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This is the peril of anecdotes. You took a momentary observation and wrote a whole narrative surrounding it. How do you know that this is a parental tether? Maybe she had spoken to her mother the night before and expressed some worry about that particular quiz. The call you heard was just a follow up and she is otherwise fully independent.

(I catch myself doing this frequently: that couple's marriage is in trouble—they're not even talking over dinner, that driver is on his phone scrolling through Facebook probably, etc. Those stories may be true but there's perfectly reasonable alternatives that would look exactly the same.)
A functioning brain is posited to spontaneously appear in about 10^10^50 years due to random fluctuations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

I'm not sure if a functioning elephant is more or less likely to be honest....
...and kill it, before it grows out of control.
Wait. How is this a catch 22? There is no. "In order to do Y you must first do X. But in order to do X you must first do Y"
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Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_secto..., when adding up a couple of European countries I'd say it's third behind the China and the US.
That was close to five years ago and venmo has added major features and a lot of new users in the intervening years. Moreover the paypal brand isn't what it used to be especially among venmo's core demographics.
I ended up getting a Denon that had a shockingly low price which turned out to be a mistake price at Fry's, but I definitely noticed this while shopping as well.
It says in the article it's from the Ozama river which is a local river that runs into the sea nearby.
Just one more voice of support for her YouTube channel. Always informative without being overbearing.
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Economists are inclined to frown on
the strategy of dumping giant piles
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technologies that are in need of
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mechanisms, tech-neutral incentives,
and nudges that maximize the free
choices of market participants. In
any economic model, such policies
will perform better.

And that’s well and good. But
sometimes problems are big and
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The article title and introduction is pretty misleading, as only halfway the article it is revealed that "the plastic waste washing onto Montesinos Beach comes from the Ozama River". So while this is obviously an example of plastic reaching the ocean to form a garbage patch, the article's examples of beaches filled with plastic are not a result of the patches reaching the shore again.
How do you filter spam calls in Android? I keep getting calls where my screen turns red and it warns that the call is spam. I'd love to stop having my phone ring and stop getting all the voicemails.
Depends upon their European operations. Considering the size of the European market, probably not.
You're asking the wrong question, like many others who are resistant to HTTPS everywhere. HTTPS isn't for you, the site owner (although you gain the not insignificant benefit of knowing your content and traffic is untampered with). It's for the people that visit your site, so when you say HTTPS is a waste of effort and resources what you're inadvartently saying is that you don't give a fuck about your visitors - or at least, not enough of one to do the least you can to protect them from people who want to track and/or tamper with their browsing activity[1]. Especially since solutions like Let's Encrypt with certbot are free and take a couple of commands to set up.

[1] Unencrypted, pretty much everything about your internet traffic is laid bare for any middleman - your ISP, the person who controls the router you're connected to, some script kiddie on the same network as you - to both read and write. Injecting ads or cryptominers, tracking what pages you visit, changing what a page says, even straight up serving a different page. Why let your site/server be a (potential) vehicle for exploitation, disinformation and privacy invasion?
I don't deny that knowing the math / theory is useful, but wonder if we sometimes overestimate the degree to which it is essential. For example, backprop with SGD is a good foundation for many, many, many applications of NN's, and pre-built implementations exist that let you use the technique without understanding the details of the math. And with those tools, you can experiment with many different combinations of features, different architectures, etc.

Of course understanding the theory will be helpful in knowing which architectures are most likely to be productive and what-not, but this whole field is very empirical anyway. So if your experimenting is a little less guided my intuition rooted in theory, that's not exactly the end of the world.
Ask HN: What are some aerospace books for investors
What books would you recommend (both technical and business) for new entrants into the space industry?
>but what exactly is complicated about setting up certs for a dev?

Seeing as how he mentioned AWS, it's a bit more complicated if you have a cluster of servers that are automatically managed. You have to set up a reverse proxy and integrate that into your cloud provider's workflow.
most of them make about 40-60% of revenue from Europe so go figure! Playing by the rules is not really that expensive. The fines they are getting are really small compared with the profits they are making.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yup, wiped and recycled!
>Would you say Nvidia is price fixing because their volta products are priced "suspiciously high"?

No, but AMD would (I have no clue if they do) release a cheaper product and therefore get the biggest market share.

The problem is not about Samsung setting a high price.
It's about all three companies setting that high price, seemingly together.
86% of the oceans plastic comes from Asia[1].

