skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvoted, because very valid points overall. That being said..

>Individual consumers can’t possibly have full information about the supply chain of every item they buy

Of course not, however, they don't need full information to hear, at some point or another, that Amazon is a poor place to work.

And it isn't as if the government has a solid track record of producing new regulation lately. Can you name one well-executed regulatory initiative the US Federal Government has implemented in the last 20-30 years? Or better yet, one well-executed major infrastructure project?

I'm genuinely curious, maybe I'm just cynical, but I'm not sure it's even possible anymore for the government to be functional at any deeper level.
There's a great deal of evidence that we actually save money by providing housing, shelters and other services to poor people. Unfortunately, the politics make this unpopular and dictate that when they are provided they come with strings attached that discourage their use. It really isn't a question of not wanting to pay taxes and much more question of demonizing poor people.

The money spent on policing, cleanup, and emergency medical care is often far more than we would spend if we would just fund helping lift people out of poverty without all the moralizing.
They are saying that if the MAX isn't available, Southwest will have to consider buying a completely different aircraft.
Me too and so I bought some clippers for $50 to cut my own hair. Having been at it for a few years I can say it's worth the investment. It's simple to cut several styles of hair by yourself in the mirror. I often get compliments for how my hair is styled. I don't have any appointments and I spend less time in total on my hair.

If you do your own color, this is where the economy really becomes multiplicative because hair salons generally don't like spending hours processing people's hair since you are sitting in one of their chairs. Where multiple colors may run you $250-400 in a salon, you can DIY for $40 and it looks just as good (often better after you have experience).
I remember reading the opening few pages and chuckling out loud:

“Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a roll model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here—once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel—once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery”
> a regular non-cloud DC managed-hardware-leasing pricing

You have to factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) to make a fair comparison, which in almost ALL the cases, you are more than likely to overspend on bare metal boxes on your own DC. Some of the TCO components are:

- DC staff salaries

- Electricity

- Networking bandwidth

- SLA guarantee (yes this a hidden cost, e.g. if your DC power is out, you owe your customers fees depending on your SLA).

- etc.
Sorry, I'm pretty far removed from low-level networking, on CDN team and fairly new at that. I'd have no idea who to ask.
> why aren't both macro- and micro-econ viewed as a largely academic idea

Because it's easier to get funding when you claim to be a science.

The fact that the discipline has exactly zero predictive power is rarely brought up by practitioners (of course), nor particularly noticed from the people who consume the by-product of said discipline.
I know this isn't your central point, but you should know that a speaker can be used as a microphone, and vice versa. Granted, a speaker won't be a very good microphone, but it is possible one could design an exploit that uses this capability to record audio and send the results off to who knows where.
Didn't the US government already "manage" us into the McDonnell Douglas merger in the first place?

"We're from the Government and we're here to help," indeed.
For starters: Hal Incandenza's character development, or rather character devolvement, is reminiscent of Slothrop in Gravity's Rainbow.
We can be mad at Amazon, but so many brands have a chance to ruthlessly focus on customers, but choose not to. Even today, in grocery, you see it happening. There’s major players with deep pockets struggling to do an end-to-end grocery customer experience that competes. After a while I don’t want companies like this to survive.

If many markets were about two competent players duking it out, I’d be sympathetic. But usually it’s Amazon vs some company I’ve mostly just tolerated my whole life, but seems to care less about the customer. Amazon just often deserves to win.

Now maybe it already is already to the point we need to think about anti trust issues, but that comes with a big cost of potentially protecting a lot of incompetent players out there.

(And there are lots of brand that ruthlessly focus on customers that treat employees very well, ie Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, etc)
SSRIs are typically described by psychiatrists to their patients as making them more likely to act. They do this by disrupting the decision making process so you can't talk yourself out of an action due to anxiety, etc.

In some cases this can lead to manic like symptoms associated with dopamine release, like obsessive gambling, extreme promiscuity, and overall poor decision making. You can check the side effects list of your medication, though some are more prone to this than others.
That's a bit elitist, isn't it?

We could also ban vagrants from being inside the city limits at night. Out of sight, out of mind.

More seriously though, take an Uber (or UberPool) if you want clean, sober public transport.
Boeing has burned a lot of political and public capital recently so they may actually be in hot water over this. As a Canadian I'm still pretty outraged over the stupidity that the US carried out at Bombardier - Boeing basically told the US Government "Hey, those Canadians are better than us at everything" and then the US Government said "Oh, poor baby, well we'll just help the free market out with a 300% tariff."

