been able to dominate?
But the question is are you in the US or not? If you are in the US, the ADA may apply, if not, as a non-US citizen, it does not apply to you. There may be other laws that do apply, probably based on the contract or state the company is based in.
Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year
I'm excited that this will really accelerate the space race. I think his relative lack of attention paid to Blue Origin (compared to Musk and SpaceX) is why they've fallen so far behind.
Show HN: Jifhub – FF Extension for Markdown GIFs
I'm not sure that is true.

"evidence of things not seen" is just poetic language for "faith is the thing that bridges the gap between what you are sure of and what you aren't".

An assumption is an act of faith. Its a decision to accept something that you don't have proof of. The dictionary lists belief as a synonym for assumption.

I think the mistake many people make, including Christians, is in believing that faith is something other than choosing to accept as true what you can't prove. There isn't anything particularly mystical about faith conceptually. Its just that in religious circles faith is a much discussed component.
For comparison, using national total wealth, that makes Amazon worth more than Saudia Arabia, Denmark, Portugal, or New Zealand.

It's $280.5 billion in revenue in 2019 put it above the GDP of Romania, Peru, Ukraine, etc.

Corporations should never be allowed to get this large.
Is Robinhood an "industry leader"? T+0 settlement would be an enormous change. Is there any reason every other participant in the market would care what Robinhood thinks about settlement? They were just shown to be too small to participate fully even with their small slice of retail investors.
It gets worse. The transition from "programmer" to "architect" results after a few years with the architect losing track of where the rubber meets the road. This results in worse architecture decisions that are made by a similarly experienced programmer.

This effect is so strong that if you're interviewing someone who became an architect, make them write code in the interview. If they don't do it really well, you don't want them in ANY role. Because now they can't program, they can't architect. All that they can do is sound smart while they make bad decisions.
> This is quite simply nowhere near as hard as you're making it out to be.

I'm going to quote a (sarcastic) reply to another of your comments:

"This is easy. Just find a job that pays you $350,000 a year."

If you have plenty of wealth and income, then it's easy.

But then, if you have plenty of wealth and income, it doesn't really matter what you do.
> they raised deposit requirements potentially more than was standard

What is your source for this?

DTCC collateral requirements are calculated using, more or less, a fixed, predictable formula. And the DTCC isn't the ultimate creditor in these arrangements. They are drawing on lines of credit from banks, who are ultimately taking the credit risk of the collateral being insufficient for settlement.
Maybe some gyroscopic passenger seats that stay in one position relative to the ground so that they only feel g's going in one direction instead of being rag dolls.
Errr...both Sundar and Satya were software engineers first?
> when you realize the foregoing about free will is untrue and you really take the time to adapt your thinking to the understanding of free will being illusion. I assume you become more compassionate

You assume wrong. The most brutal totalitarian governments in history have been built on the same understanding of humans that you describe. So that understanding can go either way: it can make you more compassionate, or it can make you much less so.

Free will is best understood not as a "fact" but as a right. Every person has the right to make their own choices instead of someone else making those choices for them. And the most dehumanizing thing you can tell a person is that they are "destined by circumstances" (your phrase) to be in the situation they are in, instead of having the power to change it by the choices they make.

Sure, the power to make one's own choices is not unlimited. We can't choose to not be affected by gravity. We can't choose to be omnipotent or omniscient. And, most important, we can't choose how other people will make their own choices (more on that below). But that doesn't change the fact that people do make choices, and can change their situation by doing so. The proper role of compassion and charity is to help empower people to make better choices for themselves.

And the proper understanding of situations where some people are deprived of basic necessities through no fault of their own is not that it was just "destined by circumstances", but that other people made choices that created those situations. Trying to hand-wave that away and pretend that things like famines and homelessness are just accidents of nature, instead of products of deliberate choices made by particular people in power--the whole "how society is structured" that you slide by without really looking at where it comes from--only makes those problems worse.
Shouldn't it be able to do that much anyway? Considering potential conditions of highway speed and either heavy rain, snow or black ice... A brick is pretty big object and 150m can be quite close...
Maybe there's a little PR FOMO? The former Mrs. Bezos is making a name for herself as a very generous philanthropist [0].

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/mackenzie-scott-...
From wikipedia:

> Three Raptor engines, including SN49. SN9 has had one cryogenic proof test and six static fires. SpaceX attempted to fly SN9 on 28 and 29 of January 2021, but failed to receive permission from the FAA. During landing, one of the engines failed to ignite successfully, causing another hard landing that destroyed SN9.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship?oldformat=true...

This test was slightly shorter than the previous one (6 minutes, 26 seconds vs 6 minutes, 42 seconds)
Next launch is expected within February.
Also, there was an unusually large flame at the end of the liftoff. Maybe that already sealed SN9's fate.
Is there a simple tutorial or resources on how to get started ?
> Is that really an issue?

Setting aside the debate about separation of concerns. Yes, it has notable performance and UX implications.

> Users with NoScript will just have to live without some functionality.

Why should we prioritize OP's use case over that of NoScript users?
SSL/TLS-Decryption and the GDPR
For some reason, the BSDs never really developed as a rival to commercial server operating systems. Solaris, Irix, Windows NT, etc all seemed to exist pretty well even though BSDs were freely available. Then Linux came and ate everyone’s lunch.

Maybe it was the GPL’s requirements to contribute back changes that resulted in Linux rapidly developing a lot of capabilities?
> If one actually does their market research and figures out who their users are and what they want, one should be able to iterate just as quickly in i.e. golang or another compiled language with a healthy ecosystem.

That's the key thing. You don't know until you put people in front of what you're building, to understand if you're actually solving the problem. Or even if the problem you're aiming for is the right problem. Hence you want a non-verbose and simple program that is easy to adopt to changes you want to make. Verbose languages that enforces you to be very strict, doesn't allow itself to change as much as a non-strict one. You're right that it's more error-prone, as you don't have the same guarantees. But in the beginning of launching something new to the world, you are gonna need to focus more on what needs to change, rather than how correct something is.
Yeah - the man is 57, and at this point does NOT have to work anymore...probably for the rest of his life.

Looks like he still intends to run his philanthropies, Blue Origin, and the Post, but after the type of run he has had, he's probably taking some more free time while he's healthy.

I try not to fall into the "cult of personality" trap, but Amazon is where it is _because_ of Bezos, and it'll be fascinating to watch how the transition plays out with the Jassy era.