skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like you just entirely explained the situation. There is still a "high-end overpriced" segment for all kinds of industries. Sometimes luxury goods, but sometimes just mid-tier goods sold by companies that still follow the high-margin traditional retail model. With an MSRP price that leaves enough room for inefficient, high-touch stores to take a hefty margin as a middleman.

But even someone who actively dislikes Amazon such as yourself would still rather get the lowest price and access to the largest selection, even if it means begrudgingly putting up with a worse experience.
The marketing spend would cost way more than to catch up in mindshare though.

The brand name "Zoom" is easily worth $100M on it's own now.
It would cost a lot more than just mapping the lines & state of the infrastructure like lanes & traffic lights in a database, which is what Waymo already does. Adding additional paint on the road(s) doesn't help the car know what to do when there are weird edge cases. Following lines on the road was already solved 10yrs ago and isn't really the problem.
Maybe this will help show parents just how valuable school and teachers are. Maybe they'll actually vote or even show some initiative when it comes to school budget and teacher salaries.
And 1950 and 1980.

They could be great again if they leveraged their old "good, better, best" strategy. Instead of trying to sell all the things like Amazon and Walmart do, they should be offering a broad, curated set of items that are reliable and binned by those three quality descriptors.

This specifically addresses the issues many people have with buying from Amazon.
If a person can't restrain themself from driving over 100mph, they don't have the temperament to drive on public roads. They're just a sociopathic child with twisted priorities and no self control. What I find especially strange is how these people think they are somehow special and exempt from the law. They are not special, no matter how fast their vroom vroom machine can go.
My read is that they're fundamentally like "open backed" headphones. It's not controllable, it's just that they don't actively block the air, so they let outside sounds in.
When we were talking about being shut down for 2 weeks, this position made some sense. There are lots of reasons a company might face a 2 week disruption of operations, and it's fair to say an inability to tolerate it represents some real and avoidable fragility.

We're now a month and a half in, and some states have committed to broad mandatory shutdowns for another month. "Our business becomes illegal through the end of Q2" is not the kind of rainy day businesses can be reasonably expected to plan for.
Not sure why I got downvoted on that? Everyone must be really happy with Zoom. lol
"life is full of (similarly likely) risks, and we don't generally panic over them. if this were plague-levels of bad, more draconian measures might be warranted, but this isn't that."

So if the IFR holds up at around 1%, and herd immunity ends up being the only solution since vaccines are tough, the pandemic in the US would be quite bad, no?

Help me see where the following is flawed:

Population of the US:
328M

Herd Immunity infection total (generously assuming 60%):
196M

Hospitalization totals (generously assuming 10%):
19M

Fatalities based on IFR of 1%:
1.97M

So with 1.97M dead Americans, and 17M seriously injured (but surviving) fellow citizens, what exactly would you envision plague-levels of bad? What would be the economic damage from this level of bad?

Even if the IFR is off, closer to the flu at 0.1%, the infectiousness of this virus means we'd still need 60% or higher infections for herd immunity. With this IFR, we'd still have 17M hospitalized with serious effects, and still have 197K dead. That's at flu level IFR.

The economic value of losing 2M people, as well as 17M with shortened life spans would be far worse than what any lockdown we've implemented would do. It will take all we can to maintain social cohesion for the next 12 months.
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Currently Webrtc have to go thru TURN servers to achieve P2P calling on few networks,

Can a similar thing be used to send them over http/https and have a js code on receiving side, convert it into UDP Webrtc data, bypassing the need for a costly TURN server
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A widely-held view is that self-driving cars must be able to function in an environment that doesn't cater to them. The reasoning is that world isn't willing to bear the cost of rebuilding roads around SDCs, so SDCs must adapt to roads as-is.

I think there's a lot of wisdom in this, but I think the endgame might be to deviate from it a little bit. Maybe SDCs don't need to make 100% of the changes. Maybe if they can handle 99% of situations, they will have proven their usefulness, and the world will be willing to close the gap by making some changes to the road network to make the remaining 1% of situations easier on SDCs.

So suppose SDCs are in regular use and make up 20% of cars on the road, but they can't handle the construction flagger. Maybe by that point the highway department would be willing to change rules about how construction crews must manage cars going through a construction site.

