skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The competition with eBay started before 1999, and 3rd party sellers was not a major part of the strategy nor was it really concerned with eBay (which is 1999 was literally NOTHING but an auction site).

Amazon had its own "auctions" site in the late 1990s which many people forget even existed (it's one of the few things that Amazon tried and failed at). Bezos knew that eBay was a problem as soon as they emerged, and worried that Amazon would never compete effectively against them. In many senses, he was right.

How do I know this? I worked with Bezos in the legendary "garage" in Bellevue, WA.
Very interesting, while I do not like the flavor of Pepsi, I do crave Diet Pepsi every once in awhile, even though I normally prefer Coke products. I thought maybe I was the only one.

As far as colas go, Diet Pepsi has a decent flavor profile; it's sweet but not cloying or syrupy. And it has enough of whatever acids or other flavorings to mask / distract from the aftertaste of artificial sweeteners.

That's the one thing that hurts Diet Coke, I think, particularly if it isn't cold.
I'm amazed (not surprised however) that this neologism is at least a decade old:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=con%20crud

edit: of course there's a 1995 citation from Usenet:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:con_crud
Yes they can't but what Amazon is usually doing is pretty simple.

It gets into things where not much is needed.

For example, USB cables, laptop sleeves, kettle bells, dumbell, weight plates, led light and this kind of category is simply too big and it will put whoever ever discovered a new niche which doesn't require anything more than the physical product get outcompeted by Amazon.
For about half a billion they will build you an aws on site(s) you control: https://cloudcheckr.com/cloud-security/understanding-aws-gov...
Of course they did, and what’s wrong with it? Regular brick and mortar grocery stores do the same thing. It’s called private label.
That 5G nonsense thing is very like what the news was saying when mobile phones were first starting to get popular, stuff like causes tumours, cancer etc; which didn't turn out to be much at all.

But as someone who has looked at a wide variety of stuff from mainstream to far from mainstream, all I can say is that you really can't trust much at all, especially if it involves human issues (societal, political, etc).

Also the people who push for censorship and end up running censorship systems are exactly who you wouldn't want to run them. Foxes guarding the hen house and all that.

Completely agree with teaching critical thinking in schools. Also teaching people self defence from con artists and other malicious people they may be dealing with in everyday life would be great, something that would make them more prepared to live in a world where these things are common.
In all seriousness, not giving your own brands prominent placement would be ignoring the benefits of vertical integration, leaving money on the table, and violating your fiduciary duty to stockholders.
Purely Extrinsically motivated people are not going to solve the build problem.
My 15" Lenovo C940 with the 4K screen is a _much_ higher resolution in pixels-per-inch than the so-called "retina" screen.

And all the software "just works" at this resolution nicely.
I think the definition of ballistic means that gravity is the dominant force governing its path through space. So if it is "heavily influenced" by airflow it is by definition not ballistic.

Then again, it's not aerosolized as it didn't diffuse homogenously into the space. It's somewhere in between.
Maybe because Dell has a patent on that port?
I use the svalt stand that has a fan in it. Works really well

https://svalt.com/products/cooling-stand
Same boat as you my friend :) I used to be a PHP developer now trying to transition to the JS world. I believe what we do from 8am to 5pm is the job but what we do from 5pm to 8am will move the needle. It is ok to start from scratch and let go because in 10 years from now your future self will thank you.
going 7 times doesn’t actually increase the likelihood 7x but your point still stands that they would be far more likely to get it
But why test the people with the worst symptoms?

People with bad symptoms aren't the one's going out into the world spreading the virus and the difference in treatment between a Covid and non-Covid patient (from what I've heard) is minimal.
> You being entertained on the train by judging people on their phones sounds hardly more valuable as a hobby than them being entertained by judging people in instagram stories.

There's a substantial difference between being on the sidelines vs. in the line of fire WRT the firehose of propaganda.
> ...the 10% they are choosing to ignore is comprised of millions of people.

I don't understand your point here. Is it that somehow, some people are more than 10% likely to run into the 10%? Well, that's obvious. Roughly speaking, you'd expect 10% of commenters to be in that 10%, unless we're talking about something that disproportionately does or does not affect people interested in technologies, startups, etc..
Thanks! I'll check out the list
What are they trying to prevent? Mass image scraping? The people doing that are going to keep doing it regardless of any hoops they make them jump through. This just makes the registration process for normal users more annoying.
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Is there a write-up for this study? Or anywhere with data/methodology released?

Also, is this particularly good news? Using the raw numbers from the headline and the deaths from here https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page we can make coarse fatality rate estimates. I assume population of NYC is 8,400,000.

10290 / (.212 * 8.4e6) = 0.6%

Including probable deaths (which makes the death count line up more closely with excess deaths)

15411 / (.212 * 8.4e6) = 0.9%.

