skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public companies that don’t maximize profits will usually be targeted by activists who will replace the board and management with people who will max profits.

Say a company exists that doesn’t aggressively pursue profits. It makes $1/year and is worth $10 per share. If it started maxing profits it could make $2/year and be worth $20/share. An activist can come in and continue to pay well above market price, knowing that once he acquires enough shares, he’ll replace the board and raise the value of the shares.

The simple logic is that almost every public company will eventually evolve to maximize profit regardless of what other social mission they advertise. The sole exception is if a founder retains control of a very large proportion of voting stock.
I firmly believe that to be part of the answer, our "CDC" also said as much in 2020. Lots of clusters of infection popping up in parts of the population that lives very tightly and in large family groups, and those are predominantly immigrants and their kids. Im not sure how it looks in the third wave though. That and the care homes for elders were a big problem early on, but lately it seems to be a more general spread which is probably even harder to stem.

I have not yet seen anyone try correlate socio-eoconomic status and/or overcrowding to infection in a nice way?
This is just Sweden trying to do the wrong thing again.
His earnings on illicit activity was 36 bitcoin, so 36 bitcoin is what should be seized.
I think you're talking about how Linux ended up in the situation and I'm describing how it is currently :). So these things are not in contradiction. There is plenty of businesses making big bucks that sublicense the Linux trademark without an issue and it would not be a problem (trademark-wise) for the Linux Foundation or Linus himself to do that as well. I suppose the new Redis company would use it in a way that would require the licensees to differentiate somehow from the main Redis brand - not selling products just called Redis for example.
> And “cabal” happens to be an anti-semitic dogwhistle, although I’m sure its use here is just a coincidincle.

Really difficult to take anything else you're saying seriously alongside this.
They started just with rebranded dropper seat posts you could buy elsewhere but made a name for themselves with excellent customer service and warranty support and reasonable prices even if you could get the same post cheaper elsewhere without the support.

Now they have engineered a few unique products you can't get elsewhere though they are all made in asia. Like they make road/gravel style drop style handle bars in uncommon widths.
nah it's hated because it's such a crap language, I'm sure they piled enough stuff on it for 20y so now it's tolerable, but that doesn't change anything. PHP was originally "Hypertext Preprocessor", not even a programming language. You don't make a programming laguage as an after-thought.
We absolutely cannot trust anything claimed by the crooks in power.
I assume this is just to poke fun at Ethiopia and not in good faith - Here's a tweet along similar lines - https://twitter.com/Zesemir/status/1115212203941158912

Not real appropriate given the current civil war perhaps - https://www.unrefugees.org/news/ethiopia-s-tigray-refugee-cr...

Interesting OSINT of a smaller massacre - https://observers.france24.com/en/africa/20210312-ethiopia-t...
> Another option that may be more preferable to some founders is getting access to appropriate capital and resources in their home country, or in another country of their choice.

I spent most of my childhood in Russia, and I am stuck with a Russian passport. Russia is a mafia state I absolutely don't want my children to grow up in. It's absolutely out of the question for anybody of talent, or ability. My parents personally knew a number of dollar millionaires who lost all their livelihoods to the mafia. No way I'm going back.

So, what is the crowd of us expat entrepreneurs from 3rd world countries do have as an option?

1. Startup visas: largely open to people from first world countries only. Paperwork requirements make it effectively impossible to prove ones background as an entrepreneur, or a graduate of a high profile university.

2. Freelancer visas: a bit easier, most countries just want a proof of substantial income, or an LLC documents. It's still a perpetual visa program, without a way to settle down in most of these countries. Dubai PR was ever given to just few thousand people. Singapore PR is possible, but again not the lowest effort around.

3. Create a business in your home country, cook books, and establish a subsidiary in a developed world: explicitly illegal, but widely practiced to the point of getting some semi-official recognition. A patently absurd scheme normalising a nominally illegal behaviour.

4. Investment immigration, and such: investment immigration to the West is plainly out of reach financially to the most people whom I can genuinely call entrepreneurs. Western world's investment immigration programmes are both dysfunctional, and expensive, as they mean to steer you into bad investments.

5. Go from one 3rd-world mafia state, to another which is less of a mafia state; Have hope, and pray: pretty much the only option opened unconditionally to the widest number of people. 3rd world countries are very hungry for just any money, and their investment programmes are largely "anything goes," as well as having the least of inspections/scrutiny/enforcement.

It's the toughest option, but the easiest to get into one. India will sell you a PR for 15 lakh USD, Indonesia for 8 lakh, Bangladesh for 75 thousand, and Pakistan for just around 35k-30k given the extreme PKR depreciation in recent years.

