skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon has invested billions into the Alexa platform. It's staggering how many people work in the Alexa org.

Now they have to try and make some money from all this investment because nobody is replacing their echo every year. They've basically become a parody of themselves trying to dig themselves out of an 'AI' platform that never materialized into much more than hands free timer and audio player.

Their way to turn a profit is to shove it into every consumer device they can before consumers realize they don't need 15 different devices to turn on the lights.
At some point it becomes easier to send an email or text instead of a push notification, if ultimately that was the problem to begin with and it's an app for internal use only supposedly
Nope, still wrong. It doesn't meet the length and width requirements, and if you shoved it in an envelop the size needed, it wouldn't meet the thickness variability requirements or the deflection requirements. And even if it did, once again, it would still be more expensive. So, you didn't claim it as an option for the majority of shippers: which implies that you concede the main point you raised, that there are plenty of cases where shipping within the US is more expensive.

Regardless, you're not trying to honestly assess the examples given. But I guess I was incorrect when I said I was done with the conversation-- I couldn't help pointing out for other readers how you persist in being wrong.
Exactly. And another point of contention I have about this is how? How would we even do this?
This is the results of software patents, do not entertain software and algorithm patents and this will not happen. Hopefully USA can reform to follow Europe and rest of the work in this.

Even if the patent is invalidated, it has already created a lot of unnecessary work and no innovation.

I am just thinking Gnome foundation can fight, think of a small firm who doesn’t have money to fight and represent in court.

This seems to be right opposite of patents to protect innovation. It looks like patents to litigate and make money and hamper any innovation.

After so many frivolous patents like amazon single click, oracle java and many more I don’t see any innovation but attack on innovation and waste of time and money on not required debate in court.

I believe this system is in place to generate jobs for lawyers who will not be able to earn otherwise. Lawyers promote strict patent laws and many non sensible, as many politicians are lawyers not innovators.
Except that doesn't show up in the data about well-being, where the nordic countries outperform the mediterranean ones.
> On average it's the top tier schools that produce top level prize winning / field defining people.

I am saying we are not valued. We are thought of as inferior individuals, as you've described several times on HN. I'm honestly sick of it - America was made for everyone, not just the folks judged to be the best in a nebulous definition of "merit".
Same in Paris:500 down/60 up without Warp, 300 down/1.25 up with Warp
Why don't they stop with the high-speed chases anyway? It puts everyone at more risk as well as the cop's life in more danger. Then, when the chase ends, the officer is so amped up he or she is much more likely to open fire.
The typical insurance company returns are pretty small (~5%) so that alone doesn't seem to explain why prices are so high.
Apparently they email you and ask you when it is almost ready to ship.
Yes, I think about it a lot, that's what makes me modest. I have people who's faces I can't remember but their asinine t-shirts are burned into my retinas. Managers who wore the same damned 'Reading Rainbow' tshirt days on end. Fuck you Paul!
Because, Tesla!
But other services do, or will.
Digital Economy Act 2017

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/30/contents/enacted

The idea was, Porn sites need to obey UK government rules, if they /don't/ (and why would, for example, a Canadian porn site obey those rules?) then a censor (the BBFC that took on this role for video got that job) directs that ISPs should block the offending site using DNS blocks.

In practice it keeps getting pushed out because it's hopeless from all angles.
The Sony WH-1000XM3 (Over the ear headphones) are about $279 and the Sony WF-1000XM3 (Ear buds) are $229.
And, you know, they always say their credit card reader isn't working, nor their fare meter.
That's a pretty standard taxi price structure. Open, but not clear. I have no idea based on that how much a trip will cost, even if somehow I managed to keep that whole table memorized.
Regardless, seasonal affective disorder is still a thing. Maybe they don't kill themselves until the spring, but that doesn't mean the lack of sunlight isn't a (delayed) cause.
For reference, there are companies that have developed this to a commercially viable level. First that comes to mind is ZGlue, a company that has the design tools, interconnect fabric, and chiplet ecosystem required to deliver these kinds of devices.

https://www.zglue.com/
I'm talking about the original nexus of homebrew computing and gaming that brought us tech fashion, but this is a very interesting tidbit of esoterica I will cherish
> For example, I took my girlfriend to a nice hotel for our anniversary last year. When the hotel heard I was having an anniversary, they sent up a very nice hand written congratulatory card, a bottle of prosecco, and a selection of deserts on the house. That couldn't have taken them more than 15 minutes and cost them like 20 dollars, but it is something I will always remember; I will definitely return there in the future; and I recommend that hotel to any friends seeking a nice place to stay. That is great customer service.

