skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mobile traffic has been larger than desktop for over a decade.

For cat videos - most likely.

But for sites selling (enterprise) software and services - almost certainly not.

> We've been hammering mobile-first for almost that long.

Do you work for Google? That's pretty much the only "we" that's been hammering that.
If the predictions are true that we will see more and more specialized hardware due to the end of Moore's Law, then we will see more OS services just look like services running on separate processors. Special purpose hardware doesn't need a batteries included operating system. We could argue whether a modular OS still counts as general purpose, but I'll let you guys do that.

With IPC, latency becomes the elephant in the room. An RTOS can't remove that, but it can help.
Communism is totalitarian by nature. It will always be evil and abhorrent
> "Your dues will pay for a six figure salary for the union president" rings hollow when your labor led to Bezos' net worth.

This illustrates an important point:

The upper-class is using the lower-class against the middle-class.
Normally, in my experience as an individual contributor, the references aren’t even contacted. I have had one place contact my references and it is the place I’m starting work in 2 weeks :)
> using almost the same logic

This appears to be completely separate logic? A balance of interests, in the Canadian case, and an inaliable right, in the U.S. one.
I am often shocked how a community like HN could have so many global warming skeptics. It doesn't make sense to me because people who deal with software should understand complex systems. Should understand how hard understanding complex systems are. And should understand how dangerous it is to disrupt complex systems so dramatically like we did the climate.
Please stop with the re-heated McCarthyism. It isn't helping the discussion.
This is a known phenomenon: https://www.sclhealth.org/blog/2019/06/the-real-health-benef...

Though, I do remember reading about a collection of studies that failed to reproduce and this was one of the hypotheses. Perhaps the difference is that you genuinely wanted to smile :)
That may be true in SV or something like that, but I am guessing in Alabama, for someone making $15-$20 an hour six figures seems like quite a bit. Heck I'd consider myself upper middle class and I make low six figures.
Yes, because that wouldn't be a union under federal law.

The NLR{A,B} is very precise about what it considers to be a legitimate form of organized labor, the fact of which does not detract from it being illegal for an employer to fire you for attempting to organize in a form recognized under the NLRA.
Sensing Breakdown: Locomation Autonomous Trucks
Have US regulators not blocked multiple such businesses already?
I don't get the appending reddit thing. I don't see why reddit is considered trustworthy, marketers have been planting "organic discussion" on reddit for years.
There are plenty of good comments in this thread about how Google search results aren't as good because of SEO and companies like Pinterest, "gaming the system". However Google itself is not blameless in making their search quantitatively worse through their injection of censorship and politics into their searches. Google manipulates searches on a whole variety of subjects - current, political and historical - on a regular basis. For example, Google, "Syria gas attack" and compare the top 10 results you get when you go to Duck Duck Go and search for the exact same term. Google will tell you its because it ranks "authoritative" sources higher. What metrics Google uses to determine how "authoritative" a source are not revealed. Unsurprisingly, Google's choice of "authoritative" sources always aligns exactly with the DC/Pentagon/State Department blob. Ironically, these attempts at censorship by Google just serve to further undermine what little trust many people have in "authoritative" sources all together (aside from making their search function much less useful).
But if it goes public, surely it will no longer be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation?
I agree. I hate that any search I do will show CNN articles from this week. Dude google, if I wanted recent news I would use the news tab.
The Slaughter of the Boy's School in Mykalessos and its message for today
It's not hard if you've ever been in a union. I'm in a union and while wages are important, its the peace of mind knowing my boss can't fire because she's having a bad day or force me to work unpaid overtime that I really value.
This is obviously off-topic, and has nothing to do with the submitted article's content. [1] But the ship of keeping this on-topic has already sailed, so I might as well add my two cents: Fauci himself said the reason they discouraged people from wearing masks was that "it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply". [2] There is a utilitarian argument for white lies, but public health officials did lie categorically.

[1]: I have flagged the woke-scolding comment which started the digression; likely to no avail as it matches the biases of the egregore.

[2]: Fauci's interview with The Street: https://archive.ph/T4uZI#selection-809.0-813.507
A Hacking Spree Against Iran Spills Out into the Physical World
Correlation vs Causation from Clayton Christensen.

Past-Man correlated flight with feathers and so they built wings with feathers but that obviously didn't work. Flight was only conquered when the mathematical laws were understood and through engineering.

So lesson is that results (including life) like flight is a product of a mathematical formula, and so a person can only achieve a desirable result by making fundamental changes to engineer that result.