So it seems consistent with a IFR of 0.5%-1%. However, this doesn't account for the lag between antibody presence and death. Also, we don't know what bias sampling from grocery stores introduces, it could affect the results in either direction. Hopefully, New York releases a paper so we can get more accurate estimates.

It's good to see a prevalence study with presumably less flaws.
Closing the bars, and the churches, gun stores, courthouses...

This lockdown is infringing on pretty much all our Constitutional rights, across the board.
Apple's volume was not enough to warrant investing on a G5 laptop. IBM offered Jobs the Cell and Jobs went elsewhere to get a better deal from Intel.

POWER is very much alive in the high-end server space, powering IBM's p and i series of machines.
"In a grotesque way, Florida’s disastrous UI system represents the successful completion of a project: They intended to build a UI system that failed those who needed it, and they very much did."

This is the lens that needs to be applied more generally. Just because a system is not achieving its stated goal does not necessarily mean it is failing - it often means that the true goal is simply something different. To take an obvious example, the US healthcare system is not failing in its primary mission, which is to transfer wealth from the population at large to a specific group. It is in fact spectacularly successful.

Andreesen's article entirely ignores this. Things are not the way they are by accident. Ignore the reasons why and you are either being disingenuous or ignorant.
How does Amazon know margin?

Amazon know volume, Amazon goes to suppliers on alibaba and gives them the quantity they require and then Amazon figures out what margin they'll be making if they sell it at the same or lower price than the original seller.
They seem to be a bit sensationalized, but with the way news media works these days, everything is. So, it's hard to know what's real and what isn't these days.
I think that's a great call-out. It's interesting that we don't see the same problem in app stores -- probably because there's not much profit motive for apps like there is for general retail.
I find myself reconsidering the original proposition by England to isolate the most vulnerable for a couple months and let the virus work its course through the less vulnerable population.

If death rate is substantially lower among the under 50 crowd, this could work its way through with a fairly low death toll, and result in a herd immunity within a couple months. This slow burn approach we're doing however seems possibly to be the precise worst way to handle it, leaving the virus in the population for as long as possible, reducing the ability for our vulnerable population to avoid it.

Note I think the best possible solution is a complete lock down for a couple months until the virus is more or less eradicated, as Wuhan did. But I don't think it's a realistic option in our society.
I think the points raised are reasonable and, to my mind, not particularly partisan (though I would argue one party is more responsible for the current chaos by several orders of magnitude than the other one..).

The deeper issue this raises is, I suppose, a constitutional one paired with Long Now Foundation-type questions. How do we design institutions that can't themselves be changed too easily due to majoritarian whims, yet can evolve over decades and centuries as societies change. We certainly shouldn't expect the institutions and norms of today to precisely meet the needs of our descendants decades or centuries from now.

For the here and now though, my observation is this: Americans in general are allergic to learning from what other countries do. But really, as a very large country, we should be studying what smaller countries do and using them as experimental points of data and testing them out here. There are plenty of implementations of better, more responsive governance out there. Nothing's perfect, but saying 'we're number one' and plugging our ears is no solution.
> he quickly logged into his account and saw that there were indeed multiple unauthorized transactions going back several weeks. Most were relatively small charges — under $100 apiece — but there were also two very recent $800 ATM withdrawals from cash machines

How is it possible for someone not to check his/her bank account all this time? There were unknown transactions for several weeks and no one noticed?

IMHO not having alerts for your cards/accounts and not noticing strange transactions is a bigger security risk than trusting the telephone number calling you.

I fully agree that we should call back on the official number for any banking issues and don’t blindly trust whoever is pretending to be from the bank.
That might seem counter-intuitive, but tracing GC is the fastest way to manage memory in general (arbitrary life time, graph shapes and allocation patterns).

It permits really fast allocation, defragmentation and is sometime the only way to manage memory (cyclic datastructures for which reachability cannot be known directly from program text).

Reference-counted GC on the other hand is notoriously slow, incomplete, and exhibit lots of bad performance patterns (that can be somehow managed by taking some elements of tracing GCs).

The drawback is that tracing GCs are very hard to implement, to tune, and sometimes not all of the benefits are available at the same time. And because they are so counter intuitive, programmers in general have a hard time understanding their runtime behavior... Even GC experts struggle (the skills required range from low-level hardware to control theory, otherwise performance at scale is unpredictable).
I mean, this is in a sense a known issue: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/01/30/the-new-hotnes...

Note that was back in 2009. Macbook thermals: not good.
> Based on our benchmark results, we selected Go as our new implementation language for elPrep, and recommend considering Go as a good candidate for developing other bioinformatics tools for processing SAM/BAM data as well.

