skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't work this way. Unless you have a union or some large economic event, people will make resignation decisions independently. This means that the number of resignations on a typical day will follow a normal distribution a.k.a. bell curve. Say, you have 3650 employees with an average tenure of 1 year. It means that on 90% of the days you will have between 0 and 10 resignations, averaging at 1 per day. You also know that out of 10 applications, 1 leads to a hire, so you have an HR team with a target of reviewing 10 applications per day and hiring 10% of them. Due to scaling, you can redistribute the same amount of work between 3650, 3550 or 3750 employees without any difference in output.

If a single employee comes demanding a raise, they have 0 leverage over you. If you fire them, you will have 3659 employees for a day or two (until more candidates get hired) with your business designed to handle fluctuations between 3660 and 3750. It costs you zero, literally ZERO.

High turnover for low-wage jobs actually makes it better for the business. It's like if you already have a leaky basement with a sump pump in place, you won't even notice if you spill a single bucket of water there.

For a smaller business of 10 employees, replacing one could be harder. Sharing their workload over 9 people is harder. The owner will have to spend their own time searching for a replacement, remembering the things that the departed person knew and trying to teach them to the replacement, etc. That's why smaller companies treat people better.

As for the CEO, you can find people willing to do the job, but there's a big difference between willing and being able to. The main role of CEO besides giving a good public image is to keep the internal corruption and infighting at a level where it doesn't kill the company's business. Despite the fake smiles and positivity, it's a pretty dirty backstabbing environment and you need to know certain unwritten rules to play that game.
Yeah, came in to say this. Google Assistant has consistently gotten better year after year. I'm surprised it understands me sometimes.
Technically it doesn't just prevent from selling SaaS. It prevents from selling SaaS without having the consent of the open source project first, which means negotiating a deal.
Usually I find his articles entertaining, sometimes thought-provoking.

This one is none of these.

I've commented my own objections, read others'. What strikes me is that this article was proof-read by (the usual) people, and no one realised it will blow up on HN.

That smells a bubble in which PG/YC is.
It's not the taste, it's that they're worried about sodium in general (high blood pressure).
That doesn't come close to sports.

- Sports is 11 people. Business is thousands.

- Sports people are literally recorded for every step they take. CEOs not so much.

- Attribution is whole different issue when you've got a years long strategy. By contrast in sports there's rarely a player left from the team of 10 years ago.

- Sports are made to be repeatable. Business evolves.
I prefer forums with clear rules, and if something is flagged then it should be only if is against a specific rule. I am not sure if is more preferable to debate the merit of yet another incomplete Tic-Tac-Toe in Rust then having a pasionate debate on app stores, free software or X.

Blame wars should be fixed differently IMO, you could temporary ban accounts that do not respect the rules, users can report comments and indicate the rule that is broken, this require better moderation and clear rules.

Though, I am not sure if HN could implement this, is too big and probably mi preferences work better on smaller niche forums with a few good moderators and a community that cares about the quality and pushes the participants to communicate in the allowed rules.
pg has never cared about the average person. His thesis has always been that average people are bad and nerds should take over the world.
Is that actually a valid alternative for people who are worried about privacy? I thought that the centralized tracking was mandatory for pubs, shops, and other venues.
Agreed! Given the number of SNCF strikes the past few years, I wouldn't be surprised if this is really a victory for the SNCF unions over their Air France counterparts rather than a pro-environmental move (which is an off-shoot of the decision).
Maybe not exactly under the radar, but when I was last doing professional EE/hardware/embedded work around the turn of the millennium, the software (EDA, compilers, CAD) and hardware (instrumentation, evaluation boards, PCB fabrication) were all super expensive, to the extent that they weren't really accessible to non financially-independent bootstrappers.

Sometime in the last two decades (and again, I'm probably super late to the party on this) it's become extremely affordable to dip one's toe into electronic hardware and embedded software. And not just at the "breadboarding something with an Arduino" level, but at the level of building small production runs of a product that people would actually pay money for.

In a way it reminds me of the mid-2000s era of web technology, where over the course of a few years you went from "putting expensive servers in a data center" to "filling out a web form" in order to host an app in a reasonably high-availability environment.

Or another way of looking at it, a lot of things that maybe you previously had to fund-raise for are now things you can bootstrap, and many things are cheap even by hobby standards.

That means for a lot of projects (for technical folks) you don't need to convince anyone else that your idea has merit, you can just build it and find out.
In case you haven't seen it already, I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26779580 to be a pretty succinct list of the biggest stumbling points (latency, telemetry and documentation).

A couple of more specific points I'd like to add after experience writing non-trivial PS scripts:

- Tooling is still spotty. Last I used the VS Code extension, it was flaky and provided little in the way of formatting, autocomplete or linting. AIUI PowerShell scripts should be easier to statically analyze than an average bash script, so something as rigorous as ShellCheck would be nice to have too.

