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> There are a ton of companies applying AI in different industries like autonomous cars and chatbots.

No, there are companies marketing AI in those industries. AI as most people think of it doesn't yet exist. The most famous example is the massive fraud that is/was IBM's Watson[1].

It's common for companies to say they're AI when they're actually doing text-search, crowdsourcing work from real humans, or doing statistical regressions on a data set.

Even autonomous driving is not exactly AI because it can't react well to novel situations. Waymo is way ahead of the others because it has massive amounts of training data, not because it's AI is so much better.

If true AI existed, Google and Apple would certainly have it, and your phone's voice assistant wouldn't be laughably stupid 80% of the time. Facebook might also have it, and their chatbot initiative would've been more successful.

> What do you think are the best application for AI in e-commerce and who is doing it well?

This is like saying what is the best application for being smart in e-commerce. It's so broad that it's impossible to answer. Theoretically AI can do tasks that previously only humans could do, but it can do them faster and cheaper.

That's applicable to literally everything in e-commerce (and any other services industry).

1. https://www.rogerschank.com/fraudulent-claims-made-by-IBM-ab...
I'll miss venmo.

This article is a bit thin on details. is this just black market? All sales? something else?
Of course not. But perhaps they should have been ;-p. In 2010 Firefox's market share peaked[1]. Chrome has spanked Mozilla for a decade and Mozilla haven't effectively competed (to me apparently by choice of their focus).

Meanwhile the Chrome team has beaten Mozilla at open source, which should be Mozilla's strength (V8, node.js, Electron, closure compiler, remote debugging, Samsung browser, Edge 76, Chromium, etc etc). The brightest non-browser component to come out of Mozilla to me is rust, which is a tour de force (Mozilla does have some serious technical chops), and as a developer mdn is superb.

Mozilla chased multiple dead-ends during that time, perhaps most notably Firefox OS (even though gonk was based on Android? [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/B2G_OS/Plat...
On the one hand, cryptocurrency / decentralization / blockchain is a huge joke-scam.

On the other hand, giant centralized corporations have monopolies and unilaterally decide what can and cannot be accessed. Google has even banned ad blocker extensions!

Can HN commenters ever embrace a new model of business? Or will they forever suck the FAANG breast?
> Do they allow alcohol ads?

https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6012382

Surprisingly, the answer is "yes". But alcohol ads can only be shown on sites which have explicitly opted in to alcohol ads, which most sites don't.
Of note:

In at least one of these the bag is photoshopped in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pico_do_Agudo_Santo_Anton...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vale_do_paraiba_montanha....
Yep, that's exactly it! Because it supports TCP forwarding, that sounds like it should work!
The policy at our building is that, if you don't feel comfortable, let the person follow you in, but let security know.

We have the advantage that all entrances end up going through a central area, and we have ample camera coverage, such that security can reliably find people who tailgated if they are informed.

Tailgating is actually a very frequent and problematic occurrence for us, sometimes by people who will be aggressive, and this has seemed like the safest solution for us.
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But did they get rid of the apps to buy shrooms?
Yes, the Windows 10 app is a HTML/JS app. The Windows 8 app is a native app.
They didn't ban adblocker extensions. You're just parroting propaganda.
My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
Nice, that's something that's useful too. I think this is especially important as it pertains to home services/exposed things. I just wanted to build my own tools around it mainly for the virtual hosting/websockets support. Also I just find these things fun to write and figure out :)
This seems a bit confusing since "Wasmer" is also the name of the umbrella project.
That is good news, thanks.
We made the tech industry
I use https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts for the runtime checking. It is similar to tcomb (same author)!

You can even define the type via io-ts and then make a TypeScript interface out of it!

Given this, and the other libraries that do something similar, I am not sure why Microsoft needs to add it to the language.
One concept that always struck me as bizarre, was "we'll move the manufacturing overseas, but the manufacturing engineering will remain in the US". Years later, I asked a Harvard economics professor about it. He said yes, he'd taught that... "the ideas were in the air" (paraphrase - it's been years).

So one problem I have with much analysis of Trump populism, is its failure to recognize that subcultures doing group-think, believe absurdities, and tolerating being lied to, are a broader problem, worthy of more fundamental analysis, and an opportunity for broader remediation.
I like this. It's using webkit, and it's nice to have dedicated cmd-tab apps with dock notifications for messenger.
Someone I know started a b2b business in the marijuana industry. Tried doing google ads and got all their ads blocked. Every time they reached out to support they gave them a different reason for blocking the ad. And every time after complying and re-submitting, the ads would get blocked again. Finally they gave up on Google ads.
> ...it will dig a pair of concrete tunnels, 12 feet in diameter and less than a mile long. The asphalt-paved tubes will be just wide enough for a single vehicle to drive down.

