skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a bit confused by this. I went to college in the Midwest in the 90s (grew up in the Midwest) and to grad school on the east coast. I am agnostic, but my grandfather was a baptist minister and have other ministers in the family. I am a democrat. I was in the engineering school and started college with a lot of credits, so the only humanities/social science course I took was a junior level english class--so I can't comment on classes. But, I remember that people seemed quite willing to share Christian views. My roommate in grad school was a devout Catholic and we had several good debates in issues like abortion. I had another roommate who was a libertarian who also wasn't shy about his views. In college, I had friends that tried to convince me that the bible was consistent with evolution. My point is that at least in my interactions people seemed pretty comfortable sharing their views even if we disagreed. Has this changed in colleges (I don't work at a university)? Again, in classes I have no idea because it just doesn't come up in say a quantum field theory course or when you are learning analysis on manifolds. Even with coworkers, I had an officemate who was very pro iraq war and we debated a lot-- I also had him over for Thanksgiving dinner. Do I live in a bubble?
That does tell us something about the corporate structure though - whilst a lot of people think AWS would be better off being spun out, there's no way you hire the head of AWS as CEO of Amazon if you think that's the direction forward.
Thank you for your words. Mean a lot.
Listening to cbell rip someone apart in the weekly ops meeting while watching the #wtf peanut gallery whilst sipping my coffee are probably my fondest memories of working at AWS
"Not charging $5 per trade" implies that other brokerages such as Schwab, Fidelity, and TD Ameritrade — which haven't been penalized by the SEC — suddenly offered poorer order execution when they dropped their commissions, which by all accounts they did not. They all experienced declines in revenue.

What Robinhood did was to lie about their execution. They claimed their trade prices were as low as other brokerages, while in fact being much worse. SEC penalized them for (1) intentionally misleading customers and, in the words of the press release, (2) "failing to satisfy its duty to seek the best reasonably available terms to execute customer orders".

Unlike Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, and TDA all have popular real-time trading platforms where order execution quality is crucial.
Uphold to launch crypto-enabled cards across Europe
This was flagged, but I think mistakenly by people who think you're joking or taking a dig. The point is there weren't 70,000,000,000 people alive in Italy back then (or, you know, anywhere ever), so it is very likely that Dante shows up in multiple branches of this person's ancestry.
Is your assumption that ppl that aren't principals don't consider pitfalls.

No such assumption on my part. But it might be safe to assume that the better you are at questioning assumptions, avoiding pitfalls, and thinking of the big picture (think breadth-first vs depth-first traversal of the problem space), the more likely you are to advance to higher levels of responsibility.

Another example. Suppose you are adding a new field to your payment processing system. You have considered engineering pitfalls. How will that change affect other teams? What about other departments? Will Accounts Receivable suddenly have a 10x workload of invoices to chase because that field change wasn't considered in their workflow in all cases?

There's nothing magical about what senior vs staff vs principal vs whatever engineers do, it's the same skills amplified and applied to the benefit of many people across an org, rather than limited in scope and awareness to a single project.
The latency will be linear with the size of the JSON payload, and the constants will be tiny.
On the day the price was $350, I tried making a bunch of comments on HN to warn people this was a pump and dump. I got called a shill and downvoted repeatedly. Check my comment history. I hope those people got out in time.
What should kill Amazon is public protocols and fast cryptocurrency transactions.
"continued hostilities" -> "offline engagement".
They never went over the threshold because they turned off buying for the most volatile stocks.
Isn't YouTube Premium $11.99 per month?
Your claim of "0 data" is completely wrong. The original phase 3 trials already showed limited support for partial one-dose efficacy. (They even broke it down in their writeups! That's non-zero data!)

Observational reports so far on the tens of millions additional doses given (compared to a mere ~15-20K in phase 3 trials) is also suggestive of 1-dose efficiency. (Most recently, a retrospective study in Israel – the nation with the highest proportion of its population immunized – found 51% efficacy against "confirmed COVID" looking at just days 13-24 after a single dose – and that's in a world with far more variants than the original mRNA studies. It's reasonable to conjecture from other results that the efficacy would be even better later, and better against "severe disease".)

Plus, there's everything we can reason about from similar diseases & vaccines.

The reason to wait for 2nd-dose-plus-7d in study "primary endpoints" is to have a singular, legible, stark readout for rather-simpleminded regulatory processes. But smart people who live in the real world know the actual mechanisms are far more fluid/incremental, with immune processes starting immediately from one dose, then accelerating over weeks (even without a booster).
If you allow yourself to take the blame, and don't point the finger at th real culprit when asked you can't be surprised when no one accepts it when later you do.
FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra has also put out a statement [1], titled Regarding the Deception of Delivery Drivers by Amazon.com
Commission File No. 1923123

Some extracts:

> In total, Amazon stole nearly one-third of drivers’ tips to pad its own bottom line. ...

