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Whether you should mortgage or sell your Amazon stock obviously depends on whether you think the price of Amazon stock will go up or down. The comment you're responding to explicitly assumes it will go down:

> Given the absurdly high valuation of Amazon

In this case, taking out a loan against the stock is a terrible idea.
China is a world on its own. Google sees the writing on the wall, enter China or become FB (talk about a has-been.) Google, FB etc need 20% quarter to quarter growth and Google has pretty much saturated the western world. So it is China...kiss the ring and all. Google is not going to lose market cap because of so called values. They're so 2005
> Some people choose not to be disciplined. Their choice I guess.

Empathy goes a long way. I think as a society we will get to the solution faster with the view that some people might have stronger urges to overeat then you. Congratulations you worked hard. Don't discount what others face.
Knuth is just ONE section away from writing about my (current) topic of study: Constraint Programming.

His 4th volume of TAOCP is so big that its beginning for him to take decades to write sections. Backtracking search + 3-SAT solvers is really interesting (and very closely related to Constraint Programming), but I'm deeply curious to know what his take on Constraint Programming will be.

Its really odd to be "waiting" for the next chapter of TAOCP. Its a serious body of work that has spanned decades of research and writing... I really hope he finishes the next section sooner.

Maybe I'll go and buy the fascicle for 3SAT and read it while waiting.
Whatever they promise, get it in written.

What happened to the last technical cofounder?
The point of end-to-end encryption is that Apple doesn't have any keys to give.
It's fat-soluble so you're not as likely to just piss it out like the usual vitamins. D3 gets pretty good absorption. I wouldn't take it as a dry pill, if they even manufacture it like that. Get it in a liquid gel format that has it suspended in lipids. Take it with a meal or after.

If you really want to be anal about it, best move is to get your levels tested and then start supplementing and test levels again after a month, then up or down your dosage accordingly till you know how much you need to be taking daily. Most people depending on ethnicity, lifestyle/occupation, and locale just take like 500 - 5,000 IU D3 daily. If you're a white dude who goes surfing every day on the equator, you're probably good. If you're a black dude with a desk job, there's about a 90% chance you're deficient.

A doctor can diagnose extreme deficiency and might put you on like 50,000+ IU / week for a short while.
Why the NYT and Bureaucrats Don't Tell You the Cost of Action on Climate Change
"Useful, creative, and clear solutions usually trump perfectly correct ones"

Actually I've found that the most useful solutions are those that are creative and clear.

But yeah, it totally depends what one is doing. Usually if the algorithm is mission critical and the component is mission critical you can weasel out enough time to make it right (so you don't have to return it to ever again and you get a reputation as a guy who's code just works).
The ad that saved Apple
So its taken Intel, the market leader, five or more years to release a competing product?

Edit: typo
What is DX encoding and how did it become an industry standard in the analog age
France doesn’t want to wait for European tax reform to tax tech giants
Show HN: Emoji Bombs (send fun bursts of emoji)
Developers Report Unexplained Drop in App Store Ratings
The estimated cost for a seawall to protect NYC from flooding is in the tens of billions. NYC isn't going to get flooded.

Bangladesh OTOH...
Ryzen Threadripper for Game Development – Optimising UE4 Build Times
Framework for Rapid Development with Low Technical Debt
Hey HackerNews,

Releasing something cool and thought I would come here to get feedback.

After developing several products from scratch, there has always been the question of how I am able to bring a product from inception to production ready from a week to month time period and keep technical debt relatively low.

The answer is I developed a Toolkit and Framework years ago that is focused on rapid development while following good software architecture and now I am officially making it open source! Here are the two links:

Toolkit:
https://github.com/ProdigyView-Toolkit/prodigyview

MVC Framework:
https://github.com/Helium-MVC/Helium

I also think about Inversion of Control in a more targeted way:
https://medium.com/helium-mvc/a-new-approach-to-inversion-of-control-with-prodigyview-e15a34cff0d

And follow certain principles on product development:
https://medium.com/helium-mvc/programming-principles-for-early-stage-startups-1215ad14bcb8

Any other developers in the forum, I'd be happy to get your feedback and thoughts if you have any.
IT administrators failed to install an intrusion detection and prevention system --also known as an antivirus or security product.

The conflation of two totally different categories of products decreases the credibility of the entire article.

With that said, the subject matter is tragic.. almost terrifying. Did we learn nothing from stuxnet?
Agreed with what everyone else has responded to counter the claim that a one-man family office can reproduce Vanguard's VTSAX. Such a family office also has to contend with other giants trying to claim the G.O.A.T. title for asset management companies [1] with incredible scale efficiencies. The stakes are "for all the marbles of the game" high [2], and they're using all the benefits of capital scale they can scrounge.

