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Ask HN: Amazon Deliveries
I opted out of Prime years ago, since it was not worth it for us.

When making orders now most of the time we avoid third party vendors, and choose "sold by and sent by Amazon" with free shipping.

Now, to the weird part. It's been a few months that when checking out on a free shipping order, ( on top of the constant teasing about how great Prime is and why we should rejoin ) we are usually given three or four options :

#1 Free shipping, delivery in 4-5 days.

#2 Small extra fee, delivery in 2 days or so.

#3 Bigger extra fee, delivery tomorrow.

#4 Biggest fee, delivery today.

Consistently choosing option #1 consistently results in delivery next morning at no extra cost, which is option #3 minus the payment, it's delivered for free.

Not that there's any reason to complain, but what's going on here ?
My 2016 car came with three cameras. My phone has two.

Cameras are already everywhere. As they become even more dirt cheap, that will only hyper-increase, even if governments somehow completely stays out of it.

Sometimes you enter into a new technological era, and you have to accept that things have changed.
I will try and switch to a simpler phone Cat B35 to see if I can cut out smart phone addiction. The Cat B35 uses KaiOS which is a Firefox OS clone. I will also carry a pocket camera like a Sony Rx100 for taking good quality photos.

I realize my mind is addicted to smart phones touch interfaces and applications and that phones are distracting me from reality. IE the haptic dopamine reward from touching the screen in combination with applications.

The experiment is what you will gain from having a simpler device which is focused on call first.

KaiOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
And what right do you have to ask him to not climb it?

It's one thing to ask for consideration, it's another to sermonize about how others are delusional while engaging in the same obnoxious behavior yourself.

On a broader topic, the fact that it happens to be geographically located in Nepal does give the country the legal right to dictate who visits it, but let's not delude ourself into thinking that translates into a moral right.

The Everest belongs to all of humanity, it's a physical feature and if you want to make it sound like everyone's responsibility, it ought to be considered everyone's asset too.
The mercury used in that process is generally recycled in a closed loop; if it's done properly, dangerous levels don't get into the workers or the environment. Metallic mercury is the least dangerous form of mercury, less toxic even than the ores mercury is mined from.
Fun idea. The Full Cycle entry definitely tickles my fancy. This could easily become part of my regular reading.
this is the gist of chrome configuration https://developers.google.com/web/tools/setup/setup-workflow

but the rest depends on your backend because you need the server to hot reload changes from the filesystem
What is there to know about ads? Is this some good mine of insights about humanity now, or what?

Zuckerberg accidentally invented surveillance capitalism by gathering more and more data to show ads to more and more people. Then he was completely surprised when it backfired and yet tries to continue down the same path, because that's all that Facebook knows.

Bezos can at least be credited with having some insights about online platforms, but a lot of his success can be attributed to being in the right place at the right time. The same man starting today would probably get bought out by one of Google, Fb, Apple or Amazon or succeed on a small/medium scale.
Not to mention that Amazon apparently has a culture of making people cry and warehouse worker abuse.

What's most bothersome about your assertions is this CEO worshipping that's ignoring the real people doing the work. And I'm not talking about the janitors cleaning Tesla's tent-factory, but rather the engineers and experts which actually built the rockets, batteries and scalable platforms these companies stand on.

Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg haven't solved any problems, except how to be a CEO. The people they hired did the solving.
The reason nutrition labels dont work is because nobody knows how to put things in relation. How much sugar should be in this item? How much fiber should I eat in a day? The government tried to fix this issue with food pyramids, plates, etc, but were corroded by propaganda, and/or poor understanding of nutrition. A gallon of water a day is ridiculous for most. Your diet is really dependent on how active you are, among several other factors. Nutrition is not a one size fits all type of thing.

We dont really understand proper nutrition yet. Recommendations are constantly changing, what used to be good is now bad, and vice versa. Companies just need to continue telling us what is in our food, and let us do our best.

Adding a percentage based statistic wont help because daily intake stats are wide guesses at best, and most people dont care anyway.

The most effective way to teach nutrition is by cooking. When people can see what is going into their food, they naturally use less. Also, try changing your diet a bit, and feel how it effects your mood. Other than that, if someone wants to make bad decisions, thats their choice. There is no need for these aggressive campaigns against sugar like the sugar line proposed above.
Using Groups in Azure Ad B2C
Espionage traditionally requires a bit more effort than just looking at the thing you bought.
A relative works in a senior role at a medium sized hedge fund.

To a close approximation, software contributes zero to their bottom line.
Why don't you find out and tell us?
I'm at present working with a client who is on Wordpress. It's a huge company with 100s of employees in just one of their locations and they don't actually have dedicated manpower to maintain their homepage. This is where I got in.

