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> In literally every business domain, Amazon succeeds not because of "customer obsession", but because of their willingness to engage in anti-competitive or outright monopolistic practices.

You're obviously casting a blanket that is far too wide. That's the hate Amazon train running out of control.

They legitimately do a great job for retail customers, re customer obsession. Their retail customer service and willingness to make things right, is excellent.

I've been buying from Amazon.com for ~23 years or so now. They've never failed to make something right. I've had maybe three bad purchases in those 23 years out of hundreds of orders (meaning something arrived that I didn't order, or it arrived damaged), all were made right with little effort on my part. Amazon almost never protests if something goes wrong with an order.

Their retail customers by and large adore them for that reason.

Their kindle ebook solution won because it was an excellent experience overall with a vast selection that was priced very much in the favor of consumers (and still is). They produced a great ebook at a great price. It's very easy to use and their pricing was so tremendous publishers sued them to try to force book prices higher on consumers.

Their Prime membership program has been no more anti-competitive than Costco's membership program.

Your scenario damns Amazon every direction no matter what they do, which reveals the plot. If they raise prices, they're a brutal monopolist taking advantage to gouge consumers. If they give consumers cheap prices, they're an anti-competitive monopolist undercutting on prices. And if by chance they perfectly align with everyone else on pricing, well they're obviously colluding to set prices, a clear anti-competitive practice.
> Even FANGs are not looking for truly innovative engineers. Most of the innovation comes via acquisitions or when they hire some industry luminaries to lead projects. The rest are only there to fill in the lines and be highly productive coding machines that will learn the “syllabus” just like they learn to leet code.

FAANMG also has a deluge of resume thrown at it every semester. Ever since mainstream media filmed at the Google Campus/Facebook HQ, every parent wants their kid to work there since "he's really good at this computer stuff" and "he's gaming all the time, he might as well make money at the computer!".

And then you get to interviewing and realize this candidate cannot write 2 lines of code...
High land prices don't happen in a vacuum and then just magically drain productivity, they reflect demand. And demand from people with lots money generally means an area that is already currently productive - so wishing a productive area could have lower land prices is a bit of a non-starter. The limiting factor for the prices isn't policy, it's the availability of land (here Texas cities have a big advantage over coastal California ones that have to deal with mountains and oceans). DFW airport is over half the size of the whole city of SF, and larger than Manhattan. That sort of excess of availability is how you end up with cheaper land.
Is there any public documentation about the expansion card interface? Is it USB 3 or Thunderbolt or something custom? The storage expansion card says it's using USB 3.2.
4 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive.

(And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just use the Archive!)
Ah, a soft fork focused on SegWit transactions. Every time I try and follow along with the latest in Bitcoin I just don't get that excited. I think that's part of the point, though. "Hard money" and all.
The actual question is can we survive technologists and their paymasters.

It is interesting the JvN starts off on a political-economy note and proceeds to geopolitics considerations, yet doesn't really address the drivers of "industrial revolution" or "empire". He opines that "[a] much more satisfactory solution than technological prohibition would be eliminating war as "a means of national policy.""

There are alternatives, John. Maybe we should work on technology to temper the desire -- construed as "divine right" -- of the few to lord it over the many. That's one alternative. War is rarely a "national" concern. Historically it is the means employed by "princes" and "kings" and "queens" to assert dominance over other egomaniacs. "Technology" of course is used to whip up the masses to serve as canon fodder.

Another alternative is developing robust ethical systems that drill into the heads of budding technologists that their humanity is not worth a paycheck.
No worries, it seems like using tensorflow.js and running locally on your browser.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/face-l...

here is as a live demo from google

https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/face-landma...
I'm presupposing that I'm the hiring manager. That's why I said "I would certainly give a candidate like that a second look."
Yes, but I tried also to be useful and suggested the ideas for improving the keyboard.
A very forever-alone project
It’s just that modern laptops run on Li-ion batteries.
African? Or European?
Don’t forget this is the guy who came under investigation in 2018 and his entire lobbying firm imploded. He’s lucky he’s not in jail.
The link you have submitted is about Workers however, which is a Cloudflare's function-as-a-service solution. I could not find egress pricing for general bandwidth that does not go through Workers last time I tried. Could you please point me to a document that says CF general egress pricing is $0.045 now?
The web is a thin client, to an approximation.

How does this solve the problem of letting customers run a fat app without forking over for the corresponding server horsepower to run it? I know that JS is high performance when written well, but it takes time and money to do it right.
I don't think it was ever meant to be live driving at highway speeds:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stefanseltz-axmacher/2020/06/16...