I think it's the best option for anybody in the factory business, and 5-7 years experience actually running things, despite the South Asia's well known problems like extreme bureaucracy, and overt corruption.
I offer this as a free SAAS. Nothing to install.

https://iseven.dev/20

https://iseven.dev/21

Also isodd as a service:

https://isodd.dev/13

https://isodd.dev/16
You can do this math yourself. The average drug costs about $1.3B to develop [1]. What's the profit margin per dose in your country of choice, times the number of expected doses before the patent runs out? I can pretty much guarantee the total of that is nowhere near [1], let alone high enough to satisfy shareholder expectations. The unfortunate truth is that drugs are expensive to develop, and the US market subsidizes them for the rest of the world.

[1] https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/new-drug-cost-research-de...
Indeed, praying for technological moonshots to save us is the most vicious tactic of delay for climate change action [1].

The root problem is that we people of the Global North are incapable of looking ourselves in the mirror. The obvious solution is to stop all of the frankly idiotic overconsumption that hasn't increased our well-being in decades and – when no overconsumption means no economic growth – rebuild our economy on equity, instead of feverishly insisting that accumulation of almost all of the wealth to a few people is a the only alternative.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainabilit...

Edit. replaced "westerner" with "Global North" for clarity.
It's so strange when Canadian and European dignitaries fly to the US for important procedures when they've already solved healthcare [0].

[0] https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Why-Canadia...
I agree, there is a problem with this. We've been there before: being gay was considered a sickness and/or a crime in most countries till recently, for example. But, medical science can adapt to changing social norms, it did before, and was hardly ever a blocker here - i can't recall if there was ever a point where medical science or healthcare industry insisted on labelling something a sickness when society or state claimed it wasn't.
The cost structure of an LBS isn't the same as Wal-Mart. You can't compare pricing equitably because the latter has a disproportionate influence over their suppliers. Also physical hard goods aren't the same as electronics. Their material inputs are always increasing in cost. Compare to prices these things sold for 40 years ago. A $50 kids bike in 1980 should by rights cost $160 today and they were never even that cheap back then. That Wal-Mart can sell a bike shaped object for $50 without any apparent concern for inflationary pressure is more indicative of significant compromises on build quality. The bicycle industry has an issue with ridiculous gouging on the mid/high end but the bottom end is reasonable if you don't set unrealistic expectations.
> was not being depended on as a matter of skirting existential crises.

Life was much bleaker in the early 1900s. Then the Cold War was decades of immediate existential crisis (grade school children practiced getting under their desks for nuclear bombs).

> Both apocalyptic defeatism and procrastinatory techno-optimism are failure modes.

And this article is squarely defeatism.
> I know I cannot be alone in this.

You aren't alone. Most people who work with FPGAs hate the toolchains.

The entire FPGA industry and to a larger extent the entire semi industry in plagued by this problem.

This is a deep cultural issue.

Look for example at NVidia and their dumb secrecy policy around drivers (just the first example on top of my head, examples abound).

Secrecy and making your customers pay for tools is dyed in the DNA of these people and it is going to take a very long time for them to understand the economic advantage of openness.

It took MSFT almost 30 years to finally understand the lesson that giving away dev tools for free (e.g. Visual Studio) was a competitive boost.
Page 29 is the relevant page to this situation.
M-pesa was from the UK, but an interesting way the West can help East Africa -

https://www.sagentiainnovation.com/case-studies/vodafone-m-p...
Well, Jane Street do HFT in OCaml.
I'm one of the comments quoted in that chain of tweets, heh. Here's my specific example. This was years ago, so I don't remember much anymore and things may have changed. But I did now just give it a basic attempt and it still seems Wikipedia is easier than Wikidata. (I did put more effort into using Wikidata when I tried years ago, but all I really remember is it wasn't as fruitful as just fetching wikipedia).

My goal, a list of every airport on wikipedia with an IATA code and the city it is attached to. There is a perfect wikipedia page to start this off on, while as far as I can tell, wikidata does not have any of the data from the table on that page?

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

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&form...
I have never seen a definition of type system which cares about things being done at compile-time or runtime, or that there even is a compile-time or run-time
So many books but not how to design programs. Disappointed
Medicare is a cash cow for businesses. Anyone that tries to fix it is going to discover what it’s like to be part of a smear campaign.
No, you are wrong, and didn't read carefully. The comment of yours that I took issue with your response to the user "luckylion", who's only mention of the word "vaccine" was to mention that he himself is vaccinated. The rest of both of his comments that you attacked based on false premises are exclusively about risk tolerance, and the fact that we can't keep focusing on covid to the exclusion of all else forever. It's possible you aren't as ideologically bent as you're coming across and simply didn't notice you were talking to different people, but either way it's not acceptable behavior, hence why I called it out.

I won't respond to the rest of your comment or any follow ups as I don't believe it would be productive.
> Just go and read up how many British people are nagging about NHS.

