skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue here is that a lot of people come at Amazon's decision from the lens of "This is actually a bad thing," when it's clearly a positive benefit.

Let's say that Amazon is using this college benefit to avoid raising wages for their front-line workers. One could argue that the college benefit is "bad" because it allows Amazon to ignore the root cause. However, this ignores the fact that Amazon could have just kept wages down without the college benefit. The front-line worker still benefits, even if not in the way they would have wanted.

There could also be the argument that Amazon is offering these college benefits to avoid unionization by their employees, legal action in the form of new laws about warehouse work, or some other action I haven't mentioned. This would mean that the college benefit is "bad" in that it has prevented a larger, more beneficial change. Depending on how likely one thought the larger change was, this could even be seen as a decrease in the expected utility for these workers.

I think this situation is what you mean by a "complex moral question" and I honestly agree with that point. However, I think that most people would rather take a smaller guaranteed benefit over a larger, uncertain benefit. This is primarily because well-being tends to rise with log(income), so a small benefit vs a medium-sized benefit has a much smaller well-being difference than it would initially seem.

I do agree that it ultimately depends though, and that suspicion is warranted. I just think that the moral question is too complex to immediately assume that Amazon is acting in bad faith like some commenters seem to indicate.
Satya seems a true visionary and disrupter :)
I don’t know quite what you mean by this.
They don't because when I leave for work I don't move fast enough to have a thousand years pass for everyone else by the time I get there.
> BTC volatility will presumably fall as the market cap grows.

They are not related. Gold, oil and gas are also very volatile and have massive market caps.

This doesn't matter, however. There will be traders who make market that will buy the volatility during the transaction for a fixed fee.
Despite the current https certificate issue, this is also a great introduction to Haskell.

http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
Read the next few ones, Lisp comes back strong.
No, no material, no background, just an interview with live coding for an entry level position because my minor was in computer science. "One out of a possible 1k algorithms" - half a dozen were asked.
We could always conduct war with trollfarms, propaganda etc.

China's unfree speech would actually be a strong asset in such a conflict.

Makes you think
I really appreciate websites that allow me to use "Denmark - English" and see prices and payment options I understand, in the language I understand best.
> It is great but I stand by my statement that the community's obsession with complexity (even if it's simpler from a category or maths sense) is the issue. Haskell's community is almost obsessed with increasing cognitive load IMO.

Personally, I consider it more complex to have to think about what side effects every piece of code has and what order things are evaluated in. The fact that I don't have to worry about these things in Haskell is a breath of fresh air for me. Also, not having to deal with the complexity of OOP when an ordinary function will do.

I think it's a misconception that Haskell is more complex than whatever popular OOP language people are using. It just looks more complex because it's less familiar (which I think is a problem with what we teach students in school).
It's all genes and some effort. Without the two, it's hard to get anywhere. People with super-high IQs are able to make the necessary epiphanies to 'see' the answer and prove the intended result. Genes play a role in everything, from marathon times, height, life expectancy, to lifting totals, to even math aptitude. no getting around it. Math , much more so than other fields, is heavily dependent on innate factors such as talent.
Hard to think of any two more-customer-hostile brands that could possibly team up
Clubhouse's feature was ted talks, which quickly turned into ponzi scheme talks. I don't think they had a chance, and it feels like the Clubhouse hype died down about a month before Twitter made a wide release for Spaces.
> Our technology is created to secure documents with sensitive information that has value only when you have real evidence in the format of this document (its photo, screenshot, scan, hard copy).

A business competitor wouldn't care about "real evidence", only that the information is useful. The only institution that I can think of that wants "evidence" is the court system.

Are you saying your tool is specifically intended to discourage people from submitting evidence to courts and the police?
Paragon NTFS driver included in Linux 5.15 release
> participants were asked to imagine having a given amount of discretionary time... [and then] asked to report the extent to which they would experience enjoyment, happiness and satisfaction.

This seems like a weird research design to me with limited power to actually tell us anything. Why would we think the amount of enjoyment people imagine having in response to an amount of free time we tell them to imagine would correlate well with actual experiences? Are people generally good at predicting how much they would enjoy random imaginary circumstances?

Now that might be an interesting study, how much do the things we predict will make us happy actually make us happy?
This is the best thing about HN. Stubborn for change.
I use patreon as well.

Do you regularly just send $ to artists you like?
Your Batteries Are Due for Disruption
I found this nice presentation about Godel's theorems. https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo?t=895

"There is no proof for the statement with Godel-number g".

