skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am almost certain that companies using Amazon for fulfillment can only ship out products that they, themselves, have shipped to Amazon. Otherwise Amazon would be shipping out other sellers' merchandise. I am not sure what this means with regard to Amazon co-mingling inventory from multiple sellers for the same product, however.
How can I be sure that I’m not in a coma? Nothing external can be believed.
My Reflections on the 2019 RSA Conference
What's stopping the U.S. from making it illegal for foreign real estate holdings? Take back all the real estate, and auction it off at reasonable values, would go a long way to fix the rent issues. We don't owe foreign nationals anything, you should have to be a U.S. citizen or legal resident living stateside to hold/own land in America. If you live in the house as a legal resident that's one thing, but if you live in mainland china, or hong kong, and are just 'holding onto the real estate' - they should give 1 year to sell or your property will be auctioned and you'll receive 50/50 split -- govt getting the other 50.
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs
It’s easier just to remember the ad free places.
For others 'monopsonized' isn't a typo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony

TIL
Unless I know of your earlier games or I've had it recommended to me either personally or if you're lucky enough to be chosen for the Editor's Pick on the App Store i'm not very likely to pay for a game or apps in general.

I think level packs are pretty much a match made in heaven for puzzle type games, as are selling credits for hints.

Be sure to include at one or a few hours of gameplay for free, that seems like a nice balance. Updating with new level packs every now and then (both paid and free) is a good way to keep people excited and get additional income from people who really enjoy the game.

Selling additional color/texture themes might also be a way to increase sales.
It depends a lot on the dog— what I've seen with dogs is similar to what you describe with your cats.

There are 4 dogs in my house, one belonging to me and three belonging to my roommate.

Mine won't really overeat unless she's offered a lot of something extremely appealing (like human food). At least 2 of my roommate's dogs will eat until they make themselves sick, though. The last one, I'm not sure.
Most of use learned C++, Java, or Python in school, that doesn't mean it's right or that it has to be a permanent fixture in your life.
An archive of HN comments? This is it.
"I am worried about people succumbing to hype or greed and using badly understood algorithms to control critical infrastructure."

What you're describing as hype/greed around badly understood algorithms could easily manifest as 'cult-like oracle religions'.

Combine that sort of thing with the superstitious, wealthy people playing power games, and what you're describing is essentially the exact same thing as the "bad science fiction" described above, just from an arguably more grounded angle.
Check out http://mudstats.com - there are some that have been available since 1989!
I got my answer to question 1: https://github.com/mathigon/textbooks
Those "Creative Writing" Degrees have to be good for something after all.
Kentucky farmers gamble on the South’s first organic hemp cooperative
Didn't realize Amazon was also doing pure dropship type distribution for items not listed on Amazon as well. Thanks!
> What kind of hit-piece is this?

Who did you interpret was getting hit by this "hit-piece"? It seemed to mostly just summarize Spotify's argument, which leads me to think you are defending Apple saying it's a hit-piece against them, but the rest of your comment would be a total non-sequitur then.
Free, with $pay option for cosmetic upgrades, bonus levels, more save-game ability, and another non-core gameplay features.

Gentle house ads to upgrade to the paid version for more fun.
I don't believe it's human nature. I believe it's decades of prioritizing profits over civic results – we've warped our culture to the point of valuing monetary progress/success over humanity itself.

I'm sure this sounds very bleeding heart, but as a business owner, I'd rather give up stake in my own business to keep my employees and their families fed rather than opt for automation, firing my employees, and sitting in an empty office with piles of cash.

Business owners and shareholders need to learn empathy and start valuing the community at large over their own narrow interests.

To answer your question, though: I don't know.

The U.S. is an owner/exec-first economy, with labor holding very little political power. "At will" employment and "Right to Work" are inherently anti-union policies and although some states have successfully beat them back (Missouri for example), a majority of the country's labor is still without ways to organize.

It's a chicken and egg problem. A unionized shop probably couldn't compete against a full automated shop (depending on the industry). So until _most_ shops are unionized – which won't happen with rulings like Janus – it's almost an impossible task to organize the working class.

More reading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/08/missouri-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/janus-a...
I guess that's a possibility, I'm not good at thinking like non-technical users.
The competition commission pursues a lot of cases but most of them are not discussed in the media that much: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/ecn/statistics.html

There are some recent cases that are getting public attention because they are directed against large US conglomerates. For instance:

Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on Android operating system and applications:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm

European Union vs. Google:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google

Microsoft Corp. v. Commission:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission

Commission fines Mastercard €570 million for obstructing merchants' access to cross-border card payment services:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-582_en.pdf
I have vague memories of countries running out electricity at peak hours in certain conditions.