Thanks free market economics!
Amazon's ways of getting help are... confusing... at best. Recently I ordered something, shipper marked it as delivered, but it wasn't there. I dug through the orders interface, trying to find an option for "item never arrived", but could only find things about returns and exchanges, or ways to report damaged items or bad packaging. After searching the customer support site for the problem, the (non-interactive) answer was essentially "wait 48 hours because sometimes things appear later than indicated". It had already been more than that, and there were no follow-up steps beyond that.

Eventually I googled the problem, and got linked to some random non-Amazon site, that told me to go find the generic "Help" link, and dig through a couple screens until I found a link to a chat interface (basically a "nothing here is helping me" link), where a robot would help me. The process worked perfectly and easily once I got there, but there's no way I would have gotten there on my own.

I suspect some people, when confronted with a missing item, will try part of what I did and just give up and eat the cost, especially if it's a cheap item. So the internal metrics look good, but that's not telling the whole story.
L. Bob Rife is a telecom mogul; presumably there will be some handwave about how he's manipulating the phone network to keep anyone from interfering with his plans.
> To get both the free fares and $9M of better transit would double the cost of this, but then you'd have to ask why not use all $18M on better transit, etc.

But then there is a reason for that -- spending has diminishing returns. If you have some money and you could use it to serve an area with 1500 riders then that may be worth it, but once you've served it, the next best unserved area which costs just as much to serve would only have 750 riders, which may not be worth it. The point where you stop is where the value of the service no longer exceeds the cost.

And the value of eliminating fares has a major comparative advantage because it allows you to eliminate the cost of collecting fares, which is typically a huge fraction of the money collected in fares. Especially when the fares are already subsidized (which they are most everywhere), because then you still have the pay the full cost of the collection infrastructure but generate much less revenue. In some places the cost of collection can exceed the total revenue from the fares. And even if you beat break-even, the little amount left over is hardly worth losing the benefits of having fewer cars on the road.
I have been extensively programming in Kotlin in the last 2 years coming from a 10 years Java experience. Even Java advanced a lot from from version 8, still it is very far behind in reaching the pure joy of programing in Kotlin, especially in functional style. Immutability with 'val', data classes, functions as first class citizens, destructuring, if/when expressions, just to name a few of the features than enables this.

Also, the great 100% interoperability with Java makes possible to migrate part of your codebase to Kotlin and using tons of already proven and great libraries in the Java ecosystem. On top of the Kotlin standard library includes many improvements of the existing Java classes from collections to String, and all of this using extension functions, one very usefull and powerful feature.

I can keep going on and on, but to conclude Kotlin is not just Java with improved syntax, but completely new modern programming language incorporating or "borrowing" some of the best features from Scala, C# and other popular programming languages. So in my opinion it is a great language which has a lot more funtional features than Java, but still pragmatic and easier to learn than Scala.
Note that homelessness is not a problem of the same scale as Seattle in many cities around the country, and around the world.

These cities have in turn some measures and initiatives that are proven solutions that reduces homelessness. Note that not all of them could work in Seattle, but some of them might.
The original tech report is from 2008. Anything newer?
Most of Infinite Jest is highly indebted to Wittgenstein's Mistress. Markson's is the better novel.
You can sometimes successfully feed it what you want. Need a dragon? "You find a dragon" will work, just not consistently
Fusing 4 protons into helium definitely happens in the sun, where protons are the most common hydrogen isotope. Most fusion on Earth is done using the deuterium-tritium reaction, which produces helium and a neutron. The reason is that it's an easier reaction to do: Obtaining the special hydrogen isotopes is much less of a pain than trying to design a reactor that uses the 4 proton reaction.
National Treasure 2 :) enjoy
Fun fact: all the lab grown meat today requires fetal bovine serum - they literally kill newborn calves and suck the juices out of their hearts to grow these meats.

https://slate.com/technology/2017/07/the-gruesome-truth-abou...
SWA and AA are morally responsible for some of these design choices. I’m sure they would come up in any suit vs Boeing
Seinfeld is still funny even though cell phones would resolve most episodes in 5 minutes. Just make it an alternate future where some tech hasn't materialized because of corporate interests.
Solid shit vs liquid shit
Apple are making Foundation for AppleTV+.
This. imho transit ridership bears more of the burden of the "fuck poor people" undercurrent of America.