- Docs around .NET interop still appear to be few and far between. I recall having to do quite a bit of guesswork around type conversions, calling conventions and the like.

It's nice to see the docs have had a major overhaul since I last dug into them though :)
You cannot use the cloud systems without paying; how on earth do you figure I’m not a customer from what I wrote?
i wonder whether it practically kills short haul electric flights in France? I mean that new generation of transportation is going to be mostly autonomous with heavy reliance on ground based infrastructure, and banning it would put the country well behind in such tech and infrastructure development.
Connecting flights won't be affected
That's only the case if you can afford to buy the stock (and more specifically afford to buy enough of the stock to make a difference).
Critically it's CPU to GPU NVLink here, not the "boring" GPU to GPU NVLink that's common on Quadros. 500GB/s bandwidth between CPU & GPU massively changes when & how you can GPU accelerate things, that's a 10X difference over the status quo.
Probably easier to buy an orange vest and a hardhat and rent an excavator.
Previously:

France to ban some domestic flights where train available due to climate measure (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/12/france-ban-...)

43 points | giuliomagnifico | 11 hours ago | 27 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26777551
If amazon allows you to start following reviewers, then it would move towards being a social media platform.
Err, SSPL which Elasticsearch is licensed under isn't AGPL - it's a viral, proprietary license - not quite the copyleft we'd want if we wanted a fair playing field between all actors working on it.
Art is only one use case. NFTs can represent land ownership, driving licenses etc.
NFTs are not "outside of the crypto space".
Hey, bad news: There's a real world out there that you're trying to prepare these kids for. That real world is elitist. So maybe universities should do their job and actually prepare these kids?

It's not totally on the universities, though. The schools are also failing these kids.
Interesting perspective. It’s true the jump from 8-bit to 32-bit architectures involved a lot more than just increasing the data bus width, it came with advances in processor architecture so I understand where you are coming from. That said, I think the hobbiest community will find a happy medium in terms of complexity / hackability. Establishing a base platform seems to me the most important first step.
I had this conversation with a support engineer for Google Cloud one time. I mentioned that Google has a long history of dumping products that people rely on and he got really annoyed, as if that wasn't true. I don't know if they fully appreciate that they have a reputation for this.
When I studied life and work of Korolev, I could not help but meditate on the idea that great individuals really do make a difference.

His death was a major setback for the Soviet space program. Arguably they never found a real replacement for him.
There are few things more annoying than hearing a crypto cultist talk about economics. It’s like a plumber lecturing me about database architecture based on their Excel experience.

Ironically people who actually work as blockchain devs are very chill about it.
If so, doesn't that somewhat defeat the point? A plane normally has connecting passengers and direct together. Now are they just going to fly the route half empty?
Just to balance the article, I'm french, living in Paris, working near Champs Elysées and never heard about tacos. It seems to be very specific to teenagers or ghettos.
One use case:

Buying something without a credit card online.
An effortless way to improve your memory – BBC Future
I think with an estimated net worth of $360,000,000 Taylor Swift could just relax and produce music as she sees fit, without any need for subscriptions.
Yes, you can use it to offset capital gains. Also, depending on your largesse, consider tax-aware borrowing. [1]

[1] https://csq.com/2018/04/geoffrey-berlin-private-wealth-tax-a...
>Backed by crypto means for every stablecoin worth 1 USD someone has locked away for example 1.5 USD in crypto.

In order to do that, someone would need to match every USD coming from you with 0.5 USD from their own pocket.
People also make the choice to cling onto famous peoples' words. They could just as well not do that.

> That kind of influence is an enormous privilege, one that nearly everyone that has it has had to chase aggressively their entire careers if not lives.

I don't think RMS did that, and I don't think "nearly everyone that has it has had to chase [it]". Some people do, and others just... become (in)famous in their respective fields. Imagine just wanting to be good at basketball, getting some of level of fame, and then just hearing "shut up and dribble", etc.

> there are many famous people who've figured out how to self actualize their lives without attracting attention

And how does one go about this without e.g. not saying anything at all? Discussing politics or societal ills is -always- going to irk some people. It's really not fair to say that, because someone now has some level of reach, that they have to basically say nothing at all. Why is there no personal responsibility or accountability? I'm going to assume the controversial stance here that people just don't raise children right, to not dwell on peoples' words just because they're "famous". And that is a larger societal issue than celebrities simply having opinions as a human being.
At what point do limited upload speeds actually slow down your downloads due to TCP overhead?
I agree. That's why China is doing it.
How can you kill something that does not, never did, and never will exist?
Give me a blockchain that isn't inherently structured like MLM-Ponzi schemes (and unbiased people who use it not claiming the contrary) and then we're talking.

