skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hopefully peoples' memories aren't so short to forget that he's been nothing but the encyclopedic example of greed...

...without whom access to goods during the pandemic would have been vastly more difficult and costly.

I am completely in agreement that Amazon is more destructive than it is good now, particular when it comes to the way it treats workers, but it doesn’t help to deny that it provides value.
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Wait.. really? I'd love to dive into some of those numbers. I'm not saying you are wrong - otoh, I want to see if I can screen for behaviors that are preparatory.
I think humans have a hard time with sustaining independent action. If you knew that everyone around you was going to be deprived of some convenience, say a restriction on driving to every other day (like they do in some countries based on the last digit of your license plate), I think it'd be easier to accept and adhere to for a long duration. I think this is both because you know the burden is shared, but also because the impact of a large adherence will tend to be more measurable.

If, on the other hand, you independently decide to stop driving your car because you know the world is getting smothered with carbon dioxide, but see people daily driving modified diesel pickups belching smoke into the sky, you're going to feel a bit like you're pissing in the wind even trying.
Yes. My point of pain has been ElasticSearch. The Json happy queries with far too many squiggly braces and square braces are just difficult to read.

A simple statement like SELECT Age FROM Employee WHERE name = 'Frank' turns into a monstrosity like

POST Employee/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match": {
"name": "Frank"
}
}
]
}
},
"fields": [
"Age"
]
}

Thankfully they added rudimentary SQL support so I could use it in ad-hoc queries.
But those dual core are generally way more powerful that a cortex m4 at 100mhz with a dac, where pwm gen is not necessary.
Humanity as a whole, not individual beings. Our boundless quest for growth is clearly getting out of hand on many levels. What else exponentially grows until the death of its eco system ?
You do have a point. Still, we can’t know for sure whom will be remembered by the people living in the future. Only they will
know.
Isn't this already an illegal conflict of interest?

Are federal representatives immune?
Smells like an XY problem. What they want isn't "SQL on the front end", it's an abstract machine that both the frontend and programmatic server-side systems interact with, and that abstract machine brokers the flow between these clients and the backend. Let that machine handle permissions, caching, etc, since that's hard, tedious, error prone, and less secure for humans to do. Just like how we stopped writing assembly.

I have to look into it, but some posters mention blitz.js, this may be just such a thing.
How can they use facial recognition since it's clearly racist against people of color?
There’s a conservation goal that’s going around.

30 by 30.

Or, 30% of the planet’s surface as protected areas by 2030.

The Biden administration adopted it, but it’d be cool to see it as a global goal as well.
> This has been the subject of numerous academic papers.

Those papers sound interesting. Can you recommend any?

>it's no secret that Europe isn't exactly a hotbed of tech innovation

When you mean innovation, do you refer to Xerox and Bell Labs? Or to Microsoft and Apple? Cause europe has a lot of the first kind, not much of the second kind. And even when they do, they might end being sold out. Like Nokia and Skype.
I can try and ping my contact there again- my email is my HN name at gmail. I did express my willingness to eventually relocate as well. I think I did put in a re-app for DS recently.
Yes, this happened very early on with Bitcoin. Casinos where every wager was a transaction. Then some started actively just spamming.

It led to the transaction pricing mechanism. Every transaction includes a bid on how much you'll pay to have it included in the chain. Miners pick the highest bids from recently broadcast transactions. There's no requirement to do so but it's economically incentivized, as the miner receives the transaction fee. Any sustained attack becomes very expensive. And other users can still pay the asking price to get their transaction in the next few blocks.

Bitcoin has in practice maxed out the great majority of blocks (about 1 MB per 10 minutes) for a while now, and so many cheap transactions just never get processed as they're always outbid.
In the worst case, yes. But the most common case was a single tap per letter.
Many competitors were depending on third party cookies.
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Vaccines can also "suck my ass".
It's an American law which implements a certain part of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which is indeed in force in Canada (since 2014) with a local implementing law, as well as in the European Union and many other countries worldwide:

https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/treaties/ShowResults?start_year=...

With all of that said, Canada's legal analogue to the DMCA is a "notice and notice" regime, not a "notice and takedown" regime. The rights holder or their agent notifies the ISP, and the ISP notifies the user without necessarily taking down the content. A court order can be sought to force it offline, and I'd guess (but don't know) that some ISPs will voluntarily cooperate to some degree beyond the legal requirement.
You might not mind peopling posting about quality of your contribution but it's a terrible discussion for everybody else. Nobody cares.
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Alternately don't let a company that forces people to pee in bottles, and astroturfs social media off the hook when issuing a press release?
The Catholic Church tried this and it did not work. Monks and nuns still become greedy, still compete for positions of power and still abuse their power when they get it.
Plenty of people are aware of Gates' overwhelming greed.

