skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing there is information disparity here. Amazon knows the demand-supply curve really well by the time they get into the market - in fact, not just for Brand A of usb-cable, but for Brands A-to-Z. None of those brands know how their competitors are doing and if there's a better kind out there than what they make. Amazon knows it.

Risk to Amazon is no longer 'is this product category good, or whether cloth or plastic sheath sells best on USB cables'. Smaller brands already survived and proved it for them.

If Amazon came out with absolutely new products (that are not Alex, Kindle etc, upselling, cross-selling themselves) to test the market out, I'd say risk would be same.
Thanks but I don't understand why you commented back as if you're disagreeing with me? I agree with all of this.
This was my undergraduate degree, many years ago:

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/undergraduate/logic-...
It's also a way to get promoted.

I've seen several director types get promotions promising to get faster and more reliable work out of existing engineers by implementing this new religion... Agile.

The results were always predictable. Layering more meetings and stress on people who already have too much work to do, doesn't help things. But, you're still vice president.
Some things are outside your control, luck by definition is outside your control.

- Your business sector will come back post COVID.

- You can’t control other people

- Control who is dependent on you, and fix your health best you can.

- You can mitigate macro level risks. These techniques come at a cost.

- You can get magic paper at the wrong age, but it costs. Or find other ways in.

Frankly this discussion about luck is incredibly weak. You didn’t get everything you wanted, some things you can control and others you can’t. Appealing to luck might encourage some people to plaster over your mistakes and inability to eat loss with money and submission.

There is no advice to give because you have framed the conversation around what your heart wants and thrown any rational decision making possible into submission to luck.

You aren’t a victim of luck, it is by definition something nobody ever escapes and is a subset of randomness. An easy out for the unhappy. You are still ultimately responsible for your life, even the bits you can’t control. You make your own luck.
>... one of the main problems is that most of the production lines are geared up to producing large e.g. 25kg sacks, given 96% of sales are to bulk buyers for trades like bakeries, with only 4% of flour sold direct to consumers in retail outlets in small 1kg or 1.5kg bags.

For anyone who's interested, The Indicator podcast by Planet Money briefly touches on this point in their most recent episode on potatoes in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843437140/the-great-potato-gi...
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...
Yah, so they have come somewhat clean about SMR, but they have a lot of other bits they have been hiding. Some of it in plain sight.

"5400 RPM class" which means what exactly?

And of course the whole desktop vs nas differentiation was the early return on error logic being hard coded instead of configurable by the OS/RAID. Remove a feature charge more..
The only point of IntPtr is to save four bytes on 32-bit platforms. Why look for a better option when jlong is damn well good enough?
I genuinely would like to make sure I'm not missing something: what's the "key part of the article" that's missing from the Amazon press release?
And it will somehow be the users’ fault, not the deploy system’s fault.
Most major Governments have an ability to print money on will, and yet they were caught red handed in handling covid19. Not to mention that the entire mandate of government is to keep their country safe as first thing, and yet their incompetence was on fully display. I for one, am glad that private companies didn't copy the government.
It's super super nice to have a real system for dealing with "pet" applications that users want to be updated outside of the distribution release cycle.
I don't know about that, but there'd definitely be newspaper headlines about the number of workers testing positive implying that it's somehow Amazon's fault. We've already seen this with one of Amazon's NYC warehouses (over numbers that seem very much in line with NYC in general), various food manufacturers, etc. Apparently some meat-packing companies are now reluctant to test any of their workers because of the bad publicity and the damage it does - they'd rather just close down the entire site.
What key part of the article?
I can't believe this is rare. Well, I can, but it makes me sad. Even if you do apologise, isn't it obvious that you want to thank and/or compliment the person who made you wiser about your slips/mistakes? I think the entire team I work in does, and I've only ever encountered a few people that don't. I suspect I'm very fortunate/spoiled.

I mean, in the end, the person notifying you of your mistake didn't create that mistake. All they did was take the state of the world from "you don't know about your mistake" to "you are aware of your mistake". Other than edge cases of plausible deniability, this can only be a good thing, right?
> Amazon said earlier this month it had hired an additional 100,000 employees

Not the main point of the article, but can I just say that's huge. That's... the same size as Google's entire full-time workforce.

Granted they're low-skill warehouse positions, not highly paid engineering jobs, but still.

The ability of a company to hire one hundred thousand people in a month is absolutely insane.
Yeah, I know how that works. And no, none of that. In my case it was renting a GPU for training a model. No put traffic involved in either of the cases, the data was in a s3 prior to that. It was simply tweaking hyperparameters in the code, nothing more. On both occasions it took the exact same time, exact same to train, exact same resources. There were apparently no changes to the pricing but still. I'm referring to aws's quantum bills as a whole. Never had such issues with gcp... Yet...
Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
It doesn't seem very nuanced to me:

> However, there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.

