skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

Rules have never stopped a "bad person" from doing something.
Rules aren't made to keep the "bad person out";
they're made to keep the "good people in".

I wish I knew who originated it. I can't seem to recall where I heard it now.
Because it matters to his descendants?
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I know that for me as a Dev Manager, 6+ hours of Zoom is mentally exhausting. I can't imagine kids handling it well...
> That would have made decoding simpler, though at a cost of worse density.

I presume because decoding is already plenty simple, but density always helps.
> Corporations should never be allowed to get this large.

Why?

Bonus question: Why should governments be allowed to get that big?
I think there’s a common misunderstanding about how tax write-offs work. If you donate x dollars, and your marginal tax rate is t, you end up losing x - xt dollars. That means you have less money than if you didn’t donate, even after accounting for the write-off. Arguments that somebody only donated money for the tax write-off usually don’t make sense.

Possibles exceptions to this include hard-to-value assets like art, where someone could potentially exaggerate the value by at least 1/t to defraud the tax authorities, but this doesn’t seem relevant to donating publicly-traded Microsoft stock. Bill Gates would be richer if he didn’t make these donations.
What is it you perceive that happened to MS? They appear to be doing well and are the top competitor to Amazon's AWS.
Socially: Because Apple is a monopolist that wants to force you to buy an Apple computer if you want to develop for iOS or send messages to iPhone users.

Technically: attaching to the iMessage network requires that you use the "trusted platform module" that Apple supplies, and signing code on XCode requires the same.

Just like in the 1990's, the "trusted platform module" is a function of the platform owner not trusting you, not a function of the platform owner not trusting criminals who want to rip you off.
I believe he's already met the burden of proof, there have been multiple minor studies that are peer reviewed and show a lot of promise.

At this point, there is a reason to believe he's correct. In the state of emergency we are in that's enough to throw a few million dollars at research to clear this up.

Also, the NIH has upgraded their recommendation from "Don't use ivermectin outside of clinical trials" to "there's insufficient data." which I translate to, we now need to peer review this.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-the...

EDIT: I may have gone too soft on the way that I say things w/r to scientific studies. They are never settled until. They can and should always be considered disprovable. The fact that I believe Dr. Kory has enough evidence to clearly suggest we need to dig deeper into ivermectin quickly, doesn't mean I believe that research will prove him right or wrong.
I do however believe it is completely worth the money it would take to potentially save lives if ivermectin does prevent COVID.
It will be interesting to watch how Andy Jassy as head of AWS (dealing with building out data centers, SW partnerships, API uptime, negotiating with Intel, designing Graviton CPUs, etc.) will be able to transition to such things as Prime Video content licensing discussions and goal setting for Whole Foods and the nuances of warehouse distribution labor disputes.

As a founder of Amazon - having built Amazon from nothing, Bezos probably had certain in-built persona and gravitas which probably helped with leadership talent acquisition and vision setting in all domains of the business universe. The opportunity to report to Jeff Bezos was probably a huge selling point - no matter what industry you were coming from.

Its interesting Amazon never attempted to give Andy Jassy a trial run as a public facing COO running both sides of the house.
So is it finally Day 2?
If it was a regulatory requirement, then they should have been put in to receivership immediately. Being unable to meet colleterial requirements means they extended credit beyond their means.
I don't want to be flagged here, so I avoided mentioning any of those. Rest assured that I didn't hesitate to correlate "low-quality people" or who should be given heroin instead of jobs with the appropriate visible markers.
Shipping books was/is one of the cheapest things to ship, as they need minimal packaging, and the USPS offers a special media mail rate. This allowed him to work out all the logistics behind the scenes, and then make incremental improvements to handle other products.
Then they should pay for a RHEL subscription. That includes personal support.
> Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple.

I like Apple, but there is quite a seam with the Jobs/Cook transition. That seam is the overly minimalistic industrial design patterns witnessed in the butterfly keyboard, vanishing ports, trashcan Mac, etc. They seem to finally be coming around on this.
I checked bestbuy.ca. Black is sold out, others are sold out in stores near me but available for online order.

Sounds like another success!
I think I'd prefer that as well. However it is easy to configure a modern shell for case-insensitive completion.
> Government, though.

Equities clearing and settlement is done privately:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_...

If the members of the DTCC want to have it done faster, they'll request it. There's been talk, but it involves everyone agreeing to it and changing their internal workflows as well AFAICT.
> Europe likes to think they are doing better than the US, but the truth is they are not very different.

