skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That last bit seems to be the Crux of why this is so surprising -- being in the middle 50% on some dimension correlates positively with being in the middle 50% on the other dimensions, rather than each dimension being independent as in your calculation. It's difficult for me to reconcile that, for the 400 in the study within 5% of average height, each was a standard deviation away from the mean in some other measurement.
Shopify? What's a product that Shopify sells other than its ecommerce platform?
AmazonBasics is just one of Amazon's brands.
Take a look here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-owns-these-brands-lis...
already out https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
> As we have seen, constitutional requirements are not an impediment in a pandemic

Agreed. It’ll be interesting to see the 1A cases that come out of this though. There is only so much tolerance to freedom of religion, right to peaceful assembly, and right to petition the government that people will accept. Of course, if there was even a single issue with freedom of press there would be nonstop coverage from the very same.

I’m pro-self-quarantine but I can recognize the issue with ticketing people who went to a drive in church service, or walking alone, or playing outside with their kids. I haven’t see “THE” case that could go to Supreme Court, but I wonder if it’s out there.
We have enough tests to cover people who are candidates for ventilators or have similarly severe symptoms. That’s still a lagging indicator, but not nearly as delayed as deaths.
And medical bills!
I don’t think so. They also said:

> Even more astonishing, Daniels discovered that if you picked out just three of the ten dimensions of size ... less than 3.5 per cent of pilots would be average sized on all three dimensions.
"According to Mullins, the issue was not just the new taste, but that the company had done something “un-American” - taken away his “freedom of choice”."

Ah the good old "I want freedom of choice, but if you exercise yours then that's un-American". And we think that entitlement is a 21st century invention.
Nice. My youngest was born in Juanita at our apartment! I like the area well enough, obviously, to start a reddit about it.
One thing i dont understand is why is federal reserve so involved with stock markets, first propping them up and then panicking if it crashes.

The federal reserve should only be concerned about the economy right?
Investors rush into struggling oil ETF that isn’t even tracking the price of oil
I, for one, plead guilty of shunning here.

The homepage states that the desktop flavor is aimed at developers ('Clear Linux OS offers options that are tailored specifically for the developers’ production'), then searching for well known tiling WM (xmonad, i3) on the packages page yields not result. Not sure what other big things are left apart too. No thanks.
A really interesting side effect of this is you can do it in VR to make room scale maps which are really really big. If done properly, our brains don't notice it nearly as much as you'd expect. This video does a great job of making it excruciatingly obvious. I love it.
Verifying the (corporate) identity of the advertisers, doesn't affect their responsibility for content (or lack thereof), but it might mean you could sue the advertiser without first needing to get the information on the advertiser from Google.
How is Debian different from all of those in this regard?
>Both Microsoft and Intel are similar here. ( And many other non tech companies. )

Microsoft kind of moved from their traditional market. Now they make more money from services and cloud.
FWIW, I'm optimistic that the grocery stores will get better. We use the Fred Meyer app to schedule grocery pickup (Fred Meyer is a grocery chain owned by Kroger, like QFC). They have consistently improved the app and the pickup experience. I think the key to any real competition for Amazon is some high ranking exec being measured by the right KPI. From what I've seen, it seems like that process is well under way at Kroger. But they're coming from way behind, so I think it'll take a while.
Just anecdotally, I wouldn't be surprised if a Camry really were "more valuable" (as measured by some sort of ideal fixed value-marker not subject to inflation) than in 1990. I seem to recall when I was growing up that the average expected lifetime of a car if well-maintained was about 100k miles; now it seems to be about 200k.

Housing may be a more debatable case, though.
Well, I think you did a great job. (:
Ask HN: How do you decide and compare two competing technologies?
Do you download each and try it out? Do you go with what your friends have been talking about? Do you go with the one with the most github stars?
OP should start with Mengele for some truly chilling experiments at the bottom of the slippery slope.
Grocery stores dont prevent you from selling your product elsewhere for cheaper.
I've been working on a "real" game this past days, but In the mean while I've been releasing this mini games I've made to kind kick start my game dev career.

On this particular version of the game I've added several input methods as well visual and mental aides.

In order to go longer you can try memorize number, or letters, directions, colors or even sound. Cause I figured several people would approach this with e different technique to remember as much os the sequence as possible.

I had a second goal, that I kinda gave up, that was to collect anonymous data to compare people's performances.

I was curious to know if people perform better using the colors, or the letter, numbers... But that would require me to implement some back end and a server to gather the data.

