skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two likely contributors:

1) due to population effects, academic positions are much more competitive now than they were in say 1970; if you figure that the top 50 research universities are not generally expanding the number of professors, and that new professors generally also come from those top 50 research universities, then on average a top-50-research-university professor will generate one new such professor in a career, despite having 10-100x as many graduate students (this was different in the 70s when the university system was rapidly expanding).

2) the increasing desire for fairness in hiring and promotion (by itself, a good thing) means that you need to be able to resolve hiring and promotion disputes with something both objective and external to the university (in the same way some undergraduate institutions put more admissions weight on external and objective metrics like standardized tests compared to more easily game-able internal metrics like high school class grades)
You can still buy parts for a 1929 Ford Model A

I'm putting good money down that Ford sells a ton of EV F150s and you'll be able to find OEM and aftermarket parts for them as long as fleet vehicles are gonna fleet.
Hey,
My mother past away 5 years ago to lung cancer. I accompanied her on her way, cooked for her and so on - we had a 4 months to talk about. We haven’t talk to each other before I got informed about her illness for years! In the end, when the lung cancer already also impacted her brain and she started to think I was still a child - I took the chance to say thank you say “I love you” - that’s the back story.

How I coped with it:
My dreams actually helped me a lot. I see her very often in my dreams. In different contexts and different stories. It helped me to understand more about myself, what makes me sad, or lonely or afraid. When I see her and everything is okay with her and the dream is neutral, I go to her and hug her, tell her that’s she is dead sometimes and say that everything is fine and that I miss her. Because that’s is what I do. Something I see her she I morphing and her skin is changing to an unhealthy state. That’s shows me that I’m afraid of death. But when I’m wake I know I can’t beat death and feel strong empathy with her pain. This what I can’t handle with the most I think. Seeing her in such pain, but her pain is past.

I will never be not missing her.
My general practitioner who is also an internist was overwhelmed ("deal with it, you're getting older" diagnosed only psychosomatic reasons etc). A friend of mine suggested an MD who specializes in such infections, I later changed to a Doc nearer to where I live. Got the address from Deutsche Borreliose Gesellschaft, a german registry for lyme.
Premise: I am a decent negotiator, I have negotiated my fair share of deals, from salaries, to buying stuff around the world markers, to VC rounds. I believe that negotiations is about leverage and not bluffing, about fairness and about negotiating/exchanging informations.

Having said that, if you asked $40 and they are thinking in the $30 range, if I were in the company's shoes I would not extend an offer, since:

1. if there's too much disparity, you would not be happy (no allegiance) and you'd stil be looking for something else

AND/OR

2. if you asked a too high fee, there's no genuinity in your dealings/negotiation

Alas, that's me.

If they come back with $30 and you believe that "I am from South Asia and even $30/h is a very big deal", just take it.

If you want to negotiate more, just say nothing, act a bit surprised, and tell them that you'll have to think about it. Let some time go by, anywhere between 1/2 and 1 business day, then ask them if they could raise the offer. If they don't... counter something higher, $33 or $35, and see how it goes, you might have to settle half way or... at $30.

Beware that when negotiating the other party might actually walk away from the deal.

When I am seeking for a job, usually I make is so that I have 2 or more offers on the table. When I am hiring someone (employee or contractor) I make sure I have 2 or 3 suitable candidates that would fulfill the position.

YMMV
> Normal shipping was already around two days.

As the OP noted, 3-7 days is common. Amazon shopping in an unauthenticated/private window is an easy way to see shipping differences.
Not anymore. My prime orders take multiple days to even ship and then 2-4 days to be delivered.
> Just because something can be formally and precisely described doesn't necessarily mean it's (aesthetically) "mathematical".

Thank you, this is exactly what I was getting at.
It's a (reverse?) mortgage combined with an annuity combined with a forward sale.

Mortgaging all of your property and buying an annuity with proceeds just seems like a sensible thing for anyone who is retired and doesn't expect to leave a significant estate.

I don't really get why individuals are interested in the other side of the trade, though. Real estate is an annoyingly illiquid form of investment, so it's less attractive when you don't get to actually use the property.
Amazon is another one of those things that used to be good, but now it is not.
No. The only reason I have to believe that any entity other than myself is conscious is by observing its I/O behavior and comparing it to my own behavior that is produced by my own consciousness. Crowds do not exhibit conscious behavior. I can't have a conversation with a crowd, only with the individuals in the crowd.
> it isn’t fundamentally based on measuring empirical evidence of a natural process.