There is plenty of evidence that masks help. It could be argued that some is contradictory but it's not "no evidence".

I guess you could argue they are correct in the asinine point that it doesn't "prevent them from infection" in every case. Ignoring that I'm not sure that makes sense grammatically, are they just trying to say that no masks provide complete protection? It's true that no single method or equipment provides complete protection. It's a layered network of protections that we need to use to lower the transmission rate. Masks are a very important layer in that system, along with hand washing, quarantines, goggles and contact tracing. Hand washing doesn't help you either if an infected person coughs into your open mouth.
A doctor friend in the UK had her flatmates ask her to move out because of the risk she brought to the house. It was devastating to her.
Now that I think about it, lately it's been fine. Fans don't come on when powering an external 4k monitor under normal use anymore.

However, I'm not sure whether that's due to a recent software update or the fact I recently switched the cable I use from HDMI to DisplayPort.
Dear tech companies: Please stop putting words in my mouth
"Lacks real-world relevance"

I strongly disagree. (even though he relativates it a bit) And rather think the opposite.
All games ultimately have real world relevance, by training a certain or many skills, useful for the real world. (some games of course more, than others)

Or they even have direct realworld relevance, as the winner in a competition, for example the olympic games, gets real fame and reward. (also in e-sports)

But for example the olympic games were created, to get the young greek people to train certain skills, so they would be better warriors in a real fight.

Now, most computer or card games, do not have that intention, they are intended to be fun.

And why are they fun?

Because they provide a challenge and everyone enjoys mastering a challenge. Because that is pro evolution.
And we as a species, we were very successfull, because we could adopt to very different challenges. And traditionally trained for that as childs with various games, like "catch". A game that trained many important skills for hunting or fleeing from a predator. (reflexes, speed, evade, sneak, timing...) Not so important anymore, in civilized, policed rich societys, still important in poorer areas.

So the traditional idea of a game is, training a real world scenario in controlled and save setting. But theory is dull, so kids do it, because "it is fun". (and it is fun, because of various success during the game, that makes the brain releas happy hormones, along with other hormones from the movement itself)

Now sadly, that idea got messed up along the way and games today are often played for compensation for lack of joy at boring jobs, which do not give the rewarding feeling, or as time killing for those who lack a meaningful occupation. So quite some games train a not so relevant skillset. They trick the brain in thinking what it is doing is pro evolution (you get more powerful, you evolve, you make friends, join a strong tribe, you slain powerful enemies, ...), while in reality, it is not. At least not doing it as a main purpose, which many addicted gamers do.
(Apart from that, also hardcore gaming can of course lead to real world benefits, making real friends, learning organizing skills, time management, communicate effectivly, using the right tools, etc. but I am talking about addiction here. When the game becomes the purpose and the gamer exists for the game and not the other way around.)

So ... games are awesome. They can teach you various things. They can take you to other worlds, inspire your creativity, let you find people you lack in "real live", blow of steam, finding reward - but they are bad, if they become your main purpose of existence.

Anyway, I believe, much more of learning in schools etc. should be in the form of games. When you play being a roman soldier, (wheter it be in a computer game, or theater, or reenactment) you will much more understand about that time, than reading facts in a textbook. If you can play with a lego mindstorm robot in class, you will understand much more about robotic, than reading about it. And so on ..
Had some luck with Windows version of Obsidian. Using Ubuntu 20.04, should work on other distributions too.

1. Install wine and timidity. I presume xephyr server is installed.

2. Insert CD and run setup.exe with wine. Install game to default location, install QuickTime when it asks.

3. In one terminal window run timidity midi server (if you want background music): `$ timidity -iA -B128,8 -Os`

4. In another terminal window start the game like this: `$ Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 640x480x16 & DISPLAY=:1 wine "C:\\Program Files\\Segasoft\\Obsidian\\Obsidian.exe"`

In case you don't have physical optical drive you can use CDEmu to mount disk images, but it has to be installed from additional repository and has a bit of complicated setup.
I hear from plumbers and electicians all the time that the last guy to work on something was an idiot. Medical errors are routine and managed through a combination of procedure and insurance, not by admonishing doctors.

“Thanks for reporting this, I’ll take care of it” is accepting responsibility while avoiding a morality judgement.
Isn't it pretty easy to just ignore them and not offer the service there?
K but that isn’t the issue. The issue is Google choosing what information people get to know. They are the ones in the position of power to control that.
Rule 6 taken together with the maxim "Nobody's perfect" means a world where nobody can criticize anything, ever. Doesn't sound ideal to me.

