skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon's push to reduce costs always ends up going after the obvious, but their cost structure is more like an iceberg, and they're going after the least effective parts. The majority of the costs have little to do with direct labor, but rather planning. Inventory costs, logistics costs, warehouse utilization, sales forecasting, etc.

There is far more to shipping costs than distance. A split shipment (two items in two boxes) will typically increase costs for an order by $3-6, whereas receive/stow/pick/pack labor costs are only on the order of $1/unit. And yet, nearly every order I place comes in multiple shipments.

Kiva has O(n^2) efficiency degradation with respect to the size of their fulfillment centers. They solve this problem by having smaller fulfillment centers. But that also means more fulfillment centers, which means more split shipments, and much higher shipping costs. They're literally spending dollars to save pennies.

Reverse logistics are incredibly expensive. I'm talking $10-20/unit in some cases. The Amazon marketplace, and their associated quality control problems with fake reviews and counterfeit products, have increased their product returns by several fold over the last decade.

15 years ago, Amazon's inventory turns were something like 17, now they're 6. That directly translates to increased holding costs...for every sqft of storage space they needed in 2005, they need three today to ship the same amount of product.

And fulfillment costs aren't the only place they're making dumb mistakes with priorities. They did their whole HQ2 search shenanigans, only to settle on the two cities that offered the highest tax subsidies. But if they chose to instead prioritize lower cost of living, they could have saved an order of magnitude more, considering the fact that they are planning on having several tens of thousands of high paid workers in their HQ2 cities. The COL increases alone from locating in expensive cities with obstructive housing policies will eat up far more than those tax subsidies are worth.

In the funniest of ironies, Amazon's growth-first mindset that defied Wall Street expectations has led to an invariably laser-focused expectation on revenue growth that they are now a slave to. The P/E premium that Amazon has relative to its industry competitors, carries an implied expectation that Amazon will one day be ~10x bigger than it currently is. And Amazon's equity-first compensation philosophy means that their compensation budget inherently relies on the stock price. Therefore, any decision that may be in the long term best interest of the company (such as dumping the brand perception nuclear bomb known as the Amazon Marketplace) is now no longer feasible: it will cut revenue, killing growth expectations, lowering stock prices, and forcing Amazon to pay more cash compensation, which will just cause prices to tank further.

If we were to judge how Amazon is doing based off of how well their PR releases jive with wall street ideas of what good business decisions look like, they are doing everything right. Unfortunately, wall street ideas are shit for actual profitability. And Amazon is suffering for it.
> You struggled through the university, but managed to get a degree in computer science. That's awesome. Now focus on training your focus.

Thank you for the encouragement!
I've used it for toothpaste for years, in a sprayer (actually an old Dr. Bronner's hand sanitizer sprayer, though I would not recommend that product as it is quite strongly scented). It needs to be very diluted (even a drop of full strength is too much) and tastes disgusting at first but I was mostly used to it after a week or so and now only find it unpleasant if I use more than usual. I'd recommend brushing a second time with just water to prevent aftertaste and since soap in the digestive system can limit absorbtion. The nice thing is that it leaves the toothbrush much cleaner than with regular toothpaste (and is essentially free if you use it for anything else).

I can't really say how well it works; my teeth are in bad shape but that is presumably because I love sugar and vinegar. I think dentists would tend to recommend baking soda as the simple inexpensive toothpaste alternative, however at least one study someone mentioned here not too long ago found that using toothpaste vs water doesn't seem to make much difference. I've heard some theorizing about abrasive vs. non abrasive toothpaste but I haven't looked if there are any studies on that question.
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Are these annotations more than summaries of and links to related court findings?
>deplatforming Alex Jones

Just as a datapoint, I just googled "Alex Jones"[0] about 5 minutes after your comment and his Infowars website is prominently shown on page 1 as the 3rd result[1].

I don't have a Facebook account but it doesn't look like Google Search in particular has deplatformed Alex Jones.

(To the downvoters, this thread's topic is the Columbia Journalism Review story and it's about referrals from Google Search and not Youtube. The comment by liara_k is also specifically about the Google search engine and that's what tucaz was replying to. If my screenshot of Google search engine results does not contribute to the discussion, please explain why.)

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+jones

[1] https://imgur.com/a/KDVBHcJ
The two links you provided were cases where Google acts as the publisher (e.g. youtube). This doesn't apply to the premise of the article, which was specific to search and curation of news outlets.

> Would you rather fight spammers and keep free-speech alive or give it up over to Google and other platforms?

