skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their predatory conduct is being investigated in the EU [1] and US [2] which suggests it is far from "perfectly reasonable" and may not even be legal.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/eu-to-investigate-amazon-ove...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/01/amazon-je...
Worked for Google with AMP.
it's so weird that my experience of melting into the floor is nothing unusual, as i've now read a few times. it was terrifying by the way, and felt 100% real. crazy, crazy stuff.
The open or closed status of everything has little to do with whether or not you should engage in non-essential visits. Policymakers do not schedule the virus.
The problem is, if you write by hand and you start writing really fast, you will distort the image. As long as you use the common stroke order, that distorsion will stay readable as it is a distorsion that people are familiar with. Use the wrong stroke order, and your letters will become undreadable at high writing speed.

I'd assume this is the reason why japanese calligraphy [1] is still readible to the skilled reader albeit the images having no obvious resemblance to the original characters

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy
If Apple really invested in OSX it could be a threat to windows, unfortunately, combined with the high cost of the hardware, OSX's downslide means it's stuck to its current pro market...
I don’t see what’s wrong with this.

Many retailers reserve some of their best shelves paces for their private label products, both as a form of differentiation and to extract higher margins.

You could argue that Amazon is unique in that it is large and potentially has a monopoly over eCommerce, but it is hard to say that in the end, consumers are on the loosing end.

Most amazon basic products are commodities, and prices gets lower because of economies of scale. Should amazon jack up the price, consumers will just switch to another whitelabel/run of the mill variant from another seller.

It will be problematic if amazon dumps on the market and drives theirs party sellers out of existence, but I don’t think that is the case here.
Structurally speaking, what mechanism prevents Amazon from being able to access RDS-managed customer data that doesn't prevent Palantir from doing the same?

As far as I'm aware, Palantir doesn't claim to share data between its customers. It works with governments all over the world — ostensibly this means that either Palantir agrees to not share its customers data with other customers, or every government is implicitly consenting to their citizens' data being accessed by every other government.
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Yep. You got it. Monads are compared with value equality, not reference equality below. The flatMap behavior has to obey some laws:

The Associative Law states that flatMapping two functions in sequential order is the same as flatMapping over a composition of those two functions:

Monad(fa).flatMap(f).flatMap(g) valueEquals Monad(fa).flatMap(g(f))

It also has a method called return/point/pure that comes from the inherited Applicative interface:

interface Applicative<F<?>> {
pure: <A>(arg: A): F<A>
}

That return/pure/point followed by flatMap has to obey the Left Identity law in a monad for it to be a valid monad:

Monad(fa).pure(x).flatMap(f) valueEquals f(x)

The Right Identity law states that if we have a Monadic value and flatMap over the point/pure/return method we get a new monad that has value equal to the original monad:

m = Monad(fa)
Monad(fa).flatMap( (v) => Monad(fa).pure(v)) valueEquals m

Those are your unit tests that you have to perform on your monad instances. If they pass, your implementation is correct, and you can rely upon it.

These laws are so that the monad interface can be composed/extended correctly with other referentially transparent interfaces, like
Functor -provides map, the map must be associative, like flatMap);
Apply extends Functor - provides ap, or applyParallel that allows parallel mapping over collections that can be safely parallelized. ap has to be consistent with flatMap when an implementation has a monad instance -- that is if you map over a list in parallel, the list you get out should be the same as if you flatMapped over that same list using the same function, but wrapping List() around the result, which is sequential;
Applicative extends Apply - provides pure/point/return, which just constructs instances that are Applicatives from a given value;
Semigroup - provides combine/concat/++, allowing two items of the same type to be combined into a new value of that type; There may be many instances for a type of semigroup (Boolean has && and || for example);
Monoid extends Semigroup - provides empty, which is a value for a type when combined with another value for that type results in the other value (0 in integer addition, for example, an empty list in list concatenation, for another);
traverse - provides sequence, which flips the types of wrapped values (Maybe<List<T>> becomes List<Maybe<T>> when sequence is called), traverse<G<?>,F<?>, A, B>(ga: G<A>)(f: A => F<B>): F<G<B>> -- used to define sequence, foldRight, foldMap, foldLeft, etc;
And ApplicativeError - provides raiseError<F<?>, A,ERRORTYPE>(t: ERRORTYPE): F<A> and handleError<F<?>, A>(fa: F<A>)(f: ERRORTYPE => A) and catchNonFatal<F<?>, ERRORTYPE, A>(f: () => A):F<A> -- obviously these only work if your type has two members, one for success, and one for failure.
Doesn't Amazon have like less than 40% of US online retail, and less than 10% of US retail total?

