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> At a high level, the market is supposed to provide an incentive to serve customers

That's not what markets do. Markets are a means of efficiently and accurately pricing things in a responsive way. Some markets don't even have customers. That price may or may not be money, depending on the market in question.

> My point is that real-world incentives are never perfectly aligned with such lofty, nebulous goals.

For markets, definitely not, since that's not really what they are for, and any created incentive will at best attempt to move a market towards that.

> Making money is not the same as helping people and no incentive scheme is clever enough to make it so. Customers are often smarter than rules but even then, customers can be fooled. So there will always a way to make money without helping people and when you increase incentives, it also increases incentive to do things that aren't actually the goal.

Nobody here has said it is. The original comment noted "People acting in their own interest are reliable." I interpreted that to mean "when there are forces urging a person or group to act a certain way for their own self interest, it's easier to rely on them to continue acting that way". If Microsoft benefits from doing something that benefits others, it's easier to rely on them to continue doing that. I'm still not sure what point you were trying to make from that, since I'm not following how your latest comment relates to that or to my call for clarification, since I thought maybe you were interpreting the statement somewhat differently than I was.
The confrontation was between the kids and the black Israelites. The Native gentleman was trying to use chanting to interfere with the conflict.
How would you prevent it from finding "paint splatters" which are just renderings of the actual text in question?
This. Some of the biggest mistakes I've made have been too much "thinking". The article makes good points, but seems to argue all these newfangled systems have a very high cost if adopted in the wrong situation. I would argue the cost is probably not that high especially in a managed cloud and many decisions can be tweaked later.

In other words, if a Postgres based solution takes 1 month to build, and a CloudSpanner/Aurora/pick-cloud-managed-sql-DB solution takes 1 month to build, just pick one. Most of the time, if you make a mistake, you'll find out when you have more customers/funding/engineers/knowledge of what actually matters.
One area I've seen that also affect is the data you can get out of a ski resort. On rare occasions, a resort's site will populate its snow report from easily parseable data, but for the vast majority, you're stuck just customizing a scraper for the data because it's likely input manually through a CMS.
It's my personal way of politely saying "marketing bullshit". The real importance of 5nm vs. 7nm is the density of the transistors. A large portion of the recent gains in transistor density have been from reducing the pitch (the space between) transistors, rather than shrinking the size of the transistor.
Something is terribly wrong when you can slash $30 billion from a person’s net worth in a single day, and they are still the world’s richest person.

In Amazon’s case it implies monopolistic margins and anti-competitive exploitation of marketplace dynamics, coupled with dramatically undercompensating employees for the value they have created in Amazon.
it's astounding how much a $20 linode can handle (as a web host) with a proper software stack and performance-minded coding.

but companies throw money, hardware and vendor lock-in at problems way before commiting to sound engineering practices.

i have a friend who works at an online sub-prime lender, says their ruby backend does hundreds of queries per request and takes seconds to load. but they have money to burn so they just throw hardware at it. they spend mid-five figures per month on their infrastructure and third party devops stuff).

meanwhile, we run a 20k/day pageview ecommerce site on a $40/mo linode at 25% peak load. it's bonkers how much waste there is.

i think offloading this stuff to "someone else" and micro-services just makes you care even less about how big a pile of shit your code is.
Um, they do? Endless simulator drills of various emergency scenarios is a large part of becoming a pilot and staying certified.
Yeah, given the choice between a translated message that is utterly useless and an English-only informative error dump, I'm gonna bet everyone remotely capable of dealing with the error would choose the latter every single time.
I would expect restart to bind to new ports. It's not something that should be supported on-the fly (it's good thing, of course, but not at expense of keeping root process). Reloading key files is useful, but I think that it could be implemented with other means (e.g. reload program which runs under root, could read those files and pass them via some kind of IPC).
A possibly better law that allows some free market aspects to continue is allowing only those who work, attend school or have lived in the area X amount of years with the ability to purchase or rent. This way people who need housing in the area are prioritized over rent seekers who have no connection to the area except for the fact that they have cash to purchase in the area. This would also reduce commute times and overall shift around the city population so everyone is closer to where they work or attend school.
I always found "Your data is right where you left it" mildly threatening. Like is there a reason it wouldn't still be there? Should I be worried?
After amazon switched to ec2/sec kind of billing in 2017 i would say cloud is pretty good for prototyping and running CI. As to anything else i would say it depends.
Lack of denial doesn’t prove existence
Glow, the machine learning compiler that is developed as part of PyTorch, is described here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00907
I wouldn't say that's quite the same thing, and people _absolutely do_ over engineer/encapsulate their code today. In my own, admittedly limited experience, it seems to me that the biggest win with microservices are realized when you have large teams working independently. There is a complexity overhead that, in my opinion, isn't justified for most apps being worked on by small teams.