I would ignore all of it just to hear him talk for ten minutes about the overwhelming privilege he was born into and how that brought about his success.
And,technically speaking, cities are an infestation of humans.
100% percent agree. Here in Toronto, it's very difficult for the average person invest a meaningful amount of money.
They're willing to take the jobs because that's (presumably) all they can do now. The social safety safety nets I'm proposing would include robust access to quality education for the economically displaced.

I firmly believe that any currently "unskilled" worker can re-tool and become much more productive if given the opportunity.
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It changes the strategy, and it might take you a while to hit, but it greatly improves your potential to win.

I once played 1/2 NL uncapped at a casino, a guy sat down and put $1000 on the table. Every other hand he would raise $25-50 preflop, and call re-raises. Got all in pre-flop and pre-turn a bunch of times, every time he bust he put another $1000 on the table. This is exactly the best player to play with. Yes, you have to sit and wait for good cards before getting involved, but if you get something good, you have very good odds of stacking them.
You need to have the stomach to do some jobs. I remember the time when many of my friends in the medical school asked me to go with them to the dissection lab in the first year of college; I was doing CS at that time, but the professors did not know the students yet, so they gave me a lab coat and went with the group. 10 minutes later, a few students fainted, some were puking in the corners, the professor asked me to put the liver in the body on the table because I looked the least affected. I did it, so he asked me for the name to give one extra point at the exam for the semester (I gave a friend's name that was puking).

Most of these people grew up in cities, I grew up in the country side cutting chicken or pigs for food; this makes you less sensitive to some extent.

My friends that are now MDs told me that year was the worst experience of their lives. Being a Facebook moderator can be worse than that, so it can be really bad for some of the people doing this job.
Democratize made sense only when it made something inaccessible to all but a small group accessible and approachable to those without the resources with lessened advantage for being big.

It fails for say CRISPR for democratizing gene editing because even if cheaper in labs gene editing is far more specialized a task than even surgery - if shit hits the fan even nonmedical people could do some messily. Most people even science PHDs not in the specific field would have no clue where to start.

It works as a description for say sound mixing when people can even speed up recorded lecture notes and tweak pitch and pace of music. Before it required big expensive, and complicated audio decks to do signal processing.

Just cassete tapes were a lesser degree of democratization in that you could pass around your own recordings but no way in hell would you get international reach without studios. Soundcloud, bandcamp, et al? International solo operations fit the bill pretty well as a next step.
they need to do a lot more than that.

I cancelled my long-time Prime membership this year because of their anti-union behavior, their workplace conditions, and the shit-show that their marketplace has turned into.

I'm also trying to patronize other stores for all of my just-grab-it-from-Amazon purposes.
It already includes it in the brackets.
"Bailed" is a bit over the top. I would characterize it more as being at a stand still.

Earth VR and Tilt Brush are still around, and as mentioned about, Tilt Brush is even open sourced. They just haven't had as much interest making new stuff. VR didn't pick up the way most hoped it would, and at this point there isn't really much to do until we get another wave of innovation that pushes the boundary forward.

Also Tango was more AR than VR. I don't think they ever had any lead in VR. Cardboard was neat but just that.
My theory is that Apple isn't that into low-differentiation devices that aren't directly related to their core businesses. Beats were on the forefront of wireless headphones, which ties nicely into iTunes/etc. While Apple is super into fitness now (because of the watch, as well as the Peloton-style recurring revenue subscription market) the Peloton stuff isn't really groundbreaking hardware: it's an unremarkable bike with an unremarkable display bolted on to it, with an unremarkable app that runs on it, and a remarkable marketing/astroturfing campaign to drive the wheel.

The hardware brand itself isn't that valuable, IMO. Perhaps the subscription revenue is, but Apple doesn't need Peloton's undifferentiated bike or brand name to participate in that market, and has world-class marketers of their own.

Apple probably won't make exercise hardware unless they can make exercise hardware vastly better than what is presently available. Peloton is not that.
That’s not what the business insider linked in the tweet says. It says she described the White House plan as “insufficient” meaning there wasn’t enough stimulus in it. How can criticizing a bill for not having enough stimulus mean you are against stimulus?

The House had passed the HEROES act for additional stimulus in May 2020. The Republican senate refused to even put it up for a vote. She was always for passing of the HEROES act even during this October - December period. She was always pro stimulus.
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Whenever someone tells me "it's just syntax sugar, it doesn't matter" I usually point them to mathematics. This is both beautiful and horrifying in equal measure and _I love it_
Google Earth often is the most mind-blowing thing for the people who never used the Internet in their lives.