The common mistake is not making any changes to the formula and expecting a different result or just copying successful people superficially (correlation) without understanding the deeper causal mechanism in play.
Precisely. The more one learns the more unsolved problems one discovers, each more brain-stimulating than the last!
> The decision pointed to moves by the company encouraging staff to vote via a mailbox it had the Postal Service install at its warehouse, surrounding the mailbox with its campaign slogan and locating it where workers may have thought Amazon was surveilling them.

I do not understand this, and also don't understand why this is just glossed over in a single sentence in this article and not unpacked more.

Generic cynicism aside, since when can a private company just "have the Postal Service" install a mailbox on its property? This makes it sound like the USPS is at corporate beck and call.

This makes it sound like a company can call up the postal service, say 'setup an official mailbox on our private property', and the post office responds with 'sure, we'll be right over'.
I do think it's a bit of a mixed bag of causes.

Google has mixed incentives since their main income is the ads they sell both on the search results page and in the pages linked from the search results. Looking after the interests of the users is a tricky balancing act, and it would be really easy for them to start cannibalizing themselves to eke out a bigger profit margin. In the absence of serious competition to keep them honest, it is in their economic interest to show mediocre search results with a painful amount of ads.

Google also appears to have pivoted toward a few particular use cases of search engines, finding where to buy things, and answering questions. I think a few uses fall in the cracks between those patterns.

They seem to be optimizing for the results that most people will click, which is fine if you are most people, but will worsen the experience for the long tail consisting of all the users looking for something specific off the beaten track. The algorithms seem to actively resist attempts at refining the query away from the most popular results, which is a peculiar behavior that I don't understand the motivation behind. I think this is a big mistake, as it makes what was already easy easier to find, and what's already difficult even more difficult to find.
That is why you are seeing way more Search Engine startup. No one at Googles understand anything about quality, nor the intuition to understand what is good and what is bad. So they decide to AB test the heck out of everything.

It is a lot like Microsoft in the 90s.
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> Interestingly, while this is a frequent threat, the instances of an employer ever actually following through are vanishingly small.

The more common occurrence is for the employer to let the union go on strike. Then the employer keeps the shop open by hiring new workers from outside the union and lets the union stay on strike forever. Obviously the effect on the union workers is basically the same.
Google has probably gotten better at its business, better search results in the ads than the search results themselves.

By owning demand for search the attention can be guided.
> How is it the UK reg has the power to do this? I thought Giphy was a US company.

Because both Facebook and Giphy are active in the UK market.

If they don't want to be subject to UK regulation then they're free to stop doing business in the UK.
Media History Digital Library
You are equating historiography's increasing focus on "questions of gender, race, or generational relations" to "identity politics". That is quite a leap. One can, and should, draw political conclusions from history, but that doesn't mean that professional historians are being overtly political merely for expanding the focus of their research.

I'll point out that the expanding focus of history has been constant at least since the mid-1800s. The historian Fernand Braudel once quoted the historian Jules Michelet, who had boasted in 1862, "Only in the modern age have we discovered truly universal history." Braudel remarked "Even since then historian's have been looking over their shoulder."

The point is, Michelet felt he had invented universal history because he had expanded the focus of history to include some economic realities, yet his focus still seemed limited compared to the work that Braudel and the Annales School were doing in the early and mid 20th Century. And so Braudel wondered, would his own work seem limited to people living in the mid 21st Century? And of course, the answer is yes. The concerns of history, and the methods of historiography, continue to expand, constantly.
> Facebook (sorry but I don't give a sh*t that its new name is Meta)

clearly, you do
Tock OS: Programmable IoT starts at the edge
Haven't been bored since I was a child.

You can streetview in Finland and American Samoa, what's "bored"...?
But somebody has to write those Stackoverflow answers. Perhaps for those who do the distinction between man pages and info is important. Or do you think that the source of Stackoverflow answers is just more Stackoverflow answers? Now that would be hilarious.
The cool thing about AWS Copilot is that you don't have to manage your own image build and push anymore. Instead Copilot builds the container image from source, pushes it to ECR automatically, and then launches it in Fargate, with one command. You can find more info on that here: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/docs/getting-started/first...

For Lightsail you use the command line to run `aws lightsail push-container-image`. This also automatically manages the ECR and container image push for you. You can read more about that here: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amaz...

Basically these higher level tools don't require you to start from a preexisting container image in ECR. Instead they help you push your container to the cloud automatically, and you don't even have to touch ECR directly.
Oh, its just a throw-away sentence about infinite sequences / sums, and the usage of lim x->infinity to solve that kind of problem.

The bulk of that section is about distributive property of summations, sum_A(foo) + sum_B(foo) == sum_AorB(foo) + sum_AandB(foo), and other such properties.