The point was that it was an autonomous system that could ask for help, and the "help" scenarios would mostly be cases where the truck was already stopped or at very low speeds: navigating a construction zone, a transfer yard, etc. Possibly in some of these situations it wasn't even wheel-to-wheel, but rather a system of choosing between a handful of high-level courses of action for the machine to then proceed with, or helping the perception system classify an unknown object it was looking at.

I didn't sense from the postmortem articles by Stefan that safety concerns were what killed it. It was investors being disappointed that they weren't trying to build a truck without a steering wheel at all, since that was clearly where Uber, Waymo, Tesla, and others were headed (and at least at the time, external safety concerns were not seemingly impacting any of them).
Oh that's clever, I totally forgot about this. Archive is amazing.
I agree with you, and as such, I suggest simply asking such an estimation problem set in the computing world. It also has the advantage that you can get into discussions of things relevant to computing, like finding out how much they understand about orders of magnitude time like socket communication times to various distances, speeds of disks, etc.

One of the reasons I don't like "how many ping pong balls" etc. is that you're wasting valuable interview time. Interview time should be treated as very valuable to all concerned. Asking about ping pong balls just to find out estimation skills is a waste of time because it doesn't raise any other interesting questions, vs asking an estimation question that raises all kinds of other things you can pick up that are actually relevant in addition to testing estimation skills.
Mr. Bezos has declared ad hominem attacks the enemy[1]. Are his employees suffering because he decided that their complaints were ad hominem attacks as well?

1. https://news.yahoo.com/jeff-bezos-donated-100-million-154000...
Facebook has so far tried, and failed, to do this. Twice.

First was Facebook Spaces. Opened 2017, closed 2019. This was a VR world. Not a very good one. It was mostly a 3D approach to a desktop.[1] You could hand other people flat pictures. Sharing! Total flop.

Second was Facebook Horizon. Opened 2020, still running, but not getting much attention. It's a 3D cartoon level VR world. Works OK, not very interesting or pretty. Big emphasis on "safety", which means no sex. Avatars have no legs; nothing below the waistline. Plus there's a panic button which puts you in a "personal safe zone", where you're in a bubble until Security gets there to rescue you from whomever is annoying you. While it's still running, Facebook doesn't mention Horizon any more.

Zuckerberg's vision is probably more like that video I've linked before, "Hypereality". The real world, with overlays from augmented reality. Overlays of more ads.

[1] https://youtu.be/_kGRpSd4vnc

[2] https://youtu.be/Uf_9J_EdzZw

[3] https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
Very amusing but I take issue with the article's claim that "Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds" - this might be an oversimpified perspective when it's actually a good argument to use subresource integrity (essentially cryptographic pinning of third party embedded content). I am unsure if this extends to every kind of resource that you could have in a web page, (ideally it should) but I could imagine a JS shim being used to cover some edge cases.
> Rationally, you'd think that a cashier that works 3x faster than other cashiers can make 3x the income. Or even 2x.

I don't think so, because a cashier's main job is just to wait for customers to show up. They are faster at clearing bottlenecks when a lot of customers show up at once, but they don't handle anywhere close to 3x as many customers over the course of their entire shift.
Whoops, good point.
Is there any cacheable content? I'm working on high-performance compute on CDN software you can run yourself.
Be thankful for your government, it’s the best that money can buy.
I bought a commercial TV from Samsung because it had basically no smart capability (it has some very limited smart features but they are easily disabled and ignored). I wanted something that would just not get in the way and would let me boot right into my Apple TV. Maybe it is not the traditional "dumb" TV, but it was nice to not have a ton of pop-ups and ads on a TV I paid for.
Great post, and agree with pretty much everything.

Solutions? It's going to be hard, for sure, to find anything.

Maybe:

1) Move to Italy, or equivalent (I'm in Italy at the moment and I'm Italian, so why not some free advertising for my own nice country?). Not in a big city, but pick a small town. E.g. Montalcino, in Tuscany, is home of the best Brunello wine, amazing food, lots of history, etc, and they're bringing fiber internet to every home as we speak (yes, I saw the temporary cables this morning, running from one place to another. The entire town will have high speed internet in a few weeks).

2) Build a new city. I've dreamed about doing this for the past ~30 years or so. I think I know how a city like this should be, and it would be a mix of something like Montalcino, and something like the modern world. But I have failed to find a way to do it that doesn't require having a few Billion dollars of disposable money.

3) ??
A nice piece of low effort fluff from the NYT. I'm not sure if there's any particular industry shift going on right now. There's some interest in cloud rendering from the big players and now most recently from Netflix, but it's not yet clear if this will have any significant impact or will lure away PC or Console players. The mobile phone side is pretty well established. Streaming is established. The next gen of consoles and PCs are being hampered by chip and GPU shortages. The Quest 2 is intriguing and has some half decent sales, but it's not clear if VR/AR are going to go mainstream any time this decade.

