skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I can generalize that the problem with Amazon is similar to many of the modern tech companies in that they're super well funded and aren't expected to make a profit which allows them to undercut incumbents.

Amazon can price lower than Target/Wallmart/B&N/Local Stores, lose money every year while the competition slowly dies.

Uber can price lower than local taxis, lose money every year while the competition slowly dies.

Tesla can price lower than Ford/Toyota/Merc, lose money every year while the competition slowly dies.

AirBnB can price lower than Hilton/Marriot/Locals, lose money every year while the competition slowly dies.

WeWork can price lower than office buildings, lose money every year while the competition slowly dies.

The problem is low interest rates and another tech bubble.
Crossfit is a leading cause of shoulder, back, neck and knee injuries.
If recaptcha is so good at finding bots, then why does google still show ads to bots?
I'm still annoyed that one of my banks, only offers 2 factor though email & sms and doesn't offer TOTP. Does anyone know if this is a PCI thing or is it just bureaucracy?
Thanks Leo! We love having you all as early adopters of our tech!
Is this really about freedom of speech though? We toss that around a lot, but as a law or constitutional right free speech does not exist if your website is hosted on a private company's service.

But then, how does free speech apply to the internet? Unless you have servers in your closet, your site will always be hosted on someone else's servers, and even then it will be delivered through networks owned by private companies, etc...

Anyway, Cloudflare's blog post on this (which is really worth reading in full) is what made me think of this:

> We continue to feel incredibly uncomfortable about playing the role of content arbiter and do not plan to exercise it often. Some have wrongly speculated this is due to some conception of the United States' First Amendment. That is incorrect. First, we are a private company and not bound by the First Amendment. Second, the vast majority of our customers, and more than 50% of our revenue, comes from outside the United States where the First Amendment and similarly libertarian freedom of speech protections do not apply. The only relevance of the First Amendment in this case and others is that it allows us to choose who we do and do not do business with; it does not obligate us to do business with everyone.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
That's very ambitious. Good luck.
But are they the same stores?

It's probably fine for the landlords, but if you're leasing storespace and selling bulk/heavy goods, or something so specialized that people from afar drive to you, you're going to have trouble.

If you're running a restaurant or cafe, you're in a great situation.

It's a solvable issue, but it may be ignored.
I agree with your premise, but not with your digression. I still read the code reviews of my team’s experts closely because:
1) I might learn something. If they are experts in the domain, they almost certainly know things I don’t.
2) Even experts have blind spots and make mistakes.

If I trust my teammate I default to “accept to unblock” and leave some questions in comments.

If my concerns are valid, they can fix it before landing. I also trust them to request a fresh review if that leads to major changes.

If I misunderstood, they can educate me in their reply and land it without further delay.
This is how it prints on UV paper, https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/1013221548797737200.jpg .
This is the calibration data recorded by imaging with the camera directly on a CMOS chip. You can count pixels.. this is what an expert needs to determine the quality. https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/21933938381472/calib_data.zip

More data is here https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/21933938381472/21measurements.... pixel 4.65 microns. You can use opencv to do the trick. I added a little script in this one.
I don't have a source, just some napkin math. I don't know what the timescale is for plant decay in the deep ocean. Perhaps my 'it works' is optimistic.
Well, this difference exists between many EU countries and Germany as well, so I don't even think that's necessarily an apt comparison without some extra data.

(I'm referring to the comment which your comment was in response to, which I know you didn't post.)
Thanks for showing me this, it's really cool. One thing is that I don't think that this method can handle discrete lines (meaning, the entire sketch must be continuous).
I don´t buy what you just said. And here is why:

If you want to use your platform for good, you do good no matter the time. You do your patriotic duty and we´ll all clap and cheer you on. However ISIS and right wing extremest sites have been protected by CF for years and nothing has been done so far. It´s not like CF went on a cleaning spree and dropped hundreds of shady clients that are faaaaaar worse and much much nastier than 8chan. This wasn´t a "do good / patriotic moment". This was a timely and coordinated decision (together with patreon) which leads me to speculate that it could be one of two things: either it´s mere PR move and I despise that type of behavior as it could easily be hijacked by echo chambers among other things, or it could be something far more malicious which others have speculated enough on so I won´t bother mentioning.

That said, if you are of the opinion that "A service provider has the right to deny service to a client that it subjectively deems to have a bad effect on society", then I´d like to know in case you´d make that same argument for the Bakery/gay wedding case. If not, then what is the difference really as the same argument could be easily made in both cases?
My point of comparison is the internet prices/quality in India. Post Jio, fast internet seems to be practically free over there.
huh? what are you talking about?
Some support other varieties of RegEx, and some have interesting features or different interfaces
People always talk about obviously media bias right in the middle of a supposed discussion of media bias.

>Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

So we have a "leading voice of socialism" with an "unbiased" report titled "MSNBC's Ridiculous War on Bernie Saunders" as if that's some kind of truth gleaned from some graphical errors.

If you're going to propose media bias you better damn well be very explicit about your own bias.
12th American to Die in Dominican Republic Went Unreported for Months
The patent mentioned in the article is specifically for continuous SLA printing (no pauses for lifting/peeling between layers), which the photon and other similarly-priced models don't do. I have one of the cheap SLA printers, and the lifting can occupy over half the printing time depending on layer height/resin type. The continuous printing machines seem to start in the several-thousand-dollar range.
Definitely. It would be amazing if they offered subscription with price lock-in and a preset range lockout (i.e. if current price reaches 4x subscription lock price the subscription is suspended until price goes down).

They will lose some money but they'd also gain money from people afraid to drop subscriptions (e.g. gym subscription model).
> Signals a new era for Cloudflare, going from protector to arbitrator

They kicked off The Daily Stormer 2 years ago. I'm not sure anything changed today.
Yes and no. Until recently, Walmart hasn't had a Marketplace - so while Walmart has (and does) exploit their vendors with pricing and what-not, they haven't been able to wield that club against their competition directly like Amazon does.

People have also been saying Walmart is quite anti-competitive for years for what that's worth too.
I don't know about remote (No finance firms I know of would allow that), but I haven't even graduated from college and I make good good money working as a quant at a bank. Maybe you don't want to wear a suit and tie each day (I do and I think it makes me looking fresh as fuck), but finance hasn't been a backwater in a while. Maybe there's no slide and free haircuts, but there's something better: cash money baby.
I am lucky to live on the outskirts of Brussels and cycle for 17km to work once or twice a week. I would have done it every day, but I have to put kids in school and pick them up by 17:20.

Schools (and kids, by extension) are a major traffic issue and impediment to cycling.
Your mail is probably the single most important service you have on the internet. Pay for something, or host it yourself.
A particularly clever member of the Twitterati: https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1062816091892674561

@Theophite: the existence of nonzero interest rates implies the nonexistence of time travel.
U.S. designates China as currency manipulator
It's not just the narrowness of the streets: they're also short and not on a grid.

They're not designed for throughput, which really amplifies the benefits of a subway/metro vs. buses/trams.
Your example illustrates something called "moral disengagement"[1] and it's the same thought-process used by a lot of people to justify their reprehensible views. Interestingly, the people who seem to be most "immune" to moral disengagement are individuals with high empathy. Fortunately, empathy is a skilled that can be taught and learned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_disengagement
it seems to be a very easy thing to do.
Im thinking anybody that has been kicked out of cloudflare, will not be gone permanently,but will at least linger in shadow for sometime.
Making lab equipment more accessible via 3-D printing
I'm not a huge Uber fan, but in their case at least I don't think you're being entirely fair. My home airport is SFO. The official taxis there have an extremely annoying pricing policy: if your destination is more than 20 miles form the airport they add a $50 surcharge to the cost of your trip. (I live 25 miles away.) And you can't summon a cab with an app. If you're at the airport they are very convenient. If you are anywhere else taxies are hopeless. In the face of such abject stupidity on the part of the taxis, I use Uber (well, Lyft) despite my sympathies for professional drivers. If the taxi companies weren't behaving like such utter and complete morons for years it would be easier to sympathize with them.
Germany is totally different. Even in Berlin, if a train is a bit packed and I just wait 2-3min for the next one. It’s nothing like packing onto London Underground with the deep tunnels and narrow gauge.
Kettle calling the pot black.
If you ever find yourself anywhere near Stockholm hit me up! I am available for beer´s and a chat anytime :D
The US is seeing a large move back toward cities. It makes a lot of sense -- it's where the capital, culture, resources are concentrated. I don't think we'll see a car-less suburbia in the foreseeable future, but we can certainly build and modify our cities to be walk/bike/transit-first going forward.

There seems to be this ambient feeling that everything is as it will be, ah well, but it took decades of (bad) city planning and massive infrastructure spending to get us our suburban dystopias. It could take decades still for transit-focused cities to become the new norm.
Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
E-Plus does not exist anymore, it was bought by o2.
But it’s still the best option. And if not, a bus is probably quicker than a private car stuck in traffic that you can’t even park.
Thiel has been on Facebook's board since 2004, so his motive is still the same. In fact, it's more evident with his more recent behavior.
Let me re-iterate: What is a 'child' is not the debate here.
For a little while there were startups being built around it even (AirPair comes to mind, though they eventually switched to Slack, and now is more or less defunct)
I highly recommend a bank-robber style facemask. But I'm regularly dealing with colder temperatures than Seattle.
being a monopoly on its own is not illegal under the antitrust laws. Illegal monopolization requires both 1) monopoly power and 2) that the firm acquired, enhanced, or maintained that power by using exclusionary conduct.