Us British people are nagging about the NHS because we've had 10+ years of a wannabe-GOP running it into the ground in order to stealth-privatise it and bung billions into theirs and their corrupt chums' pockets.

We love the NHS. We don't love austerity and corruption.
I think that you're not looking closely enough at the underlying issues of these systems if your only metric is people don't go broke from a snake bite, or more broadly, they don't pay immediate upfront costs for their healthcare, even though a whole lot of these places do have upfront costs as well.

The healthcare industry has a lot of working parts, all of which require scrutiny, even in these mythical places of which you aspire American healthcare to look like. There's genuinely negative outcomes as a result of the policy decisions everywhere, too.
> It is easy to blame a single person or a single company for poor practices, but I have yet to encounter any real solution to this problem that allows someone to prove they are who they say they are which is able to hit the sweet spot between too many false positives (hijacked accounts) and too many false negatives (valid customers locked out).

We're getting there. Authentication comes down to three things, "Something you know (a password in your head), something you have (a private key, or a phone that gives you a code), and something you are (your face, a retinal scan, or a fingerprint)".

In most cases, people won't lose what they are. There are of course exceptions, such as injuries by fire - which brings us right back to step one, hounding poor support agents with a (possibly fabricated) sob story. The weakest link is often the support folks who can press a button and allow the attacker to authenticate.
All it would take a "C apologist" to explain why they don't want to use JOVIAL for example is that it is cumbersome to type programs in uppercase.

The only one I've ever seen talking of a "special gift" was you; most C programmers I know are very honest about the fact that C sucks in some ways. The typical experience is just that it sucks less than many others. What I appreciate most is that it gets out of my way. I don't want to be fighting a language, I want to concentrate on the problem I'm trying to solve.
I didn't present it as fact.
Another example of selling the same space twice is cities moving from fixed parking meters, to meters that print out a parking receipt.

With the meter stuck on a pole at the parking space, if I pay for an hour but leave after 20 minutes, the meter still shows time. Somebody else can come and park there for 40 minutes, free.

But if I buy a paper receipt and stick on my dashboard, and leave after 20 minutes, the next person still has to rent the same 40 minutes of time.

Nobody I mention this to is upset about it (neither am I, at heart, though I do notice it). That suggests to me that conflicts over tray space on airplanes is driven more by a sense of claustrophobia and powerlessness, than by any particular notion of fairness or ownership.
I've ridden a similar distance and I've actively given up on ever using bike lanes except for lanes that I specifically know are properly laid out and maintained, or a handful of places that do decent lanes (the Netherlands, London post-2010). It's just far too common for a bike lane to end up being a trap, and you have no way of knowing it's going to dump you into a blind corner / high kerb / unavoidable debris / muddy field / ... until it's too late. I agree with doing what seems safest, but you simply can't trust an unknown bike lane, so using one is just too high risk.
The broadest general measures of gdp per capita spent on healthcare as well as life expectancy would indicate that not only does the US pay over double per capita of what every other modern nation pays, it also has 2-5 year lagging life expectancy (not to mention the only modern nation with flat or declining life expectancy).

As an aside, the NHS is indeed flirting with instability right now, but that is due to multiple Tory governments arguably putting policies in place to destabilize and privatize the NHS in the long term. It’s as bizarre as Brexit to me that the British voters are going with it. But there it is.
I am reading the article using the NYT android app, and "opinion" is not mentioned anywhere, I copied the url and checked it on a browser, there is no opinion tag, and the url had no /opinion/ segment. So, I don't think this one is an opinion piece.
Exactly, I mainly work on a C++ software and for my PhD rewrote all the core algorithms in OCaml... Boy that was slow, I'm never ever touching that language again for anything that needs peak performance.
Open Source 3D Printable E-Scooter
> existential crises

I agree that climate change is horrible for biodiversity [1]. Solutions to life that took millions of years to evolve will die and be forever gone. Tragic, irreplaceable losses. Undoubtably the worst part of climate change.

But I don't think this will be an existential crisis for humans unless we trigger a "clathrate gun" [2] or some other runaway system that kills off the entire food web. Or substantially changes the chemical composition of the atmosphere well beyond periods such as the Mesozoic Era. (There have been vastly different climates and atmospheres throughout Earth's history, but we're adapted to a similar enough environment to survive many of them.)

We have to fight climate change, but I think that the doomsday "existential crisis" attitude is a turnoff to many that you'd attempt to sway. There's a pragmatic sweet spot.

Besides, there are a number of more likely culprits that would kill us before climate change (nuclear war, bioweapons, reverse chiral autotrophs [3], ecoterrorists seeding the world with prions, ...). Or at least things that would stick us in this gravity well until civilization ends.