Rule 10 is self-contradictory, since it doesn't specify what "precise in your speech" means.

Rule 11 is oddly-specific (why just skateboarding and not any other risky activity?), and reads like it's thrown in there to look "cool" ("how do you do fellow kids?" meme).

Rule 12 is vapid fluff. It's also potentially dangerous, since a unknown stray cat may carry rabies, or be fearful of humans and claw you up bad.
Hla_mod_XenThug: A Half Life: Alyx Mod, classic wave defense mode
MorphOS 3.13 Boot Media
Fair, I had assumed it went unnoticed due to poor timing then getting buried.
> Nedelcu and her colleagues found that if you alleviate their physiological stress — by providing them with a boost of antioxidants — they don’t have sex.

Well that explains a lot.

In all seriousness, I find that the idea in the article raises another question. If mating can increase individual fitness by sharing something, how is that explanation of sex different than being a member of a social group? Social species take the idea even further. Is sex simply the building block for social behaviors, and more sophisticated adaptations beyond sex are now available?
It's a shame that chromium's apt package uses snap now. Startup time increased from ~0.2 to 5-10 seconds. Using Brave fixes this.
Does cost explorer show no difference in your top costs?
I installed keepassxc using a snap, but because it was in a snap browser integration didn't work with my browser because of the snap isolation, rendering it useless. Also it's kind of weird that hey Damon has to run just so that I can install snaps and one Daemon per snap, too. I'm pretty sure I don't like that.
It seems like on recent Ubuntu installations some packages are provided by snaps (ie. "apt install XXX" will install a snap). I'd be interested in disabling this behaviour, if anyone knows.
Are we still talking about doctors and medical staff here? Sounds like you just want to drag a whole host of other issues into this conversation, but I urge you to try and stay focused on the discussion we're having, and not the one you seem to want to have...
Snaps (and Flatpak) are the app store pipe dream all over again, about 11.. 12? years too late. If anything treat them as early indicators of the future financials of these distros, if attempting this all over again is central to their future business model. Snap to me is synonymous with desperate.

While I don't like the tech, the real reason Snap pushes me away from Ubuntu is the fear of this future where the app store dream turned out to be a failure again. What happens to the distro then?
This is so true! I wish more people would recognize it
Ugh, is it still impossible to disable Snap autoupdates?

Even if people should be updating regularly, forcing them feels completely antithetical to the Linux ethos of users having control over their devices.
The number one reason why I don't like snap is: it puts Canonical in control.

Only Canonical can run a store. Once you install something, Canonical decides, when packages on your computers will upgrade. Wrt control, it goes way beyond Apple store/Google Play/Microsoft Store.

No thanks. Flatpak can preserve the benefits of decentralized repositories and upgrade under user control, with all the ease of packaging and sandboxing of the new toys.
It’s braindead. It mangles headlines in significantly worse ways all the time.

The app sounds intriguing. I briefly tried to get a hold of it but I couldn’t.
this is impressive
That would be the first thing I'd try honestly. You can Google lots of info/videos on how to do it. It's a pretty straightforward job if you're careful.
He was always like that. His work with the UN and legal work had rough edges. The fame has made him bigger not different.

His lectures go more in depth and are not trying to hit a peak of condensed information. As much as Peterson likes nietschze, he can’t write like nietschze, with highly condensed sentences. Peterson has always been better in the long form.
I remember karateka- it was the first action game I saw on an Apple. It was one of several games (Ultima being the other) that really made me want to learn assembly language and program hi-res mode Apple graphics. I got stumped by the weird system and never really learned how (Romero was obviously a lot closer to understanding). I didn't even know that Mechner made Prince of Persia, until I read about it a few years ago (I ignored the PoP game series).

I have an Apple IIe next to my work laptop right now running Ultima IV. I recently replayed Karateka all the way through (it's not that hard).
I downvoted because I'm not currently aware of a current usable metric for immunity and because you didn't link to one. It's obvious to me too that the pandemic isn't over but deaths is (to my knowledge) the best proxy for all the other metrics that we currently have, due to lack of consistent testing.
If gnome-3-34-1804 and
gtk-common-themes are a snap, what happens when we remove them? I expect to be able to install them using apt but I went to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/ and I couldn't find them. So "a snap-free Ubuntu" seems to be a really a different kind of Ubuntu. (Unless there are also other versions of Gnome in 20.04.)
I saw this happen before Agile was even a thing. The possibility of a bug in the spec was never a consideration. You had to hope your assumptions going in were correct, or your users were screwed.
Yes- this + mitosis of the new genetic code at sufficient scale would approximate a new form of reproduction.. there could be some organism that relies on it
Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market
Ask HN: Carbon Credit type system browser extension for online shopping?
I would love to get charged an extra "Amazon Tax" anytime I am lazy and order from Amazon without researching alternatives and then use that tax to donate to something like organizing workers, almost like a polluter would buy carbon credits to offset.