> ... Amazon executives chose not to alter the practice,
instead viewing drivers’ complaints as a “PR risk,” which they sought to contain through deception. ...

> Today’s order provides substantial redress to the families victimized by Amazon’s anticompetitive deception. However, this cannot be the only action we take to protect workers and families from dominant middlemen. ...

> I also agree with Acting Chairwoman Slaughter and Commissioner Phillips that preying on workers justifies punitive measures far beyond the restitution provided here, and I believe the FTC should act now to deploy dormant authorities to trigger civil penalties and other relief in cases like this one.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...
He rents big boats for holidays rather than owning one which the feature of being retired or semi-retired billionaire.
> I still remember when Amazon was only selling Books. People laughed

Did we? I just remember thinking oh neat and buying a bunch of books.
Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela’s Oil Wealth [video]
That's horrific. And the content is off center at full res so they can load their sidebar that well, isn't so much as off to the side as halfway into the center of the screen.
Hadn't heard the documentary story, thanks for sharing!

Were there any choices in the first few years that you think made a particularly big difference in setting Amazon up for what it is today? Anything you're particularly proud of that you did there?
I think calling your generic type 'Element' is a bad choice -- that's shadowing a built-in type (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element) and it makes the code confusing to read at a glance.

That's one thing I like about T, it's very self evident that it's just 'the' generic type. But maybe I'm just used to it. With multiple generic types I can see how longer names would be useful.
Ask HN: Is the Brain a Computer or an Antenna?
When building artificial intelligence systems, is it enough to consider consistencies at the atomic level as building blocks (computer), or do we need to dig deeper into lower level structures that might enjoy non-local interaction (antennas)?

(In my view the reality is made of onion like slices, each layer is made of feedback loops interacting together while preserving certain properties - invariants that are used for the next layer to build up higher order consistencies. Feedback loops develop and change over time due to disability to reproduce perfectly as they need to rely on a semi-stable environment - other feedback loops.)
Interesting, but if you really are enthusiastic about the pinephone than perhaps try to order another motherboard (I’m thinking about it because the older has only 2 GB of ram)
> they didn't use any crazy javascript or front-end emerging tech- it was really basic HTML that drove the website and shopping cart.

javascript didn't exist.

existing retail mail order couldn't deal with "almost in time" inventory.

there were no "web frameworks".

so it wasn't a choice to write it ourselves, it was the only possible thing to do.
Out of curiosity has it ever seemed to you that Amazon's success changed Jeff? Or has he always been largely the same person you knew from the start?
The negative public perception of AZ in the EU is independent of delivery issues. Those exist with most vaccine manufacturers as the EU did not introduce export controls.
How are you measuring the impact of waste.
Is writing dismissively of capitalism not OK? Can you make the argument that capitalism was and is always a force of good in the world? Is plutocracy considered a good and righteous thing?
Because someone will soon realise that "a successful corporation offers goods or services people want for less cost than competitors" is a great reason to introduce slave labour to increase efficiency. Gig economy without employment rights and stopping unions is just a step towards that.

Also "exhausts their budget every fiscal quarter and successfully demands more" applies just as much to corporate projects. And given we gov agencies rarely can solve the whole problem, why expect them not to exhaust their budget?
I think it's probably lost on a number of people who you are (even though you call it out).
John McCain: “After all these years... revenge!” (2017)
Nope. It's just a symbol of hope, that humanity can improve.
I find it surprising to see Robinhood leadership call for increased speed, when they haven't launched a public API...
Thanks for the candid comment :)

Also, hello mr famous internet person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davis_(programmer)
The US and the world really need an organized approach to pandemics and it needs to be free of political influence. Said work is going to require a lot of academic and government support. If Gates can bootstrap that, that would be a good legacy.
The projects that have a critical need probably aren't having developers banging on their door -- that is why they have the critical need. And as someone who can contribute, yes I can pick something I use and see what they need, but it would be nice to filter by language type, platform, job type, etc.

And as an open source project owner, I would like to find people willing to chip in without feeling "spammy" and firing off a mention at every remotely-related opportunity. (I also need to put together a detailed code map, data flow, and overall project philosophy statement, which ends up being another example of a "job" I would advertise for).
There were data centres before Amazon, but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference.
One example is a tree. We are looking at a forest.
You raise a great point. I did not like Gates the CEO but I deeply respect gates the Philanthropist. We can only hope Bezos turns out the same. I wonder how one could change the world with 130B dollars.
I think it's mainly a competitive & cooperative self replicator. The brain exists because previous generations did well. Do we need to infuse "antenna magic" into our brains, aren't they marvelous enough?

