skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has to be a nightmare scenario for FedEx and UPS. From my understanding, a decent number of their flights are pretty much paid for on Amazon deliveries alone: The scale that Amazon ships at makes it feasible to quickly deliver many other packages economically. If Amazon chooses to cut FedEx and UPS out of the deal (even partially), how much will that impact those companies' ability to operate two-day shipping affordably?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413194
Somebody should warn all the countries that don't have them or an equivalent
"shit has to taste good, millions of flies eat it every day"

"I don't accept that."

Addressing the strongest possible reading and all that.

> a non sequitur about it being a "common sense approach."

Just read "common sense approach" as "that makes sense to me" and it fits perfectly. As for common sense, ask random people on the street what they think turning something "off" means. Do you think you'll find even ONE person who says "oh, that probably means it'll stay off until I change location, or until 5 AM, whatever comes sooner?". That's the elephant on the couch.

The use case of what you or most would find convenient, and would prefer to have available with one touch instead of more, is completely orthogonal to what all of this is about -- the common sense of what any normal person who isn't bent on defending Apple just because would respond with 1000 times out of 1000: of how to read UI in this case. Consider it a use case for the UI, and to even suggest just one person actually has the use case you declare to be such a majority they must be catered to without any further investigation (e.g. if the majority is wrong, that should strengthen, not weaken your resolve) truly is ridiculous.
We have very different ideas about what "immense response" means.
Fake News. Your password hint is your password. Employing fascism to fight fascism. Off means on. This world is so full of shit.
The Athletic Brassiere
Amazon Logistics have lost my packages several times. I had to call them every time they use their own delivery service. I told them to use Google Maps, but was told they don't have a smartphone. Luckily their customer service rep was great, and either refunded or shipped replacements.
Honestly I don't think it's effectively identical for the vast majority of users.

Every single time I've wanted to turn off Wifi and Bluetooth, it's because I know I'm going to struggle to get my battery to last till I can charge it again. I'm going to be out and on the move, so Wifi has no value to me except as a battery drain.

In fact, I struggle to think of any other ordinary use for disabling Wifi and Bluetooth. The real exceptions are like (I have this one now) I don't have ADSL at home but I haven't been bothered to turn off the modem or my mate who's paranoid of being stalked by companies. But those are exceptional. I wouldn't write a feature to deal with them. Except to keep the battery going, who turns wifi off?

It sounds like I've lost a real feature and I don't know how to get it back any more. If I want to be able to send and receive data but I want my phone to last all day[], what can I do?

[]: NB. The only reason I want my phone to last all day is because I want to use it. Consequently, saying "my phone lasts all day no problem" isn't an answer. You probably don't use your phone like I do.
I was showing coworkers an example of the Floyd Steinberg algorithm today.

The following images have the same amount of colors, namely black and white.

https://i.imgur.com/stQUl5E.gif

https://i.imgur.com/mw8IX9N.gif

Source image:

https://i.imgur.com/diR72k2.jpg
I don't know IMAP beyond the very basics, but I presumed that it doesn't include facilities for adding metadata. Correct me if I'm wrong! So if you wanted to store snoozing info, you'd have to encode that oddly somewhere -- in a fake email item name? Or as an added mail header (if it's considered polite for clients to add them)?
They've had the same in the US for a while as well. What makes this different is that they are handling both sides of the delivery, whereas before they were delivering from their own warehouse.
no kidding. about four UPS flights land in my city's airport everyday, which happens to be one of the distribution centers / warehouse locations for Amazon for norther CA.
Amazon delivers like 25% of the stuff we order directly in Venice.

They get the address wrong far more often then USPS, UPS and FedEx, in our experience.

A neighbor 5 houses down has the same street number, technically on a different street, but it faces the same way as ours so if you just eyeball it without verifying on the map it's easy to mess up. I'm sure they will improve but it's obvious having a consistent driver for an area is important, especially if addresses are weird.

