skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strangely had the exact opposite happen recently: ordered an item directly from an OEM (Creative) via their site, but had an Amazon Prime package show up to deliver it. Even weirder, as far as I can tell, the item has never even been listed as available for sale on Amazon.
The case study is worth reading even if that one paragraph isn’t the best introduction to the issue. It goes off on occasional tangents in order to relate the issue back to NASA and repeats itself here and there, so maybe it just needed an editor.
I like the definition that Big Data starts at the capacity of the biggest single hardddrive you can buy. So this year it is 14 TB.
Here is what the grandparent comment said:

> Should Amazon, or other intermediaries, be allowed such interferences?

It's not a strawman to read that, then ask:

> Shouldn't a merchant be able to decide for themselves which products they want to carry or not carry on their shelves (both physical and digital)?

> Is the alternative that a merchant should be forced to carry a product against their will?

edit: formatting
There is a list + details on that website:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/business/dealbook/eu-anti...
Let's look at the other side. 65% unemployment.

Everyone is homeless, or starving or both.

These people used to spend 100% of their paycheck at Walmart, local grocers, fast food. Now they spend 0.

So big retail/fast food shops close, more jobs lost.

UBI puts money in people's hands --the people who spend it all in their own local economy.

They can do more to get some of that back through taxes so it's more like 'recycling'. People with money aren't going to commit crimes to feed their family. People w/ rent/food/health ins are happier, more productive, less stressed, and more motivated to work on self-betterment.

Hell, if I had an extra 2-3k/month from a UBI program, I'd quit freelancing and go all in my SaaS I'm building which if it's successful could have at least 10-20 new jobs created. How many other entrepreneurs could have better success if they didn't need to put in 50-60 hours a week on their day job?

You can say it'll never happen, because you think everything will always stay the same, but that's just not the case. 40% of jobs never to be replaced by 2030 is a solid estimation.

What is your suggestion with what we should do w/ that sector? You can't retrain when there aren't jobs for them to retrain to. Should we just euthanize anyone who hasn't worked in the past year or two?
Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville
I started working for a consultancy agency after failing my startup, I think it helped with my personal brand and confidence levels but in the end it's mostly in your head and you can do whatever.
Oh yes..Moley. I am familiar with Moley Bot. I honestly didn’t think they would pull it off when I read about it first. Turns out it’s only 15k. Cheaper than the barista! Recipes from iTunes!
> You should see and understand the real cost of your solution.

Then write it in assembly and damn all the abstractions. /S
Depending on how you turn your head and squint, Amazon is doing the right thing today [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19391696].

... though I wouldn't say that this one-off rises to the claim of "demonstrable track record." They have some explaining to do about the working conditions of their warehouses.
By 5 years behind do you mean HBOs interface is like Netflix of 5 years ago? If so that isn’t going to take 5 years to catch up.
I’m not sure what’s so bad about it. Then again I knew exactly what I wanted to watch.
great post. I would also add that you staying at a struggling company for 7 years shows a great deal of tenacity (very desirable feature in a human!). Most people jump ship much sooner. You will be fine. as tomhoward said, don't beat your self up, excessive negative emotions don't achieve anything. Try to move past it (easy to say, hard to do, but, must be done).
In other words-- git is so good at being decentralized you only notice the consequences in the improved branch/merge UX.
All good points. There's a flip side to the schedule aspect too. Traditional broadcasters also need to fill up slots even if they know they don't have anything great to fill a hole. Which I expect was one of the drivers behind reality TV; you might as well fill the hole with something cheap if you don't expect a scripted show to be at least a reliable audience draw. (And I expect scripted shows are less predictable as well.)

(By "drek," I was mostly thinking of old second-tier and third-tier sitcoms and the like. I'm actually a bit surprised there isn't more of this sort of content; perhaps it's the tension between having lots of content and basically burying your tier-1 content with a bunch of mostly "crap.")
Also, SwerRV doesn't have an MMU, so a comparison to an A15 is a bit odd. They wouldn't have the same use cases at all.
Apple's predatory behavior is a serious threat to competition! Hence the complaint!

