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> Corporations should never be allowed to get this large.

Make your case instead of dropping your groupthink everywhere. Why? And: What is the maximum size a corporation should be allowed to grow? Who gives that permission now?
Amazon is amassing money by transforming the world and increasing efficiency. Everyone is richer, it's not a zero sum game.
In the U.S. the Federal Reserve is already planning to support it. Thread discussing it from a few days ago.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25982987
Love seeing these tests for two reasons:

1.) Experiencing history in the making, especially knowing that the SpaceX team will eventually get it right.
2.) Realizing that even the best of the best have repeated failures and need to rely on iteration to get "there."
I'd say AWS + first-party products and services (Prime Video, Echo, Kindle, Grocery delivery). I can definitely see their pure retail business take more and more of a back seat as time goes on.
Hopefully he has enough saved up in his 401k, his situation may be better on traditional 401k vs roth.
There's not a whole lot different practically. The big thing being that PowerPC32 is basically free for a PowerPC64 design, but 32 mode is pretty costly for an arm64 design.

Oh, and the PowerPC MMU format is famously terrible, and even the new fixed version is somehow still awful.
Checked C appears to be a relatively recent research project from Microsoft[0][1], so I'm not sure that FreeBSD would be terribly keen on refactoring around it. There have also been many "safer C" languages before, so the only advantage that the paper offers is that Checked C seems to have a higher degree of backwards compatibility. I suppose that would allow the implementation/refactoring to gradually occur over time, rather than requiring a herculean initial effort.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/

[1]https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc
And here is the video from 1999 [1] showing his obsession with customer which is why customer support is in the DNA of Amazon

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxwjzVW7z5o
It is possible that some prefer single-sex days, but I suspect it mostly in concept rather than practice. The increase violence between visitors (both on days with only women and days with only men) and the significant increase noise levels tend to be a bit off putting for a spa-like experience. But then obvious there are individuals who enjoy doing this or it would not occur in the first place. There is also for some reason a significant increase in smuggled in alcohol during single-sex days.

That was likely not the intended goal of the politicians who advocated in favor of this, but its a strange consequence of the exception to allow discrimination in this case.
> A fair comparison would be the data of today in EU with the data from 1 or 2 months ago in those countries (per capita).

Why is this a fair comparison? Was the EU frozen in time for 1-2 months last year during which they couldn't respond to the virus?
Researchers are developing IQ tests to assess AI
> Amazon is amassing this money by NOT spending it on the economy.

Quite incorrect on this point, Amazon has pretty small cash reserves compared to peer tech companies. Even then, if Amazon were merely putting that money in the bank, where is it going? It's getting loaned out to other companies and consumers, who are spending it, investing it, etc via fractional reserve banking.
Gob's not on board.
"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. "

Why does the government needs to be big (in size?).

It just needs to be strong enough and really connected to its people it represents. Then also a very small country (with a small government) can set up and enforce clear rules on multinational companies, doing buisness within that country.

The rules just need to be simple. If they are complicated, it just means, those with the best lawers will win and they are usually working for the corporations.
I just thought of a new concept. I call it 'monopoly'. I'm going to write a book on it and sell it on Amazon.
They had about 35,000 employees at the beginning of 2011. We struggle to hire a handful of developers per year :D
First, it was 33 people out of around 50,000 elderly and vulnerable people who were vaccinated. Your source is outdated.

Second, it went under the radar because it's probably not attributable to the vaccine. The people who died were over 80 and already extremely frail with pre-existing conditions. They either died from those conditions or from their inability to cope with the mild side-effects of the vaccine, which everyone already knows about. Death rates in Norway are well within the historical range, so it's fairly likely that there were no excess deaths caused by the vaccine at all.

Their dying after having the vaccine does not mean they died because of the vaccine.
> I don’t think motivated devs want to go home at 2pm.

I can understand the attitude when one's in their twenties, has no significant other, kids, or other commitments.

Me? I just get tired. I'm very motivated and like what I do, but at some point, it's just silly to stay behind the screen. And sometimes, that point is even earlier than 2pm. That's ok. We aren't machines to be working like a Swiss watch.
Unreadable site.
Why not a flat curve + EQ?
Maybe things have improved over the last several years, now that systemd is fait accompli. Earlier on in its life I recall discussions of GNOME features that would only work on Linux+systemd, and the BSDs were complaining.