Maybe next time.
Security implications are always good to point out, though this is not unique to webGPU at all. Some fingerprinting techniques don't even require enabling javascript.
Entity and Referential Integrity in Relational Databases
Eta Carinae underwent supernova imposter events, not supernova. Otherwise there wouldn't be an Eta Carinae.
I've been saying this since the beginning of this whole thing.

I don't understand why we haven't focused all of our testing on people that aren't sick so we can catch the asymptomatic cases that are out in the world spreading it to everyone.
Technically not a supreme court case, but kind of close enough.

Also I think there's 0 chance that wouldn't be overturned if tested today.
Vertical monopolies are anti-competitive. It works like this:

1. Amazon clones independent manufacturer's product.

2. Amazon strangles manufacturer because they can promote their own product more and have lower overhead because they control the entire chain.

3. Competitor dies.

4. Amazon has no competition on this product.

5. They raise prices and/or lower quality.

6. Consumers pay more for a shittier product.
You're looking for the GPL. Richard Stallman shared your end goal. The GPL has been in decline for a long time though; most people concluded it was a bad idea.
Exactly what a CIA shill would say. We'll find out in 50 years.
I do:

echo | tee -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo "AllowUsers *@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" | tee -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo "sshd: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" | tee -a /etc/hosts.allow
echo "All: All" | tee -a /etc/hosts.deny
Or, we've been using Linux for a long long time and have no time for compiling from scratch, and like it or not, Ubuntu is the best tested out there for the desktop/laptop. Fedora isn't bad either, mind you.

I'd never run Ubuntu on the server by choice, mind you, but servers are constrained by other considerations.
Meanwhile VC funded bozos asking, "Can i expense my lunch at home?"
The market has plenty of liquidity. Gold at decade highs. Not sure what you are pointing to exactly that would signal a bearish trend for Gold.
Don't worry - I'm actually a dog in front of a keyboard :o)
You can get part of that with excess death rates. From the weeks overall deaths subtract the average death rate for this week in past years. That should give both people who died at home and consequential deaths.
They are doing this with AWS as well.
It's not particularly interesting or productive to compare the best of one set to the worst of another.
Lack of competition drives prices up too.

Once there is only one paper towel manufacturer left, what is to prevent it from raising prices?
> Those people were NOT all within six feet of each other.

As that study discusses, they were in the path of an air conditioner. The "six feet" thing is a rough estimate, not the Eleventh Commandment.
Ask HN: “Year zero” for CS students? Use a terminal, etc
I vaguely recall something along the lines of an online "how to computer for CS" resource or class for incoming computer science students.

It covered things like using a terminal and a package manager. It might have been MIT. It might have been a free online course.

Does anybody remember something like that?
Reporting can typically be split into two transactions. One long-running readonly transaction with snapshot consistency obtaining the data for the report and a separate transaction which publishes the result.
Which isn't magnetic (unless you get extra kit)
Ubuntu drops Debian-installer support from 20.04 live server ISO
OOP maximums can be up to $8200 for an individual plan or $16400 for a family plan. But, that doesn't tell the whole story. Because health insurance is tied to employment in the US, getting seriously sick can not only easily trigger those maximum amounts, but also lose you your insurance.

Unfortunately, it is unusual among Americans to have an emergency fund this large.
"Apple is exploring tools that will ensure apps developed for older Intel-based Macs still work on the new machines."

Part of their release timing might be to ensure that emulating Intel on Arm has acceptable performance for most users.
Nice! So when can I install this and the ProtonVPN app on F-Droid? :-)
"Nate Sutton, associate general counsel at Amazon, told lawmakers the company doesn’t tap data from individual third-party merchants to determine what new products to create."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt...
Loon deploys internet connectivity balloons to Kenya
Supreme Court rules willful infringement isn't required to award profits
I just learned about it, too. Your complaint doesn't jive with the purpose of the device: A communication device.

It makes specific points to say that it is meant for those who don't want the phone to be a distraction. I don't recall the camera specs, but I can't imagine it's good by 2020 standards. Music, sure - it seems like the right size for a good MP3 player (remember that term, kids?)

I like the idea of a palm phone. Part of me thinks about getting a phone like it, and then a Oneplus 7T phablet, and swapping the SIM like you would swap a watch for different occasions.