Any idea if a browser extension like this already exists? A quick Google search doesn't appear to show one.
I'm right there with you... I don't like Trump, even if I agree on a lot of policy actions/choices, but the guy can't have a good day with a lot of people. So many are outright lying to push an agenda over truth, and you can't really rely on anyone to be informed anymore.

Right now, I'm much more concerned that we're on the brink of war with China and Iran... partly because China sees us as weakened over COVID, I'm not sure on Iran's motivations right now either... With how much of our tech comes from taiwan, it's really concerning... this could literally set the world back a decade for a decade.
Even companies with “pandemic” plans have a kind of outline of cascading triggers but a lot of the resulting triggers are undefined and those are things which basically say ($leadership) convenes talks things over and develop emergent plans and offer to their lower managers who take that and develop their own plans accordingly. And then that has to be revised with feedback from staff , etc...
Is that your model? Because Peterson is cited and sourced.
People get compensated for the degree of influence they exert over their employer / the potential value they bring to the table.

That is the same for soccer player, only: they are more talented and sought after than you or me.

“What would engineers get done without assembly line workers” - well, for starters, let me give you a bit of an update how the world is now working for the young generation in Germany:
- Your Dad or uncle works at Adi or BW and is a union member: great! There is a field in the application that specifically asks whether you have family members and to list them. Assembly line unions for traditional reasons exert an insane amount of power over the companies in Germany - that means: they just dictate that the salary of an assembly line worker is just insane; that no workforce reductions (automation anyone?) are made; guess who gets the apprenticeship position at 16/17 because of his outstanding grades, abilities and well, his Dad is a local union representative... 2000 applications, 50 spots, be SURE that every single one has a family member backing them. Has nothing to do with performance...

Now, there isn’t exactly a similar union concept for engineers and those uni graduates probably take a greater deal of pride in finding a job than having their Dad harass HR.

So the funny fact is: you are right that the reason to be compensated based on your performance is laudable but unrealistic - but the ONLY times I found this to be completely off limits was with those “family relationship union assembly line workers”.
> asserting copyright of ripped images

I don't think there would be a legal basis here. If I sell a pen, I can't claim ownership of the things people write with it, no matter what EULA I make people sign. The same holds for a Xerox machine. And similarly it holds for a tool to copy bits or flux transitions.
> Department of Health and Human Services via the local county and/or the state should be able to provide a social worker (if they haven't already) to get him into the system.

This is good advice, but (speaking to OP here) having gone through this with a family member, I'd council your friend to understand that nobody has the interests of their family member in mind like they do.

To get a good outcome she'll need to be pushing the ball forward at every step. Don't wait for the social worker to do anything and don't accept their initial results or recommendations as final. There is a wide range in quality of institutions, even for patients requesting a Medicaid bed (perhaps especially for such people). My family member's first stop was a nightmare. She's in a much better facility now (a change that simply would not have happened without my outside influence).

Call places yourself, speak to local doctors, if you can. Call home health services that accept Medicaid and ask if they can give you advice. Cold call nursing homes and ask if they have Medicaid beds. These are all things I did and they all mattered in the end. Push, push, push.
I can never figure out Canonical's logic with going off to do their own thing. They don't do it with everything, so clearly it's not a complete rejection of things not made in-house.

It seems like they also often end up going back to the community solutions/standards eventually, so what benefit do they see in doing this over and over again?
I appreciate your analysis, but "the reason this post appears to be on the front page" is not necessarily to "cover for the president's strange assertions about sterilizing blood". It has sparked some nuanced discussion about the article – for example about the oxidative stress being the main driver – that slowly floats to the top and can clarify other discussions elsewhere.

In that way it's good that submissions only contain the article URLs, as the merit of the article is discussed, not the submission.
>- No store needed

Software was distributed long before those walled gardens popped up. Native applications need no store.

>- Crossplatform (in use and development)

Cross-platform frameworks exist for native applications.

>- No store/developer fees to pay

Same goes for native applications

>- CSS and HTML are capable of things native can only dream of like real reusable responsive UIs across many types of devices.

>https://medium.com/missive-app/our-dirty-little-secret-cross....

This is just an incredibly odd statement. First of all, if such layouts are rendering on your machine then of course native applications are also capable of such a feat. Web browsers capabilities are limited to the resources being made available on the host machine. The same goes for any software running on the machine.

And second: Qt.

>- Until SwiftUI web front end was way more advanced in terms of reactive programming of UIs

I don't understand what you mean here.