> Apple only controls 20 to 25 percent of the European smartphone market

But controls 70% of revenues and profits generated from apps. People LOVE talking at cross and mis-characterizing Apple's monopoly status. The market in question is NOT smartphone sales, but apps! For instance, in-car accessories, though requiring compliance from the car manufacturer, cannot be blocked by the manufacturer. I should be allowed to use Bose speakers in my car without seeking Toyota's blessing, given how I OWN the car after paying full price.

What apps I run on my iPhone is not something I want Apple to control. And I certainly do not want Apple artificially inflating the cost of my favorite apps with anti-competitive behavior!!

BTW, Apple is also in litigation in the US [1] on related matters.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17479480/supreme-court-ap...
Apple’s iCloud is down for users around the world
It’s a common style in certain pieces of journalism. It’s predicated on the idea that people both enjoy and connect more deeply to narrative and concrete detail. I’m with you—I find that the style is frequently overused these days and really annoying when all I want out of the article is some basic information/reportage. It’s used to fantastic effect in things like expose peieces, or deep explorations of pervasive issues that have a rich history, but more often than not, journalists feel like they have to whip it out for every little nugget of news when straightforward, sober reportage would suffice.
When Bezos talked about the limited selection of physical bookstores, I doubt that he was lamenting them not having enough garbage books available. I assume he was referring to there being way more good books than would fit in a physical bookstore.
As somebody who experiences the ASMR sensation, I hate when people use the term "brain orgasms".

It makes it so I can't publicly tell people the joys and oddities of ASMR. My personal theory is that it's an evolved response to personal affection and attention. For myself, and other's I've meant, it's in no way sexual.

Sure, like any content, there is porn of it out there, but that's not the point and distracts from the truly interesting and possibly useful aspects of ASMR.

I am interested to see if others are OK with this "brain orgasm" analogy. I prefer describing the sensation like a pleasant brain shower. How do you describe the ASMR sensation if you feel it, and how do you perceive the ASMR community if you don't?
Safari only records that file should be quarantined, not the URL.

Here are the extended attributes for an image downloaded by Safari in Sierra:

ecthelion ~>xattr -l Downloads/fm_800-2.jpg
com.apple.quarantine: 0083;5c8aa472;Safari;1021CF85-4F78-492B-A8E3-766C44A3A671

Here is the equivalent in Chrome Canary:

ecthelion ~>xattr -l Downloads/fm_480.jpg
com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags:
00000000 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A0 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 |bplist00........|
00000010 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 |..........|
0000002a
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms:
00000000 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A2 01 02 5F 10 29 68 74 |bplist00..._.)ht|
00000010 74 70 73 3A 2F 2F 62 6C 6F 67 2E 6D 61 6A 69 64 |tps://blog.majid|
00000020 2E 69 6E 66 6F 2F 69 6D 61 67 65 73 2F 66 6D 5F |.info/images/fm_|
00000030 34 38 30 2E 6A 70 67 5F 10 18 68 74 74 70 73 3A |480.jpg_..https:|
00000040 2F 2F 62 6C 6F 67 2E 6D 61 6A 69 64 2E 69 6E 66 |//blog.majid.inf|
00000050 6F 2F 08 0B 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 |o/..7...........|
00000060 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000070 00 00 00 00 52 |....R|
00000075
com.apple.quarantine: 0081;5c8aa4ab;Google Chrome Canary;B718AF12-557C-47AD-840A-0CA98281F256
Making Money with Licenses
It is/was a real stretch to draw any parallels based on the amount of ADS-B data we got out of FR24. The plane went out of range of the nearest FR24 ADS-B receiver just a few minutes after taking off. People see what they want to see.