Likewise, I'd suggest that pinning the problems you suggest are solved with "decentralized, trustless structures" - ignores the fact of reality, the physical world and real trust networks, centralized organizations, that reflect the state of society; Bitcoin et al may be a bridge but attempting to circumvent and ignore the positives of institutions is a bad idea.
> You cannot pretend a celebrity pontificating into a camera that is broadcasting to 100's of millions of people is the same thing as someone's personal weblog that no one ever reads.

I'd say it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference.
> Soon (in years), x86 will only be needed by professionals that are tied to really old software.

There's also that PC & console gaming markets, which are not small and have not made any movements of any kind towards ARM so far.
We DO NOT choose our ethnicity, nationality, natural hair color, food allergy so we SHOULD NOT be discriminated for that.

We DO choose how to act, like engaging in public speaking or not, showing up to court/convention poorly dressed or barefoot, or being rude to people and so on.

With choice comes accountability.

With public presence comes public accountability. Very simple.
There's several lawyers who believe the wording would imply the problematic interpretation - /dev/lawyer is one on the internet, one from my anecdotes is the lawyer who advised the company I used to work at.

SSPL doesn't come up under free or open source licenses partly for this reason, actually.
given that he engaged in abuse and people are chastised for pointing out the lack of actual abuse he was subjected to i find the comparison to a company fitting

but hey, thanks for the concern-trolling mental health insult at the end
They've declared their verdict and moved on :) . It's the 24/7 newscycle they don't have time for corrections unless it is recent and they can put it on the "backpage"
Yeah will be interesting to see if and when they bring a design to market.
A good example of that [0]. Amazon is quoted as saying that hourly employees prefer the "predictability and immediacy of cash to RSUs", and I imagine Amazon would prefer to give RSUs, so this is probably accurate.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/3/17934194/amazon-minimum-w...
Ah, I meant to type the opposite
Finally, I can purchase something without recourse in the event that I'm defrauded.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26770929 (currently 244 points, 347 comments)
That's taking total productivity and dividing it by workers and then calling it "worker productivity".

What's pertinent is whether increases in productivity are directly attributable to the workers in the denominator, or whether there are other reasons for that growth. Furthermore the denominator in that graph is not actually the total workers involved in the productive output of an economy... for example, the billions of workers added to the work force but who work in developing countries for slave wages aren't factored in to the denominator of total workers, but their output does contribute to the numerator.
OK, either I'm getting pretty screwed somewhere or EU prices are well above the US. Probably the former. Thanks for the pointer.

https://he.net/cgi-bin/ip_transit_quote is where I'm seeing the $200 number.
I know but from my observations all the up-votes and comments can't undo a few flags. Maybe there should be a way so if same number of people contest the flags then it undoes it?

At least I think is not fair to use flag on an item I think it should get less attention, then I should flag all posts about the frameworks or languages that I think are getting too much attention (I do not flag and very rare downvote )
yes, i did mean that. also pegging it to a real currency, like USDCoin. I have not heard of Mimblewimble. Thanks for the reference, I'll add it to my list of coins to study.
The old FOSS model is not compatible with the kind of people who are being drawn into it these days. It worked decently with thick-skinned, more-or-less autistic men who communicated relatively infrequently over email and had an understanding that they weren't beholden to anybody.

I don't think it worked as well in the good old days as you think.

A lot of Perl's problems can be attributed to one of those old men, Tom Christensen. He combined technical brilliance with a flair for flaming, and was at the center of why p5p (perl 5 porters) became a hostile flame-fest. With the result that the 5.6.x series was a complete disaster. And the problems were so bad that as http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/happy-10th-anniversary-p... describes, in 2000 Jon Orwant (editor of The Perl Journal) brought attention to it by smashing mugs against a wall.

The current spat is much less dramatic than that one was. You just know about it because it is current.

People claim that Perl's problems began with Perl 6. But in fact Perl 6 was one piece of Larry Wall's solution to a rather urgent problem. And that problem was how to separate people who wanted to create new features from people who wanted absolute backwards compatibility. Like Tom Christensen. (Who Larry Wall also told to calm down.) And ideas from Perl 6 also made their way back to Perl 5 in various ways. Yes, it became a branding problem. But if it didn't happen, Perl was set to implode on itself much more dramatically, much more quickly.
While growing up in a very dry region in India, I remember people get boring wells drilled in their land to extract ground water (sometimes even 1000 feet deep). This ground water often tastes subtly sweet and I remember drinking that water in summer heat, getting this amazing sweet after taste. In fact people go to neighbors who have "meetha pani" (sweet water) for their daily consumption. Not sure if that was D2O and not H2O.
French rail network superimposed at true scale on the US midwest.

https://i.redd.it/8g59yft1lfs61.jpg
On front page https://www.he.net/ there's a special in the top right :)

I believe that kind of low-for-1G-commit pricing is for their fully owned FMT1/FMT2 US CA facility. You have a lot easier peering in EU (AMSIX, DECIX, etc) that will help compared to the US's love of commercial exchanges like Any2/Coresite/Equinix where peering costs practically more than transit.
Like I said, lots of coins touch some of these, but I don't know of any that has all of them.
> and now you're doing it, because there was no Epstein connection.