Also they have to scan the package and my front door is basically a cellular dead zone, it costs them a lot of time trying to find the sweet spot to scan on their mobile device before taking off to the next stop.
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yes, same experience here. the only time my packages did not arrive on time / got delayed / refunded was on Amazon delivery service.
If you don't mind my asking, which parts of the agent logic tend to be the profiling hot spots when you have several thousand of them? Do you end up running into a combinatorial explosion somewhere?
The crazy thing is Amazon keeps entering these hyper-competetive, low margin industries. It's pretty tough to cry foul that they are acting like a trust when they constantly position themselves as the third or fourth player breaking up an oligopoly.
Can i use operator mono with Fira code ligature?
I have a < 50% delivery rate to my apartment when Amazon delivers it and the past two deliveries to work were "delivery attempted" even though they never tried to deliver it into the office.
I would encourage you take a few minutes to read about the extent of actual efforts undertaken, starting days before landfall, to manage this disaster.

DoD has in fact taken over responsibility for local management of disaster response. I couldn't find a MSM source but you can Google Translate this [1] - god help me I had to find the link on /r/the_donald.

[1] - https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/cambialalog...
I'm going to say something that may not go well with others here and may be repulsive at first. Hear me out though.

There are 2 issues here and they are separate.

Issue #1. Is it worth relocating to SV for your "dream job"?

A few things to note are:

- There are no "dream" jobs. That's a myth. You are building someone elses vision and domesticating yourself further.

- What will your net worth become after 1, 2, and 3 years after this job relative to current opportunities of where you are at now. Will you actually get ahead and achieve your Real dreams and life purpose, or merely toil away in a land far from loved ones and spend precious years somewhere you do not want to be.

- Why do you have to move? That says something about how needy the employer is. They probably have games, "free" food, and noisy open offices.

Issue #2. Fear of the loss of love(r)

- Are you genuinely happy and secure in your relationship? If you were going to propose. You would have done so already and not weigh different options. Men are decisive and when they are not, it is because their intuition ia telling them something.

- If she would not move with you. Would you move if she "got her dream job offer". How would that play out a) she took it or b) she didn't take it and "stayed" with you. Reflecting on this question will reveal something to you about the quality of your relationship, as well as the power dynamic and is useful analysis.

- Do her goals and yours line up? Moving in together is Common Law marriage. Look up the stats on how many women get pregnant in such situations after X months. Apply an estimate for when you will have your first child (if she wants kids and you both can biologically have them). Decide if you really want this and are ok with the probability.

- Are any underhanded tactics such as "if you loved me, you would stay" being used or mentioned? If anything resembles this uncomfortable line of questioning, then it's time to take a hard look at whether it is the right thing to continue being together.

Hope this gives something to think about and meaningful insights as a result.

There are 6 big fears that a person can have. And I suspect a couple are at play and hindering decisive action.

Also, I'm going to be hard on you with the passive language:

"I recently received a compelling offer..."

So you mean that an offer landed on your lap from the heavens, with no volition or involvement from yourself?

Or did you mean that you DELIBERATELY sought out a killer opportunity and nailed it?

If it fell from the heavens, then it wouldn't be a discussion point. I am suspecting it is the latter. Your behaviour and choices are telling you something. Do not second guess yourself and do not let the fear of the loss of love get in the way of your happiness. She is your girlfriend. Not your wife. Not the mother of your children. Not your sister. Not your mother.
Call them up and give them devivery instructions. I used to have the same problem, it’s gotten better.
How to Learn Vim: A Four Week Plan
Are you asking in terms of economics or technicals?

Cryptocurrencies are distributed and basically impossible to take down or hack through the front door (as an individual). They are less easily attributed to a person or owner.

