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> We might want competition at the generation point, but the transmission lines should be a monopoly.

A perfectly reasonable argument.

If a certain market needs to be a monopoly, then it ought to be state controlled, like the FCC's monopoly on air waves. That is the only way to ensure free-market capitalism.

The purpose of the market is to create an efficient society. Indeed, it is the best vehicle to do so. However, a market means that there is choice.

In the absence of a market, the next best alternative is democratic control, best exercised via government.

> We don’t want more transmission lines running in CA, right?

Not in the air. Luckily, you can put them under ground.

> The last three disasters caused by PG&E,

This is willful ignorance. I'd be happy to look over companies that simply had maintenance issues. However, PG&E has proven to not only be negligent, but malicious. They've poisoned people knowingly, without disclosure. They've covered up negligence over the explosions of city blocks.

I am not anti-business. Despite its many issues, Southern California edison is a much better company.

PG&E though is -- quite obviously -- quite a bit more nefarious than most utilities.

> competition in transmission is bad.

No it's not. Competition would always be good. Your argument was that competition in transmission was not possible.
He lacks humility about minds that humans cannot comprehend
Bitter Experience with Muzmatch
I've given this app a benefit of the doubt, but undoubtedly ended in an one-star review. There was a female user (singular) accused me of 'stalking' when no such thing occurred, evidence provided, or even support@ center allowed me to give my rebuttal in the matter at hand to defend myself for said claims. I have never in any decade have been discriminated off a dating & or matrimony app to be removed instantly without credential evidence or investigation made on BOTH sides. It's quite clear what the media & social have become DEMONIZING men so easily and leaving females at a complete innocent stand favored automatically just because I'm a guy. Minder ™ doesn't play sides; they investigate. This app is CLEARLY sexist towards men.

Ryan, fonder of the app. Was clearly no help at all looking into the matter or even considered the magnitude seriousness at hand. Despite taking the effort of giving this gentleman a formal plea to look into it, no follow up was ever returned.
Firstly, a very brief insight into my character, in my employment history & colleagues, I am known as being the nice person around and there are countless things that have been said that about me including my linkden. That’s how I’ve behaved towards every woman I’ve communicated with. In fact, I have more female friends than I do with my male colleagues.
Well, if your machine-readable color key fades as well, maybe it's not so much of a showstopper if the colors fade.

The primary problem I see is that so many industrial cameras today are black and white. B&W cameras can send at a higher framerate and you don't need to convert to greyscale as your first step in your algorithm, so it saves time to use b&w cameras.
Think about the odds of the beam being perfectly aligned and aimed to hit the planet with dead-on accuracy though. Even if the spread of the beam is as wide as Pluto's orbit, we'd have to be pretty unlucky to get hit.

If it's as narrow as the arc of a season, one quarter of the Earth's orbit, it could hit us during Autumn or miss us during Winter, or not at all if it's not pointed into the path of our orbit.
It wasn't TicketMaster, but it was similar. It many years ago but at the time there were a whole bunch of "TicketMaster-y" setups out there, and a whole host of resellers for them which combined data from all of them. We were one of the resellers. It looks like it still exists.

Some were even scummier than TicketMaster. For example there was one that would simply try to guess ticket/tour dates and venues and then sell massively overpriced "early bird" tickets for them. Sometimes their guesses were more-or-less reliable, other times it was wildly off.

And yeah, I agree. The entire endeavour is useless. It was my first real programming job, and since then I've been a lot more careful what kind of companies I work for.
Government subsidy?

And, as I said above, wildfire is covered in home insurance policies. However, the argument was about wildfire specific insurance. That is untenable since it would cause large insurance runs every year.
I worked for financial traders for a few years before I wised up. It was at least refreshingly honest; during the hiring process, my boss explained that the company had a pile of money and our goal was to turn it into a bigger pile. But what I didn't understand was that mostly we made money when other people lost it. We turned a profit by being smarter or faster or luckier than the people we traded with.

I ended up leaving mainly because it was an unhealthy, high-pressure environment where a lot of the most celebrated people were giant dicks. But I stayed away because I realized that we weren't making anything better. We just situated ourselves near a river of (other people's) money and tried to siphon off a bit of the flow. It was depressing.

