skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought exercise because I legitimately struggle with this. Is this fundamentally different than Costco using sales data to choose which Kirkland products to launch/sell? If so, how? If not, then why do we not pursue Costco with the same gusto as Amazon? To me this behavior by Amazon seems worse, but I can't figure out why.
Hem, not... this is not how it works in Spain. Maybe a local exception, but not the rule. The law is very clear about it.
Your answer was not incorrect. DuoLingo is often wrong. See the example on my web page.
Or broken up. Its AWS and its online retail are each sufficiently large enough to be anti-competitive on their own.
Yahoo Japan has long been a separate entity.
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If sellers want their sales information to be private, they should make a compelling retail experience they control. That is where they obtain real competitive advantage. Changing from Amazon to another online retailer - that retailer will still analyze third party sales data.

It still isn’t clear if it matters. You have little perspective or experience on selling easily cloned $10-100 items (Amazon Basics) anywhere. Most of the margin is made at the point of manufacturing, by taking $1 overseas labor and selling it for $5. AmazonBasics and the other product are both made by the same labor, the same process, so the economics of what’s really going on are still in equilibrium.

But I understand (though not really sympathize with) the aspiring middleman trying to buy that $5 product and sell on Amazon being mad about doing, essentially, product discovery for Amazon. On the other hand nobody is forcing them to be middlemen.

You don’t have to launder cheap overseas labor at all. If the EU commission focused on the economics that mattered - the labor arb - the impact will be as large as you’re anticipating. It’s my opinion that the injustice of the offshore labor system is of far greater importance than some bullshit Amazon versus Some Aspiring EU Tech Company battle.
More clicks to log in than sign up is annoying, but what really bothers me is when they don't make it clear that the page brings you to both. Like if the button only says "Sign up" I'm going to look around for a bit for a "Log in" button first. If they're going to combine them, the least they could do is make it say "Sign up/Log in"
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fvi - find vi - recursively grep for a pattern and pass the successful files into the editor. I use this to find examples in a codebase. Sure, it would be nice to set editor's pattern and have it jump to the first occurrence but that has been a bridge too far. Maybe I'll try again with VSC. (Yeah, VSC doesn't seem to have a way of setting the search pattern.)

function fvi { grep -rl $1 . | xargs zsh -c 'code "$@" <$0' /dev/tty }
> everyone on the editorial staff was sure HRC was going to win

I will always remember the HuffPo homepage masthead, which showed HRC with a 98.5% chance of victory, right up until the end. Probably didn't help her situation.
I'm not at all in the field, but that doesn't match what I got from the Nature abstract. I didn't see anything describing the mechanism as "giving the antibodies another target". What I read is that the introduced MOG caused regulatory T cells to retrain the immune system to stop attacking MOG.

They do bring up the multiple target problem. The glint of hope for that involves "bystander suppression", which they found some evidence for happening, but I don't really understand what that is.
Just FYI, something like 15% of Hondurans live in the US [1], and even higher for Salvadorans, and not unrelated, the murder rate down there is extremely dramatic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduran_diaspora
Wow, the future is here. In just 12 short years we made it to version 0.21.

At this point bitcoin is like an economic black hole. Most technology allows us to do more with less. So far, bitcoin doesn't follow that pattern. The higher the price, the more resources are needed to secure the network.
"What if a programming language would provide us with a structure that would act like an array of structs, but internally it would really behave like a struct of arrays?"

What about SQL when using a columnar data store?
The elite-school wage premium (2020)
If your model suggests that healthcare workers' risk of early exposure to contagion is the same as the general population's risk, then your model is wrong.
It's rebranding the consultant model but instead of working for clients you work on products. Churn and burn.

And instead of just hired guns you work on a real world problem that you hopefully believe.
Very similar to the Tumblr situation.
I remember contributing a fix for an expansion issue in either bash or zsh (can't really recall) for nvm. Just running it was very, slow. This slowness is primarily why I usually use guix / nix on my distro of choice instead.
I'm glad this exists as I can imagine this way of handling which node to use is much faster than how nvm was doing it.
I think there's a lot of truth in your comment. I mentioned this elsewhere but as we hang out with the same people, our interests begin to align. This is what has always happened in the past and will hopefully happen again once we've realized that the Internet is death to sociality.
A headline with 5G but not a single mention of it in the article.

If any insider from Verizon may be could help explain why their insistence on mmWave 5G for Phones. ( And Phone only, not fixed Wireless internet access ) It doesn't make sense to me when the spec (3GPP) were announced, doesn't make sense when Verizon actually announced it, and still doesn't make any sense when they are now up and running. Both from a technical and Economical perspective. It still baffles me.

Or are they only doing it for the marketing? ( Which is worst because Apple have to specifically make mmWave antenna for iPhone. Although I would not be surprised if they have something like 802.11ay planned using the same antenna R&D. )
The loan isn't subsidized in any way.

