skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting part --

> Evidence suggests that Amazon is keenly aware of and interested in exploiting these opportunities. For example, the company has reportedly used insights gleaned from its cloud computing service to inform its investment decisions.374 By observing which start-ups are expanding their usage of Amazon Web Services, Amazon can make early assessments of the potential success of upcoming firms. Amazon has used this “unique window into the technology startup world” to invest in several start-ups that were also customers of its cloud business.375

> How Amazon has cross-leveraged its advantages across distinct lines of business suggests that the law fails to appreciate when vertical integration may prove anticompetitive. This shortcoming is underscored with online platforms, which both serve as infrastructure for other companies and collect swaths of data that they can then use to build up other lines of business. In this way, the current antitrust regime has yet to reckon with the fact that firms with concentrated control over data can systematically tilt a market in their favor, dramatically reshaping the sector.

Is there actual independent reporting on this alleged business practice?

I have heard Amazon folks "refute" this 'myth' a few times -- around the likes of WalMart / Target / BestBuy refusing to use AWS -- assuring customers that AWS and Amazon retail are strictly separate businesses.

But haven't seen real reporting on any specifics. Is it mostly conjecture?

EDIT: The part of the report I quoted has a footnote / reference to this Reuters report (dated 2011) https://www.reuters.com/article/amazon-cloud-idUSN1E7A727Q20...
Yes, this was user was just "@x"
> There were FOUR HUNDRED people working on this thing at G?

It's a people retention project to stop ex-important hires from getting poached.
There are valid reasons to avoid alcohol even without an addiction.
Doesn’t that problem also exist with NHST based A/B testing?
Sorry to hear that, what kind of experience level do you have / what is your focus area if you don’t mind me asking?
Plenty of reason for it. Even small amounts are toxic and raise your risk of cancer, liver disease, f*k up your sleep etc.
Nowadays food delivery often goes through third party. Eg Uber eats, Foodora, Bolt, Grab, etc.
Why would an FTC whose officers were appointed by congressional committee rather than the president be any slower to act? Also, why does the FTC need to act so quickly? It operates through the court system, which is itself a slow moving deliberative body as it should be.
I think a node can be partially dirty though, in the sense that some of the downstream outputs might have been recomputed but not all of them.
> Off topic but... What's the future of Fuchsia?

To keep engineers that would otherwise leave Google for competitors engaged.
As I wrote above, you can torture protocol. Wire did it: "Additionally, Wire offers a surveillance service for administrators to track and record messages for specific users who require monitoring, helping you protect your organization from legal proceedings, such as litigation, government investigations, or Freedom of Information Act requests.". But it stops to be E2EE. It somewhat "okay" when it's self hosted. It's less okay when it's SaaS.
> The nicest houses I know are owned by traders who know how to use technical analysis.

By itself that doesn't mean anything, surely you realize?

What percentage of technical analysis traders own the million dollar houses?

You definitely can make huge amounts of money on short term trades if you get lucky. So occasionally a TA trader will become very rich and have a mansion.

But, do more than 50% of them strike it that rich? If not, it's just random.

It's like saying that powerball winners have mansions, therefore the best investment strategy is to buy powerball tickets.
Is there anything equivalent for Vue? I know there was VueNative and NativeScript and there is even Ionic in Vue, but haven't really seen any framework that is either dedicated to Vue or has a strong support for Vue.
I can’t say that I did the proof out, but intuitively I would expect the posterior distribution over arm-probabilities would converge to something equal? The other option is spurious convergence to a bad posterior, which could maybe happen with poor sampling techniques, but I can’t imagine it’s more than an edge case
Source? They kept their profit margins near zero during their retail only days, but Walmart/Target/Kroger/etc have only ever earned 2% to 5% profit margins anyway.
It's for kids too young to get a driver's license, but need training in rules of the road.

