skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read through most of that but will admit that I don't quite understand what he was trying to get at. Can you summarize?
The latter. If you are aware that a specific subject only results in you being regarded as immoral, it is likely impossible to be perceived as “civil” regardless of what words you use to express yourself.
In the short term it creates competition and lower priced products.

In the long term, Amazon undercuts suppliers who have to exit the market. That reduces competition and allows Amazon to charge more.
> any system designed around the average person is doomed to fail.

Daniels published his findings in a 1952 Air Force Technical Note entitled The “Average Man”?
We sell an ERP catered to distributors and many do sell on Amazon. I’ve always wondered why on earth they would continue to sell on a platform that’s constantly gathering their selling data, or even inventory if they’re going FBA, and eventually try to undercut them if their products sell well.

Their response is usually “I’m making enough money now, why worry about later?” or “our product category is too niche for Amazon to enter.” It seems like that kind of reasoning makes sense for traditional retailers like Costco/Walmart/Macy’s etc., but not Amazon where Amazon virtually has no risk in listing a product.
Those pits fill up with water once they're decommissioned unless you're in a dry region. The rocks usually have fractures which allow surrounding ground water to leak into the pit, only reason they don't flood is because you lower the water table around the pit in the years before.
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The only data that is somewhat reliable in this pandemic is COVID deaths. Testing the population that is very sick / dying is crucial to understanding the baseline for the worst part of the problem.

Once you have that under control, and we are not nearly there yet, you have to get every first responder tested regularly so you can prevent them from spreading the disease and give them some assurance that coming to work isn’t a death sentence.

Next we have to focus on getting a baseline of the population regularly tested to estimate the spread of the disease. This should be randomized and geographically distributed so we can start to obtain reliable data about the spread of the disease and deploy resources proactively.
But Trump hates Bezos because Bezos owns Washington Post, which publishes articles critical of Trump.

I'd imagine if the administration goes through with the antitrust investigations, Bezos would just show up with a suitcase saying "Here's my offer to your 2020 reelection campaign" (not literally, he could put it through a Super PAC) and Trump would say "Art of the deal!" and that threat would disappear...

Or Bezos could double down and get a law firm very rich trying to prove that the suit would be unfair because it's driven by the president's little ego...
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Wonderful personal website!

One question though, are icons supposed to be that big?
Yeah, it's true for basically all platforms unless there are strong regulations against it. https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
I own a SAAS product that does well into the six figures ARR and we have spent exactly $100 on Google ads (which proved they are worthless.)

Our sales are from word of mouth and direct marketing.
So, I've spent over a decade consulting to public sector health agencies in charge of delivering everything from electronic health records to cancer research to chronic disease management, long terms care, mental health, and privacy, among many other areas.

Before you call someone ignorant and say that the bureaucracy disagrees and so what possible standing could I have, consider a little bit of charitable reasoning would add some much needed credibility to the objection.
That's moving the goalposts.

It may be that customers don't care when made aware - Cloudflare seems to think at least a few will, but I tend to agree many won't. "Customers have accepted the risk" was simply a laughable assertion.
But Jeff you have to understand why people act that way.
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> The only way this ends is either a depression the scales of which we've never seen in history before (which would liquidate and clear out bad businesses), or a hyperinflationary collapse of the U.S. dollar whereby more and more money is injected to prop everything up.

Uh, the latter is not a distinct option from the former.

Also, you've left out: “the government continues as it has for generations, occasionally bailing out out wide sectors of the economy in black swan events with wide impact but mostly letting businesses big and small that are not prudent fail while cushioning some of the impacts of that failure with bankruptcy (both regular rule-based bankruptcy and similar, ad hoc restructuring in special cases; the latter is often also referred to as a ‘bailout’, but is meaningfully distinct from other bailouts.)”
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It has been a very long time since I even looked at any of the other links or widgets other than the answers.

I know for a fact that I will get used to the minimalist SO and would never want to go back.

Thanks for this.
This seems to ignore the importance of testing symptomatic people to rule out COVID (the most common outcome) so care givers can stop wasting PPE (which is is short supply).
It's not gullible to read the actual articles and make your mind up about them rather than deciding to be ignorant about what entire swathes of what society are talking about.

You can baselessly claim Vox's reporting is wrong until you're blue in the face, but I'm still going to read it and make up my own mind.
I'm always a bit suspicious about x86 vs. non-x86 micro-benchmarks. I remember all the fun people had with ByteMark back in the day, and while I assume that Geekbench doesn't play those sorts of games with compiler optimizations, I would really like to see data from something a bit more representative of a real-world CPU-bound application (short-lived is fine, just not synthetic).
> Huge delivery times are because they're getting so many orders

From my limited probing, it doesn't look like that. Instead my guess is that operations are violently broken right now at Amazon. You can find lot of non-essentials shipping in 2-3 days while a lot more important items with waits exceeding 3 weeks. This would explain Bezos turning off self-drive button and taking the wheels.
Yeah, really looking forward to see this project keeps growing! I really hope we can use it in projects soon.

