skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last mile delivery is hard to do efficiently. Sending someone into a huge warehouse to pick up and package, say , two cucumbers and a jar of olives, is ridiculous, so you need to collect items destined for last mile delivery in bulk. Then you divide them up further. To do this you need to create a separate section of your warehouse.

For groceries you have the additional challenge that different items need to be stored differently (cooled, frozen) during the time between getting retrieved from the big warehouse and being sent on their last mile.

You can build something for this, of course, but that’s expensive. In the case of Amazon, however, they already have facilities for storing smaller amounts of different groceries products that are relatively efficient for sending small amounts of products on their way for last mile delivery: they own supermarkets.

A decade ago I worked on some retail logistics and we ran up against exactly this problem. The solution we came up with was also exactly this: send workers into the nearest supermarket to collect the requested items from there. If you already own the supermarkets and have staff running around there, it’s a no-brainer. In fact, if you look closely you’ll see many retail companies, both large and small, do this.
Angular Talk – Live
Have you tried making enemies instead? Then you can befriend their enemies.
There's a good thread on the sysadmin reddit where folks share the actual prices they're paying
Oh I'm sorry, I'm referring to AWS exploiting the free software, not their customers, but I can see how I was not clear.

The rest of the 500+ comments here do a good job arguing both sides of it so I won't rehash that. Just saying that I can see that AWS taking the free thing and using it as a loss-leader (i.e. no possible way Elastic can compete) could be construed as exploitation of the free thing.
These fringe groups are always going to be looking for things to get upset about. What we have to be careful with is lumping 40% of the country in with these groups and pushing the divide further. We can't make generalizations and say that anyone who downloaded Parler to see what a right wing platform was like is a white supremacist any more than we can say anyone who downloads Reddit to hear a left wing perspective is only there for /r/fatpeoplehate.

There are very few ideas that can be invented and spread by a media personality without that idea already having a foothold. Unless you truly believe that 40% of the voting population are dumb mindless automatons. It's pretty condescending to anyone who considers themselves center right to be generalized like that.

Due to the realities of the two party system most people are going to "fall in line" with the party that is closest to their fundamental principles. For center right this means small government, lower taxes, merit based incentives, law enforcement, etc. You're asking a lot to ask a conservative to switch sides when the other side is so far from these fundamentals.

The same goes for republicans trying to convert democrats. Hard line ssues such as anti-abortion and "taxation is theft" are too much for center left people to handle. They're going to fall in line with whatever the Democrats are into at the time in order to make sure their fundamentals are upheld.

Trump was a symptom. The seeds were already planted. Once that weed began to grow it was inconceivable to the left and center left that anyone who called themselves human could look past the rhetoric and the character defects in order to support their deeper fundamental principles. The left began to see these people as less than human and showed their opinion with every newsreel, tweet, and post. It was, understandably, their moral duty. The only choice for someone on the right is to abandon their principles or dig deeper. He can't be THAT bad right? The conservatives are locked in and the other side isn't offering any olive branches to non-humans.

Both sides are then locked in a moral dilemma and the media is just fanning the flames. And then to top it all off during the reelection cycle we're forced to isolate and have our window to the world altered by bias confirming algorithms. There's no hope for unification under those conditions.

So many differences can be overcome by two people sitting face to face and seeing each other as two humans with different ideas experiencing the exact same stimuli. I just hope we can get back there some day.
Are any of those innovations?

It seems to me they are all boring, obvious, copied, or purchased products that complement their ad selling business.
Australians can use Duck Duck Go, Bing, or whatever. I'd bet in a few months Google wouldn't be missed.

Google can't operate in an alternative Australia.
During the beginning of the 2020 lockdowns, at least one Whole Foods location near downtown San Francisco completely closed to everyone but shoppers for delivery services. I only learned this after walking 15 minutes from my apartment to pick up some much-needed food. I don’t know how long it stayed like that.
I totally agree, I think this is great for the community because the writing was on the wall ever since the initial X-pack source-available drama as well as the original OpenDistro drama.

I think this will be better for all involved.
Not always true though, scaling out can make your queries faster by alleviating the load
If I have to guess who in this thread is most likely to be under the threshold of “OK human”...
I don’t think anyone was alleging that google should be literally landing people on the moon, so invoking the economics of moon landings specifically is hardly relevant.
Eyeballs without access to terrestrial networking probably don't make a lot of ad revenue.

But, even if so, look at Google Fiber. Google benefits from networking build out, regardless of if they're providing the network; it's just as good for them if someone else builds the network. If starlink can fill the niche that Loon filled, that works just as well for Google, on someone else's capex/opex.