So... it's a... subway
My 2¢ in taking to people from other countries, it's the American attitude. Americans for better or worse think we can do anything, and they will try incessantly. They will start a business with far less experience and qualifications than others, pull themselves up by the bootstraps and potentially fail spectacularly - just to get right back up and do it again.

I do not get this sense taking to people from other countries at all, largely in part Canada and the UK. They aren't trying to change the world.
I currently use Firefox, and recently (likely owing to multi-processing) Firefox eats up 2G of RAM for me[0]. I have ~700 tabs open so that may be a factor as well. Other than this the browser works great for me, and I have always used Firefox as my main browser.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/O8vvwUC.png
The highest end concentrates are only available on the black/grey market currently, and if you have some skilled growers in your relationship circle you can access some much better stuff (more potent and/or grown with less chemical additives, not to mention a much fresher curing process and a more thorough trimming job) than whatever is the highest end stuff they sell in the stores. They have put a limit on potency and their regulations mean that the weed they sell in stores in way too dry once it reaches costumers. It's not the biggest deal to most people and better than putting people behind bars, but there could also be a much better craft cannabis culture that could be promoted by small businesses rather than the corporate consolidation the liberal party is currently encouraging. In my opinion it would make users build a healthier rapport to this drug, in the same way that getting into fancy wine as well as craft beers and spirits can lead to a more gastronomic approach to alcohol than drinking coors light and vodka.
The Story of a Great Monopoly (1881)
Has anyone opposing this action thought maybe an aggressively competitive tech corporation doesn't want to be held liable for assisting in distribution of a drug that isn't nationwide legal? They have way larger concerns than worrying about this.
Oh sure everyone can be vulnerable to certain cons. Fortunately all spear phishing attacks can be very easily avoided through technical means. I guess those who down voted me must be unfamiliar with the functionality available in current enterprise email systems.
If I search for "python lea", I want information about the python package "lea". I do not want general information about "learn python".
nah i've had it too, granted it's on a 10 year old Xeon box I got for 40 bucks 4 years ago on an equipment auction at my work, but Asana and clickup are unusably slow, so when I last tried to switch for Firefox I'd just use them in a chrome instance ( where it was actually usable) ,the trouble was I would keep accidentally opening links etc in chrome and before I knew it I was using just the chrome browser.
Everything old is new to somebody.

Python recipe for multithreaded sqlite access from 2007: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/526618-multithread-suppo...

Which is itself based on this one from 2006: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496799/

A quick google search for 'python multithread sqlite' also brings up
https://pypi.org/project/sqlite3worker/
Personalized items based on past purchases. In clothing I’d settle for items in my size based on past purchases.
Is the check of `lib.d.ts` not helped by --incremental?
If the virtual economy grows 10%, that doesn’t mean we need 10% more energy to make it happen.
It depends what you call and measure as value.

If it’s production or goods, there’s obviously an upper limit. Even if in distant future, we begin assembling atoms into making novel rare elements, all that process consumes energy and possibly would produce waste. Production is not free. In the exponential limit, we will hit some constraint.

If we are talking about services, we should realise that even they cost energy. Even if we tomorrow think that long distance travel will be replaced by VR, production and delivery of such experiences cost energy.

Fundamental argument is then about energy. Can we keep harnessing it infinitely? No. Even if we make energy efficient processes, Jevon’s paradox suggests we will simply start using more energy.

The only way physical limits can be respected is by limiting the growth of economy and population. (Otherwise if we keep printing money without increase in production, it isn’t really economic growth)
And what coder at Google is not a weekend stoner. I'm sure they're having a laugh at this one.
There is a physical limit to the efficiency of a heat engine though. If your powertrain is 25% efficient, you can double it to 50%. But if it's 50%, you cannot double it to 100% unless the engine is operating at a temperature of absolute zero. You're going to reach a point- and current model cars are probably just about there- where the engine is operating about as efficiently as the laws of physics permit, and then you're not going to make further progress. Just google "Carnot cycle" and you can learn more.
Well I guess using a browser made by an ad company isn't a good idea after all.
Except the URL is usually nothing like your banks.
Not super surprising if you pay attention to the Soft Bank effect. Recent analyses of ~1,000-2,000 Series A say similar things: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/25/a-quick-look-at-how-fast-s...

Average Series A:

* $5.3M raised pre-A

* $33M average pre-money valuation

* $10-15M average raises

* 80% have revenue, with ~$1M revenue to ~talk, and ideally $2M

So Series B is the new Series A, Series A is the new Seed II, and Seed.. oh whatever. Even more interesting when talking to investors who are unaware of the new reality. Fun times for fellow CEOs out there :)
> 2TB or nothing for a single account with no family sharing that costs more than iCloud? No thanks.