Implementing runtime for Elixir in JavaScript is quite challenging IMO. Kudos for Dockyard trying to tackle this.
That amazon does has been common knowledge since Amazon Basics first appeared. Obviously, Amazon is enjoying the enviable position enjoying being the mall, the payment processor, and everything else.
Right, and this is normal except that people take it too far, I love to find 10(!) depth nested views hiding table valued functions and scalar functions everywhere - you cant reason about the rat's nest created.

If you want to make simple views that expose useful nouns I am down with it, but I have seen it taken too far too many times.
Any seller will do this, it is natural. Watch how WholeFoods for years has replaced successful independent brands with "365" competitors. Any seller will act this way; only regulation will prevent it.
Remember when the WHO didn't recognize Taiwan as a sevreign nation? Obviously the WHO isn't solely objective.
> "It's one thing to see that unbleached toilet paper is selling well, and getting a supplier to sell you a store brand version. But it's completely different to see that a particular office stand is selling very well, determine that it has a 20% margin, and have someone build an identical product which you sell 5% margin."

Those two sound like the exact same thing to me. There is no real difference.

It even happens between electronics manufacturers; you'll see a company noticing a competitor's product is successful, dissecting it to figure out the manufacturing costs and estimated margin, and tailoring its product line to provide a competitive product.

(Aside from all that, I though HNers didn't believe in IP?)
Maybe that’s Apple’s reasoning for not doing it. On an Android phone, it could just be a fingerprint-reader-on-the-back device with no face unlock at all. (Heck, there’s gotta be a market for people who don’t care about front-facing cameras at all! They make laptops without cameras, don’t they?)
This is an extremely late response but I'll give you an example of something that made me angry.

The Amish are only sticklers to the 'no new technology' rule at home. At their places of business they are more than comfortable using electricity, power tools, telephones, and gasoline powered equipment.

So the Amish family you see out tending their garden may have a fully electrified cow barn up the road and a fully mechanized wood shop producing wooden furniture.

But in their home, they won't adopt even simple advancements such as the modern 'cool touch' wood stove. Old style wood stoves such as those widely used in Amish homes, are simply iron sheets containing a fire. As you might imagine that iron will be burning hot. Its comically easy to forget that the black iron is skin meltingly hot. Children are prone to touching the stove if unmonitored for even a moment. So a child might casually lean on the stove while going by and become horrifically burned.

A local hospital treats these burns and has established a relationship with the Amish where they don't report them to CPS for these horribly burned children and so the Amish feel comfortable in bringing them in for treatment. If the hospital started reporting them to CPS for these burns the Amish would stop bringing their children in for burn treatments.
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Sure, didn't want to plug it unnecessarily :) I haven't updated it since I got the job though, make what you will of that!

http://tech.theswamp.in/
Thought this sounded familiar then realized it's a book review for a book I read a few years back.

It was an interesting book. Recommend it to anyone who finds the article interesting.
Another way of putting it is that it took the Fed 10 years to even think about trying to extricate themselves, and they realized they couldn't. Now they have gotten their hands much deeper in.
"This type of voluntary contact tracing is labor-intensive and requires some training, but it does not require highly specialized skills. Technology can speed it up without risking a permanent erosion of privacy or the further intrusion of for-profit firms into our personal lives."

This requires a huge leap of faith, which frankly, under surveillance capitalism you would be a fool to accept at face value.

Austria developed such an app, but only 3% of people could be convinced to install it which makes it completely useless even if it would have worked (which I believe it would not for technical reasons).
I really don't think Target is that upfront. How am I supposed to know Mossimo and Goodfellow are Target brands. I do however understand that Kroger groceries are made by the kroger store.
Anti trust and anti monopoly oversight is urgently needed. Amazon is growing like a rapidy mutating weed on coronapocalypse fallout and the centralization is rapidly getting out of control imo.
https://slopeofhope.com/2020/04/locking-in-amazon-gains.html
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Customers use their connectivity, today, as is, with the knowledge they have (and BGP has not changed in decades). That is accepting the risk (although I could see how my tangent about user education diverged from the core of our argument, mea culpa).