Once I audited their site, I found a ton of issues, particularly - their stale Wordpress version, themes and plugins. I updated them all one by one and migrated them to Wordpress.com which doesn't suffer this upgrading pain.

Then, I found out the theme provider had actually stopped supporting the theme and there were a bunch of security flaws in it. But, the client wanted something like push and forget.

So, I painstakingly migrated them off of Wordpress and made a custom Jekyll site with Jekyll admin running on Netlify. They're immensely happy now knowing that their site is virtually unhackable (it's just a static site).

Static site builders are more powerful than we think. I have a travel platform running on it right now actually and none of the end users know its a static site they're on top of. There's no plugins to manage, no software versions or security loopholes to keep track of. The only way someone can hack into your site if they hacked your identity provider (Eg. Netlify). Otherwise, it's simply just a boon.
Need? The only thing that's necessary in life is death. Under currently prevailing circumstances, often money is useful for postponing death, and mining gold is a way to get money.
> If you put yourself out there, suddenly eyes are watching everything. That seemed a bit scary (and again sorry for using emotional words), though of course makes sense why it happens.

I'm painfully aware. Which is why I often use this account :-)

> Apologies again.

No need for that after you cleared it up. I might even have been too harsh myself. I actually prefer if there is some room for thought here and I might have read more into your original post than you intended.
Similar techniques for viking sites in canada.
Great example. Your government prefers to spend money on bombs instead of people, but Bezos will magically fix it with his billions.

Richest country in the world can't offer health care to so many of its citizens.
For 2.9.1 I saw a performance improvement of between 1.5 and 4x across all workloads. It is still not as fast as racket, but iirc Andy said there are some low hanging fruit left.

The peg parser and my implementatio of clojure's transducers get the biggest performance improvements. My simple CSV parser got over 3x faster without any changes on my part.
Zizee in this post claims yes.
Is not the tech a part of the organizations way of doing business?

These things are highly related to what’s going down in a thread [1] from yesterday (about “shitty projects”).

I’m sure these guys spend many millions each year on security products, but either people in the know on the tech side is ignored, or they have no competencies left.

In the thread I mention above I have actually posted about my general experience from a major insurance player.

A concrete example:

We were making changes to a custom software and as there were concerns about bandwidth requirements and latency I took it upon myself to figure out what a specific process looked like, from the business perspective.

In short, in the middle of the workflow, customers journals was written to CD and mailed to physicians. Encryption? Eh, no... Any process in place to ensure safe keeping and return/destruction? Uh, forget about it...

This was in the time when a lot of these “lost usb devices” and hacked systems seemed to pop up daily.

I obviously raised this with the security team, the security officer and the business unit.

No one wanted to touch this finely tuned business process.

It felt like I was working at fawlty towers.

Again, that companies have drawn this line between business and tech, “‘cause tech is not core bidniz”, will haunt a lot of big players for years to come.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19998806
Reading at the comment and $8B acquisition cost and $1M profit. They just need to treat 8000 people. Eventually market forces will take over and cost will come down by magnitudes

Hint: genome sequencing
haha Uranus
What I love best is that you don't need much to get started with generating a static web site, and you can be confident that once you deploy you don't have to worry that much about security or other production issues.

This greatly lowers the bar for entry, and I was doing this back in the 90s with Microsoft Access 95 and VBA for my school's website.
Agreed. Specially, flags of these commands are actual magic when it comes to productivity, at least for me. For example, not all flags of git commit command are used frequently but they perform a lot of different operations and can be easily combined to save the day.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_options
As illustrated by this story, big companies are very good at getting paid, and at getting work out of smaller companies for free. Whether they are good at anything else is beside the point as long as they continue to have the power necessary to keep getting paid.
Yeah. Unix should finally fix it :). CarriageReturn + LineFeed. That is correct :)

Inventing new ways after the typewriter. Tss. These young people :)
I'd wager that you are riding on top of other people's prime subscription in close proximity to you. Amazon dispatches your stuff on the same truck as their because it's more economical than having to come back twice. This would only work in an urban setting where orders are scarce. In a densely populated area it's unlikely to happen.
I’m sure if you posted porn you’d get banned pretty fast.
How do you match pixel perfect accuracy in front-end of webapps?
In most of the projects I've worked on so far, I've heard this term "pixel-perfect", IMO honestly I think it's impossible. How do other frontend engineers manage it? I was thinking there should be a tool like this https://flawlessapp.io/ for webapps.
Where do you live? It may be that you're located conveniently near a warehouse, or in a place where shipping is unusually cheap.
"Stock trading is a dying business."

On what planet?!
If someone is earnestly posting incorrect information, you should reply with a counter-argument, or upvote one that exists. Otherwise what you're doing is the exact opposite of being conductive to a dialogue, which is the entire point of the hacker news comment section. Sure, downvote people who are being disingenuous, or not being honest.