I'm glad I never went back. I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size it is with no real harm to the rest of the economy. And given what a mess the 2008 crisis was, trimming the industry way back might be overall beneficial.
Yes! The Jetsons. I knew there was something so familiar about all of this. You're 100% spot on with that and I don't know why it didn't hit me to associate it with that cartoon.
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Rana Foroohar has ben very eloquent on this topic all year. 'Antitrust policy is ripe for a rethink
We should consider regulating Big Tech like we do the banks' https://www.ft.com/content/b5ce2342-7624-11e8-b326-75a27d27e...
But as Reich points out in his UK Guardian piece neither wing of US politics seems very interested in reining in the giant platform companies.
Surely if Faang was 'broken up' other monopolies would just spring up in their place...antitrust seems to wax and wane politicly and some of the biggest DC lobbyists are firms like Facebook...
Don't they make jet engines? Their design is similar to that
This is an interesting piece from the angle of wondering how we construct our identities and what happens when those constructed identities turn out to be based on "facts" that aren't actually true. Such lines of inquiry have potential to break down barriers by proving the degree to which they are psychological fabrications.

This is an uncomfortable idea for most people. They want to think things like race are objective facts. Learning that racial identity can be a construct based on social messaging that is largely or wholly unrelated to actual DNA evidence calls into question the very basis for much of the racism in the US today.
Writing off an entire field with easily understandable principles seems absurd.

Much of the quant field is very straightforward mathematical modeling. Every field has bad research, but writing off CS as a field because some researchers have created a zombie out of stackoverflow code should also strike you as wrong.
Your comment was very insightful. I've considered 23andme and similar services before, and it is helpful to understand that a fractional amount of one's genome is all that is provided/analyzed. I'm excited to see that whole sequencing has broken the $1000 barrier some time ago, and was available recently for $200 as a promotion! (https://www.wired.com/story/whole-genome-sequencing-cost-200...)
The idea that we'd most likely encounter a colonising civilisation in the form of von Neumann probes seems reasonable.

Imagine there was one (or even a few dozen) such probe currently occupying an asteroid somewhere in our solar system, slowly completing the millenia-long task of replicating itself. Would we have noticed yet?
Jesus Christ how is that even legal what they did to that poor man. Such non-sense should not be legal.
Why don’t they just pave the tunnels and put autonomous buses in?
As a female founder, yes, absolutely.

This comment makes me so uncomfortable, I will probably close this tab and take a break from HN for a while.
10 B of personal worth compared to 100 M (1%) same as you own 50k on your bank and you decide to give away 500 to poor or homeless ... I think I have already gave much more and nobody told me even GOOD JOB ... but I don't care ...
This is a strawman. I do not like the current administration, but attempting to blame everything on them is intellectually lazy.

The fires in California are not caused due to bad budget cuts over the past few years, but rather the mistaken environmentalist policy of not allowing controlled burns for the last 100 years and extinguishing natural fires out of needless heroics to save species that are now in ever more need of saving: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/californ...
Really appreciate your comment, these insights are very valuable.
"The orthogonality thesis is false. Source: Rick and Morty"

Why does anyone take this writeup seriously?
This reminds me: I procrastinated and haven't booked my Christmas ticket yet... Bay Area to Atlanta — anyone got any tips? I think Google Flights is the best way to find the cheapest ticket, but if there's something else out there I'd be glad to know!
I assume it is like the number 40 or 10,000. It is a number substituted in to mean a very big number.
Why would you live in the united states? It has fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, landslides, volcanoes, tsunamis, blizzards, heat waves, droughts...

If you list all the disasters in a big area, your list gets big fast, but no individual place actually has all those things, unless perhaps if Moses shows up to intimidate a Pharaoh.
Not a fan of your word choice there.

But it's worth noting Instagram has been a generous corporate sponsor of the DSF, and hired a Django committer several years ago. I just don't know of any company that currently has employees paid to work on Django, in the same way that, say, several big tech companies pay people to work on various parts of the Linux ecosystem.
Citizens United does not allow unlimited (or any) payments to a campaign. Citizens United was about the rights of a corporation to spend money publishing its own speech. Political speech is expressly protected by the first amendment, and the court decided that restraint of it was unconstitutional: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf

> Because speech is an essential mechanism of democracy—it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people—political speech must prevail against laws that would suppress it by design or inadvertence. Premised on mistrust of governmental power, the First Amendment stands against attempts to disfavor certain subjects or viewpoints or to distinguish among different speakers, which may be a means to control content. (...) Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation. (...) All speakers, including individuals and the media, use money amassed from the economic marketplace to fund their speech, and the First Amendment protects the resulting speech.

What Citizens United wanted to do was distribute a documentary film critical of Hillary Clinton.

If someone feels that Citizens United was wrongly decided, then I would encourage that person to read through the case in detail to understand the issues evaluated by the court - specifically, the contradictions in reasoning, chilling effects, and violations of precedent that would result from deciding the case in the alternative. Difficult topics would need to be untangled such as: why should it be unlawful for Citizens United to distribute a political documentary when it's OK for media producers like Fox News or CNN or 60 Minutes or Netflix to do so? They engage in political speech whenever critiquing a policy position or candidate.