Title of this post is blatant click-bait.
The article covers this. It also mentions widespread home brewing. If you or your neighbors are brewing, then I imagine they can make it as strong as they like (I have never brewed beer, so I don't know how it works.)
Complex protocols are often the death of security. There's a good reason TLS 1.3 threw out 90% of the crap from older protocols: simplicity reduces chances for mistakes.
Compost's carbon to nitrogen ratio: 30:1
People often forget that bandwidth is time. A significant fraction of redeploy time for me is docker images, and that's using alpine base images. It would be (was) far worse with something else.
That depends on the drink in question and which periods you are comparing. It was common up until the early modern period to have a daytime beer at like 2-3% that just keeps you going throughout the day without getting actually drunk (think of folks that drink PBR instead of water at music festivals to maintain). But 5% and 12% wines would also have been available as well.

Though I will say that the current trend with Double IPAs and Hazy IPAs where they all now start at 7% and go up to 10% is definitely outside of the historical norm.

But it gets weirder the more you look at it, and especially once you get into the 1700s. There is a proliferation of spirits drinking in the Anglosphere starting then, split between Gin and Whiskey. Gin became a big thing in London, probably at something like 30% alcohol, but was sold in beer volumes. People were drinking pints of straight gin, to the point where it became a big public health crisis. And of course you get the importation and rise in popularity of whiskey distilling from Scotland to the American colonies as a means to use up excess wheat and corn in a shelf stable way. From the 1700s until prohibition I get the impression that public drunkenness was FAR more common in the US and (to a lesser degree) the UK than it is now.
How does an typical NHST A/B system resolve this?
> half-step forward is easier than advocating 2 or 3 steps forward

Walking up to a brick wall is easy, walking through the brick wall is hard (and painful). And yet I walk up to brick walls all the time, and don't fear that I'll accidentally go too far.
> all this brainpower could be used on nuclear power, agriculture, construction, building trains

Humans are not fungible. The ways humans are paid are not fungible.

The vast majority of people have no idea what kind of company they'll work for when they get an education. Incidentally, the physicists need engineers to design and build the computers that crunch their numbers, and write the software that orchestrates all that. And those engineers need business folks counting beans so they can get paid and enjoy company benefits.

My dad used to say that it takes all kinds of people to make the world go round. Make no mistake that "all this brainpower" is for the people who have the brains to decide what to do with, and there's enough billions of us that it mostly works out.

If you want to get upset about wasted brainpower, think about all the intelligent folks who are caught in a cycle of poverty, or do not have opportunities because of their disabilities or family obligations, or even social status in some places.
I'm personally more excited by StableHLO and/or Tinygrad as portable intermediate languages for ML. They're more RISC. ONNX seems to have almost 200 ops, StableHLO about 100, and Tinygrad about 30.
To be clear, my stance on the matter is that it is 100% okay for anyone to connect to any open WiFi network.

I don't find it particularly troublesome that maps of open WiFi networks exist.

I do not, however, think that it's okay to behave maliciously, or inappropriately on open WiFi networks.

My earlier response to your comment about hoovering plain text passwords didn't properly acknowledge the bad behavior that took place. I concede that you are correct, it was rude and insidious behavior.
Making 'The Blue Flash': How I reconstructed a fatal atomic accident
Bad actors can detect if its being piped to bash and send different data. Better to just download the script first if you're concerned.
They did have a couple data points for volume. A historical average of ~1 liter of beer or wine per day is mentioned at the beginning of the post. Further down it seems English sailors had a daily ration of 4.5 liters(!!) of strong beer.

So taken together it seems modern people are indeed an awful lot less drunk than they were in the middle ages.

If you’re referring to the “0.05” figure i think that is just out of a unit of 1. IOW multiply by 100 to get %. They use % in other parts of the post.
The founders at a tool-making startup I worked for came back from a sales meeting one day looking very sad. I asked them why the long faces. They said they pitched the tool as something which would save their engineers a lot of pain.