You appear to be mixing search and youtube. If I search for Alex Jones, the second hit is infowars. First is wikipedia.
> would waiting to print the receipt at the end cause a big slowdown vs printing as you ring items up? (I believe with most current systems, items can be added and removed, and they show up as 'add' and 'remove' line items, because it does print as you scan.)

print the bubble chart at the end of the receipt, job done
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Search engines could bias towards our preferences as consumers if they weren't a monopoly and didn't sell/place ads in the search results.

That's the problem with Google and I think we're too far down this path for them to fix it. We've been watching this slow walk to where they are for a long time and I think people have just become to used to it to notice how insidious the situation has become.
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Well, that would be different, because women aren't objects labelled "for having sex with".
Looks like it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190513170015/https://blog.evja...
I agree with all points: I am lucky that my Calibre workflow avoids PDF files almost completely. Its support there is really lacking. The metadata tracking & organization is good, but anything beyond import + sync to devices can get dicey. With the devs refusal to port to Python 3, I wouldn't be surprised if a challenger begins to siphon away Calibre's users in the near future.
> And of course, $600/mo/adult is an extremely meager existence.

Well the good news is that once UBI is implemented all future elections will boil down to politicians promising a bigger UBI increase than the other guy. Problem solved!
> The stuttering command line is a subtle UX poke, hey, you just ruined a nice program.

Isn't this subtle discouragement from adding powerful features if there's no way to make them super fast? I want to automate everything I can. It's really hard to make a computer slower than doing it myself; I'm made of meat.
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> (I believe strongly that we do everyone a disservice by silencing people. It harms the rest of us by isolated us from anything not "mainstream" and it further pushes the silenced into radicalism and vindicates/bolsters their argument that they are mistreated).

I absolutely agree that being "silenced" and feeling "persecuted" only serves to make extreme views more extreme. But I'm also not sure the bias is only directed one way as many of the far-right pundits would have people believe.

I also use DDG and avoid all things google as much as I can but the other day I searched "atlas" on YouTube (looking for the Greek mythological figure) and stumbled across a clip from the movie "Atlas Shrugged." I had read the book in high school and I know it's a favorite among conservatives so I figured it couldn't hurt to watch so I did, without thinking much of it. When I went back to my YouTube homepage later the recommend videos were very different from any content I would ever seek out: Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, the Ayn Rand Institute, and even one called "Why Immigration is Bad for Britain." From watching one movie clip.

I think Google's algorithms, for better or for worse, can very quickly discern what content a user "wants" and filters out the rest. I'm the last person to have anything nice to say about Google but I do genuinely believe it's more a case of algorithms enforcing the unconscious bias/preferences of our brains than anyone at Google maliciously "silencing" certain points of view.
You said "fairly attractive" to them which might not be the best way to say that. Eating worms while lost in the woods isn't something that the vast majority would consider attractive but they would do it anyway to survive.
Judging from my family's group chat that also works really well.
I would add BBC to that list.
> It's material because people are using attacks on his character as a proxy to discredit his work

Even if that were true, the legal status of his alleged acts had they been committed in the US would still not be germane.
Gentoo was like that. Everything was compiled with -march=native. It didn’t result in a noticeable improvement and you had to wait for everything to compile.

It seems with this distro you won’t have to wait. But I can’t imagine the speed ups will be that noticeable.
From the man page:

> if the -f option is specified, the output is canonicalized by following every symlink in every component of the given path recursively. readlink will resolve both absolute and relative paths, and return the absolute pathname corresponding to file. In this case, the argument does not need to be a symbolic link.

This is the case for *BSD, GNU/Linux, and Irix. If macOS would prioritize being consistent with the other Nix OSs, it would be supported too, but alas Apple doesn’t.
Neither does Sweden and what the US is charging Assange with wouldn’t warrant the death penalty anyways.
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Thanks! This thread is a treasure trove of recommendations.
Hm, I could maybe understand if a hedge fund (or other investment firm) were operating on a "high watermark" standard (i.e. they have to get the fund's holdings past their previous all-time-high to get paid at all), then I could accept them being "underwater" in that sense.
Hmm. That would imply that it's not just a fairness problem or a copyright politics problem, but a national security problem.
> It is further evidence that for many companies, the perception of accountability is more important than accountability itself, and it suggests that perhaps Silicon Valley’s #MeToo moment wasn’t one of momentous cultural change, but of the crisis PR infrastructure on which it’s built working as it always has.

Isn’t that pretty much the point, though? I’m not passing judgement or anything on any party, but it’s all about perception, and that’s a problem.

I don’t know how to fix this as far as the modern justice system goes, but clearly perception is not right from either side of the argument.
Not sure I buy into this blog's description as there is so little detail.

I certainly have concerns about the scale of some opinions being quashed by corporate of collegiate oversight.

