skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piling on to this, customer service isn't just an interaction with an [entity] when something goes wrong. I would fairly categorize the initial shopping & fulfillment experience in the context of Amazon's e-commerce product as "customer service". If it solves your problem correctly & reliably, I'd call that "good customer service".
Learning the basics about how programming languages work - parsers, interpreters/compilers. I've heard good things about Writing An Interpreter In Go [1]. Related, I've enjoyed Martin Fowler's DSL book [2].

- [1] https://interpreterbook.com
- [2] https://www.martinfowler.com/books/dsl.html
From experience - it's not that simple.

I run 70's and 80's Masseys. I have to fix them constantly, by myself. The biggest hassle is waiting for parts. The last time I needed a part from an implement or salesman that I couldn't get from a junkyard took 2 weeks for delivery, once they found it. It was 20 days total from breakdown to fix, and all but 12 hours of that was out of my control.

So, put yourself on a broken down tractor in harvest season with rain in the forecast for two days from now. That white glove treatment you get with new machinery looks pretty nice when that happens.

That being said, I agree that people want to complain more than they want to fix anything. I enjoy working with my hands as a hobby, so I'm odd, I think. Most people just want their machines to work, with no inputs.
I reuse them as garbage bags in small trash cans under the sink, in the bathroom, office, etc.

You can reuse small boxes and big coffee cans as the trash cans.
"One day boycott" reads as if the boycott lasts one day and that's it, you are back to normal, using the site, getting tracked. So I don't think I would be too scared if I were a business.
Why do they need the latest tractor technology? Amazingly, people used to survive using tractors without air conditioning. Just slum it a little and use something that was state of the art for 1990. Plenty of Deere competitors can beat that.
None of the current openings fit my skills, but I really enjoyed discovering where the listing descriptions are. :)
Biological sex and gender are the same thing. Doesn’t mean a minority of people _feel_ differently, but the science is beyond any question that XX and XY are distinct genders. They come with different hormone levels, XX can carry babies and lactate, etc.
Yes. I am OK with accepting tracking cookies on other sites but I just close the tabs if they I see anything related to Oath as a matter of principle.
Seems unlikely. I'd think that if either of these situations happened the affected person would publicise it for maximum value.
> Which is worse, more CO2 or more litter in the environment?

That one is an easy question to answer. CO2 climate change has the possibility of radically altering human civilization and has the potential to cause millions of deaths. While litter in the environment is bad, it is something humans have dealt with before and will not have nearly the impact.
Is it the case that if the servers are down/unreachable the tractor will refuse to start, or simply that the automation features will fail? In the latter case you have to go back to the old system of having a human behind the wheel directing the machine. Most of the time that is the farmer, his family, and some hired help on really big farms. Food prices go up due to increased wages, but it's not a catastrophic food shortage as grain rots in the fields.

If it's the former then John Deere has set itself up for some massive liabilities if their servers crap out for extended periods during critical planting/harvest windows.
FedEx Express / Freight is traditional (union) employees.

FedEx Ground are nonunion independent contractors.
Except no evidence has been presented that such a thing has ever happened. Even with Damore.
Much more likely that just leads to him getting voted out by his fanatical base
Bezos also said his top 3 priorities are lower prices, faster delivery, and wider selection.
I agree that San Francisco looks more visually pleasing on Retina displays, but I still find Lucida Grande easier to read. Particularly via peripheral vision, which matters in a UI.
Just do yourself a favor and read it the way it's intended: As a dictionary.

Design patterns give you a vocabulary to describe design choices you made. They don't give you a set of things that inform design.
Note that the likelihood of this being an actual security issue is extremely low. Rust just takes memory safety very seriously.
And you cost more because you are subject to these rules and regulations. Amazon will abuse the lack of rules and enforcement on this, just as everyone else that can will do so until we write and codify a law that prevents or discourages it. Sadly, this is how these things tend to work.
Thanks for being a trailblazer and not using any employee sponsored health insurance.
>For instance, if you're a news reporter covering politics, you _shouldn't_ be going around telling people your personal opinions about politics. In fact, doing so can get you quickly kicked off the beat, because you're (ostensibly) supposed to be objective and unbiased.

This is crazy. I am not saying you are crazy, or anything negative, let us be clear.

First, TYT as example. They are unabashedly progressive and they make that extremely clear. Secondly, they do a great job of producing high clarity material with fact and opinion well differentiated.

Many similar entities claim low or no bias, objectivity, fairness, and so forth.

However, none of this things are actually true!

There is always bias. And objective material takes a number of us working over a sustained amount of time to produce.

That does not happen on a cable news cycle.

As a kid, we received education on these things. Bias, what it is, how to identify it and whether it was honestly and clearly made known.

