skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, all of the traditional supermarket chains moved pretty early to build their own online grocery platforms. The services are all generally pretty good. They seem to have successfully made that transition and kept most of the grocery market for themselves (with the exception of Ocado, the online-only service, which I guess is a slightly weirder example due to their supply arrangements with one of the existing chains). As such, I can’t really imagine anyone else entering the market, or Amazon being an effective competitor. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anyone using the Amazon service here.

Is there some obvious reason the same kind of market change didn’t happen in the US?
We are far beyond anyone reading this thread other than us, and I am happy to continue discussing because I hope I can convince you that novel technology is being created to solve real problems. It isn't the panacea that fraudsters have been pushing, but I believe interesting solutions and companies will come of this.

If you look at Bitcoin and the Proof of Work mining algorithm that was created to solve its BFT problem, what you have is a globally dispersed group of participants driving the cost of SHA2 hashing to as close to zero as possible. Electricity combined with computers can be converted to Bitcoin, which has value because a group of people believe it has value. You are optimizing everyone to solve that problem, and people are responding naturally to economic incentives.

I believe other problems can be reduced to a Proof of Work distributed problem to drive the cost to zero. LivePeer ( https://livepeer.org/ ) is a recently launched protocol built on Ethereum to drive down the cost of transcoding live video. This is a computationally intensive process full of proprietary technology and patents that forces video streamers to become beholden to centralized third-parties such as YouTube, Twitch, etc. LivePeer solves this problem by incentivizing global participants to commit transcoding resources to an open network, ultimately driving the cost of this to zero. This will reduce censorship and costs.

Beyond computationally intensive work and protocols, I believe that smart contracts will open up a range on novel use cases. For starters, pure digital assets will become a way to fund development of videogames. Free to play games like League of Legends and Fortnite sell in-game assets, but these are not unique - they sell as many copies as people buy. While this works for big players as a business model, I believe new, novel games will come from making game assets provably unique.

These are just a few examples, but many very smart, non-crazy non-scammy people are working in this industry and creating new technologies. It's sad that the fraud has poisoned the conversation so much, especially on tech places like HN.
Would you abolish copyrights too, or just patents? Trademarks?

If I could only have one of the three I’d keep trademarks.

But I think copyrights are pretty harmless, given the fair use provision and a sensible cutoff. Like 50 years seems like plenty of times to diversify those assets.

I’m an anarchist generally, and I can definitely envision a world where all IP rights are abolished, but I think I’d want to go there slowly, one right at a time. Because the capitalist mechanism will by default harm people so we need syndicalist institutions in place before we open the floodgates to the abuse of the markets.
Is being able to distinguish a single pixel the same thing as noticing that text is sharper? I've noticed that you can't stop doing subpixel font rendering on displays until they get far above a density that optometrists say shouldn't matter anymore.
I don't think audiences want HFR movies. It's fine in sports and gaming but you pretty much have to upend the entire movie industry to get HFR not looking like crap. The more frames you're shooting per second the more light you need to use on set to capture the movement.The more light you use the more you see make-up and how bad some costumes actually look IRL.

Look at Peter Jackson's The Hobbit movies or Ang Lee's Billy Lynn.
Haha. I moved to NYC this year. I used Instacart for months, because I'd have to sign up for another service to use something else, and they mostly seemed equivalent, and I may even have had some YC-brand-loyalty, even though I was quite unhappy at times with Instacart.

Instacart will often allow me to order more of something than is in stock, because they have no real concept of "in stock". For any order of more than 5-6 types of items, chances a very good that something will be missing, so you can't rely on them for tonight's dinner -- instead, you have to order the night before so that you have time to stop by the store yourself on the way home from work the night you want to make the meal requiring all of those ingredients, to get the thing(s) they allowed you to select but "couldn't find".

I have placed orders through Instacart which didn't happen at all because they "couldn't find" anything in the order and it was all do-not-replace.

I have placed an order through Instacart mid-day which was shopped, and then delayed until my SO finally called them, whereupon she was told it would be the next morning, but not to worry, everything had already been shopped, and had been put in temperature controlled holding! But then the next day most of the order was refunded before a few things were delivered, because the shopper "couldn't find them".

Instacart will commonly put frozen food, bags of chips, dish soap, and 2L sodas in the same bag together, and then roll the dice on whether things are crushed, too warm, or otherwise came to ruin.

I may have a lot of anger built up at Instacart.

Although I've also become increasingly disgruntled with Amazon, at least I was already signed up with Prime, so I decided a couple weeks ago to try PrimeNow. I don't think I've used Instacart since.

I cannot stress how different the experience was:

When ordering from Amazon (not the individual grocers), PrimeNow wouldn't let me order more 2L sodas of my usual brand/flavor than were in stock.

