skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, the Chinese & Russian governments are investing heavily in US tech companies (par for the course). But China is also investing heavily in domestic Robotics, AI, Energy, etc. in a way that is unfathomable by American standards. Technology dominance isn't a right... it's earned.

My guess: The US government has no stomach for the power-law economic outcomes associated with innovation. Our politicians cannot stomach 9 Solyndras for every 1 SpaceX... so they opt instead to turn away from high-tech investing. It will be a problem.
I guess this is also a way for airlines to devalue their frequent-flyer points programs: the bag is no longer included.

Or, in the case of a Canadian airline, Westjet, you get a free checked bag when you have their premium credit card.
I like w3m and am a DDG user, but you have to admit you are using quite an esoteric browser:-)
> I now frequently have my packages never arrive (I have
cameras on my porch. Not being stolen) and four times in the last six months have received a delivery for someone else.

It does actually solve the issues you gave as examples.

The driver is at the wrong house, scans the box but the door doesn't open. If Amazon doesn't detect the door being opened and the driver coming inside and delivering the package then they definitively know the package wasn't delivered.

This gives them an automatic way to evaluate drivers. When you complain that you did receive a package they can check the footage and resolve your customer service issue immediately instead of having to contact the driver.
The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system
I seem to get a lot of upvotes, and then a lot of downvotes all in a flurry. I'd be curious to look at the data, to be honest, to see if it's a cohort. (No idea why they'd target me in particular)
I am sitting here on an upgraded Nexus 9 tablet with the latest Google Chrome. This thing came out less than 3 years ago and yet I literally cannot read this article. I wait ten seconds not touching the page for it to finish loading as fonts, banners, sounds all pop in and try to settle around me. Barely touching the screen to scroll it down causes a button to start sliding around the page, overlapping on top of a bunch of text telling me I can stop pushing the button any time. The roulette wheel animation in the background spins at 2fps while the motor in my fan spins at 7200rpm. Trying to touch the button causes the whole page to refresh. The page regresses to "Loading" on white while a banner ad and a pop-up self-congratulating the site for using cookies comes up. Another ten seconds to wait for my now baking sheet to cool down and I try sliding past the button while the music stutters, failing to play. The tab reloads again.

The only words I was able to read were the banner ad, the bit that tells me I can stop pushing the button, and "Loading". I think this is an apt metaphor for the modern web.
Oh yes, totally forgot about flash and `<map>`s – but one could argue even those were originally designed to solve the problems of 'vanilla' HTML. They of course failed and HTML kind of prevailed, but only by being coupled with a massive set of APIs on the Web Platform. If it wasn't for those JS APIs, we might be stuck with Flash forever.
Same thing happened to me only I got stranded at the airport Fuzhou, hours from my relatives and with no means to buy a ticket. If they had at least notified me of the cancellation I could have scheduled a flight in advance.

Don't fly China Southern.
I was invited to a speech night for the class of my 8 year old daughter. Members of the class were to do a "multi modal" presentation on subjects ranging from global warming to their favourite band.

It was sad to see that most of the kids had PowerPoint decks full of words that they just stood and read.

Of the class of about 25 kids only a very few did something different.

A couple didn't use the screen at all, choosing to do a "show and tell" style of presentation showing relevant objects. The "My favourite Band" girl, talked about her band whilst playing a recording, and a couple gave their talk unassisted (well maybe palm cards) whilst referring to well selected pictures on the screen.

I can still remember the talk about the impact of tropical storms (not my daughters) because of the well selected dramatic images that were used to emphasise the points made in the talk.

PowerPoint presentations are not necessary bad, but use the tool for what it's best at, that is displaying information that cannot be displayed either in a written report or verbally. Use it to support what you are saying, not be what you are saying. If you do this the people in the room actually have to listen to you, not sit there reading the screen, and let's face it, in most cases you want them concentrating on you, otherwise what are you their for?
All the services on AWS fulfill a need. Google often starts projects without direct profitability in their mind. Note that I'm talking about Google as a whole and not Google Cloud.

I'd say Google is a lot more liberal in starting new projects than any other company of its size. Look around in the news and you'll see how analysts comment about how Google has no 'direction' and is burning money.
Hopefully this problem with radiation exposure when traveling to Mars can change the way people evaluate nuclear propulsion. One could offset a lot of radiation exposure from a nuclear power plant by getting to Mars in weeks instead of months. People traveling to Mars are not going to have a "safety first" philosophy that is dominant in the current US culture and would be able to understand and accept the trade-off.