Compare and contrast news written from a labor point of view (very hard to find these days in the US), vs big business POV. Same goes for religion, establishment vs reformers, you get the idea.

The single most important aspect in all of this is clarity. Being able to discern facts and opinion is what will inform us as well as speak to bias so we know to get a more inclusive set of sources to draw on in our own thinking.

Today, most media is a mess on these fronts, and it can be boiled down thus:

1) Low clarity.

2) Bias not clearly stated, and things like disclosure not part of strong norms.

3) "Always two sides to every story" (no, there are facts, and what people think they mean) here, we see nuts paired with scientists, "to be objective" and it is laughable, if it were not so common and damaging.

4) objectivity conflated with neutrality (major contributor to low clarity and bias ID problems)

A reporter covering politics will have political opinions and they should be known and well differentiated from the facts so reported.

This idea of a neutral/objective press, coupled with chronic low clarity seen today, is laughable! And it does us all great harm too.

As for going to HR... that should be reserved for the how of discussion, not the what of it.
>So basically the reality of my life is not subject to your opinions. Stop projecting your value system onto other people's lives.

how ironic
Right, but to GP's point their complaint isn't with AMP but with the current W3C internet standards as a whole.
> How can Apple’s App Store prices be monopolistic if the App Store has driven software prices so low that a lot of developers are having a hard time making money?

Because the issue is the price of app distribution, i.e. the part of the price Apple gets, not the part of the price the developer gets. The fact that the developers are getting squeezed is what you expect to happen when some other part of the supply chain is monopolized, because more of the revenue goes to the monopoly and less to the developer.

> Before the App Store, software licenses for Mac software could be priced in the $40-$70 range for software that might have had feature parity with what you get in a $3-$10 app on iOS these days.

The desktop and mobile markets are very different. For one thing, the people paying for desktop apps are primarily businesses whereas iOS apps are sold primarily to individuals. The mobile market is also bigger, which means more customers to amortize costs over which should result in lower prices.

Compare the price of iOS apps to Android apps. They're not lower and if anything are higher.
> I would like to see a ban for paid placement of messages, and not people doing something good for the public in hopes that people will like and pay attention to them.

Apologies for yet again picking a nit, but PR doesn't involve paid placement of a message. Neither does lobbying, media relations, inbound marketing (Hacker News), messaging, positioning, or getting an intern to stand with a sandwich board through the street. You could run a coach and horses through that definition of advertising.
I was just curious, not expecting anything particular---I wondered if Uber's business and its problem space are fundamentally bad as some of the comments here suggest. Re: your opinion, I think it's a good news for Uber. If it just takes Lyft going out of business for Uber to surface above water, I would bet there's a realistic chance.
Brown nosing.
> Is there an alternative where they don't sign an equivalent TOS and still get the same features?

I mean, the clear alternative is to buy tractors without the same features.

I'm not sure why manufacturers are obligated to sell certain features without a TOS.

> Or is this a unilateral power grab by the manufacturers?

How is this a power grab? That would only be true if the only tractor manufacturer in the world is John Deere.
> I think picking up a standard graduate probability book will clear this up better than any long comment trail.

Can you recommend one? I just picked up Probability and Measure by Billingsley and it does not mention "conditional random variable" a single time in over 600 pages. It does have a lot of "conditional probability", "conditional distribution", "conditional expectation" etc.

> You seem to be accepting of a conditional expectation.

Conditional expectation is defined in terms of conditional probabilities, and those are in turn explicitly defined as P(A|B)=P(A,B)/P(B), so there's nothing not to accept.
Doesn't seem like the kind of thing a super-optimiser is used for, given the few details available.
I'm not sure if that's the correct way to call it, but I've seen (and acted myself) "half-asleep" state many times. Apparently, I was able to answer even moderately complex questions (mostly things like "where are the car keys" or "which food did you give to our cat yesterday") and looked quite awake, yet I have absolutely no recollection of it happening. I also sometimes give answers or say things I wouldn't say normally, ie. two days ago in such a situation I apparently asked my wife why did she wrap herself with tinfoil from head to toe (obviously, this was in my dream, but I said it out loud). We have a good laugh out of this from time to time.

So yeah, I can imagine myself giving a clear "yes" to something in that state despite being consciously unaware of the entire thing. I'm not sure if "approval" like that should count court - I'm just giving you an example of one possible complication for "determining whether someone is conscious", be it before sex or otherwise.
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Bezos addresses your final question in the presentation. The livable planetary surfaces other than earth (Moon, Mars, maybe Ganymede or something) aren't that big. In total they sum up to somewhere in the realm of Earth's land surface. So inhabiting them is "only" going to enable doubling the human capacity. Whereas space itself will increase human capacity by many orders of magnitude.
> We did it because the newer things tend to be _better_ in a lot of ways.

