skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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So my question is: what makes Amazon different, behaviorally, than Costco, Walmart, Vons, etc.? Both use an (arguably) unfair data asymmetry to introduce in-house branded products to compete with the external brands they also sell. You then have brands like Trader Joe's that go out of their way to have an in-house brand, and make few exceptions.

The difference is that Costco very clearly discriminates about whose products it will stock on shelves, whereas Amazon is more like a flea market that charges people for renting bazaar stalls to sell from, and POS machines for processing payments.

I'm not sure that should result in legislative differences, but that is a pretty significant difference between the two.
So I used to work with someone from Amazon retail. He told me, in no uncertain terms, that Amazon mined their seller data to undercut them. We sold on Amazon and he constantly told us that we were fools to do so. He even mentioned that prior to accepting a position he had looked up our seller performance to make sure he was going to a good company.

Maybe policies have since changed. At the time I was also told the most popular "test" SKU used by Amazon engineers was a 50 gallon barrel of lube.
>None of those alternatives refute the 'fading away' in any way.

The purpose of my examples was to show I can imagine the opposition not fading away, but people selectively ignoring it. So, if you feel confident in making the characterization that anti-globalization has been de-emphasized in a coordinated way, please explain how you know it's gone.
That’s the problem with paid apps... but I also believe now it’s a problem with devs not validating the app receipt to check for refunds and prevent access.
Serious question: Is this refund problem as big an issue as commenters here are implying? Is there data that shows that app developers are losing significant money due to Apple's fees not being refunded? https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/07/Indeed-Prime.html?m=1
Lidar's range is measured in hundreds of meters. That might be a bit limiting for flight. Radar could be used, but you might not want to have a "hey all, I'm here!"-beacon for military purposes.

You could of course use cameras, pointing either up (stellar navigation) or down, but that's not going to work all the time.
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

– From the classic scene in Casablanca, 1942 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME)
XML schemas were not overcooked.
The way you can do both - i.e. giver her a name, since she has enough accomplishments in her own right to be named, but also indicate she is Bezos' ex-wife for those who do not know is like this:

Mackenzie Scott (Bezos' ex-wife) gives $1.7B to..

This ensures that in the future she might have enough name recognition to no longer be relegated to "Bezos' ex-wife," and one day we might make the () fall away.

To demonstrate this is true, we can turn to a lower celebrity, Mark Anthony. He tended to be referenced in publications like this:

Mark Anthony, Jennifer Lopez's husband...

However, at this point, he has enough name recognition that a lot of publications will no longer mention it in the title.
Right not a bad point, but I was making the comparison to demonstrate Amazon's scale within ecommerce... not to compare the volume of sales across all commerce.

I personally think the distinction matters, but maybe I'm wrong.
The argument I’m familiar with goes as follows: Stores choose all their goods, bazaars provide stalls for merchants. People don’t like when one tries to masquerade as the other, or, be both.

Costco, being a store, can choose foods or goods that have been rebranded or independently sourced and no one really cares — they are still fully autonomous. They have always taken ownership of the product, so a change in supply seems to be completely within the store’s wheelhouse.

On the other hand, Amazon is a bazaar. Merchants line up, trying to get you to purchase from their stall using various tactics. Merchants get unhappy when they see that the bazaar’s guard uses their ledger to inform the head of the bazaar which merchants he could kick out. Not literally kick out, but be put in a worse position so that the bazaar’s own products are now the first ones people see.

This conflict of interest is in direct opposition of the merchants and may be in opposition of the consumers.

I personally really like Amazon Basics, as it tends to remove the brand cost. However, there’s a reason brands became popular in the first place — and the Amazon Basic brand is not one I associate with “quality”. I think the best part of the Amazon Basic brand is that it establishes a minimum bar of quality that Amazon generally needs. I know if so want the cheapest I go to them, otherwise I do my research or rely on brand reputation like I did before.