Maybe someone will start working on nuclear rockets again. I think a large number quality people would come out of the woodwork to be able to be part of such a project.
This reminds me of a book called Four Futures, that explores different economic futures that humanity might face, and it just so happens that one of those futures is Rentism, similar to what is described in this piece.
If you remove gang related violence the homicide rates are not that high.

2/3rds of deaths due to firearms are suicides this ratio is even higher when you adjust for the accidental discharge which is quite often used when there is no suicide note or a clinical history.

Mass shootings are indeed a drop in the ocean as far as gun related deaths go in the US.
I don't disagree. The worker is worse off on average with this trend.

The point is in where to focus the solution. Yes unionizing (or other wage negotiation methods) will help in some areas, but the best economic bang for your buck is fixing incentives in health insurance.

Counterintuitively, slashing the tax cut on employer provided health insurance would be a step forward (especially if combined with other tax measures).
I disagree, the “stability” the US provides is more than offset by the instability it causes. Vietnam, Afganistan, Iraq, Iran has all been pushed in unstable directions by the US. US global order is a total hit and miss. And this excludes all the instability the US has caused in South America with overthrowing governments and war on drugs.

Btw kind of ironic to lecturing a finn about security provided by the US as they were left on their own to fight the enormous red army. They still managed to kick ass though.

It is what we have seen in Iraq, Vietnam and Afganistan as well superpowers are not nearly as effective militarily as people think.
All of which were blatantly mismanaged. More importantly, it's not as though the collapse of these piles suddenly led to a redistribution of the wealth they amassed...
Sort of. I think it strengthens "the user is free to run the code", to implying that a user who has that freedom (to run the code) - has the same rights as someone who got a copy of the binary. To (be able to) ask a server to run code through an api, is seen as similar to run code on your own computer (a device, which might not in fact control either, hardware being what it is). It highlights the fact that the GPL is for users. If you use a webmail service, you should be able to fix issues with the code - just as if you ran a desktop mail user agent.

So sure, it changes the definition of "distribute" as it is used in the GPL - but my understanding of the "why" is to to be explicit about what is really needed to guarantee users the four freedoms (run, study&fix, copy, share fixes).
I think that to pull it off, you need to convey the impression that you're too important and busy to create PP slides, and that you're showing stuff that's just so urgent and great that you didn't want to make them wait for a PP.

Also, practice will improve your ability to give those presentations, so it's worth practicing on low profile meetings before doing it in front of the CEO.
No, it's because people have fundamentally different end goals.
No wonder it's so hard to roll back all the copyright garbage that accumulated in the various laws.
It was possible to close and turn off the news panels and it is possible to see only web results (by clicking on the left panel). This choice is unfortunately not remembered.
This is independent work. Probably fits in with fractals and L-systems.
The best-constructed talk i ever saw as as scientist was by a medic who considered himself far too busy and important to spend time mucking around with Powerpoint. The only slides he had were figures of his results - photomicrographs of tissue, graphs of drug effects, etc - probably lifted from a paper in preparation, and so probably done by his graduate students anyway. This meant that there were only a handful of slides, so very few distracting transitions to distract from his talking, and the screen was always full of important content.

Needless to say, that this guy's combination of laziness and arrogance had led to him to have a much better presentation than me with much less effort left me absolutely furious.
Not op but I do these same things and the answer is a pretty solid “no”. I have tried so much haha.

For thay reason, this approach is limited but highly valuable. I’ll explain how I do it.

Most programming material acn’t be learned this way, but programming podcasts are good for learning about what to learn and for learning methodoloy! I have been listening to the ‘Test & Code’ podcast lately and, especially for a novice Python programmer, this podcast has a lot of this type of knowledge.

I try to avoid podcasts of news and gossip because I do enough of that and more efficiently on HN.

Lectures interspersed with visuals are basically not doable. You’ll find yourself interrupted and distracted from the central activity (commuting, chores) and you lose flow.

Probably the best use I have found for this is for spending time in “hobby topics”. This lets me sort of outsource the effort I spend with my hobby topics to when i am doing other things, preventing the hobby topics from intruding on productivity.

I love media theory, history and philosophy and these things can be discussed with no visuals, and there are many great lectures and academic courses available. This stuff often even informs the creative areas of my job.