[1] https://www.theoceancleanup.com/sources/
Of course, if they were given a fine anywhere near the effect on the economy they had, this very forum would be decrying the EU for being overbearing and anti-business.
I think this is a symptom that today's children don't have the same type of bond with their peers as previous generations. Yesteryear, kids would have discussed classwork with their friends and classmates. All socialization has been removed from classrooms, outside of 'group activities.'

The only people they know how to talk to are their parents.
Yeah I do the same. I only pick up phones if it’s from a contact I know. 99% it’s my wife. Most of my friends use some form of text messages.

Most people leave a voicemail. Thanks to technology, the voice mails get transcribed and I can quickly decide whether I should return the call.

I also see “Spam Likely” for a whole range of numbers. Not sure if it’s Apple or T-mobile but I sure do appreaciate the heads up.
Calling using Telnet hacking is about as accurate as walking up to someone's unlocked computer and posting to their Facebook and then saying "you got hacked"
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No other state can ask for a waiver under the existing exemption. Nothing was stopping other states from seeking similar leeway in the bill, only California tried. Also per the article, the reason for that was the unique geography and circumstances of LA.
1) You're lying. Read the article - it's not all American companies. [Edit: parent changed their post after claiming 'All' the fines were to US companies]

2) Perhaps if it's mostly US companies it's because they are more abusive of their market power, a mentality incubated in the lobbying culture of American politics and corresponding spinelessness of regulators.
Neat! If it ever takes your fancy, I'd love to read about your development process - "programming vicariously" as I like to think of it :)

Good job!

- ed

Of course - I'm displaying my high proficiency as an "idiot in a hurry" and missed this, clearly linked: http://blog.mandalagaba.com/miscellaneous-ramblings/ !
We also have a lot more electric buses on the road in the USA than before, at least here in the Seattle area (well, we’ve always had them due to hills and cheap hydro, but now they have batteries).
I'm not a parent but maybe this is a result of an increasingly competitive landscape for kids these days. I can easily see parents worried more about their kids falling behind in ways that institutions care about.
How is Chrome forcing you to implement HTTPS on your server?
Much easier to collect one yourself though.
Online though, they don’t have their own stores.
Prototyping? Companies such as Linkker in Finland have been producing BEV buses for years: http://www.linkkerbus.com/

We've had a couple of them running normal bus lines in Copenhagen for some years, to assess the feasibility and TCO compared to diesel, CNG and hybrid buses. So far they seem to be doing rather well. They're quiet and comfortable (no vibration) -- as a passenger, I really like them.
Pretty saddening to read- instead of spending their billions to fight climate change, the rich have the "fuck you get mine" viewpoint. Hell, some of 'em probably made their fortunes on coal and oil.

Then again this could just be human nature.
Sounds like a pretty wild rat race you're in.
I don't think you understood my comment - you don't need to check for halting if all methods in the API have timeout guarantees. Halting is only a problem if runtime is uncertain. If runtime is certain (again, because of promised performance figures) then it is entirely possible to verify whether an API has been broken or not.
There was a recent study which has been circulating. Most (90%) of the plastics in the ocean that are not related to fishing equipment come from 8 rivers in Asia and then the Nile and Niger rivers in Africa. Mostly due to poor or unregulated waste disposal infrastructures.
I sat in on this webinar and can say there was a few things misleading about this article. These networks were not “air-gapped” they were able to be accessed with lateral movement in the networks. Also they were able to detect them get get all the way to the point where they were able to flip the switch on the ICS. When asked later in the webinar why they didn't there was really no explanation as to why not even though that was their goal as the attackers. That is just fishy to me.
God forbid I use a straw, though.
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>Isnt itunes/apple significantly worse in the freedom to choose your software?

It's not about choosing your software. You can restrict the software in your platform as much as you want.

Just not when you have a monopoly. MS at the time was at 95%+ of the market.

As long as there's anybody else with a large chunk, you can do whatever you like restrictions wise. Anybody that don't like it can go there.

Now we have Linux as a viable option as well.
“but actually shutting down key infrastructure like these scenarios suggest is an end game move that establishes the point of no return in global conflict.”

Sounds like you understand why then they’re reporting on this and regurgitating it over and over again. The public has the right to know if we’re on the brink of global conflict.

