skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more different than you think because there are many permutations of search terms. There are products that rank really well for odd phrasings of a product search term but not well for the most popular variations. There is also virtual shelf space for weird, niche items with additional features that are not that popular. Amazon aggregates hundreds of thousands of small businesses globally and also tailors search results to FBA warehouse availability. So for example if the warehouses near you are well stocked with product A and not product B you will see product A ranked relatively higher than product B would if you are a prime subscriber, but you will get neutral results when logged out or a non-prime subscriber.

Then you throw in Amazon Shopping ads (aka Sponsored Products) and the shelf space metaphor gets muddled further, because it's like as if every store visitor saw unique and different endcap displays and shelving ordering. There is less individual tailoring to search results than you might expect on Amazon (especially compared to information search engines like GoogleBingBingGo) but it is still a factor.

Then there is the factor of endemic counterfeiting in some categories, so the sketchier the listings are the more likely you are to just buy a counterfeit product, which would never happen in a typical brick and mortar retail shop.

IMO Amazon's private labels are so minor and make up such a small portion of store sales that it ranks very low on the scale of things that Amazon does that are morally/legally questionable.
But, art fundamentals are not learned through rote repetition. There is a lot of practice, but it is supposed to be mindfull instead of rote and also is coupled with a lot of explanations of how things work and a lot of creative work. The usual drawing advice is complete opposite of what you suggest.

Playing instrument in classical school is learned through repetition, but this schooling is not producing composers nor people able to create new music nor improvise. It makes people able to perform increasingly difficult technical pieces someone else made. That is completely different goal and schooling.

Likewise, acrobats are not choreographs which is something completely different. Acrobacy does not lead to that.
You might need to extract ant pheromones and draw a circle with it, so that ants keep reinforcing that circular path attracting more ants, forming a death pit.
>Grocery stores (and all other brick-and-mortars) spend tons and tons of money and effort specifically arranging their stores

And if I don't like Tesco I can go to Asda. If Tesco won't sell my product I can try and sell it to Sainsbury's or Waitrose.

The equivalent with Amazon is "If I don't like Walmart, there is some guy with a market stall selling fish, another with apples, a store 5 miles away that has carrots...". Or even, "Tescos won't buy my carrots so I will just drive them to every person myself".

I have said it a few times, you can't be the marketplace and sell through that marketplace. Imagine finding the NYSE were trading shares, and were giving themselves 30ms advantage over everyone else (if you can't imagine, have a browse of the Cryptocurrency markets). Imagine a commodities market who own 90% of the oil themselves, and price themselves into every order (maybe onions...).
For one thing, it can continue to work when JS is not working for whatever reasons.
This is what happens in regular B&M stores as well.

They will always push their private brand products to their customers.
There is another unfair competitive advantage that Amazon had for many years, which lead directly to this situation: no profit expectations from its shareholders.

Amazon chose not to earn the normal profits that most businesses need to survive and grow in order to offer unrealistically low prices on all sorts of products specifically in order to gain this advantage. They didn't just happen to gain the market dominance that allows for this sort of anti-competitive abuse, they bought it by convincing shareholders not to punish them for choosing not to earn a profit.
UO is/was pretty unique. It had poverty. Some players were so poor that they had to beg for food! Funny and depressing at the same time :)

Overpowered players were really rare (in the golden age, at least). And they were usually very famous, like celebrities. It was very very hard to improve your character's skills. The game wasn't tailored to boost your ego with custom looks and mean-looking armors and weapons - it was what it was, and that usually meant frustration.

At least for me, it was fun and unique. I don't see anything like that in the current generation of blockbuster MMO games.
> i would like to know how to "isolate the vulnerable"...?!

We could start by NOT sending people with confirmed COVID-19 infections to live with them.
It is free and easy (drive thru) in some parts of the US. Check with your local health resources.
> This actually was a very real problem at my current job. The data pipeline was migrated to k8s and I was one of the engineers that worked to do that. Unfortunately, neither myself (nor the other data engineer) was a Kubernetes guy, so we kept running into dev-ops walls while also trying to build features and maintain the current codebase.

I've experienced this as well. At the last large company I worked at we had a Heroku-like system to run our apps on. That was deprecated for a Docker-based solution. And then _that_ has now been deprecated for a Kubernetes offering. We just ran some Python web apps–we didn't want to have to learn and support an entire system. And here's the thing, most big tech companies I've worked with are all made up of these small, "internal" services, that just want a simple place to run their services.
> so we kept running into dev-ops walls

This reads like an oxymoron. 'DevOPS' was supposed to break down walls between teams. You probably have a traditional "Ops" organization, regardless of team naming conventions.
Wouldn't there be higher genetic diversity of the virus if this were the case?