"Eh?" said the prospect. "What? Who cares how much pain the engineers are in? Its their job to endure pain."

Clearly, the founders hadn't fully perfected their sales pitch....
https://yuri.is/not-julia/
I'm an avid Amazon shopper, but.. you know who is surprisingly good for things that are not books? Target. Great experience, fast shipment sells stuff online for the same price it does retail. A second runner up is Home Depot.

Amazon Music and Video are value adds, but not why people give Amazon money.
Before other OS offered slim and smaller variants and optimized for size, Alpine was the best bet. At some point the difference was huge and that meant huge savings and a increase in productivity.
I don’t know where that myth comes from. It doesn’t seem to have foundation in the historical record.
Try being an alcoholic for a few years. You might think differently about it whenever you (hopefully) get back to sobriety.
Some things I will discuss on Usenet, some on IRC, and some on here (although it is not always as good as the others, there are often more messages, and some of them are good), and sometimes a few others.
Food for thought, thank you very much. We seem to have a lot in common when it comes to learning for learning's sake.
And did that accrue to the labor force or did the owner just get more profits?
> Why would an FTC whose officers were appointed by congressional committee rather than the president be any slower to act?

Because its every action would be subject to Congressional rules and procedure. It's part of the Congress. That's what putting it under the legislature means.

> why does the FTC need to act so quickly?

Injunctions? Compelling testimony? Conducting investigations? You're confusing Congress with a sovereign Parliament.
The going theory here is that they dont have to make money shipping people shit and still own most of the marketplace because of the giant sloshy bucket of money from AWS.
If there is one universal truth in trading, it's that MarketWatch will deliver bad takes.

And given the small mistake in their previous headline, it's probably a great idea to check the original report, which coincidentally isn't linked.

Or, say, the reliability of BoA predictions. Which currently really would like to see a crash happen, but only three weeks ago was very convinced stocks would rise 16% in the next 12 months: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-06/bofa-stoc...

One or the other might even be true.
Again you seem to have no argument beyond scorn. Again: what is it that you think would be concretely hard for an AI in that position? In most tech companies a mid-level manager or senior dev can send an email and "make things happen" and I suspect most of them wouldn't know or care how exactly those things got done. But sure, no-one can explain exactly how an AI could send an email, anyone who thinks one could must be a nerd who's reading too much pulp sci-fi amirite.
works until you need to use a native library that hasn't been ported for Expo, then you need to eject. I would only consider Expo for POC/MVP
Well it's at least not copper with its own eddy current reactions on display this time.

But still rather unconvincing.. especially if this is the best they could produce as a levitation proof video to publish.
what sort of solutions cook the planet?
>the exact opposite of the limited data to date

The data I’ve seen shows a positive relationship between possessing child porn and being a sexual predator. You will also find that regular rapists possess more and more extreme porn than usual. Thing is, it’s hard to tell the direction of causation here, is it that porn creates sexual abusers or is it that sexual abusers like porn?

On the other hand, the prevalence of porn in general tracks with less sexual abuse, and I find this much more compelling than the former since you know, in my experience, porn kills your sex drive instead of making it more voracious. There’s support forums online for men rendered impotent by porn.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601...

So no, I would say the effect would probably be a net decrease in the abuse of children simply because the best explanation for the evidence is that porn reduces sexual abuse but is enjoyed by sexual abusers.