Or if the freespace optics they worked on for Loon can reduce backhaul costs for traditional cell towers, that might help get more deployed in areas that don't have connectivity; which again works well for Google.
Waymo, like any and all software, will never be “complete” - but I assume you’re referring to Waymo being ready for it’s first “real” release somehow - but we still don’t know how exactly Waymo will be integrated into cars or which automakers will go with them.

That point of mine now has me wondering what Waymo will look like in 10-20 years’ time when autonomous vehicles become both ubiquitous and un-cool because it’s nothing new anymore (just like how Facebook is un-cool today). Will Waymo’s maintainers be adding new features that benefit the consumer, or will there be pressure to “monetise” it from every angle? And to what extent will brand-conscious automakers go to hide the fact they’re using Waymo, e.g. will they insist on rebranding it - not just for themselves, but between their own sub-brands (e.g. Ford vs Lincoln, or VW and Audi)?
Google Nose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VFbYadm_mrw&feat...
I kind of did answer a different question, but you sort of affirmed my answer & proved my point. If the "expected range" of your CPU utilization is only 25%, then you are knowingly paying for 3x more CPU than you are actually every planning to use. I suppose if you got that cash money and are willing to burn it, nothing I can say will stop you. I just question the logic of it.

As for why they suddenly dropped? I'll leave that to someone who knows this particular system far better than I do.
Elastic doesn't need to make more money than Amazon. They just need to be able to make enough to have a healthy business, and so far they've achieved that. $500MM yearly revenue with 40+% growth is nothing to scoff at.

It really seems like Elastic's motivation here is jealousy more than anything else. Which I understand from an emotional perspective, but from a logical perspective it's a big business blunder they've made IMO.
Absolutely. Time and money are important resources. But for myself, and I imagine many other people, the single richest form of currency in life is the trade in ideas. It is how my relationships intertwine with experience and the trading of ideas that matters most.

This is part of what makes SCC so good, it is packed with amazing and rich ideas.

The internet facilitates the trade in ideas (and relationships!) and I hope we do not lose it.
Google already is an ISP... see Fi, Fiber. Loon isn’t so far outside their domain.
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that a project would die if it’s original developper community dies. Some projects survive that shift, but it’s the exception more than the rule.
FYI there are and were government programs that operate very efficiently. Massive de-funding causes inefficiency and lack of innovation.

What The Wire does great is show how money and power is actually routed. It's capitalism hiding in plain sight. Why wouldn't it be the same way in a world with less government?
On-boarding really does seem to be the major pull. I've been developing along side docker containers for years now and I just don't see that changing.

I do see value in it, though, after the comments and after doing some additional reading. I could see myself pushing this direction if the teams I worked on had higher churn rates or more frequent new hires. Also, I think that it lends itself well to certain tech stacks / languages / ecosystems than others.
I'm sure this type of tech can be rebooted at any time depending on the need. I think a sustainable commercial model would be difficult with the global slowdown. Many of these moonshots might sadly end earlier than anticipated. I don't think COVID is the end of all momentum in startups but it sure feels like it may take a generation to return.
Just a note about safes... our community had a wildfire sweep through, and I have not heard of any fireproof safes actually working. Some were cracked open, or were so compromised they could be snapped apart by hand; some survived, but there were only ashes and melted metal at the bottom. I'm sure I didn't hear about the successes, only the failures, but still...

I don't want people to proceed with the notion that those safes are actually fire-proof. Consider them 'fire-resistant' safes that conditionally offer some extra protection.
This is the second recommendation for indiehackers, so I'm gonna give it a try.

> Keep coming back to Indie Hackers because people are engaging positively and I'm finding little communities to follow. Never found that with Reddit.

This was exactly what reddit was like, 10 years ago. Great little communities of passionate people (passionate about seeing faces in teacups or dragons fucking cars, but passionate all the same), a feeling of a community with a common culture. Nowadays even cutting out larger subreddits and following only smaller ones doesn't help, the energy and creativity has largely gone missing (IMO, YMMV, etc).
There's nothing stopping you - just pursue your own Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
They bought Deepmind though, they didn’t dream it up as a moonshot. Plus you can argue that keeping the talent at Deepmind accessible to Googlers contributes to the development of Google’s internal models, which does mostly contribute to their bottom line.
They do often tell analysts this. I have heard Ruth say countless times that they invest for the long term. This usually buys lots of time but ultimately it does need to show financial outcome. It would be strange to not expect this.
List<Object> absolutely is.

If you want to do tricky pointer stuff, the Java hack around that is an array that holds the pointer to the value instead; and, autoboxing allows ints into it. It’s a heterogeneous list.
I am a staunch supporter of the space program, but... the Apollo program also got cut before it had achieved its objectives, and probably never would have made it to the moon at all if Kennedy had lived.
To be truly portable it is worth considering whether your newly created Dev environment can work without the internet or in an air-gapped environment.