Its a primer on the mathematics of programming, which is almost entirely discrete mathematics. There's no integral or derivative in that section!
>Amazon also really seems to push what they _want_ to sell over what they have available

This is exactly it. Amazon isn't a shopping site, they're a corporation using third party sellers to offload the risk and cost of providing a wide array of goods. They let customers experiment with product offerings, find products that sell using their web site, then cherry pick the most lucrative ones to produce and stock to compete with their own "customers".

They're not a service for anyone but themselves.
The media coverage is certainly a benefit! But I don't know if it's the "real" one: the NLRB seemingly agrees that Amazon's manipulation efforts had a real effect on the previous vote. Even if the vote fails again, a change in the percentages is an important outcome.
What you should know about developing GPT-3 applications
In the Bay, Seattle, or NY, maybe. In Bessemer, AL where the vote is being held, the median family income is $40k.

Still a ridiculous talking point.
Relevanace of Personality Type in Career, Particularly the ESTP vs. ENTP
AWS Graviton 3 Instances
I bootstrapped a $25,134 MRR Shopify app as a student in less than a year
Even if all of this is true, it doesn't disprove the existence of autism as a legitimate disability or diagnosis.
Sure. The NLRB can be as precise as it wishes. My point is only that a "union" is not merely what the NLRB deigns to be the state-sanctioned form of worker organizing. There were clearly recognizable unions in the 19th century that were not sanctioned by law. That does not make them any less of a union.

It is only illegal to fire an employ for attempting to form a union of the NLRB sanctioned structure. An organization of workers that undertakes a wildcat strike can be legally fired.
In this case my job was to generate a synthetic workload to drive max bandwidth. So I didn't have to worry about metadata.

Metadata is more complicated to model, need realistic directory structures etc.

https://www.spec.org/sfs2014/ (2020 version) is a good test of a metadata-heavy workloads, but isn't open source like fio :(.
Amazon.com search is probably the worst offender of all the awful search engines. You can spend hours trying to find something you know is on there.
Scrubbing would be fun, I agree!
The voiding the contracts thing doesn't make sense but otherwise a good laugh!
The upper class is destroying the middle class.
To echo your comment, every time I see this discussion online, and someone brings up their negative experiences finding a job in this market despite their nominal qualifications, the discussion often derails into how they personally must have some sort of defect or constitutional failure on their own part, rather than the opposite party accepting it as a valid data point.
JetBrains introduces interactive reporting into data science notebook platform
Potential Satoshi candidate
What does this even mean? No business is allowed to buy another business? This would force economic activity to be centered around wealthy individuals (even more than it already is).

People feel that wealthy individuals having majority control over big businesses is a bad thing (Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc), but your proposal would enshrine this in law.

For example think about the case of Steel, inc. vs John Smith. Steel, inc. is a corporation with a broad set of owners (hell, let's make it employee owned). It makes steel. John Smith is a rich guy who has bought controlling interests in a number of privately held businesses which are all in the steel industry.

John Smith will easily be able to outcompete Steel, inc. Steel, inc. is encumbered by your law, while John Smith is not. If John Smith's empire needs an ore mine, he can just buy it. If Steel, inc. needs an ore mine, the only thing they can do is find a new ore deposit, and buy all the machinery needed on the open market.

Your law mandates that all business be controlled by rich individuals instead of groups of shareholders.
Without the group, does this match abc at the start or def at the end?
OK, but none of that really qualifies you to arbitrarily redefine the term "profit" to fit your argument.

https://www.google.com/search?q=uber+first+profit

https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+first+profit

make it fairly clear how people use the terms.
Being cautios is generally advised with omicron, but if you suspect the worst from people one would expect the CEO of Biontech to escalate the threat not to downplay it. Because Biontech is probably the company in the best position to release the first adapted vaccine to the market.
> Sounding like a natural human is not a requirement, or even a goal for most music.

You should hear what Chinese operatic singing sounds like.
Can you go into more detail on how the Foundation and the company are separated?

I see a lot of doubt in this thread, and while some of it seems to come from a confusion of the two entities, the rest seems to acknowledge their separation, but doubt that it will protect the foundation in the long run.

So, what would interest me would be how funding & staffing of the foundation works, if there are arrangements to ensure access to low-price material for the activities you list and such.

Edit: a link to an FAQ or such will do just nicely of course ;)
Yes, not yet. I hope it will, when it has enough resources.
Yes, you don't need to be nearly Amazon's size. USPS mail drop box locations are the responsibility of the local postmaster. It's basically a matter of asking politely and there being enough mail to somewhat justify it. It's not uncommon for large commercial real estate developments (like a new strip mall or an office park) to arrange to have one installed when the facility opens.
Kind of.