That's a bit of an understatement. It's just ignorant nationalism if the numbers are often independently audited and widely available online. The US will probably have a higher death rate than the European average, with some countries faring better and a few worse, but will probably maintain its head start in vaccinations given the later rollout and supply issues in the EU. Hopefully, both sides of the pond will be back to full working order this year.
In some ways, this kind of plays out in iPhone vs Android.

Apple seems to default to push computation and data onto the device.

Google seems to default to push computation and data into the cloud.
> Corporations should never be allowed to get this large.

Ok, I'll bite. Why? It's not like there's some natural law against it, so you need to provide an argument for why you think they shouldn't.
> Pfizer to the elderly and AZ to healthcare workers.

With Pfizers (and Moderna) ~95% efficacy and AZ at 60% I would give AZ to only those that want to jump the line or as the last resort.

You don't want doctors to spread COVID (40% vs 5% that can spread is huge).

Poland wants to give AZ to teachers, a group that has contact with many children (which have contact with their families) - this is poor thinking. AZ should go to people that don't have much contact with others, e.g. unemployed or volunteers.
> More diversity means more chance of surviving catastrophes, whether they're physical, biological, or memetic.

It increases survivability against localized disasters but it remains to be seen whether that holds for the overall survivability of an interstellar species. All it takes is one demagogue on one planet with relativistic projectiles and a generations old grudge to wipe out most if not all of human civilization.

Sure it'd take decades/centuries for the weapon to strike and the demagogue and his followers would be dead by then, but that doesn't really change anything for humanity's chances. For bonus points, this demagogue exhausted his planet's resources by building an arsenal of tens of thousands of projectiles - enough to hit every potentially habitable world in colonization range (which is always going to be lower than the reach of aforementioned projectile due to pesky life support) out of spite.

Sound familiar?
I imagine he's pretty burnt out of running the day to day. Time for something new after 2 decades. Love or hate Amazon it has been a force on the planet.
I'm at 10 years with my Ultrasone Signature Pros and they look and function just like new. Of course they're not wireless and don't have a DAC built in so there's very little to go wrong, but despite being a person that upgrades my phone and laptop frequently - I don't see myself replacing them for another 10 years - they're pretty much perfect audio quality and comfort wise.
Out of all those things the only two uniquely amazon are cloud computing and fast shipping.
I really wish billionaires would focus on fixing this planet before worrying about others. But I guess many of them consider a planet a resource to be exploited.
Hypothetically, you could imagine that a long voyage might need a decent Netflix library, and that new media production might not be feasible en route -- perhaps this would help maintain a common language?
Absolutely no offense to OP here, but my experience with Cardano is that it appears to be a trap for moderately smart people who don’t have time to read cryptocurrency whitepapers all day.

Staking is nothing new, smart contracts are nothing new. The thing that Cardano does well is strong signaling that it’s inclusive, and based on research.

However, that’s somewhat begging the question. Their serious competitors are just as inclusive and largely just as based on legitimate research! There are a lot of low grade scammy coins out there, but claiming you’re doing better than them is not an accomplishment.
Nope. I'm curious about the clearinghouses (DTCC). Robinhood explains the general process in a post from 4 days ago [1].

It would be great to see more details for the DTCC's increase in the amount of required collateral. I tried Googling for some info but didn't find much (probably haven't tried hard enough yet) ex [2].

Naively, what we saw was a failure of the financial system to support trades. It may not be Robinhood, but it may not necessarily be T+2 either.

Is there a website I can use to query the current deposit requirements for GME? Is it public info? Are there details provided for factors affecting that amount that can be compared across different stocks?

I'm a total noob please forgive my noob curiosities :)

[1]: https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/1/29/what-happened-this...

[2]: https://dtcclearning.com/products-and-services/settlement/se...
Lots of people seemed to appreciate Alan Turing (and lots of other people) being pardoned for something that should never have been a crime in the first place. Basically, it's a very concrete sign of how we want our society to be now.
Whether this is satire or serious, I love it.
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It does clamp text at some max width. If you have a couple 1440p monitors try stretching the browser window across screens.

Its actually one of those cases where the old news print model of multiple columns would work well, but that is much harder than it should be with CSS, so pretty much no one does newsprint style scrolling where you read all the columns and then scroll to the next set.
I mostly agree but I also think AWS is probably more in the public consciousness than most people would think (in the US anyway). They have TV advertisement slots with NFL for crying out loud. That said, most people probably don't actually know what it is, just that they've heard of it.