I'm not doubting that this is nice, but in a lot of businesses this could be all or most of their margin. You can be nice all day long but at the end of the day there has to be something left to run the business. There are plenty of ways to exceed customer expectations without running your business into the ground.
That exemption will be terminated EU-wide on Jan 1st 2021.

It will also get terminated immediately in UK if they leave without a deal, at least according to current UK government VAT guidance.
On the sidewalk in a relatively open space would be one thing, but in a coffee shop or on pubic transport I'd consider it an impolite/inconsiderate action and generally bad manners.
>The most important thing to us is users don't expect us to keep their IP private

I would dare to say you're wrong. It's one big reason I wouldn't/won't use Warp.
This will get dismissed as a low-effort comment, and in a sense it is, but it's necessary. Names matter a lot!
50 years of medical innovation leading to the propagation of procedures, medicines, and equipment costing upwards of tens of millions of dollars to procure and maintain.

Nobody is equipped to try to make an informed purchasing decision on if they want the $50k or $100k option to try to save their life while bleeding out of a gurney after getting hit by a car.
> Amazon didn't invent mail order.

And were particularly bad at it for a long time. Selling books was the only thing keeping the company afloat during that span.

> They never have had a monopoly on websites that sell stuff to be delivered by mail, either.

Actually, they did on books. You seem like you may be young. In 1994-1996, credit cards were nowhere near as ubiquitous and certainly the online use of them was even less so. Online gift companies were still a big thing and not simply a given even into 1999-2000.

The big bookstores at the time all had physical presence. If they attempted to ship you book and not charge tax, some taxman was going to show up at their door. This stifled the development of the online websites for those companies.

Amazon had no presence that people could go after, so could skirt tax laws with far less danger. That gave them an in-built 5% advantage over everyone. And the small bookstores took it in the chin particularly hard.

The success of people like Bezos becoming huge by skirting the law is why we have people like Kalanick who thought they can become huge by skirting the law.
Say what now? The die is the silicon, right?
To play devil’s advocate, those nations are also good at providing other services that the US provides poorly.
The difference in drug spending between countries amounts to a small fraction of overall healthcare spending. $1200 a year in the US versus $900 in Switzerland or $800 in Germany, Canada, and Japan.
Navi support lands with this release, which I believe means with a Linux 5.3 kernel you can properly use a Radeon 5700 on Linux.

am I correct or is there anything else left you would need?
Funny enough I found an article on vests just this morning on digg -- do you ever experience these weird synchronicities?

https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/monc...
I'd like an answer to this also!

It sounds like cloudflare spent the time to do away with hiding ip addresses. Actively removing that feature of a VPN, which you should get for free in a wireguard implementation, seems fishy to say the least. Especially since no reasonable explanation for this was given.
Ariane is European. According to Wikipedia "it was officially agreed upon at the end of 1973 after discussions between France, Germany and the UK" [1]

Plus the British approach has just built the biggest offshore wind farm. Why is that inferior to Frances nuclear power?

Plus France also signed up to the Channel Tunnel treaties, so its also illegal for them to fund it, but yet it still got built...

And which approach gets to claim credit for Concorde?

I'm not even sure what the French approach is. They still have to follow EU red tape, I could just as easily roll out a stereotype about long lunches, etc, etc.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(rocket_family)
It's mentioned in the NPR article. Don't think I need to source the part that I agree with them on.
Yeah, this looks like LoRa
There are a few legitimate reasons to disable SIP, but too often I see people turning it entirely off, rather than just disabling the parts that are in the way:

csrutil enable --without kext
csrutil enable --without fs
csrutil enable --without debug
csrutil enable --without dtrace
csrutil enable --without nvram

If you want to load some untrusted kernel extension, the first one will let you do so, but still keep all the other SIP protections on. If you want to use DTrace, use the corresponding flag. Etc. You can mix and match flags.
It was the "war on fat" that sweetened the cake.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...
The guarantee is only for 15 years as well, whereas it’s 35 years for nuclear.
Depending on what you mean by "really good tea". There are both varieties of tea, and then grades of quality within the same variety.

