skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing stopping an increase in competition is the problem. Sellers want the visibility of Amazon's platform with the benefits of rolling their own. There's nothing physically preventing a merchant alliance from forming its own platform, merchants (that aren't Walmart) simply don't do this because they know they're still getting more value by being on Amazon instead. Online retail isn't new or novel at this point, merchants have had all the time in the world to figure out a more favorable system.
There Isn’t a Single Down Stock in the S&P over Last 10 Weeks
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That’s because full laziness is actually an optimization strategy that Haskell uses to make programs faster.

You are completely right about laziness being a big plus for composing functions.
I think it's easy to describe why it's problematic without even referring to antitrust.

Amazon's brand (as a store / marketplace) is that it helps you sort through many options to select the product they believe you will like the best. This is different from the service offered by traditional grocery stores which offer many different products, but are not arranging those products in relation to a particular request.

This means that, when Amazon is operating as a store, any re-ordering of the display results disrupts the value they provide to consumers. It also, of course, disrupts the value they provide to the products they sell. Any other product that receives poor reviews would be punished by being displayed later, but Amazon branded products will never suffer that fate. The same is true of any other algorithmic sorting.

Amazon is, with one side of its mouth, suggesting a business model that it claims will benefit both sellers and buyers (that the best products will win and consumers will be shown the product best matched to them) and also explicitly excluding itself from that system.

To return to the supermarket situation, you might imagine a supermarket which stocks all brands, but the first item in every row is the store-brand equivalent of that product which you must remove to get to the branded one.
People still build wagon wheels too:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMgTlht-PsNniRIuaax4m8Q

Once upon a time it was a genuinely useful skill. Nowadays not so much.
I am unaware of any colloquial use of "narcissism" that would include going to grad school to learn more about a subject. Poster steev was also confused by this usage. You are correct, I have provided no evidence our confusion will be universal, but: don't be surprised if it is.
I don't believe the bottleneck here is the law or judicial interpretations.

The problem (IMO) is that there is no political pressure for the Justice Department to seek corrective action against these near-monopolies.

The lack of action (IMO) comes from two motivations...

1. The desire for US politicians to see US companies attain global near-monopoly status as a mechanism to help propagate US policy & surveillance.

2. The campaign finance influence these corporations buy through lobbying in Congress and their local/state officials.

1 & 2 aren't even all that independent. Amazon didn't setup HQ2 in DC for nothing. Bezos even literally bought the largest mansion in DC explicitly to host congressional networking events.

The solution is simple, in principle. Nurture, fund, and support alternatives to these companies. Realistically, globalization means there is little hope for regulatory breakups in America's future.
Wealthy buyers reportedly in 'mad rush' to leave San Francisco
This is very interesting but the date significantly precedes my (layman's!) understanding of TMRCA estimations of mid November (earliest cases examining the existing genetic evidence and extrapolating backwards through genetic drift calculations).

How do the scientists here account for the disagreement - beyond the fact they are using completely different methods?

Alternatively, I'd be interested in somebody explaining why my understanding of the TMRCA is incorrect - like I said, its not my field.
If somebody edit the exact speed of light, he could claim faster than light!
This always goes up during winter, you also have to control for all the media attention that COVID-19 is getting. People are searching just to be safe even if their symptoms are weak. It might not reflect growing infections, just growing fear.
Ask HN: What's the best (free) app to backup files to Amazon Glacier?
Just looking around I think Amazon Glacier would be a good long term cold backup solution for me. What's the best app to use it? I know about Arq but honestly would rather use something free
Isn't there a bit of irony there though?

Lack of maintenance could be abandonment, which is the implication...or it could be it's complete, and does what it needs to, and there hasn't been any reason to change it. It's especially ironic when talking positively about COBOL in the same post.
It is unlikely there will ever be an MMO better than what UO was at its peak in the old days.

Those were savage days, where simply being killed and having your body cut up and looted dry was considered acceptable for an MMO. At one point even having someone steal your house key meant they could enter your entire house and loot it dry.

Another thing is the graphics. Yea everyone thinks 3D graphics are cool but 2D graphics allow for imagination to fill in the blanks more. The graphics are less literal, the less detail is shown the more your mind fills in the blanks. Your mind begins to imagine what these characters would look and sound like if they were real people.

Also consider that even the GUI in UO was often in-character, you open a bag it looks like a bag, open a backpack and it looks like a backpack. And items could be dragged anywhere and positioned however you wanted, sometimes causing a mess. Organizing your backpack was like a little mini-game within a game.

Most games these days abandon those kinds of details in favor of grids where you can neatly place items into discrete slots. Convenient, but a lost opportunity for emergent game play.

