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I would recommend Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger and these following two books:

The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott Page

https://www.amazon.com/Model-Thinker-What-Need-Know/dp/04650...
and

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Mental-Models-Thinking-Concepts...
Smart dudes have wrestled over those problems for years. I think the strongest case for dropshipping would be new cars. The dealerships have presented a problem for people for years, but they are politically well connected.

It's a lot easier for a manufacturer to send a boxcar of toilet paper to a warehouse (Amazon or otherwise) than to mail the case to you. Lacking Amazon or Safeway, they'd probably just recreate a similar system in the form of a co-op.

In any case, I don't doubt they've gamed and spreadsheeted the bejeepers out of dropshipping, returnable containers, standardized containers, third party (USPS) vs. self shipping vs. drones, etc.
> now the place is filling up with walking calculators - brilliant at arithmetic but no lateral thinking.

That was exactly the impression my interviewers left on me when I interviewed there a couple years ago.
If it were about what America wants, why wouldn’t they just let America extradite him? They already have an extradition request in.
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The only lesson I can draw from this story is that teenagers have an unparalleled inventiveness to be assholes to each other.
I enjoyed this book a lot but Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows is definitely a better introduction to systems thinking
I was in a store the other day and was kind of shocked at the amount of Fortnite merchandise they had. Makes me glad I don't have kids that would beg me for it. And it makes me wish that there was that much merch for the games I liked when I was younger!
For a solid foundation of microelectronics, Sedra and Smith's "Microelectronic Circuits" is the classic go to. Back when I worked at TI, they actually gave every new engineer a copy.

This is a very entry level book that covers a huge number of topics well and will serve as a launching point to more specific topics. It starts with basic transistors and works up through Op-amp design and digital VLSI touching on filter theory and clocks along the way.
Also, the first image saying "Fall in Seoul" is from a bridge in Brugge/Belgium.
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"very fast"
For important hanko seals used in Japan (for business, loans, etc.) they are registered with the local ward office so that wouldn't be an issue.
It is so awful. I came to the site this morning because I expected to see discussion of Assange, but this is just unbearable.
For Minecraft, it largely depends on the server and how it's moderated or lack thereof. Some servers have a higher degree of toxic behavior than others. It is called 'griefing' rather than 'bullying' though.
I can't watch this because I'm in Japan and its geoblocked but hanko can be convenient.
- you can leave a hanko with an authorized person to sign on your behalf (eg when you're a CEO traveling abroad).
- you can unregister your hanko if it's stolen
- as you said you can have multiple hanko for various purposes. For large purposes like buying a house, it will be verified against the hanko the you registered in your city

On the other hand,
- if it wears out or part of it breaks, OCR algorithms can flag your hanko stamp and stop a basic transaction.
- As a foreigner, you have the right to sign instead of use a hanko, but in use for banking or whatever, it is run through the same hanko verification OCR algorithms, meaning your transactions using signatures are sometimes flagged due to 2 slightly different signatures
- A stolen hanko is a real liability risk (this is why you should not use your banking hanko for accepting packages, etc, but rather use a separate one)
I think there's something in there, but it's buried under a writing style that seems, intentionally or not, to draw most of its influence from long form ad/marketing copy. The stuff where it manages constantly to seem like it's about to say something but defers it absolutely as long as possible, or sometimes never gets around to saying anything at all.

This is distinct from prose that is merely drawn out or flowery, being more like a trickier, grown-up, (apparently) salable version of what a high school student does to pad out an essay or book report.
Definition by example would have to be exhaustive to answer my question.
> Funding 1$ to the wealthy returns 0.7$ to the economy.

So going solely by that figure, as long as the gain in efficiency from automating a job is > 42% it's a net positive for the economy? And that's even _if_ you assume 100% of the savings goes directly into the company owner's pockets and isn't simply being re-invested somewhere else.
We (germans) also seperate everything personally. If I understood the article right there is just one blue bin where you put everything recycable in?

Here we have:
Blue bin for paper
Yellow bin for packages (plastic...and aluminium? I think)
Extra Container for glass, white and green/brown)
Green bin for organics.
Black bin for anything else.

Beer bottles, plastic bottles and cans don't get thrown out at all, you pay a fee during purchase and get it back when you return the empty ones to a store.