But the point remains that, even without any ill intent, the lack of competition and compromise can produce outcomes that look like malice -- people gradually get used to making decisions that go unquestioned, and unwittingly walk all over everyone who no longer has a voice in the discussion. This pushes more people out, and the cycle of the tail winning against the dog repeats and continues.
Ah ok, I guess that's good in a way -- it's low enough that it's not worth any reasonable person's time to write a valid patent just for the bonus.
Live Earnings Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O45kGgcbR8s
If you happen not to have seen it, "How Not To Land an Orbital Rocket Booster": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ from SpaceX.
Anyone who is long any stock has an incentive to encourage others to "not sell", whether the stock is going up or down. (The pump-n-dumpers are still incentivized to "pump" all the time, even while they're dumping.)
> Corporations should never be allowed to get this large.

This is partly why I left Google.
I'm not sure you're making the point you're trying to make. My point was that I very rarely come back to a game to replay it. 37% of games going unplayed on Steam is orthogonal to that point, at best.
What are you hoping for? Someone to drop down and teach you how to do everything on wayland? I have no idea how to do keyboard automation on X11 but that says nothing about X11. This is the problem the post is talking about. Every single thread about wayland is filled with “but it can’t do Y” when it is possible to do Y.
A straightforward conclusion would be that you are spinning that data really hard to try to make it support your narrative.
Yup health insurance is particularly expensive for older Americans!
CNN: “Watch John McCain prank CNN reporter” (2018) [video]
I have not been. It seems to constantly forget my fingerprint.

Nor does it have a particularly nice UI, unlike Robinhood. That might be a plus (doesn't gamify it) but it is an inferior UI.
There is also minimal data that parachutes are better than placebo for people who jump out of planes. This situation needs wartime thinking, not peacetime proceduralism.

What you're saying is that we must assume the worst case, that the FDA-approved vaccines are like 2-pack epoxies: that first doses give 0% immunity, and all the efficacy comes from applying the second. That seems completely absurd.
Merrill Edge is ugly but quite functional and featured on iOS. Same with Schwab. I don't need the "millennial" UI experience when moving thousands of dollars. And that's not to say it doesn't have value - I love it for many things. I'm a happy customer of Warby Parker, Brooklinen, Joybird, and Lemonade to note a few, all of which offer slick UI's and a bit of markup for a "just works, simply" experience. I much prefer ugly/clunky yet working correctly and not fucking me over randomly with bugs when it comes to major financial stakes.
1302 to today, that's 36 generations. 2 to the 36th means his descendants today have 1 / 70,000,000,000 of his genetic contribution.

I'd say they don't have legal standing.
Disagree on Sundar.
Was it camera angle that made it appear to be so perfectly flat (top and bottom of rocket at same altitude) when it was in free fall or was that actually the target free fall orientation?
I don't expect ostracism because I don't get ostracised. I expect to be listened to and it happens because people in real life like listening to me.

I suspect lots of people are just expressing views no one is eager to debate because they're uninteresting.
I found "This New Ocean" by William E. Burrows to be a rather good account of the first space race, as it covers both sides in an equal amount of detail.
I will also add the constant aggression by the scorching sun of Southern Italy. Why do you think they’re supposed to be full of antioxidants and other healthy nutrients? Coincidentally for your consumer pleasure, or did the plants evolve them to survive weeks upon weeks of implacable 40C temperatures and a flood of UVA-B.
The article is correct to point out that in case of no process measurement, politics, not results, will start to dominate.

Measuring process inputs will favor Sisyphean work. Appearing to be working, hours punched in and butts-in-seats will be more valued than results. Many companies are stuck in here.

Measuring proxies of outputs such as lines of code, or number of tickets closed, as the article mentions, only leads to people gaming the system.

Measuring the actual value delivered is obviously the best thing to do. However it is often difficult to even define value and the amount of it created. Which is always a problem especially for inhouse projects or in the absence of direct contact with the market.

I like what the article suggests - measuring process flow instead of measuring inputs or outputs. Can't say exactly why I like it but it seems that engineer types are naturally motivated to perform and learn, so giving them enough space is a good way to get working systems as a side effect.
How are all of you reading this article? I get a paywall.
It's interesting to see how classic MSDN documentation from the 90s is structured quite literally like this.

- xxx: One to two paragraph introduction

- About xxx: Generally explanation

- Using xxx: A bunch of how-to's

- xxx Reference: (id.)

The Tutorials quadrant is notably (and noticeably) absent and is what was then supplied by so many other places.
I agree with almost everything except that to say that famine and homeless can be caused both by human choices and accidents or events outside of human control.
Without bothering to stoop down to the ignorance in your comment, they didn't compare them to countries. They stated that it wasn't a singular effort, which is factually true as far as I can tell and refutes something you said.
Fedora Loves Python 2020 report
While regular consumers may not know what AWS is, Amazon's core business was able to sustain losses for 10+ years only because of profits coming from there.
At least 126 technicians and cosmonauts were killed by accidents during the Soviet space program. It’s rumored that additional cosmonauts died on missions that the Soviets covered up.
I thought the screen was just loose. Had no clue it was a button.