Actually, depending on the response time and the reliability of getting SMS and calls post-swap, that sounds tempting...
But Amazon launching new products is strictly more competition, so...
Your fear assumes they're going to transition their whole lineup. I suspect ARM based Macs will be sluggish just like the new Windows ARM based machines. So they'll only switch over at the low-end with LTE built in. Who knows though, maybe everyone will buy them up and developers will port their software and Docker will figure out how to make it work.
Up front disclaimer: this is my own personal conspiracy theory with no objective proof. I have quite a few pieces of anecdotal evidence to support this, but anecdotal is anecdotal.

Looking through the comments, everyone is talking about Amazon.com purchases, but the much quieter, arguably more valuable move on Amazon's part would be to do this via AWS. If you're running your entire system on AWS, Amazon immediately knows what kind of scale you're currently running. Depending on the type of product, they can pretty easily ballpark what your profit margin is based on your pricing model and all the metrics they have on your application (which is basically everything).

The application of this data could be used for acquisition targets, deciding which products to build into AWS, ongoing competitive analysis when they do build those competing products...
How would Amazon not use sales data of comparable products to evaluate the launch of a new white label product?
It seems like Ubuntu 20.04's server images only support Ubuntu's 'subiquity server installer', and drops the debian-installer ('d-i') option. See related documentation (though it is still not marked as stable): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/AutomatedServerInsta...

Posting this here for awareness for those who, like me, may be wanting to update Packer build configs for 20.04 and are finding it a completely different experience from 12/14/16/18.04 LTS releases...
Paragraph two of the article

> The online retailing giant has long asserted, including to Congress, that when it makes and sells its own products, it doesn’t use information it collects from the site’s individual third-party sellers—data those sellers view as proprietary.
it is interesting but it's also kind of common sense: of course people who contact a lot, whether they initiate the contact or not, are at risk. the thread gives some interesting results about models but epidemiologists, from what i hear, don't talk about superspreaders as in people but superspreader events which result in a lot of infected in a short time span. i don't think simple models like SIR capture these things at all.
> Why are you against the idea of people being able to live without having to constantly struggle for basic needs and comforts?

I'm not against that; the universe is.

What I am opposed to is the idea that it's acceptable for some people to take what they want from other people in order to avoid "having to constantly struggle for basic needs and comforts". Find a way to avoid the struggle without taking anything away from others and I'll be 100% on board.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609943
SSHatellite: A public-access shell server in space
The NYT has been analyzing that.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Oracle Cloud only if you can use a their free VPS tier. If you can't, then Heroku or a cloud free tier.
There are insurance companies who already sell trackers that plug into your car's OBD-2 port and have onboard hardware so that the insurance company sees your acceleration, handling, sudden braking, times you drive, miles you drive, etc.

Right now, very safe and low risk drivers can use these companies to get discounted insurance.

Eventually, every safe driver willing to install these trackers will do so for the lower insurance rates, leaving a much higher risk pool with the non-tracking insurance plans, and it will become very expensive to not be tracked by your car insurance company.
Isn't that better than quarantining everyone?
> prevents the opposition from being able to take part in the government

This is definitely not specific to Poland, and unfortunately very typical across entire political spectrum and countries. I cannot quickly recall any European country where opposition is given meaningful part in government.

> totalitarian government doesn't require surveillance

I might disagree with you on this. That is what actually is very much required.

As said, if you take away dislike for left or right and look from politically neutral point of view, you can see that power corrupts politicians regardless of their affiliations.
Also cool!

Why "| tee -a" instead of ">>"?
Super interesting but I want to know where they sit in the supply chain. When they're done, where does the material go? Where did the finish product end up? And not in general, but specifically.
Well, the function of anti-trust law is specifically to target massive unchecked power.

If you're the supplier with a Shopify and Amazon Merchant account, or a local grocery store with white label products, none of this applies to you because you don't have the capability to effectively hold other businesses or markets hostage, no matter how aggressive you are.
I don't know much about the Snap system - regarding 3rd parties and the "tick", is this using domain verification, or some other means? Do 3rd parties have to pay for this?

I read something the other day about needing to pay Canonical $15k/y for a branded Snap store, but I'm not sure if that was about private stores, this, or something else.
It was designed and implemented by some huge Racket fans, incidentally...
Except Amazon testified that it didn't do that, to Congress.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt...
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I'm curious why there's no similar variable pointing to a built library (e.g. a cdylib).
I would say rust. It makes writing custom low level code (say a disassembler) so much easier.
I agree the 8 and now the SE 2020 is a great size. I traded up to the 11 and found the size difference to be negligible. You can see for yourself in the dimensions section: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone2=9847#diff-*,*...
Back in India, we had a (somewhat cheap) shell internet plan offered for students. You dial into a phone number that dropped you in a ISP shell from where you could use lynx or email. The problem was that our state-owned phone provider had a "courtesy" beep every 3 minutes to let us know we're being charged another unit, which would cause the modem to hang up.

