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I guess you could achieve the same effect with different majors, but in our system for example you can study majors that carry the same name, eg mechanical engineering, with a more theoretical or applied focus depending on which type of university you go to.
Blue Apron is not a good company relative to the other meal kit delivery services anyway. Their recipes are overly simplistic and their whole experience using UX dark patterns limiting which meals one can get in combination turned me off, and misleading people regarding cancellation.

The higher quality meal kits like Home Chef won't have this problem because they give you, for about the same price, more complex recipes with cool ingredients like demi-glace. There are enough things you can't buy in small quantities easily.
That explains why I haven't seen it! I haven't updated Kindle for PC in years, either.

Thanks for the info! I might have to give B&N a try myself, although at the moment the only books on my list are preordered.
I didn't mean that they'd combine volumes, but both could fight for share. So you have 3 contenders, 2x Aldi and Lidl. Lidl probably has most money to spend but the US market is huge, they can all grow at their limits without threatening each other too much.
Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but my opinions are my own.

I don't think you have much to worry about if you're a WF employee. Amazon actually treats their employees very well. In my experience here, I've never seen any of the things the NY times article talked about, either on my team or any other team I've interacted with. People have a healthy work/life balance (40-50 hours a week), get paid very well (definitely above average, and probably in the top 25% of industry), and in general they are concerned with long-term employee sustainability, rather than letting employees burn out and quit.

I know that there are some stories about bad experiences in the fulfillment centers, but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor. That's a completely different environment than full time employees work in.
I don't think that is right, Whole Foods stores are already full of...food. They don't have room for hundreds of additional products, never mind tens of thousands.
Today's security margin is tomorrow's past news.

Usually, security margins are planned against brute force according to Moore's law. This is not enough. Novel cryptographic attacks do not suddenly render the entire algorithm useless (usually); rather, they dramatically reduce its strength. And novel cryptographic attacks appear all the time even in the public space -- who knows what stays behind closed doors and clearances?

If you have large enough security margin, you can escape unscathed while you upgrade your infrastructure. And if not, not.
Yep it will take a while. But it's a faster and less risky route to market than Amazon branded brick and mortar grocery stores from scratch. And many other synergies like you say
I don't think so. You are correct that there are a large number of people who don't want the social stigma of being poor etc., but for many they see it as one of the few pleasures they can still have. To these people, they smoke, most of their friends and family smoke, and life is a struggle on a day to day basis. To them calling them a loser doesn't shame them, it just makes them more angry towards you.
Isn't this in general normal for the poor? Poor are poor because they prefer instant gratification and don't think about what it means long term.
Really can't tell if this is sarcasm or someone who just missed the entire US presidential cycle.
Nice pay wall
The orphaned words in that bulleted list is driving me crazy. Just throw an `&nbsp;` in between the two last words in each line and this will never happen.
Some answers will mean something and other answers will mean nothing.
> disrupt the wine and liquor sector

Explain?
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Could you please counter my arguments (brute force security against immeasurably larger computing power, resilience to novel unknown crypto attacks reducing the algorithm strength) with something more substantial than "this is simply not correct"?
But it will help a lot for the remaining ~10% or so of middle class people who smoke, to quit.
I had some course about linear algebra, though I agree only the very basics (matrix multiplication etc. but nothing fancy about convolution etc. so I would need to follow a course to be able to implement a raytracer for example)

About neural network, also we didn't learned it, but we learned prolog and lips. And prolog itself was a "mind blowing" moment that I would not have exchanged against quantum physics or more maths.

I'm learning rust right now, so I think it's more about the mindset, the school being here mostly to open up your mind about subjects.
This is not good for Instacart. My understanding is WF was their biggest partner and source of revenue. No way amazon will use them.
Yeah, that's worse, not better.
>navigating mail generally consumes the least time... actually reading the mail and deciding what to do about it takes way longer

Depends on the kind of email you receive.
Yeah, and I can't imagine the kind of places Whole Foods is located making any kind of sense as a warehouse.
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Whereas rich are rich because their parents were rich.
"It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?"

You sound like a really fun guy to know.
I don't believe that means they were hacked.
I can't wait for drones to deliver organic quinoa straight to my door.
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I mean to be fair, most of the jobs at WF stores ARE unskilled labor though.
I think what they might be talking about is that Whole Foods has had a rocky few quarters and might be forced to sell, where they wouldn't have sold in a different circumstance.
$13.7B / 431 = $31.79m per store. I have zero experience with real estate prices for retail outlets, but it feels as if that's a bit on the high end?
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> I know that there are some stories about bad experiences in the fulfillment centers, but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor. That's a completely different environment than full time employees work in.