Nefarious actors are gaining privileged access to the power grid. Seems like a relevant thing to keep in the back of our minds in the event the power suddenly goes out.
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This sentence was certainly not emitted by an alien. Its provenance could only be the humanoid cortex.
Trolley buses are kind of on the way out with battery operated buses. I doubt they would use the trolley lines for supercharging, that would require way too much infrastructure when the super chargers could easily be centralized at a few stops.
This comment is interesting as we have this "issue" of people running away from France no to pay taxes in their own country. When you don't want to play by the rules, can you afford to ignore them (legally)? Ethically it's obviously not cool, but if there is indeed a outflux of people due to heavy regulations then it becomes a problem for the country. Not sure if people running away because of taxes represent an important number (intuitively I feel like no)
Another way of putting it: AI research of the 60s-80s was extremely impressive and is ridiculously underappreciated right now. Many ideas were simply way ahead of their time. It's sad that most software engineers today do not bother learning anything about the past of computing, assuming everything made in those decades is automatically "outdated". (This is not restricted to AI. For example, most OO programmers don't know what is Smalltalk.)

The guy the article about says as much.

“I’ve stopped giving general advice to other researchers,” said Dickmanns, now 82 years old. “Only this much: One should never completely lose sight of approaches that were once very successful.”

I really feel for those researchers. Seeing how your life's work is ignored by people who brute-force their ways through the problems you've already solved must be rather depressing.
> developing countries using ocean as a waste dump

I thought this was common knowledge by this point. The most polluted rivers in the world are located in India, China, South America, Africa, and Indonesia.
The European market which is larger than the US market?

I'd say not.
100% agreed.

Most code complaints are this code sucks. But honestly most code looks like shit, and battle tested code that's been heavily patched to work well and cover lots of special cases especially lookS like shit.

But when there is a documented problem with a piece of code that is important and worth refactoring because it can't be mediated otherwise then of course you need to fix it.

For example recently a previous dev split the data model across persisted HTML and rows in a database. Which means it was very easy for the domain critical computations(driven by the database) to display one set of inputs to the user, but calculate with another.
Apple doesn't force anyone to use it's software except itself. Google forced other companies to bundle Google Play Services on all devices or you don't get to sell Android phones. Apple never forced another company to use it's software on all devices or no devices at all.
The PayPal.me thing is quite nice though. I just don't think many people are aware of it:

i.e. If you thought this or other comments I have made on Hacker News were useful, please fund my new yacht, sorry, my 'startup business' via https://paypal.me/Jaruze1 :)
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Nothing is "wrong" with it, you just can't feasibly do it for free.
My wife is a pediatric occupational therapist. My dad's always saying "There's no book on parenting."

My response if always "Screw you, yes there is. But you went to business school." You can pay someone to fix your injuries, or broken pipes, but you can't pay someone to raise your kids.

When my son was born, I went into it with the knowledge of three highly rated books on Amazon I had picked at random.

My wife went into it with years of experience dealing with difficult kids. She worked at a feeding clinic at a research institute, helping parents figure out how to get their kids to eat their vegetables.

I'm so grateful. My 2 year old helps fold laundry, says please and thank you, and knows to put away his toys before bath time.

I don't know what I'd do if I hadn't married this woman. I don't know where I would have gotten the skills I have now.
I read that in the article, then i checked it on google maps https://goo.gl/maps/pVJeXBUE4Ck . It's still hard to believe so much trash can wind up on a beach through that river. Wait, what does the river look like? Should they just install a shallow net?

It's crazy
Chrome isn't forcing anyone, it's just making it clear to users that a non-https site is insecure, which it is. What's the problem with providing information so that users can make an informed choice about whether to use the site?
In CA about 25% goes to pensions, 35% to healthcare, and the rest is <45% give or take a few percent.
Is that landfill claim a bit of a strawman (pardon the pun)? I've seen little to nothing about it being the result of landfills, and everything about it being a result of the culture of disposable plastics. We're all to blame for disposable plastics.
My wife and I were traveling in Borneo a few years back. They have "water villages" there where all the houses are built on stilts in shallow water. You could not see the shore because it was completely covered in a layer of garbage. It was like living on top of a landfill. At first I thought it was garbage thrown out by the villagers, but it's not. It was garbage that washes in on the tide. Every now and then the villagers try to clean it up, only to be overwhelmed by a new batch. We were told that it only takes a few weeks for the garbage to completely cover the shore again. It was heartbreaking.

[UPDATE] Here's a photo: http://www.flownet.com/ron/trips/Borneo/Images/165.jpg
I think parent meant retail as brick&mortar. The ones you mention do direct sales, which is a bit of a different game.
I mean there are also serial killers. That might not adequately describe the population at large.
If the economy is growing faster than 6% a year, you probably want to buy some stock!
These kind of regulations is just another form of protectionism.