But at the same time I see folks with strong opinions very very quickly go to "this is only happening because I have X opinions" and in reality they're just jerks about those opinions and the consequences are related to being a jerk, not their opinions.
Learning in-depth your various options for persisting data, is very useful since most applications have to deal with persistence in some form, and increasingly in a distributed manner. Go beyond simply skimming the surface of SQL vs. NoSQL and the marketing claims different databases make about their scalability and consistency. Learn what ACID and CAP stand for and the tradeoffs involved in different persistence strategies. Learn SQL really well. Learn how to read a query plan, which is the algorithm your SQL query gets compiled into. Learn about the tradeoffs of row-based vs column-based storage. Learn how indexes work, and what a B-tree is. Learn the MapReduce pattern. Think about the tradeoffs between sending code to run everywhere your data is stored vs. moving your data to where your code is running.
It's not the competition, it's the congestion. The presence of a huge number of terrible TNC drivers double-parked makes it impossible to keep the bus on its timetable.
I said this on the other thread but I think the bubble chart should be moved to the back or below. The primary use of a receipt is auditing if they made a mistake and this design makes it harder to do so.
These items aren’t fragile and usually come with totally inadequate padding, so that’s not it. The truck loadout thing seems likely though.
Yeah, Infowars may have the best coverage of a story, but that doesn’t do Google any good if it’s abrasive to profitable users’ expectations. By pushing good content down they can keep the users happy who 1) click ads, 2) shop more online, 3) subscribe / engage on platforms. The algorithms aren’t designed to find the best content, but that which aligns with Google’s goals (eg profit).
Fundamentally, if a product can exist without an expensive component, it will beat solution's that contain that expensive component.
Enjoyed your demos. Quill.js delta fits nicely with OT (and we do mentioned in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01517.pdf).

Here is a Quill.js coediting demo, without using a ShareDB backend: https://codepen.io/dnus/pen/OojaeN
It would be interesting to compare this to the experience special effects artists who work on gory films have.
Yeah, good point, universities never revoke degrees over objectionable behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby#Rescinded_honorary_...
You are right, but I am a bit concerned about self-driving cars.
Niklaus Wirth fans will appreciate the (apparently out of print) book "The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity", written by some of Wirth's students about his and their research work with languages, operating systems, and the Lilith computer.

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Yes, if a dominant player disappears it will result in chaos. This is not unique to agriculture, imagine Boeing disappearing. Or Amazon (see ya later AWS!). The thing is big companies don't really disappear. They might go bankrupt, but even then the valuable bits will continue to be valuable and run by new management.
Theremin is one of the true geniuses, the list of inventions and fields is incredible.
You think a self-taught programmer might never encounter SQL?
Not sure I understand "pay for the proxying" - you should still be able to sign up your domains with the "free" plan as long as you use CF as your dns. If you don't want to proxy, your DNS records can be set to grey clouds so it just acts as a DNS service (but yes, you do have to be on Cloudflare's nameservers for now).
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Doctor posted online in favor of immunization. Then opponents targeted her
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It's funny you're saying this about Benchmark. Didn't they have a bitter lawsuit with some founders they invested in?
https://venturebeat.com/2005/01/25/epinions-founders-sue-ben...
Honorary degrees are, as the name suggests, different in kind from normal degrees.
That's the "Is there an adult in the room" plan.
Can they simply raise the ride price ? To the point of not losing money ? The only other player, at least in the US is lyft and lyft has to rise their price too if they don't to keep loosing money. Customer won't go back to use old fashioned taxi.
So how much faster is HashLink than Neko?

Are there any benchmarks somewhere?

Edit: It's significantly faster then Neko and about as fast as HXCPP target.

https://twitter.com/jdbaudi/status/789231337467174912
awesome. great stuff. with all the negative stigma around the ADHD umbrella it was refreshing to read this. in particular the parts showing how little tasks can seem overwhelming to someone with the condition. i struggle with this endlessly. it is by far the worst part for me, and often the hardest for people w/o the condition to understand.
Designer. It was shipped in a week.
In the past society used to challenge opinions more directly and immediately, sometimes even descending into outright "intolerant" behavior.

Now the pendulum has swung and even the most eloquent, tame, and well thought-out argument is at risk of being labeled as intolerant of something.

Add to that that echo-chambers have gone from what used to be small groups of people to the massive ones that exist on the internet today, and we are at a point where many people aren't used to having their opinions challenged. Reactions of people suddenly confronted with an opinion outside their comfort zone vary from responding with fallacies, seeking protection by an authority figure (HR, police, etc.) to losing their composure.
I'll add that its also worse because of government monopoly on violence.
Disclaimer: My father worked as an engineer for John Deere for 35 years. I interned at John Deere writing code that runs on the tractor controllers.