But probably more similar to most jobs in a grocery store than a software engineering position.
How do you differentiate between DRM-free and DRM-protected books on Amazon?

Up until I have read this comment, I didn't even know that Amazon support DRM-free books.
Imagine when AI undoes all positive discrimination, like for minorities, women etc. because it would try to optimize for results, i.e. bringing its own type of meritocracy, going after biggest gains without political affection (survival of the fittest/strongest).
Amazon wants to kill retail and their biggest threat is Walmart. Walmart currently uses groceries as a way to get people in stores and when they're in the store they buy other things as well.

Now imagine if you are Amazon and you'd like all those people going to Walmart to just use your services. If I could get my groceries delivered to my door and only need to go to stores once in a blue moon I'd be really happy.
In the documentary, "A Billion Lives", the former spokesman for Winston says he was told by tobacco executives (who did not smoke) that smoking is for "the poor, the black, the young, and the stupid".
I do, with Dropbox, and it mostly works... but it's very easy to get the database corrupted even if you are careful not to have more than one instance of Calibre open.

I haven't tried using a source control system, that might work better. Hmmm.

And of course that only works for computers, There isn't a full version of Calibre for Android.
His point was that cryptographic hash functions can be designed to be both slow or fast for different purposes. Key derivation functions and password-hashing functions like bcrypt and PBKDF2 are designed to be slow to mitigate brute-force attempts. But general-purpose hash functions like SHA-3 are not designed to be slow; in fact, you'd rather they be fast, because they're designed to be used in e.g. MACs.

In general, cryptographic hash functions are designed to be computed quickly, and key derivation functions are a special subset with greater difficulty requirements designed to be computed slowly. Your comment conflated the two, hence the parent's response.
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A project could be effectively both - the developer still wants (wanted?) to add more features, but what's there is complete and stable.

Word of mouth and some good old experimentation seem to be your best options for identifying solid tooling.
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At least in my experience, a lot of employees at the store live and die for the company. Tons of growth / mobility. Lots of 5+ year long employees...
There might be something there with economics, but a government (or any authority) calling people losers I doubt would have any effect.

The "drugs aren't cool" campaign's have never really worked.
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Wow, you're in pretty serious need of some perspective - historical, cultural, sociological, you pick.
This may or may not be a problem. Areas like Canada or Northern Europe have excessive amounts of water, and water preservation does not make sense. In some places domestic water usage is even encouraged to make sure the flow in fresh water tunnels stays brisk enough.
That is simply not true, at least not in any even minimally developed country.
Agda is primarily a theorem prover, Idris doesn't try to compete with that. They're rather similar in a lot of ways, but Idris targets more general purpose programming. F* is more similar in its goals, but it kind of has its own paradigm. I think a lot of the focus behind F* was based on crypto applications, so it's a bit less general purpose. It also approaches I/O without monads (to my understanding, it just uses Tot, ML, etc. to mark effects for types). The syntax is more ML-like (not super important), but in terms of the type system it's very strange compared to Idris (it focuses on refinement types versus using things like GADTs to construct a lot of the primitives -- the F* way of creating nat is to assert that an integer is >= 0 instead of defining the natural number as Zero | Succ Nat).
since poor people have shitty or no jobs at all, why does it matter if they die off of smoking?
I felt the opposite way; the recipes I got when I tried Blue Apron were more trouble than I really wanted to bother with on a weeknight.
I started by building an intuitive understanding of advanced physics before I really dug into the math. It is absolutely possible. That being said, I did have a very good understanding of advanced mathematical concepts to start with, so I could think intuitively about things like high-dimensional spaces and eigenfunctions.
Yes, but fulfillment center employees are likely much more comparable to whole foods employees than software developers, in terms of education, job responsibilities, ease of replacement, etc. So that's probably who we should be looking at anyway
Not true. I know several people that have good careers at WF and would be offended by the fact that you think they are unskilled.

Seasonal workers in the FCs literally get only 4 hours of training and are then filling orders. That's the pure definition of unskilled, and a far cry from a pastry chef at WF.
This is a joke right? You don't _actually_ believe that's how poverty works?
I wonder how long until the first beta of Elastic Grocery System?
I think working in a grocery store is more similar to working in a distribution centre than at AWS. Highly paid engineers are usually treated well, unskilled/low-skill labour often not (not implying that this is the job OP does, but many in WF will be low-skilled).
Yes, you-mooc sounds right; we're putting "u" back in the MOOC, by connecting you with tutors who can help you on an individualized basis.