This is becoming more of the case with Whole Foods, which I’ve started to avoid. They were a quality store and that quality (seems to) have gone down. The issue with the Whole Foods purchase is that there are lower quality grocery stores already, so I’d be interested in how they’re doing with that market.
Didn't they received a lot of funding? What features did they implement that are not present in GIMP?
Looking back through his comment history, the "cult" he is referring to is the Mormon church.
This error occurs on default macOS when using software precompiled on another computer, when the person who compiled and released that software has not signed up for an Apple Developer account and submitted the precompiled bundle for notarization, one of Apple's anti-malware prevention mechanisms.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...

You can usually work around it by right-clicking the app and choosing Open, which usually triggers a special approval dialog. You should generally use caution when doing so, as you're granting an arbitrary binary whose contents you are unlikely to verify access to your private data.

ps. Developers, automating this process as part of your releasing is relatively easy, assuming you have a paid Developer account. The shell script at this link is accompanied by a clear walkthrough, and can be adapted to most workflows run locally on a machine containing your signing keypair. (And if your precompiled binary or bundle was not built with Xcode, you would skip the “xcodebuild” step.)

https://scriptingosx.com/2019/09/notarize-a-command-line-too...
Locally, Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia, being the only country in the history of the world to gain independence against its own will -- certainly the only one I know of. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_in_Malaysia
Great point.

Don’t forget that local government also taxes the poor with predatory fees and fines for minor infractions.

- parking tickets
- car insurance fines
- cash bail

Sources:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-20-me-60640-...
https://theappeal.org/fines-and-fees-explained-bf4e05d188bf/

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/incomejails.html
Out of my ass I think three things.

One issue is gate loading. Connecting a large number of registers to a bus limits the max throughput. I remember some RISC processor they flubbed that.

The second is the 68000 had two ALU's one for data and the other for addresses. So can do address and data calculations in parallel.

Third separation means you need fewer bits to encode the register addresses in the instruction word.
I started taking lessons with a local teacher about a year ago. It's the same now but over Skype, even though we live about a mile away from each other lol
Well that's just going to result in the next hacker going straight to public.
> On Costco, it’s not a marketplace for third party sellers to ship to customers. Sure it’s closer to us to make analogies with traditional brands, but Amazon’s position is nothing similar.

Is it not? I mean, some of the details are different, but fundamentally Costco sells third party products. I don't really see how the distinction here is relevant to the issue at hand.
Yes. This is the worry. "Airplane" is considered one of the funniest movies ever made and most of the jokes would probably never see the light of the day today.
https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy

110% recommended.
My mind went to "brown snake", which is one of the most venomous snakes in Australia.
The worst part of ruby imo is the fact that a hash can have both string and symbol keys. Countless times I have encountered issues where a function takes an options hash and the callers use both string and symbols for the same key depending on which caller it is. I end up calling the function to convert to symbols all the time.
I heard finance was considered a sleepy boring backwater in the mid 20th century. Hardly any "positive reputation as brave risk takers".
Perhaps you missed my point. I'm simply suggesting that the answer to this rhetorical question is yes, you could do that, but you'd be a jerk for having done so. Having an internet army do jerk-like things for you occurs all too frequently.
You are spot in. There is just not enough money in it.
Also it became a political issue after Trump mentiomed it, see:
https://youtu.be/mnaYpmk8l1c?t=1047
This is not universally true. It's bad if the dominant player uses their dominance to deliver sub-par quality at high prices. But so far Amazon doesn't seem to be doing that, at least in my user experience of it.

It is bad that they might one day be able to parlay their dominance into harming consumers, but the dominance itself is not necessarily a bad thing, IMO.
Kevin Rose had some great shows all the way back to tech tv Leo Laporte days.