Also, text appearing above peoples heads when they speak instead of a chat window meant you always kept your focus on the world in front of you and conversations felt natural, it feels more like reading a comic book, as opposed to some instant messenger.
That was my reaction too. Then I started thinking how these old systems must be absolutely ridden with awful holes, certainly much worse than something like Java 8. It's just that there's less information about them generally available. But if you manage to learn the details about one of them... oh boy. Not only would whoever owns the system probably not know for a while, when they did notice they'd have to figure out how to hire someone before they could hope to fix it.
With commoditized products the brand/manufacturer has no pricing power, so in order to go down the cost curve the firm would need to deploy more capital. This means making things in bigger batches, more efficient shipping, more advertisement investment taking ads out on Amazon to get initial reviews etc...

In each of these components Amazon Basics has an advantage over third parties whom are often mom and pop and are undercapitailized.

The points of contention are

1) If amazon competes fairly in Ad bidding so Basics products shows up first on the paid search results, is this anti-competitive?

I don't think so. They just have more capital. Any other well capitalized firm can do the same.

2) Is it fair for amazon to display their products more prominently?

I don't think so. How is this any different than Walmart refusing to carry a product? Or putting their private labels more prominently?
Plenty of small things get mailed in small packages or envelopes; ever ordered a cable off eBay? Amazon prioritizes shipping speed and low labor cost more than packaging waste.
>Also, just a bit of friendly Internet advice, this isn't the best way to interface with people:

Well I'm getting massive vote downs and the original poster literally called what I'm stating as initializing stupid blame games to win the stupid prize. Kind of rude and insulting. I think it's reasonable to say that my reaction is reasonable given the attack.

It's not exactly the real world on HN either as people are harsher than normal, ruder and less receptive of differing opinions.

I would say that Giving people a piece of "friendly advice on interfacing with people" won't exactly win you any friends either. If you teach people things using that methodology you will get a retaliatory response whether it's on the internet or the real world as the tone is a bit domineering and elitist.

>Blame is for incidents. Discipline is for patterns.

This doesn't make sense to me. I can't blame people for patterns? I can't discipline people for incidents?

The sort of short and terse elegant expressiveness of the phrase ultimately hides a statement that makes no logical sense. Typically someone is blamed first before he is disciplined. Both go hand in hand.

Either way, you're probably just trying to say that let the team get blamed but if you see patterns then blame the individual. Not as elegant but no linguistic tricks that decorate ultimately illogical statements to appear as philosophies of life.
I learned Chinese, for all intents and purposes, as an ABC living in the west. I was taught the traditional way with a brush and calligraphy. In this method, I would agree stroke order and direction is very important. With a physical brush, the initial plot creates a wider line than when the stroke ends.

Today, though, we use pencils and ballpoint pens. That initial thickness isn't reproduced. Why dose direction matter at that point? Most of the time you can't tell which direction I started my stroke.

So while I think the parent response raises a good point that stroke order and direction may have been important in the development of the culture, I agree with you that it's less important these days.
obviously you listen to the epidemiologist, not the economist. The economist is an expert on the economy and not on pandemics, and therefore will always give advice that is aimed at keeping up the economy and not saving people and preventing the spread of the virus. Its baffling to me that you think an economist has any kind of valid input on this matter. At best an economist could advise you on how to keep the economy afloat under the restrictions the epidemiologists has advised.
In small fields, it's sometimes really not very hard to guess who are the authors, just given the topic and what papers they cite. Even with double blind.
even if you buy a bunch of things at once they'll often ship them in nonsensical ways, presumably it reduces their shipping costs
JK Rowling Is Right–Sex Is Real and It Is Not a “Spectrum”
I thought that was pretty obvious, fall 2020 hasn't happened yet.
Have an exit strategy. You'll get to a certain age where you're too expensive and the level of experience can be bought cheaper and younger. My real advice is to be debt free by 40.
Have you had the opportunity/availability to get an antibody test?

Everyone I've heard with such an anecdote has received multiple negative antibody tests, anecdata! (Only two people I've known)
They invented latency so ask them ;)
When I search “email”, “maps”, “video”, and “cloud” through google on iOS safari, I get as the first non-ad result; Gmail, google maps, YouTube, and google cloud respectively.
Not everyone showed up for testing. Let's also not forget that the antibody tests are proving to be less than accurate. A high number of false negatives.
There are a lot of points of data to scrub in such a large system, it's not surprising that they would miss numerous of them in the wild. Watch to see if this one disappears or not.
An Amazon Basics power strip I bought failed and took some of the hardware hooked up to it with it.
It might work like that in a mom-and-pop corner store, but for most retailers it is much more complicated than that. Larger stories like Target don't just buy a truckload of Playstations and then put them on the shelf. Instead, one of the ways it happens is that Target works out a specific deal with Sony where Sony essentially 'rents' the shelf space, and Sony then gets to design where on the shelf their products go and is responsible for filling the shelves.