This seems to be the trend across some other providers too. Keep prices the same (or even increase it, like SpiderOak) and provide more space that most people wouldn't need or use. Effectively, they rely on people not using the storage quota fully.

As a end user, I can't understand or support not having lower price points with lower storage quota, family sharing, etc.
I'm much more sympathetic to the privacy point of view than the "pages loading twice as fast and hours of extra battery life" is my right so I'm going to remove your ability to make money so I can have your content faster.
In my experience (from moving in religious homeschooling circles) it's more that they're doing it to "save" their children from the "world" - so having them at home is them already doing the best by their children, so having accomplished that, they're less worried about ensuring regular socialisation.

And as they often have large families, their children have a large number of sibiling so aren't lonely, so they presume it's all good. Which just leads to entire families of socially inept homeschoolers.

Whether or not religious people retain their views is not the benefit of socialisation - being able to function in everyday human society through direct experience of it, not a carefully curated and managed microscopic subset, that's the advantage.
> By default, pysqlite opens a transaction when you issue your first write query (it does this by parsing every query you execute), and then committing that transaction when you issue any other query that is not a SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE, e.g. CREATE TABLE or PRAGMA.

What's the rationale for this default? Performance? Consistency? Even without the problems mentioned in the article, I'm not sure if I would want my database to commit multi-query transactions without an explicit command to do so.
I don't know, looking through those they seem to be more another example of the linked article - not classical Falsehoods programmers believe - for example this one https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/174763.html Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems - quite a lot of them are really Implementation Decisions of Build Systems Do not cover every need.
Government spending on infrastructure including defense. Defense has historically been the largest funder/purchaser of tech. Yes, we’re in a period where consumer tech is driving innovation, but that hasn’t historically been true.
Yes we can ditch chrome. But what about general population? Now that websites may choose to give incompatiblity prompts to Firefox since it impacts there revenue through ads. They will ask users to switch to chrome. This might affect Firefox in long run. It's market share might drop.
Yeah, so long as it’s not a joke-scam.
This is a bit asinine, they’ll have to ban messaging apps and everything because it all does the same thing.
for what.!
>The system is broken because smarter kids or kids who come from more educated families are escaping it.

Yeah, no. Do you have any experience with the public school systems in the US, or are you just viewing this from Europe and engaging in some vigorous armchair analysis? The problems are manifold, and they're exacerbated by the fact that the school system is not nationally funded, but locally by local property taxes, so impoverished areas with stressed parents also get poorly funded schools.

I know some people who took part in Teach for America, and part of that experience was that they taught in some of the lowest performing schools. And one of their big takeaways was that the teachers in those classes couldn't maintain basic order, let alone teach effectively. Smart, well behaved kids aren't going to improve that situation, and it's going to seriously hamper their ability to get a good education if the teacher has to focus on keeping people in their seats instead of teaching.
This is a strange comment. On Linux at least, Firefox is far easier and quicker to get building from scratch than Chromium. I've done both relatively recently.
China Cannot Weaponize Its U.S. Treasury Bonds
If by "pretty much indefinitely" you mean "one or two human lifetimes", then sure. Our horizons are so compact these days. Certainly not for thousands of years, running the math gives absurd results for any growth rate.
Cinema’s shameful history of demonising the scarred
> "don't feel that it's even remotely possible to amass billions in personal capital"

Instead of feeling, you can instead learn and think about how wealth and value works. Capitalism allows ownership of production. Produce something valuable enough and you'll make your billions.

There are plenty of people on this forum with a 7 or 8 figure net worth from starting a business, and even a few billionaires like the founders of Dropbox and Stripe. Maybe ask them how they did it instead of assuming the worst.
For a previous conversation see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430
If they are leaving for management positions because they believe it furthers their careers then there's likely not much you can do. They are resume building for the long term. You would need to be able to offer them something equivalent that they can put on their resume. With only a single small team, I'm not sure what that would be.

Unfortunately there is age bias and this prompts those who many not really want management positions to pursue them. when you think of the life of your career you may be an excellent software engineer in your 20s and 30s but as you move up and get older it becomes harder and harder tofind positions at companies into your 40s and 50s and 60s as simply a software engineer. Moving into a management role it is much easier to find positions at those ages.

Offering money or title is a short term carrot and those thinking long term won't fall for it. If people have outgrown what you can offer them in terms career advancement, it may be best to wish them well as they move on.
On the Microsoft side you get 5 licenses of office, 5x1TB OneDrive accounts for around 80 to 100 usd per year (you can shop around and find better prices that's why I put a range)
Things I haven't yet been able to determine, noting that I haven't dived into the paper yet, are:

- What temperature range does this happen at?