What leads you to say this? If computation is in some sense the construction of certain forms of mathematics, is computer science not then the empirical study of computers (the objects which instantiate the math) and computation (the process of instantiation)? Of course there is abstract theory as well, but that's just as true in physics

Newell and Simon had some thoughts: "We build computers and programs for many reasons.
We build them to serve society and as tools for carrying out the economic tasks of society. But as basic scientists we build machines and programs as a way of discovering new phenomena and analyzing phenomena we already know about... the phenomena surrounding computers are deep and obscure, requiring much experimentation to assess their nature."[0]

The fact that digital computation is a new process doesn't make it "unnatural", it might be argued; some also contend computation takes place not merely in digital computers but much more generally, in which case distinctions between computer science/cognitive science/physics blur

Agree with your broader point, though. I'm not aware of any consensus on the epistemological or ontological status of computer science, or on its relation to the other sciences. It seems (to me) subject to many of the same philosophical questions that dog mathematicians, re: discovery vs. invention, the uncertain reality of various abstractions, generalizability, etc

Likewise agree that consideration of the methods employed in computer science can be fruitful, in particular if the goal is not so much to establish once and for all which category CS falls most naturally into, but simply to stimulate critical thought about the fundamental questions

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/360018.360022
Too simple, sometimes naïve. I see what your did there ;)

I pointed out GFW as one example, and actually agree with you that it’s not the only reason exchanges are so limited.

However, I do notice that examples of failed Western attempts to penetrate China usually stops at Amazon and eBay: after these, popular platforms have been so pro-actively blocked that it’s impossible to know what outcome would be if they were given to chance to freely compete. And the internet turned social, which in nature runs against the Party’s grip on speech.
I dunno, I've seen folk negotiate up to salaries that they probably would have never gotten an initial offer had they started with that amount.
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Then the US gov has to decide who's a government employee or Party member and who's not, which is mission impossible. Twitter and others already do some of that on their own - no need to to touch that.

Let the platform owner decide if they want to allow CCP to post their crap; it's not like it's hard to tell it's fake - Baghdad Bob style comments from fake or throwaway accounts (they have them here on HN, too).
There is a good chance your clothing is made in Bangladesh.
It's not easy to run a website at cryogenic temperatures.
Computer didn’t always refer to a device

Someone that does abstract computation is a Computer. It was a profession

No need to get confused on how we got here
"LTV model of 'justice' here is, in my opinion, a lot lot better"

Sure, it is, when you're rich. If you're some poor bastard who's scrimped up a whole lot of money to buy an expensive item, and Amazon figures you won't spend much money in the future, you get ripped off.

There's a couple of externalities you've left out, too, because your LTV doesn't predict them:

* Reputational costs

* Risk of adverse legal outcomes, where you decline to provide deserved refunds after failing to deliver merchandise.
5-10ish years ago I stood up both gitlab and phabricator. The latter was much easier. I really, really liked phabricator, though much of it's advantages went away when using DVCS; for SVN, it's command line tools were just a joy to use by comparison.
Logging at the boundaries or seems is especially helpful.
AdTech just shows ads from the highest bidder. If a bicycle advertiser overpaid for ads and decided that they need millions of impressions, whereas a highly targeted toothpaste brand decided they need 1000 highly targeted impressions, you're going to see the bicycle ad first. Most advertisers just spray ads at people, so as a user, you end up seeing useless untargeted ads more than you see highly targeted ones.
I find relevance logic much more intuitive than intuitionistic. Intuitionistic has still some weird assumptions that make it fit a lookup table like classical logic.
Neat would love to examples in the readme as well - does support any text or just rust?
When I was shopping for wedding rings, I started seeing ads for Peoples when streaming on tv and on the SO's own phone. This despite the fact I usually browse with an ad-blocker, no-script, and delete cookies. The tracking is remarkably invasive.
Don’t confuse functional tests with unit tests. Both are necessary for systems with side effects (ie most systems)
Reminds me when I was getting relentlessly retargeted ads to purchase something. So when I did, I paid cash to keep the ads coming and mitigate any attempts at offline attribution.

I’m guessing the present wasn’t a PiHole or VPN?
The Tulsa Race Massacre – 100 Years Later
The main reason Amazon has kicked the crap out of their competitors is that they built a multi-billion dollar fulfillment platform that is better than anything out there.

Whatever degree of effect that building shipping costs into pricing has given them is negligible in comparison. And it is dead simple for even small retailers to do this with most e-Commerce tools including Shopify.
Paper and ink quality. Quality of the binding.