In the UK they struggle with water boilers [0]. I'm fairly certain that if we switched all gas cars to electric we'd struggle quite a lot with peak electricity demand, especially during holidays and other events.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
This is an article from 2014:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/amazon-...

At that time, they controlled 65% plus of the online book market. Do you think it is less now?

They basically have no competition. A monopoly does not require 100%. For example, the Sherman Antitrust Act defines it as 75%. But, it's obvious that they are a monopolist in this area.
Yes. As long as you clearly indicate upfront that it's a demo.
So they not provide? Not collected? Or is this kind of data not even broadcast in the first place?
Your TL;DR should be: Don't use Bank of America. Most major banks these days are not a good idea. Instead, look for relatively stable but smaller banks or even credit unions locally. They will not only treat you better but won't do crazy shit like that. Only disadvantage is that they may have some outdates processes/systems but in terms of them not screwing you over with stupid so called "policies", you are better off.
Lots of cussing in your comments, you must be passionate about this topic for a particular reason. Passion is good, but the word choice degrades the discourse and implies emotion over reason.

Anyway, perhaps a better approach is to label such books as 'unproven', 'pseudoscience', or even fiction, but continue to sell them. The idea of banning books because of their subject is a very slippery slope.

FWIW there are tons of other inaccurate, unproven, pseudoscience, or fiction books out there that are also damaging to public health. For example, any dieting book that promotes anything aside from caloric reduction for fat loss is basically fiction, and obesity is by far the largest public health crisis to face the USA with 80% of adults impacted. Would you recommend banning those books as well?
All grandiose rhetoric about mass ideology is off topic here. Please don't post any more like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not sure if I know which thing you mean. You mean plane crashes themselves (which kill far fewer people than the cars people drive every day), or this new "link" between the two crashes (which I agree seems spurious at first glance but they may yet confirm it)?
I wondered how long the old MUD was that i used to play in high school. Apparently, DartMUD has been online since 1991.
Why do you think youtube is willing to pay for views?
Neither United nor Delta retrofitted a fuel tank interting system, that's why they retired their 747s earlier than expected.

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

Paragraph 2-8 indicates the dates compliance became mandatory (Dec 26, 2017 with a potential one year extension). There are 747-400s flying in the United States, however they've all had interting systems retrofitted, are foreign registered, or both.
This was just mentioned on the Joe Rogan podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodsGp37M50

I forget the exact time it was mentioned, but it's in the first half somewhere. The author he's talking to mentions that his book is #20 when you search for autism because the first 19 were of the kind mentioned in this article. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the driver of this.
I'm surprised that COPPA allows devs to have geo-tracking of users who haven't confirmed they are over 13.
I reviewed 1600 edits at StackOverflow. And I can say that some of the automatically generated questions are more intelligible than the average SO question. For example, this one looks fine to me: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/11235
Taken by themselves these words seem to be talking about curing physical disease, but the words that follow, "and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him", speak expressly of a spiritual effect on the receiver. Also relevant is that most of the New Testament epistles are about the condition of the soul (as believed), and not a workout and health guide for the condition of the body.
The primary meaning of art is that a thing is both physically useless ("existing for its own sake"), and desired by the wealthy - therefore scarce and difficult to duplicate.

The other connotations assigned to art are just the ways that the wealthy think of themselves.
Over 32,000 journalists are working full time in the US, social media focus on a minute fraction of them.

Social media can be a near full time job. One many successful people simply don’t have time for.

So sure many NYT reporters might post their wedding photos online, but deeper interactions are often limited to people focusing on such things.
> Workplaces aren't democracies.

Some already are (co-ops, worker-owned, etc.) and all _should be_ if we want to keep society from pulling itself apart.
There are merchants that use Amazon to ship on their behalf without listing on Amazon, it's weird, but it does happen.

I buy a lot of random computer hardware from Europe, most recently a Louqe Ghost small form factor case. All us orders for it are first sent freight to Amazon, then amazon dispatches out the cases. As of current, they do not sell on Amazon.
Similarly, the toxicity of ads in your daily life is nearly possible to perceive without completely disconnecting from the internet, cities, tv, etc.
Does anybody know why so much mammoth research comes out of Korea and Japan?
>People were still watching laugh-track sitcoms when Oz was in its prime.

Like... Big Bang, the number one network sitcom which averages 18.5 million viewers?
I would appreciate if you read and reply to my comment. Please look at the original so-called "controversy." The doctor in England we're publicly calling a charlatan merely produced documented GI trouble in his autistic patients. Furthermore, any parent or caretaker of autistic people realize their gut problems. Many of these banned books describe therapies that definitely decrease autistic people's gut problems. For example, GFCF has thousands of peer-reviewed journals to support that it can alter 1) mucous production 2) gut inflammation 3) autism.