As "cloud" and "AI" become more and more accepted generic terms for technology to the public and I think AWS may even over take the PR position.
We are walking peacefully without looting and riots. Authorities decline any attempt to get permission for peaceful demonstration which allows them to justify police violence. Situation is pretty grim.
If you support multiple DPIs then that will always be an issue, regardless of what display server you're using.
Vanguard’s app works fine for me.

Sure it’s not gamified or meme-ready but maybe “investing your life savings” as a category shouldn’t be?
“probably”?
I've used BTRFS on my laptop for a while and it was working fine. In my use case, however, I ran into trouble because I was constantly near the edge of filling the file system so I very often needed to do rebalancing and other tricks to claim more free space. It was a bother, but it beat spending $150 I didn't have on a 512GB SSD at the time.

For modern systems with normal use cases (i.e. not mine back then), I don't foresee a lot trouble. I went with encrypted ext4 because that was included in the installer during my reinstall, but I wouldn't change the settings if the installer had defaulted to BTRFS.

There's a lot more tooling out there for debugging ext4, but honestly, I never really missed anything when I still used BTRFS. The lack of tools makes data recovery harder in case of a complete failure (always make backups, no matter what file system!) so I wouldn't use it in a production server, but for a desktop or laptop OS I don't really see the problem.

Using Timeshift for snapshot management as a way to sort-of emulate Windows' system restore is kind of neat and got me interested in trying it out again next time I'm reinstalling Linux. Last time I didn't have the space for snapshots, but now I do and it solves a problem I've had before (quick and easy backups after modifying system config) with ext4-based installs.
"...probably for the rest of his life."

Ya think?
> at this point [he] does NOT have to work anymore...probably for the rest of his life.

that was already true a long time ago, you don't need to be one of the wealthiest people on the planet before you don't have to work anymore.
Yeah GP is unlikely to answer
Reading right after the end of your quote: "... Second, the monopolist must have used its power in a prohibited way. The categories of prohibited conduct are not closed, and are contested in theory. Historically they have been held to include exclusive dealing, price discrimination, refusing to supply an essential facility, product tying and predatory pricing."

Unfortunately for the prosecutors, the big tech companies have abused their power in ways that couldn't have existed in the past, so they will have to set precedents in these anti-trust cases - but the law does allow for prosecutors to claim that Google's behavior is abusive by the _spirit_ of the law. I hope they do a good job, because we'll need these precedents for the next few decades.
> 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.

Or maybe we should convince a larger swath of humanity to unite behind an idea larger than "nationhood" or "my country".
Apple under Cook is a juggernaut. I'm not sure why you would use Apple as an example. Same with MS and Satya. You could argue MS floundered with Ballmer.
Wasn't Netflix the first?
Bezos's net worth was $12 billion after Amazon's IPO in 1997. Him and a dozen generations after him would be set for life on that much wealth. Whatever the reason for stepping away might be, it's definitely not money.

As a company Amazon is definitely too big to fail at this point. Its fate will probably be like Google's after Page/Brin/Schmidt stepped away. In the worst case it will start to fade away in another decade or two.
The retort to your bonus question is that the government doesn't get to "spend" its GDP. Although the counter-retort is to bring up government revenue instead, where Amazon instead slots in between Mexico and the Netherlands.
Three of the four have engineering degrees and have previously worked as engineers. Maybe having an MBA on top is not a bad thing to run a trillion-dollar company?
If RH is eventually found to have stopped trading on GME in purpose to manipulate the price then sure let the SEC draw and quarter them. But RH wouldn't be so severely punished for having downtime and this is basically that.
Yes, that's why I said you can have the display server dump it to a file. No protocol support is needed for that.
Let's start with the premise that "representative government is the union of the people" and "profit motive is not always the best incentive for action in society", and go from there.
Wait are you serious Tesla isn't even doing stereo vision? I don't know why I charitably assumed that they were
Spending too much time around other developers.

In the current environment, E-commerce is a less interesting space for startup founders vs. cloud SW.
This led parent commenter to assume the cloud is more important than E-commerce.

This is a fallacy, of course, since E-commerce is probably the largest / most important market on the internet, it just doesn't FEEL that way b/c Amazon has an unprecedented control over nearly the entire thing.
Kredis definitely seems like something I will give a go very soon. The DSL/API looks well thought.

As pointed out on Twitter, redis-objects is an older alternative https://github.com/nateware/redis-objects
Not completely, they have the right to add charges. Take a look at this tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/13551753956420...

It seems that they used this right by the fact that Robinhood was able to negotiate their deposit [0]. The DTCC demanded $3 billion. Robinhood negotiated down to $1.4 billion. If done by the formula, how is this possible?