The likelihood of a single person delivering index tracking performance better than these giants is pretty slim. Better to drop the tranche designated for broad market passive indexing into one of these giants' funds as an institutional holder, then have the one-man office project-manage leading education of younger generations, help the family leader clarify the ongoing family mission the office supports, the accountants' filing tax compliance at the individual and trust/foundation levels (likely in many different jurisdictions), grooming a successor, updating processes and procedures to improve auditability/accountability/anti-fraud detection, assisting with legal compliance, helping out with financing approved moonshots, etc.

[1] https://riabiz.com/a/2018/12/13/vanguards-asset-machine-wobb...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/fixed-income
Microsoft has already conceded the mobile space. They're doubling down on desktop dominance.
> But some of their most highly touted features will not be fully available until 2022 or later because of problems in a companion program to develop a new ground control system for the satellites, government auditors said.

Hey, maybe they need AWS GroundStation! =)
Cash is pretty much the only guaranteed losing long-term investment out there, other than gambling & used cars. The Fed has a target inflation rate of 2% - that means that if they do their job correctly, every year your cash stash will be worth 2% less. If they do it incorrectly it can lose value even more quickly.

Big tech companies hoard cash because much of their business model depends upon being able to buy up potential competitors before the competitor can take over their market, and they need liquidity to do it because things move very fast in tech and delaying even a couple weeks can mean the price goes up $100M. That's why you see purchases like Instagram for $1B, YouTube for $1.5B, DoubleClick for $3B, or WhatsApp for $19B. And they often make rates of return far, far in excess of the purchase price of these - YouTube is estimated as being worth $75B now. They're not holding cash for the sake of holding cash, they're holding cash as a punctuated-equilibrium investment strategy where they spend a lot when the right opportunity comes along and sit back and wait for the right opportunity to come along the rest of the time.
Well if the goal was to get people interested in the brand and create accounts on robinhood (needed to sign up for early access) then they succeeded. :) Now they can try to convert some of these new users to their core product.
Ask HN: Delivery Subscription Business Info?
Have you started a delivery subscription business?

There are many - stitchfix, many veggie and other clothing delivery subscription services.

Where can I read up on how to start such a company? The physical delivery logistics component is out of my area of domain expertise, but I would like to learn about it. Please point me to any resources you have.
That seems a bit extreme, but that was the response from our engineers in Detroit.

Amazon claimed we didn't have enough programmers, but the reality is that most of our programmers are picked up by automotive companies. There is talent, but they are already high in demand.

If amazon admitted they didn't want to exceed our 6 figure salaries, the response would have been better. Instead I see Amazon as an increasingly crony company.
The most convincing point to me is that she doesn't fit in the statistical models. After people get to a certain age, their odds of surviving should be describable with an exponential curve. We can fit these curves to people who survive past an old age, like 105 or 110 or 115. And most of the distribution fits just fine. But Jeanne Calment and Sarah Knauss don't. They are both extremely unlikely outliers.

At which point you have to ask the question. What theory do you consider most likely? That the model is wrong, that we happen to be lucky enough to have seen these two extraordinary data points very early, or that these two data points are fraudulent?

From a Bayesian point of view, this is a very strong argument in support of fraud. And when specific evidence emerges, including from photos, that there was fraud, it should be instantly believable.
This is generally a good point, but I'm not entirely sure it applies to high-end outliers for aging?

We've improved medicine in a lot of ways, but rising lifespans (even measured from adulthood) are almost entirely driven by preventing certain premature deaths and increasing life expectancy for other terminal conditions. Very elderly people have generally escaped a lot of common mortality risks already (heart disease onset is 85% by age 80 in the US, implying that someone who doesn't have it at age 100 isn't likely to). Meanwhile, they rarely benefit from our improving treatments for other risks - we can substantially improve life expectancy for even incurable cancers in adulthood, but centenarians can't tolerate the sort of aggressive treatments we use for that result.

(Interestingly, I had thought Alzheimer's was similar to heart disease, but annual onset rates at 90+ are almost as high as at 65-89 combined - it appears to simply be a steadily rising risk. Of course, we can't treat it well and incidents rates haven't changed much, so it's not really a factor in which cohort should have the longest lifespans.)

The best visualization I've found is a bit messy, but nicely breaks down life expectancy by age over time. Since 1850, 70-year-olds appear to have gained about 7 years of expectancy, and I'm guessing 100-year-olds have gained substantially less. https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Life-e...
> “This idea that people should eat less and exercise more — if only it were so simple,” Dr. Hall said.

Of course pharma companies and the healthcare system don't want it to be that simple: better to sell drugs to people to fix the problem. Likewise, consumers would rather take a pill than do something difficult, like eat properly and exercise.

When you consider how prevalent this kind of attitude is the obesity levels stop being a mystery.
Notice how they try to get you to say "climate change" instead of "global warming" nowadays. This is big business.
Disrupted... how? Consumers suffer... how?