I wonder what happened to that guy. I would gladly trade a drunk Kevin for a Zuckerberg.
Yes, I started 1-1 lessons with a local teacher about year ago. Now, we're doing it over Skype. Since we already know each other it works well. I feel that real-time feedback is essential for beginners like me.
Designer of the rosco-m68k (which was mentioned in another comment - thanks!) here, always good to see another 68k SBC on the block. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves, would be especially nice to make it so $0 isn’t permanently a ROM address (to allow interrupt vectors to be changed). Even on 68010 I had to do some magic in the address decoder to make ROM be temporarily at $0 at reset.
The Children and the CIA (1977)
They do, though. I have been on calls with Amazon reps to discuss how our ad campaigns have been performing, what can be done, and what additional sources of data from Amazon we can access through beta programs and the like. Individual Amazon agents of varying levels constantly check and reference the private data of individual sellers for all kinds of reasons (again, most of them justified and useful). In most such cases I have been very impressed on the search ad side of things. On the outside Amazon ad placement side of things (Amazon Media Group) they were basically crooks, but that is normal in display ad world, which is a crooked world full of frauds.

They can absolutely access individual seller data and do so all the time for all kinds of (mostly mundane) reasons. The aggregated data is also actually more valuable than the individualized data in most situations.

Amazon unlike Google has tended to open up more accurate sources of data to larger groups of sellers, in contrast with Google or FB which have tended to start off giving people lots and lots of free data and then paywalling more and more of it through the progressive crippling of the keyword tool and so on.

Frankly Amazon is so bad at selling its own private label products that it should not concern anyone. They suck at it compared to any other major retailer that you can think of. I have seen Amazon private labels be discontinued and fail and have competed with Amazon products successfully in many different categories on Amazon. They are usually pretty lazy and un-inventive. When they succeed it is usually at the level of "acceptable competence, good price to performance ratio" as in many of the Amazon Basics computer hardware accessories.

It is a major distraction from other serious issues like the endemic crime on the platform (counterfeiting etc.) which actually poses a serious danger to customers, to Amazon, to sellers, and to brands as well.
Bitcoin and the Future of Money – Lyn Alden and Jeff Booth [video]
Not really - this fine SO answer has many examples of CROSS/OUTER APPLY elegantly solving problems that would otherwise have been inconvenient to deal with - https://stackoverflow.com/a/9275865/753731
This isn't logical. It's the same in percentage terms.

Whether you sell 1000 copies at $100 or 100,000 copies at $1, assuming the percent of refunds is constant, then the effect is identical. Right?
I expect most ruby projects only have rails as its core dependency with all other gems being small utility libraries that can be easily updated and replaced. Python gets used for such a wide variety of things.
Ok You Luddites, Time to Chill Out on Facebook over Privacy (2010)
Wow, seeing Phoenix instantly brought on a heavy wave of nostalgia. Back in high school I was the kid who bought a USB link cable for my TI-83+ and distributed games to people. An effective way to get in the good favor of the jocks.

I'll have to give this a spin!
I am aware of that but I am not sure what should I do with it. The state of Czechia, nor the former Kingdom of Bohemia, nor its Austrian emperors did that.

It's not just the Soviet Union that went wrong, and it went wrong since it's founding to its very end -the stalinist era was merely an extreme. dozens of states went wrong along with it, and not just the SU-affiliated ones too, there are states like Yugoslavia, China, Cuba...
Qualcomm stock spikes toward record high after Huawei settlement
MMU is optional, unless you want virtual memory. The 68010 fixes a bug in the 68000 whereby it didn’t stack enough information to recover from an address or bus error, but you still need an MMU if you want to actually do virtual memory in any performant fashion.
Ah yes, I should have grouped by the non-time key fields.
Perhaps proper education and examples of personal finance and budgeting, even in the face of celebrity promos and sales sales sales, could prevent some of the next generation from doing the same. I'd argue that you're oversimplifying those that got themselves stuck. They possibly lacked caring or supportive parents, stable childhood, stable role models that aren't rich, quality education on issues like personal finance, etc.