You can use this calculator from Jyske bank as it is the most simplest one.
https://www.jyskebank.dk/bolig/regn-paa-bolig/beregn-laan-ti...

If you want a rough numbers try putting like 2.5 million which get's you a 4 room house in a small town or outskirt of a larger one.
Thanks. Helpful to see
A good example that I see at my local grocery store all the time is Coca-Cola.
My first reaction is that this is really good for everyone.

For Verizon, as they aptly spun it, it allows them to focus on their core business. I'm not in Media or Telecom, but from the outside looking in, the synergies between those two segments aren't obvious.

For Yahoo / AOL / Verizon Advertising, these can be repackaged into sets of assets that "make sense" so that they may be sold to strategic buyers and ultimately have a better home than being the ugly duckling in Verizon's portfolio.

For Apollo, the benefits are obvious. There's probably lots of operational improvements to execute on, again due to the fact that Verizon was likely not really focused on these businesses. Presumably the fund will reap huge returns if they can deliver on these improvements and exit successfully and timely.

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EDIT: There is one more nuanced question I forgot to address: is this "really good" for the employees to? On an individual scale, probably not. I'm sure many people will be let go once Apollo is at the helm. But from a broader view, it is arguably "good" for everyone collective in the long run. Verizon really can't do much with the asset, so the alternative to selling is letting it wither away in the hopes of some miracle, with the more likely outcome being that Yahoo and AOL would become even worse shadows of their former selves with each passing day.

Eventually people would be let go anyway and those businesses could be shut down unless some miracle strategic buyer (i.e. not a private equity owner) came along and bought them. But most strategic buyers are not comfortable buying bad operations and turning them around. They find it too risky, so that's usually a job left to financial sponsors like Apollo who are built for that. In fact, these days most PEs are not even interested in turning operations around because they also find it too risky—and sponsors learned they can make more than enough money by just being great at finding sub-scale / non-core assets, putting them together in a "platform" and selling them to another sponsor or exiting through an IPO.
As a middle aged dude who's been in tech for 25 years, I can say that literally all of my close friends at this point in life were previous coworkers.

Especially if you relocate away from your hometown for a job, I'm not sure why that would be surprising to anyone. You spend at least 8 hours a day with these people, it only makes sense you'd eventually build some connections with them. And as the parent post points out, it certainly makes the days more enjoyable when you've built healthy relationships with your peers.

And come to think of it, most people 30+ I know seem to have friend groups of almost exclusively current or former coworkers. I don't think I'm by any means unique.
Nix is one of the few package managers that really obviates building these custom solutions over and over for each different language.

You can also use nix ontop of any distro. It's UX isn't as good as a custom built solution, but if you're a polyglot you'll appreciate not needing to use a different solution for java, node, python etc
Use the Google Search Console to check for Core Web Vitals problems. Look for the "Experience" section on the left menu.
My favorite least exciting experiment!
> I'd like to interview a cosmonaut who has never been interviewed by the west before. To tell his story before a broader audience. And I started a ClubHouse room to do it,

The broad audience being a bunch of Westerners on an iOS-only, invite-only app?
I guess it depends on the context. When I am filing my income tax, I am focused on that. But when budgeting or discussing tax liability in general, I certainly don't forget about the tens of thousands of dollars I pay in local, sales, SS, etc taxes.

I would certainly not make the claim "I paid no taxes this year" if I managed to skirt only federal income tax.
Critical Race Theory is nonsense and a cancer on steroids. As a white male I'm now evil by default, and if not by my actions I am by what an ancestor did 200 years ago. What this all does it make the term racist meaningless, but the believers just can't see that.
Another phenomenon that accelerated in the early 1970s is the bifurcation of the American public into a cognitive elite and cognitive normal. Colleges became exceedingly efficient at filtering entrants by IQ, with the typical college student 1 standard deviation above the mean IQ, and with some prestigious colleges like Harvard having an average student multiple SDs above the mean. Simultaneously business administration became the purview of the same cognitive elite.

Could the rural purge have been the result of network executives alienated and at odds with the viewership they were nominally at the behest of?

Urbanization did not increase significantly at this time, so it seems cultural factors are the better explanation.
Isn't this a good thing? One part of Google made a tool that evaluates performance and they're not giving any preference to their other tools, despite also being made by Google.

If they hadn't objectively penalized you, everyone would be complaining that Google gave preferential treatment to their own products.
of course they knew! They also know about all the FAKE REVIEWS that infested Amazon, and they're not doing anything about it because it boosts sales. Not only that, but I got banned from reviewing on Amazon after I posted a review that the product's reviews are probably fake (after checking on fakespot and receiving a trashy product).
The diver absolutely did start it, and if I was a gambling man, sexpat seems like a reasonable bet. But calling someone a pedo without evidence is a very unwarranted escalation.
Nice article!!