One must consider the sweeping consequences of what it would mean to restrain corporations, including the news media, from engaging in political speech. How does journalism and freedom of the press remain in this world, or what bright line distinguishes Citizens United from any other producer of documentaries like e.g. Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11)?
FB employees submit loads of interesting kernel patches.
I regret every RPA project we have to build. It’s just so stupid and avoidable by only buying things with APIs.

But it’s apparently the future of a lot of IT, because people aren’t going to stop buying really shitty software or start making architectural demands.

It’s going to be an amazing amount of technical debt in a lot of sectors though.

I mean, some of the integrations I build before my venture into management, decades ago are still running without the need for maintenance. Yet the most recent RPA project my team build has already used 6 hours of maintenance this week.

So stupid.
"Tends to kill". So you're saying you always cook all meats at or above recommended internal temperatures? Most people don't enjoy meat overcooked / well done - and that is the conflicting reference point here. Do you eat your steak even medium-well? Then it's not guaranteed to be free from food borne illness and not cooked according to safe food handling instructions by said CDC.

Apples are far less likely to ever carry pathogens because they're harvested from a tree, off the ground and tree farms are not fertilized with feces. And even if they are in proximity you're failing to understand that if a tree has a contaminated water source the entire tree acts as a filter prior to the fruit - a lettuce does not.

Again, misinformation and misunderstanding of the root cause showcase highly in your comment which was my criticism of the original disclosure by the CDC.
How much shielding would it take to prevent most of these energetic particles from reaching the important bits?
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I want to issue a credit card or debit card which talks with my server and do further transactions with banks. How can I configure my server APIs with MasterCard or visa?
I was a technical director for about 5 weeks. It was a huge opportunity. But quickly, I found out we had more customers sueing us than paying us, for promising stuff (before my time) the company couldn't possibly deliver (no one could) on time and budget.

If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
It is an utterly absurd situation that someone like Kamala Harris, who is half-Tamil and partly English, is considered "black". Our present notions of race continue to maintain the repugnant fiction that the hereditary material of some populations is "marked" and those who have even a few such ancestors are "contaminated". Of course, this is very far from accurate. It may reflect present social realities, but there is no rule that says present social realities must not be absurd.

> One said that any percentage not marked “low confidence” was 100 percent certain. Another said each percentage was 99 percent certain. When I asked that representative to check with a supervisor, she did, then returned to tell me that the company’s certainty was 99.7 percent.

Obviously this is a confidence interval covering three standard deviations assuming a normal distribution. If the last assumption can be considered accurate, the correct interpretation of the results' precision is "pretty good", but non-normal distributions occasionally show up and cause the 2007 mortgage collapse.
> I challenge you to name me one Android device that is officially supported for 4 or more years

This thread started with a comment about mobile phones in general being locked down to a specific kernel/os/software-combo, and that the upgrade paths is at the mercy of the vendor (unlike PCs).

Both Apple and Android phones are locked down. Who does it in the most convenient way is irellevant to the argument made.
Can we stop using the term ‘math prodigy’ for someone who was essentially a quant monkey - that too at best a decent one?

He ain’t no Ramanujan, or a Terrence Tao or any of the recent Fields’ medalists who have poured their heart and soul into their craft with no expected financial return.
Stuff like this is scary. Check out this video about the caravan and migrants climbing the border wall. Strangely edited. Presented as breaking news. Music as though it's a suspenseful movie. Yet looking at the comments everyone seems to be buying into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GuuNzR_AZg

It has 2M+ views in just a few days.
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If your question isn’t answered, you could post all of them in a comment and see which ones remain unfiltered.

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-modifiers.html

You might need to split the text over multiple comments. Don’t remember whether or not there is a limit to the length a comment can have. Probably there is.
I remember my first few commits to big projects were documentation ones. Like —inspect documentation in nodejs, and node —help.

It gives you exposure to code, the dev loop, general idea of how things work. Then one can take on bigger and bigger challenges.