When things are simplified it's often easier to draw conclusions, but the method of simplification and how far you go will induce bias. Maybe someone's car was hit and totalled. They couldn't afford to insure it while working 2 jobs with no healthcare/benefits and trying to support a kid they can't afford (or legally abort). They now have a medical bill for $2000 due to injuries sustained, no car to commute to work, no job if they can't commute, and no way to afford an incoming baby regardless. They jump to a dealership the next morning and have a car loan signed by 10am, then back to work having missed hours (that they won't get paid for). Then they had to decide between food and the car loan before even considering the medical debt. Maybe they had medical debt from a prior issue that tanked their credit score and left them with a 20%+ loan they just signed. Maybe they have a concussion or the pregnant woman needs time off work to heal (Paid? Unpaid? will there be a job to return to?) Regardless, they didn't have the resources, time, money or energy to respond to the crash and it sunk them into thousands of debt before they got their test results back from the medical appointment.

Sucks, but is a very real issue for many Americans. With proper regulations (with teeth) for:

benefits/sick leave or PTO/wiggle room to deal with emergencies outside of work,

laws to cut down interest rates or free people from bad/old debt that has them spiralling including higher education or Community College coursework in personal finance or budgeting (and better career/job prospects),

proper funding for universal healthcare to stop medical debts and increase use of basci services to prevent major cases and long term costly health issues,

support for families (including family planning) and greater access to (and no loss of pride from using) SNAP/food stamps,

a plan for childcare

education from a young age on personal finance and other useful practices

We could see improvements in many Americans daily lives. Often, edge case or minority groups feel the system has left them behind, forgotten them, or even betrayed them. In America, that's true. The system will help those who help themselves but life does not discriminate when dealing out misfortunes and it can be very expensive to be poor for reasons mentioned in other comments like the boots story. Citizens will continue fighting even if they are fighting for the right to die from lack of support, can't reason with it.
They might need to be there to port the software for that new armv8-a windows they have. I don’t think there’re many volunteers implementing support of a platform that hasn’t quite took off.
GIMP is ...not very good. Fixing the UI and UX wouldn't change that. Compared to GIMP, as a project, Krita is in another dimension.

If any software is going to become a successful FLOSS Photoshop replacement it's either Krita (if they decide to go that route instead of just painting) in a few years, a new open source project with an impressive MVP (like Olive the video editor, to Adobe Premiere), or some kind of miracle like one of their commercial competitors deciding to open source it.
> They seem to have mitigated it by both requiring a user logs in to join meetings in the web client

Well, that's unfortunate. I don't have a zoom account and have no interest in having one, but sometimes need to attend meetings I have no control over where they're held.
So you don't think something can be expensive because it is heavily regulated? Or do you just think it is not possible with less regulation?
Well maybe we can start with the monopolies that are taking our data, eroding privacy, encouraging social unrest, literally killing teens with depression and isolation, unrepentant in dissolving the bonds in their home nation, etc.

Then we can move to the ISP's and co. I'm all for anti-trust on them as well.
It was referring to the evaluated statement, not the syntax.
I see no fault on Amazon's side about using the data that are accessible to them, and exploit whatever value from them.

Naturally, the competition is for a winner to emerge. Not to continuously drag on in a competition. What Amazon did is natural and reasonable in a competition.

Secondly, it's a reasonable thing for a platform to access aggregate sales data. Amazon is a retail platform. It's entirely unreasonable to forbid them from using such data for the benefits of the sellers and buyers, and for their platform to function better.

In the end, this is a value judgement:
* Is it still a valuable thing to let the small retailers to operate independently, and be free from of systematic data-driven competition from platforms?

My feeling is that the small retailers are just an inefficient way of using society resources. And I support Amazon's strategy.
I'm a huge 68000 fan (I am happy it helped make the programmer I am today), but support for virtual memory was hardly the reason IBM selected the 8088 over the 68000 for the PC.