This is merely censorship. This is not "protecting the people."
Look at Roosh V's banned book... It was his first book promoting men to be more interested in making family than increasing promiscuity. There is a very clear agenda behind which books are banned and which are not... And what about the books promoting opioid use in medicine? That's killing millions of people! No, of course they don't care about that.
Users could reasonably expect that that information be stored in a separate database. My Linux distro doesn't make it immediately obvious that user.xdg.* attributes are attached with the file system. Normal users don't read EULAs, but we should expect them to read in-depth manuals to be up to speed on every gotcha that the operating system and browser could throw at them?
Forums seem to have fallen out of style in favor of groups on FB. That's really the only reason why I use it. I follow certain niche groups and use their classifieds section heavily. Discord hasn't picked up for stuff I follow, so it's really my only option.

As far as actual FB usage is concerned, I use it maybe once a year to post something - if that. I rarely even use Messenger outside of the aforementioned groups aspect (communication for buying/selling, mainly). If friends or family need to contact me for anything meaningful, I have other mediums I use.
> AGI is the single biggest existential threat on the horizon.

Really? The madman with the football in a white house and the media pushing an anti Russia sentiment aren't scaring you at all?
Yep, the publisher can set up their own little shop and sell through on a website. The right to free speech is not the right to rent someone else’s megaphone.
Hmm, that might be something for a wildlife park. Just make sure that they can't escape. Put the park on an island in the pacific just to be sure.
He Couldn’t Stop Himself: The Codex of Justinian
This is censorship, and it's a slippery slope.

IMHO the right way to go about this, would be for amazon to attach a letter to the cover of the book saying something like: "We're sorry you bought this book, but we do believe in your right to choose what you do with your time and money, so we have not removed this book from our store. FYI, according to (insert number of) scientists and XYZ peered reviewed papers, the vast majority of the content of this book has been certified to be false and you should seriously question the author's recommendations before acting on them, as they may pose health risks. If you require further information, here's some websites & books that provide what is widely considered to be factual information on the matter".
Who's going to connect this to CleverBot and let the hilarity ensue?
> would allow websites to essentially pay for higher search results. //

Isn't this exactly what Google does? Paid placements put you above organic results in the SERPs, presumably other search sites do that too.
Is the content worth anything then? Why not just distribute it through torrents or ipfs or something?
Agreed - On initial reading, I felt the article was trying to make excuses for Apple's claims, but I realize it was merely summarizing US vs EU rules. Edited it
Perhaps their streaming strategy needs to be dragged out of the dark ages, but I don't think the situation bodes well for the quality of their content. The CEO who just left was apparently beloved by creators in the industry, and the new one just wants a firehose of content like what Netflix offers. So it feels like the end of an era.

Looks like the future will be HBO trading on the brand they built over the last few decades but content-wise attempting to match Netflix. I hope I'm wrong.
It's not a different issue. If they're responsible, there should be consequences.
Parents today have to train kids early. Mine learned by age 3 that any non-animated video content on YouTube was an ad that needed to be skipped. Not perfect, but a great start. Constantly drill into them that these are ads, and ads are bad people trying to trick them, and that ads should be avoided, in apps, websites, billboards, etc.

I'm not any advertising, but the only good ad is an ad I asked to see, as when I'm using a web-search-engine for a product.
To Oppose Polarization, Tug Sideways
You can respond by looking up the company and contacting them...
"when was the last time you (of the royal variety) actually stopped what you were doing, focused on the briefing, and made a mental note of the plane's safety features?"

Every. Single. Time. I fly.

I'm a pilot, and I know the chance of an accident is small and the chance of a situation where my actions will make a difference to the outcome are even smaller. However, since I'm locked in a seat with nothing important to do, paying attention and noting where the life vest is, how you put it on, and where the exits are in relation to my location has an opportunity cost of zero.
Converting Keras Models to Core ML for iOS
It’s never been required — and is usually substantially slower – but a virtualdom may be worth the overhead because it avoids the need to organize those updates. Most cases aren’t performance sensitive to the point where that’s the deciding factor in a decision.
ironically (or extremely well fitting?) the most excellent content with an not so great slides format
Maybe, just maybe, they can make mammoths big as mice and maybe a minified Jurassic Park so politicians will not get scared and say "this things are killing us". Imagine the mammoth pet...awww
>you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to [snip] Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service

So what you're saying is that when you grant someone the right to use your content for a specific purpose, you're actually granting them the right to do whatever the hell they want with it?

Again, not a lawyer, but "in connection with operating and providing the Service" reads like a legally important part of that sentence to me.