If Cloudflare wants to go through the marketing exercise and isn't putting unnecessary workload on other providers, I take no issue.
We didn't have a better SLA than hosted GitHub when self-hosting GitLab, and then there's the extra cost of maintaining the instance, the CI runners, the DB, the networking, configuration and so on. Wasn't worth it for us after using self-hosted for 2+ years with a tech team ranging between 10-25. On top of that, most of the team thinks GitHub has a better UX and enjoy using it more.
You would come upon a ZIP file and alongside its primary payload there would be one or more ads for various BBSes.

Sometimes the ads were the payload: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art#Scene
How can a poll be a MVP? Sure we can say MVP can be anything, but 'No need for a "product"' when the word product is right there in the name seems wrong to me.

You don't need to do a MVP to do market/customer research, sure, but a mockup or a poll isn't a MVP, I'm sorry. Otherwise a blog post is a MVP, an image in IG is a MVP, etc.
Citations please?
Retail stores charge manufacturers for shelf space. It's often called a slotting fee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee
Sometimes I wonder if Shopify’s long-term plan is to do something like this.

It's probably the leading direct-to-consumer platform out there right now, it’s touted sometimes as the anti-Amazon. The leading D2C brands I’ve seen are on there (Allbirds, Atoms, Untuckit) as well as random drop shippers. Shopify is also expanding into a fulfillment network too: https://www.shopify.com/fulfillment
Maybe it is, but almost no one who asks "but who decides x" in these threads is actually interested in debating the matter. They typically already believe no one should be allowed to decide, and they have no intention of actually engaging you in conversation beyond lecturing, berating and snark.

Learning when to step away from such fruitless pseudo-debates before wasting hours on the online equivalent of beating one's head against a brick wall is a valuable survival skill here. Sometimes it's best to simply state your opinion and move on.
Hey folks, this is the first release after I wrote https://words.steveklabnik.com/how-often-does-rust-change. We haven't changed any real policy here, but the bit saying

> This release is fairly minor. There are no new major features. We have some new stabilized APIs, some compiler performance improvements, and a small macro-related feature. See the detailed release notes to learn about other changes not covered by this post.

is an attempt by me to maybe address this. We've historically said similar-ish things, but I'm trying to be a bit more blunt about the magnitude of changes. Any feedback on this would be useful!
It’s regulation like this that causes industry monopolies by raising the complexity of entering the space.

Outside of dealing with negative externalities, regulation is a poor-man’s trust busting anyway.
iMX6 is fine if you can live with the underpowered GPUs, although I couldn't name a cheap universal SBC based on them, I've mostly encountered them in SOMs in professional products. iMX8 is mixed from what I've heard, pretty bad hardware issues initially, and iMX8M specifically is good. Similarly don't know a good SBC yet.

Being cheap and widely available still does a lot for the Raspberry Pi for DIY purposes IMHO, but I would be wary to base a product on it.
Ever heard the phrase, "don't let perfect be the enemy of good?" I tend to think of Linux as "good" and GNU Hurd as "perfect".
Are any monkeys even susceptible to it?
The geometric mean across the tests is 25% faster. That shouldn’t happen. Was there something wrong with 18.04?
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It also requires deeper inhalation by the receiver.
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It also seems really dumb, to me, for incorporating "Love" into a business/engineering product/project stage-of-development naming convention.

Any good business person or engineer understands that objective, unbiased, un-emotionally attached decisions and validations are antithetical to subjective, biased emotions such as "love".
having faster processors, is what's wrong with our computing industry in general. processors on laptops | desktops have become 1000x faster, but has the software kept up.

no software has gotten slower by the ages. Apple, Qualcomm, Intel can make as much faster processors with x cores, but do we have software able to utilize those, eh! run a JS heavy site | app and you see most processors heat up these days whether mobile or desktop.

most programming languages can't easily delegate work to cores with smoothness like how Erlang n Elixir do it. in Python threads, were a nightmare but now with concurrent futures or dask at least we can utilize all cores.

tldr - we need to make faster software
Yeah, its one of the main reasons using GNOME is near impossible for me. I have a 32" 4K. 2x is too big, 1x is too small. Also, the nvidia drivers are weird for some cards in linux. I'm not running ubuntu, but I have the same exact problem as this guy.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1133071/why-is-my-tty-green
Good thing is that it doesn't use 5V input directly, and you can connect it to higher voltage power supply, and don't need to worry that much about cabling and power supply quality.
I remember reading some study about monkeys reliably developing antibodies to it.
Different problems. One is the regulation of which suppliers can distribute on a platform, deceptive advertising, right-to-repair, and similar consumer protection considerations.

The other problem the article and parent comments are describing relates to the distributor/retailer creating or sourcing generic alternatives to the items sold by their existing suppliers and informing their decisions to do so based on the sales data from their own partners/suppliers.