Virtual currencies are hosted and managed by some single entity, if they go bankrupt so do your points. They tend to not have value outside of where you can redeem them. Some businesses don't allow transferring of reward/loyalty points, which makes it illiquid.
Thank you for providing this insight -- I'm one of the seemingly rare few who hates ligatures in my Latin-script fonts, and when I saw this submission my brain leapt to "augh, why!?" -- you've given at least one very clear use-case where ligature support is valuable, which I was totally unaware of.
E.R. GH was a daytime soap.
In many ways Japan seems like a paradise.
Crime free, almost, 70%+ forest coverage, technologically advanced but still respect for long-standing cultural traditions.
It's unrivalled social cohesiveness comes at the cost though of a lack of diversity. For example, I read somewhere it gets less than 100 asylum seekers a year.
Now they need to get into manufacturing.
Whenever an Amazon contracted courier tries to deliver a package, they call my cellphone because they can't get into the apartment's lobby.

It's so frustrating, and a ridiculous step backward - UPS, USPS, and FedEx are all completely fine. But if Amazon's Algorithm decides to send it via an Amazon contracted courier instead, I'd better be home and near my phone, or no delivery for me!
Show HN: Programmable CMS as a Service
Curious, but did you see who was the author of the piece?
Product design, logistics, warehousing, delivery, IT infrastructure, physical stores, ecommerce.

Plenty of companies have this kind of vertical integration too (e.g Apple) but none that I'm aware of do this across such a large range of products - nor do they then offer these as services to third parties (e.g. IT infrastructure, ecommerce).

What else will Amazon decide to bring in-house? Manufacturing? Energy production? Consumer finance?

EDIT: As an aside, I find it ironic that Amazon started out selling books. I know plenty of people (myself included) that have daydreamed about owning a little bookstore as a way of escaping the rat race. Success for most would look more like Bernard Black Than Jeff Bezos.
I think an interesting point is that, for example in US corporate culture, it would be unacceptable to have a non-facetious theme of empathy running throughout such a strategic document. Whereas, it seems to me that the Japanese management culture truly allows for this sort of thing, compared to US board rooms. The world needs more of this, so well done Japan!

The money slide for me was the top companies by market capitalization over time, where you see railroads (old transport and information infrastructure) ousted by fuel and steel (car infrastructure), ousted by infotech infrastructure.
I'm sorry, that was meant to read "no local food or water" which is what the OP says.

I can't imagine 3.4 million people stick around with no electricity for 4-6 months, and no local economy. I did not at all mean to claim 3.4 million people have left already.

I am guessing if the electrical grid is truly destroyed and will take 4-6 months to rebuild as reported, how could that not lead to a mass exodus?
I personally prefer version control in sublime with suitable plugins it's the debugging experience that I feel is lacking in sublime Vs vscode and atom

Sublime does not have the concept of panels so any kind of debugger in sublime looks and handles really bad
Speaking of plotters, consider engraving the QR code in aluminum instead of having it on paper. If there's any hacker space nearby where you live they might have CNC equipment that they will let you borrow and instruct you how to use.
FedEx and UPS have been iterating for decades on one of the most complex business operations on the planet. Amazon is testing.
How do you assess that actors are chosen and not rewarded for their skill like athletes?
Most users when turning "off" Wi-Fi, particularly from the control center, are doing so to get them off whatever network they're on. What their mental model is for what "Wi-Fi off" is doesn't matter because the user shouldn't be responsible for managing the radios in their phone. And any of them that do try to are probably under the impression that it saves them battery life, when it actually doesn't (unless connected and transmitting).

The new control center behaves in the way that most people actually use the buttons. More importantly it solves a major problem in that it no longer requires the user to know what radios need to be on for various features they use to work. Apple probably has all the support call stats they need to decide this was a better behavior.
I tried this out using overtone, and it doesn't sound too terribly dissonant, but I agree, nothing like the major pentatonic scale linked in the video.

(Also, overtone is fun! here's my repl session)

(require '[clojure.math.numeric-tower :as math])
(use 'overtone.live)
(def freqs (map #(* 440 (math/expt 2 (/ % 5))) (range 0 5)))

(map #(demo (sin-osc %)) freqs)
(map #(demo (sin-osc %)) (take 2 freqs))
(map #(demo (sin-osc %)) (take 3 freqs))
(map #(demo (sin-osc %)) (drop 2 freqs))
We have the receiving end of this for quite some time in Berlin.