"Service" in this context is defined earlier in the document:

>the Discord application (the “App”) or the website located at https://discordapp.com (the "Site"), which are collectively referred to as the “Service,”

IMO you're reading this very creatively if you think that grants them a right to publish a book of your private messages. Rights to use your content are granted specifically "in connection with operating and providing the Service." A book of your messages is not in connection with operating/providing the Discord app or website.
> Not vaccinating your kids should be classified as a child protection offence (unless there is medical basis from a panel, not one quack). Kids are confiscated, vaccinated and put into state care after one warning

Great, once you pass that law you'll have drug companies lobbying to get their vaccine listed on your "must inject by age X or get your kids taken away" list. Imagine the revenue for every kid in the country being mandated to inject your vaccine.

Usually, our attempt to bring risk to 0 brings tyranny close to 100.

The scenes of the government dragging a kid out of their parent's grasp and injecting a needle into their arms is straight out of any stereotypical dystopian novel.

Yes, it can be frustrating fighting disinformation, but patience and kindness is almost always better in the long run IMO than force and punishment.

I understand the desire to eliminate unnecessary risk, but getting everyone vaccinated and respecting individual freedom is not an easy task. Our country is more vaccinated than it's ever been, but the last few % might take longer than most people would like.
Internet may have killed the prospect of making a living as an author "the traditional way", but it allows other ways.
Many artists makes a living out of Patreon.
According to them [1], there are people that made $150k+ in a year authoring videos or podcasts. You can find people making a living writing fiction [2], producing music or photography.

[1] https://blog.patreon.com/top-earners-2016
[2] https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators
Nobody is going for absolute certainty here. That bar is too high in any conversation.

His point was mostly that, way before you achieve the kind of AGI portrayed in fiction, you'll have semi-intelligent interdependent systems that cause a lot of trouble due (like the kind that already happens to a lesser degree). Those are the ones that we should worry about right now.
Rough.js hand-drawn graphics library v3.1 released
In classic glibc form, malloc_trim has been freeing OS pages in the middle of the heap since 2007, but this is documented nowhere. Even the function comment in the source code itself is inaccurate.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15529643/what-does-mallo...
DoD – Systems Engineering Fundamentals [pdf]
I would never have held up Ethiopia as the model of incorruptibility. And the NTSB is generally thought to be above reproach. But I guess it's hard to argue that given two competent agencies, the one with the least perceived conflict of interest should do the work.
I'd love to read more about this. Does this concept have a name? At face value, yes, some sort of contractual agreement that considers externalities of production, employee well-being, etc. sounds like a solid idea.
I believe a "large latte" is more similar to what in Italy is a "latte macchiato" (though as you say is not very "large"[1]) than to a "cappuccino".

[1] "normal" bars in Italy only have two sizes of cups, one (smaller) for the espresso and one (larger) for the cappuccino (used also for tea, chocolate, ginseng, etc.).
Large mug-sized cups normally exists only in homes where traditionally you have a caffelatte with bread or biscuits at breakfast (or sometimes instead of dinner)
All this feedback is great. I'm working on a little competitive multiplayer game for Android (and soon iOS) as a side project.

I was thinking about showing ads after every other match w/ the option to pay out and now I think I'll only show them past a certain rank, or just put up a pay wall.
How exciting. One of the great things about React is that it's just as much a pattern as a library, and with Rust macros and v-dom it should be rather easy to build something similar to JSX in Rust (with the proper Rust-isms of course). Can't wait for Rust to rule the web.
Hahahaha!

I wish Hacker News had a way to flag this post funny.

(Parent is a Stargate reference)
I know how free software works...
Decades of non-management experience in the same field qualifies you to run a 30,000 employee agency?

I've got decades of non-management software dev experience, perhaps I should be in charge of Microsoft?
Suppose you have 1000 such books today. Suppose each court case takes 1 year to resolve with 100% success probability (far, far too optimistic of an assumption). Suppose Amazon goes to court, and 1 year from now, all these books are taken down.

In the meantime, within that year, 1000 more authors create books like this. By the end of the year you have 1000 resolved cases and 1000 new cases. This can continue forever, with the result that 1000 books are always available for sale.

You might say, the authors could be penalized so as to scare new authors away from this. However, the probability that a court will impose sufficiently large fines on the authors is close to zero. Even if they did, many authors could be (or claim to be) based abroad and therefore (in practice) cannot be fined by the US court system.

Do you have any solution to this problem that doesn't involve Amazon acting without a court decision?

If someone sees a problem with my example, please let me know. I am not trying to impose my views on anyone, I'm genuinely trying to understand the mechanisms at play, the concerns, and the possible solutions.
What? We who?