Also:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

So far, everyone has responded to my talking about Cuba, an example I picked off the top of my head as a simple demonstration (It's a shame that America cannot boast such scores in education and health, to be honest). The example was illustrative, something mentioned off-hand to solidify and strengthen a point. Nobody responded to the core of my argument, which was the more meatier part and harder to disagree with.

My central point, however "An economy cannot work without foreign trade, being blocked from that by a major player essentially does that" is supported by economists literally everywhere. In fact, it's one of the major reasons why a trade embargo is created in the first place, to suffocate a country and cause a regime change:

"By far, regime change is the most frequent foreign
policy objective of economic sanctions, accounting for
80 out of the 204 observations."
- Economic Sanctions Reconsidered (3 ed.) -- Hufbauer, Schott, Elliott, Oegg
Not sure why you've been downvoted. This is how it works in my country and I think this makes sense.
The whole fake news / conspiracy stuff gets me.

I find conspiracy theories to be almost like some sort of sci-fi / fantasy lore.

I love watching stuff like Ancient Aliens, I know it is complete nonsense but it is fun laughing at all the begging the question they do.

My other half believes in some super natural stuff such as horoscopes etc and she gets a bit annoyed at me and my brother taking the mickey out of it but that is about as far as the "harm" goes with most of this stuff.

Trying to stop people believing in crazy things just isn't possible and actively trying to suppress it online will just make it worse.
I have switched from using my phone for anything-distracting to only-work. I have been trying it for a long time. Had removed most addictive Social apps some time back.

WhatsApp usage went down gradually, and not it is limited to early mornings or evenings. Messenger is rarely used (once in a couple months).

Instagram and Twitter for more social media marketing for our products than personal.

No games on phone at all. I have finally been very content with my phone as a tool for about 1.5 years or so.

Most used apps I think are Gmail (multiple accounts including products), then car pooling app, Slack and WhatsApp.

[Edit: added most used apps]
I've had only one email in the last year that needed a response ASAP, and that was an invite to go see a giraffe at the zoo behind the scene.

I've tempted to start running my own email server again, and then develop a super simple UI where I organize email by sender and then convert important emails to a SMS message.
Power companies give significant discounts to large customers.
I mean, I like reading HN, but 95% of what I read here is just time filling and it’s still a form of social media.
Oracle and Apple are exceptions than norm. Many companies have shown growth on back of the low interest rate environment. For them to spend money for dividends and buybacks in excess of earnings is not good. Buybacks are especially concerning if they happen at well above company's fair value. That is actually throwing good money to buy an expensive company.
Thank you for the background and recommendations. Just read the very interesting abstract[1] of the book by Seroul and Levy; queued. (Wish it were a tad less pricey than €64).

[1] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387975627
> We don’t play with tape measures

Oh, yeah, we do... :)
Agreed. Writing with AUCTex plus helm-bibtex is like a dream. I like org-mode but I find it a too limiting for actually writing papers in.
Actually, this greatly comes down to the datasource. Each exposes different analytical functionality at the database level. Combined with the templating and variable functionality, you can do a ton of excellent analysis on all kinds of metrics.

What kind of data were you wanting to analyse?
What was this scam?
If I have a CSV of a number of values (say in the thousands), and what I need is basically a tool that will create a slick, good-looking graph that compares two or more of these CSVs, what's the best tool for that? Think JMeter if that rings any bells.

I honestly just used some basic graph-generation tools which would spit out PNGs, which is always less than satisfying. I looked at Grafana, but never had the time to actually try it out. My feeling also was that it was a bit different of a use-case as I had no real-time data, but I may be totally wrong here.
> I think it would be interesting to start a company around the idea of creating a certificate authority and system for provisioning and securely storing keys on a hardware level in order to sign and verify "unmodified" footage.

This is also described in (if I remember correctly) "The player of games" where videos were widely known as impossible to trust due to how easy it is to make fakes, but AI entities could testify that they received the realtime, live feed if you needed a proof.

Great idea way ahead of its time (1988)
What do Japanese kids spend their allowance on? Survey finds out
We are at the beginning of trying out Grafana for real time monitoring of a combined indoor fish and vegetables farm (aquaponics).
I use Notion.so and my second brain. I used to store all this info in markdown files spread across many folders. The most important tool that Notion has for me is a quick search over all this data.
I tried a simple estimate on how much a HSR line would cost from Chicago to Denver. About $20-30 billion. It's a 1000 miles of flat nothing, so it's cheap per mile.

Chicago --> St Louis --> Kansas City --> Denver is about 1000 miles.
My experiences have been that these businesses generally disappear after a few months and leave you holding the bag, with a service disruption and data loss.