Is depositing money hard or something? Is spending money using a debit card online difficult?

Because those two things are the primary purpose of consumer banking.
Time travel is possible – but only if you have an object with infinite mass
"If Capitalism isn't buying shit and lying about it to sell it for higher, I don't know what Capitalism is. This is only a difference in degree, not kind."

I'm neutral on the question in this case, but really, any discussion of "capitalism" that goes beyond chapter one, page one of an undegrad economics textbook covers the point that efficient markets are not deceptive markets. Participants are assumed to share equal information. HN's understanding of capitalist theory seems to begin and end at the phrase, "supply and demand", and everything that has a two-sided market is otherwise A-OK.

In this particular case, consumers are sort-of informed, but it's also a lot harder to be informed than it used to be. I'm someone who tries to find high-quality items, and even I screw up on a regular basis. I wouldn't fall for this one, though.
FWIW, I don't really believe that the punishment should increase with increased lifespan, I was just giving a contradictory example based on different numbers.
People just need to pain everything with this:

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

All features become invisible, black as could be.
Dropshipping from China has a bad reputation but it can be done correctly and ethically. You can say you manufacture and ship from your partners in China, and you can pay for modifications, better QA like with stickers and number engraving and traceability, tracking in the shipment... even for some certified ISO processes.

Not defending what this fake stuff brands are doing, and they not only exist for watches but also for jewelry, leather bracelets, etc, etc... but just saying it's also comparable to what cheap shopping mall brands sometimes do with accessories and watches but adding renting and expensive place in the middle and marking up everything way more.
Airbnb suspends its boycott of Israeli settlements
Turn it into 2x PPL splits with 1 rest day in between for your weekly routine and you can look like a Men's Health cover model in ~6 months of hard work.

I hover between 172 - 176 with a 405 deadlift and 275 bench press.
Don't consume the corporate cool-aid. Google, and for that matter any other company, is not its employees, it is its stockholders.
Clickbait doesn't have be useless. Even if it's a good article the headline is still designed to cause controversy.
Do you have any particular links for Matt Levine content you found interesting?
TCP CUBIC Broken in FreeBSD 12.0
I'm not aware of another city in the USA with as useful a transit system. In terms of what it could be, it's atrocious. In terms of how it enables the city to function, it's essential.
I'm no longer convinced there's any meaningful difference between incompetence and malice.

By now every programmer on the internet knows their systems can have widespread consequences, and that users won't hit the happy path on the first try, and that systems will live far longer than planned, and so on.

The only place where this has a meaningful distinction is amateurism. You can only claim you didn't know any better if you weren't expected to. A professional carpenter doesn't get to say "Oops, I didn't think someone would lean on that wall." Sorry your building collapsed, but at least I didn't do it maliciously? Professionals don't take mulligans.
It actually wasn't property, a large portion was cash in terms of salary collected as an infant or various gifts. There was a report by NYT not too long ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/d...
In his recent Dancing Links talk (a couple of weeks ago), he mentioned a generalization of exact cover that also covers constraint programming. You may want to look into that (XCC) in the meantime, in Knuth's fascicle on Dancing Links (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc5c.ps.gz).

I know the feeling of waiting for new chapters of TAOCP; I'm waiting for Chapter 8 on recursion because his idea of it is so different from everyone else's.
But we don't know about secondary effects those changes will bring and how they interact with the initial effects. The earth is an ecosystem and the models as good as they are are not complete.
I believe he was thinking far more of something like Jupyter Notebook.

I’m waiting for VSCode to implement a bit of API that would allow me to start on an extension turning comments into first-class citizen, with, for example, diagrams, links, or images.
I want a tool that allows visibility across projects, because this "keeping track of status by email" is for the birds.

The "Issues", "Merge Requests", and "Todos" across the tab bar isn't helpful in the same way that I would _imagine_ a TweetDeck-ish layout by project or by item type would be
Also, lots of bawdy humor that gets glossed over by staid and respectable modern productions. For example: the "bite your thumb" gesture that gets used in a few plays is pretty much the equivalent of somebody from today giving a double middle finger while sticking their tongue out.
LLVM has a draft Code of Conduct[1], but I'm not sure how that relates to a relicensing effort.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CodeOfConduct.html
I read the 2/1000 participants lost weight and kept it off on Weight watchers post you cited. It seems highly inaccurate. It considers within 5lbs of target weight as not successful as we cannot know if they were within 5lbs to begin with. But the studies cite 20% with most not being heavier than when they started. You can't join Weight Watchers unless you have 5lbs to lose or more.

Probably 90+% of people on diets fail but if 10% can be saved from surgery that really helps. If we've reached the point that we can't stop ourselves from eating outside of changing our digestive system we have a problem. The rise of sedentary jobs along with giant portion sizes is to blame. Not some fundamental condition with human beings.
As mentioned in the article he is also a devoted Christian and one of the smartest I know of.