Granted I only tried one unit.
I vomited into my mouth a little
All those short seller that jumped in Jan 27 and later are making money hand over fist.
Jeff is a man of contradictions. I’ve heard him micromanage to the level that individual AWS launch pages were reviewed and approved by him; so were the choice of databases (oracle vs MySQL) and SOA. At the same time, he gives extreme leeway and time for product teams to prove their mettle. The general assumption is you have 7 years from start to profitability. It’s a long time by tech industry standards. (Just look at Google).
If companies like Robinhood don't come along, how do you think disruption in the financial market will happen? If we always go back to the existing players, rate of innovation will be so slow (especially in the financial market). And it's obvious that startups will not have the same amount of assets that century old companies have. But JPMorgan or BofA did not earn their trillions overnight. In fact, we can even say they have screwed over more people than Robinhood has.

I am not trying to say what Robinhood did was correct or that they have not done any mistakes. I am just saying that I am glad that companies like Robinhood exist because otherwise the entrenched players would have never taken any steps to innovate.
>> 4. Don’t just seek architectural consistency

I don't know what the author has in mind, but I plainly disagree when stated as a general rule like this.

Examples:
Try to get every server on the same OS by default, same packages, standardized networks, health check at the same path, prefer the same port, deployed with standard jenkins jobs, use a standard versioning scheme, use the standard branching model, standardize logging, standardize error-handling, standardize datastores, use standard login/security.
I’m not sure if I’d call that a landing.
It's equivalent to a lot of different sentences. Any given market has a maximum size, so if you want to limit the size of a corporations' market share, you are absolutely limiting "what services they provide and to how many people". Or are you totally for monopolies?
Replacement for the worn-out 8GB eMMC is a 64GB eMMC, not an actual software fix to spammy logs being committed to flash, never to be read from. So it will still die, just take 8x as long...
The more time goes by, the more I value what I learned from Peopleware (DeMarco, Lister) 20 or so years ago. It seems so clear, precise and uncluttered compared to modern efforts.
That seems totally fair, thanks for your response. If the core is powerful thx to the choice of tech while plugins can be contributed easily then it sounds like a great plan !
You think T+2 is a form of regulatory capture? Any type of regulation that makes it easier for retail to lose their money would be welcomed.

When things were delivered by horse, it was T+14, we are now down to T+2 for stocks and bonds (mostly anything related to private industry), T+1 for options and government stuff, and T+0 for futures. Everything is pointing at eventually everything being T+0.

I'll repeat, Robinhoods are welcome, especially if they do dumb things like this GME debacle. I expect the big players to lobby for relaxed margin requirements so that they can let retail lose their shirts like the 1930's while they profit by taking the smarter side of trades and insulate themselves by letting the Robinhoods fail in case of market failures.
But the U.S. has sent 3x as many citizens into space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_nat...

So combining with your statistic the U.S. has a fatality rate of 4.4% versus Russia's 3.3%. Given the low N it's probably within margin of error.
I have no such intention, I was merely rephrasing what they said:

> But I find the fonts slightly too small at that resolution – given how far I sit from the screen.
i have a vanguard account with most of my investments, with like 10% in robinhood for gambling.

the way i think about it is vanguard works fine (theres some bugs but not end of the world). but it is not optimized for timed trades. it works well enough for me to put in a big chunk of money on a recurring basis or liquidate funds for use elsewhere.

robinhood allows me to easily trade off of market emotion or do options trading.

they serve two very different markets. if i tried to trade options using vanguard i'd probably want to throw my phone against the wall.
I think their point was that if you want fonts to be bigger, there are settings to do that. (or should be even if the world isn't perfect yet) Same to a lesser extent for other ui features.

In reality, as of today, so far, neither desktops nor apps are that good where you can have the display set at it's correct native resolution, while having buttons, menus, icons, text, window controls etc all scale to preference.

But saying that that's what should happen rather than lie to the software about the hardware, is not agist or ableist.

I think the point was simply that fundamentally, lying to the software about the hardware is always inherently doomed to produce some form of incorrect result, and when it does, it's not the tech's fault for failing to second-guess, work-around, and essentially thwart your actively dishonest misconfiguration.
Absolutely. I could see him shifting more in the Gates or Musk kinda life, funding more fun projects or philanthropies. Not gonna lie running Amazon after 20 decades probably isn't as fun as running an aerospace company or other pet projects. He probably has lots of ideas he wouldn't mind throwing money at and investing in.
They're definitely going to need to inspect it for damage, but it does seem odd not to be THAT close
> DTCC collateral requirements are calculated using, more or less, a fixed, predictable formula.