MOOCs are great; I personally have completed 5 of them, and plan to complete many more. But not all learners enjoy or are able to learn in solitude--many want someone to point them in the right direction and give them feedback, like you would get when taking an actual college/university course. That's the gap we're trying to fill.
I regularly use VS Code, and this is one of the few features that I don't miss much until I need it, and then I really, really wish it had support for it. This is definitely one of the major negatives for VS Code.
String to int returning 0 for an uncastable string seems like a terrible design. It should blow up. How otherwise can you tell between "0" and "ABC"?
> People have a healthy work/life balance (40-50 hours a week)

40-50 hours of work a week isn't healthy.
Don't count out Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the US. According to Wikipedia in 2015 it trailed only Walmart and Costo in worldwide revenue, and had 20% more revenue than Amazon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail#Global_top_ten_retailer...
This is another case of "defaults matter". The sound of Grado headphones was not good enough to justify additional purchases when similarly priced headphones were more comfortable while still sounding good.
> keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor

What do you think most Whole Foods employees are?
this is already spot 1 on the frontpage and has been submitted ~10 times... please help keeping the noise down and check for dupes before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14568468
Only use a framework if you know what you need!
The real question is, if correlation does not imply causation, then what does?
Downvoted because I prefer to think that my life is purely the result of circumstances I cannot control so I don't have to take responsibility for it. /s
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I did a little go server to expose an opds basend of a dir structure

https://github.com/dubyte/dir2opds

So far I only tested on moonreader
Hmm, as I remember the socialist governments were replaced (not easily, but they were). Have we even seen a conglomerate of AMZN size replaced in living memory?
I may be missing something on a larger scale, but that is definitely true about all poor people i know (for almost all of them, i see an easy way how they can quit poverty in a few years, apart from a couple very sad examples), and every rich person i know, too (while again, it may be just my perspective: i don't come from a rich family so i don't know anyone who was born rich).

It doesn't work as easy for older poor people. Sad for them, but it is only a result of their mistakes in younger age.
Too build on this thought - is it possible that these quantum properties aren't affected by locality? Which is obviously true given the explanation above... I guess I'm asking if there are other intuitions that can be made if locality is explicitly considered unrelated.
Maybe they mean the inefficiency in the producer -> distributor-> retailer chain? What value does the middle guy add?
> Conglomerates have happened in the past. They become very big until they stop making a lot of money and people realise that they could be more efficient if you split them up.

Yeah, who could forget when companies like Standard Oil or AT&T decided to split up, entirely through the power of market forces, with no government intervention at all.
the first ever purely garbage spam comment on HN after many years! (that I've seen, anyway.) I wonder if the garbage-bot-pushers have finally added HN to their list.
That's not what unskilled means in this context. It just means that they are easily replaceable and not specialized. You can have respect for people as individuals while recognizing that the job they do could be done by just about anybody (the definition of unskilled)
Hahaha, this reminded me of a The Onion video.

I'm sure it would eliminate smoking among kids almost entirely; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjsSVCLxcZ4
There isnt really any math to deep learning other than the concept of a derivative which is taught in high school calculus. The reason deep learning papers seem mathy is people take network architectures and various elementary operations on them and try to express them symbolically in latex using summations and indexing-hell. For example the easy concept of "updating all the neurons in one layer based on the neurons in the previous layer and connecting weights" is expressed as matrix-vector multiplication for not really any apparent reason other than it is technically correct and makes for slicker notation, and I guess makes it easier to use APIs that compute gradients for you. Deep learning however is broadly an experimental science, which in many ways is the opposite of math as traditionally envisioned, in which great insights follow deductively from prior great insights. If you ask a basic question like "why should use 4 layers instead of 3?" there is no answer other than "4 works better". Similarly with gradient descent versus random search in weight space. There are many problem domains where random search is as good as any known hill-climbing heuristic search (like gradient descent). Why is GD so effective when learning image classifiers expressed as stacked weight sums? Who knows.
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That doesn't make sense to me. What if that 1% chance suddenly turns into a 50% chance? If I suddenly present with symptoms of a risky aneurism, wouldn't having that "1% chance, last we checked" on my medical history help accelerate the correct diagnosis and treatment?
What I mean is you don't necessarily need a college education to work in any of their departments. Not trying to be offensive
Also, it's only the top level of management, loosely speaking, that's easily swappable. Most of the bureaucracy stays in place.
The same can be said about your original comment.
So the people stocking the shelves and operating the registers are all highly skilled labor?
Note that the "Catfish" urban legend originally meant something else.
In the movie the catfish term is introduced like this: "They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They'd keep them in vats in the ship. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. And there are those people who are catfish in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. And I thank god for the catfish because we would be droll, boring and dull if we didn't have somebody nipping at our fin."