It sure is an impatient world we live in. Probably attributable to the Internet, our insatiable need for more information NOW. Everyone ripping on the FAA for not making a grounding decision until yesterday, even though the crash itself happened just four days ago.
First-party analytics is like blocking people in face masks entering a store, using security cameras or counting daily visitors. Your "cynicism" is more Luddide-ism.

As with physical venues that employ analytics, you can easily just not visit those sites that want to know a bit more about how people consume content than seeing "GET /page.html" in HTTP logs.

I'm writing this text to you as a huge free-software proponent so I'm not a "corporate shill" when I say analytics are really useful even to the most privacy-respecting pieces of software, it allows to spend resources much more effectively than making blind decisions about what users want - the vocal users opening GH issues about things are the 0.01% and those people shouldn't be the ones people building webpages, -services make decisions upon.
This is like a mental tarpit, where you waste time reading trying to understand what the person is saying only to realize they were a bot and all your effort was for nothing, that is time you will never get back now.

This is a terrifying way to destroy an online community if a person floods it with nonsense content like this.
> I'd rather pay $40-60 for a game that keeps me in the story. I don't have time for ads.

Old-fashioned console and PC gaming is still a thing, though mobile inspired microtransactions are starting to creep into the market.
The most important lesson for new programmers
This is really bad because I've stopped ordering from Amazon because of the counterfeit problem. I would be so mad if I paid extra to order direct from the manufacturer and have Amazon bring it to me. Now I have the counterfeit problem again but paid full price.
This simply opens up a place in the market for uncensored book sales. If I want an honest search of the web I don't go to Google because they heavily censor and bias their search results. If I want to peruse the true set of literature on a particular topic I don't go to Amazon for the same reasons. I really don't see this "safe space" strategy paying off for these major tech brands. The holier-than-thou internet simply makes itself irrelevant. People can tell the difference between an honest retrieval of information versus a heavily censored retrieval of information in accordance with some ideological canon.
The anti vaxxers would love vaccines mandated by law. It would be the quickest route to an entire population turning anti-vax and setting back humanity by 100 years.

But I am all for banning bullshit claims made by ineffectual remedies.
It's political telephone. There was a widely-circulated story yesterday that Trump grounded the plane. Verifying before sharing is not as common as it should be.
They're unscientific. It's not Amazon's assessment, it's a filtering based off the assessment of science-backed research.
No complex software has ever been entirely flawless. The best we can probably ask for is that it's safe within certain defined boundaries.
Sure - but they didn’t have editorial review before. This is a dramatic change of policy for them.

Due to a long history - books in particular are seen as a bellweather of a societies attitudes towards censorship.
That's correct, you may in fact order an XPS 13 pre-installed with Ubuntu from Dell. But you won't find an XPS 15 model with that option. I couldn't find it in January when I went to buy mine.
> consider why skim milk costs LESS than whole milk, even though skim milk is more expensive to produce. ...

Isn't skim milk a side-product of making cream and butter, which is the "fat" part you mention? I understand your point, and the consumer side is definitely a factor in how jointly-made products are priced, but it isn't exactly irrational for it to cost less, even though it's made using whole milk as a feedstock.
How do sponsored products now topping organic search results, comingled fulfillment centers mixing real with counterfeit items, and dropping keywords to add inaccurate results to spearfishing queries serve to put the customer first, especially those who paid for prime membership? Shopping on Amazon used to be nearly effortless, now I have to make sure I'm really getting what I searched for, and my return rate in 2018 went from close to 0% to about 10%.
That’s not enough. Google trained their AI internally. They don’t need the Internet. You’d have to go after every organization in the world, forever.