When I ordered something crushable, it was in a separate bag, and uncrushed.

When I ordered something frozen, they put an icepack in with it.

Instacart slashing prices is laughable. Price is not their main problem. I would gladly pay twice as much, if only I could count on them, but as it is, it's possible now that I'll never again use Instacart.
I'm not conflating anything. Just stating a fact.
The article didn't lay out exactly how instacart is now cheaper.

Does it factor in the 5% whole foods discount you get from being a prime member?
Jane Adeline Jones was 27 and has already been evaluated as an adult by both State and Federal governments. Not a probationary adult. Full adult. She was even allowed to drive during the day.

As a Level 4 Artificial Learning engineer with Gamazo people always assumed that she was a Perfect. She wasn’t. She was a hard working proletariat.

“That’s actually a funny way to put it” she thought to herself as the words came out of her mouth. “Hard working proletariat”. Not perfect. Just hard working. “Interesting concept” she thought and stuck a fork in a salad bowl.

The salad was a 13 out of 10. The restaurant could do better. The sauce was a solid 15, the bread here was always over 100. But the lattice was soggy. Could it evaluate to less the 100%? She, obviously, wasn’t certified to evaluate that but Danny was. “Danny, what you think of the lattice?” she asked. Danny looked up from his own bowl of salad and gave her a thoughtful stare. She put her head down and kept munching.

It was a nice day. The sky was blue. The sun was warm. Warm but not too warm. “17 at least”. Jane cleared her mind and laid back, as she waited for Danny to answer. “Life was good with high probability of getting better” she thought. She smiled. Closed her eyes.

When she opened them again, Danny has yet to answer. Instead there was a man standing there right in front of her.
You can change opinions, but it is unclear whether you have free will over the change.
I would just put a note on the site that says: "Also known as 'Jazz3D' in Norway" or something. The use case being Norwegian Neckbeards looking to name drop your stuff without risking their intellectual reputation.
Yes, and take a look at the norm: link to external content. Debate about that content.

Reddit's whole business model requires that other people create and host the content.

There's nothing wrong with that. Bars hire bands to come play, lots of business models revolve around using other people's works. But at what level should royalties come into play? Certainly never isn't the answer. Only the most unhinged reading of the EU legislation thinks it applies immediately at linking.
Exactly... it's O(n^2) hard over time, it's not fucking practical before even contemplating the moral issues.
How Google Keeps Its Power-Hungry Operations Carbon-Neutral
> their move towards opening up to Chinese dropshippers

This is something I don't understand in general. How is dropshipping products from China anything more than scamming the few people who either didn't realize they're dealing with a dropshipper, or aren't aware Aliexpress exists? What actual value those dropshippers provide?
OpenGL-the-interface is kinda neither (screenspace aside), since the application supplies/does all transformations (glFrustum and friends are long deprecated).
To repeat: The South always had enough votes to keep slavery legal. Direct democracy is literally mob rule. The reason the Constitution had the 3/5 phrasing for slaves is not that the ciswhite males thought blacks were less than people, they didn't want the South to get even more votes through their slaves than they already had. They knew the only way to get rid of the peculiar institution was to vote it out (or go to war, but they didn't want that).

This is this the reason that the Founders didn't pick it. It is mob rule. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-friedman/the-founding-...

The general concept of the Republic is that it balances the terrors that all other governments impose. Through the representatives, the people trained in statecraft, the passions of the masses should be calmed. It's the hardest to corrupt. It's the most likely to survive deaths. If you had a perfect king, giving him absolute power is a no-brainer. The trouble is a) that's near impossible, and b) when he dies how do prevent a non-perfect king from ruling absolutely?

We see this with budget deficits in California. Direct democracy allows ballot initiatives without the need to secure funding. The masses vote for wonderful, expensive things, but they don't say how to pay. The leaves the general budget scrambling for scraps to cover the cost.
That's a broad enough definition of authority that all authority no longer originates from politics. When scientists are behaving correctly authority is awarded on scientific merit irrespective of politics.
A lot of fearmongering here, drug manufacturing & trafficking in small amounts is punishable by death in China, if you are making narcotics in China, you don't fear the Chinese govt or the Chinese army and you basically have nothing to lose.

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

It's like saying you're gonna stop all the drug dealers in US to stop selling drugs, its very hard for China to stop all narcotics.