What goes into the yellow bin and what doesn't is a highly controversial point of discussion in any home.
He will horde most of it. Occasionally he will spend on lobbying efforts, purchase insane luxury items (ie yachts), or vanity projects. Sometimes, he will splurge on a business that employee a few people. When he is feeling particularly generous, he may contribute to some project that makes home look good while putting his name on something (ie new opera house).
This story started me wondering whether hardware, in this case Amazon order packing automatons, or wetware has a smaller net lifetime carbon footprint, assuming both are as green as possible. (Ignoring, of course global over-population and/or mass over-consumption of essentially disposable goods.). These days I am having a hard time imagining that technology could ever have the negative carbon footprint required to mitigate climate change.
Look at the structural difference between systems of Nature and systems of Civilization.
Let's be honest, this is really just a matter of time.
> Pay them more

Why, if Amazon can replace them by robots?
I suppose it is always afternoon somewhere, but it seems pretty early to me to be drinking.
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That's much higher than I expect, citation? I was told there would be math.
What makes you think no one has been extradited for this sort of thing?

According to the EU there were over 16000 warrants issued in 2015 (the latest number I could find)[0].

And way back in 2009 we were worrying about how easy arrest warrants could be attained and that Poland might be getting extradition happy - going after chicken thieves.[1]

Assange is certainly deserving of his day in court - he's the one who did everything in his power to avoid it!

[0] https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_european_arrest_warrant-...

[1] https://www.economist.com/britain/2009/12/30/wanted-for-chic...
The biggest issue I have right now with CircleCI is that they don't support Windows builds. If they had Windows then I could test all platforms.
Hey, my mind is racing here!

What is it now — cache invalidation and naming things? :)
Rising CO2 and temperatures is definitely a problem, but isn't technology making a difference already? There are millions of hybrid cars on the road just in the U.S., for example, and already over half a million EV's.

China and India are poised to manufacture and use millions of EV's and we are about to see a flood of very low price electric vehicles from these countries.

An electric truck maker is opening a plant in Ohio. Fracked natural gas, which is the "cleanest" fossil fuel, is replacing "dirty" coal in electric power plants. Residential solar is booming as prices drop and house batteries become a realistic way to store the power. In Massachusetts, for a few extra dollars a month you can now opt to purchase "green" electricity.

Research into better batteries, better solar panels, and more efficient hybrid vehicles and EV's is proceeding apace.

All of these technologies are bound to reduce greenhouse gas production not just in the developed countries but also in the places where it really counts--the billions of people of China, India, and Africa.

People are composting and gardening at record levels in the U.S. Interest in composting and recycling is now widespread.

If we accept that we have produced too much CO2 and need to scale back on burning stuff and allow the atmosphere and ecosystem to return to a status quo ante then some legislative efforts to institute and continue tax incentives to spur technology seems like the right thing to do.
"The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt, and other of his books are great books to learn how to think.

It is a more concrete example of Systems Thinking that is applied to various environments, manufacturing in "The Goal", marketing and strategy in "It's Not Luck", projects in "Critical Chain", retail in "Isn't it Obvious", and personal improvement in "The Choice".
What’s bonkers specifically? Is the the leading commas, alignment, one identifier per line, capitalization, long names, same line braces, something else?

FWIW, everything seen here has options in Clang Format:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html

Personally, I like what this looks like. Leading commas are nice in situations where the first argument is fixed, but the remaining arguments move a lot while I’m tweaking & refactoring. I also like leading operators in long multi line math expressions, it’s easier to see at a glance how everything is combined when the operators are in front. I also like seeing arguments aligned, it’s easier to spot mistakes, easier to move things around, easier to use column selection, etc.

I rarely actually use the formatting I like because at work my team uses clang format so we’re standardized. Despite whatever formatting opinions I like, I love not arguing about formatting and having the formatter dictate and handle it for everyone.
Quality of life for everyone has been greatly improved by those working in America's civil government organizations. Obviously there will be corruption and the pendulum swings too far at some point, but given the list of recent crises, over regulation is clearly not the problem.

If we want accountability, then we should demand transparency. Data should be posted online so that it can be vetted and double and triple checked.
The technology seems similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjc9h8oSsY (This is actually Alibaba but JD should be the similar)
Yeah, getting people to the last step more quickly would be ideal, maybe a slider is the way to go. thanks!
> Or do away with the warehouse altogether and have products ship directly from manufacturers. I wonder if anyone has tried that?

Erm... manufacturers have been shipping their own products for years... but they're not very good at it, compared to Amazon?

As in, they offer standard slow shipping (vs. same-day or next-day with Prime), shipping you have to pay for per item (vs. Prime), shipping that is often unreasonably expensive (vs. Prime) and have other issues resulting in a worse UX e.g. poorer website design, and/or signing up for individual accounts with every website (vs. Prime).
Isn't this the idea of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights?

It's a part of the U.S. legal code that can't even be changed by legislatures with sudo access.