Vscode can be problematic in that respect. Typically with dependencies used by an extension often assuming they can reach out to other servers.

I look at initial internet facing container creation as a separately managed snapshot process to grab dependencies which then gets configured for particular Dev, build, test, runtime and release containers that are built by the dependency collecting original container.

Ie something like vscode isn't installed in the internet facing container, it is installed in the offline build of a Dev container. This is where the difficulties lay in my approach.
I would consider myself part of "the left". It's not an illusion or gross generalization. The entire US political system is explicitly separated into "the left" and "the right", similar to most other democracies.
Unsafe seems like Rust's equivalent of "checked exceptions" - annoying and misdirected red tape. Pretty much all graphics code (ex: vulkan) is nearly 100% unsafe too. The official docs for these libraries just say "wrap everything in an unsafe block".

Is marking the apis unsafe going to make people choose an alternative? No. Does it prevent something bad from happening? No. Do users even know what unsafe means, other than that it sounds scary? No. If they did know, would it have imparted useful knowledge to them (that documentation wouldn't have provided more specifically)? I don't think so, for most users.
It looks like someone else posted their paper to their bug.
Brexit: Retailers could burn goods stuck in EU
Of course. My point was that it appeared like they were actively working on developing new technologies. Usually, a project that is expected to shut down would mostly lose momentum months before. Although, it is possible that this work was done months ago and only came out now due to the slower Nature review cycles.
What is "this" you refer to when you say "None of this is happening"?
The general idea of a global telecom is a good one.

The strategic failure was not recognizing that starlink’s approach to the problem made way more sense.

They didn’t see that as the existential threat it was.

Instead they downsized their implementation to running the network over poor countries and hand waved a bit about being able to provide connectivity in congested areas.

Loon has no viable future in a world with starlink.
Does it need to be a binary thing ?

Elastic made a strategic mistake, and Amazon made the jerk move that was open to them.
At the peak of Apollo program spending in 1966, Dreier says, NASA accounted for roughly 4.4% of the federal budget — 6.6% of discretionary spending — more than the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-how-much...

as a percentage of the yearly federal budget, it's not that extreme.

I believe the DoD budget (entirely non-NASA) is presently running around 700 billion a year.

some very quick searching tells me the total federal budget is something like 3500 billion a year. 4.4% of that would be 154bn a year.
This starts going down a rabbit hole of tiered storage then. Because unless you design for that, you can only be as fast as your slowest storage. It'd be like tying a 20 kg weight to the leg of a sprinter otherwise.
The results of that experiment are badly confounded by the recent kerfuffle and in particular that experiment yielded the other result previously.
The evidence that there is a conspiracy is an unscreenshotted, unverified and unquoted "source" from someone who works with investors. The way they hit back was by getting them more media attention, coincidentally just after WSB themselves started a Twitter to promote themselves and had just appeared in the financial news for one particularly wild success at adjusting the price of a stock?

Kind of would have expected HN to look for a higher barrier of proof than that. Sounds more like WSB got a bit too big, started to draw some degree of actual scrutiny (partially through their own actions in tweeting out egotistical statements from their Twitter) and now are blaming it on some vague conspiracy?

I've no doubt that lots of institutional investors would be happy to keep things like WSB out. But it would be a strange and convenient coincidence that there happens to be an international conspiracy involving investors, media and financial regulators that just so happens to fit perfectly with the 'underdog' PR story WSB is trying to build itself on.
I am confused as to why someone who apparently has a large following decides to host their content on a Substack subdomain...
Cases of Covid-19 and New Syndrome on the Rise Among Kids, Especially Latinos
I've worked with many organisations that had processes, that placed a lot of value on process. At most one of them would have described their processes as being about risk mitigation. For all I know it may be true, as a kind of etymological curiosity, that the concept of process originated as a means of originating risk, but that's certainly not a useful perspective for understanding how and why most organisations that adopt processes today do so.
I believe Google is a corporate bully with its monopoly on search... However it’s easy to see that this sort of legislation allows arbitrary gate keeping of content from big tech where they (1) get to pick the publishers they want to pay, (2) pick the amount of money they want to pay them, (3) get PR headlines out of it showing how they’ve adopted these new “rules”
Doesn’t simply won’t do what the legislators want it to do.

If government wants to limit Googles power over publishers, The correct way would be to limit their monopoly on search.
Many of my problems at work are due to people in the uncanny valley between using libraries and writing their own.
Cool. I have built something similar for myself.
Before facebook, my only relevant online identity was a Starcraft handle between 2001-2005.