Heres an official report by the US-China Economic & Security Review Commission on Chinese Fentanyl Production:
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/USCC%20Sta...

and I quote: "China is a global source of illicit fentanyl and other NPS because the country’s vast chemical and pharmaceutical
industries are weakly regulated and poorly monitored...Chinese law enforcement and drug investigators are unable to effectively regulate the high volume of drugs and
chemicals the country produces.In many cases, the chemicals used to produce fentanyl and fentanyl-like products
are illegally diverted from legitimate pharmaceutical uses, with criminals taking advantage of inadequate
enforcement protocols to produce unregulated chemicals and NPS.
Until 2014, a regulatory loophole allowed
Chinese chemical companies to operate in a gray area of oversight, freeing them from inspection requirements and
other certification systems. That loophole was closed in 2014 when China’s State Administration of Work Safety
implemented new regulations on chemical production to improve management of nonpharmaceutical businesses,
including enforcing stricter licensing requirements.
Even under the new regulations, Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies continue to divert chemicals from
legitimate pharmaceutical uses and adulterate legitimate pharmaceuticals during production.This makes drug
enforcement within China difficult, as many manufacturers of fentanyl and other NPS are legitimate companies
legally producing chemicals. Although some of these chemical manufacturers knowingly ship their products to
the United States for illicit purposes, Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical exporters continue to operate with little
oversight"

Do not get me wrong, I've seen the impact of Fentanyl and I want China to step up on crushing its production.
I'd be happy with just proper mixing that doesn't make vocals a second or third-class citizen to orchestral swells or explosions.

I don't even had bad hearing and I had to get a 5.1 system, just so I finally had a proper center channel.
Æ, ӕ <- these are examples of the intended use for a ligature.
> They do know enough. They know that Google is "hot". Pays well, gives a lot of street cred, opens a lot of doors. Unless you're one of FAANG, they can assume with high confidence that working for Google will be better than working for you. What they may not be confident about is whether they'd pass an interview there.

All valid things to want, but very little of it benefits us. Being a better engineer or manager benefits the company and would convince me to hire. Saying you want to work elsewhere eventually, but not being able to say why doesn't tell me why I should hire.

> IMO the very fact they showed up implies they do want to work for you now. But maybe not in 5 years. For a typical programming job, I don't see a problem. It's unlikely the person will stay with you for 5 years anyway, so why not treat this simply as exchanging professional services for money?

Sure, but they've just raised the bar a lot higher for themselves since now they have to convince us that they can hit the ground running and require minimal onboarding and investment. Very very few candidates can do that, and those that can have no problem getting a job at FAANG. Usually the ones that meet that higher bar are extended an offer, but so far all have declined in favor of a FAANG.
Finally: a real solution to first and last mile trips
America (to be clear, we are talking about the US Trump/Bush/Clinton/Obama regime, not the American people) is a menace to freedom and stability in the whole world. They steal our oil, infiltrate our companies, and place children in cages, and their minority and poor population incarcerated. Suspects are held without being charged indefinitely at black prison sites and tortured. They are the world's largest police state--meanwhile, our companies continue to work hand in hand with the US/Trump regime to develop products customized to suit regime needs and rules.
Consider for example, a system in thermal equilibrium with a heat bath, with a fixed number of particles and a fixed volume. The macrostate is defined by the variables T, V and N.

The energy of the microstates corresponding to the macrostate is not fixed. The probability of each microstate is proportional to the exp(-E/kT). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_distribution

The microstates don't have a temperature: they are more or less likely to happen depending on the temperature.

And that's assuming a particular thermodynamical model. The same microstate could be looked at in the context of a different thermodynamical model as a different (or differents) macrostate(s) characterized by another set of thermodynamical variables.
There's no such thing. It's a parody.
I'm sorry, but this is just foolish. It's like saying, "It's elitist to say that more educated engineers make better products than less educated one." One of the reasons the US wanted to have people read, why we made it part of public school, is to have an informed, i.e. educated, citizenry.
The replication failure in psychology is inevitable. The whole field boils down to taking an incredibly complex system (human beings) ... and measuring a few variables on them across a few people.

Most of the "statistical" justifications stem from assuming distributions are normal and samples are uniformly collected (both false).

This is why I trust the works of clinical psychologists like Jung and Freud so much more seriously than the current approaches.

It just makes a lot more sense to observe something complex descriptively, rather than start with a yes/no hypothesis and then test it with a few dozen people.
It reminds me of something I already read somewhere else...
See a Collection of Sickening Objects at Portland’s Outbreak Museum
Compared to the first edition of the book the second edition has the same functionality but is much better organized, which will make future editions much easier to develop.
One thing, while "minor", is that with higher dpi you get a lot less aliasing issues. With sufficiently high dpi (I've read somewhere around 800), you don't get aliasing anymore. Is that worth the bandwidth? No, of course.
A rebellion against a few taxes, hardly thousands of years of exploitation and mass-murder. Europeans have seen more history, there is more cynicism about the consequences of money and power. People in the US still believe grafters can make it big, the American Dream, temporarily embarrassed millionaires, anybody can be President, and all that.
It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between fascism and communism these days.
Robert Spencer: BBC Falsely Claims That Islamic Law Doesn’t Favor Men Over Women
Especially when your "invention" is just a vauge document describing something you have never built but now prevent anyone else from ever building it as well
But I think it's more likely that the bias was internal, in which case it could not be reasonably called political. Without arguing further we can agree that the parent's claim was unfounded, because the linked article did not demonstrate that the motivation was social.