This is a huge pain compared to DHL and not working at all for me (Prime customer since beginning).

Missed delivery dates.

Didn't find the address several times, no one else had that problem.

Software not working or drivers who had no clue about the software.

Delivery to business address up until 9pm (!)

Lost deliveries.

Had many calls with Amazon customer support, they can't blacklist me for Amazon Logistics and they can't help in any way. Customer support told me on several occasions they know, they get this often but can't help.

Weird thing: I saw several people who rented e.g. Enterprise vans for delivery, how is that paying?
That’s straight garbage town. There are other ways to remind users that their WiFi is off than tricking users into thinking it is off when it really isn’t. Standard “engineers know best” mentality. Off means off. As in the opposite of on. This nonsense feeds into people (rightful) distrust of technology.
Social networks?
Today Amazon delivered a package to me at work.

They ignored the "deliveries in rear" sign which directs them to the shipping dock. Went to front desk instead.

They parked across a handicapped space in front. Not "in" the space, but askew so that it also blocked the handicap loading area between the two handicapped spaces.

I like UPS. They're professionals.
Iosevka is a nice one
Just attempting to do this will give them a hand in negotiating with FedEx and UPS.
Ask HN: What is a good free alternative for Picasa for photo editing?
Now that Picasa is end-of-life, I would like suggestions about an alternative photo editor that is amateur-friendly. I am not a professional photographer. I am a programmer. But I do like to perform some quick enhancements on the photographs (like altering brightness, shadows, etc.). Is there a good free alternative (free as in free speech or free as in free beer)? If it works on all three of Mac, Linux and Windows, it's a bonus!
Eggtroll was, and still is, possibly the best troll I've ever seen. He carried it over to the newsgroups with elaborate multi-page trolls and crossposts. Whoever you are eggtroll, thank you for providing so much entertainment. Here's one of the archives:

http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2002.5.10.153857.142.html
San Francisco and Ed Lee: What the Fuck… Really?
https://medium.com/@techinsf724/san-francisco-ed-lee-what-the-fuck-really-17262c495566

Please comment and let me know how you feel. I am SICK of SF not being the best city and being more like, um... a shithole.
And Coca-Cola owns the brand, distribution, and bottling.
Reasons Kubernetes is cool
I'm a generally well educated person in both security, radios, etc. I can tell you that the control Centre Wi-Fi is basically always used by me to disconnect from the current network. And it persistently infuriated me when I would later forget and was on mobile data.

I can also see users frequently being confused by things like their Apple Pencil not working.

I love this change. You can still turn it off properly in settings. I generally trust Apple with frequent and speedy security updates. Their security track record is industry leading. I'm not remotely concerned.

Also most of the time people tell me they want this option they really mean they want to save battery life. I'd suggest just using low power mode for that, it's what it's designed for.
https://disabledaccessdenied.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ups...
Patching Firefox
Rural high sierras town for me, an hour from Reno and Truckee. Amazon delivers just fine, FedEx too (Chewy). The bigger hiccup moving up here was for Amazon’s logistics to realize my Bay Area locale wasn’t suitable to my new location...things come via Reno Now. They adapted well. Chewy using FedEx has been great too.
The bulk of the article was based around ElasticSearch, which is one of their more awkward-feeling services (for instance, locking down by IP address takes several minutes to deploy, whereas the rest of their services are configurable via security groups in seconds)

I don't think the AWS story has been protecting you from devops, but rather, protecting you from infrastructure.
Amazon now has 43% of all ecommerce sales... Shipped: 30% UPS, 30% FedEx, and 40% USPS.

This article says Amazon accounts for $1B of UPS 60B revenue -- only 1.67%[0]. And Amazon cut out almost all of the profits from those deliveries, with discounts over 70%... so Amazon contributed little to their income.