The youth of a lot of people is also a grind of schooling to prepare for a career working. Youth are better off than in the past, but if you're stressing full time studying, that's basically the same thing as working.
> I really wish they had just come down hard on the side of free speech to the extent they could

I think they did try, but ultimately any centralizing web service cannot succeed in this. For one, they need to follow government censorship laws (presumably what you mean by "extent they could"). But even deeper, their intrinsic profit motive destroys free speech through both negative distortions ("don't upset the sponsors") and positive ones ("drive engagement"). The effects of the latter are slower to take hold (eg online flash mobs rallying around centrally-promoted content). But once they do the company ends up stuck between a rock and a hard place - either hurt their core product by removing its centralizing features, or attempt to mitigate the ill effects through increasingly invasive policies.
(American here) This is not about a right to unionize - of course workers have a right to unionize. This is about laws which force employees to join a union if they want to work in a particular business or industry. There are many laws in many parts of our country which restrict my ability to work in a given job or industry unless I join a union.

As an employee, I prefer to have the right to choose whether to join a union or not, but many folks don't want me to have that choice.

As an example, if this warehouse votes to unionize, will I still be able to work there without joining the union if I don't want to? No, I will be forced to join or leave.
I endured the hijacked scroll because I was curious about what he meant.

It looks like a good idea, but in a very user-hostile interface, what wasn't surprising at all. If I had to guess, the author is honestly trying to increase his site's usability by overriding the default behavior, he is just failing spectacularly.
Why the [expletive] can’t we travel back in time?
Lots of "Amazon Bad, Union Good" sentiment in these comments.

How is it that HN'ers look at entities like the UAW or various state teachers' unions and think, "Yeah, let me get some of that."?

Is there an example of increased union-ization of a U.S. company leading to better outcomes for customers?
Even in SV someone working at an Amazon warehouse is not making more than that.
Musk tells SpaceX employees that Starship crisis is creating a bankruptcy risk
Not that we know of, for hardware supply.

Microsoft can't supply ARM Windows to Qualcomm's competitors. Windows can't be ported to anyone else's ARM chips because of an exclusivity agreement with Microsoft.
This is the hilarious irony of this entire software project. I trust Google a lot more to produce a safe binary than some random internet stranger who promises to be good. Even if I don't ultimately trust Google as a software vendor, I can at least make some reasonable assumptions about the security of their product.
There are enormous amounts of hydrocarbons beneath the Artic Ocean and the world has known that for many decades. If those resources could be extracted without extreme complication and expense the world would have done so before now.

It makes me wonder whether the "normal state" of the Arctic is in fact lush and tropical and what we are witnessing is its return to that state, albeit accelerated by humankind's increasing presence and its invention of industrial processes that use those hydrocarbons.

Given the exploration that has already taken place over the past decades, one would assume there are core samples, or core sample data, located somewhere that indicate the true nature of the changes the Arctic Ocean has experienced and continues to express.
Yes, I actually find Bing is now better for the long tail.

Most of my searches are for really old pages or really long tail stuff and Google just simply doesn't bubble them up, if it has them at all. I keep finding web sites lately from links on other sites and find myself asking "Why the fuck did Google not find this?" .. then I go back to Google and try to find it with keywords from the site, and nothing...
AWS Private 5G
Indeed, Amazon very clearly used their weight to unfairly influence the vote. But unionizing that warehouse would be an uphill battle in any case due to the high turnover rate (150% per year according to first google result). Why bother with a union and risk marring the facade of friendliness with management when you'll be gone in a few months anyway? Getting this to work will probably require a broader effort involving not just current employees, but getting the entire workforce in Bessamir inoculated against Amazon's anti-union propaganda. I hope RWDSU leadership understands this.
Effects and Contexts in Kotlin
The reason an advanced Neuralink could be invaluable on Mars is because all the complex machinery required for diagnosis of brain-related ailments will be prohibitively difficult to set up on a Mars colony for a good while. The brain is the least understood ogran in our body - Elon is trying to accelerate development and generate awareness in the field by giving it an honest go with his own company. A BMI like Neuralink would also be a multiplier of human effort when there is a limit to how many colonists we can ferry per unit time.

Neuralink aside, you seem to not have mentioned the other companies - I wonder what you think of my theory regarding them?
Serenity OS has addressed the browser problem with a shocking amount of energy. If anything, it proves that the dream is possible.
> Nonetheless, the case wasn’t made.

Of course not. Because it didn't need to be made.

> there isn’t a surface area of facts and reasoning upon which the core team might interact to counter such a statement, so they don’t need to.

They do need to explain why they shouldn't be under the same moderation as everyone else. Any "surface area" (???) one could possibly need to establish that was certainly there in the moderation team's resignation.
It depends on the project size; for smaller projects we use ClickUp, and we have an in-house tool for larger projects.

Regarding Portfolio Management, can you be more specific what you mean?