What I'm struggling with is trying to understand if self-reference can be formally represented by some symbol. Can it?

Godel's proof seems to rely on a trick that allows a formal system to talk about itself but is that possible? There would need to be a symbol for that and thus a symbol that refers to itself?

A picture of a pipe is not a pipe. Similarly a representation of a proof is not a proof, is it?. Not saying I believe I'm right and Godel wrong, but it just feel strange to me that a formal system could ever "prove" anything about itself.

What does it mean that something is "true"? That it can be proven?
https://archive.ph/LOZPB
I would argue that if you are acting with the sole purpose to oppose other people, you aren't really making your own decisions.

Blind opposition is just as silly as blindly following the flow.
Basically an article from a dev trying to portrait herself as a good prospective manager by writing about things that have been repeated ad-nauseam.

>The services of a good leader is an important gap that development teams desperately need filled. However, very few managers know how to properly serve software development teams.

And of course the author knows.
If you are going to refute the point of the article, please share some points or even opinion on why you think it is incorrect.
Economic sanctions are the best ways to punish a country
Yeah, whats next. Imagining how your weight would change on a diet to measure that diets effectiveness?
While that would be a big boon, it's surprising that number isn't bigger. It seems we're regularly spending that as a sub portion of new bills, and accumulating multi-trillion dollar debts is happening regularly. So even if you could capture it, the US is still spending quite a bit compared to income.

I also find the headline seeming to contradict what it says later: "Sarin said that tax gap – “the difference between taxes that are owed and collected” – amounted to “around $600bn annually and will mean approximately $7tn of lost tax revenue over the next decade.”"

Not sure how we got from 600B to 160B. Also, isn't that closer to 6TN versus 7TN over a decade?

Lastly, whatever these numbers are, I'm sure it in reality could be far, far larger if there weren't so many loopholes, strategies of long-term gains and loans, etc. I happen to have a friend that's ultra ultra rich, and he already has said Forbes estimate is completely off (way underestimated) and they have no idea what his real net worth is (as it's private companies and not public).

Goldman & Credit Suisse have a much better idea of the true value here...
You realize they have millions of their citizens in reeducation camps right now as we speak that may or may not be harvesting their organs, right?
Like they eventually did with thhe Oculus Quest, are these going to need a Facebook account to get any use from them?
which it should be. carbon is not the only environmental issue we face. appalachia is the main channel of animal migration. its incredible. we should do all we can to protect it's integrity.
As of right now, there's no battlefield. China's official doctrine has been non-interference in other nations since Mao and they've mostly stuck to it with a few aberrations like a 30 day war in Vietnam.

Xi has been pushing the limits internally and maybe one day that turns external but people here are talking about pre-emptive cold war.

EDIT: diplomatic recognition is a purely symbolic move, and in this case the symbol is a middle finger to China. I'd argue the upsides are limited, but I was more objecting to the general theme of china hawkishness that points towards a new cold war.
Another good option is a letter A and a Chinese character.
There is going to be a massive enforcement bureaucracy set up. Unwinding that will be nontrivial. Once people's budgets and fiefdoms at work depend on it, they will fight to keep or grow their power. This will be around in some form for a very long time.
Parents (myself included) love taking videos of their kids and often have their hands full when outside.

There's a lot more parents out there than amateur pornographers. At least I hope so.
> In the early 1930s, the USSR survived by shipping so much grain out of Ukraine that by 1933, 25% of the Ukrainian populace had died. Dictatorships and authoritarian regimes always abuse people one way or another to survive.

During the Great Leap Forward around 1958-1962, an estimated 15 to 55 millions died in China due to famine, while China was still a net exporter of grain (to Cuba and Africa).

Another data point to support your point.
The level of inglorious buffoonery that we are seeing would not be possible if either side had any modicum of unity.
How are they going to test remote workers? Pretty much every tech company has 100+ employees and a significant number of them are working remote. Even if only 5% refuse to comply (it will be higher than that), it's going to be a nightmare for these companies, losing experienced workers with no time for knowledge transfer or even ability to find replacements to transfer that knowledge to. In a tight labor market, this is going to cause unimaginable economic damage and I don't see how the government turns on the cash firehose for something so difficult for companies to quantify the damage from.
A choice that results in consequences is normally how you assign fault for those consequences.
I was typing up a response, but "space enthusiast" on your profile sums it up - you're statements show your enthusiasm, but not any real understanding of the problem space.