I remember setting up Telix to record the session, log into my Hotmail, open each email and scroll all the way down all in 3 minutes, and then read the emails from the session log.
Never used electron but I did see threads on how it’s very bloated. Are there other issues?
First version of Apple & Google's contact tracing API available next week
Yes, all combos of &T and T on both sides of the operator do. Sorry for not being more explicit about that in the post!
Oh, I hadn't realised he was dead :(
you've at least heard it being more like Pepsi right?
I wonder if recency bias combined with the unusually large volume of major changes in 2018 was responsible for Preston Carpenter's "I can't keep up with Rust" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22818150)
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The wealth owners care about the stock market more than the “economy”
I ama surgeon in MA. I get less than $800 for a hernia repair. That includes all the face time with the patient, explaining everything, doing the procedure and taking care of him after. The hospital gets $8000 and lets me use a 'special' room for an hour and another 'special' place for a few hours for the patient to 'sleep off' the anaesthesia. The doctor who provides anaesthesia gets <200$ for every 15 minutes. The gases and his machines cost a multiple of that. Hospitals inflate their costs by running red budgets (basically up spending for everything so they can justify higher budgets). A urologist in my facility who does robot surgery gets $1500 to remove a prostate for cancer. The hospital bills $80,000 for the procedure. And cancer surgery is being permitted even though a few weeks' delay will make little difference in the outcome for most cases. The hospital, who rents me my office by the way, is not giving me any breaks on the rent even though my business is down 50% . Even comcast gave me a $100 rebate because my volume is down. Can you imagine hospitals as corporations worse than Comcast?

The concept of 'efficiency of scale' does not translate to service industries. The only efficiency that happens is efficiency of funneling more money to higher salaries of higher executives. Hospitals are driven by profit and their incentives do not align with the precepts that led to their formation.
So this seems to be getting drowned out a bit; but the core issue here is not that Amazon is creating their own labels to compete with seller's products. It's that they've publicly stated, including to congress, that they don't use non-public, seller specific data to compete with them; and now former employees are claiming that's a lie.

Amazon agrees that, as claimed, this is a problem.

'Amazon said employees using such data to inform private-label decisions in the way the Journal described would violate its policies, and that the company has launched an internal investigation.'
On the contrary, house brand products are great for consumers. Rather than having to figure out if they can trust a brand for a product category that they really don't care about, they can just buy the house brand knowing that a certain minimum level of quality exists. This is why Amazon Basics products are so popular on Amazon: consumers know that, at the very least, Amazon can be sued, a form of recourse that is not available with most of the smaller brands and sellers on their platform.
> It was a response to "Didn't they earn it?" so the burden of proof is on them.

You want to take what they have away from them, so the burden of proof is on you to justify that. No one is obligated to justify keeping what they already have.

> So why can't it be given to anybody else whether they need it or not?

The owner can give it to anybody else whether they need it or not. You are not the owner.
> 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

I take you up on that offer.

Let us, for a moment, discuss this.

To disconnect us both from the exact matter at hand, because we are likely at this point pretty attached strongly to our biases to it, let us step aside, choose a completely different topic and hypothesize that our debate is on "should the government be allowed to track crimminals moving about in society".

I propose, that yes, murderers should be tracked at all times, as they move about in society, with tracking devices embedded onto their ankles.

You propose, no, no one, including murderers should be tracked at any time.

I then propose that murderers should be given a choice between been tracked, or have their pictures and descriptions published on a public website where anyone interested in staying away from murderers can check in.

What's your next move?
OK, done.
Now you have Amazon Basics' products competing with Amazon Fulfillment's products on Amazon Dotcom's website. Different entities, not even under the same corporate governance.
Insurance companies are already offering discounts for using their apps while in car.

I was debating on whether I should include mention of these apps. Here's the thing about that: The data available to these apps is nothing compared to the data available to Tesla. Tesla can figure out how often you get close to bumping into something, exactly how far, how fast you were going, and what the lighting/weather conditions were like at the time. That data is orders of magnitude better than the stuff coming out of the app.

It's very analogous to iOS app makers competing with in-house Apple iOS apps. It's hard to compete, when your competitor controls the APIs.