skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that politicians' only goal is to get re-elected. While the rare exception may exist, that's also true of companies. While governments are accountable in theory, that rarely holds true in practice. I don't think that a "bigger" government, id est one with more regulatory oversight, would help; rather, use the existing court system to enforce what we have. If we lack political will to enforce the existing measures, adding more will not help. A government need not be "big" to have effective court systems and pass some rules on what certain companies can and cannot do.
Why should a global business never exceed the GDP of a 4 million person nation? I don't see any inherent connection.
I'm responding to the defense given in the parent comment, starting with

> Gcc is a good C compiler and a bad Java compiler

Meaning, some tools are meant for a specific purpose and it's not fair to judge them if they do poorly at things they were not designed to do. GCC does not claim to be a java compiler (any longer [1]).

I don't think this apology applies to MongoDB. It is described as a "general purpose" database, good for most modern apps. This is asserting exactly the opposite of what was argued in the parent comment. It is then fair to expect that it should do a good job of representing basic data like graph relationships.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_for_Java
>Woops unscheduled disassembly <3

The one where the front fell off?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Governments are defined by the populace and land they have sovereign authority over, not the services they provide. That's not terribly different from a corporation being defined by its assets and employees
What you describe just sounds like standard neoliberal ideas that tech people with high salaries are likely to gravitate towards. That said, some of these are not necessarily expressed directly or are cloaked in euphemisms and emerge more as actual behavior than stated opinions. In any case, I'm not sure why you expected ostracism in the tech sector from those opinions alone.
You can't post like this to HN. Since you've been repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Don't hold having an MBA against Jassy :). I have been in those ops meetings at AWS when Andy Jassy and Charlie Bell used to hold court. There wasn't much MBA-speak there. Jassy can burrow through deeply technical issues, spot fundamental flaws and process a monumental amount of information on the spot - skills they sure as hell don't teach at any B-school I know of...
Yeah :( Although even at the start when they had the feed they only switched between them instead of showing both.

IMO Everyday Astronaut has the best video of the landing (https://youtu.be/l4-PwxnJimg?t=16263) - this is similar to what SpaceX had with SN8
That's correct, but we have an API too so if you need to schedule 1M payments we can have you covered and support NetSuite (new), QuickBooks Online, and Xero
I think the odds are quite high.
AWS has been buying a zillion ads in NFL games, not entirely sure why but it's hard to ignore.
> Engineers will become more focused and engaged, managers will become more effective and empathetic, and companies will build faster with higher quality. Engineering will rise to a whole new level.

A bit too much hyperbole for my taste, given the less than groundbreaking ideas.
If TSX = Toronto Stock eXchange, I do not think that is correct:

* https://www.tsx.com/news?id=533&year=2017

In Canada it's done by CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. (CDS) and is currently T+2 just like in the EU (2014) and US (2017).

A 2015 whitepaper discussing the (then) proposed change:

* PDF: https://www.cds.ca/resource/en/174
> I suspect Jassy's selection had to do with fears that a pick from the retail side may see Jassy as a threat

Amazon had (has) three CEOs: Bezos as overall CEO, Jassy as CEO of AWS, and Jeff Wilke as CEO of the "Consumer" business, i.e. the retail operation.

Wilke announced last year that he would be leaving and that SVP of Operations Dave Clark would replace him as head of the Consumer business.

The question is whether Bezos chose Jassy and that made Wilke leave, or whether Wilke leaving left Jassy as the only remaining choice to replace Bezos.
That's a fair response. Would you mind speculating on what Google are doing that breaks the spirit of the law and what new categories of prohibited conduct we might look forwards to?

I think there is something of a reckoning coming for FB, Google, Twitter etc around fake news. But I'd imagine that's a separate issue to antitrust.
He also got hundreds of thousands of people to the streets in almost all the cities of Russia. Twice. And it looks like the number of people will grow every week now until putin will be toppled
So, replace our democracies with capitalistic dictatorships?
> You need BSL3 facilities if you want to have a hundred people have it. But the alternative is 27 million people getting it in planes, boats, and buses - none of which are BSL3.

Those things are not true alternatives.

I said "it's not going to get your vaccine approved any quicker" in the hope that you would understand: vaccines have reached the point of global distribution without doing the additional deliberate harm of intentionally infecting people.
Are the cloud losses all real or is it an accounting artifact due to internally providing services without charging for them in full?
> I don't think so. [...] They were fashionable.

I think you do think so. Describing them as "fashionable" is just endorsing my remark that from an engineering perspective Beats brings nothing of value. I was being very charitable when I said "mediocre headphones", the engineering behind Beats certainly had no value for Apple. And even today the most valuable part of the engineering behind a pair of Beats is Apple's W chip. I know I said engineering quite a few times but I want the focus of my comment to be clear.
> probably for the rest of his life.
At a net worth of $1 billion and assuming he lives to 100 that is $23 million dollars a year to spend, which reasonably, he could only spend around $5-10 Million if he tried.