This isn't so much a "all print on demand suffers from quality issues" but rather "the quality of the print on demand services is often an exercise in cost cutting."

I am certain that there are POD material that are as good as the traditional book print (and there are certainly non POD that employ similar cost cutting), but rather that in general, there is more investment in quality on the larger runs of a paperback book.
Use Firefox and install uBlock Origin.

Your credit card company will still sell you out - but that does take a little more time, and will only include one item (rather than your entire browsing history) - meatspace cash is likely to help with that, but that’s much less of a problem in your context, I think.
> Even more frequent is that reviews for several different products are all bundled together.

I can't stand that. This doesn't matter if the product comes in various colors or something that would not change the product at all from one to the next, but then you also have things with computers with different options like video cards, memory configurations, cpu type, etc. That makes it VERY hard to find a review for the specific machine you ordered because it shows the reviews for all possible configurations.

It should show reviews only for the specific configuration chosen.
I’ve only used Amazon Basics for keyboards, wired mice, batteries, and hdmi cables. The keyboard/mouse are basically best-in-class for budget items imho.

I’m honestly not sure about the batteries or hdmi cables. But my appreciation for the brand makes me wonder about your own experience.
> Acknowledging the drive exists isn’t a reason to condone it.

So, exactly what Hunt said in his speech.
We used drive across America - the USA and Canada regularly, for over 50 years. In the last 10 years the annual drives, especially up and down the west coast or inland up and down (I15 for example), have changed completely.

There used to be great country diners along the way, a real treat after driving all night to pull in to a gas station, eat a country breakfast. At night, there would be steak houses, burger joints, chili shacks, taquieras, and so on. Now, there are only, these mega stops, with fast food chains, all of them the same. You can drive 2000 miles and chew on identical food and cultural experience.
A big part of the pleasure of travel has been destroyed, not to mention the health. What used to be culturally local home cooking, is now the the basest junk food, with hardly any food value, or pleasure. I would hate to be a truck driver nowadays.
Now you have to drive away from the highway, sometimes miles, to find an eatery.

It would be nice if that changed? But I think the big chain gas stations- together with the big car companies, will lobby for special funding from the government, as they seem to do, to add charging infrastructure. And a chance for local cultural identity and food, will be passed into history, again.
"Now, if this were all that was happening, sellers and brands could just sell outside of Amazon, avoid the 35-45% commission, and charge a lower price to entice customers. “Buy Cheaper at Walmart.com!” should be in ads all over the web. But it’s not. And that’s where the main claim from Racine comes in. Amazon uses its Buy Box algorithm to make sure that sellers can’t sell through a different store or even through their own site with a lower price and access Amazon customers, even if they would be able to sell it more cheaply. If they do, they get cut off from the Buy Box, and thus, cut off de facto from being able to sell on Amazon."

This was the missing piece for me. Would like to see more specifics about how Amazon does this.
> His point is all online stores can do the same thing as soon as they have your address.

Right… so agreeing then?
IME good commenting alleviates a lot of the “problems” with using complex language features. I’m thinking redis style comments (see here[0] for antirez’s philosophy on the issue). If you’re doing something that’s not immediately obvious, explain what you’re doing! That way others can verify it during review, and when someone is reading the code later they can read the comment to understand what’s happening rather than having to parse the code. IMO this applies just as much to simple constructs as to complex ones. Big for loop? Throw a comment at the top telling me what it does so I don’t have to read it when I’m skimming later. Better yet use `map` with a well-named function. Either way, provide a semantically meaningful summary of what’s happening.

[0]: http://antirez.com/news/124
"Prime, in other words, is basically a money laundering scheme."

Did the DA say that?
Do we really believe a focused microwave energy beam will be directed /only/ at power downlink stations?
It took 6 months for M1 Macs to work properly
There's a lot of questions that we need to address, cause and effect in the case of tenure and the general priorities of academia.

First you implicitly assert that tenure effects the cause of emergent moonshots. How much evidence do we have to the contrary? Cursory research shows the modern application in the US dating to the vague "19th century" not a long timeframe. Tenure itself appears to have emerged in the same timeframe. The modern US application of tenure (secondary) was put in place in 1940.

I'll grant you that we have seen a good deal of progress, but I don't know that you could make a robust argument that without tenure, that progress would be absent. I would assert that it falls into inconclusivity, and that to form an argument would require speculation and conjecture. All things are not made equal, and so finding a suitable control group to compare against would be impossible.