And/or, maybe SDCs also try to avoid routes that go through construction sites. If it occasionally takes you 20 minutes longer to get to your destination because the SDC has to go the long way around, that might not be bad enough to make you give up your SDC.
But UBI doesnt only pay those making less than the median
Millions of Americans can't afford food, rent and other basics, report finds
The tax burden has been moved from corporations and the upper class to the middle. Perhaps changing that dynamic would be more useful than spouting memes which support your own detriment.
For it to be local (causality does not propagate faster than light), it must be superdeterministic (all the many worlds that ever will be, already are). For it not to be superdeterministic (many worlds decohere at the moment of experimentation), it is also not local (the decoherence happens faster than the speed of light, across the universe).
For starters, because Zoom's decision to go with either of those companies as a cloud supplier isn't going to have any impact on their competition as a conferencing service provider. It's not like Microsoft is going to go broke tomorrow and cancel teams if Zoom goes to Oracle.

More fundamentally because business is cooperative and not like a war, but like a game with many repetitions. So working with your competitors can be mutually beneficial. Business is not a zero-sum game, it's not like two villages in the walking dead going at each other.
Yes but an imitation is not necessary and usually a parody. There is a good Tom Scott's video about this distinction and other common misconceptions about copyright:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU (42 interesting minutes)
That sounds awesome but none of those happen for me.
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I learned math in the "traditional" method through several levels of calculus in college (decades ago) and found a young relative's common core math curriculum to be extremely cumbersome and far more confusing for the student. In my opinion its far better to teach a student to understand a mathematical principle than to force them to absorb your prescribed method of understanding. You could know a mathematical principle backwards and forwards and be an expert in the field and still end up baffled at the nonsensical "core curriculum" methods and jargon.
> It did not take long, however, for players to spot that they could defraud the game’s bank by depositing large sums in saving accounts and then “time travelling” into the future by tweaking the console’s internal clock. The bank duly pays decades of compounded interest, making rapid bell millionaires.

This reminds me of how you are able to pay your hefty bill at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Good on the FT writers. They didn't lose the whimsy.

Edit to add: archive version (a few hours ago at time of posting) - https://archive.is/jR7mK
When I introspected, I realized indeed, all my dislike of Google was, at the root, just saltiness at being rejected :D.
lol - there’s some truth to that, depending on the definition of dream guitar. In my case my dream guitar was somewhat more expensive than all of my other one’s and it became and still is my number one every day guitar. It just feels so right and sounds so good, it makes me feel like a better player. :-)
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This is a racist dog whistle.
From my recollection, Netflix started using AWS before Amazon launched Prime Video as well?
Netflix fits FAANG better when talking about compensation, where they are disproportionally competitive.
Some useful context: Zoom also runs 17 of their own data centers in addition to using AWS and Azure[0]. This deal is to run their "expansion" on OCI. Hard to say what that means exactly, but it doesn't sound to me like Zoom is making a big bet on OCI.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/zoom-cfo-explains-how-the-co...
>JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is fundamentally reshaping the web.

How? "fundamentally reshaping the web" is a bold claim; how are those things reshaping the Web -- what's changing shape?
Doesn’t IPFS still rely on Kademlia?

Since node IDs are random, node lookup may require multiple interplanetary hops, no?

For instance, from N1 on Earth to the nearest XORwise node in its routing table which might be N2 on Mars, whose routing table finds the target node N3 on Earth.
Mind if I ask: how long between paying for goods and being able to send them to people? Does shipping take long? I'm sort of fascinated by these supply chains because by making things (say) a week quicker you get a week's worth of capital back. But if things slow down by a week suddenly you have to out a lot of capital back in. Its like a very high leverage position in finance would be...
Ask HN: Anyone Using Deno in Production?
Deno (https://deno.land) 1.0 is slated for release in mid-May. Who's been using it in production already? What's your experience been like?
The source for the engines of the first three quake and doom games were open sourced. I purchased those games after that happened. Worth mentioning that the engines were open sourced, not the assets. The assets are obviously a big part of the experience. But if not for the open source versions of their engines (prboom, ioquake3, etc) I'd not be playing these games today.
Well, March 31st is the end of Q1, and that article was posted in the end of March (and COVID-19 stuff didn't really kick off until around then), so probably no need to speculate until we see Q2 results.
I saw AC/DC in concert too. These guys were naked, doing backflips, bouncing off the walls, and breaking shit. Unless you're a sick puppy, hard living doesn't translate to entertainment value. I don't condone or value anyone's recreational extremophilia and I think your one-sided white-knighting is off-base.
Wow, this is exactly what I was picturing! Thank you for sharing.
1) laws or "frameworks" don't help against entities that cannot be sued effectively, and can even change the laws, and it's exactly those entities, and not small or even large companies that I feel worried about. And of course, it's these governments, not companies, that keep getting caught abusing, for example, medical records:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/peopl...