Recommendations for any “low end box” that’s about $12 a year and not a fly by night scam would be appreciated.
It's like dogs vs cats as pets.
JIRA was quite nice until v4.0
>The drug requires regular spinal infusions costing $750,000 in the first year and $375,000 annually thereafter, for life.

I don't understand how this is justifiable. As an insurance company, the only way to cover this treatment is by raising premiums for all customers. By raising premiums, people on the edge of being able to afford insurance are pushed out. There is no way in hell this treatment doesn't cost more lives than it saves.
Stolen or not, its at least nice to see someone is actually using (or planing on using) it for more than just epcot-esque toy lines (JR-Maglev excluded)
>I grew up in lesser means and I might be dead or my family bankrupted had I grew up in the U.S. and paid the fair ER fees each time.

>or

What an optimist you are!
How do you call out to Go libraries with this?
How we learned the Moon wasn't made of cheese
Japan, and yes we are close. In fact we could get delivery in one hour if we chose, either at home or in the nearest konbini, of which there are at least a dozen within a 5 minute walk.

Still, getting a service we're not paying for. And it actually makes me distrust Amazon, since we've been enjoying the same service as a paying customer, for free and without an obvious explanation.
In fact one could go a step further and argue that it's almost immoral to bring such a child to the world.
Stateful Serverless: Critical Sections with Azure Durable Functions
It's an interesting piece, and lots of good reasons to "go static".

But. They're developer reasons.

What almost everyone who piles into this support of static stuff seems to completely ignore is the audience here.

Who do you think is editing your website? Amy the developer who has no problem committing stuff to Git or learning Markdown or Dave, who is a marketing manager and spends most of his life in Word writing press releases and social media posts?

The entire point of a WYSIWYG editor is that it doesn't require any developer experience.

If you genuinely think a corporate website can be run out of a Git workflow or a requirement to learn Markdown, you're basically in the wrong room. This is the whole "IT bottleneck" that content teams have been battling for years: it's back to the early 90's days of "yeh, we want to update our homepage but we need IT to do it for us".

Somewhere in the middle is the holy grail: performant sites that are also editor friendly.
I just have no audible notifications for email on my phone.
Which is why most insurance plans wouldn't cover it.
Ask HN: Are there any good open-source OneNote alternatives?
I use OneNote to make notes on and organize whatever I'm reading. But I would prefer to use an open source alternative(which I could self-host). Also, I sometimes have a sync issues with OneNote, making it difficult to rely on. Any ideas?

A pure markdown based solution isn't really ideal. I like the rich text formatting of OneNote and the ability to insert media, draw over it, etc.
Yeah that’s the one - I guess I thought they were both by valve and HTC was just a manufacturing partner for the first one.
I see this so often with power user tools. All power user tools are tools that you can only use reasonably well with some basic understanding. They are made not to be understood in the easiest fashion but to handle all complexities of a problemset as efficiently as possible. Therefore it sometimes seems harder to use from the outside, but actually the hardness comes from the problem it solves, not the tool.

So yeah, if you really want to use git well, learn its internals. It takes some time but actually not even hard. After reading the Git Book once I was even able to implement my own git (of course without performance considerations).
Extremely densely populated though. Amazon orders are coming several times a day, every single day, all around us.
This is not true. Fiber is necessary to produce short chain fatty acids for the epithelial cells in the colon.

This article explains it in a simple way. https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/en/breaking-short-cha...
I don't think that a static website necessarily requires a developer workflow that a marketing manager can't use. You just need a tool that turns things into static HTML once.
Because the topic is not "what's the default legal situation".
We are social creatures. Everything he's talking about (aside from the simpler games) engages our social centers, much like dinner parties and water cooler talks and other social gatherings did in the past. People want to engage, even vicariously, and feel social worth, because social interaction is a huge part of our psyche.

Smartphones are empowering, but they also present a change in our environment that we're not properly adapted to. The social lure that binds groups together is being hijacked by social apps because they tap into the same psychology. And they would have done so without the Facebooks of the world (in fact they did, with Usenet and BBSes and party phone lines and television and radio and so on).

We won't adapt quickly enough as a species to avoid being enraptured by social apps (except for a tiny minority), so we'll need an artificial solution to deal with it.
Bonus:

If you write plain, valid HTML your site will just work across all mainstream browsers and it will probably work reasonably wrt accessibility as well, -out of the box.

It will also be reasonbly fast. You might be able to eke out more performance from a site that has a lot of interaction but I'd not take that for granted.
Ouch! Sorry! Anything specific? (DVI is my design.)
Solid author and researcher? I assume you meant imbecile leftard with compulsive-obsessive need to be wrong again, and again, and again about basically each and every topic she ever touched on.

Basically a less smart, more noisy female version of Chomsky.
How ARM’s NEON assembly enables efficient AV1 decoding on mobile