It's maybe the snowy after image of the American Dream: Anyone can make [if they work hard] / It must be their fault if they don't make it.
Good riddance. FedEx Ground has a 0% success rate for actually delivering anything to me -- and when I complain, they tell me that if I want my package I have to drive out to the airport to collect it (~45 minutes away).

UPS is only slightly better at delivering packages, but at least they drop off my stuff at a pick-up location a few minutes away.

I would pay extra for an Amazon Prime Actually-Get-Stuff-Delivered service which only uses Canada Post and Amazon's own delivery people.
I assume you have never explored your own literal blind spot [0] and how the brain just plasters over it with some hacky texture filling...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision)
Worth it for this quote alone.

> “At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to ‘dick school.’ The question is, will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?”

Very insightful work to read as a stand alone article and a worthwhile teaser for the book they have written.
Just use what William Gibson does and call it "Vat grown"

"Jesus," Molly said, her own plate empty, "gimme that. You know what this costs?" She took his plate. 'They gotta raise a whole animal for years and then they kill it. This isn't vat stuff." She forked a mouthful up and chewed. - Neuromancer
A separate language? How do you mean?

This is one of the big advantages of Lisp macros over C macros. In Lisp you write macros using Lisp, including normal user-defined functions. In C, on the other hand, you write macros using "C Preprocessor directives"
What 50 page section? Are you referring to the Eschaton game? If so, its not in the middle, nor is it 50 pages.
>You wouldn't have to be a doctor to ask "why does he keep returning".

No but you need to have domain expertise to understand the mental and emotional processes that lead to decisions being made, especially by people whose brains are still developing.
So far Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex is still my favourite cyberpunk TV series. I really want something to dethrone it. If HBO gives Snowcrash the Westworld treatment then I am hopeful but I'm still uncertain.
Sounds like an interesting formula. Ready Player One is popular too, but I guess since there is a movie that's already been done... but I guess you can have a series and also movies... The Purge has a TV series now even though originally it was a movie.
What are you using your expiring L&D credits on?
Well, DEMO, the demonstration power station to follow ITER is estimated to have a Q of 25 and output of 2GW. Whether that's viable will then be less about the physics and more about the cost that they can get subsequent designs down to when they have to compete with high capacity factor offshore wind, battery firmed utility solar, pumped hydro, etc. in 2040. It'll be a fascinating engineering challenge. I hope they can make it happen, but I doubt it.
It's not that great a book because it's deeply relevant to the time is was written and isn't generically timeless?
Java is getting green threads/fibers by means of project Loom. Arguably much more straightforward to use compared to async/await.
The study that's linked in the article replicating the results is from 2015
Someone did the stats around the max 8. 300 lives lost in 3 years of operation and 400 planes in the sky. It is actually quite dangerous to fly and much more dangerous than driving when you compare by travel time and not distance. In comparison, A320 Neo and 787 have no hull losses and there's more of those planes in the sky than the maxes. 787s have been flying for almost 10 years.
Only monopolies aren't allowed to utilize a tying strategy. Every other company is free to. Amazon hasn't been found to be a monopoly in any market AFAIK.
As odd as it counts ITER is not about efficiency, it’s more about research into construction and operations.

We could have built a fusion reactor in the 90’s simply scaling up JET, but the amount of power that would be produced was not worth the investment. For example we lack the tritium production to keep up with even a single 1GW fusion reactor let alone a large scale deployment. So, we need to be able to produce it or get by with mostly DD reactions.

That’s just one of thousands of issues being investigated.
I have no proof I can offer up, but the answer is yes.
Ask HN: Chatbot startup in middle east is in need of investment
Hello,
I am not sure if this is allowed here or not
but we are really running out of cash, and we need an investment to survive!

we never received any kind of investment before!
we have over 300 sellers signed up for our chatbot.
our chatbot is an ecommerce chatbot for sellers on facebook, and we plan to expand to other social media.

our target market is latam and middle east and parts of Asia.

I am an Arabic speaker, and I am already in Egypt, so I can easily manage and access the market of middle east, where most of clients reside.