I guess rephrasing, what's the definition of monopoly here?
And Walmart is the grocery store in a lot of small towns. Amazon doesn't have that much lock-in outside of customer's preference to shop there. Their power is in that customers go there to discover products, but that's Target's advantage too and it would be weird to try and tell them how they're allowed to stock their shelves.
I think OP's point is still valid; doesn't matter if you go to one store or another (e.g., Walmart or Safeway), if that store has a house brand, chances are their equivalent house brand is at the same level or higher than the name brand.
I'm in the same boat as you. It's exhausting to try to avoid these tendencies. How comfy it must be to give in and accept them with no further thought.

The most frustrating times are those moments when I fear I'll never root out all of my biases or tribalistic tendencies and become an enlightened human. But onward and upward, eh?
It is relevant, because NVidia's binary driver looks like WDDM on every platform.

And Intel needs something like this either way because their hardware arch is different, and their GPU is heavily integrated with the main IOMMU.
The 'non-essential' guidance is also being relaxed in all locations I've seen reporting on. Most are encouraging distanced socialising and return to work.
Bah.

We were monitored for correctly pointing the back of a pen directly into our right shoulder joint. If it didn't point there, you didn't do it right. Luckily, we also had a guy who was a lefty, so that was a blasphemy of a much higher order and let most of us, the incorrect pen holders, fly well under the radar.
> the left says "lockdown lockdown lockdown"

of course that hasn’t really been the case over the last week or so.
As far as I'm aware, Palantir is basically a SaaS data analytics provider for governments all over the world.

Why would any government consent to working with Palantir if they had any suspicion that their data might be used by US government clandestine agencies?
It's interesting why this isn't the case in the US, too. Conservatives in the US are much older, and the people in the at-risk age groups are disproportionately Republican. Yet they oppose the lockdown. Liberals, who are the ones being laid off and bearing the economic brunt of the lockdown while being at much lower risk to their own health support it.
Draftbit (YC W18) is hiring a product manager – build apps and code visually
There's a fundamental question here which no one ever seems to ask: Why is the modern software industry in such a constant state of flux? Are we really becoming so much collectively smarter every year, and if not, why did the previous version of Software X make the wrong decision? Is there an end point where we all actually figure out how to develop software properly?

As I see it, truly mature software should introduce breaking changes twice a decade at most, and ideally less often than that. I don't doubt that most software updates provide a net benefit, but what of the inherent cost of change? Changes require every single user to put in extra work, to adapt to the new version's functionality. Why are software projects so cavalier with their users's time?

And this applies to end-user software too, by the way. Every time Slack redesigns its interface, users need to relearn where all the buttons are. Nothing can possibly justify rolling out ten million redesigns; if a facelift is in order, leave it in the oven for long enough to get it right, and then be done.
they can, although so can SSRIs, surprisingly, by sometimes triggering mania. it's good for experienced professionals to be involved who can look for warning signs beforehand, evaluate the risks, and intervene quickly if things go badly.

i find it a little troubling and irresponsible when people go around promoting psychedelic drugs, advocating that everyone ought to take them. if you're going to do that, i think you ought to always include a long disclaimer about the negative side effects, just like the drug companies do on TV.
Whenever science and politics intersect, science loses. If science is studying something apolitical like the metabolism of water bear or a quasar burst from a distant galaxy it’s fine. Throw politics in the mix and the waters become muddied very quickly when funding and reputational concerns motivate and corrupt a delicate process.

Politics is like Lennie who wants to pet the rabbits. Science is like the rabbits.
Me too. I grew up in Germany and on one of our trips to the US (late 70s maybe) we discovered Mad Magazine. My dad decided we all needed a subscription - he was always trying to find ways for the kids to brush up on their English. So for many years we had Mad Magazine mailed to us in Germany. We tried not to mess up the page for the other readers in the family.
Amazon delenda est (Amazon must be destroyed)

Amazon ALWAYS acts illegally.
This is also for me, the first time ever hearing about this company.

And reading their mission statement, they say: "Harness technology and social impact to be the world's most loved insurance company."

This is a little bit laughable. Since when ever has a bank, insurance company, or finance-related company been "loved" by its customers? Bringing you joy every day? Maybe they should aspire to a more realistic goal.
Sounds like something related to passwords? https://beyondidentity.com/blog/sorry-about-all-passwords
If those are say, you and I, or you and the parent comment, how are they seperate?

We're experiencing identical perception right now, me in the form of reading the words you wrote, and you in the form of reading these words. The words are just information which is now duplicated in both our minds. When the psychedelic "everything is connected" concept is brought up, this is what is meant. Its not some new magic that has been discovered, its realizing that the mundane everyday mechanics that allow our reality to function, are in fact quite magical, not mundane at all. But anyone can still choose to see it as mundane, its just a choice of lens.
Just using non-default settings for your proxy would be enough to thwart 99.9% of automated attacks, and you wouldn't have to rely on a hand-rolled proxy.
Is there a summary of what the fraud was about? Was it about publishing certain researchers' work?