"What’s more harmful to patients being treated for drug or alcohol abuse: Risking their health by keeping other medical providers in the dark about their substance abuse treatment? Or risking their jobs, homes and child-custody arrangements by allowing potentially damaging treatment details to be electronically shared with an array of medical providers?"

(Never mind that if this goes for drug/alcohol abuse, the same goes for single mother families: do you let your kids broken arm get treated and risk youth services taking away the child, or do you let it go untreated, risking ... ? And of course there's the never ending list of government departments demanding access to this data, from the IRS to some department registering pets.

(I even object to DOCTOR's use of medical records. I was diagnosed with kidney stones. Now I can tell you, that HURTS. ESPECIALLY if for 2 weeks doctors refuse to test, instead giving some pain medication and sending me home asap. Why? You feel the pain in your abdomen, and I look like I'm maybe 25 years old. I eventually found out that these doctors refused to check for problems ... because pain in the abdomen is most often caused by heroine addiction causing constipation. If my medical record had even a little support for that conclusion, I could have died, slowly, in incredible pain. So no, I don't even want doctors to have access to my medical records AND I DON'T WANT THEM TO KNOW THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS. Why? Because I don't want to die. No other reason)

2) The EU legal framework is even less effective than laws. GPDR enforcement on your behalf is impossible unless ... you convince a government employee to start the case on their behalf. These employees, of course, have since turned out to barely know what cookies are and have not really started cases, not even against companies. I can request for someone to sue their own employer on my behalf. This is a blatant conflict of interest, working against me and every individual or family.

Against government departments, of course, enforcement is nonexistent entirely.

So for me, as a PERSON, there is NO legal protection in the EU framework. None whatsoever.

So the only acceptable solution is to not let the government record or keep this information in the first place.
I don't understand how it's possible that the _public_ government can make precedent-setting judgements like this and classify the rationale from the public. Like, I'm not asking for Facebook's trade secrets or classified info. Redact that, and then share the entire case that we funded with our tax dollars.
Are the same people saying don't do GCP because Alphabet kills all products now commenting Meet is a valid excuse for Zoom to migrate to Oracle as a first choice?

Cognitive dissonance anybody?
No, there's no problem with sarcasm on the internet.

It's only a problem for the people who don't get it. And judging from the point total on my post, the vast majority of people got it.
Indirectly, sometimes. They come from npm, but the largest chunk of type packages for libraries that do not provide their own types on npm are serviced from DefinitelyTyped (via the `@types` organization and its long tail of shadow packages).
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> > it also doesn’t support gallery view so groups larger than 2
> https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/22/21231294/google-meet-gall....

This only applies to Google Meet, not Google Hangouts (the non-enterprise version)
There is lots of evidence that videogames are helpful for kids' development. Complaining about videogames sounds a bit like adults in the 19th century complaining about kids wasting time playing chess or reading novels.
Its all about the level of risk, which many of us are not so confidently dismissing. Everything follows from that. To assume its 'probably going to be ok' is potentially callously condemning a million people to die needlessly. All for lack of patience.
>To the engineering team, that's 1 error out of hundreds of thousands of requests per day. This is low severity.

I think ignoring these edge cases is a mistake. In statistics, we are often most interested in the tails of our curves. That is where the interesting stuff happens. P-values disprove null hypothesises, things fall outside confidence intervals, medium importance individuals suffer a failure and cause a PR disaster that diverts millions of dollars in revenue from your company.

I wonder if big (or even small) companies could benefit from this "attention to the tails" thinking. It would be the kind of long term thinking and planning that keeps them on top for a long time instead of crumpling at the first sign of disruption. Of course this subscribes too the idea that anyone in the money-side of the company even cares when mostly they are just fighting for power in a zero sum game.

I am worried this doesn't make sense, but I hope it provides insight :)
I don't remember the specific arguments that he laid out, but after watching this (42 minute, worthwhile) video by Tom Scott about copyright my understanding changed. Now I assume that most things don't fit some narrow requirements regarding what parodies are allowed and what aren't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU
So what do you do with those people who did do those despicable things as teens? I don't just mean this, but any reprehensible action. I think obviously we can maybe keep them from getting any kind of comfortable jobs, keep them doing drudge work. But even then, do you really want a neo-nazi cleaning your toilets? No, that's not good enough.

We need to round them up and contain them somewhere. Their remorse can't be enough. We can't have them contaminating our air. If we put them in a single location and kept them from getting in and out, concentrated, we could keep ourselves safe from these people.