And it's clearly a B2B startup!
The twitter account "Modern Seinfeld" is full of ideas for episodes that could work with cell phones.

https://twitter.com/seinfeldtoday
I was very confused for longer than I'd like to admit because what felt like it was supposed to be an article was actually a full screen spinning 3D model of a castle that hijacked my scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

If you also have this issue, you need to grab the scroll bar and drag down to keep reading.
in japan a lot of restaurants and retail is built around this premise
Lost in all of this discussion is the fact that Boeing problems began with South Carolina. The fact that politics played a big role in opening that plant should not be ignored. MAX wasn’t just designed poorly, the organization process within Boeing was already failing. It’s a corporate culture failure.
My fear with any Snowcrash adaptation is that it will feel like John Carter of Mars (or Warhammer Online [1]). John Carter was a groundbreaking novel, but its ideas became so adapted and universally understood that revisiting them in a movie felt ironically like derivative work.

If I have to endure years of my non-cyberpunk friends talking about how Snowcrash feels like a rip-off of Ready Player One, then I will flip tables.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/i-hope-you-lik...
I shudder to imagine the experience of reading Infinite Jest in physical form. Having an ereader that could jump back-and-forth between the main text and the endnotes was invaluable.
This is a great summary of the article and should be the top comment.
Underemployment is an entirely subjective concept though. Having skills that that you can’t sell due to insufficient demand doesn’t necessarily say anything about the market at all.
What you are showing is not a haircut, the robot "shaves" the neck area - very slowly at that.

Frankly, the approach does not seem suited to cutting hair. People will move their heads even involuntarily. Plus there is a lot more finesse needed for cutting hair than shaving.
While I really enjoyed Ready Player One as a movie, I couldn't help leave it feeling it would've been better as a mini-series.
MMT works great, until it doesn't.
It would reduce the issue to ethics only though. Whether you agree with the ethics part or not, lab-grown meat will likely also require less resources and thus will be better for the environment (and it would also be cheaper if governments wouldn't support lifestock breeding with money). In my eyes that's the bigger advantage compared to the ethics question.

For the ethical part, I personally don't agree with the "killing animal for food" part. For me, it's perfectly okay to kill an animal for food and anyone who thinks I should stop eating meat is a problem in my eyes (if you don't want to eat meat, I won't judge, but please don't judge me either). Where I do have ethical concerns though is when animals are kept in bad conditions throughout their lives to minimize price. The impact is felt by humans as well, as those conditions often involve giving the animals antibiotics which leads to super germ evolution (and those germs land in the meat we buy to finally land in humans!). Hopefully we'll have minimum standards in the future for growing animals for food. Those standards will make "real" meat more expensive but most people won't care as they can eat lab grown meat.
Resign if you can afford it and get a lawyer
> I would appreciate paying more for the delivery if I knew that the drivers receive a better salary with that.

Unfortunately most people do not think like that, and would just not buy the item (or would buy it from a cheaper competitor) if there were higher shipping fees. Amazon knows this; free shipping is essentially a marketing cost for them. And they know that even if the shipping/delivery experience is sometimes frustrating, people will still come back for more.
There was a really weird moment for me about ten years ago when I realized Apple could pay cash to buy Boeing. I mean, obviously they wouldn't, but something is off about the scale of it all.

Are we sure it's a pillar? Perhaps if you take all of the suppliers and partners it represents, sure. But by itself, I don't think it really look all that impressive.

After The War, the US government was careful to keep domestic manufacturing 'healthy' which turned into 'fat and happy' which has now turned into I-don't-know-what, but I wonder if subsidies-as-defense-policy should be putting more energy into other industries.
But there's no political will to fix transit, because that would help poor people who depend on it, and that money would be much better spent on all the rich people.
> Another shocking discovery for me personally, is that the only one that I've actually used myself - code coverage - has the lowest recall. In other words, almost all the issues it predicted turned out to not be real issues.

sounds like survivorship bias to me
I went through about half of ‘Foundation’ in my sci-fi binge, and discovered that it's all politics instead of robotics. Might not quite fit the wave―even though it could still be a different good show, of course.
If true, then there is something wrong with the policy that all shelters need to be sober. Introduce some number of shelters—in parts of the city where high drug usage is a problem—that include safe use spaces (i.e. with medical access, clean needles and dispose boxes, no drug arrest policy etc.)
In Gavin Newsom’s book Citizenville he talked about how, after becoming SF mayor, he discovered that fare collection cost as much as the revenue generated from fares. He started the process of making the bus free but was told by so many advisors that the busses would become “dumpsters on wheels,” from a combination of homeless people using them for shelter and people not respecting services that are free, that the plan was scrapped.
Boeing already cleared their obligation to Southwest for 2019 with a $125 million payment. Nothing to sneeze at, but far from anything nearing a "pile-drive".