EDIT: Thanks, I skimmed too much.
Any particular approaches / design philosophies you found useful, either to discard or embrace? ie: Testing, "SOLID" principles, etc.
I see this argument a lot for Amazon.

monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

Aren't suppliers free to start their own store, drive traffic to it and make money? Aren't suppliers free to list their products on Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist, Etsy, Shopify etc.?

How is this considered a monopoly? I'm actually interested in an answer. I might be missing something.
This has been a very effective way to transfer huge amounts of public money from the Fed to the one percent. Not sure it helps the bottom 50 percent in any way.
I wish that DuckDuckGo would focus more on their search engine. DuckDuckHack was responsible for instant answers, but they discontinued it in favor of developing their browser extension.

https://duckduckhack.com/

Their browser extension sucks. It’s just a bunch of different privacy extensions (Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, TOSDR) which have been watered down and mashed together. And it automatically changes your default search engine to DDG, which was the real intent for developing the extension all along.

Instant answers are important. Ever search for the definition of a word (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=assonance), or want to set a timer (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=timer)? These were made possible by DuckDuckHack. Now they are stuck; they cannot be changed, and no new ones can be created.
I wonder if it's cheaper in the long run to create their own products over shouldering the ongoing costs (both operational and reputation) of policing all the fake product listings.
Related (not historic stuffs necessarily): https://www.softwareheritage.org/
Add to this the fact that a lot of these brands don’t even manufacture their items in the first place: they source manufacturers and slap their logo and marketing on, then markup the item price. Does that really add value?

In some cases the private label even uses the same manufacturers, the people producing the product still get paid in the end.
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> but it is hard to say that in the end, consumers are on the loosing end

It's quite easy. Amazon is abusing its position to drive others out of business. They collect a lot of data and when someone finds a great selling product they move in and take over a big chunk of the market. That can and will hurt the customer. It should be illegal, as it actually is in some markets.
Induction cooktops are MAGIC. Since I am a lazy i used the portable ones, because having not to install them. And discovered i can flip/fold them against the wall when not in use to save space!

Anyways, go get at least one!
Lots of things that are "normal" become highly anti-human when done with Amazon's scale and lack of human review/input.
Data use agreements often specify under what terms the data is held and destroyed. While people may still remember some data, the usual use case is large databases that can't be memorized. If someone revokes that data, that data would need to be removed from the database and all associated downstream copies. Failure to comply would open the door to legal penalties, which is the real stick.

Imagine for example, if the US or UK governments took corporate misuse of personal health data (https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18760935/google-medical-d...) as seriously as they currently takes video copyright violations by individuals....
There probably need to be laws that you can't be both a platform and compete against those on your platform with your own products/content. And make sure to close the "we'll just ban our competition from the platform then!" loophole.

It seems inevitable that once a platform, whether it's an ISP, a media platform, or an ecommerce platform, starts making its own products for that platform, then they will also start abusing their power against their own platform partners.

It's just irresistible for them not to, because there's so much to gain from it. So only (pro-active) laws could stop this. You can't leave it "to the market" to solve this, because by the time that happens (if ever), the platform company would have already extracted tens and hundreds of billions of dollars from the strategy and killed an untold number of smaller companies.
Just goes to show you how insidious partisanship is. It's clearly not about liberty or policy principals, but rather whatever solution one party puts forward, the other has no choice but to oppose it.

One of my favorite pet daydreams is trying to figure out a way of abolishing political parties altogether...
Yed! Thank you. Model data and customizations needs to be under source control. That's what I'm doing in my .NET Core CMS.
> The conclusion is: no, authors write about what seizes their attention. But he doesn't really seek to absolve himself. It's more like an addict talking about addiction: "I took another drink, because that's the compulsion I felt."

This is an important point. On some level, it seems like Russo believes that right and wrong are not the most important thing here. It really all comes down to this: I had the power to do so, and I wanted to, so I did. But, at least he is thoughtful about it, and recognizes how fraught the situation is.

I don't know if he is even wrong. A lot of things in life are about power. A lot of times, something that is within your power to do will make other people unhappy. You can be paralyzed by thinking about all the different ways that someone might disapprove of what you do. There's no final arbiter to tell you when you should consider those people's feelings above your own desires. On the other hand, prosocial behavior is also important. It's something we all have to balance for ourselves.
I think "a few years" is a bit of an understatement. CoffeeScript came out one year after Google Chrome, in the heyday of Ruby on Rails. The entire web development landscape has shifted a lot since then.
This behavior should be particularly unacceptable in computer science journals. One of the main results computer science give to society is creating secure systems to protect and exchange information, and the fact that a double blind peer review system for a conference that basically deals with the construction of safe reliable systems was broken shouldn't be taken lightly.
I'm second generation Japanese-American. I read the article. I learned both languages in USA.