There doesn't seem to be any real evidence for this theory in the genetic data we have.
First, you need to make a lot of money. Credit to Monty Python for this tip.
Walmart eCommerce is relatively small, so not really comparable in terms of anti-trust concerns.
One of the few exemptions. Costco takes the Kirkland brand very seriously because the most of their revenue comes from memberships.
Apparently this is not really the case any longer:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-pat...
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Source?

Amazon is barely holding on ~44% of the US eCommerce market.
Sorry “typo”. I meant, as easy to use as Heroku is.
HDCP strippers are a thing now, so this shouldn’t be a concern.
Oh dear, even with it's limits StarLink will steal away high demand customers if they continue this.
Making people anonymous will solve the problem is one of the most confusingly backwards takes I’ve seen in a long, long time.
"one of React's dependencies"

Which one? There are... several. (someone posted this here a while ago, and it's lovely to look at)

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native
> perhaps we should be considering other options.

You mean splitting into 2 countries (blue USA and red USA)? Then whichever country fares worse economically will find a way to blame the more prosperous one, and it could mean war.
I was less worried about it at the beginning - I think I had a decent understanding of how fatal it was, but underestimated how contagious it was.

I think I came around to a mental model of how to react fairly early on, though. The basic model was stay at home until either a vaccine arrives or until we have anti-viral treatments that reduce severity and improve outcomes. Neither has happened, so I'm in the same boat.

It's great - great - that the lockdown has reduced occurrences of it so much. And I recognize the argument that if we've tamped down on it enough, that it's safer to go out there. But... an x% less likelihood of catching it doesn't mean it will be x% less severe when you do catch it. I think that a lot of non-technical people are confused on that point.

And finally, even if we did have really good contact-tracing... that doesn't help you, it only helps your friends. There are still those two days when people are contagious without being symptomatic. That's just still reality, I don't see a way around that. A healthy people can die from interacting with a seemingly healthy person.

Besides, what happened to contact tracing anyway? I thought we were going to have this snazzy contact-tracing tech on our phones and watches by now, courtesy of Apple and Google. I'm sure our contact-tracing is still lousy overall. It's great we have more tests, but we're not at the point where we would have been able to stop February in its tracks.

So overall... yeah, I've changed my minds in ways, like recognizing that the probabilities are more on my side than they used to be, so I feel a little safer if I have to go to the doctor/dentist for non-COVID reasons. But other than that, it's still a super-contagious virus that has a decent chance of really screwing up your life even if you aren't 80+, so... I'm still in the "stay at home until treatment/virus improves" camp.
I mean it will continue to spread until that percent of the of the population is infected. Containment is not possible. So right now it's a balancing act of opening up the economy and preventing an explosive outbreak. The hope is a vaccine will be created soon and a large proportion of the population will gain immunity through a vaccine rather than just naturally contracting the virus.
How does it strongly suggest the origin is in China? The disease was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, where many countries (especially European ones) are starting to find that their first cases were in December 2019 (if not earlier) as well. Once again, this is really stating my point that China detected COVID-19 sooner than everyone else, and hence demonised by it, setting an incredibly bad precedence for future outbreaks!
I'll give a bit of a different perspective since I've never worked as a professional developer, unlike the majority of the folks here.

Don't be afraid to reinvent yourself in a completely different industry. I've changed careers three times. I worked as an engineer, then in energy finance, and now as a diplomat. In some cases, it meant a move up, sideways, or even a drastic pay cut and starting over at the bottom.

You'd be surprised how many industries just want people who are fast learners and are willing to put in the work to ramp up quickly.

Pick an industry you think makes a difference. I made my last career move at 37 with a hefty pay cut, and now I'm a lot happier.

In the end, you're not competing with anyone but yourself. You might as well pick something now that you think will meet your long-term goals. And if it doesn't work out like you thought, it's never too late to reinvent yourself.
Other than the hemisphere thing, I think some replies are missing that outside North America they don't call autumn "fall".
We need a Russian to comment with some examples of the exceedingly black humour that developed under communism.
I have a few questions. Are you a digital nomad? If you do tend to move around often, how does income tax affect you? How do you manage the stress or anxiety (if any) of perhaps you could say instability of your role not being permanent? What ways do you manage the client to step back a bit if they ask you to put in more hours than you’d like?
The PCR test is a very specific test. A positive test means the RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was detected. A negative test, however, would not be as strong of an indicator as false positive rates are quite high early or late in the infection (https://www.biotechniques.com/coronavirus-news/news_false-ne...).
What happens if you tell them that you don’t have an internet connection?
Cool story, its completely irrelevant to what happened last week in the US
I've noticed he does this often. He leaves it completely open ended so there's plenty of criticism and then reaps the rewards.