I found this video about open endedness (contrasting evolution vs optimization) in the brain and AI very inspiring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYGXYeMq_E
> Countries that have a supply of Pfizer/Moderna

I'm very excited that RNA vaccines are now a reality.

But the logistics for these RNA vaccines is much more difficult. Specialist freezers are required. Meaning it takes longer to vaccinate folk.
Adding support for fast settlement doesn't necessarily mean removing support for slow settlement. The customer placing an order could simply mark trades as "fast" or "slow".
Instead of downvoting, can anyone explain why they downvoted?
This is an excellent post. I wrote about the new landscape of the web [1] a few weeks ago and how responsive web design is a complete failure in addressing that.

There are so many fallacies!

1. Tablet != mobile.
2. Mobile != Watch.
3. Desktops can be in portrait mode.
4. EV Cars like Tesla Model 3/S are closer to tablet than desktop.

[1] https://bubblin.io/blog/the-new-landscape-of-the-web
SEC may come after you - be warned, there is precedent. For example here is one: https://www.seclaw.com/15messageposter92000/
I know you didn’t just use an image from a Twitter post as a source. This is coming from the guy who starts off his first rebuttal calling me “anti science”. Hopefully you can see the irony.
It seems extremely handy, but also a huge exposed surface. Can't find any mentions of security design, fuzzing, mitigation strategies...

Is it just paranoia, or should a "preview almost anything" application include inevitable exploits in its design?
Maybe it doesn't like the HN referer. Selecting the address in the address bar and hitting enter loaded the site for me.

Last time this made the rounds, a colleague found a guy squatting with his pants down in one of the green parks.

Edit: on 2nd look, you can't see his lower half, and the guy was probably just walking forwards. To find him: look at the white circle at the bottom of the panorama, if the words are oriented correctly (the red Shanghai symbol at the 12 o'clock of the circle), zoom in and follow the line from 12 o'clock "upwards" until you reach the La Tagliatella restaurant, the guy is wearing blue in the bushes between this building and the reflective tower to its left.
So you don't have any concrete examples, just broad topics that you have a vague feeling about?

I guess I am not truly human because I can't solve the halting problem in the general case. I'm probably also subject to Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Youtube is almost unusable without uBlock Origin or you have to call it Adstube.
An existential crisis for humanity is absolutely NOT the kind of climate that would cause humans to stop valuing a nation, a people, a culture, or their ancestry. I would argue that it is only the benign environment that most humans have enjoyed for the last 60 years or so that has caused these values to mean less than they always have.
Nope :) The joke was referring to the fact that the GNU Project (and thus the Bash project) insists on writing their documentation in the Texinfo format.

IIRC for a while they used to have man pages that basically said “just read the Info pages instead”. This is not the case anymore, in Linux distros these days even the GNU tools have decent man pages.

Anyway, the Bash manual is actually written in the Texinfo format. It’s not so bad, to be honest :)

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/
Avoiding type inference false-positives with flow-sensitive conditional analysis
How do you volunteer not to interact with a monopoly?

Not saying Amazon IS a monopoly. But a "nation corporation" would effectively be company scrip on a much larger scale I suspect
@93anthracite:

"I'm all for him not selling, but he still might want to get those symptoms checked out..."
Super risky.

Assuming he lives past 100, and gets zero interest/return on his ~200 billion net worth, he’ll need to somehow keep his spending below about a thousand dollars a minute to survive.

Sounds like real poverty to me...
There are JIT compiled languages as well, that could potentially utilize it
At this stage of cloud, all that's really important is revenue growth. GCP is only a quarter of the size of Azure and AWS - they need to gain market share regardless of how much investment it requires in the short term.
Incredibly grateful for what Bezos has built. I learned more in my 6 years at Amazon that I have in my 20 other years in the industry. And Amazon gave my autistic spectrum son a chance when literally nobody else would.

Thank you, Jeff.
It looks like Google Cloud made $13Bn and had expenses/losses of $5Bn i.e., net positive $8Bn. Why do you think it's losing money?
> either they sell the treasures (with also instant settlement) and then buy, or they could trade on margin backed by the securities.

Treasuries don't instantly settle or clear. They clear next day. We could discuss changing that, but it's about nine hundred times more complicated than overhauling the entire stock market.

> or they could trade on margin backed by the securities

This shifts the entire market's credit risk to the banks. Which banks love. (Getting away from that is why we built clearinghouses.)
> A female documentarian in Montreal just quit the industry over the institutional rejection of her work which focused on homelessness and happened to be mostly 'white men' due to requirements of diversity.

Homeless folks were white men in Montreal? How is that surprising?
> A corporation that didn't take its customers demands into account would be quite likely to fail.

Without a government to enforce monopoly rules, it'll just aggregate all its competition into one big blob, and you won't have any choice. Efficiencies of scale mean there's a natural pressure towards consolidation. The terminal state is always one blob that owns everything.