I don't think it specifically states that this is z3-python (not a nitpick) which has an added bonus in that you can handle the SSA requirements if you're allocating inside a finite loop in the higher level language.

I was stuck on that at one time in the past, and then realized that not all the python code is in the scope of the solver and hence helps you automate those state additions.

These techniques aren't purely academic either, I've used them for reverse-engineering malware and software vulnerability analysis e.g. this inversion of MurmurHash3 https://www.josephkirwin.com/2018/04/07/z3-hash-inversions/
> and most of it is backed by USPS anyways

Amazon does not do business in US only
I'm not sure if it's fundamentally different, but maybe you're just (like I am) more inclined to perceive Amazon as a "bad" company. Costco has a lot of goodwill with the public.
If they dump their coins the price will certainly be going down to 0. Is there any historical data on these wallets you're aware of? I'm curious how many people have sold off their holdings. it seems odd to me that so many holders haven't sold yet.
the point i was making was less that this speedup of nuclear draw down was problematic so much as the whole viewpoint that ending advancement of nuclear power as a whole. germany limiting the lifespan and new construction of nuclear power dates back to the early 2000s, fukushima just reset the timelines back to the original 2022 closing dates.
I don't think it's too far fetched to think that Google will somehow tweak CrUX numbers to counteract the performance drop caused by GA. For example, on a small percentage of users block GA and send the collected CrUX numbers with a special tag to the mothership, and then using only those when ranking sites.
According to public records that came out during the Oracle lawsuit, Android had only made $22 billion in profit from its inception through the time of discovery (2016). Which is really nothing overall.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...

On the other hand, it’s reported that Google pays Apple $12 billion a year to be the default search engine on Apple devices.

Apple makes a lot more from Google on mobile than Google makes from Android.

Andy Jassy, the CEO of AWS, has said in plenty of public statements that only 4% of all enterprise IT spend is on any cloud provider. GCP is in a distant third.
Basically the studios realized that catering to older audiences was not a good long-term strategy.
Acquisitions often result in downsizing, aka "rightsizing" due to newfound efficiencies and synergies.
What are the modern tech Stack behind Yahoo?

Still have any FreeBSD running?

Do Yahoo actually use Vespa [1] for their search engine?

[1] https://vespa.ai
That happened to my grandfather as well. 3 pack a day smoker and died in his sleep at 70.

But I agree otherwise. My wife’s parents both lived into their late 90’s but had lost most of their cognitive ability for the last 5 years - so much they couldn’t live independently. Not sure that’s a great alternative death.
Charting Apple Health Data in Grafana
Just use a pihole.

It’s literally changed my internet experience in my home.
Good points - but here the ink is still trapped in its enclosure and we don't want it to spread at all when we're not writing.
There is a reason ed25519 is used instead of ed25519ph :)

PureEdDSA does not break when a hash function without collision resistance is used.
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Just import all emails from Yahoo to Gmail/Outlook. They provide importers.
> en-CA is alphabetically before en-GB.

Good guess and you're probably right, but this is as good as any time to bring up Indian 'immigration' to Canada.

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A huge number of Indians give up their Indian citizenship to become Canadian citizens while continuing to stay in India (Overseas citizens of India).

It is particularly popular among rich business-people in the country, who want a convenient passport for travel that is easy to obtain and low maintenance. Of English speaking nations, getting citizenship to EU nations was always difficult and the US-IRS chases you down no matter what country you are in. Australia and Canada are wonderful 2nd choices, with Canada making it even easier to live in the US.

I am always surprised at how many of my rich friends whose entire wealth contained within India, are not Indian citizens.
Imagine if a Costco sales rep offered to swap something in your cart with the Kirkland clone, or if they suggested the Kirkland product as you reached to grab something else off the shelf.
Do you really believe Apollo won’t gut up Yahoo and AOL or some other situation where any leftover spirit of the entities isn’t mostly gone? This is better than remaining with Verizon since they don’t want to deal with such small stuff. Here’s hoping things end up better for assets.
AWS and Amazon Retail are two different entities altogether. Even their infrastructure are at least logically siloed and my educated guess is even physically siloed in some places.

AWS is certified to comply with a bunch of cloud/data standards/regulations such as HIPPA, PCI DSS and so on. Even if a single evidence is found that AWS is breaching them the consequences will be severe.

Also for Amazon as a whole it makes very little business sense to lose a AWS customer paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year just to gain some marginal advantage in retail space. Note that Amazon retail already is operating at the limit when it comes to having accurate sales information about its competitors. It has crawlers to scrape online data and employs hundreds of analysts to build multiple models. And it’s been on this for close to three decades. So trawling AWS customer data is net negative for Amazon. It doesn’t take much for competitors to move away to Azure of GCP.