Some of his writings on the subject:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/things.html

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/316.html
If I learned one thing from my 201 class at Upright Citizens Brigade theater, it was that I'm not as funny as I think I am and that I should stop those "funny-man" impulses from high school. Humor has a way of controlling the conversation and tone. Improv is about sharing and cooperating over that control. You share a stage with 15 other folks who want to relish in that limelight, and you quickly learn what happens if you don't cooperate.

I only bring this up since improv helped me think about social situations in a very different lens. It's like taking up a recreational sport - you'll think you're fit until actually pushed into a challenging environment.
I'm very worried too. I have kids. In the next ten or fifteen years I'll probably have grandkids. I'm building up food storage, anticipating periods of high food insecurity. I've done a lot of thinking about what I really need to live a good life, and more specifically what I don't, anticipating that there may well come a time in my lifetime where a lot of the things I now think of as necessities are simply not available.

But: there's a saying that engineers tend to over-estimate what can be accomplished in the short term, and under-estimate what can be accomplished in the long term. So I have hope. Renewable energy is getting cheaper than fossil fuels. Electric cars are on the market already, and they're getting better. Economic forces, once tipping points are reached, can cause change to happen very, very quickly. I can imagine a future where nearly all cars on the road are electric within ten to twenty years, and where nearly all electrical generation is renewable/nuclear, and where this happens not primarily due to government action but simply market forces and consumer sentiment.

And in the meantime, there are some ugly but eminently doable geoengineering solutions that will keep most of us alive.

I can imagine it. So I have hope.
The fact that it is unclear is kind of obvious. And a few decades ago, we really didn't know much.

But models have improved a lot lately and we are getting a better idea. Enough to consider it worthwhile to do something about it.

It is still very complex science, with lots of statistics involved. And with deniers on one side and doomsayers on the other, as non-specialists, it is hard to get a good picture.
'the patent stuff' is precisely why some have strong critiques against apache2
Instagram Was Bigger Russian Election Tool Than Facebook, Senate Report Says
The planet itself will be absolutely fine. It's been through a heck of a lot worse. Humans (and other animals) are the ones who are going to have to adapt, hard.

As a small example, a rise in sea levels would make unlivable countless coastal cities and destroy an immense amount of infrastructure. Humans will -survive- it, but say good bye to our cushy 21st century lifestyle.
Not 100% sure I get the last point, since NYC programmers don't exactly come in cheap either.
Ah well, it's fine to violate human rights if it costs you money then. And as long as you have an apple in the logo I guess?
I have a massive sweet tooth as well. If i buy a pack of cookies, i'l finish it one sitting. What has helped is to avoid buying them outright.
You Can Do It in SQL, Stop Writing Extra Code for It
GPS signals are sufficiently low frequency that a phased array would need to be fairly large. Each antenna in the array would need to be around 5cm and you'd need quite a few of them on each axis. Totally doable but someone probably decided a dish was easier/cheaper than a big board of antennas or waveguides and associated circuitry. Phased array would be nice to have though, since if the array was large enough you could have multiple beams produced by different parts of the array and cover more/multiple areas.
Finance is such a massively studied, optimized and engineered business. There are zillions of people working day and night for literally centuries trying to squeeze another penny out every type of deal. It's just unbelievable that they thought they could just say "technology!" and find some huge loophole to make big profits for nothing.
The font is impressive. If you search for "ct", some of them have a fancy curlicue ligature. They're true to the original (compare https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/euclid/book2/images/bookII-def... with https://www.c82.net/euclid/book2/). And they seem to obtained merely with the css:

font-feature-settings: "clig", "dlig", "liga", "onum"
Not "easily", since the difference is one of several orders of magnitude. A person making 60K has to work three years to make as much someone making 180K. A person making 200K has to work five hundred years to make as much as someone making 100M.

No one works hard enough to "deserve" that much money; this is why kings used to appeal to divine right. Nowadays the justifications are non-existent, we just pretend otherwise because we are cowards.

While we're speaking of "deserving" our money, what moral framework do we use to make this calculus? I'm dubious you could identify a credible moral universe in which one person deserves hundreds of millions, while hundreds of millions work themselves to the bone and still deserve nothing.
My personal license choice at the moment is to dual-license my work under both MIT and Apache 2.0. This way the user can decide which license to use.

Personally, one of my favorite things about Apache 2.0 is the license doesn't include any references to the copyright holder or year, so the exact same license text can be used everywhere, so if you have 20 dependencies all covered by Apache 2.0 you only need 1 copy of the license text rather than 20 nearly-identical copies.
Build your own emoji Christmas tree with SVG
The article links a website with rebuttals for most climate science myths [1]. One of them lists what we do know what will happen, and how bad that will be at least [2].

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php

[2] https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-positives-negati...