So you're correct - definitely from different parts of the internet!
server100 for the win
How often does it refresh the articles? Daily?
Sounds interesting! Could you give some examples on how you use it? E.g. how did you create the shortcuts, how many do you use, how do you display them or roughly what tasks are you accomplishing?
Payfast for Easy Digital Downloads – With Recurring Payment Support
I mean, maybe after 15 years they seem status quo. But almost all of these were revolutionary at the time... do you remember videos before Youtube, collaboration before Docs, email before Gmail or maps before Maps?

Yes, Google makes money off ads. But how does that discount them being innovations (which, btw, is a qualification you came up with... nobody above you even said they were).
Ok can someone give me a tldr here? Does the law require google to index these sites, then display them, then pay for what the law is mandating that they do?

Does it apply to links or the summary versions?
We need aged and revitalized tech to breakthrough some copyrights.
And, once you get used to having wild flowers and herbs in your garden, regular lawns seem quite boring.
The Earth is not the center of the universe. Similarly, time-travel seems to be an idea still stuck in the Newtonian idea of absolute time. As SR demonstrated: There is no such thing.

“Einstein said, ‘Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it,’”

https://phys.org/news/2011-04-scientists-spacetime-dimension...
Semester 1 Computer Science in a nutshell
Hi guys, I write what I've learned so far in Semester 1 Computer Science Degree.

Hope it will give some additional knowledge for people who want to apply Comp Sci degree.
I googled “ruth invest for long term” and sure enough here is a video:

https://youtu.be/UYoSyLqv9rM

She does say this quite a bit!
Or Jeff just wanted it that way.

My own personal image of X was that if you had to drive to some old Air Force base to see it, it was X. Since brain was software, it doesn’t fit the model.
I wanted to have a hedgerow for monarch at my farm. I called it a Monarch Corridor. I was even ready to move my irrigation to facilitate it. I don’t know what Xerces is supposed to do but because I was leasing land from the water Dept and it was managed by a non profit, I had to go through them..I tried for three years, not a peep. I gave up and do what I can...but I know there is so much more that can be done.

At this point, I think the environment is in the hands of private citizens. Don’t waste time getting it down through non profits or govt orgs. They exist for the care and feeding for their employees.
A few years ago I started seeing anecdotal reports of greatly reduced numbers of insectivorous birds. I shrugged it off at the time, because a few anecdotes about missing Swallows is not data, but the anecdotes (and now data) have been piling up. There seems to be something seriously wrong with our insect populations that needs to be investigated immediately.
pour one out for tucows
This kinda tells you everything about the culture of Google:

> Sadly, despite the team’s groundbreaking technical achievements over the last 9 years — ... — the road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped.

Focus is on the technical achievements, never mind if anyone ever used it.
I don’t think you realize how big California is. You could fit 3 Alabama’s in California.

When I was in Alabama, I drove across Alabama to Florida and back in an evening. A Tesla could handle that no problem. 300 miles is a long range...
U.S. DOT – Automated Vehicles Comprehensive Plan
He posted about selling his bitcoin in 2017:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/12/19/How-To-Se...

He talked about limited transaction rates then too.
No involvement of the community
Maker here. The recent version v1.2 stores passwords encrypted with the XXTEA algorithm and uses sprites as double frame buffer for less flickering. The next feature to implement will be favorites.
Is there a library/service out there that makes it really easy to make these? I have seen like 50 or so such apps crop up recently
Unfortunately, I think google has all the leverage here. I don't other industries will stand with the news orgs, and will pressure the govt. if they start losing revenue because google/fb isn't servicing australia.
> artist remuneration correlates to how impactful their work subsequently is to my life (i.e. how many times I listen to it both during discovery and then over the subsequent years/decades) rather than how effective their marketing is

I may have the wrong end of the stick here, but it sounds like you think all artists get a certain fee per stream, where as the reality is far from that (depending on many factors).
Give me SQLite running directly on an nvme card.
Ohh! Satellite to give internet seems more viable.
Mechanically simpler or not, I finished a Garmin install last week on a piston-engine Lancair. I would absolutely call the avionics and engine indicating systems intuitive and easy to use, even without being a pilot.

While it's no G1000 or G3000, the G500 TXi, GTN 750 Xi, and GI 275 are all very straightforward, with engine indications being displayed on the G500 Xi in an easy to navigate package.
Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?
I'm bored/disappointed with all the major tech companies, including Google/Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Intel, Twitter, Zoom, Slack, Amazon, Microsoft, pretty much all the unicorns that come out of Silicon Slopes, and several more.

Innovation largely seems to have stopped. Products and services shut down. Walls put up. Costs inflated. Privacy deflated. Overall lower user experience and satisfaction.

It's pretty discouraging. So tell me, what companies are you excited about and why? Who's actually making a positive difference and changing the world for good these days?

* Non-profits count too.

* Yes there are some exceptions (e.g. Apple's M1 chip; Google's Go language continues to get better) but on the whole these advances seem minor considering the companies' nearly infinite size and resources.