We shouldn't be locked out of repairing our equipment just because the technology better nowadays. As I've said elsewhere within these posts, the reasons we've been locked out are more complex than that and it's ultimately to end-users' disadvantage (and to manufacturers' advantage).
That's a really interesting description, thanks. It seems like a very difficult condition and a constant source of anxiety. I struggle to think this is something anyone would choose for themselves.

It makes me very worried for the three year old I know who's mother insists he/she is transgender. That this shouldn't be a trendy thing - but a serious struggle.
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Good job Uber for maximising capital raised for development of the company.

Unfrotunately for them (this is not sarcastic) they have built a machine that hasn't had a focus on profit. It's hards to change that after years.
I agree with UBI is principle, but implementation is where the dragons are.

For one, doing UBI in a single country will cause whole number of problems. Do you keep borders relatively open and recall Europe's migrant crisis as a cute little inconvenience, or do you close them shut deal with political consequences of that -- generally people who are for closing borders are also against taking personal hits to prop up others. (and dealing with that involves doubling down on nationalism and other ugly notions).

With a planetary government and mostly automated industrial base (that likely needs more power over individual countries than US federal government has over individual US states), it will probably work. Good luck getting there.

Or with most of the countries (by population) implementing comparable UBI regimes mostly at the same time. So we'll have to wait for at least China and India to catch up.
He'd tried to get her to have sex without a condom all night. She continually rejected it. He (allegedly) knew fully that she did not consent to unprotected sex and waited for her to fall asleep to do it.
Still, moon has some gravity, making it possible to use some terestrial mining techniques and hardware and has more or less unlimited energy once you have a self-sustaining solar panel plant going.

The general idea for ONeil cylinders has been to build them in Moon-Earth Lagrange points with lunar material launched by solar powered electromagnetic mass drivers.

So the distance from Moon is not really an issue.
My personal opinion is that citizens of democracies need to demand urgent action from their government, and that action will include wealth transfer to developing nations to help them decarbonize and trade sanctions and theoretically even war (or at least the threat of war) against authoritarian countries that refuse to meet their global obligations.

This is a global problem, and it requires global action to have any hope.

For what it's worth, I think the risk of Chinese and Indian pollution is overstated. At least the Chinese government accepts that climate change is a real threat (unlike the current US administration) and is moving (too slowly, but still) in the right policy direction.
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and this is 416th comment... coincidentally
https://www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-singal-20353892 has a lot of useful resources and context you might want to check out when evaluating exactly how "pro-trans" Singal is.

"Singal's Atlantic article was cited by seven states in their lawsuit to overturn sex discrimination protections for trans people." is a fun recent addition to the pile.
Please don't take this comment as "there is nothing wrong" and don't take it as "there's nothing to talk about here". Clearly this is a problem that needs to be discussed and brought to people's attention. This is a response to people taking this article and interpreting it as though there is some injustice being done to farmers and that we need some sort of government intervention:

How is it a monopoly? There are like 8 or 9 different major tractor brands to choose from. The word is out on the street (or fields?), and I've seen articles like this for well over 5 years now.

There's a simple solution for farmers that don't want the costs (and benefits presumably) of these restrictive deals: don't buy a tractor that has these restrictive terms of service.
Thanks to amazon for accelerating the way.
How much lower profit margin will you accept? If the guy next to you can harvest twice as fast as you, how are you covering that extra harvest driver pay?
Who needs the latest computer technology? Amazingly, people used to compute by hand. Just slum it a little and use something that was state of the art for 1990s. Plenty of Intel competitors can beat that.

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Farmers are in a competition for revenues. Better tractor technology growing more food with fewer workers. If all your neighbors are growing 200 bushels whenever you grow 100 bushels, you're going to die.

AWS simply won't be competitive with 90s era computers. Modern farmers won't work with tech designed in the 90s either. Sure, farming might be slower than computers at advancing, but its the same general thing. Computers (and tractors) are durable goods, they can last 20 years if you need them to. In practice, people replace durable goods regularly, because the NEW model is that much better than the old model.