(Although SCOTUS can apparently update the firmware.)
Like Tibet they been encouraging Han Chinese to move to Xinjiang for decades. But now that they are putting many of the native Uyghur population in camps, their attempts at tightening their grip on the povince seem to be accelerating.
Another negative impact of losing those jobs is that those folks paid income tax. When the operational cost of these tasks are transferred from payroll to capital expense the effective federal tax rate of what was payroll is lost (a ballpark 1.7% - 8.7%[0]) and the added automation cost is used as a deduction on a ballpark -1% - 1%[1] corporate income tax.

[0]https://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/10/31/heres-what-the-av...

[1]https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18231742/amazon-federal-taxes-...
Stories like this make me relieved that I went to a school that mandated uniforms. For the most part, this circumvented an arms race around student fashion where what you wore signified your status.

It wasn't a perfect solution, as kids still jousted for attention via watches, iPods, jewellery, but it was better than nothing.
True. In fact, they tend to ship big items in their original retail packaging. E.g. vacuum cleaners. Not good. In my case I got 2 damaged items out of 3 shipments with said boxing.

Now they have included a free option to wrap inside another bigger Amazon box. I guess they got too many damaged items and complaints from customers.
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Interesting graphs! The graph for Asia shows that UC Browser market share decreased to half since this article published. Just to be clear, I am not implying causality!
Not true.

Since the addition of SQL/PSM (1996 IIRC) it has become a computationally complete language (procedural like many of the others) with variables and loops and what have you.
How does Amazon stack up against other warehousing jobs in those areas?
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There is so much confusion in this thread as to what this is about, I think we should bring out our famously flawed tech analogies. Say the IEEE writes a standard for a networking protocol. It's full of arcane acronyms and technical details, as well as some ambiguities here and there. So then I (as a private person, nothing to do with the IEEE) write a book explaining the protocol in usable terms. I also take some liberties to provide advise on 'best practices' on some of the ambiguous parts. My book is so useful and successful, that even most implementors of the protocol refer to it. Because of that, most implementations behave mostly the same in the corner cases.

Something like this happens quite a lot, to a greater or lesser extent. Nobody (well, copyright abolitionists would, out of principle, but I'm talking people who just want to get stuff done and get on with their life) would argue that I would lose copyright to my book, because it's so successful.

Now the IEEE pays me to write said book. This is where things become murkier (maybe). Because now, has my book become an extension of the standard? Does it depend on the relationship between me and the IEEE? Say, if I have access to drafts of the standard, and I provide feedback, does that make my book closer to being part of the standard? If my book just has clarifications and no opinion in it, does that make a difference? I would still say that, as long as it's possible to implement the standard without the book, it's not 'part' of the standard. But as the standard gets less clear, at some point, it becomes impossible to implement something in an interoperable way without having the book. Should I lose copyright my book in such a case? And does it still matter whether the IEEE has paid for it?

One difference between the IEEE and legislators is that one can say 'screw the IEEE, I'll just make my own protocol'. You can't do that with law. Is that sufficient a difference to make someone lose their copyright? Or should the IEEE just have paid me outright, as a contractor, to write the book, so that they can give it away for free? But then why bother with the book at all? After all, the book is just for making things easier, it's not a 'source' as such, regardless of how much easier it makes implementor's lives.

I don't think this is as clear or as outrageous a case as people are making it out to be here. We don't want to discourage people from making annotations, summaries and explanations. Maybe legislators should just write more clear laws to begin with. But the more you do that, the more you open yourself up to 'backdoors' and 'hole in the law' trickery. Not to mention that it becomes even harder to get political will to support a text in the first place - making perfect the enemy of good enough.
Wait, what, I'm not the GP, but:

Which claim are you referring to here?

1. Your unsubstantiated claim of ADHD being overdiagnosed

2. GP's unsubstantiated claim of "Every X knows Y"

The null hypothesis must be "ADHD diagnostic criteria has high specificity", because without that it's not diagnosis. What evidence do you have to demonstrate low specificity?
I think it’s safe to assume that this machine will be getting improvements. The “pick” part will surely also get automated at some point. It’s quite obvious to anybody who is willing to think about it for a while, to deduct that these kind of jobs will eventually all get automated.
What the various governments should be doing now, is to start preparing the society to a new reality in which no-skill and low-skill jobs are gone. This will happen at some point. What do we do about it? The only thing that is happening so far are various timid Universal Income pilots. But those often hit substantial political pressure and are being labeled as socialist or even communist, and therefore unacceptable. So how do we prepare?
This was maybe a decade or so after the fall of the USSR, in one of those old fashioned paper magazine things.
Thank you for posting this + giving all the people commenting here a chance to express their thoughts about this topic.
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The article? The US has asked for him to be extradited. If Sweden also asks for it, that blocks the US if the UK decides to give him to Sweden.
No, "both sides" absolutely don't know this.