If you prefer the phrases "defense of Minsky in his 70s having sex with a minor on a private island where Minksy then later hosted another conference _after_ Epstein's public conviction for sex trafficking and being designated a level three sex offender" or perhaps "refusal to recognize sex with minors as rape" we can use one of those instead. I don't mind. Because Stallman _did_ say he believed that Minsky had sex with a 17 year old on a billionaire's small private island and saw nothing wrong with it, and Minsky _did_ host a conference on Epstein's island after Epstein's crimes became public.

> I'd love to, if only these people who are so aggrieved would...

I think it's weird for you to expect everyone to blog about their daily negative experiences instead of venting to their friends and then trying to forget.

The two sides here are people who work at or with the FSF (or who have close friends who work at or with the FSF) and people whose only exposure is shit blogs that come up on google. And the people who work at or with the FSF are like "RMS is a nightmare for me or for a close friend of mine", and the people who google shit blogs are like "I don't find these shit blogs to be compelling enough to notice the fact that the people saying that RMS has been a nightmare are all the people who have to work with him". Everyone gets to pick their side though.
> Now are they just going to fly the route half empty?

Flying full but with half the frequency achieves the same result.
India’s sewer cleaners speak up on their caste-ridden occupation
That's how you deal with trolls from countries with very strict language laws.
Unfortunately it's almost definitely a smart nerd (using this as a compliment here) who passed away.
Genuinely curious: Do you have any more background on this? Who are these rich people that are not listed in Forbes?
And it's not like a top down plan is the key. Having all the people in the company feel interested in and empowered to fix problems they see is the key to a successful organization these day. A genuine commitment to "people are valuable" is key to getting people's interest in fixing problems.
the same way like the Wrights' patent practically killed aircraft development in US for almost two decades.
Sometimes you wanna see the value of a variable but it's inside a hot function and ends up spamming/freezing your console if you log it.

Not quite a console.log statement, but Live Expression in DevTools is pretty useful for that. It's the little "eye" next to filter at the top, and it'll constantly watch an expression and show the latest value. Worst case you can assign your value to `window.myValue` and put a watch on that.
Like, uncensored AWS? You are free to run your own Parler without getting booted from AWS?
You wouldn't download an NFT
If you're just looking for a good pimento cheese spread, go to Costco and get the Palmetto original flavor.

https://www.pimentocheese.com/palmetto-cheese-12-oz/
Fox news viewers don't realize that 3/4 of fox news channel is opinion shows which don't have to be correct or even tell the truth because it's opinion.
> "There came a once in a lifetime opportunity to free us from the 'one-eyed-propaganda' of media conglomerates, and us the victims, shot the only probable source of escape."

Have you seen the rampant propaganda and manipulation of facts from social-media-driven left wing and right wing groups? It is far more inaccurate and vile.
GCC Association with the FSF
Because the comment I replied to mentioned nothing to do with Europe?

> There never has been and will never be 'free healthcare for all' - its not free, it's only free for some people if some other people pay for it.

That's what I replied to. I also mentioned living with one European system, and a similar Australian system that are both largely considered "effectively free (or at least, out of pocket)", and how no-one living under either system that I've been a part of, thinks that their healthcare is "literally free".

In fact, most of the tropes about "It's not really free, you're paying for it with taxes!" come from Americans bemoaning the insidious evil that they consider "healthcare for all" systems to be. It's a straw man, built up by some to decry "socialism".
The FBI did once own a significant amount of Bitcoin after busting the Silk Road, but auctioned most of it off.
> that article […] focuses extremely narrowly on the Epstein/Minsky e-mails

No, only about the top third of the article is that. The rest covers the various subsequent attacks and goes through their claims at length.
Beacon chain is live with 100k validators.
Merge is due late 2021
Sharding 12 months from now
In addition to an already mentioned early return pattern, I also often recommend switching from switch to pattern matching via an object.

It has an additional benefit of extracting code into data structures or making them parametric

function getArrow(direction) {
switch (direction) {
case "left":
return "<--"
case "righ":
return "-->"
default:
return "¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"
}
}

function getArrow(direction) {
const arrows = {
left: "<--",
right: "-->",
default: "¯\\_(ツ)_/¯",
}
let arrow = arrows[direction]

if (arrow) {
return arrow
} else {
return arrow.default
}
}
Pandemic Prices: Assessing Inflation in the Months and Years Ahead
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