I don't use it often but I have to say that it's one of the delivered promises of the Internet. It's tech done right.

What an outstanding video.
Oh, copyright law in general is present worldwide through multiple international agreements. Going after the Pirate Bay didn't have to rely on the DMCA.

Even if it had needed to rely on DMCA-like concerns, over a hundred countries worldwide are party to the treaty which mandates a law addressing the scope of the DMCA, so enough other countries have such a law. (The details vary and not all such laws mandate a quick takedown of the allegedly infringing content.)
what are you talking about?

even swe's here post about Amazon's frequently (though not universal) abusive work culture

their employees unethically classified as "contractors" are notoriously poorly treated. their fullfilment center workers have to fight for basic rights and are often not treated like humans. their job security is zero, and meeting 95% of productivity targets is grounds for dismissal

I don't understand this websites bootlicking for tech companies. "some issues scaling" is an insulting characterization to the actual depths of their problems. Amazon as a company is not genuinely looking out for the interests of it's lower paid workers, not doing anything near the top of the industry average in addressing them

don't defend companies simply because other companies "aren't don't much better". everyone must be held accountable
You guys do have democracy, it’s just rated as a flawed democracy [0].

[0] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/22/global-d...
The reason you'd create the ability to ban someone from a thread is so you can more freely apply feedback --- ie, soft ban more people. Which would probably just lead to a lot of litigation on threads about whether people should or shouldn't be banned from them. A virtue of the current system is that it's very rare to come across a comment that suggests someone should be banned instantly --- so nobody has that expectation.
With our western ressource and energy consumption, and nuclear family lifestyle, it kinda is.
I wish there were less people and that we could keep using cars and the internet, and eating meat. Instead we have more people, accelerating the rush for resources (water in third world, or for us developed countries, housing).
That's a fairy tail they teach in school.

You dont get money because someone else lost some. You get money because you helped stabilizing the market by predicting it right. The losers lose because they predicted it wrong.
Its a net gain for everyone who is somehow affected by the market which means basically everyone on this planet.
There is no moral problem with winning or with loosing as you help either way.

Also there is no need for anyone to lose, everyone could be right all the time that would give a perfectly stable market, but people are terrible at predicting the future so that will never happens.
Sounds to me like you’re doing quite good! In Europe, $3M would be nothing to scoff at. Driving a Honda sounds like good character to me.
The apologists are in action. Focus on the part of the story where the murderer is nice to his mom.
He could 'do better for his staff' - with a single sentence email he could transform the company, even to this day.

Edit: for my disparagers - Bezos is among the most powerful people in the world, and has direct influence and leverage over his former company. A one sentence email to the current CEO detailing in broad strokes the policies that should be in place to 'do better for his staff' is literally all it would take. They'd be implemented immediately.
> Can't you get a transaction conflict which needs to be retried for Postgres as well?

Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQjIeYoIdM
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They support WASM-based workloads that are inherently very sandboxed by design (and have other benefits like being architecture agnostic).
> We're reaching the end of silicon scaling.

For the next 2 shrinks at least TSMC disagrees.

According to roadmap of TSMC they are roling out 3nm risk production this year and they built a new research lab for 2nm last year and already picked a site for the new 2nm fab (Hsinchu, Taiwan). Beyond that I don't think anyone has any real plans (yet).
Having worked with thick clients in the past, yes and no. There are a lot of caveats to data manipulation on client machines. You lose the luxury of caching, etc. Paging becomes more problematic, and there are a host of other issues.

A better solution would be a GraphQL like API that leverages SQL.
The SEC has long been selective about which rules they enforce and when.
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No, totally wrong, it’s the exact opposite. Novices and only novices think “you can’t beat bad players cause they’re unpredictable!”

Even your more moderate point you’d rather not have them in the game is totally wrong.

In reality, every professional player loves players who do terrible, random things. Variance might go up, but variance is going to be annoying either way. Other players doing dumb things is where your EV comes from. I’ve only ever heard complaints about crazy players being a hassle from inexperienced amateurs who dabble. Pros want “live ones” in their games.
And this never ends well.
> Why hasn’t this been tried?

Of course it's been tried. It's because it's been tried enough that people now tell you to hide SQL behind a middle layer...
At the very least, I wish they would update the UI for that. Every time I want to use it, it's like 4-5 clicks and very hard to use. I wish they could just give a nice timeline and let you slide across a given range, and maybe also see a graph of the activity (basically like Google Trends)
While you shouldn't be downvoted,

> even in fulfillment centers the pay is above industry averages

This was debunked, many warehouses pay $18-22+ (see https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/economy/amazon-w... or I guess just Google it).

> but no one cares because the company isn't a household name.