They don't seem to take into account that their results depend on their own proficiency in each programming language.
Amazon is the worst company when it comes to ethics. They don't even pay taxes. Horrible company.
I keep a txt file with a list of the subreddits I’m interest in it. I delete all my posts and my account every few months and create a new one and join the subreddits in the file. If reddit required an email like discord, I would absolutely stop using it.
And Twitter requires a phone number for "verification" shortly after creating a new account without one.

Stop using this trash.
Forgot the rpi4 consumption. (1000-1200mA on load)

https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption
Hopefully Apple will go back to being a integrated hardware and software company.

It makes absolute sense to me for a future MacBook Pro to have a great AMD/Intel CPU and one of their high performance A13X chips with neural accelerators to accelerating specifics tasks to improve performance and battery life.

I'm thinking audio/video encoding in FCPX, neural AI assisted tracking, color matching, face detection, ProRes acceleration, H264/H265 acceleration.

Would make the price tag of a new MacBook pro much more palatable for FCPX/Logic X users anyway.
Step 1 would probably be remove the employer tax exemption on healthcare benefits.

Once regular people have to actually start understanding the implications of the insurance they're buying, and are no longer bound by the whims of their employers with specialized employees who understand insurance jargon, I would expect massive consumer-driven simplification.
What about on their smartphones?
Agreed, the “charge master” system is crazy. In college I had to fight off debt collectors coming for a $3000 ER bill. $3000 to be given propofol and have my shoulder stuck back in the socket twice (they failed to restrain my arm after the first reduction, my arm flailed upon regaining consciousness and redislocated so they double charged me)

I also wonder what a world where we removed almost all medical regulation would look like.we would at least get true competitive market dynamics. Why do I know exactly what I’ll pay at mcdonalds, but not what I’ll pay for a medical procesure?

Instead we have just enough regulation to prevent healthy market dynamics, but not enough to have a single payer type system
We need(ed) them extensively for lab hardware access in the office. It's accessible over wi-fi and VPN but we often need a wired connection to directly test hardware functionality and performance.

So last year after people kept losing their dongles we starting keeping USB-C dongles always plugged into the cable ends. Adds $20-$40 to every person-facing ethernet outlet, but nobody ever lacks one, and we noticed more people using Ethernet as a result because of how much faster and more stable it is than our wi-fi.

If anyone not new or transient to the office took the dongle off the cable, they got shamed very, very deeply. YMMV (we are a very shame-effective group) but buying 15 dongles once ended up being cheaper than buying 10 dongles, then 5 a few months later, then another 5, then oops we found the 5 that we thought were lost...
... or remove onerous governmental regulations ...
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I think this is just a sign of a declining platform desperate to juice the stats. New signups falling? Just force everyone to log in to view content.
We'd also need to make the decsision to continue a lockdown over a virus with a 99.5% survival rate or not. Seeing at the flu has a 99.9% survival rate does it make sense to destroy the economy over that.
”if”

Fire risks the loss of things that insurance cannot replace, such as your face, dog, or offspring.
Refcounting can mess with caches in multithreaded scenarios, so results aren't really surprising to me. It also generates unnecessary work to maintain counters on all writing threads, while concurrent tracing GC batches all its actions on separate thread.
Totally agree. I would love to spend Windows prices to get that kind of power. And it would run cool. But I just don't have the time to fiddle with Windows.

Then again, maybe it won't be so bad. Worth a try at some point just setting up a couple of my elixir and ember projects to run off WSL2.
Demand is outstripping supply. You still can't buy one.
Mac font rendering is also more accurate to the font than Windows. Since MacOS doesn’t hammer glyphs to the pixel grid, font scaling is far more consistent. Windows’ font rendering is part of the reason why their HiDPI support is so janky.
Well that's disappointing, although not definitive.

Another study gave a slightly rosier picture but had no control arm, so it isn't all that useful https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016

The Chinese study was apparently stopped early due to declining cases and difficulty of enrolling new participants.
The rules the FBI/DoJ applies to kids on irc are not the same rules the FBI/DoJ applies to multibilliondollar infrastructure companies and/or trusted military defense contractors (Amazon is both).

Equal protection or application of computer crime law (perhaps, any law) in the USA is a fiction. It would be practically illegal to invent and run a web spider today, for instance, if they didn’t already exist as a concept. (France recently decided this was true for news link aggregation; Google must pay the newspapers for reproducing their headlines. I’m glad hosted RSS readers aren’t outlawed so far, but under these sorts of restrictive legal interpretations you could see how they might be. Google doing AMP, of course, gets a free pass.)

If you don’t believe me about the web spider thing, try making a complete download of Twitter for the purpose of making a tweet search index and see if you get to continue owning your house. (My theory is that Clearview is allowed to do it for Instagram because they’re using the database to provide services to law enforcement/military, so those groups want it to continue to exist free of prosecution.)