What do you really care, ask yourself will you recognize humans in 1000 years? Why do you prefer there be one kind vs another kind of far more intelligent thing in 1000 years? If atheism is true then who really cares?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1-OmAICpU
Boeing rudder issues in the 1990s? How about the 2010s? A KC-135R(Boeing 707 variant) in 2013 crashed of the same issues as the article.[1] The KC-135R is essentially a modified 707 retooled with 737 engines and a beefed up vertical stabilizer to account for the increased power of the engines. This modification of the KC-135R occurred in the 90s and has been plagued with rudder problems ever since. The accident in 2013 was attributed to pilot error, because there are procedures to turn off the PCU if the rudder goes haywire... but why not just fix the problem outright?

[1]https://www.amc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/786708/w...
It is impossible to justify saying with absolute certainty that AGI is nowhere near. You don’t know that. And in this case you have to assume the worst case, not the best case.

AGI will come when the substrate for AGI is laid down. We probably have already done that. As cloud computing matures, we will approach a world where every computer offers its computational resources on a global compute market. At some point between here and there, we will reach a place where compute is cheap enough that experiments will occur regularly that are sufficiently massive to dredge up the solution. And improvements in MRI fidelity, underlying improvements in computing technology and other things will only shorten the fuse. There is no reason why this couldn’t happen tomorrow.

Only one thing is sure: without a computational substrate to stir from, AGI cannot come to be.
Vaccinations is an argument that I need to win even though I don't want to have it. My mom is currently going through chemo for cancer: she has no immune system, not having deadly disease going around can save her life. My wife and I are talking about having a kid: for those first years not having disease going around is life or death. (vaccines do nothing until the baby is 12-18 months old)
Why doesn't MC Donalds sell pizza? (I know they did at some point and gave it up). Because their customers don't want it, or at least not enough of them do.
It's interesting to note that, as emotionally salient this is for HN, in terms of significance compared to other problems out there it might be lower.

It's a bit of a flaw in human nature that easily-pictured problems scare us much more than abstract/distant problems.

Is it silly to press for a moral value of striving to make our morality align with numeric measure of significance rather than sensational emotions?
> You can rent physical DVDs from the library for free. Yet you pay for Netflix

That analogy doesn't really work for me because I pay for my library through my taxes.
What if Amazon began censoring authors of color?
The manufacturer is probably using Amazon to fulfill their non-Amazon orders. I do just that. The difference being, though, that my products are also listed for sale on Amazon. But listing them on Amazon is not a requirement.
All politics is identity politics. (And the politics of thinking that "identity" is for those people is privilege politics.) But that said, there's a distressing tendency for the "coastal elites" to sneer at the midwest working class, rather than recognize and sympathize with their struggles. Which is an identity problem in itself.

Andrew Yang has his finger directly on the pulse of the malaise that led to Democrats losing PA, MI, OH, and WI. He counts the manufacturing job losses due to technology. But the GOP is offering someone to blame - immigrants, offshoring. It's hard to compete with someone who offers the customer a concrete enemy.
Why did I install this
But the issue is not just what he could do, but what malicious content generation systems could do.
There is nothing legally stopping you from doing the same thing for iOS and you can become an iOS developer much cheaper than a Gabe developer.
John Dunkin is the pilot you refer to. Do you think that he should be excluded from the job based on his Trump affiliation - or are there specific things he lacks that would mean he would be unsuitable for the job?

It appears that Mr. Dunkin has decades of experience as a pilot and has no previous affiliation with the FAA.
Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage
Then why start a self publishing service for people who couldn’t get past the editors of even the trashiest publishers?
When trying to pack your code into a one-liner goes too far...
Yes and I am very appreciative of companies like Nintendo who keep the art alive. I feel the phone market has untapped potential still.
There are plenty of companies that manage to make money from a diverse portfolio. If Google wants to be successful in enterprise offerings they need to set up business units with P&L responsibilities so that they don't conflict with the rest of the business. Or they should spin it out as a separate company. There are lots of ways to solve this problem.