Is any make the life of Europeans easier? I don’t think so. It did kill any risks of having a real EU startup ecosystem despite being the first economy zone in the world.
You’re being told explicitly that “the garbage comes from the Ozama river that flows into the ocean near the beach”. That’s literally on the page. And then you’re being told that “[in many developing nations with a coastline], everyone uses the rivers and beaches as dump sites”.
>but yeah this is the protectionism that Europe seems to cling to for the last 2 thousand years.

You say it as if it's a bad thing.

Besides the US was the most protectionist country for most of its rise, well into the 20th century.

>No wonder the place has become a tourist trap while industries are in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Ever bothered to check a list of the world's economies by size and population?
The Boring Company plan for Chicago to have "skates" based on the Model X chassis that carry 8-16 people.

https://www.boringcompany.com/chicago/
There's Philips(NL) and Panasonic(JP) there as well.

As for "protectionism" - maybe UE companies simply follow the rules better instead of trying to extort maximum possible and playing in grey area?
Not to be pedantic but the article is about NY state, NJ, CT etc. Many people live in NY state but do not live in NYC. Additionally, as the article explains, some people try to live outside of the state for over half the year in order to avoid paying state taxes. Presumably, there are considerable financial and personal incentives for maintaining some presence in NY state. So, the answer to your question is yes because the people in question are still typically maintaining a residence in a high tax state.
True. And the constantly varying price of land in response to the desirability of the location means that land has this inexorable tendency to push down real wages regardless of almost any kind of technological, social, or political artifices meant to raise wages.

Having a car, when it was uncommon, made it possible to engage in a bit of "geo-arbitrage" but as soon as that became common, the ability to commute was fully factored into a location.

When having a dual income household was uncommon, that could get you ahead. When that became common, it was factored into land prices, and having a dual income became necessary just to not fall behind.

All technological and social improvements follow this same pattern, and it is why the naive futurist conception of a world without work is never going to happen as long as our land system remains unchanged. That is precisely the paradox of Progress and Poverty that Henry George was explaining.
I'll give you that.
What major features have been added? On the contrary, I see them retiring the web portal and going mobile only. One day somebody is going to make the easy decision of migrating all the users to PayPal and cutting out the redundant work. Or maybe they'll simply brand PayPal mobile "Venmo", the effect being the same.
A lot of teams are a cult of personality around one developer. Particularly if there are a bunch of juniors on the rest of the team, Programmer B can usually get anything through code review with the 'ol "of course it's complicated, that's why _I_ am the one working on it. It's not for mortals to understand".
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My [lay] understanding is that a portion of spacetime has yet to be found that has 0 countable things. I also believe 'countable' gets tricky the more you zoom in, as it were.
I offer the following hypothesis - competition for entry into "the best" colleges, competition for "free money" through scholarships, and competition for "good jobs" after college has driven parents to micromanage their children's school "career."

The margins for "error" - i.e. achieving suboptimal grades and cultivating interests outside of "school stuff" - have shrunk since I was a kid.

This is, of course, in addition to the need for parents to acquire bragging rights about their children.
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Volvo make electric buses, they're in use in Sweden and other places have ordered them.

https://www.volvobuses.com/en-en/our-offering/electromobilit...
I’m sure you’ll find more “get rich quickly even if it’s dirty” kinda people here. We literally worship our millionaires and billionaires.

I’m probably going to get downvotes but this is what I’ve experienced in the US, at-least in the hyper growth Silicon Valley.
In the 'west' or more specifically in the United States dump trash in rivers or in the ocean is hight legal and hight risky. You would very likely be caught if you did it with any frequency.

It gets old blaming America for problems America doesnt cause, and diminishes all of your future blame America comments.

Also, read the article...
Maybe I'm just in a skeptical mood this morning, but I have a hard time believing that a cabal of really rich CEO types are going to turn to a single person to field technology questions ranging from crypto currency preferences to how you manage your guards in a dystopian future.

The intro to the article has the author reviewing a wide and diverse number of topics with these business guys for an hour. It made me curious what his qualifications were. His website mentioned that he's a "Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens". Again, not the first person I'd turn to if I wanted to talk technology.

I just have a hard time believing the story in the beginning. The author thought he'd be giving a presentation to an audience. Instead, he's in an hour long counseling session with some executives. Why would they do it that way? Why wouldn't you tell the expert what you're doing in advance and the topics you're interested in so he'd have time to prepare? Why not talk to individual domain experts in subjects you're curious about?