/sarcasm
Just to make this kind of confusing story less confusing—the Pinboard guy prints valid invoices (in order to be legally compliant, and because he's "not a totally evil guy"). Someone (from Germany) asked him to add Company Name to the invoice, and he replied by saying "just edit the HTML to add whatever you need".

https://twitter.com/i/status/1192182812121583617 The actual tweets probably explain it better than I (and the parent comment) can.
We've also been overwhelmed juggling a full time job (while working at home), but I've learned to compensate by picking and choosing what they do. My childrens' school is throwing more work at them than they could possibly handle (elementary school kids cannot handle huge amounts of self study), so there's no way they can do it all.

So I just pick a variety of lessons, intersperse them with periods of free time throughout the day, and if everything doesn't work out, oh well. I'd rather have them do less than having them be stressed out and me feeling stressed out from having to do so much.

I've been emphasizing reading practice with some math exercises, where they can be self-directed and letting the other stuff (which means lots of time for me) only be occasional. I've found they've made some significant improvements in reading, so I'm content with that.
Do they have to be maintained in any way or can they just leave them there for weeks/months?
This is a strictly scientific definition. When something lies on the Pareto optimality accuracy/speed curve, then it is optimal in terms of accuracy and speed. "Pareto optimality" is a formally defined concept used to describe when an allocation is optimal.
Not every organisation uses Google products.
It's the same crowd decrying property taxes with "I don't have any kids, why should I pay for schools?"
Hold up... You can pull docker images from ipfs? How?

And do IPNS entries finally last more than 30 seconds? It would be nice to not have to constantly keep a node up just to have an IPNS entry.
NEWT if I recall
I agree that a lot of the challenges around production ML are organizational, but I think in many companies, it has more to do with a lack of engineering resources than it does the separation of eng and data science (though that certainly happens).

Building and maintaining ML infrastructure from scratch is a big project. That's why you see FAANG companies hiring for ML infrastructure/platform engineers. Most startups don't have the extra cycles for that big of an undertaking, and so you see a lot of slapped-together, hacky solutions to putting models into production.

I'm biased in that I work on Cortex ( https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex ), but I think that open source, modular tooling that removes the need to reinvent the wheel is going to have a big impact in terms of making production ML more accessible.
Zero user testing? No, I'm not suggesting that.

My reply is to the BH thread.
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Looks like the gas is coming out of AMD's EPYC.

"AMD's computing and graphics segment, responsible for both the EPYC server and console chips, generated $1.44 billion, a 21% year-over-year decline. AMD chalked this up to lower sales into the console market, while increased EPYC Rome sales reduced the impact.

In either case, the market's bullish prospects for AMD's EPYC Rome processors might be blunted by the lower revenue generation in this key segment. The unit posted a $26 million operating loss, compared to operating income of $45 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. AMD cited lower ASPs due to heightened cloud spending, and we know that Intel has been increasingly competitive as it slashed pricing on its competing Cascade Lake Refresh processors. Intel's server unit (DCG) also recently posted a 42.7% year-over-year sales increase due to coronavirus-spurred demand."
Sure, and the same could be said about practically every other crypto-currency.

As to the idea that it isn't subject to whims or political stability, I would argue that one merely has to look at the history of Bitcoin's price to prove that statement is false. Bitcoin's price is highly reactive to political news and random whims of the market (as well as manipulation by bad actors).

I'm not saying that crypto-currency doesn't have its place. I'm just pointing out that a lot of the fundamental principles that people swear by when it comes to Bitcoin are flawed.
Conjectures:
The method required to MitM the MS-13 gang Messenger would require writing a special set of code (a la Apple iPhone incident), which fails the burden test.
Some legal justification why Facebook is not a carrier, in case of voice com.
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> We never had an income tax in the United States before WW2.

Revenue Act of 1861

Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act (1894)

Revenue Act of 1913 (and the Sixteenth Amendment)
Question for the frontend crowd: how have microservices/serverless aged over the past few years? I've largely avoided learning/using this type of architecture because intuitively it seems like a bad idea to split your app and business logic across a bunch of tiny services with unknown uptime stats (difficult to maintain, difficult to see macro view of your application, cascades of service dependencies, hard to onboard new people, etc). Are microservices and serverless architecture still considered a good idea? What are the benefits I'm not seeing?
For what it's worth, among me and my siblings, the one with the best social skills, the widest circle of friends, and who is still most in contact with childhood friends is the one who was homeschooled.

No, that wasn't me. I certainly spent a lot more time interacting with other kids my age during weekdays, but quantity isn't quality.

I'd be curious to know if there's been any long-term research on this subject, but I'm not aware of anything.