While I understand you might mean journalists don't care, small businesses with fewer than 500 employees employ 47.3% of US workers (see https://smallbiztrends.com/small-business-statistics). So it's really the worst kind of generalization you've made. Half of US workers will care about businesses that operate at small scales because they are employed by one.
I'm reluctant to accept the claim that the risk outweighs the benefits for young women. Denmark recorded two deaths after CVTs likely caused by the vaccine in 2021, but not a single death in the age group <50 from COVID, up until Dec 4th of 2020:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Denmark

(If anybody has age-related data on a more complete timeframe, please provide)

The risk of getting infected with COVID is not 100% in the first place, and even then there's bound to be a huge number of cases that are never recorded, because they are mild or asymptomatic. This exaggerates the pathology and makes risk-reward estimation more difficult.
I'm not sure that has ever been true, or ever been the goal.

The American government does serve the interests of the American people: the American people who own the bulk of the land and the largest companies.

George Washington was the largest landowner in the colonies when the revolution started.
No, I am not. I grew up in Mumbai and emigrated to USA. Those were my genuine feelings.
> we've decoupled money from value.

Since when was it ever coupled?
Wow this is awesome! Thanks.
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Intel is shipping 10nm superfin (I'm typing this on a Tiger Lake NUC). Density wise, this is comparable to TSMC 7nm (used by AMD).
But just having any MSc / MA is greatly helping job market prospects, because every degree includes at the very least an understanding of scientific methods and statistics, and should have given you some critical thinking skills. For a lot of jobs having some kind of degree is a generic requirement without specifying in which field.
But he is really sorry, and didn't realised the seriousness of the situation. So he is a good guy now, ok? /s

I have no sympathy for him. If he really wanted to make up for his decisions (or at least for not addressing issues), he would have stayed as CEO and fix it all. It really looks like a childlish attempt to... I dunno what exactly are Bezos' intentions.

Is it a get out of jail free card? 'I wanted to change and improve workers situation, but my successor totally ignored it'.
But what about optimistic UI updates or offline support in the client. The frontend has no notion of the relationships between the entities, which means you will be making a lot more queries than you need to, or just ignoring optimistic updates (we may be fine for some apps).
What will happen is 2% of the world's "wealth" would disappear - which would almost certainly spill over causing a much larger decline.

From 2007 to 2008, for example, global wealth declined about ~10% [1].

There's not much room left for central banks before we officially enter banana town. If cyrpto implodes, it could easily be worse than the financial crisis - which means, regulators have an interest in it NOT imploding.

[1] https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/g...
What's the difference? They invaded, took over, and kicked out the old leaders. It was a war. With territory and everything.
This made-for-TV change of heart might indicate he'll be joining the league of superwealthy philanthropists like Bill Gates and George Soros who leave their lengthy, extraordinarily and unforgivably damaging lives of evil behind to become a power for good. I mean, surely that is exactly what this means.

>Hopefully peoples' memories aren't so short

Who has time for thinking when Marvel Megahero Show #34 has 3000 new episodes to binge? Besides, he's donating to or even directing all the Right Causes now! He's like a real life superhero.
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>>Trust me when I say you're not enjoying some free lunch at the expense of corporate earnings by living in the EU. You're simply restricting consumer and entrepreneur choices, by preemptively deciding what the consumer needs.

I mean, I do see your point. But we as a society have decided that sellers should be responsible for a minimum of 2 years for any items they sell. That's just what we (society) require from anyone willing to run a business. We also require them not to dump toxic waste into rivers, and pay their taxes - all enterpreneurs the world over have certain obligations to the state, US just placed the bar lower than elsewhere. I don't mean to say which approach is "right", but I do mean to say that as a consumer I like having greater protections in the EU, even if "perhaps" it means the products bought here cost more.
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I wish someone took the SQLite query parser and used it to output Elasticsearch's horrid language so that we could write queries in a language that our devs don't universally loathe.
In a similar case Cooley and Tukey should also never have been given the Turing Award prize for Fast Fourier Transform, because Gauss apparently invented it already in 1805: https://www.cis.rit.edu/class/simg716/Gauss_History_FFT.pdf
But Gauss wrote his papers in neo-Latin and a very difficult notation so his findings went largely unnoticed. Also computers weren't available in the 19th century.
I was called in to troubleshoot system once, a small 2-node cluster with a SAN with no single point of failure in the fabric.

They had both their 1500va UPSs plugged into a single 15amp circuit.
I think you have it backwards. It's more like saying that not every single thing Henry Ford ever said actually describes the best possible way of making cars. Henry Ford was capable of getting things wrong.

I don't think anyone is claiming that Ethereum should do things differently just to be different. The claim is that actually that Ethereum isn't necessarily worse just because it is different.