"Less" might be accurate, given there's apparently a subjective multiplier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7X2dsW_Xw&t=5m25s
Ah, yeah, StackOverflow is kind of a beast of its own.
I don't know if your assumptions are true[0], but..

Maybe because UFOs were invented in the USA - it was a craze/hysteria started in 1947. After Kenneth Arnold said he saw flying saucers that year near Seattle, people started seeing them everywhere.

"Arnold's account was first featured in a few late newspaper editions on June 25 ... Starting June 26 and June 27, newspapers first began using the terms "flying saucer" and "flying disk" (or "disc") to describe the sighted objects. ...

In the weeks that followed Arnold's June 1947 story, at least several hundred reports of similar sightings flooded in from the U.S. and around the world—most of which described saucer-shaped objects. A sighting by a United Airlines crew of another nine disk-like objects over Idaho on July 4 probably garnered more newspaper coverage than Arnold's original sighting, and opened the floodgates of media coverage in the days to follow.

Bloecher collected reports of 853 flying disc sightings that year from 140 newspapers from Canada, Washington D.C, and every U.S. state save Montana. ... The most famous UFO event during this period was the Roswell UFO incident, the alleged military recovery of a crashed flying disk, the story of which broke on July 8, 1947."

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

[0] i.e. Before asking Why are X mainly from Y? make sure that X mainly are from Y. Even if they are, maybe doing so will answer your why question.
A dandelion can either be a weed or part of a salad. It's a matter of context.

> You can call it subscription based, you can also call it user lock-in or remote killswitch.

If you stop paying for your gym membership and your access card gets automatically revoked, do you consider that to be some kind of physical instantiation of malware?
When I took a programming class a student sitting next to me introduced me to Linux. I was like "what is that?" I honestly thought these kinds of machines were just in the movies. I loved how it boot in a black screen, text scrolling, and there was a penguin. Unlike today, there was no Ubuntu. I didn't have wireless at home.

It took a while to get Disks burned to install. I had struggles moving back and forth between two machines across rooms to look up "help" documentation from the internet. When it was all installed, nothing worked. Network cards, sound, etc. When my network card worked, it felt like heaven. When my screen resolution was fixed (x11 settings), felt like heaven. Repeat.

He had asked, do you really want to learn how it works? I said, yes, let's start there. I was very confused with all the Linux variants so he recommended one. Now I look back and unsure that is where I should have started. L.O.L.
> And even if it doesn’t kill them, we don’t yet know what long term effects the virus may have on children who contract it.

We will never know that. 10 years from now, people could still be saying "there might be some terrible thing lurking that just hasn't shown up yet!" We're well over a year out from when some of the first infected children recovered, it's time to start ratcheting some of our ideas of this unknown risk down. Also, we have no better idea what long term effects the vaccines may have, but everyone is champing at the bit to assume that risk.

The harms of social isolation and screen learning, on the other hand, are well understood and being inflicted on great masses of children, far more than will ever have a serious symptomatic case of Covid.
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My late friend, Lloyd Smith used offer a service where he split the DC power bus and added a second power supply to S-100 systems, because the stock power supplies were undersized for a full card cage.
Previous discussion, currently #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26006656
I mean, that's not what I said at all, and then I see you're breaking out the old 'taxation is theft' sawhorse.

Personally I'm a 'taxation makes civilization possible' man myself, and I find that the 'taxation is theft' people rarely make meaningful contributions to society.
From what I can divine they have a front facing nearfield and a front facing farfield camera. The rest of the cameras are spread all over the car.
Itanium's problem I know pretty well.

The idea of scheduling parallelism in the compiler (VLIW) doesn't work for mainstream workloads because the time it takes for data to come back from the DRAM is highly variable.

A super-scalar processor can possibly run some instructions at the hardware level while other block wait until data gets back from DRAM.

A VLIW processor packs N instructions together (say N=3) and if one of them is blocked by DRAM, they all block. (If one of them is blocked by Optane they all block for a very long time...)

It looks obvious in retrospect but it's amazing how most of the RISC workstation vendors missed it and put themselves out of business by getting on the Itanic train.

(VLIW is successful for DSP and GPU, but that's because workloads like that can have completely predictable fetches)

I don't know what the problem w/ Cell was exactly, but it was the same in that it couldn't pull data from DRAM fast enough to keep the silicon busy.
Hey, thanks for making the course free! I'm sure it took a lot of time and effort. I'll be definitely checking it out.
IMO they show you those annoying ads (two in a row recently) to make you subscribe to the ad-free premium service.
$15 minimum wage is not something to be proud of. That's just over $30k a year. If you know someone that makes that little, you know how personally unsustainable that level of income is.
They're already looking into using Blockchain for this solution https://www.finextra.com/finextra-downloads/newsdocs/embraci...