Once they do, they can smash any new upstarts, by undercutting prices, or by just buying them too.

> A corporation generally doesn't shoot dissatisfied customers.

Sure does shoot dissatisfied union leaders though [1] and enslave children to farm cocoa [2], and take down a democratically elected government kickstarting a 36 year long civil war [3]. Also substantially all of the trans-atlantic slave trade [4, 5].

These things were all allowed to happen because the governments in those respective jurisdictions weren't (and in the case of child slave labor, aren't) strong enough to stop them.

The idea that "a corporation generally doesn't shoot dissatisfied [people]" is a privileged western position to take based on the current system working pretty well. In places that have weak government, your statement simply does not hold.

[1] https://prospect.org/features/coca-cola-killings

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershe...

[3] https://www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons/pdf/historylabs/Guatemal...

[4] https://www.britannica.com/topic/East-India-Company

[5] https://dutchreview.com/culture/history/voc-dutch-east-india...
Spot the robot is reminding parkgoers in Singapore to keep their distance
(Reposting because it got deleted)

This is pretty neat. I like the positioning of a monitoring service for your data.

As someone who isn't a data engineer: How did you guys come across this problem? Is this something people have often?
Check out this post: https://daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy/

I really recommend his book Developer Hegemony, although it was very depressing and I haven't quite recovered a year later :D
It's definitely not absurd, even if they only deserve a share of the credit.

There's nothing absurd about the way Amazon and Apple defined cloud computing and smartphones. They deserve as much credit as anyone for the services / products we know today as cloud computing and smartphones. The version of the smartphone that took off in sales, took over the culture and has become a human staple globally, was entirely defined by Apple's iPhone. No other company did that, it was Apple, period. To not recognize them as the prime mover of smartphones would be absurd.
Until you consider that everyone is born into a quasi-feudal arrangement where they owe fealty and taxes to a country culture and government they didn't choose, and the only choices of leader are limited to those willing to climb the greasy pole of politics - typically self-selecting sociopaths.
He owns Blue Origin. He can literally go TO THE MOON if he tries. ;-)
The title of the document is "Employment Agreement" and the word "contract" is not anywhere in the 4 pages.

Then it says "THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is made as of the Effective Date, as defined below, by and between XXXX,XXX, a XXXX limited liability company (“Company”) and XX MY NAME XXXX (Employee)."

The paragraph request is

"[...] Employee agrees that any and all claims arising out
of or related to this Agreement, including its validity, interpretation, breach,
violation, or termination, shall be brought in the exclusive forum of the state or
federal courts governing XXXXXX, XXXXX XX[STATE]XX and pursuant to XXX[STATE]XXX
law. The Parties expressly consent to personal and subject matter jurisdiction in this forum. The prevailing party is entitled to payment of its costs, expenses, and
attorney fees by the non-prevailing party for actions, disputes, or litigation arising
out of or related to this Agreement. This Agreement is deemed to have been
negotiated, executed, and performed exclusively within XXXXXX, XXXXX XX[STATE]XX."
Completely agree; Robinhood seems to give us a new reason to distrust them each week.

The guy who allowed his service to store passwords as plaintext[1] says “There is no reason why the greatest financial system the world has ever seen cannot settle trades in real time.” -- pardon my fucking skepticism of the deep technical knowledge he must possess to make such a bold assertion

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/robinhood-stored-passwords...
One of the things underreported about Jeff Bezos is that he was a seed investor into Google. He tried to buy the company for $100 Million dollars, I wonder how our landscape would have been different if the merger went through. It will be interesting to see how his other projects payoff.
Do you have an up to date source on bezos owning the flying fox as that one is based on a tweet that was deleted and everything I've read since says that was false including a quick google search.

Also, I'm interested in how you think Amazon is too big to fail because I most certainly do not think they are.
I don't see any reason to accept either of those premises. Empirical evidence says you're 0 for 2.
They have 100% of his name. That is more important than biology to a lot of people.
I haven't communicated with Jeff for more than 20 years. His public persona seems largely consonant with the person I knew 27 years ago.
No, I did not. A theory may have includes the idea that the multiverse caused whatever it predicted, but that is not based on anything except the authors fantasy. It is exactly the same as arbitrarily saying god caused something in a theory, an unobserved event we can say has whatever impact on this universe we want without any proof.

edit let's use a concrete example. This thread is about the cosmological constant. I could easily say that concept is causes by multiverse influence on this universe, just as rightly I could say it's god's finger on the scales. Neither now have experimental data because I can say that.

further edit sorry, this is a bit stuck in my head. Look here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

Notice that it is labeled a hypothesis, and the theories that involve evidence predict a multiverse may be possible with these conditions.