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/elon-musk-on-clubhouse-robin...
Very interesting, but how is this different than existing players like Rolling Energy Resources, FlexCharging, Smartcar, or EV ENERGY?
He has bought a new 0.5 billion dollar boat this year.
https://themarketherald.com.au/magazine/the-pursuit-of-comfo...

Bill gates is still renting.

What do you think he was going to do with all that cash.

After few years he will review his life after vacationing becomes dull for the workhorse.
I would say in terms of anti-monopoly, that there is some natural cutoff that companies are forced to split. For instance, AWS and Amazon can easily be two separate companies as the missions and revenue streams of each are vastly different.
Zero commission trade is actually bullshit anyway. You end up losing more from inferior execution time than you would if you just paid the $5 per trade. Robin Hood also lied to users about this and ended up paying a $65 million fine[0].

[0]https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321
It has 1.3 million employees and employs a great deal more through its distribution partnerships, sellers using Amazon storefront and so on. The amount of folks who rely on Amazon for their living is probably comparable to some of those countries you listed.
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With his wealth he doesn’t need to work anymore since a long time. See e.g. here: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

In my opinion there is hardly a justification or a _need_ for an individual to own billions. But I think we haven’t found a good way to redistribute money, apart from billionaires self-pledging to give their wealth away.
Replace probably with "there's a chance" he won't have to work for the rest of his life....

Assuming he has managed to figure out how to live forever ... at some point this wealth would get depleted.
All English speakers share a common writing system, but if you compare, say, the Scottish highland dialect with African-American Vernacular English, you get close to the point where the two variants could plausibly be considered different languages. Given time and distance the variants will only diverge further. Also notice how having a common Latin written language didn't prevent the various Romance languages from developing in Europe.
If you really want to keep this issue going you should talk to a lawyer, but just for what it's worth (I'm not a lawyer) them "knowing" probably doesn't matter as much as whether or not you asked for specific accommodations for your communications problems, disclosing to them the medical reason for asking for them.

There's a lot of reasons to think this is a long-shot:

(a) You're non-US and abroad, so the ADA doesn't apply to you

(b) You're probably a contractor and not an employee

(c) Even if it applies, the ADA doesn't make it unlawful to fire you for poor performance

I think it's worth talking to a pro about this, but it's not worth spending a lot of money pursuing it, mostly because of (a). If you were a US resident, I'd say (b) and (c) are hurdles low enough that you could plausibly shake a settlement loose, but (a) is a very high hurdle.
Neither have to be that big. If something's going to be so big and pervasive into people's lives though, then I'd rather be able to have a democratic say in a government than the Shinra Electric Power Company.
I'd advocate for doing the flip on three engines for the added redundancy, then hovering for a second or so before landing; at least for passenger flights.
But "When people invest" - This isn't investment behavior. This is speculation and most likely simple addiction to gambling behavior they drive and incent people to do.
Apple is doing quite well under Cook. Same with Google under Pichai. Microsoft had some pains during the Balmer years, but I think that's partially due to the anti-trust suit making them gunshy and Balmer being a generally poor choice as a tech CEO, but they are doing very well with Nadella.

I expect Amazon to be as ambitious as ever. Though, I am slightly afraid of a shift in focus towards AWS over retail. But I suspect Jassy's selection had to do with fears that a pick from the retail side may see Jassy as a threat and may seek to undermine AWS in an effort to keep him in check.
All of that and he’s probably exiting because he’s jealous of Musks’ success.
Indeed, it must be one of the compute units available on the newer Apple processors. My iPad Pro 2nd gen also doesn't support it. I really hoope that they upgrade the Apple TV to support spacial audio soon. It really is a nice feature. Also, Mac support would be great. The bigger the screen, the more likely you are watching movies on it.

While they are at it, Apple finally should properly support homepods on macOS. They still aren't shown as pairs - at least on Catalina.
MS completely missed on mobile phones and tablets, despite trying so many times at it. The “Windows everywhere” approach prevented them from doing what really had to be done (make something new for these new devices). That was all under the Ballmer era.

It’s only now that they have a new CEO who is happy to pursue other approaches that they have been able to start going in a better direction again.
What do you mean by "get this big"?

Governments aren't defined by a market cap, but rather by the services they provide to their citizens.

Consider that a private company's only goal is to enrich its shareholders, and they have no responsibility to the people or places around them. They are only accountable to their shareholders and the government.

A governments responsibility is solely to its citizens who also control it by vote.

The bigger your biggest companies are, the more powerful your government must become to keep them in line - to ensure they don't break the rules. If you want a small government that is able to retain order and fairness, you must also limit the size of the companies within its purview.