Looking back at the history of 68000 based computers in the 1980s, there were so many missed opportunities. Both Commodore and Apple could have shipped systems with higher clocked 68000s in 1985, but didn't. Commodore didn't ship a real 32 bit system (the Amiga 3000) with the 68030 until 1990, 3 years after the 68030 was released in 1987. Apple at least shipped the IIx in 1988, but it was priced so high as to not be a real option in the home market.

In contrast, anything Intel shipped was brought to market far more quickly thanks to the booming clone market. There was even quite a bit of innovation in external caches for 386 and 486 based systems - I remember reading reviews in Byte magazine in 1987 highlighting the performance differences of the same CPU in a wide variety of systems.

The 68000 series had so many architectural advantages over 8086/8088, but that one choice by IBM for the PC effectively doomed m68k to the dustbin of history. That still makes me sad to this day.
Honestly it’s a dumb hill to choose to die on for the simple reason it is so obviously pro consumer as to be politically and legally untenable as a status quo antitrust matter.
My impression is that Audible does explicitly fund some exclusives. This is especially the case for "Audible Originals" which are a sort of gray area between Audible Exclusives and podcasts.
Everybody steals technology from everybody else. (Even within countries.) To say that it's otherwise is being a bit naive.
Year of release could use a from-to range selector.
Ahh yes, the wonderful Google support team. Spend any time looking at /r/GooglePixel, or doing searches on twitter, and you'll realise that isn't an improvement at all.

When the Pixel works, it works great. If you ever have a problem though, good luck. You're in for a nightmare.
I think Gibbon1 has hit the nail in the head in reply to this - it makes the instruction encoding smaller. It also allows the registers to be treated differently on-chip. Combined, this makes stuff like the register indirect with offset addressing modes on 68k both small and fast.
This doesn't seem reasonable. If you assume anyone can be run over by a bus, most ways of mitigating that risk involve some recovery time. If it takes 4 hours to recover that person's work and get up to speed, the company has planned accordingly, but it's still extremely inconvenient to lose half a day because someone didn't show up to work.
First dog to test positive for Covid-19 in the U.S., has died
Microsoft acquiring Softimage made perfect sense at the time, Microsoft was wanting to push NT into the CG/VFX market, but because of the risk around companies producing for a platform that noone uses, someone had to throw the capital at it, and so Microsoft did.

Softimage|3D survived for a while after Microsoft sold it off, its eventual obsolescence seemed to came about from the drive to more extensible platforms, hence the new platform Softimage|XSI put out to compete with Maya.

Its also somewhat perfect irony that the company known for its Windows NT based 3D animation software (3DS MAX), Autodesk, would eventually end up owning the products which brought the big players over to that platform.

SGI also helped contribute to IRIX's obsolescence by producing NT based systems for this new Softimage|3D on NT move.
Oculus Quest finally has 1M install base – once on track to reach that by 2019
I can't comment on any of the meaty stuff, but I can comment on the silly.

> At the time I was also told the most popular "test" SKU used by Amazon engineers was a 50 gallon barrel of lube.

Not knowing when this was, but I can say around 2013-2015 that this wasn't a general thing[0]. Could there have been an engineer who used it a lot? Sure, but there's a lot of them.

Even if you disregard the crudity of it, it also just doesn't make for a good test ASIN outside of a small number of verticals. You'd much rather test with real ASINs where possible (which is almost 100% of the time), or with something idiomatic to the experience you're developing.

EDIT: though maybe people have become inspired by https://observer.com/2015/07/at-1k-55-gallon-bottle-of-lube-... ? Still, it stands to reason that you want to test with real products whenever you can.
What a different era. Can't imagine any television show today would investigate the CIA.
as an fyi, csrf protection is not related to bot protection; the csrf protection failure means an attacker can execute this code in another user’s browser (and get no meaningful result)
Did glitch help Amazon escape early questions in Washington hearing?
Ultimately it’s just crazy, trying to pretend that such utterly rampant capitalists don’t act like capitalists. I just don’t see the point.