He is worth what, $150 Billion? By the fall he probably will be.

He could find a group of 10,000 people of the same age, spit the money evenly and each person would have $340k per year, a large enough sum to reasonably travel all year long around the world for each person never working agin.

Nobody should ever have a $1B worth.
I just posted a reference to his purchase of 0.4 billion dollar boat.

He is retiring. Amazon is outcome of purchase of many many companies just like Microsoft.

Gates is retired and Microsoft is still buying companies even hotels; anything and everything has been bought with the cash acquired from US's money printing machine.
One of the reasons why libraries have signs that say “Please do not reshelve books.”

After you use a book, leave it on one of the carts.
Construction begins on Jeff Bezos’ $42M 10k-year clock
I was disappointed to learn the title of pontifex maximus wasn’t continuous from the Roman era. I mean, if we need an intercalary month, I can’t think of anyone better than Pope Francis to decide that.
These smart people did not have any semblance of control in the USSR. The Soviet space program was 95% political, heavily influence by the politburo and Soviet interests. Smart people would not have developed the Buran if all options were on the table
There are amazing projects in this thread. When any of you is ready to post yours as a Show HN, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll try to help. Read these first:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

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Some of you should consider applying to YC as well!
nice! hopefully we have more spaceships which explode and china and russia beat us to space.
Now try a screen reader (on a mac, Edit > Speech > Start Speaking will do nicely).

Spoiler: You mean mathematical sans-serif bold small l, mathematical sans-serif bold small i, mathematical sans-serif bold small k, mathematical sans-serif bold small e, mathematical sans-serif bold small t, mathematical sans-serif bold small h, mathematical sans-serif bold small i, mathematical sans-serif bold small s?
He had pushed a lot of it down to Jeff Wilke (retail business) and Jassy (AWS) but apparently wanted more time for other projects.
> Bonus question: Why should governments be allowed to get that big?

I would argue that most of our current problems are happening because our governments are small, ineffective, and corrupt. I would prefer big, effective, smart, and transparent governments that can take decisive action any day of the week. I'd go so far as to abolish state governments entirely and split their powers between counties and the federal government; they were made for a time when our communications were limited by the speeds of our fastest horses.
Screen sharing and screenshots do work on wayland as long as the application is updated to support it. Electron only recently gained this capability so not all electron apps have updated yet.

No one will fault you for using X because zoom hasn’t supported wayland yet. The problem is people sharing blatant falsehoods like “wayland doesn’t support screen sharing” when there are plenty of programs that can do just that on wayland.
> Why don’t non-MBAs manage to get to the top?

Because smart and talented people who are interested in business or administration tend to go on and study it. It’s self selecting. I think maybe you are imprinting “MBA” as some sort of personality? I know designers, coders and biologists with MBAs. It’s just an accreditation.

Every business has its roots or foundation with makers. But that doesn’t mean a chef should be running McDonalds, or a woodworker should be running Home Depot...
Yeah, that might check out too.

I was sort of responding to the claims 1) that non-ADHD people "bounce off the walls" when using stimulants and/or 2) that ADHD people couldn't use stimulants socially because it calms and focuses them rather than amping them up. Either I'm in the former category, and then claim 1 doesn't really track because it genuinely is a calming sensation for non-ADHD people (sample size 1, myself), or I'm in the latter category and then claim 2 doesn't track because stims really can help ADHD sufferers (same methodology) with socializing.
That's the equivalent of saying "corporations should be limited in what services they provide and to how many people". And I disagree with that.
Is there an easy way to access these tests? Like a free clone or something?

I'd much rather not fork over my precious currency to some rent-seeker just so they can let me do the test on their computer and the give it their stamp of approval.

If there's nothing but a description then I'll go and implement it myself and release it on sourcehut.
There is 0 data that any of the vaccines approved by the FDA are efficacious with a single dose. There is 0 data to support that a delayed dose is efficacious. The FDA is making a very, very valid choice so far.
It is as mundane as they want it to be. It mostly comes off that way because the majority of CEOs are the MBA types. If you look at Steve Jobs, Elon Musk etc., their day to day involvement could hardly be called mundane.
That’s a great example. See how Vulgar Latin split off from the written form quite early on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin
Which would be unavailable if Google didn't provide search in your area.
No, 50 % means the infection rate (or whatever you're actually measuring) in the vaccine group is half that of the control group. In your example the infection rate are exactly the same, giving an efficacy of 0 % (± whatever confidence interval the size of your trial and placebo groups gives you).
See e.g. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/09/21/th...
Heh, once again, hackernews makes a difference. Thank you guys! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtQIzT9XIAA5DRJ?format=jpg&name=...
There's something to be said for Facebook being the cause of America's division right now (amongst many other things obviously).
I left that one out of this initial batch because it's not really representative of anything on the market these days. But I am also curious to see how it scores, especially because it's one of the few recent consumer SSDs that doesn't rely on SLC caching.
> Because of a virus that doesn't kill kids

It does kill/severely impact a lot of adults with whom kids interact, however. My decision to keep my child at home even if schools reopen is based as much on the risk to other members of our family as it is on the risk to her.