The statements above are wildly optimistic, and don't actually take into account the actual capabilities and capacities of the launch vehicles in question. Furthermore, you're showing an extreme disregard for the actual engineering problems at hand here. It's a multi-decade process to design, build, and certify a launch vehicle _for LEO_. Handwaving "we can do it in 5 years" because the sales teams at SpaceX said so is, frankly, not a real answer. Talking about the "good state" the SLS/Orion are going to be in is, frankly, optimistic to the point of being naive.

Spewing factoids about spacecraft that don't actually exist beyond a "we blew it up on a launch pad" isn't an answer - it's a pipe dream.

Furthermore, you've deftly evaded even acknowledging the core problem - we don't have a space craft with an engine that can do the "back again" part of an L2 mission. That capacity literally doesn't exist right now. You can't just whistle up a rocket that works a few million miles from home.
Biden Orders Vaccine-or-Test Mandate for Businesses with 100 or More Workers
At £500+ it's not a realistic prospect I'm afraid. Maybe if there more affordable ones that becomes available then I definitely would want to take a look in-depth.
> it is not any reserve requirement that effectively determines how many loans a bank will create

But according to that article it may be, because that bank will need to increase reserves to expand lending and acquiring them has a cost.

“But that does not mean that any given individual bank can freely lend and create money without limit. That is because banks have to be able to lend profitably in a competitive market, [……] whether through deposits or other liabilities, the bank would need to make sure it was attracting and retaining some kind of funds in order to keep expanding lending. And the cost of that needs to be measured against the interest the bank expects to earn on the loans it is making,“
Are they failing to report (which amounts to tax evasion, a crime), or deferring payment?

Also, it's interesting that the five-percenters (95-99th percentiles) are the ones responsible for the most 'failure'. This is from the table in the report, not the article.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for...

Update: from the citations in the IRS post, it looks like they're talking about estimated tax evasion.
Well they were only mostly vegetarian
Should these regulations also be applied to smart phones and digital cameras?
> the latest war game was based on a Chinese biological-weapon attack that swept through US bases and warships in the Indo-Pacific region more than a decade in the future

If China starts a war by releasing a biological weapon, Taiwan will be the least of their concerns. I don't see any scenario in which every Western and neutral nation on Earth doesn't turn against them. Maybe Russia helps, but I doubt it.
> Yea black people always getting that advantage, you should let more people know.

I was simply responding to your sarcastic denial that black people have an advantage in college admissions.

Your sarcasm made you appear intellectually dishonest. Now at least we know you are not denying that preferential admissions take place.
I have a suspicion that this headline could also read:

Top US Congressional campaign donors are failing to pay billions in taxes
It absolutely is very interesting science, but the headline is arguably misleading. It's like saying "we have learned new things about where the body is buried" after searching an area and not finding the body: it's absolutely true, but misleading.
Thought this was about the SDLC app not the chat app.
Cops don't need to sneak up in cover of darkness. They are safety officers not special ops
Joe Biden: Covid vaccination in US will not be mandatory
Insurance & banking. I currently work in logistics.
> in a lot of cases, those types that I wrote will be replaced by more dynamic representation (e.g. strings) at some point.
I would love to see a type system that lets me subtype string, restrict the domain, and automatically (with some hints from the programmer) get functions on my type based on string functions the compiler can prove would result in my type.

I've only seen type systems that work like this on numbers, and usually only a very few integers at that.
The US ,global economy is huge. colleges have billion of dollars of endowments and tuition. More than enough $ to go around to fund it
The net change in transmissibility is either negative or positive. So yeah, “reduced transmission” is a binary. It’s just not easy to measure.
US is prioritizing South China Sea and Taiwan Strait after its exit from Afghanistan.

US sails ship through South China Sea days after China institutes new maritime ID rules [1]

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/us-south-china-sea-m...
Isn't this pretty much the description of how the Higgs Bosun was found? Fermilab kept finding where it wasn't, narrowing in on where it could be, so that the first time LHC looked it pretty much looked directly at it. Just because an expirement doesn't find the proof of, the proof of it not is also valuable.
I have found that 1 week holidays are optimal for me. 2 weeks off is common over the Christmas period but I find that if I spend it at home, I enjoy the first week of laying around but am bored of it by the second. And if I spend it out somewhere else, I get exhausted by the end of the first week and want to be back home.