So it’s in AWS’s best interest to be absolutely fool proof about not going anywhere near customer data. Dealing with business data is a whole lot different ball game compared to collecting tracking customer data like Google does. Businesses will be unforgiving.
Looking at the graph, I wonder why salary is negatively correlated with the test score, conditional on the test score exceeding the cutoff. Test scores are almost uncorrelated with salary for scores below the cutoff.
That's interesting. As far as I understood AOL mail was handled by Yahoo at this point.
There’s more history in Robert Becker’s book “the Body Electric”.

He says that the US safe limit was arrived at by exposing hot dogs to radar transmitters and noting the lowest level at which they did not cook.

The Soviets did their experiments on developing chicken embryos in eggs and arrived at a much lower limit.

The Moscow embassy was subjected to a beam that was precisely set to the maximum safe US limit…continuously. Staff had to be rotated out every few months because they felt unwell.

Somewhere else I read that after the war, the US got all the good German rocket scientists while the Soviets picked up the electromagnetic experts. Dunno if this is true but would be interesting to find out.
Tangent: I find GA to be mostly useless nowadays for any website used by a more tech savvy community. When comparing the GA results to server logs and a separate JS logging script, and already discounting for bots, it's clear GA is only counting about 10% of my visits.

Too many people blocking that script. I have about 20 different sites using it that I manage in some form bit cannot couch for it anymore.
I detest AMP. Every time I fall into it’s clutches I can’t help but feel like I’ve wandered into a trap.
Unless you build it yourself.

If you find a house for sale built by the general contractor for themselves, it's probably very well built. In a lot of ways that wouldn't be obvious to the vast majority of people.
That's true, but , hear me out...the fact that there are people who are sufficiently equipped to realize this scenario...might compel them to spend their BTC before the BTC induced economic collapse.

That would cause the aforementioned economic collapse not to happen at all...

In such scenario the smart person is not the one who postpones gratification by storing the marshmallow, but the one who eats it now because there is no future

It's really interesting, BTC moves the analysis from balance sheets to people's psyche.
Hm, yeah, I think a key-value store would be easier to implement. I haven't looked at redis for some time now, but last time I did, persistence was done through snapshotting and everything would really be loaded into memory at start time. So that wouldn't work for this use case, where all you can do is serve a static file.

But my question revolves around databases assuming that the disk they access is local or at least a fast network storage. I wonder if there are any databases optimized to access slow storage over low bandwidth, where you're really trying to optimize the amount of data read more than anything else.
> TCP uses CRC32 checksums.

It uses a 16-bit ones complement addition. At the packet sizes used on the internet it's extremely weak, much more so than you'd expect just from it being 16-bits, especially on data that isn't a uniform binary.
How the global chip shortage might affect people who just want 2 wash their dogs
It is more likely to succeed with mis leading advertising. Especially in markets like UK with strong regulations on ads.
Got a heart attack when I just saw the headline,thinking it was a latest news. That aside, it's crazy how things changed for Yahoo.
If you really look at what transpired through their struggle to find a comfortable spot during all those period of acquisitions. They really failed to find a way to manage building existing products and integrating new ones.
Tiny question: what is LSB?

> At this point, we have control again and AmigaOS is almost fully initialized, with the notable exception of dos.library (not required for doing block level I/O), which is skipped as the LSB of its RomTag structure's rt_Flags field is clear.
This logic seems to be flawed on the face of it.

People do in fact have life-changing experiences through social contact. I.e. by having conversations and meeting people of kinds they hadn’t previously experienced.

It’s therefore reasonable to expect, just by the numbers, that a novel social platform with millions of users interacting can create or facilitate such experiences for some people.
Hey Steve :-) I've been following and using Rust since early 2013 (so starting around the same time you did, when I compare our contributions to the compiler) and back then I definitely did not find the lexical lifetimes hard to understand. I remember also noticing an increase in "dumb" lifetime-related questions after NLL landed, seemingly caused by a lack of understanding of how they work.

Perhaps it's all just confirmation bias on my end, but I think truly understanding lifetimes was easier the way I learned it back then. That said, I have never bothered to write documentation for the Rust project, whereas few Rust contributors can claim to be in the same league as you in that area. We probably have very different perspectives.
An array of structs is already a struct of arrays if you're willing to do some offset math.
You seem to be confusing group chat with Twitter. And who exactly would "own the messaging space"? SMS is a protocol available to any carrier in any country.
The Climate Solution Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 into the Atmosphere
Will yahoo mobile phone service continue or be absorbed into visible?
In theory there is some point in which the amount minted is lower than the amount lost (through losing keys/bad transactions/etc). In that case the inflationary currency is, in practice, deflationary.
I find it even more infuriating considering that the money doesn't exist physically, it's just some numbers in the computer.