Bummer that actively collaborating with violent types like pigs and military seems to be the only way to avoid jail if you want to build large novel data systems with interesting public datasets today. This sort of freedom to experiment with new/neat algorithms over published documents got us Google; today these same companies will get you raided if you dare download/index their data. (Facebook’s idea famously started out scraping public yearbook photos. Try scraping Facebook now.)

one small counterpoint: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...

RIP aaronsw
Just have to move to an adjacent/another field. I have not seen Office in ten years, and haven't used it in twenty.
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If they are different entities, how come Amazon Basics can use the same name as the platform? Did Amazon sell the rights to another company to use their brand?
I can't find a single admirable thing about Roth from his writing. Selfish, consumed by sexual desire during years when he ought to have learned long ago that sex is a procreative pursuit, all in the pursuit of a particular kind of admiration from both men and women.

"A couple of misguided attempts at courtship followed, painful for the women involved. Then he closed the door on erotic life entirely. He’d learned how to be an elderly gentleman who behaves correctly. He joined the ranks of the sexually abdicated."

Why it is so fascinating for some that Roth raged against the cooling of his sexual urges, I'll never know. He seems like the biggest twat ever.

Similarly, Updike: https://observer.com/1997/10/john-updike-champion-literary-p...

"But it never once occurs to him that the reason he’s so unhappy is that he’s an asshole."
Would this apply to physical platforms as well? E.g. Walmart and Target who also do similar things with similar data
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Where IS the AmazonBasics section? Is there a way to restrict searches to only Amazon white label products?
Definitely not the case for Romania. Even though I haven't used a landline in over a decade, if either party would hang up, the call would end.
Looking at performance regularly is a necessity because it helps team members have a clear understanding of how they're doing. Instead of having to wait for 6-12 months for a performance review, under this format we don't have "surprises" and team members benefit from shorter feedback loops.

Nice, seems like a way to replace the traditional performance review - set clear expectations and document performance highlights in each 1:1. I just wonder how you can then incorporate promotions, raises, bonuses, etc.
Depends on what kind of things you're making. For example some of the products I have target Windows desktop, can't' build/test those on Linux etc.
Sounds like the perfect attack to target against the elderly, who presumably might be more likely to have landlines
I believe the 16" got a significant bump up in its discrete graphics card, and I'm pretty sure it kicks on whenever you plug in a second monitor, no matter what else you're doing. That card has been by far the greatest driver of heat/fan speed in my usage; more than the CPU.
I really liked this article looking at another of how it got to be hard to build things from the perspective of Penn Station in New York and how the reaction against Robert Moses caused so many problems.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/29/penn-stati...
I've personally gotten the 'Drupal Flu' twice, there are just so many surfaces and items that multiple people (often hundreds) touch including elevator buttons, door handles, coffee carafes, stuff on vendor tables, etc. — even if you are diligent in washing hands and trying to avoid rubbing eyes, etc., it doesn't take much.

It's telling that usually one or two vendors have a freebie that consists of some sample-size medication and vitamin packs.
NYTimes did a nice obituary that was frontpage a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17131431

It was a nice overview of his career.
Frankly all that distinguishes these “brands” is literally just the packaging. How’s this better than planned economy where every item is just labeled with its dictionary definition?

I mean seriously, if this is end-game capitalism what’s the added value?
https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152?lang=en
NYC is a younger, healthier city than the national average. NYC also has one of the best medical systems not just in America, but in the world.

Roughly 0.2% of everyone in NYC has already died of COVID-19. So 0.2% is pretty close to a hard lower bound on the IFR for COVID-19.

And I don't think anyone serious suggests every NYC resident has had COVID. I don't think anyone seriously suggests even half of NYC has had COVID.
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> But numbers can change

They could, but I just tried calling the numbers on the back of two cards from merged/acquired banks and they both forwarded to the acquiring bank. Yes it's a small sample size, but I suspect that there's enough money on the line and enough legacy contracts and systems that banks keep their communication channels active for some time.
I agree that Apple's behavior isn't quite consistent with a simple obsession with thinness, but I don't think it's weight, either.

My 15" PowerBook in 2001 was 2.4 kg. The 15" MacBook Pro in the linked answer is 1.83 kg. (At their heaviest, they got to about 2.5 kg.) This seems like a lot of trouble for half a kilo (-25%). It also got much thinner over that time, from 2.5 cm to 1.5 cm (-40%).

It's probably a combination of factors. Jony Ive in 2001: "People will have a visceral reaction to its weight and volume."
he's talking about apps that don't behave according to windows scaling (happens) or monitor scaling I think.

I have two monitors and windows scales apps equally on both even though one is 5120x1440 and the other is 1080p. The result is that I either pick small icons on the big monitor or big icons on the small monitor.