My favorite hobby topic is art history but having to stop what I’m doing to reference a visual work is too distracting :(.
Sad to see a guy like jedberg so naive (I like to think that he was naive) as to ask for evidence as to why "Milner was linked to the looting of state resources".

And if we're talking about reddit, as a long-time user I remember that I first encountered political shill accounts and paid posters on reddit, in the summer of 2006, during the Hezbollah vs Israel conflict (the accounts were "rooting" for Israel, of course). Next time I encountered them was 2 years later, in 2008, during the Russia vs Georgia conflict (the shills being on Russia's side). It'd be interesting to hear what a guy like jedberg remembers about all this (not sure if he was working for reddit back in 2006, but I'm pretty sure he was there in 2008).

I also remember reading a one-page story about influencing opinions on geo-political facts on the web in the Financial Times, around November 2011, where a Israeli army colonel or something like that was acknowledging the issue at hand (that opinion on the web should be in part controlled by State actors) and that Israel was already implementing something to meet that goal (I have a screenshot of that article, but it's on my older laptop, too lazy to transfer the photo now). Come 2017 and the US is taken by surprise that one of those State actors has influenced its Presidential election.
As sibling said, the 10% is just on what you buy, which hopefully isn't 100% of your salary. Also 40% is still a lot less than 50% but is also not a OOM like I said above.
I didn't say people are better off.

We need awareness on where the problem stems from if we want to advocate for effective solution (instead of appealing solutions that won't do much).
They get larger until the next paradigm shift. But what if we reach an asymptote, and there is no paradigm shift to serve as the force of decay? Of course, such a thing is unprecedented so we won't realize it until it already happens. Personally, I think that point was reached in about 2007, and the internet itself has been carving up every interaction that can be usefully computer mediated by a handful of super-scale vendors.
>If Law itself can't prevent you to exercise your rights, it usually also means it should prevent other people from preventing you to exercise your rights. Thus murder (someone preventing you from exercising your right to live) is a crime and so is slavery (someone preventing you to exercise your freedom).

You are part of a lynch mob in the 30's. Your crime of murder is swept under the rug.

You live in Alabama in 1836. A man frees your slave, and you had to shoot him as he runs away. You are now out one slave (no murder, right?) and the man who freed him is in prison.

Laws change.
Rights are inalienable.
I always use the mantra that power points should only be used when you need to show something you can't draw in 5 seconds.

If it's not strictly needed, then it does more harm than good, by distracting listeners.
I had a GeForce card at the time that died from the bad capacitor problems. I also remember many iMac’s with failed capacitors.
sure, it might not look very well done, but on desktop it doesn't sound as bad. in fact, it's pretty pleasant as well
You have a huge amount of choice in your taxes; you can vote, run for office, and advocate for political positions. You have zero choice in your economic situation (if you are 99% of people) since most financial choices are made for you by large companies that you have zero stake in or control over.

Is there a difference between someone pointing a gun at your head and saying 'your money or your life' and a company that buys all the water in your region and withholds it saying 'your money or your life'? No.
In the USA, software is licensed, not sold. The licensor is free to set whatever terms they wish on the license (within the bounds of the law and reason), violation of which revokes your right to use the software.
That is a beautifully typeset article.
When I was in High School our school district had a ton of computers by state grant (1 for every 2 students). One summer (2005 if I remember correctly) the IBM desktops all started popping capacitors. Me and a few technically inclined friends got a nice summer job out of identifying affected machines, gathering them up, re-imaging them, and replacing them around the district.

Funny to learn this was such a widespread issue
At least in Southern Ontario, it's $100 if you pick all of the items yourself. It's $20 for them to pick it.

Both well worth it when you're furnishing a new place and purchasing 4-digits worth of stuff.

Ikea does "show-rooming" right.
Yup. Do me a favor and mention that they've sold their Facebook and Twitter holdings but mention nothing of the current holdings in Cadre in the headline.

By the way, C Corporations are not prevented from taking foreign investment; though S Corporations are.

In contrast to Facebook and Twitter, The Times writes articles and headlines and picks which ones to publish.
So that was all you had in mind as a starting point ?

again, lovely article, got inspired by ti
Perhaps you meant “convergent function ratios.” The first example equations are parabolas (divergent).
It's polite, but the teeth behind it is that it's much easier to secure a CFAA conviction for scraping if you can show evidence that you specifically forbade a scraper from accessing your site (via robots.txt, authentication, or IP blocks) and they circumvented that restriction than if you gave them no notice that you dislike what they're doing.