That said, I don't hold a hard opinion here; I don't have enough experience with them yet. I'm open to having my mind changed.
Everyone here is mixing up identification with reputation. Identification isn't necessary; in fact it's a bad thing. But reputation within a community is good and necessary.
Costco would sell a couple dozen to several hundred iPod Classics, Nanos, and Touches, all in varied condition, as a "lot". At best you could buy these based off of a grade, which just judged their physical condition, but most of the time you were always buying these a couple dozen at a time, sight unseen.
I think a few years ago there was a summit of US bankers to talk about creating a faster alternative to ACH. They decided not to (presumably because they didn't see any benefit to themselves).

I do keep hearing about "Same Day ACH" which was rolled out and phases and phase 3 was supposed to be done on March 16, 2018.

https://www.nacha.org/rules/same-day-ach-moving-payments-fas...
Ethiopian pilots performed Boeing’s recommendations to stop aircraft from diving
A 'lot' is a unit of issue in this case as a supply/logistics term. It means buying a grouping of damaged iPods (say the lot was 25 or 50 individual iPods).
A shared inbox. The thing Google doesn't want you to have
Could you substitute in octave for matlab? Or does it use something in matlab that is not available in octave?
Seriously, a MCAS indicator light (if MCAS is actively issuing commands), a big red button below it called "Disable MCAS" , and a MCAS disabled light (so pilots actually remember when it is disabled) should be more than enough to prevent this.

Besides adding the AoA disagree light AND having MCAS use a triple AoA sensor vote to determine the AoA angle.
"but I think having the streets be only for the wealthy"

but that's basically what they are now, in as much as they are catering for the most expensive form of transport (aircraft and tanks notwithstanding).

Having the streets for everyone means having them be for walking, cycling, scooters, bikes, buses, etc. Hell, donkeys while we're at it.
The fact that they could fulfill their whole loan that they wanted, and that they lost many important government satellite contracts recently seems to indicate that this is a business that hasn't reached a stage that it isn't out of the woods.

According to certain investors, this is a business worth $30 billion. That's not a company that should be struggling with these things.

United Launch Alliance had similar revenues (right around 2.5 billion) in 2018, but most only value them at $3 billion. This 10x multiple of their most obvious competitor doesn't seem to make sense.
Lot basically means “a pile of items”.
Yeah, I think it's both divisions. Both 'perl -e "in /tmp"' and 'perl -e "tmp/quine"' result in the same division-by-zero error.
Apple was losing billions in China. While this is just some of the phones trickling into other markets for replacement, it's still fraud and hurting Apple. This is why recently they've started to say iPhone exchanges had to be sent to depot rather than just replaced on the spot.
I agree, but dramatic presentation is what gets attention. A dry recitation of the facts performs poorly in the marketplace.
Something similar is how remapping the Capslock key in Windows to another one has to be done via registry edit instead of a Control Panel setting. Given the renewed drive from Microsoft to become the developer’s OS of choice over the last five to ten years, choosing to not offer a more a accessible solution than a registry edit seems contrary to that drive for me.
Yes, I think it's really easy to look at a project, after it has scaled, and go "wow they made such bad technical decisions! Why didn't they learn more about this?" and ignore that the system is running, they have customers, a business, and they're solving the problem when it has become important to do so.

I've seen lots of time wasted overthinking solutions only to find out that the requirements were changed a month before release, or customers would use the system completely differently than expect.
Outside of AWS, Amazon margins are very slim. The reason Bezos is worth so much is investor's faith in the future. If you ask me, Amazon stock is stupidly expensive on a F P/E basis. He likely won't always be the world's richest man. I still think Gates and Buffet will eventually win out. So many people measure wealth on equity value, which I kind of find silly because Buffet, Gates, or Bezos could never unload their entire equity stake without flooding the market with supply.
Pattern matching has nothing to do with FP.
Oh man, I hope they saw that one coming ahead of time.
Yes, but it's still pretty much a straight cost offset. If you hold your own metal, you have to do all of that and still administer the database. Sure, there could be a little overlap in storage design, nut most of the managed systems have typical operational concerns at a button click: backup, restore, HA... Unless your fleet is huge and your workload is special, you're going to win with managed services.
I wouldn't say there's a non-trivial chance that they'll be fired in 1-2 months. Being able to effectively screen people is another technical managerial skill. There is a very, very small percentage of candidates that make it through the interview and later turn out to be duds.