His supporters see him demonised by the establishment only to be proven right.

Edit: by does this often I mean leaking inside information
Except that we already know that the strain of flu around this winter was particularly bad, much worse than recent years, so a jump in deaths like that is actually not surprising. After all the number is about 700k even in a typical year. This could also help explain the hospital traffic data.

I just don’t buy it. If Covid-19 was in wide circulation, affecting hundreds of thousands of people as early as September and October, how come it wasn’t all over China? Or the rest of the world for that matter. What was keeping it in Wuhan?

There’s no way it could have grown within the wuhan population, to affect that many people that early, without it being propagated all over the place. People just travel too much these days in China.
It originated from and was propagated by Chinese state media. Unfortunately, western media sources and aggregators gobble these stories up without considering that fact.
This was a sample not a full test of all sailors on the ship and it was based on serology tests as developed by April.

> about 400 volunteers participated in the serology tests

> The Roosevelt has about 4,800 personnel on the ship.
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I think it is, yes.

> I think the motivation "to be a better researcher" is quite narcissistic (in a mild sense) in the first place.

This claim is independent of the negative behaviors; it's intended as independent support by claiming that the desire to be a better researcher is inherently narcissistic, without regard to the negative behaviors. As to my personal definition being extreme: well, yeah. I've never heard someone use it to mean anything remotely positive. The justification for using it that context was, to me, non-sensical. But I am a descriptivist; words mean how people use them. So I won't call it wrong. Just: don't be surprised if people are confused.
Or just snip the antenna
I do wonder if medicine can compete with the various conferences in support of social service programs?
Is ghetto even coded language for black people anymore? I’ve always viewed that as an explicit reference.
Same here. Though, I do wonder if it'd be a case of _be careful what you wish for_ if, for some reason, all of the sudden I was completely isolated.
Wait is this for cursive or print characters?
Sure, but that's missing the point.

Researchers need to study therapy sessions compared to therapy sessions with psychedelics. If they have enough people, include a third arm with traditional antidepressant medication.

It's not blinded, but at least we would have data to compare to existing treatments. Double-blind isn't the only way to run a trial.
What I don’t understand about the whole cultural piece is the selection bias. My understanding is that the Cubans that came here had different circumstances, different opportunity and different resources (they came because they were successful).

Otherwise are we just saying that Mexicans are lazy compared to Cubans and that is just culture? Or African Americans aren’t as hardworking as Ghanaians and that stereotype is what it is and we should just operate around it?
Call me when it has org-mode.
yeah, I considered that - but its still presumably a large enough sample for the phrases listed in the parent comment to stand out.
Last time I did partitioning by date in postgres (on postgres 9.?), multiple transaction_${date} tables is exactly what I got.

They are exposed as a single 'transaction' table but they were really different physical tables.

My understanding is that partitioning is a more general term. Partitioning can be on one or multiple servers. Sharding is a type of partitioning that is always across multiple servers.
At this point I’m of the belief that adopting k8s at most companies should result in shareholder/investor lawsuits for the near-criminal waste of corporate resources.
Microsoft is annoying Windows 10 users with this pop-up
That’s not unique to the Boomers, lots of names spike in popularity for relatively short periods of time.
Perhaps it was deliberate misrepresentation, that isn't the point. The point is that calling people out for deliberate misrepresentation tends to lead discussions away from the constructive, informative and civil ideal that HN aspires to.
This becomes really problematic when you're searching for something, and Amazon place their brand item high in the listing despite not being what you're searching for. I've made a couple of mistaken purchases because I assumed the product had a feature it didn't have because it ranked near the top for a search for that exact feature. (Think "Disposable X," all of the non-amazon items are disposable, and Amazon's, despite being the first or second result).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGEAiUeiaKs
T lymphocytes defend against covid. Immunity can be the product of previous flu exposure.
In any other package ecosystem you'd be laughed out of the room for suggesting to add a dependency for a 15 line function, instead of just copying it into your codebase. And the 15 line function here is a fairly major function. People add dependencies for 2 or 1 line functions!
Curious why multiple HDMI inputs matter, given a decent A/V receiver (a few hundred bucks) can handle it for you (along with waay better options for audio)?
No. The antitrust case was about Microsoft using their control of the OS to push users to use Microsoft's browser.

The issue wasn't that Microsoft gave away IE for free. Netscape gave away Navigator for free, too. The issue was that Microsoft tried to "leverage" Windows to increase IE's market share.
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> and the hoaxers need to have the humility to admit that it is worse than the seasonal flu.