I just realized that I've been writing English my whole life with a stroke order.
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I would use Autumn here for clarity for sure
I read stories about exchange students from Africa going home and talking about a "strange" new flu that was circulating in Wuhan back in September of last year.
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I had a similar experience at a startup. The business manager would only bring a technical problem if he had a solution. And of course, he wasn't really in a good position to present solutions to these problems. It is a great trait for him to have in general but in a business setting, as mentioned in many other comments here, it's nice to get problems early and to include the most skilled people in solving them.
Looks like the (sad) background story is here : https://medium.com/@huixiangvoice/the-hidden-story-behind-th...

Posting here instead of a new submission
I think the depth is inversely proportional to the utility of search - the better I can search for the combination of features, price, etc that I need the less deep the shelf gets. The endless generic white-labeled junk plus poor metadata really makes the problem bad though.
Texture is (just/almost) as important as taste!
I've found the "basics" products to be a little hit and miss, at least as far as electronics— USB cables, network hubs, and the like. However, one thing I really do like about them is the minimal packaging. So much other e-commerce stuff still arrives in retail-style blister packages, which is absurd.
Mortality is a feature not a bug.
I heard it 2 miles away at the top of the Lyon Street Steps on Sunday afternoon. I hope they change it to reduce the volume.
I certainly got the impression that "Das Leben der Anderen" was made by West Germans. If it had been made by East Germans I'd expect to have found in it something surprising, something exotic, something I hadn't seen before, because I never even visited East Germany. But in fact everything in the film conformed precisely to Western ideas of what East Germany was like. I didn't even hear any music I didn't recognise: every background song seemed to have been taken from a one-euro shop CD called "Das Beste aus der DDR".
Search query data
Baidu’s database (http://index.baidu.com/) contains logs of web and mobile search query
volume in China. User confidentiality is maintained, since only the relative term frequency data
is available. We obtained daily data for symptom-related searches likely associated with
COVID-19 illness in Wuhan from April 2017 to May 2020. We extracted the relative search
volumes of the terms “cough” and “diarrhea” using WebPlotDigitizer, v4.215.
Kuai Kuai culture is a phenomenon in Taiwan where snacks are put on machines
Kuai Kuai culture is a phenomenon in Taiwan where snacks are put on machines.
At this point, the only thing I'm hoping for is basically total media collapse.

It's actually proceeding apace. By its very nature, being slick TV shows and edited textual content, it'll superficially look like everything's fine until the very end, but the layoffs continue to roll through, marginal outlets are closing, the viewership drops, the respect keeps finding new lows... it's still looking good and may even come sooner than you think.

This does not, on its own, solve the problem, but it makes the problem possible to solve.
It doesn't seem like it. I tried for awhile to move the needle on emoji domains, got nowhere....
They seem to summarize it in paragraph four, though I am not clear on what this really means - I think it is that certain authors are able to be "top ranked" and get limited review from colluding peers who may also be co-authors on the paper, but removed themselves to squeeze through review faster and avoid future flags for "conflict of interest"

"There is a chat group of a few dozen authors who in subsets work on common topics and carefully ensure not to co-author any papers with each other so as to keep out of each other’s conflict lists (to the extent that even if there is collaboration they voluntarily give up authorship on one paper to prevent conflicts on many future papers). They exchange papers before submissions and then either bid or get assigned to review each other’s papers by virtue of having expertise on the topic of the papers. They give high scores to the papers. If a review raises any technical issues in PC discussions, the usual response is something to the effect that despite the issues they still remain positive; or if a review questions the novelty claims, they point to some minor detail deep in the paper and say that they find that detail to be novel even though the paper itself does not elevate that detail to claim novelty. Our process is not set up to combat such collusion."

Also see the link in a sibling comment for what seems to have kicked this all off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23460336
Is Amazon an open market? I can't buy Google Home products on Amazon so it appears that it's not an open market. If not an open market, then isn't it the same as a dealership promoting their own brand of cars first?
Unix is seriously cool and I consider myself still young :-) But it could be better. See https://relational-pipes.globalcode.info/
For other reasons, it is just as bad when using python from Homebrew on macOS where sudo isn't necessary. `pip install` will install modules in `/usr/local` where they will get mixed with Homebrew-provided python packages. I was hoping there would be a way to make `pip install --user` the default, but I couldn't figure it out the last time I checked.
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