We can look at history, though, and see that there was a plenitude of highly driven scientists publishing and advancing understanding prior to the advent of tenure. But to say that we can transpose that to the contemporary model itself is a conjecture.

Simply, we do not know, and can not know.

As to the priorities of academia, and tenured individuals, and the metrics that institutions use to enlighten themselves on the performance of individuals we seem to have come upon a system of perverse incentives. That is exactly everything, to me, it seems we had ought to avoid. Tenured academics can obviously be terminated, but not in frivolous contexts. They are expected to hold some degree of real responsibility. What tenure grants is their freedom of opinion, and the right to fail in their pursuit. As we know, science is the art of failing upwards in a controlled direction.

"In all lines of academic investigation it is of the utmost importance that the investigator should be absolutely free to follow the indications of truth wherever they may lead. Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere we believe the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found."
--Theodore Herfurth, 1894

But the cutthroat competition, the model of "publish or perish" elimination, the perverted demand for conclusivity all stand to imperil the actual aims of science. This is all somewhat incentivized by the tenure system, by personal interest, and by the implicit obligation to "realized" progress - except this is of course not real progress. It isn't as concrete as the fundamentals, the traces are laid much finer these days and replication of research appears more often infrequent, while the quality of publications is increasingly called into question and an economy of debauchery contaminates data for capital and personal gain. And thus the bastion of humanity is corroded while evermore maintaining its authority outward. A real hazard if you ask me.

I believe it all needs reform and serious reflection to build it back better.
Any chance you are browsing with a VPN? If all AdTech was as bad as you claim it to be, then Google, and the whole sector, wouldn't be as massive as they are today.

Just like with anything: There are implementations that don't work at all/are easily fooled, but there are also systems running so effective, that you most likely don't even notice their "invisible hand" guiding you or at least guiding what you see.
Sure. Sometimes they're better than brand. When price is no issue, my basket will be a mix of store and name brands.
+1 the point of their algorithm not putting sellers in the buy box that offer their product elsewhere cheaper is the problem they should absolutely be ruled to stop that practice by a court. Nobody can make an argument for how that is possibly GOOD for competition and the consumer.
Or Facebook already knew that he was friends with the person who got the new dog, knew that person had a new dog, and started showing dog-related ads to all of the people on Facebook that they knew were friends with the new dog owner.
Kirkland is great. I've also found Target's generic brands to be fine for many basic items.
"When we look back on dentistry in 50-100 years we will be amazed how barbaric it was!"

Nothing will eclipse the barbarism and "effectiveness" of spinal disc treatments such as spinal fusions.
I think the question isn't so much how it works with that (as in you are pointing towards it just not working) and instead just how well it works with that.

Do you have numbers on how many consumers in say NA, various European countries etc are behind CGNs? I would guess most are used by mobile carriers (but I have no data) and I would gather that this particular technology is not going to be used to try and associate random mobile users anyway. It's more about who likely lives in the same household.
US prime is marketed as "two day", though in many markets free next-day arrival is common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qanMpnYsjk is a pretty good Youtube video about Amazon's shipping system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qfeoqErtY is a good Youtube video that discusses how overnight shipping systems like Fedex etc. have works.
> requires significant external manipulation to do anything useful

It seems like artificial metabolic pathways research needs to be an area where boundaries are pushed. It would be fairly useful because it would generalize energy research as well.

> start by reducing the number of genes

Top down is status quo synth-bio. But, I found it interesting that the new mRNA vaccines used the lipid nanoparticle delivery mechanisms. It seems to be a sort of an early success for bottom-up synth-bio.

> Central Dogma for a very good reason.

Which is why there are two approaches to "life". 1. what is for all practical purposes, further variations on existing biology 2. a much more profound and general definition of what "life" even is, and the ability to generate lifeforms (whatever that may mean) from just about anything - which may or may not require anything analogous to the central dogma.
Poor quality, rampant piracy.
There are other identifiers that can work cross-device other than IP. Basically anything tied to you (identifying or not) that exists on both devices can be used.

Have you logged into a service or websites on multiple devices before? Then you voluntarily gave them enough data to link it.
Can you please explain this or provide a link for those of us who aren’t read into Costco hearing aids?
If we assume the world is a cube, I would think of 4D as a several projections of 3D cubes in another 3D cube. For higher dimension, I find myself in algebraic topology. This is really tortuous to think of these concepts.
> sometimes stuff is eligible for free one-day shipping or is eligible for same-day delivery, if you buy at least $35

Even cheap items alone on an order are often available same/next in many markets -- it has to do with where the inventory is and how they're going to get it to your home.