I think there are two issues at play:

1. Ineffective managers are terrified of firing people.

2. Ineffective managers rightly or wrongly think they can't screen people without code tests, white boarding...

Like I said in my original comment I look at their Github or any other work portfolio they provide and have a deep discussion about it with them.
I'm pretty sure a bunch of years ago Planet Money had a podcast where they just marveled at someone in the UK sending their daughter in NYC enough to buy a pint in realtime.

I think they've reported on ACH a few times each year and there never seems to be any incentive (from the group maintaining ACH) to improve it. What's worse is that it not only takes a few days, I often don't see it show up until a few days after that (back dated to when it was supposed to be received!).
Speculation is economically distinct from gambling. At a cursory level you can draw comparisons between the two, but there is a meaningful difference between them. Speculation is a form of investment in which the investor accepts significant risk for (potentially) outsized returns which are decoupled from the consensus fundamental value of an asset. Gambling is not a form of investment; it's a form of trading in which participants have no or negligible information and cannot perform better than chance.

You can engage in gambling or speculation when trading forex, because it enables both activities. There are rational reasons to engage in speculation, whereas there aren't any to engage in gambling. Generally the test of rationality lies at the line of information asymmetry: do you have information which the market does not? Then you can engage in speculation and positively inform price discovery, which contributes to the well-functioning of the market. If you do not have superior information and you're not trading on the fundamental value of a thing, you're gambling. There are similar tests to distinguish gambling from hedging and arbitrage, both of which also comprise legitimate economic activity

Graham himself acknowledges in that very book that speculation is a necessary function for markets, because someone needs to accept risk in order to keep the value machine running (i.e. empower short term price discovery). His primary thesis is not that speculation and gambling are equivalent; rather, that as an individual you are more likely to be gambling than speculating.

While modern perspectives on this topic do split hairs, the generally accepted view is that speculation and investing operate along a continuum. Strong opinions to the contrary tend to be rooted in moral and ideological disagreements, not economic nuance. It's not particularly useful to condemn speculation as gambling because a lot of legitimate and useful investing is very risk-tolerant. A much better heuristic is whether or not it's an individual or a firm engaging in the trading.
I doubt this is possible. If it was it would be a certification requirement because it would make any trim runaway incident trivial.
About 3 years ago I was raising money in the USA for a Mexican FinTech startup. Said startup uses Mexico's equivalent of ACH to transfer money (it is called SPEI).

VCs in the US were amazed when we told them that SPEI transfers costed $.4 USD and the money was moved in 15 minutes or less.

Fast forward years later I work in a company that uses ACH, I have came to know some of its internals, and man how bad it is... taking up to 5 days to clear a transaction, and never really giving you an ACK signal (but you have to wait and pray not to get a NACK).

Sometimes the USA surprises me the bad way.
> knowing some greedy bunch of assholes were effectively that malevolent entity, whose will was expressed via the aircraft.

If this it true then link? When was this confirmed? Who are the assholes?

Else this is just Reddit spam that contributes less than nothing.
You can but that might not yield the result, Because the surname isn't associated with his caste, It is his father's name which is "Pichai Sundararajan", Yes he got his grandfather's name, In tamil (which is his mother tounge) the word for Grandson is "Peyaran", it roughly translates in english to "Namer".

Unlike the commenter 'dmod' above, I am from the same state as sundar pichai, So i can sort of figure out his caste, But never bothered to conform. Because as 'dmode' says interest in caste is not really something that is prevelant among yonger indians.

But as i am getting older i am interested in caste, But that is more like old people getting curious about their ancestory and going to 23Andme.
Was that ever conclusively disproved? By whom? And with what evidence?

That could well fall under he said she said.
Promising!
I don't think this sort of effort has to be ironclad to be meaningful. The margins could be a big deal, here.

Some sort of attestation toolchain might enable people who care about evidence to produce more strongly-attested cases, and to get a better handle on what is and isn't sourced from others. It seems likely that using good attestation toolchains could create feedback loops for researchers, journalists, archivists, authors, film-makers, educators, students, and other people involved in knowledge production.

These feedback loops might change how they research, where they start, how often they have to re-invent wheels, and raise standards by enabling these people to compete on metrics that might drive more social value than clicks, engagement, shares, or ad revenue.

These effects could be important, even if you never budge the kind of person inclined to consume the information equivalent of junk-food.
Wikipedia, for a few high-profile current events each week, serves a function similar to the one proposed for sourcedfact; and it regularly results in deeper + more contextualized coverage than even the best outlets. However, WP's commitment to being a tertiary source means that _some_ secondary source has to properly interpret the primary sources, before that interpretation can be included.
Apple Hires AI and Deep Learning Expert Ian Goodfellow
Again, you're assuming the kid had the option of yielding so that the drummer could "walk through." Watch the original video that includes the surrounding events.