However there is a novel concern here. People being able to easily use AI to make porn of and groom the children around them is maybe a novel concern there’s no real research on and those issues might make AI generated CSAM more negative than what we've seen before, but who knows.
It's harder to make the very high alcohol stuff but anyone could make 5% beer.
Scuirity
Eh, Twitter is much worse now for sure, but depending on the folks you follow, there's still some solid up-to-date news/takes/insights there. In general, it's not great though.
You can compartmentalize such activities to a dedicated device, much like one may need a Windows device for certain software or an Android device for features in banking apps that aren't available on the website.
This is addressed in the first full paragraph of the linked article. All analysis is normalized by pure alcohol amount from then on.
I'm glad to hear you that you're amidst that process

As someone looking to replicate your success, I'd love to know some of your learnings
If a process has in it a place where a representation of a goal is stored, and for a wide range of goals, if represented in this format, if stored in this location, the process would tend to effectively achieve the goal, then it seems like the “what the goal is” (within the aforementioned wide (but not necessarily universal) range of goals) and the “capability of achieving goals” (within that range of goals) would be things that could be factored out as separate properties.

Do you think that that condition doesn’t occur?

Or, do you think that the “the range of goals for which this works” being limited, makes the “how capable is this process at achieving goals” concept illegitimate, no matter how broad the limited range is?

Also, the reason you are getting downvoted is presumably in part because you talked about being downvoted.

Your accusations are false and uninteresting, so I’m only addressing the object-level topics I can extract from your comment.
Whenever this topic comes up, there is a lot of hand-wringing as if the nightmare scenario were still in some misty future.

It's not. AIs already control the world. They have proven indifferent to the welfare of humans. Perhaps the most important developments in recent decades were their coming to own the majority of public media, and the high court of the one of biggest jurisdictions permitting them to bribe politicians secretly: in practice, to own pet legislators.

The AIs in question are called corporations. Their working parts mostly still include (readily replaced) humans, but decreasingly so. They have learned to manufacture voting blocs to drive political movements in nominally democratic countries to support their goals. By analogy to the paperclip apocalypse, they have a built-in motivation to turn all matter and energy into profit. Where their chosen method results in some service or product useful to humans, humans may benefit, but such choices may change freely, or may fail to change when the method turns out to cause net harm. Attempts at legislation to limit their power fail as they have taken control of the legislative process.

Is it too late to do anything? Probably. I for one ...
using_macos? show_download_button() : show_windows_waitlist()
Not true anymore. You can use their build service (EAS) to create app and dev client for custom libraries without ejecting
I'm just curious, not trying to dismiss it.
> I can say with relatively strong confidence that Tesla is going to be worth more than $1 trillion in three years.

How relative is your strong confidence? If you feel this is inevitable, you can become essentially infinitely rich. Why not do it?

Of course so could others. And all your collective trades move the market. At which point it's no longer true. It can't be, not everyone can become infinitely rich.
Even though I am very happy with soulless digital LCD displays, you make some compelling points. That was a fascinating blog entry.
Can add the JS to an Arc Boost as well, I think.
I hope I never witness a resonance cascade, let alone, create one.
Texas, and other “Southern” states are like this. The people with old power in these places are a special breed.

This part of the country seceded in the not-too-distant past, and there are still confederate rallies in Texas to this day. It’s super diverse but all of the power is held by by old-money southern aristocracy. (I am from Texas)
Wait. Are we calling the Microsoft thing from 1999 some kind of victory now?
It does. There's an overuse of graphs and especially the lack of units and y-axis labels on some of the graphs was annoying, but overall it's still a quite interesting and entertaining read in my opinion.
If someone does the analysis, I’m willing to bet that it coincided with when “work” started being structured around fixed hours and needing you being sober. Historically people used to work way less (hours and number of days). When that is the case, it’s very easy to be drunk all the time.
Generally I've always found the underlying principle behind the Australian system[0] to be a reasonable middle ground.

Those making less than a certain amount can only be terminated:

a) immediately for cause (theft/fraud/etc)

b) with notice for poor performance

c) with notice and a legislated payout for redundancy where the job is no longer required.

Those earning above a certain amount need to negotiate any/all of these into their contract.

Admittedly it does occasionally result in employees being reinstated whose sacking was (IMO) completely justified. I don't like those specific instances, but I figure it's the price you have to pay for a system that is tilted slightly in favour of employees.