Speaking as a long-time G-Suite user the offering currently feels a little lost. It's a bit disappointing considering the initial promise of the product. Aside from personal inconvenience, letting it die would be damaging to Google's ability to sell into enterprise markets.
Maybe jQuery will help? https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/11261
In 1996 TWA 800, a 747 flight, exploded[1]. The cause was lack of fuel tank inerting. The FAA subsequently published a rule in 2007[2] saying that by December 26th, 2017 all passenger airliners needed to have an inerting system by manufacture or retrofitting.

UA and Delta[3][4] flew such variants of the 747 to within a month of the FAA deadline. The final flight was on November 7, 2017. You can still fly the 747 into or within the US (as e.g. BA does), you just need to have a newer or retrofitted 747. The rule also doesn't apply to cargo planes.

Sorry about the "[747] flight[s] in the US" ambiguity. I was referring to the domestic fleet at the time. Also it wasn't literally "right up to the day" of the rule going into effect, but in the grand scheme of things that's accurate enough. The phase-out was planned to coincide with that rule going into effect, among other reasons.

The point being that airlines can and will fly airframes that in one way or another would be illegal to manufacture today for safety reasons, or which will be grounded by the regulator tomorrow unless an expensive retrofitting is carried out.

I think that's fine, but apparently the fact that airlines are allowed to fly planes with fixable flaws that have "already killed people" just to save some money is surprising to some. It's all a cost/benefit trade-off, and is considered normal by regulators.

There's some more details in this HN comment chain at the time in 2017 that I contributed to[5].

Edit: Some weird HN glitch or mod action seems to have happened. My comment upthread is now a top-level comment, but initially I'd replied to the "already killed people" top-level comment by jfk13[6], and that's definitely how it was rendered for a while.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800

2. https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/...

3. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2...

4. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2...

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16015304

6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19390633
> You should start making and selling espresso machines then, since you know more than coffee professionals about them.

That doesn't really follow. If I think five-figure coffee makers that perform a rather simple mechanical function are overpriced, I should start selling them myself?

> Same with high-end audio gear.

I'm talking about equipment whose qualities cannot be measured nor perceived in a double-blind study. Pure make-belief:

"Audiophile publications frequently describe differences in quality which are not detected by standard audio system measurements and double blind testing, claiming that they perceive differences in audio quality which cannot be measured by current instrumentation,[26] and cannot be detected by listeners if listening conditions are controlled,[27] but without providing an explanation for those claims."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiophile#Controversies

> Do you also go to museums and say "I could have done that" to every painting?

No, I've got better things to do. Having said that, modern art certainly is rife with pretense.
Data has told another story. Mean test scores broken down by race at some schools have been known to show higher means for white and asian. Iirc thw source but i thought this was common knowledge.
Is sales income less than you'd expect with ads?
With the ice caps melting, is there a big demand for Woolly Mammoths right now?

I'm just asking.
SingularityNET partners with Ping An, the world's 10th largest public company
The Rust Wasm working group agrees, and that's why they've been pursuing a strategy of building libraries, rather than full front-end frameworks. There are some people who are doing that, and now that the "build a library in wasm" story is going pretty well, there are some plans to move into that space too (https://rustwasm.github.io/2019/03/12/lets-build-gloo-togeth...). But almost all of the previous work has been for libraries.
A site with ads is guaranteed to not care about how you use it. A site that takes your money is one that will care about the experience. Seeing an ad is an instant “if I can’t use reading mode I just block the site”. Life is too short to waste your attention on people selling you crap.
maybe it was the potential piece of fuselage found later then ?
I think they should have started with something simple. And stuck to a repertoire and keep adding to it. Like soups or salads or sautéed or specific dishes which have the same cooking protocol.

For this reason, it would be better in institutional kitchens. Like..chicken noodle soup for 1000 school kids or in a prison or for catering. Here too, scale would matter.
Sub-Saharan Africans absolutely had agriculture, wheels, and domesticated animals. This was especially true in the kingdoms of western Africa which had the most contact with Europeans. It's a myth that the bulk of Sub-Saharan African lived purely hunter-gatherer lifestyles before the arrival Europeans. Some did, but most did not.