The kid did have an option to yield: getting on his knees and begging for forgiveness for the crime of appearing at an anti-abortion demonstration as a white Catholic male. Then the drummer (who is a 'professional protestor', by the way) would have had a more dramatic story to sell.

Instead, he smirked.
Vmo incorporates a factor of safety in its specification, so exceeding it is not a "parts fall off the aircraft" event.

Vne is where things start to get scary because it's usually based on flutter, which can catastrophically damage/destroy the aircraft in very short order.
Here's an example: https://www.directliquidation.com/auction/269088-10-pcs-appl...
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Interesting, but isn't perception still a dynamic process requiring time? Or, said differently, how can a completely static universe support an apparently "evolving" perception?
This assumes that either:

1. People can arbitrarily convert time into money, ie, there’s not a reason they’d prefer to pay some expenses in time.

2. People are free to change their travel times, and aren’t being coerced into traveling at a particular time. If travel time is a monopsony, then this is mere rent extraction because people can’t adjust behavior in response to economic pressures.
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Part of the procedure is to keep thrust or augment it, after disengaging auto-throttle. Remember that they were in stall warning, too (stick shaker), which certainly shouldn't incite anyone to throttle down.
Because arguments about facts take place all the time when people dismiss citations, so having a source that exists specifically to document claims in open fashion becomes a useful reference.
MBA vs. Bloomberg Terminal Subscription
If you had to pick one, mba (100-200k over 2 years ) or Bloomberg terminal subscription for 5-10 years ?
Ask HN: How can we contact someone from the Adsense Team? Important
We were an Adsense publisher for 3 years. Recently, we had to change our currency (in order to do that, one must cancel their account). When we reapplied we got denied. It seems that someone stole our content and google thinks we are the ones scraping their content. Adsense's contact form is only available to publishers (we no longer qualify). I hope we can get help from the HN community
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Exactly same case here - we're using Athena (packaged presto from AWS) and have a Postgres instance w/ identical data in a different data model. Presto is mindblowingly good at the low latency queries and scales well to anything nontrivial. It seems opening files for reading is the biggest source of delay in presto! Postgres is not handling the scale well, but it was a nice experiment.
I think it's a bit odd we rely on governments to print and issue currency (estimates that only 8% of currency is physical), yet are very hands off about the digital side of things.
Let me explain what I mean by intimidating, because I’m not talking about work-load. The work involved in mapping a current reality is much more intimidating—-in terms of load—-than daily journaling. But journaling—-which I’ve done: I have a box filled with written personal journals—-turned, for me, less into a faithful map of what I’d actually done and more into an effort to reconcile what had already happened to my goals. So if I had a hard day, I would try to recontextualize it, in my journal, in some positive light that showed how it ultimately contributed to my goals. And that became burdensome and painful ... hence intimidating to me as a concept now.

A current reality map, on the other hand, starts with the objective of forensic impartiality. I’m not doing it with any goal to validate my current approach. I’m just trying to actually see what is happening, with a bigger goal to see how what is happening is NOT aligned to what I want to have happen, so that I can innovate in a way that addresses that inconsistency.

And by framing it this way, it becomes more a process of innovation, which is less intimidating to me than the self-advocacy or self-defense or self-delusion I typically experience in journaling.
I used to work in an LED startup for 1 year as my first real job in Canada, then it went under. Also in a fancy phosphor niche, with some "smart software" sugar on top.

$7m capital - eaten like a candy.

Any conventional high tech startup in the West is crazy expensive outright from the beginning, unlike internet and software companies.

Close to a million went outright to high profile C-levels even before they did anything. The biggest sum I've seen paid to anybody to just to hang around.

A million, to "a real deal" science team of photonics PhDs and engineers with 20+ years experience.

Few millions for all kinds of super exotic engineering services, like doing thermal simulation of an LED package, making a custom process metrology tool for patterned LED chips, custom process control tools.

When I asked one of engineers about the price, they told me that they used 10 years old, few times resold tools to save money, and that by standards of the industry this is something that people don't even blink about.

The rest went into initial batch, and then the biggest financial backer backed away, and that was it, despite the first batch being more or less sold.

I still can't fathom the mind of people who can wrap up a $7m enterprise on a whim while being 5 minutes away from the finish line.

And it still feels surreal to me how I was in the middle of it for a year while basically being just an office errands boy.
> accomplished using unknown means by an anonymous academic study

That's ... that's not what academic means.