For Chinese teas easily found in the US, dragon well (longjing) and iron buddha (tie guan yin) are very drinkable green teas. Iron Buddha tends to taste a bit more metallic, leafy, and sweet, Dragon Well tends to have a warmer flavor with a tiny hint of savoriness. Both are much lighter in flavor than, say, Earl Grey, which makes them very drinkable even in large quantities, but if you're used to Earl Grey you might not be able to taste these teas. If you want a stronger, more earthy, less leafy flavor, you can find puerh fairly easily. There's a very large range of quality for puerh, so this can be a rabbit hole. As a general rule, you should only buy loose leaf for Chinese tea varieties. I've had dragon well in a bag/sachet before and it tastes like a poor facsimile.

I specifically didn't mention Jasmine because Jasmine tea is often a lower grade of quality in the US, which has the downside of tasting too leafy/bitter/heavy on tannin. If you find a higher quality loose leaf Jasmine, it's also a very drinkable tea that you might like.

In general, I personally prefer leaf-only-no-added-flavors teas, but everyone's tastes differ. What I recommend to everyone who asks is to try a lot of varieties from different countries (mainly China, Japan, India, and try white, green, red, and black varieties), try a few of the flowery/herbal/fruity blends, and settle on whatever you like.
You might try finding a different shop!
That's also lots of theft from convenience stores. 20 years ago I had a friend who, as manager, knew that the cameras didn't catch what happened when the lights were turned off at the end of the day. And he had the key... I made sure never to go to that store, either before or after closing time.
Actually I'm all for roasting people on skewers but I felt i ought to be the voice of temperance for once -- bring out the pitchforks!
High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited
The 'quality of care' you receive in the US is entirely dependent on your wealth and it's only the upper class that actually benefit from it.

You know what quality care I got as a poor person? Nothing, because my family couldn't afford it. I was given the privilege of going through highschool and college with teeth quite literally broken down to the gumlines and abscessed because it was either that or not being able to have a future.

I'm tired of hearing nonsense about quality of care because for a lot of people the quality is set to null.
It’s Hard to Use Apple Arcade Without Wondering How Developers Will Be Paid
Have you tried Prisma? How it compares with Hasura?
Container Analysis API
> The results showed a clear trend: The strongest predictor of men’s happiness and well-being is their job satisfaction, by a large margin—and the strongest predictor of job satisfaction is whether men feel they are making an impact on their companies’ success.

I wonder how much of this is evolutionary? Perhaps it harkens back to the days of hunter-gatherer tribes where the motivation to succeed, as well as healthy competitiveness, increased viability for the tribes' survival. Perhaps that is the reason happiness for men is tied to job satisfaction?

It's an interesting one to dissect from many angles. The article mentions the study was weighted, and I wonder how much 'job satisfaction' really just means 'higher pay' or positions of power. As it states, men are not a monolith, individuals all can have very unique motivations, etc. Also, what makes us 'happy' generally changes over time from individual to individual.

One thing I do tend to think is that younger men, in particular, function better when they have a clear purpose or meaning (let us compare that to 'job satisfaction' in a way). This is purely based on my own generalised anecdotal experience and observation that younger men who have strong interests or hobbies tend to be happier and more motivated then those with no hobbies or interests - that's when you start to see more destructiveness in their behaviour, in my opinion.
You can argue that processing food doesn't change anything about it, but it seems a ridiculous position to take that "processed food" might not exist.

Do you really see no possible difference between a potato, and Pringles, because "picking potatoes is a process"?
It's definitely not a mature response; I don't feel the righteous fury about these kinds of things that I did 20 years ago.

As to whether it's appropriate... social opprobrium can often be a less worse way to deal with a problem than ignoring it or going to the law.

And it could be positive; when someone dislikes how a person is behaving, they tend to form a caricature of that person. By confronting them, they're forced to deal with a real person who will defend their behavior, and it tends to replace that caricature with a more nuanced view.
I see I've been downvoted for this message.

Downvoting won't change the facts. If the drivers do work on some USB keyboards, but won't work on other USB keyboards, the USB drivers are NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Note that I've said "won't INSTALL" so it may just be that the USB drivers available to the INSTALLATION aren't good, but the kernel's USB drivers DO work.

Either way, if you can't install ReactOS, you can't use it.
So is mine, and so are mine. The frame has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of the lenses it contains, though, except inasmuch as it constrains their dimensions. And there's nothing in particular to say that you have to buy both in the same place, either.
... the FBI had taken control of a Kik user's account to run groups sharing such illegal imagery for over a year ...