[1] my thoughts on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27279511

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28038505
Interesting you think it’s American soft power when it might as well be Russian soft power that is making it to the U.S. south.
Why are you comparing recovery between countries 50-60 years post incident with a country that just had the event 10 years ago? That makes no sense to me. Of course they will be different.
The question wasn't whether sender and receiver know each other but whether the government can find out both. Totally different scenario.
I think the argument that he is making is that work visas are used to increase the labor pool (creating a "buyers market" for companies that are hiring). If a company cant find anyone willing to accept their offer then they need to improve the compensation and working environment... or they could hire a worker from the visa pool, thus suppressing wages, benefits, WLB, etc...

It's labor-economics 101.

It doesn't matter what the job is, if you pay enough then someone will take the job (and become qualified if needed).

ex: I'd scrub the shit out of sewage pipes with a toothbrush if you paid me enough, but most companies would just say that there is a "skilled labor shortage".
I'm not a hardware person at all, but my understanding is that distributed computing systems are hard to scale due to latency, and a huge factor in latency at this scale is physical distance.

This was also mentioned in the AI Day presentation, and listed as a major factor in the design of Dojo.
Doesn't that mean we're facing unintended consequences whether we do something or we don't?

(I'm not saying that this has to be the solution -- after all, there may be some consequences we determine beforehand that put it out of the running. But worrying about the dangers of a megascale geoengineering project just because it is a megascale geoengineering project, would seem to require our current path to be a known status quo, rather than just another megascale geoengineering project.)
I'm sorry for reading this as "north american" beer instead of "non-alcoholic" beer.
Also, with javascript off, it doesn't work hardly at all. Just like a real site.
TIL about it, last time I wrote some OCaml camlp4 was still all the rage
This argument would be more convincing if drug companies didn’t spend more on marketing in the US than they do for R&D.
what can be the cost of a full 660 Lb 250 mile two way trip?
are you including the salary of the driver/pilot in this cost? how much would that be? the website says half of cessna but i do not know how much does a cessna has in operating costs so what
what? They spend a crap ton on marketing and it seems to have paid off. I don't really know how their bikes are particularly that much better than other stuff out there. It's not like they make the drivetrain and carbon frames are pretty commodity at this point. Unless you buy into the layup marketing and special construction that only they can do hype.
Just curious when would you want timestamp to be in UUID rather than extra column that would make it easier to query, read, parse and modify in the future if it may be needed for whatever reason?

I usually include created_at, updated_at, and potentially deleted_at pretty much always in my tables as I don't think they affect storage and performance enough not to considering potential benefits down the line.
The analogue with Disney and FastPass/VIP resonates with me. A few years ago I was speaking on a panel at a two-day conference in LA. My panel was the first day, so I decided to quietly skip out on the second day and go to Magic Mountain instead.

My local park back home doesn't have anything like FastPass so when I heard about it, I was excited because I only had a few hours to spend and promptly got it as soon as I got to the park. As I walking to the first ride that I pre-reserved, I came across a family, all wearing the same t-shirt; the kind of shirt you have pre-made for a family event like an outing or a reunion. I thought that was neat and went on my way.

Fast forward to an hour or so later, and I see the same family at one of the coasters, standing in line while I walk right ahead and past them to the front. I start to think -- geez, is this sending the right message to this family, that those with more can just zoom ahead?

(As a very imperfect solution, I ended up running into them yet another time, right as I was leaving, and I gave them my FastPass.)

Life is fraught with a lot of those ambiguities. Or at least I think so. I order DoorDash, even though I know I'm getting convenience at the cost of a exploitative system for the vulnerable and underemployed.

There isn't a "correct" answer, just as there's no "correct" answer to the seat problem. Everything is relative. I do tend to think though that with a little empathy for everyone else, you'll do pretty well.
Sure, I've been directly (adversely) impacted by the H1B program multiple times and I'd be perfectly fine if the program was auction based with a minimum floor on worker salaries at something like 1.1x the prevailing wage. If you really need H1B workers you should be willing to pay significantly more than it would cost to hire and train a domestic worker. If that's the case then great, H1B mission accomplished. Otherwise, the program is garbage and completely abused to depress wages for American workers.
> they have a legal duty to maximize returns

They have a fiduciary duty to shareholders. That just means they have to act honestly, fairly, and always in the best interest of the shareholders. That's not at all the same thing as a duty to "maximize returns".
For a second I thought this post referred to sciplus (1), another science hobbyist website since forever ago.

1. science surplus: sciplus.com
Actually it turns out our "CDC", folkhälsomyndigheten has a report on just these factors:

https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/2dddee08a4...

Mostly in swedish.
That’s the story of how it started.

Australia is a rich country, once this happened they could have paid whatever it takes to get enough Pfeizer/Moderna. The price almost don’t matter, it is so cost effective it’s insane.

If we could figure out the total cost of this pandemic I’m sure all the vaccines we will take over many years will be a fraction of 1% of the total cost and that is not including human suffering and death.