- Is the resistance measured edge-to-edge across the sandwich, or between the layers?
This was in Chennai mostly, so little different language situation. I don’t mean to come off too harsh on it, as having Uber in India was extremely useful for me getting around. Some of the rides were around 1-2 USD so wasn’t worth the hassle.
Whatever literal game, law is law, and my suggestion is to try to figure out why HW is in the BIS list.
The same reason it's the current largest economy.... a happy accident of history and geography.

Every other major economic power was devastated after WW2. Because the US was geographically isolated from the major theatres of war, it was in a good position to capitalise on the investment in technology at the dawn of the transistor age.
Thank goodness they shut this down quick. It's not like this was just a straightforward app designed to keep tabs on your chattel, I mean female family members. Marijuana actually hurts people!
I just like using Rust. This is a small side project of mine so it's been more fun to experiment with using Rust to make a backend api than to stick with rails.

I also recently dealt with maintaining / upgrading a large, not well architected rails app. Debugging mysterious issues in Rails (and asp.net webapi2) sucks compared to Rust.

For a professional project I would largely go with rails, depending on the situation. asp.net isn't bad either.
You're absolutely right and I find this thread completely absurd.

If building security matters you implement mechanisms to enforce it, not burden all your employees with taking up the shortcomings.

Tail-gating should be impossible if you care about security.
Wouldn't we? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730
Well, apparently, all you'll need to do is put ads on your site and people will probably start switching ;)
I'm not a weekend stoner. More of a weekday type to make the drudgery more entertaining.
Video mentions private ownership of necessary land as a problem; but it ignores possible legal solutions, such as compulsory acquisition of property (for public use, with just compensation); or vanilla negotiation.
They don't have to know, at least at first. There's a (super cute) built-in reflex that causes them to move their mouth towards whatever brushes their cheek.
Other than the potency limit, what limits legal stores from fixing all the other issues (bad trimming job, dry, chemical additives, craft cannabis, etc). It just seems like since it's new and everyone's jumping to buy it, there's more focus on quantity right now, but maybe as the market gets more competitive that'll change.

I don't see why it'd be different to, for example, Starbucks vs your local quality coffee shop, both co-existing.
Yeah, not a chance I'd leave my current job for that kind of instability.
Indictments are issued all the time. Enron, Michael Milken, the Savings & Loan crisis; Pharma Bro Shkreli, Sri Lankan "Whale" trader, upcoming: Theranos.
It pits advertisers with deep pockets against Google's deep pockets, without the need to have deep pockets yourself.
Sure, but carrying patches against Chromium trunk is an ongoing cost. It's especially problematic if it means there are diverging extension APIs.

If this is the last decision Google ever makes that their downstreams disagree with, then sure it's probably manageable.
I did say I have performance problems (in addition to other rendering/UX problems) in this thread and I did say I've been forcing Firefox upon myself just this past week, in addition to numerous attempts in the past.

That "you've yet to have problems" means I'm "very disingenuous" for pointing out that I did is simply ridiculous. This is borderline ad hominem and I call guidelines violation.

That a sibling implying that we're somehow paid by Google to clean up their PR mess is plain insulting.
In Dropbox’s most recent quarter[1], the cost of goods sold - that is, the cost of actually delivering the service, not marketing, corporate operations, or other tasks - was about 25.5% of revenue.

That means of every $10 Dropbox charges, they spent an average of ~$2.55 on service delivery costs like storage. Customer support is often included in that, but let’s assume all $2.55 was spent on storage. On a $10/month plan, reducing the included storage by 50% would reduce their costs by ~$1.27.

Using your example, decreasing the storage by 90% would reduce their costs by about $2. That is, to generate equivalent margin, the available plans would be 1 TB for $10 or 100 GB for $8 (not $2).

[1]: https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...
TS does not have HKT. The post simply described improved inference on types with several generic parameters.
I don't think it's about not believing in oneself. I actually think the opposite is a requisite -- that you must believe in yourself, even if you don't know where you're heading. Or even if you know where you're heading, and it's not the path that you had originally charted. You can't see 20 moves ahead, but you know a good next move.
I think "non-custodial" is the word you are looking for. Another example wold be LGO Markets.
Don't see any logic equivalencies... I think they are kind of neat!
Flagged - I know complaining about paywalls is against the rules, but this is not a regular paywall - this is a scummy "lemme add you to my mailing list and only then will you find out I also want money" kind of paywall. (According to other commenters, I'm not willing to enter my email.)

In case the author is reading - I actually quite like this "first chapter free" shareware model of book sales, it's just the misdirection I take offense to.

Also if you're asking for peoples email addresses please be up front about all of the reasons you want them.
But what does that have to do with anything? I'm sure they also enjoy porn on their free time too, but that doesn't mean they have to allow it in their ads and apps.
I think the real answer starts with using APSW, which peewee already supports. APSW, while not 100% compatible with pysqlite, is much more predictable and overall more transparent wrapper to my taste.