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.
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What you are saying is a borderline conspiracy theory and is not true. GNOME still works outside of systemd, and the distributions that want to use it outside of systemd are maintaining the parts that they need, which in reality are pretty small. (I can give some more technical details if you want, but the short answer is: elogind)
I doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure - with a net worth of 182BN USD there isn't really an item available that would be "a big expenditure".
It's a fundamentally better system. It allows all parties to know who owns what assets with extremely high statistical certainty.
But do they really have standing?
Why it actually provides things people want and is based on voluntary interaction.
The solution is to make it a permission. On macOS you can’t just record the screen, you can open the OS settings page and tell the user to allow screen recording and now your program gains access to this feature.
Cool library, the type guards look interesting. Too bad it's not more automatic but yeah it's not very much extra code
Can you elaborate on "most of the time"?
Ccan you trade futures on RH yet? Why would they allow options on futures if they don't allow futures trades
Real time equities settlement and clearing is a terrible idea. It sounds great. But it breaks a lot of good stuff. I'm surprised the CEO of a brokerage is advocating for it. (The article is a bit loose with the terms settlement and clearing. Again, surprising from the CEO of a company that almost got taken out by internal clearing failures.)

If you only think about the American stock market from the perspective of a domestic retail day trader, sure, real-time clearing sounds easy enough. When you expand it to institutions, real-time settlement means having to warehouse all the funds they might need to trade with in a day with their prime brokers as cash. Not Treasuries. Cash. Because their broker has to be able to wire out that $1bn instantly. (That's what real-time settlement means. Real-time payments.) For market makers, this effectively requires removing their buyer of last resort obligations since they would be practically capped by their cash on hand. There are additional complexities when one considers foreign investors. Options exercises and expirations. ETFs. Futures.

Historically, the loudest advocates for shortening settlement times have been global money centre banks. A switch to real-time settlement and clearing would require every market participant either (a) have flawless payment rails to every other market participant or (b) put all their cash with a global bank who can provide that guarantee.

End-of-day or overnight clearing, on the other hand, isn't too much to ask for. It preserves the robustness and extensibility of delayed settlement. But it removes a few days of collateral requirements. Pushing for EOD clearing would be a smarter play for Robinhood, from a government relations perspective. (If this is solely PR then whatever.)
Don't know, but I like Gates better since he stepped down as MS CEO and brought positive change to more unfortunate people's lives. Maybe Bezos would do similar things?

I don't like the press release, it keeps repeating Amazon every sentence. It's a tiring read, much Like Andy Warhol's repeating patterns. That alone pretty much says a lot about the current Jeff Bezos.
sphinx-inline-tabs is probably better for this use case because all tabs with the same label are synchronized on the page. So if you want to offer different instructions for a number of environments, you only need to select it once per page.

Example: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#installing-with-ge...
How is this possible when I use limit orders? (not a robinhood user btw, but pretend I am)
> The DTCC demanded $3 billion. Robinhood negotiated down to $1.4 billion. If done by the formula, how is this possible?

Netting out trades.
An MBA has always been the way to signal that you want to move from engineering to senior management. Almost every senior manager I've met with an engineering background has an MBA (or a PhD). I have to assume that MBA programs teach the kind of stuff one would need to know to rise up the ranks.
Wayland is only one piece in the security puzzle. Flatpak and SELinux are the other pieces. Under X there is no point sandboxing a GUI app since X provides an escape.
They need a Game Over screen for when you are liquidated.
I wish there was a modern version of the S-100 bus. I don't have a use case but I've always thought that form-factor was really cool.
Alphabet 2020 Q4 Earnings Call [video]
I've looked at some source code written in Checked C. Doesn't it possibly take away some of the pleasure of writing C?
If you have a nice set of speakers that are fine other than the foam, it's possible to get the foam repaired for pretty cheap or DIY if you're handy. I think I paid $100 / driver five years ago on some 80's JBLs and it was well worth it.
I'm as skeptical of MBAs as you are but this is a bad take considering Pichai and Nadella were both actual engineers first.
Though, does it work with Nvidia yet?
The best way to motivate any employee is to give them a vested interest in the company (ownership, equity, profit share, etc).