Other agreements might be to for Target to purchase a certain amount of Playstations but only as long as Target places them on the top shelf. These are just two of the many different ways that the shelves get filled. In these examples, it's much much harder to draw a comparison to Amazon without knowing how Amazon makes similar agreements with its sellers.

(Target and Sony are just examples, I don't know if Target actually does contract specifically with Sony in this way)
The data is indeed old but China began its lockdown on January 24th and South Korea a month later. Those countries seem to be the central focus of the study with regards to evaluating the effectiveness of the shutdown(s).

I'm only a layperson but it doesn't seem too far-fetched that they could extrapolate from how those countries "flattened the curve" to come up with a ballpark estimate of global fatalities averted. After all, other countries mostly followed a similar "curve flattening" pattern (as far as I'm aware).

At the very least, I don't see anything inherently disingenuous.

Side note: FWIW, the study itself says the authors last "updated" it on May 13th (not the data itself though it appears).
> How do you deal with simple things like exceptions and string interpolation?

While I agree string interpolation isn't convenient, exceptions in Haskell are great. You can throw exceptions in pure code (throw upon evaluation), in IO (throw when sequenced), catch them, inspect them by doing type down casting, etc, all without pulling a dependency. It's even better than Rust. (In Rust I had to use the anyhow crate to get back some basic features I thought should be present by default.)
Let's just move to a system like North Korea has for their media. I don't think they have any issues with their population getting offended.
To clarify, Nazis did flip their position on Fraktur, and before '41 Antiqua was criticized as ‘Jewish’ just as well. But since the whole country used Fraktur for ages before the ban, associating it with Nazis is ridiculous.
i frankly cant live without social media, so i just try to balance my feed so i can see both side's bullshit
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I mean, if you just need to store things directly on Glacier, a "free app" is to just use the S3 console. Make a bucket, hit the "upload" button, and in the properties select "glacier" as the storage format.

[1] https://youtu.be/km3GsOk_ukw?t=738

---- EDIT

Sorry, I just realized that Arq is for recurring backup. The S3 console won't do that obviously. The AWS API is very easy to use, you probably could just build your own pretty easily with just polling the folder occasionally.
Not much here about how clear or appealing the results are, aesthetically. In that respect, I think the rules are quite successful.

Many years ago, I made friends with a Japanese person while we were both rambling in New Zealand, and we wrote to each other on paper for a while afterward before switching to email. I liked her handwriting, and I imagined it had something to do with her personality - clear, perky, rounded, friendly.

I still had this image in mind until, much more recently, I visited the Death Railway museum at Kanchanaburi in Thailand, and I looked at the exhibits of records written by the Japanese jailers in the death camps during the second world war - and they had the same handwriting! The friendly handwriting of my correspondent was also the friendly handwriting of the commanders sending prisoners to their deaths.

It's a good script, and I learned something about not judging people by their handwriting. The goodness of my correspondent was real, but it wasn't manifest in her writing.
I am thinking about applying again from the beginning and start Ph.D. all over. Since I am in love with science.

And the only reason I left my home country was because I wanted pursue science. (Science is what makes my love beautiful)

But I am afraid maybe my next supervisor will be same (let alone if I leave middle way my current supervisor will not give me letter of recommendation).
I agree. As far as I can see, this is good for the consumer.
except in the Southern Hemisphere... :)
Search with Hoogle.
So if a store decides to sell things on consignment they no longer have power over how the products are displayed?
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Yeah, I wondered if it was something like that. Sounds like input is sanitized before it even touches that system.

Which begs an interesting train of thought: could we make systems that last longer by doing a better job of isolating pieces of them from the outside world? If malicious input never reaches your code, does it even need security updates?
Wouldn't that imply an R0 of 10 which is much higher than generally estimated? It should stop once it reaches her immunity and possible sooner if quarantines are successfully placed and the infection dies off. 60% sounds like about what you'd expect, or even a bit high.
I don’t know what you mean by “change your mind”. I’ve come to understand that it is much less infectious outdoors, that it is more responsive to moderate social distancing than we though initially (possibly due to super spreading?) and that masks appear to work well. This has made me more relaxed about many activities.

I continue to believe that it’s an extremely infectious RNA virus that will spread exponentially in situations where people are in close proximity or indoors without social distancing and masks. I think New Orleans, NYC, Lombardy, Wuhan, and the ongoing situation in Brazil are more than enough evidence for that. I also think the success of Europe and China in using social distancing plus test/trace/isolate to tamp down their epidemics is pretty solid evidence that this was the right strategy, and I’m incredibly disappointed that America was incapable of executing on it.