Exclusionary conduct includes things like predatory pricing, exclusive agreements, refusing to deal with a company, most-favored nation clauses, designing your product or service in a way that excludes competition, and more types of anticompetitive behavior.

How is the above different from "having a moat?" Isn't any company that starts and maintains a curated "ecosystem" engaging in some of these behaviors? Isn't Apple guilty of refusing to deal with certain companies and designing their product or service in a way that excludes competition? For that matter, aren't most of the tech giants?
>How is this measured...

Watts per kilogram. A kilo of gasoline contains about 100x the energy of a lithium ion battery.

https://www.withouthotair.com/c26/page_199.shtml

It's virtually impossible to beat hydrocarbons for chemical potential energy density. Diesel is the most dense commonly available such fuel. You put a liquid in a tank and move the complexity to the heat engine (which is 20-50% efficient depending on the size of the motor). Batteries don't even come close. Which is why if you put a fuel tank in a tesla with 1200lbs of gasoline in it (about 170 gallons), and operated it at comparable performance, its range would be considerably longer, despite lack of woo like regenerative braking and more efficient electric motors.

It's one of the things Zubrin is complaining about in his mendacious article. Fair complaint; "gee the periodic table won't cooperate" -though metal hydrides are not terrible either, and in conjunction with fuel cells (potentially 100% efficient, despite his saying "nuh uh"), could be considerably better than a hydrocarbon car.
Sure, but if you reasonably suspect someone to possess such content in encrypted form, is there any moral problem with socially engineering them into giving up their private key?
That depends very much on overall birth and death rates, though to a first approximation: half. And half the people alive when you first began would die before you'd completed your meetings.

I've played with the concept a few different ways, some variants:

* Count only your waking, working hours -- roughly 1/3 of your life.

* Take a lifespan and divide it either by people met, or time per person, to find the other.

* Dunbar's Number, 150, divided over 60 years, works out to 146 days per person. If we look at a more historically accurate lifespan of 40 years, that's closer to 100 days experience per person, in a pre-modern tribe or village.

* You can look at training or education and life -- how many effective careers can a person have if they must undergo a college-equivalent retraining between each? A working life of 40 years divided by 4 years gives an upper bound of 10 retrainings. Either we have fewer retrainings, or shorter ones, or both, if we need greater flexibility.

* The power of combined communications, and their limitations. Conversations are two-way, and rarely scale beyond 4-5 participants. Broadcast messaging, starting with lectures, are efficient, but at the cost of interactivity and accomodation betweeen speaker(s) and listener(s).

* The multiplicative power of mass media. The same message reaching hundreds, thousands, millions, or billions of souls. Most of the most highly-repeated messages are propaganda, in the original or contemporary sense, or both.

* Time vs. repetition. Some messages become widely spread, but briefly (say, Gangnam Style, played over 2 billion times). Some have been part of cultural lore for tens of thousands of years, see Idres Shah's collection World Tales for numerous examples. What does it mean for a narrative to be truly embedded in a culture, or multiple cultures?

Another element is looking at the different dynamics of information poor vs. information rich environments. I'm starting to think that a healthy function in one is pathological in the other, and vice versa. This doesn't seem widely recognised.
...which are both predictable and included in the company's income statement ("stock-based compensation" is a line item).

Stock prices move based on unexpected information. If you've done your homework on the company's fundamentals, dilution from stock-based compensation has already been factored into earnings per share.

(Bad acquisitions are another matter - a much more common failure mode for dumb companies is to blow a lot of money on acquisitions and then fail to integrate the acquisition in a way that increases the bottom line.)
Is that not a conflict of interest then?

To operate a 3rd Party Marketplace while also harvesting said marketplace's data and then deliberately targeting top products, killing those 3rd parties in the process?
Does anyone know what app the kanban board screenshot is about 25% of the way down the page?
$67 per week is your personal out of pocket commitment. The firm is committing much more to the pool.

And yes, Cigna very likely does have an obligation at some point. Most firms of your size negotiate a max per year expense for the firm and insure expenses beyond that point.
It's true... if I wasn't forced to avoid the IP.. It would have been unlikely I would have made such an effort or this thing build.
How about using Android dominance to push their search or other services? They were forced to unbundle in the EU but no action from the US. If they were held to the same anti trust standard Microsoft faced, they would’ve had anti trust cases against them already.
Serious question: once the taxi industry has died what makes you believe that Uber won't implement similar policies?
Yeah you have manipulated a made up thing that we control and you are not playing by the rules where we put sanctions on you and then you become f*ed.
Big difference - shiny SpaceX rocket fails meh. Shiny jetpack fails dead person.