The problem usually is that by the second week I want to get to some kind of difficult and productive task but I can not think of anything that can be done within a week so I either do nothing or start something that I do not finish. If I had 6 months off I would certainly be able to fill that with interesting tasks.
Well, that didn't age very well...
Your argument is restricting financial tools lead to less crime, yet your example is that if war criminals don't fund via debasement they'll just fund via bonds. So which is it, restricting does or doesn't help stop crime?
No. Most efficient allocation of resources happens in a free market, not in an overly regulated market. (Of course exceptions exist due to externalities but we are not arguing those here.)

There are many good examples here. First one that comes to mind is the auto dealers. Telsa without dealers offers far better experience where as car dealers are normally despised. Having more car dealers have not really improved dealership experience for us. Resources wise it is extremely wasteful.

> Large, vertically integrated companies can afford to comply with more stringent regulation.

While this is true, they do not tend to get large overnight. It is a slow process and a learning curve for many. With higher regulations you end up creating significant friction at certain key levels. Some companies that would have gotten large wont grow large if you apply higher regulation to some companies.
>through deposits or other liabilities

This is entirely the point. The money created goes back to the bank as deposits and new money is created on top of this.

i.e. 0.9^0+0.9^1+0.9^2+0.9^3+... = 10
Ask HN: Why salaries tend be lower for tech workers in UK compared to US
Would love to hear opinions on this.
Even though living in London is expensive
I looked at UWP when it came out. The only thing I found was that it was different but I didn’t see any improvements over WPF. I still don’t understand why they wouldn’t make it compatible with WPF.
I've read articles discussing the trend of minorities, especially blacks, moving into poorer, segregated communities despite having the financial means to live elsewhere. (Though I doubt it's a new trend.) Suffice it say that, yes, a simple desire to live among people you're more socially comfortable with is one motive. It's not the only motive; mixed motives tend to be the norm, not the exception, which only begs the question of what the but-for motive was, if anything, and the extent to which it was driven by racism.

There has been quite a lot of black scholarship discussing the benefit of, and even quite a few recent (not to mention historical) initiatives regarding building, predominantly black communities. Critical Race Theory in particular has a lot to say about this, AFAIU, and I'm pretty sure CRT-related discourse is how we got "safe spaces". But of course all the nuance gets lost in translation. And there are fundamental contradictions that are conspicuously left unresolved, perhaps because they're unresolvable given the background constraints imposed by our political culture.[1] (Such contradictions abound in every political culture.)

[1] CRT would say it's those background constraints that are racist. But I don't think CRT theorists really appreciate the depth of our shared culture. In its specifics CRT is almost completely non-sensical outside American academic circles.
Not to argue about this directly, but there is a stark difference in that we can argue about this. Is it not true that China will censor discussions about Tiananmen square especially if it disagrees with their narrative? Yes I'm sure Chinese citizens know some information about Tiananmen square that westerns don't. AKA the info and only the info that paints it as a western overreaction, but that has little meaning when it's literally the only narrative that's allowed.

Also for the record. While interesting Operation Yellowbird seems entirely innocuous
We also have to account for demographics and understand the risk/benefit analysis. That 96% number is from a WebMD survey of about 300 physicians. The ages are mostly over 50 with only 7% being under 35. So they are in the somewhat higher risk groups. They also work a job that runs a high risk of exposure. This means they might see their risk of infection and serious illness being high enough to justify it without feeling it is necessary to recommend it to everyone. For example, we don't all receive rabies vaccines yet many animal handlers do.

Another important thing to note is that there could be bias in that group. If you dedicate your life to medicine, you may be more likely to trust medicine without questioning it. Unless you've had an experience that was negative. Many physicians that have had negative personal experiences abide by the idea that new means unproven (which matches the reason that most unvaccinated doctors gave in the survey and the CDC lists - that the longterm risks are unknown).

Lastly, most doctors are to mechanics as medical researchers are engineers. Most doctors aren't looking up studies on PubMed or doing research. They mostly rely on what they've been taught in school and in continuing education. For the most part they are following established protocols. Hell, even the experts admit that there is a lot they don't know about the immune system. Take for example that researchers are seeing protection from the vaccine before antibodies are produced - which was unexpected.

So while most groups are susceptible to misinformation, that doesn't invalidate the position that one may avoid the vaccine due to the unkmown longterm affects. It's really a question of risk/benefit analysis in a sea of incomplete information.