Prod can be running as smoothly as you like - it doesn't matter if your company is having its lunch eaten by competitors adding or improving features faster than you.

You should be incentivizing employees to step back and look at the big picture every now and then. If customers are happy, the company is profitable, and prod is running smoothly? Go take some time off, head out early, etc.

Is revenue down? Company growth slowing, or worse, is the company shrinking? Time to work. Prod being red or green has little to do with it.
‘We may crash, but at least we do it with style!”

Somehow that should be an Elon tweet.
First, Amazon isn’t even worth as much as the oil under Saudi Arabia, second, why is it better that murderer Mohammed Bin Salman controls that much wealth than Jeff Bezos?
Having gotten mine this week, I love them so far. When wearing them, I barely notice their weight, which is substantial of course. They feel very comfortable when worn, even my glasses create no problems, as the earcups are from a very soft material. So the pressure is nicely distributed across the whole circumference of the earcup.

What surprises me most, as they are my first noise-cancelling headphones, is how much I like the noise-cancelling feature even in an environment which is low noise like being alone in a room. There are so many small background noises which just vanish thanks to the noise cancelling.
Monopoly rules only exist and matter because of the government. It's pretty obvious that even with them, there's a real pressure for consolidation (and that's efficiency of scale).

The natural state of a company is a monopoly. Once you are a monopoly, you don't need to worry about getting "re-elected" any more than a despot does.

The free society exists only in the space between these two clashing titans.
Every short share creates a long share.

If a stock is 30% shorted, that means there are 130% of shares in circulation. (And 30% negative shares.)

If a stock is 130% shorted, that means there are 230% of shares in circulation. (And 130% negative shares.)

If your numbers are correct, then institutional investors would own just a bit over half of GME.
i.e. rewriting history.
I don’t buy this analysis. The principles of architecting code and system design are timeless. There are definitely people out there who don’t “code really well on command”, but can ask the right questions to design a solid system.
Same here. In 1998, my aunt recommended I read 'The Call' by John Hersey. Local bookstores didn't have it, Amazon did.
small and corrupt, so let's make them bigger and corrupt? How much do you think the government should forcefully take from its citizens to get bigger?
Van Gogh hiding at the back of a Toulouse-Lautrec drawing
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If you purchased any securities recently that have decreased substantially in value, fill out the google form to see if you have a case.
High likelihood - You have an investment advisor or broker who recommended any of the following stocks: GameStop ($GME), AMC ($AMC), BlackBerry ($BB), Bed Bath & Beyond ($BBBY), Nokia ($NOK), and more.
> Nobody should ever have a $1B worth.

How does this work? Forced sale of assets? Who determines the market price of the assets, if they’re not highly liquid?
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"Measuring blockers" may make unfair scapegoats out of undersized teams.
He should have bought Bitcoin if he wanted to be really wealthy.
> As of 2020, there have been 15 astronaut and 4 cosmonaut fatalities during spaceflight. Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire which killed an entire crew of three

The numbers don't really seem to support your assertion that NASA is generally much safer than Soviet/Russia
Programming is one of the most obvious. Mathematics is another. Human success in both is easiest to explain if we are halting oracles of some variety, albeit not perfect, but still transfinite.
What do Björk, Elon and Woz have in common? They all hold Bitcoin
Why would you give that money to worse allocators of capital? He's generated 1.3 million jobs. How many jobs would you sacrifice in order to limit Bezos to whatever wealth cap you think is appropriate? By definition you will sacrifice them, so the question is at what cost is it too much and how much money is too much money? Also who decides that, is it you?
I've used Fidelity for many years: the app is excellent.
After 600 years I would hope it’s below these peoples’ noise floor.

Then again I’m more interested in my reputation regarding things I have done rather than things someone else did.
That’s a type of bull case, the one that ends in ..it, not fundamentals.

There is almost nothing in Chewys business model applicable to GameStop. Games can be delivered digitally and increasingly are and will be. GME can only be an expensive middleman in that transaction.

And selling physical games off an e-commerce site is a competitive business. Unlike chewy it doesn’t benefit from a massive amount of subscription purchases, and remember Chewy hemorrhaged losses for over 5 years.

So if you want to bet all those hundreds of leases bleeding GameStop dry can be cheaply broken, or converted into assets with a web site delivering physical games that can somehow be competitive with Amazon et al, the “fundamental” algorithm requires estimating chance of success. And no, you don’t get to use 100%, because that’s delusional.

So 50% change they get turned into a medium profitable retailer worth $50 a share and 50% chance they bleed to death means you estimate a few years from now your average valuation of $25.
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Market Cap is stupid.

What's the value of 1 million shares of Amazon stock? If every single share of Amazon stock went on the market today, would it be worth share price * number of units? Hell no.