Legit search engines and aggregators have a strong incentive not to kill the golden goose by getting sued, particularly when the vast majority of sites actually want to be indexed.
From the same source, US effective tax rate is ~40%

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-income-t...
When Napoleon ventured east
This is just a feel good story, I don't know why people analyzing it to death. He's basically no different than ab ebay power seller. But instead of buying wholesale, he buys clearance items.
I don't trust Purism their laptop were rebranded chinese laptop sold at a premium supposedly because they were completely open but they were not.
There's even software that will do it for you.

I've seen Ebay sellers with tens of thousands of items posted, all from Amazon.
What software did you use to create your figures? They look great.
IS TITHING COMPULSORY FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN? By Dr Eddy Cheong
I wonder if Walmart simply can't afford to play arbitrage with clearance stock at the size of their organization. The amount of manpower and shipping time they would have to add to localized stock management might end up eating away at any additional profits.

From their perspective Ryan is probably helping them out by emptying their clearance stock faster. If the local manager was smart he'd keep his number on speed dial.
Talks about Hillary Clinton being "cold" and promotes Amy Cuddy's "power pose" pseudoscience. I find this to be an interesting, disappointing worldview.
Sure. I was just noting it for the "only if" part of the GP comment.
Respectfully disagree on more votes == better. Visible score systems often lead to groupthink, and commenters aiming for the lowest common denominator in the form of karma whoring.

While HN has some measures to reduce hivemind voting, it's quite rampant on the default subreddits.
The Bollinger B1 Is What You'd Get If You Electrified a Land Rover
I generally agree but I would have appreciated a more-direct response vis-a-vis Yandex.

In re: your broader point I don’t think they are “that smart” per se; or perhaps better put, I think they are smart enough to be aware their platforms are used by all kinds of agents for all sorts of purposes 24/7/365...but up until now also deemed it prudent to turn a rather universal blind eye towards those activities unless they were, say, so obviously fake that ordinary users could identify them as such.

Whether that universal blind eye was smart is tbd, but nothing in their response since then has seemed very clever.
The point was that a lot of the redistribution is in principle just moving money from the the working age self to the young and older self.

I pay taxes which funds students today but I get that back later when other fund my kids to go to university.

The point is that the bulk of the money is paid by the middle class for services used by the middle class. You pay more in some stages of your life than you receive but you get more back in other stages.

That was the finnish point of looking at this hollistically.
I assume this web page has words and images. But without JavaScript, it displays only trash: https://i.imgur.com/DEHdKy5.png
Many brands are "gating" their products on Amazon so only select resellers can sell them on Amazon. For example, the article mentions LEGO--restricted. You need to show Amazon proof that you purchased your products from a credible distributor in order to list your LEGO products. Receipts from Walmart are not enough.
You could be right - it may affect smaller countries like the Uk as well. Probably Spain also. heck, even Italy has Lombardy separatist movement.

Maybe it is just an issue when a country has more than one city, and solid growth? Singapore is one big city, but so is Hong Kong. Now HK is part of China, that has caused issues as well, whereas SG has no direct comparison.

The massive country issue may be one that hits all multi-city first world countries eventually, as there is no way rural regions can match the GDP PPP of large cities and this variance within nation states would lead to a lot of issues.

How utterly depressing to think about!
I do a similar thing on Ebay:

Canada Post has been taking 5 or 6 weeks to deliver items from China that are shipped with free shipping.

So, I'll buy 10x what I need from China when I need a part, then sell the rest on Ebay. Paying attention to things that I can ship cheaply (i.e. < 2cm thick)

Lots of buyer will pay extra to get their spare part in 3-5 days instead of 3-5 weeks.

Christmas time will be especially good to me :)
how to sit quietly for four hours. It was just a punishment.
So long as the rules of carry-on are harder to obey than the rules of checked bags, I will prefer to check a bag. It's not the size of the checked bag, I generally check the bag I used to carry on before 9/11.
The real trick with an aggregator would be to say what you want (e.g. I want a carry-on bag, but I don't care where I sit or about in-flight food) and it spits out a list of total-cost airfares with those features. It would probably still skew towards the low-cost carriers where everything is a la carte, but at least people wouldn't be surprised by the total cost.
https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

Here is an interesting example: https://archive.org/details/TheGeocitiesMidiCollectionVersio...
And then corporate interests collude through and ultimately control the state, and we've arrived at an interesting system of two party democratic republican fascism