[0] The actual laws are rubbish though, they're intentionally obtuse/vague owing to industrial relations being a political minefield and no government wanting to touch it for fear of voter pushback.
Tethered balsa wood levitation FTW
And also a fairly active HN user as well!

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mark_l_watson
You seem to be using monopoly to mean “big” or some other definition.

None of the companies you list are monopolies. Google is the closest in terms of market share but even that is a weak case. It is impossibly easy to get to Bing or DuckDuckGo, and there is the obvious, massive lateral threat that is chatgpt and other llm’s.

Amazon is about 40% of the e-commerce market. Much much less of retail.
> There was a study a while back

A couple of posts about how poor that paper was:

• https://lemire.me/blog/2015/01/14/knauff-and-nejasmic-recomm...

• https://blog.cr.yp.to/20201206-msword.html
Plenty of reasons. Is to consider consumption of alcohol a norm a problem?
Flame graph are kind of like treemaps with time axes.
My old sdk is Sciter, Frankly, it is super buggy though it is light-weight. Currently, we maintain Sciter version and Flutter version both, I can not wait to discard Sciter.
Yah, it’s not so glamorous when you wake up in your own vomit like I did yesterday, with no memory of throwing up.

I learned to sleep on my stomach a while ago
Can be said about many of the things we partake in that evoke pleasure.
Thanks for this comment! It is a very helpful design document for improving one's future event loops architecture!
What if they accompany the writings with a recording of them reading it aloud?

I think you could pick up right quick on who understood what they wrote, and who didn't.
Yeah, the blog post does not seem to talk about the appearance of rum and distilled liquor in 18th/19th century England. I think the decline of ale and beer consumption in 19th century England was partially a response to the increased availability of other forms of alcohol although I'm not a specialist in the period.
I use Disk Inventory X all the time to clean up my disk:

https://www.derlien.com/
Nah, QE and LIRP/ZIRP made it make sense.
I have used Tauri also, it does not seem having better compatibility, though it is supposed to, but the fact is not.
Tajikstan borders China, so they were already vulnerable to Chinese territorial claims and military action.

However, this isn't the case in Africa. If some African country (esp. an inland one) decides to default on loans to China, what's China going to do? China has almost no ability to project power on a faraway continent. Of course, China could cut off trade, but just how reliant on trade with China are African nations?
We have very little evidence the sun rose every back then either, but we can make educated reasoning based on evidence.
“Punishes” the “incorrect” output, more commonly.
This seems reductionist. The fact that these cars operate on regular roads that have human drivers (and pedestrians, bikes, etc) makes them much more complex than trains.
> we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor (Tc≥400 K, 127∘C)

I'll say, for "room temperature", that's certainly no room I'd want to be in.
>Don’t think it’s much different to use a closed source application than it is to use an open source app that somebody else compiled and put into your systems package repository.

What about the fact that in the case of the open source application, there are people not directly motivated to not mention problems for the good of the company, with the ability to look at the source code?
As a home brewer myself, I'd say it's not harder to make just more expensive.
Read their annual reports for the past few years.
When you do the math on the historical average, it comes out to 2-3 beers per day, hardly drunk all the time.
Bing Chat Expert Mode Interface
Just another tech bubble and people fall for that every time. NFT, Cryptocurrency, AR/VR, Metaverse, now it's AI. The formula for a tech bubble is always the same, and the result is also the same: The sharks take all the money and FOMO people lose their life savings
Preparing My X-It
The head of such an agency can be given authority to act without consulting congress in just the same manner that the current FTC does not need to ask for presidential approval for every single thing it does.
Personally, I just don’t enjoy the effects of alcohol. I don’t like feeling fuzzy-headed or dehydrated. So, although I do love the taste of scotch or red wine, I rarely have them.
as they say in Mexico, save water drink beer.
They like to do a lot of breaking changes between versions that are very painful to upgrade to. But this also applies to RN and JS ecosystem to a lesser extent.