(The reason I know we can agree is that unfounded is not the same as false, it just means it's a non-statement.)
My subjective opinions on the matter: Ketosis only kicks in when carbs are sufficiently low, ketosis is required because protein as an energy source cannot pass the blood brain barrier and so needs to be converted to ketones before it can be utilised. This to me indicates the direction of ketosis being the backup system instead of the norm but I am not trained on the subject and definitely welcome being educated further.

Note that this doesn't effect my opinion of fat as a great energy source. I personaly eat a relatively low carb (not keto), high-ish fat, high-ish protein, moderate carb diet. I'm also very active and this seems to work for me so far.
Same in Turkey as well, Migros and Carrefour kept the market to themselves by offering delivery fast, early. Migros had an online grocery store in 2000, even! That's early.

I think US is uniquely suited to such a thing because of its sheer size. A supermarket company that has not built effectively a parallel supply chain cannot accommodate allowing a guy from New York and a guy from San Francisco to shop using the same stock, especially if perishable, because there is no profitable way to ship something from CA to NY in a few days. That effectively means CA and NY are, so far as groceries go, completely independent markets, and that creates challenges that being a supermarket does not inherently give an advantage in handling.

In contrast, UK or Turkey are countries that are sized small enough that a lorry can cross in a day, given the need. That allows you to act like you have a 'supermarket' in the middle of the country, and you're taking orders by the phone, and sending them to their way. That mental model is much easier to handle for a supermarket chain than doing continental-scale logistics that Amazon is adept at.
Sexual abuse is always about power: physical, emotional, verbal threats, boss-employee relations, career gatekeepers. Not about romantic advances from undesirable partners.

This type of story often focuses on explicit acts and behaviors because they are more raunchy - to the detriment of the fundamental power relations. It's irrelevant if Tyson had a failed date - he has a right to pursue romantic partners. Why did she resigned? What was Tyson's position there? What was the implicit or explicit pressure used by Tyson to coerce her into his apartment?
I actually prefer repeated ads, it makes it easier to skip them with a double click on the headset remote.
> Defending an unmanned vehicle is the walls vs guards argument: it's far harder to build an impassible, unguarded wall than it is to build a difficult, guarded one.

When it comes to shooting out an engine block, you're already past difficult. If you're blasting the doors, you're already past difficult.

But most of all, a truck driver is not a guard. Very few guards are guards of things that are insured. Driver, staff, and security guards (even banks) instructions typically include "protect yourself, but if something comes between your safety and the load safety, choose your safety".

To keep up with the Fast and the Furious movie relation; the first movie was about the FBI trying to prevent robberies BEFORE truck drivers took action after the FBI had instructed the truck drivers to not be heros.
>Even Feynman mentioned that physicists were discouraging replication way back in the "cargo cult science" talk.

If replication is the benchmark, almost no one does it (physicist or otherwise). In all my time in academia, I didn't find a single person attempting to replicate anything. You don't get funding, tenure or papers from it.

I was referring to everything else in your comment.
> How is dropshipping products from China anything more than scamming the few people who either didn't realize they're dealing with a dropshipper

Given how well they are doing, that is not so few people.

> What actual value those dropshippers provide?

Turn that around. What value their collaborators on American side of the border provide them with? The answer is their English and marketing skills.
Compared to the United States, this is very homogeneous.
>Do you mean, if I try to avoid fakes by buying from a seller I trust, i might get inventory from the one I was trying to avoid? This makes zero sense!

For new products, that is how Amazon does it. Which will explain why many products will have inconsistent reviews about fakes. And you can ignore any review that says "Avoid seller X. He sent me a fake!" You have no way of knowing which seller's item you got.

Note that this is only for "Fulfilled by Amazon" orders. For non-FBA, the seller ships it to you directly.

And for used items, Amazon will ship you the exact one from the seller.
False flag, perhaps?
Anecdata, I know, but I am much happier with my 165Hz, 2560x1440 monitor than my same-sized 60Hz 3840x2160 screen sitting next to it. The extra fluidity given to mouse motions, text/window scrolling, etc is a much bigger improvement to usability than I would have initially guessed it would be.