Don't think I see any inflection points, but that's just me.
Ask HN: Any youtubers who breakdown popular OSS libraries
1) Architecture choices
2) What other ways a feature could have been done.
3) Problems and what causes this.
All I can say is I hope you're wrong on some of those points. It's inevitable that myself and my family will be exposed to covid19 at some point in the future. I think the same is true for most of us.
As a life long Cleveland Indians fan (grew up there), I realize that it was time to move on from the name. And when I first heard about it this morning I thought "That is the dumbest, most generic non-sensical name I've ever heard."

Until I realized after looking at the new logo that it really does pay homage to Cleveland and it's Art Deco flair. The wings on the ball in the logo are the wings on the helmets of the "Guardian" statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge in downtown. It will take time to get used to the new name, but it's time to move on. Now... if only they would give me one World Series win before I die.....
Thanks for that answer, very interesting to know as someone who feels like they got into perl pretty late in the game. I do appreciate it where it works for sure.

I could definitely picture programming in perl in the 90s before people commonly implemented use strict; being a complete hellscape though
Genuinely curious, how does a company manage their domains after they shut down their services to prevent this kind of stuff
I think if they're in a locked room being noticed by the domestic abuser isn't a huge concern of theirs since they have a locked door between them and the abuser.
I considered an _Economist_ subscription twenty years ago, but I was put off by their endorsement of George W Bush in 2000. I now notice that they have not endorsed a single Republican for US president since then, so maybe I should give them a chance now.
Subresource integrity would prevent the porn from showing up, but the videos would still be broken. Hosting the videos yourself is the option that would keep things running.
Or young. I did stuff like that in HS and then college. Lift then surf then whatever sport was in season happened almost daily.

Now that I'm older, if I have my workouts (lift, cardio, and jiu-jitsu) all line up on the same day like what happened this week, it usually means a day or 2 of easy cardio and yoga after.
Gas Engines, and the People Behind Them, Are Cast Aside for Electric Vehicles
in my past I have dated a women of a wide range of attractiveness and of all those girls the less attractive ones are actually the ones I'd put the most effort into getting back with...

If the girl I'm with is pleasing to look at I'm content with that. How pleasing hardly matters
If we’re talking about a medium density mixed residential / commercial suburbs with walkable streets & a varied housing mix, including local schools and shops then those are usually pretty popular places to live.

The YT channel Not Just Bikes talks about Riverdale in Toronto, Canada here as an example: https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0?t=521 It has some of the highest house prices in Toronto & that reflects people’s desire to live there.

Zoning into sidely dispersed commercial / residential areas where the only way to get from one to the other is by car is a curse on society.
I bought mine real C64 cheaper than Mini. I live in central Europe and you can grab c64 here with cables etc. for around $40-50.
Or knock down your roof so that the moonlight alone illuminates your area. In 20-30 generations you will evolve huge eyes perfectly adapted for this and save tons of generational wealth.
Check out Amsterdam. You don't need to ban cars, you just need to make bikes a preferable alternative. And as has been mentioned all over this thread, check out the YouTube channel called Not Just Bikes, for a ton of good videos on the subject.
> White Americans, seeking to avoid living next to non-whites

Were they fleeing minorities or were they fleeing violence and landlords?
Entirely Off-topic, but I really like this way of quoting. It's surprisingly satisfying to see the quoted text bounded between a starting and an ending delimiter.
The normal person is becoming more financially savvy, and that's a good thing. And we're all perma bulls, even the bears who just want to become bulls at a lower entry price.
The trick didn't work with my glasses on but it's a cool setup.
GP saw an opportunity to be anti-woke and jumped on it. It's what passes for humor in some circles. Jump on a "woke" thing that is clearly ridiculous and no more than 0.001% of people agree with, offer it up as a strawman of PC culture, and use it to ridicule liberals.

It's especially egregious here because it has nothing to do with the shared article, unless you consider any conversation on Feynman as a bridge to talk about modern political correctness wrt. to Feynman.
Treating this like a technology issue is a mistake. Tech fixes are band-aids. This is a social and governance issue that needs social and governance solutions.
It was reported that Bezos himself was behind the failed pushback online by Amazon "ambassadors" to the peeing in bottles story. Replying "You don't really think people are peeing in bottles, do you?" and then finding internal Amazon documents proving management awareness of people peeing in bottles was certainly a poor decision, and seemingly influenced by Bezos' pride and ego more than reason.

And it's not as attributable to Bezos, but Amazon is famous in journalism for asking for numerous "corrections" to articles about them, when those supposed corrections are actually just unrelated talking points and PR spin.
If you want to know how many servers I'd need for a task or to discuss memory/space tradeoffs, then ask those questions outright instead of doing this indirect dance. I don't see how the question gives you an advantage when you're being asked to take skills you use and apply them to domains you don't work in that are irrelevant for the job.