We all gotta start somewhere.
A pension is directly interchangeable with the 15% of wages you would otherwise need to save for retirement. Maybe less, to account for the (very high) risk of governments defaulting on their pension obligations.
If you can, just stay longer and work remotely for a couple of days ? Google Flights tells you day-to-day flight prices.
I received as well. This is really uninformative of Amazon. Are we just supposed to be okay with this? Sure give out our info, no repercussions, and thanks for being so clear and apologetic.
A bit long but interesting read. This quote is a really nice way to think of an abstract concept like ethics:

"Ethics do not mean keeping your voice down. Ethics do not mean keeping feathers unruffled. Ethics mean taking full and unqualified responsibility for the things you choose to do and say."
Young girls who need encouragement aren't already reading HN's comment section.
If you're genuinely asking (quite irreverent to ask in this thread, I must say), what keeps me here personally are its people. Californians are a passionate folk who are without a doubt the most non-judgmental Americans I've ever encountered as an immigrant, and I've lived in many states. It feels like here, regardless of your background, gender, etc. you can truly be who you want to be - as long as you love to work!
First time encountering a Maciej idlewords post, huh? He doesn't even take himself seriously. That also doesn't stop him from being an excellent and thoughtful writer.
Thanks for sharing these links. I first came across David Ackley watching the Artificial Life II Video proceedings from 1992, where he was demoing an agent-based simulator. So it's interesting (and quite amazing) to see how far his research has expanded in the past 26 years.
The most staggering thing continues to be that there is not sustained public outrage to a great enough degree to enforce reform.

One of Aesop's fables is The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Here's a recent story that I, and most others, didn't find credible:

[1]She also alleged that at some parties, boys lined up
by a bedroom to "gang-rape" incapacitated girls and
claimed those in the lineup included Kavanaugh and Judge.

Even the Democrats finally realized that they had gone too far:

"Democrats and the country would have been better off
if Mr. Avenatti spent his time on his Iowa vanity
project rather than meddling in Supreme Court fights,"

The point is that if you try to manufacture "sustained public outrage" about everyone and everything, eventually people tune you out.

there is no possible reaction but continuous realtime outrage

That's not a winning strategy. You will achieve better results if you pick your battles.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/06/politics/democrats-avenatti-s...
I always try to fly on Thanksgiving/Christmas day (SFO->DCA this Thursday), and this is a great idea. Thank you!
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For anyone else not hip to the lingo: RPA == Robotic Process Automation? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation
As in convenient, if you are playing this game by an effective set of rules yet
I suppose it would get annoying if you commuted into an office regularly and constantly had to hunt for a free place to sit.

Apparently, it does.

Self-link with some good additions, along with a previous storypost about this kind of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3345896
It sort of does in the first sentence "OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library)", but they could really be a lot clearer about that. I really wouldn't give a crap about the license and implementation details until I had a fair idea of what the project could do for me.
I worked as a data scientist trying to figure out how to raise gas prices to the maximum price the market would bear (experimentation mainly). Began to feel really uncomfortable when I realized this wasn't improving society in any meaningful way so I noped out of there once I found a new job.
The article is about "anticipation", which is not exactly "future predicting". I'm disappointed, but science does not have a mechanistic explanation for future-seeing, and therefore has no respect for those who have an ability to "predict" very far beyond the predictable future - [2], perhaps.

One of my passengers once said something about a "psychic" having told [him/her] something-or-other. I huffed, delivered a short reply about humans' ability to see the future, then resumed my standard talk. If I was good at future-seeing, I would have tried to avoid what was to come to pass on account of that passenger.

About three years ago I had the sense, "this 'project' is going to take about 3 years..." I'd say I was approximately correct, but the whole time I've been thinking it'd be finished with the next step.

It's said that Abraham Lincoln was greatly interested in the predictive power of dreams. He may [0] (or may not [1]) have foreseen his own death in a dream. He was bummed out, but wasn't able to adequately interpret his dream so as to avert his own assassination.

[0] https://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln46.html
[1] https://www.history.com/news/did-abraham-lincoln-predict-his... (autoplay video)

[2] "Jules Verne: The Sci-Fi Author Who Predicted the Future" - https://thehustle.co/jules-verne-the-sci-fi-author-who-predi... - advice at the end, "How you can see the future", is quite solid.

Discussion questions:

1. Have you ever had a dream that was predictive of the future?

2. Have you ever "foreseen" what came to pass? Or maybe you didn't like what was to come, decided that you wanted something else, and thereby deliberately changed your own future?

3. Everyone uses 'predicting' all the time for evaluating which path to take. Some people are better at this than others (e.g. Jeff Bezos 'foresaw' the transformative power of the internet).

When did you pick correctly, even if it was a long shot? What about times that you picked incorrectly, maybe even though it was the 'safe' choice? Have you had a gut feeling that the long shot was actually a better bet, but you ignored your gut feeling?
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Why don't you clean your inbox and setup some filters? I'd say 99% of the emails I get is relevant. Blog posts from blogs I actually signed up for is great to get. And if you start to dislike it it's 1 click to unsubscribe.
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I'm only talking about the Tokyo Metro, not including transfers to JR or Toei, etc. The most expensive Tokyo Metro ticket is 310 JPY.