Some of the earlier attempts did have ballistic parachutes but you still had to deploy at least 75 feet high. Any lower and you're dead.
I’m sure you can come up with some situation where it’s not protected.
Future Diary has some pretty cool time battles. While it's not as good as death note, it definitely has it's moments. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2069441/?ref_=m_nv_sr_1
For years Amazon had banned Chromecast and AppleTV devices from it's entire marketplace when they competed with their Firestick device.

Not only did Amazon not carry it, but Amazon also prevented third party sellers from listing the competing devices as well. That is textbook anti-competitive behavior, which is probably why Amazon finally started selling them again recently.
I don't know how it is in the USA but in France (and I suspect most old European cities) the richer people who can afford to live in the city center are generally in favor of removing cars because they either don't have a car or can afford to pay for a private parking spot while people who live in the suburbs and take their cars to work every day have to suffer the consequences. So you end up with this "class warfare" type situation.

Of course since in practice the richer people who live in the city centers are also those who elect the mayors things still eventually move forward in the direction of fewer cars.

I suspect that it might be different in the USA because I've always heard that things worked the other way around here: rich people live in wealthy suburbs and go everywhere by car while poor people stay stuck in the city centers.
Isn’t every choice the exclusion of the alternative?
There's a vast difference between land that is fertile for commercial purposes and land that can be used to eke out a subsistence farmer's living. The former needs, among other things, access to a fair amount of commercial infrastructure. The latter does not, and is useful to feed one person at crop densities well below what would be commerically viable.

Also, $8000 per person would be far less than government entities in the US spend supporting the homeless.
Tesla can price lower than Ford/Toyota/Merc, lose money every year while the competition slowly dies.

Teslas are priced higher than Fords and Toyotas, Tesla loses money every year while its competition rakes in billions in profits every year, and sell more cars each month than Tesla in a year...

Wework also rents all of its locations (either from its CEO or from third-party landlords). It has massive liabilities on its books that it can't leverage; the landlords have large liabilities as well but they have the type of liabilities they can (and do) borrow against.
Monads are not invented, they are discovered multiple times. You invent toilets and gadgets, but every time you come across a mathematical object, if it really is that object (with proofs), then it must be the same one (a.k.a. diagram commutes).
You're entitled to your intolerance, as are we all.
true it is a nice machine.. but laser bundles have advantages. You can direct other wavelengths, sinter powders and get to much smaller features. All these LCD printer, do show a pixel size but not a real spec or accuracy. If you go really high end even for mask projection with UV led you need expensive lights see https://www.idonus.com/activities/products/mems-products/uv-... ... costs around 20K i believe.
That article is just rife with attacks on Damore’s character based on speculation and hearsay, and semantic games.
Even with the people having freer speech, state-run media in the US has incited the killing of orders of magnitude more human beings than have been killed by DIY nutjobs. The trend we're witnessing is really the democratization of media-incited violence.
I'm sure it can be solved by a more local level CPS department.
For those who don't realize it, dang is the lead moderator for Hacker News.

I've gotten some of my own writing to the front page of HN. Titling things well is hard and very important, but the content also needs to be good.

For some quick and dirty data:

I used to track pieces of mine that made the front page. I've had several, maybe as many as a dozen, that got at least 10k page views.

My best piece got over 50k page views the first 24 hours. That was in January of this year. It took me about two weeks to write it.

It wasn't content marketing. I'm a blogger. It made me no money whatsoever.

In a nutshell: Take any write-ups about "How to get X amount of traffic/sales/whatever from HN!" with a grain of salt.
I live in Italy. Today the biggest leftists mainstream newspaper (repubblica) opened up with a title "slaughters by the white man".

They would never dare to write "black man" and most importantly, the expression "white man" was never used before in Italy, in such a context.

There is an international anti-white culture and I'm tired to pretend there isn't a problem.

99% of "alt-righters" who got interested in politics, have done so since gamergate, and before just wanted to play videogames and live a decent life and unlike progressives were truly color blind. I know this is difficult to understand for many, but that's the truth and I hope one day you'll see how much suffering you've caused to whites only because of the color of their skin.

I wrote this for a place of love of all the people of the world and a desire of peace. I'm really tired of this nonsense. Please wake up.

Edit: gonna specify that I don't endorse violence or even coercion through the State, I just want anti-white culture to go away