The question I think you’re asking is: given that we failed to take the right advice, have I given up on trying to make us take it? And the answer is: basically yes. I think we’ll have to let nature take its course and protect ourselves now.
>> It takes a huge ego to think you've got a monopoly on managing my mental state for me.

Funny because I though destruction of the ego was one of the requirements to achieve good mental health ;-)

Someone described their drug experience to me and said it was very important to have their trusted friend there to help ground them as needed and guide them through it. That guy is now ready to take on that role. Apparently going it alone at first is a really bad idea. Do you need a psychologist? Doubt it. They have their own issues.
I think Purescript has a joyous handling of records. Anyone know what the closest equivalent is for Haskell?
Right, which means I was quoting homeowner’s insurance. Renter’s insurance is priced closer to the possessions replacement portion of homeowner’s.
They've been doing it a long time...
https://consumerfed.org/reports/low-ball-an-insiders-look-at...
If you trust the death rate, and the number of deaths reported are both accurate, the UK is at 40k/300k = 13%. A very long way from immunity, but not 0.5%.
Are you consistent about your stance on shipping small items and don't receive any paper mail at your address, either?
There is a NPM package lodash.debounce if you only want this feature from lodash. Lodash is available splitted in many small packages.
It's not hard at all to say consumers are on the losing end when a monopolistic company controls product discovery.

Amazon getting the sales reduces income to anyone else selling, and when Amazon is almost the only place to sell, smaller companies will go under and new ones will have a harder time starting.
The anti-mask “propaganda” was obviously an only partially successful effort to preserve the supply of masks for first responders. If the CDC/WHO and came out and said everyone wear masks in the beginning of march the supply would have spiked harder and faster than it already did, likely resulting in more health care worker fatalities.
Then again, they had some sort of paved high-ways!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacbe
Same happens with every article about Perl. Or PHP. Or any other technology that people love to hate.
"abusing" is not the right word, but they definitely can make it impossible to compete in many areas. Let's say you made a laptop tray and sold on Amazon, it did well!

Then Amazon sees it, makes their own laptop tray, subsidized by economies-of-scale and their shipping network. They feature it higher than yours, bury yours down further, and sell it at much cheaper. It's not like you can compete on Amazon. And let's face it, you're not going to compete making your own store or selling it on brick-and-mortar.

Eventually you starve out, you get out of the market, and then they cheapen the product even more to the point of lower product quality. Then at that point, the consumer loses.

Seen so many products that used to be high quality, then the product quality got worse over time with cheaper materials, while keeping the same 5-star old reviews
Also they would have had to infer our day cycle from observations originated 6 billion years ago, which would be strange because the age of the solar system is estimated to be 4.5b years.
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Police violence and the ‘bystander effect’ explained
Wuhan is in the northern hemisphere ;)
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I never thought of that, and honestly, in my opinion that's up there as being the most insidious facet.
The fact that sort of intuitively, the machinery and incentive to counterfeit amazon branded products on amazon seems way more difficult than any other brand, if only because one might think some entity in amazon would know "hey, wait, you aren't us?"
10% or so to the agent. Everyone makes money on the renewals (your "book").
>This is different from the service offered by traditional grocery stores which offer many different products, but are not arranging those products in relation to a particular request.

Grocery stores (and all other brick-and-mortars) spend tons and tons of money and effort specifically arranging their stores to influence which products you will buy. It's done on the scale of which aisle certain products are on, all the way down to the scale of specifically which shelf (and even exact inches away from eye level) certain products are on.

Every single time you walk into a store, the first product you see (maybe in front of the entryway, maybe it's a big banner hanging from the ceiling, or maybe it's the design of the shelf near the cash register) is all meticulously planned.
The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Worsening Globally
What is wrong with buying a single small item online? If done correctly it should have almost zero environmental impact. The marginal environmental cost for a shipped item is the extra fuel burned by the delivery truck due to the weight of the item (in this case the weight is insignificant) plus the fuel burned while the truck is idling when the package is delivered. I would be willing to bet that the environmental cost for those items is pretty tiny compared to shipping waste, so it's pretty reasonable to complain about the shipping waste.
They have a data advantage-
Amazon basics are just white labeled goods from some Chinese factory, warehoused and dispatched from an Amazon warehouse just like everything else on Amazon Market. The only difference is Amazon but the stock (and bet on it selling).

Amazon has much better visibility on sales, margins, user behaviour than their market sellers. Where risk is high they allow sellers to take the risk, where it is low they enter directly and take more margin.

It's a great business model, like a hedge fund running an exchange with no separation of information. It would be illegal the financial sector.