Think about that for moment.
Not to diminish the importance of the child abuse but the real problem seems to be "securities fraud" not child abuse, so I'm not sure why the title and the article bring up the child abuse as if it's the reason for the closure?
This reminds me a little of baudot, which was 5bit but the shift character was stateful. So you had two character sets (nominally "letters" and "figures"). So sending "AA11" would be five symbols (A, A, FIGS, 1, 1), but sending "A1A1" would be seven (A, FIGS, 1, LTRS, A, FIGS, 1).

It entertains me how many of these issues were addressed long before we had computers.

(Aside; could I argue morse was a variable-length encoding?)
They are not necessarily the same if the discount store doesn’t offer the same options. A few cheap places don’t offer ultra high refractive index lenses. With the standard high index lens my lenses are very thick at the edges. Also, not all discount stores offer the same anti-scratch, anti-glare, or photochromic options.

The lenses that you get from a discounter will match your prescription, but expensive shops can have differentiating features.
> "I think you are stupid for wearing google glasses and I will not have a beer with you as long as you do" is a mature response

Disagree. If I had a friend who seriously called me stupid, I'd think they're an asshole, not mature. I'd say "I don't feel comfortable around that device, would you mind putting it away while we have a beer?" is mature.

Making something about someone else, or trying to control others' actions, is not mature. Communicating your needs and concerns is where it's at.
> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All".

A large part of what makes American per-capita healthcare costs so outrageous is how much is treatment rather than prevention. Because going to a doctor is so expensive people just don't go, and then mundane problems that could have been fixed with at worst a routine surgery end up in an emergency room on life support expending a hundred thousand dollars of resources a day to correct.

Thats in addition to substantive productivity losses incurred by people being sick all the time without the financial resources to actually fix their ailments.

Even when you have health insurance the absurd deductibles mean you can't see a doctor anyway without being out the equivalent of half the months food or your entire utility bill.

It is absolutely imperative that any nations people have affordable access to medical professionals before they are suffering ill from all the things they noticed were off but didn't want to become indebted over.
Contractors look at funded reserves like lions look at red meat.
This seems great.

Now, if I could just have a smartphone that wasn't a tracking device. That used a LEO network that couldn't geolocate phones accurately. And anonymous accounts, payable with untraceable digital cash.

But maybe I'd settle for a device that only connected via open WiFi, and routed traffic through VPNs and Tor.
USPS pension funding gets brought up quite a bit as some kind of a conspiracy, but that doesn't appear to be accurate.

The issue for the postal service is that the law was changed so that the USPS would start funding their retirement health care costs since they are promised to the workers and the projected costs had exploded. This was supported by a bipartisan commission, the GAO, and the Postal Service itself:

>...Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>Prior to 2006, the Service simply paid retirees’ health benefit premiums when they came due. The Service put aside no money when it promised the future benefits. Paying benefits when they come due rather than funding them in advance is known as the pay-as-you-go or unfunded approach.

>Early this century, Congress, the Administration, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), and a bipartisan presidential commission expressed concern about the lack of funding. Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>In 2002-2003, it was discovered that the Service was contributing far more than necessary to fully fund its pensions, and Congress allowed the Service to contribute less. Congress decided the pension “savings” could help patch the retiree health benefit underfunding. In 2006, as part of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), the Postal Service Retirement Health Benefits Fund (RHBF) was established. Most of the Service’s contributions to the new fund could be paid using the pension “savings.” PAEA was bipartisan legislation with broad support.

https://taxfoundation.org/primer-postal-service-retiree-heal...
"We've made this illegal in the past, we should consistently enforce such laws as exist, and improve them to bring them into 2019."

It seems to me that this sort of thing is the direct opposite of the "quarterly profits mentality" that people complain about. While you can say there must be a happy medium, I don't really believe there is, because every business can be framed in terms of the "short term focus" or "predatory and trying to take over the world" extremes.
Using ioctl() is not a complex side-channel attack. It's a legitimate (and maybe only) way to do certain things on linux. Since unity is cross platform, I could imagine they just peeked at their existing code base when implementing the android version.
Well, no specifics, but any company responsible for creating malware, or selling software to totalitarian regimes for enforcing unjust laws against the public would be places I'd never work for.

Probably any operating in the tobacco industry too, though other 'vices' wouldn't be off the list there.
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And do you think those specialists would exist here if we had medicare for all? no, evidence: all those other countries that have that and no such specialists.
TBH, I fired that off without fully getting the context. It's true, but not wholly relevant.