Seasonal flu happens every year. Novel virus pandemics happen once per century. Seasonal flu is much more deadly, just spread out over longer timeline. And estimated covid mortality rate for my age group falls every week. I'm still not convinced it's measurably worse than the flu (for my age group).
Try Spacemacs. Vim keybindings, logical well documented help/menus, plus emacs goodies like org-mode. It's the best of Vim and Emacs.
Academia has become tremendously cutthroat but it still operates under the assumption that everyone acts honorably.

Perhaps that’s no longer sustainable, but what is the solution? Many of the problems with modern-day academic research can be traced back to increased scale and competition, neither of which is going away.
Not available in FL... Scared of hurricanes?
Nope - regular expressions all the way. :-) I keep thinking I'll move toward NER but keep finding other ways to find value first. Same answer regarding the blog...
I mean to say, with the same stroke order as you would write a Japanese character.
The current phylogenetic data go as far as October as the farthest estimate, as far as I can see.
huh... In my experience Amazon marketplace is like 10% "cool, that was a good product" and 90% "this is why I no longer trust Amazon"
Right, but the value of the data pulled from a single TV is probably around $10/yr (how could it be higher?). Over 10 years that’s $100 - sure - but do people keep Vizio TVs around that long?
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The safest possible solution would be for the super wealthy pay to keep the population fed and housed while we wait for a vaccine or improved treatments. Otherwise, the virus will continue to propagate, the poor will have to risk their lives and the virus will inevitably reach the rich and their families in a later wave anyway as was the case with the 1918 flu.

Addendum: I posted this fully understanding how unpopular it would be with this crowd. If we ever get hit with a a more fatal and contagious virus this may be our only way of preserving life. And as things stand with our industrial meat processes I suspect we will have more viruses to contend with.
> That ID design has worked well enough for email for multiple decades.

Did it? Oh really? Well if you consider email decentralization a great success, than I retract. Fediverse can totally replicate that "success".

I guess it already did. There's Twitter and long tail already. Mission accomplished.
Python 4... It's just going to be Haskell.
Ironically (given how anti-video-tutorial I generally am), I've learned to appreciate Blender-related videos. Not for everything, but for the things in which the alternative would be a lot of screenshots glued together with a bit of text. Some things are really best seen being done directly.

I think it has to do with how much tacit information is embedded in your activity. Blender or vacuum motor repair videos? Yes please, because the problem domain is such that I actually need to see all the things that happen in the background of the main activity, just to reassure myself I'm on the right track. Coding? God no, typing text into computer is a very constrained activity and you gain nothing by showing it on video vs. just making an article.
Interested. Please do.
I've asked that question as a separate thread above, I think its an important one, at least for lay people like me.

There is a suggested reason for the discrepancy (Chinese dishonesty about timelines) tho not an answer (yet) from the researchers who've commented elsewhere here or others with a strictly scientific explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23460742
I know plenty of close minded people that took psychedelics. I could even argue that psychedelic users tend to be more close minded than the rest of the population —- their religious devotion to these drugs is to me a great example of fundamentalism and rigidness of thought, and the notion that these drugs can be nothing but good betrays arrogance (since insight inherently positions them above the “square” masses that did not take the red pill). I don’t like when religious leaders tell me how I should experience life, and some of the rhetoric by psychedelic users is worryingly similar.

I could also use philosophy to question the very nature of these insights. On what basis does one affirm psychedelic trips provides greater access to reality than regular conscious states?
This sample is statistically significant. Not sure what the problem is?
Dumb question, but what's a "shark" in this context?
Your mistake here is thinking I have a view.

I would be one of the people making the observations that the virus may have been around longer than the currently official records, which would be met with vitriol

I didn't make that clear because why do you think I have to do that?
Very true. I try to mitigate this in some ways on my site, but it is certainly not perfect.
Re-purpose of laptop docking stations
Hi. I have several old laptop docking station. Are there any other uses for them? The laptop are long gone.
thanks
Not really.

(1) Genetic diversity increases with both time and size of the infected population. You'll get a lot more diversity if it's mutating in 4 million individuals than in 4000.

(2) For a virus this young especially, genetic diversity is not at all precise measures.
For more reliable ssh tunnels you can use autossh.

https://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/
Wow, that's really helpful. I'm working on a TS project at the moment and that might come in handy. Thanks!
If you are right then covid 19 doesn't work like any other virus that spread via droplet transmission or even like any other virus in the corona family. I.e I don't think you are right. :)

There is ample evidence showing that hand washing reduces the spread for viruses that are similar to covid 19.
According to google trends, it started only after Dec 29 2019. Before that, there seems to be no particular interest, not more than usual.