The skillset I have that allows me to accurately estimate software projects is based on my knowledge and experience in that domain, and just because I can estimate there doesn't mean I can estimate tennis balls in a building, nor does being able to estimate tennis balls in a building give any indication of ability to estimate software projects.

Anyone that thinks there's some overlap between estimating software problems and estimating how many tennis balls would fit in the Empire State Building is not someone I'd want to work for.
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If you were on T-Mobile you'd probably see a huge difference. I'm able to get faster internet eating at my favorite mexican place than my house at times. Maybe adjust your settings to allow more data over 5G as well?
Thanks jedberg. You can submit you land to the platform and our radio team will assess it for viability. All going well, you can absolutely manage one site or an entire portfolio
Yeah, unfortunately you get asked to do some pretty silly stuff all the time and being able to cope with that is a critical skill.
Volumetric Video Workshop
Agreed on that, but I don't want it to become like a smartphone where it almost becomes a necessary component of a majority of your waking life. I already take in enough digital content and am tracked by enough things as it is.
or it's time to change job :)
Video embeds tend to be especially fragile however since they're often implemented by gluing together a relatively large number of third party services. Any one of the services goes down or changes the API and the whole thing breaks.

Ask any uMatrix user how much fun it is to get a video to play on some websites and just how much external crap you have to allow before you see the first frame.
As a fellow brazilian I'm happy for you guys. I don't know very much about corporate travel, but I loved the idea behind Anywhere Office. If it's any help, there's some text color issues on your website header, and the language dropdown is breaking on larger options.
Location can be easily faked, and apparently the impersonator would give the men the victim's home and work addresses.
Hard money doesn't exhibit 15000% annualized inflation in a one-month period. That Weimar Republic behavior.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad about that - it's made me tons of money on the short side. I'm just saying, it's bad money.
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Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the answer is yes, in theory. In practice, the primary people that could legitimately make that argument would be the observatories of universities or the like, people with substantial and well-documented prior interest in the act. In fact this concern was raised before. I don’t think any went as far as suing, though.
What you state makes sense. For me, I haven't worked in an environment (yet) that would need to handle fluctuating loads at scale—so my comment is my own speculation based on my experience working for smaller businesses with MUCH less data and bandwidth usage compared to those mentioned here.

And that's why I come to HN, lobsters, etc :) so that I can read and learn from others' experiences...
She had to meet an article quota and this is the best she came up with when faced with her writers block.
> Progress has solved every problem the human race has ever had.

Taken literally, then the human race does not currently have any problems, otherwise there would be at least one of the problems we have ever had which is not solved.

But what I think you are actually arguing sounds tautological to me: for every problem that has been solved, it has been solved by "progress". I don't know if you mean technological advancement or social change or something else, but it appears as if progress is defined in terms of solving a problem.

All that is left is for you to show that every problem has an achievable solution to warrant the optimism in "progress". Otherwise, it just seems like your optimism is based in the premise that the human race has solved problems in the past; persistent, long-standing, and current human problems notwithstanding.
Like what? Curious to hear about some interesting manual interactions you can do with the network that isn't exposed in typical wallets.
I’d love to see the HN crowd make this app amazing through PRs
I am very happy with my current setup after flashing my new One Plus 9 Pro with LineageOS for microG (https://lineage.microg.org/). It's LineageOS with application spoofing and comes pre-baked with microG.

I'm able to use all the standard apps (Uber, games, etc) without a Google account. I use Aurora instead of the Google Play Store, local maps as my GPS back-end, and my phone only contains the apps I actually used instead of pre-baked vendor bullshit. It's all super smooth and completely stable. I really can't say enough nice things about it.

If you're looking for the third option, I would really give aftermarket android roms a try.
Non-invasive blood sugar measurement announced by Apple supplier Rockley
Don't let political contrarianism turn you into a lunatic
6) Americans are allergic to central planning.

In Europe cities like this would be planned much more, and as this kind of city development would be seen as undesirable, the plans just wouldn't allow it. In the US it just sort of happens because of a mass of choices by individuals.
Every community needs a villain, but ask yourself this: whatever happened to Libra? Portal? (Or Building 8 in general.) Did you know that Facebook built its own drone (Aquila) that it abandoned in 2018? M? Facebook Home? Parse? Wirehog?

As seen with Google, just having excellent engineers and revenue are insufficient to building lasting products, much less fulfilling an aggressive long-term mission.
Also even when RAM was replaceable, many manufacturers put low limits on its size, I guess for the same purpose.