Discussions on this topic always end up one-sided and simplistic. Hopefully I can shed some light on the more nuanced reasoning behind John Deere's position.

Having the DRM in place allows Deere to reduce manufacturing expense and increase platform flexibility. There is a very wide array of needs that farmers have based on what they do. Deere allows buyers to customize tractors to their needs for everything from engine horsepower, to wheel count, size, and type, cab quality-of-life, to hydraulic hookups for implements. Some of these changes are just a software change, while others are a software + hardware change.

Engine horsepower, for example, can be increased by a software update. Techincally, this is pretty cool. Designing and manufacturing engines is expensive. This allows them to manufacture fewer different engines that can cover a wider variety of use cases. It also allows farmers the flexibility to upgrade their engine horsepower at a future date. If I remember correctly each extra 50hp above the base costs ~10k, so the large configurations subsidize the cost of the base configurations.

With that understanding, think of how this can apply to Deere's obligations to the EPA or to warranties.
Years ago, farmers found a hack where they could put a resister in-line between the diesel temperature sensor and the ECU and increase their horsepower. The hack spread like wildfire. This made the engines run in a configuration that had not been tested by Deere or approved by the EPA. Who would the EPA go after if it had caused emissions issues? Should Deere honor the warranty in this case of those who did the hack? How would Deere know if someone did the hack, borked the engine, then removed the resistor?

Liability is the enemy of automation. Deere has added some automation over the years, allowing the tractors to drive straight down the field without intervention, and executing perfect turns at the push of a button. This is functionality that no companies would let end users change. Much like my dad, a tractor is not a cell phone. Installing a custom rom on a cell phone is one thing, updating the autonomous driving of a 10 ton tractor is quite another.

There's got to be some middle ground, but I don't know what it is.
Catholic man here.

I'd just like to comment here, and hopefully bring an unbiased view from the other side of this conversation.

Even though that I am Catholic, and that I believe God exists, I can't stand here and hold up evidence X that proves irrefutably that God exists. Why? It's based upon this knowledge that I've gained thus far:

1. God decides when He reveals Himself to us.
2. Our relationship with God is deeply personal, to others, this interaction looks like a "coincidence."

For most of my life, I knew of God and this and that, but didn't ever "feel" anything. I thought I should right? But I didn't. There's truth to this passage, Romans 1:19 (ESV); "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.". It's not us that come to see God's existence, but when God allows it to be.

So when I say that "I know that God is real because I happened to see a cross when I was driving to the store today" sounds like a coincidence to others, but what I don't tell you is that I've been deeply struggling with laziness and fear and needed some reassurance. It's this presence of the cross to me a reminder that God is listening to me as I pray.

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It's very common for me to hear people trying to disprove God. Oh what a crazy person, believing in this crazy floating man in the sky. What a wierdo!

Yes, I was in this crowd too at one point.

However, there is such peace in knowing God, having himself revealed to me. You have no idea, there is such a peace in my heart knowing God, and this is why myself, and likely other Christians choose to talk about God. With everything happening today, I know that God is still in control of everything and that we aren't assured destruction because nothing is impossible for God. This doesn't excuse us of doing the right thing, of course. We are still responsible for our actions but God has the final say.
Usually, when reading about Georgia, a glance at the article provides enough context to determine whether it's about the American state or the former Soviet bloc nation. Not in this case, it would seem.
This is a false dichotomy. We're not actually required to make this choice. Literally nothing forces you or anyone to use Google. The reason folks flock to their products despite costs and the occasional awkward depreciation is because they execute pretty well and they have one of the best security track records in the industry.

Attempting to co-opt that for "free speech" by injecting stories onto their pages that are more agreeable to a "balanced" interpretation is not a free speech approach.

What's more, many of the headline proposals in this article text (e.g., Kaepernick and Tax Reform) are tough to give the rightward view on without facing direct misinformation, because the politicians on the right have engaged very directly in misinformation about taxes and deliberately tried to intimidate free speech in atheletes (above and beyond what influence the average American has). Saying that any news outlet should make a special exemption for calling these out to be "balanced" is to propose that telling the truth is a liberal approach, and I find that idea pretty repugnant on it's face for a variety of reasons (not the least of which being that it gives way too much credit to the center left of America).

As for Alex Jones, I don't know how many brazen and horrifying lies you need to literally go to court and plead that you're a comedy show for before you lose the right to use the veil of serving the public interest. Is a transparent desire to lie with the intent to deceive not a DQ for being a "journalist" now? At what point DO we say, "You do you, Alex, but we're not a part of this anymore?" And if Alex gets that privilege, are you going to fall over yourself to similarly defend the Democratic Socialists of America and antifa actions? I suspect for most people that is a "No."