In fact - climate scientists are talking about changes that need to be made in the next decade if we want to put off major ecological collapse.
Pretty much. You get made fun of for your looks, your name, your character, or your hobbies, but the one certainty is you will be made fun of. It's not cool, but it's going to happen, and I don't think there's a way to avoid it.
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> Insane views on the right regularly get deplatformed on facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, whereas insane left wing views are ignored.

Yeah and then do show me please where the "insane left wing" advocates for conspiracy crap such as the "great replacement" or denies the Holocaust. There's a reason the right wings get deplatformed and the left wings don't, simply because the left wings don't devolve to inhumanity.

> Right wing views might have some support from random C-list celebrities or country music stars.

... and from the President of the United States as well as half of Congress. Yeah, "some support". Bannon literally ended up as consultant in the White House.
The problem is without MCAS and the AoA sensors that power it the 737MAX8 handles differently enough that it would be categorized as a different aircraft and require recertification of pilots. This happened because the 737 frame is relatively low to the ground and to increase fuel efficiency the only real option is a larger engine so Boeing pushed the engines up and forward. This changes the relation between the Center of Thrust and the Center of Mass on the plane causing it to have a tendency to pitch further up towards a stall when climbing so Boeing added the MCAS to make the new plane behave like the old plane by automatically performing the pitch down maneuver for the pilot.

This system is critical to the Max 8 remaining classified to 'fly the same' as the 50+ year old 737 air frame design so it's critical to pilots being certified to fly the plane at all. Ergo it is a critical system and needs more redundancy or the Max 8 needs to just have a new type certificate and pilots certified to fly it as well.

Boeing REALLY REALLY doesn't want to do this because it would require airlines to retrain their pilots to use it in their fleets making them less attractive to airlines. The whole fiasco is a confluence of 1) Cost of retraining pilots on a new air frame 2) need from airlines for a more efficient plane 3) the old 737 design not having any more room below the wing for a bigger engine (which is pretty much the main way we get more efficiency these days).
I'm with you, you are far from alone. My own thoughts are to ignore the pessimism and what others are/are not doing. As an individual, this is the only way I can defeat the prisoner dilemma. In addition to your suggestions, I would also say we need to learn to bring this topic up in all areas of life e.g. around the office, family gatherings etc. Not talking about uncomfortable topics may end up killing us, and our children. I want to be a part of that 3.5% :D
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> when he resigned 6 years later public opinion had already shifted significantly and was clearly in the process of shifting more.

But his opinion hadn’t shifted. At least he didn’t say so at the time. So, the fact that his opinion was once popular is irrelevant if he still held it when it became widely unpopular.

Anyone could be reasonably excused for having a wrong opinion when it is the currently popular one – it’s easy to not examine one’s opinion and simply go with the mainstream of society. But, if one’s opinion is that unexamined, when popular opinion shifts, it’s on oneself to either shift with the times or to be held to account for one’s now non-mainstream opinion.

> Google treating legally recognized nonprofits equally seems fair to me.

Did Google really give equally to something akin to Planned Parenthood?
At first glance, it would seem like ADHD might help with multitasking - and maybe it can to a certain extent, but generally only by coincidence. They aren't jumping from task to task in a structured way. Instead, they are failing to keep their attention on activities with low levels of stimulation, and constantly bouncing to activities with higher levels of stimulation.

Most people can relate to that experience, of course. Its just a much bigger struggle for ADHD folks (hence, the self-image of laziness, lacking discipline, etc), and often takes medication to manage.

In a fast paced action game, everything tends to stimulating. In software development... its mixed bag for most of us!
+1 from me. Can't stop either :) But I came to the same idea while reading "Feedback systems: an introduction for scientists and engineers" by Karl Johan Åström and Richard M. Murray.
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That's strange... I really don't recall this claim from when this was discussed on HN years some ago. It's right there in the arrest warrant though, so I guess I'm mistaken, and apologise.
Surprised to find so many modern Luddites in comments. History lessons says that new professions will appear.
What guarantees does POSIX make about calling functions that are not in ISO C? I'm curious.

POSIX generaly has very little to say about C matters; for the most part it defers to ISO C by normative reference.

Off the top of my head, because POSIX specifies dlopen and dlsym, that pretty much requires function pointers have to have a common representation convertible between void * and back.
It's going to be an interesting economic situation when the wealth distribution is so skewed towards less than 1% of the population that no one has any money left to make billionaires, billionaires.
I have a project that uses free unparsed text with evaluated sexpressions mixed in. I understand that alot of people just dont like sexpressions...but otherwise is anyone really bothered by this style of allowing arbitrary junk at the top level?