So it's indeed a bottom grundler, but with an important impact on the fish in the sunlight. Without the catfish the sunny fish would all die. The catfish keeps them agile.
Too long lines are harder even in prose as they make you confuse the start of the next line when you reach the end of one.
Fat shaming works too.
I think in the long run you are likely be right - at scale software margins are amazing. As of today, Slack looses some money & is unprofitable.
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The major player currently is Walmart for most Americans. It's investing into online at a rapid pace, they recently added free online pickup for groceries and purchased Jet and Bonobos, so I think the real war will be between Walmart and Amazon/WF.

Value basics and speciality stores like Aldi and Trader Joes (which have very spotty coverage currently in the US) and regional full-inventory stores (Piggly Wiggly, Harris Teeter, Bi-lo etc) will pick up the crumbs.
> The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge.

I have a pile of physics textbooks sitting nearby but that doesn't make me a qualified physicist. Availability of knowledge isn't worth a thing if it's never been integrated into your mind.
There's plenty of them but most are auto blocked. You see these occasional flare-ups and then they usually die down just as fast when they realize it is pointless.
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>if Amazon stop running well then someone else will come along and replace them

Is this really true though? Over the past few decades we've seen that if a company is big enough, and it fails, the government will step in and prop it up with a bailout.
Format=flowed is great. I just wish more clients supported it—for sending and receiving. I've felt lately that I would even consider using the Windows Mail app if it supported plaintext and f=f.
No they didn't.

They just bought a higher income grocery business, which they were aggressively seeking to dive deeper into. They'll use the locations for pick-up & delivery points plausibly and they'll bind it to Prime in various ways. They'll probably also leverage Whole Foods into smaller, smart / automated stores, micro whole foods stores in the image they've been experimenting with for self-shopping.

It would have cost them billions to build out the grocery distribution points they were planning to do anyway. They'll save a lot on that cost, and meanwhile the Whole Foods business is generating $500m per year in net income consistently, over ten years it'll plausibly nicely chop into that purchase price and or fund Amazon's experiments.
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You're both talking in extremes. There is a lot of inherited wealth in the developed world [1]. There is also a relationship between "marshmallow test" impulsiveness and peoples' tendency to squander the opportunities their life presents them [2]. The relative balance between these factors is debatable. Their presence is more difficult to dismiss.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/how-to-st...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_gratification
They only own 18 of those stores, anyway.
The products Amazon is trying to distribute with this deal are.... food products.
It seems smoking could be strongly correlated with the growing life expectancy disparity.
$13.7B is quite a satisfying amount.

That's $1 for every year since the Big Bang.
I think this is a different beast. I personally loved shopping at Whole Foods because the food is high quality and their employees are treated well. These tenets are totally incompatible with Amazon's culture. Sure, now they say they will run it independently, but if Amazon were to struggle with Whole Foods, the first thing they do will be to lower labor costs and food costs.

Unions to protect workers are now more important than ever in this new age of monopolies.
I'm confused.

Amazon is known to work backward from an imagined future press release, and then do the actions necessary to make that press release. How does Amazon see the future in this case?

-Amazon already has PrimeNow and Amazon Fresh, which offer a great grocery delivery service. For those who have tried these services, it's easy to see how addicting they are vs going to a physical store.

-I can't see Amazon using existing retail stores as distribution centers. I would think you really only need one grocery distribution center for each city in America, and PrimeNow (and AmazonFresh) already has that! Or, has Amazon determined that picking/packing from a retail store is actually efficient? Retail as
a DC seems tough to automate, items are in the wrong spot, suspiciously missing, etc. I don't get it.

-I would have guessed that online grocery from highly automated distribution centers is where the majority of the market would be within ~20 years. Does Amazon, the king of online, not think that!?

-Or does Amazon just believe that they can run Whole Foods better than it is currently run?

-Do they just want the purchasing, existing relationships, etc to also sell their customers through other channels?
A pastry chef is unskilled?
Outstanding! And maybe we can call them "deplorables", because that worked so well last fall.