Wasn't able to find numbers for Fedex.. but they say no single customer accounts for more than 3 percent of revenue[1]. And it would be safe to assume that they negotiated just as hard with Fedex as UPS.

USPS might actually be subsidizing Amazon's packages because of how their costs are calculated[2].

So not so bad for the other carriers.. and unless Amazon opens it up to other companies to use, they aren't going to rival UPS or even FedEx in revenue.

0. https://www.thestreet.com/story/13433347/2/59-billion-reason...

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/05/amazons-new-delivery-program...

2. http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/amazon-postal-service-subsidy/

Edit: since the first link was written... Amazon has doubled their shipping expenses to $16B (of course, some of that cost is setting up their own shipping service):
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872417...
If they can get that entirely under their service, that'll be significant.. but for comparison, Fedex has $50B/yr revenue.
"A Wireding" reads like a Bene Gesserit activity, and it lacks the thump of "a Slashdotting."

Either way, Steemit isn't handling it right now.

```
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
...
It's not just you! steemit.com looks down from here. (http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/steemit.com)
```
In Santa Clara, CA, Amazon logistics has been good for me. The drivers will consistently call me on my cellphone if they can't find my (weirdly placed) apartment which is more than I can say for UPS.
And if I turned off wifi, I'd expect the device to disconnect from amy networks, so that messaage doesn't really tell me much if I don't already know its significance.
Senators call on IRS to halt contract with Equifax
THE DOMESTIC CRIME TAKING ITS TOLL ON AMERICANS
None, because of Parliametary Sovereignty.
Students in China are definitely taught about "figures are famous for the strength of their moral beliefs, the brutality they endured as a result, and their perseverance despite such adversity."

But considering that Liu Xiaobo preached about the inferiority of the Chinese race and how they needed to be colonized by the West for a couple hundred years, they would most likely compare him to an Uncle Tom/Chan type of person.
Iosevka is way too thin for me.
I'm going to try out Hasklig (moving from Ubuntu Mono)
Whenever some person or company calls themselves "Honest", "Trustworthy", "Wholesome", etc I immediately start thinking that they are going to overcharge me for something. In this case, it seems my heuristic worked well.
> I wonder how hard it would be to give Postgres a pluggable query planner, so that extensions can try to improve on its results. Then people could try things out without Postgres committing to something too soon.

You can quite easily replace the planner, it's just a single hook. Building a replacement's the hard part ;)

> Can an extension even add syntax?

No, not really. There's no good way to achieve extensibility with a bison based parser. At least none that we PG devs know and "believe" in.
That's a really silly reply. There's nothing in the UI that tells me turning Wifi off in the control centre has a different meaning today than it had last week. It's not at all clear that turning it off in the Settings app will have a different result. Literally. You're obliging us to read someone's mind.

Moreover, going to the Settings app is laborious. There's a lot of stuff there. When you open it, you don't always "start from the start", so that pulling it up requires working out where it is in the app you are in order to navigate appropriately. Instead of focusing on the task of disabling wifi and going somewhere, you have to focus on the task of navigating an app. And also if you have a phone that wasn't bought yesterday, it will probably close some other app you were running because it's run out of RAM.

All so that some weird usecase I can't understand is available. This fellow is the only person who's described a usecase for disconnecting from wifi networks while leaving wifi on, insofar as leaving the radio on won't have upsetting results for him. But the feature doesn't work for him.

For me, sometimes I need my battery to last all day not just till dinner. I want the radio off.

I can't think of a non-technical/non-exceptional use that is benefited by this feature.

(NB. I quite like the idea that my wifi will spontaneously turn back on again when the battery is charged adequately, or at 5am or some such. It would've saved my data on numerous occasions. But that's a different feature that hasn't been implemented.)
It's probably just a rounding error
his buddy Gerber knows the liquor and entertainment business. built a fortune on it. got friends with a vacation house next to his Canadian one... they too vouch for his knowledge of liquor.
Same here, and I live next to an Amazon building. Whenever I have a grocery delivery, even if I do an unattended delivery, I have to be home.