This latter case seems ok to me, even if it sucks for suppliers, in the sense that we generally get better outcomes for customers. As long as the general regulations for consumer protection are in-place such as preventing confusion between brands and generics.
> Hell no! The fact you even consider them in the same sentence is astounding. No point in continue reading .

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The fact that it has been going on for decades doesn't make the point less valid. This kind of monetary intervention is compounding in nature, and it can be clearly seen as how each financial crash over the past 2-3 decades has been worse than the one before.
I mean, the Surface Pro X chip is fine, but it would be hard to call it high end; it significantly lags the usual intel chips used in tablets and small laptops on performance, especially single core. The newest Apple ones are competitive with those or beat them.
Here's one preprint: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kP2w_uTMSep2UxTCOnUhh1TM...

("A Massively Parallel COVID-19 Diagnostic Assay for Simultaneous Testing of 19200 Patient Samples")

I think Figure 1b is the diagram you want.
We're all being forced into a medical experiment against our will. Might as well be a useful one.
Examples of businesses operating without Amazon? Most businesses are not on Amazon or use it to clear old inventory.

Without google search in anyway?
There are some ig direct marketing businesses or ebay businesses.
The way to interpret this is that there is wide latitude in the market tolerance of US dollars.

Think of it like share dilution. For example, without corresponding demand, Tesla can issue 20% more shares arbitrarily, and the price of a share will drop 20%, or Tesla can wait for excessive demand and issue 20% more shares and the price of a share will stay the same because the market clamored for them. Maybe the price of Tesla would have gone 20% higher if they didn't issue those additional shares? Or maybe interested buyers were waiting for a moment to purchase many at once without affecting the market.

Fiat currencies are in the same place. Forget about the cognitive dissonance where currencies are tied to your national identity and comparisons to private shares therefore cause trepidation. The functionality is similar, we just use different terms. Share dilution = inflation.

As long as the relative purchasing power of a dollar, compared only to other currencies, is managed, the Federal Reserve can purchase as much as it wants. When the Federal Reserve purchases things, each transaction creates new dollars. The recipient has dollars that didn't exist prior and are just as fungible, slightly diluting the value of all other dollars (causing inflation). The Federal Reserve is fully capable of selling assets on its balance sheet, for existing dollars. Just options and choices that other market participants don't typically have.

The wide latitude in the side of the Fed's balance sheet comes from the weakness of other currencies. Central Banks around the world are doing the same thing, weakening those currencies, simultaneously actual people are selling their currency for US dollars. This increases the strength of the US dollar, and means the Federal Reserve can dilute it to weaken it. The long-standing predilection of the Fed, the President and Congress has been to not have a strong dollar, so you can predict what the Fed will consider doing based on macroeconomic events.

As long as all currencies are being massively created, the Federal Reserve can do the same proportionally. The amounts don't matter in that regard. You just want to pay attention to the constraints on what it can buy, and if those constraints are being followed, and if there is enough things for it to buy to accomplish its goals (otherwise massive de-flation is likely, and harmful in our ability to predict our purchasing power or investment decisions)
I would bet that the majority of small businesses in Austin bank on the yearly spike in traffic, and that missing out on that is a very big deal.
People seem to think "capitalism" produces the best results simply because of privatization, but it is the competition that is created. It doesn't matter if the one producer is Soviet Russia or Amazon, it hurts everyone in the long run when their is one supplier.
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This reinforces the belief I have that antitrust regulation of online companies needs to force them to pick between being a platform or being a store (or publisher), but they're not allowed to be both.
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Wouldn't solve anything. They'd just split their company to be separate entities but still share all the information and operate as if nothing has changed.
Thank you for taking the time to not only read my thoughts but responding to them with your own.

> Hell no! The fact you even consider them in the same sentence is astounding

Which one do you disagree with:

1. WHO is a political organization with medical leaning

2. Fox News is an entertainment channel that covers newslike topics.
>Sorry, but it's at this point in the thread that I realize that talking to tech bros on hacker news about monetary policy is actually the seventh circle of hell. Glhf.

Appealing to the authority of mainstream economists in a perpetual state of groupthink is not an argument. It is this kind of hostile and borderline elitist attitude that scares away people from discussing monetary policy and makes it seem more complex than what it really is, and I don't think that is productive at all. Ironically it is the same kind of elitism that caused the collapse of the planned economies of the 20th century (which grade-school students learn about today), despite being comprised of supposed "experts" in economic affairs who should never be questioned.
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...i think there's a lot more important issues that cycleways, to be blunt. Cycleways aren't going to help the tons of people that are out of jobs or lose their jobs if we have any post-pandemic economic slowdowns, and a lot of regions that depend on tourism are going to suffer a massive hit.

This is tending to the needs of the rich.