So from that perspective, the economics between the computer world and farming world are probably the same. The group with superior technology will get superior revenue at lower ongoing costs. For computers, that's less power-usage for the same amount of computations (requests per second or whatever). For farmers, that's fewer workers picking your fields for the same amount of crop.
Not low enough. Population grows exponentially. With death rate declining, birth rate must slow down significantly as population pressure increases.
The market as a whole has done really bad during the period Uber has been trading, which is unsurprising as someone is introducing uncertainty in the form of a trade war.
Exactly. It's disgusting. Totally unethical.
'The Imposters Handbook' is good for foundational knowledge, it was written for exactly your use case.

https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/
They already prevent it somewhat with a combination of selfies and facial recognition -

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-flex-delivery-driver-sel...
I am sure I am not alone when I say "thank you" for your list of legal accusations and subsequent evidence/anecdotes/articles/anything to back them up.
Don't make the mistake of thinking pouring a standard hot sauce on fried chicken == nashville hot chicken, though. This is what a lot of restaurants that don't specialize in hot chicken have done to jump on the craze, and it's not at all the same. Those sauces will have a lot of vinegar which affects both the flavor and texture negatively. Nashville hot chicken traditionally is coated in a mixture of lard (or oil) and cayenne.
For many years now my grandfather has read ebooks from the cab of his tractor. He puts his sony ereader in a ziplock bag to protect it from the dust and reads a few pages each row.

Despite his age he was a really early ebook adopter since they live in such a rural spot. The library can transfer books from bigger cities, but the shipping time is so slow and there is a limit to the number of books you can check out at once. Basically the netflix disc problem before they switched to streaming. Taking out ebooks from the library is really easy and a great way to pass the dull time spent on the tractor.
Yes, and the same is true of many of these public SaaS companies. Their losses are increasing proportionally to their revenue, mainly due to huge marketing spend.
Aside from the health care system, it arguably makes the general job market less efficient, by tying people more strongly to jobs that provide good health insurance, especially for people with chronic health conditions, or people with families.

It makes those people less likely to switch jobs, or start new self-employed projects of their own.
How can this be true if their top source, by a ratio of almost 2 to 1, is the cable news network with the lowest viewership? CNN doesn't even have a show that cracks the top 25 cable news shows[0].

[0] https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-top-cable-news-shows-of-...
Your argument is flawed because there was no evidence given of search results being censored. This is the premise of the article; some sort of biased, preferable treatment being given to certain news sites. Throwing youtube and facebook into the mix, which are curated platforms (AKA publishers) and one of which is clearly NOT Google, is disingenuous. Those platforms are not expected to be unbiased in their results.
"cover instances in which science and social-justice-advocacy get in fights"

This is especially funny when you remember that Singal has a long-standing problem with the American Academy of Pediatrics, and objects to their evidence-based protocol for treating transgender children, and he personally prefers the approaches advocated by a discredited conversion therapist.
You should consider to remake those graphs comparing the jitters. The non-backbone graph shows a majority of data points are below 0, which is impossible, so that means there are a small long tail at the high >20ms band, and you intentionally cropped them out. So when you said "oh the backbone graph is much better!". No it is not, it is very confusing actually.
This just looks like it allows to bypass safety checks without marking the code as unsafe. But so do most of the bugs listed in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/I-unsound%20%F0%9F%...? What makes this different that it's a security issue now?
Are you saying that all websites protected by section 230 should be required to be neutral, and not be allowed to filter out content they don't like? Or just Google because they have so much power?
What happens if you have a short on a stock and they go private / get delisted / get acquired before the number is hit?
The internet is not a technology unto itself. Rather, it's an application of technology. The internet of today is vastly different from the internet of the 1960s (which GP included in their list), but it's not fundamentally different at a technological level. The change of the internet from ARPANET to today is driven by nothing more than incremental improvement in existing technologies.

When was the last time a new technology reached commercial success?
State machines. They can be a helpful abstraction for UI or business logic, and they also make regular expressions make a lot more sense.
Especially given the update:

> Update, 12:35 pm: An editor from this publication has contested Ted’s account in ways I find credible. I’m reaching out to a couple people and will have a full update and potential correction as soon as possible.
Artisense is creating a GPS revolution
Practical Haskell
Is Argo in same category as Google's GlobalLoadBalancer and AWS' GlobalAccelerator? If not, what are the differences?

Can Argo be enabled at network layer, say VPN, and for other protocols say VoIP and not just HTTP/S?

Does Argo take inspiration from published research? If so, which ones?

Thanks.
There's no way your effective rate goes from 17% to 55%. Did you include the extra 3000/month you'll be getting?
I highly doubt in the few days Uber has been on the market the "public at large" has purchased any significant share of Uber using their pension accounts. It's not in an indices so they're certainly not exposed through that.
"Platform flexibility" is code for "charge extra for every feature". If you hear those words you know the "base" price they quote you is bullshit and they're going to nickle and dime you for every damn feature, like the steering wheel and brakes.
> How can we have evidence for that?

https://xkcd.com/1732/
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I'm no expert but I think they're still fairly commonly used in China. There's a rather popular small cheap 40w laser engraver (3020) sold on sites like Alibaba designed for stamp making that's become fairly popular elsewhere for hobbyist usage.