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I think we've reached "peak profession". The reality is that there will be fewer and fewer types of jobs going forward, and that you probably can't merely retrain a coal miner to be a software engineer.

This doesn't mean we should stop automation. It does mean that we need to figure out a real solution to give these people a secure future. Companies are already innovating on how to not need employees. As a society, we need to innovate on how to give these people that aren't need to pack Amazon boxes a productive and fulfilling life.

(My answer is basic income, paid for by the government. It seems that other people's answer, though, is that Amazon should have to pay for not needing employees. I don't foresee that working out. You can't put the security of the collective in the hands of a profit-seeking entity.)
I have a CDL (Class A). My understanding is that the requirements for a CDL are mostly around mitigating the risks created by large or hazardous vehicles.

It wasn’t clear for me that the referenced Amazon program would be having drivers operate large vehicles.

Indeed, the USPS doesn’t require its drivers to maintain a CDL and there are large commercial uses of vehicles in the States that do not require a CDL.
The vast majority of Uber's Wikipedia page details their history of bad behavior. I didn't even think to provide links as it's well known already and easily discoverable if not.
This has been put into practice for some time in India.

https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-indias-no-frills-hosp...
The fact that the rest of the developed world has universal healthcare (in one form or another) and most have better health outcomes and overall public health than the US tells me that your theory is flawed.

It should be noted that the Bernie Sanders proposal actually does allow for supplemental private insurance (for elective surgeries, or shorter waiting times). Most countries with universal healthcare have a private insurance industry, it's just that you get a basic level of care from government-provided free insurance.
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You've just given them permission to fingerprint you. If they're good at what they do then the private window trick had no effect.
I've never used Prolog in the 15 years since I learned it in college. It's an interesting take on programming, for sure, and I appreciated the mind-expanding exercise, but hasn't helped me in my career at all.

Totally agree on awk. I use it almost every day for quick little one-liners. Big time saver.

Also agree on state machines, because from there it is a short hop to understanding formal grammars and the foundation of compilers and languages, which has been immensely useful in my career.
That tax penalty no longer exists. I'd also like to point out that when it did exist, it was less than one month of my current un-subsidized insurance premium.
This would be impractical. For one thing, scuff-resistant packaging material is also necessarily less attractive than glossy and colorful packaging that holds high detail photographs & illustrations better.

This would also be very inefficient because you would have to store the postal-ready boxes at the fulfillment warehouses in an inefficient way instead of just putting them into bins. When shipping products to customers, also, it's often more efficient to pack multiple products into a single box to ensure both durability and cost efficiency.

Most of the goods available on Amazon also do not come direct from the factory. They come from various intermediaries. Not all products are shipped from the Amazon FBA warehouses, either. So, there are many reasons why it is impossible.

It is possible to ship to customers direct from the factory, as some other comments have mentioned. However, as you might imagine, this is impossible for many businesses. Processing customer orders is time and labor intensive particularly because it involves making many tiny shipments versus shipping out entire truckloads at a time only. Furthermore, contract manufacturing is very common. A given factory may be manufacturing products for many different brands at the same time and a certain brand can have its products manufactured in entirely different countries at the same time.
If you get a chronic disease it is not possible to buy health insurance so you have to stay with your current health insurance.
I assume they put the observatory at that site for a reason as well, I just want to learn why. I honestly have no agenda and personally do believe in anthropogenic global warming. :)
You do have a choice of the plan as an employee usually.

And the employer made the choice on the best provider they could get at the best wholesale price.

The employer is incentivized to get the best provider for the best price to attract employees.

Employers shop for insurance, employees shop for jobs with the perks they want (pay, insurance coverage, etc).

EDIT: you're usually given a packet before accepting a job that goes over their healthcare plans. At least in the two instances I have been in the job market, I was.

And it's good for the employer to pick a plan that has the best coverage for the best value because they want to attract employees to them over their competitor.
Please explain how the free market will pay for a cancer treatment to a poor person.
Or on the surface. The oceans are really big and there's a lot of the surface that has basically nothing going on.

Of course this highlights the problem with all of these habitat ideas: They are placed in locations with limited or no easily accessible natural resources, so their options for sustaining themselves are limited. Obviously you need some farmers and janitors and techs to keep everything running, but beyond that what are they going to do? Building stuff is kind of out of the question because you have to ship in all of the raw materials. So your industry needs to be virtual. Coding, finance, etc... But the world only needs so much of that, and if you keep building colonies you're going to saturate the virtual markets while driving insane demand in the physical markets. The economics are hard to reconcile.
It worked for Amazon.
Even if you pay premiums for your employer health insurance, you get a direct tax break that individuals don't get.

> it messes up the risk pool

Only if you believe that it's "messed up" to pay for health care only for people who are economically productive...
I'll agree that individual pension-holders and retirement-account holders create something of a perverse incentive, since decisionmaking about capital markets generally improves them less than they think and incentivizes their demise, but how many private-sector jobs nowadays even offer a pension? I imagine the pensioners' argument will hold less and less weight going forward as these populations retire and die off.

I am not saying there is a single solution to the complex problem of low-level work disappearing. However, there are many countries where the business culture is more willing to hold on to labor (non-english-speaking western europe, the specific example I am thinking of is big-box retail in France and Germany, though I've also seen this with the lack of self-serve gas stations in parts of South America); these are still successful businesses doing well in their sectors and in many cases out-competing American entrants to their markets. (And yes the reasons for their success are often better cultural fit than foreign entrants versus comparing where the spend their money) Yet the American zeitgeist seems to be heading full-on into mass automation with its eyes wide shut, when there is already so much money floating around that it doesn't really seem necessary. What labor crises are there that necessitate the deployment of automation? (I don't think rising minimum wages nor increasing threat of unionization count as they do not raise costs above what can be absorbed by capital hoarding)
Richard Feynman used a pseudonym ("Ofey") for his painted art, so that it would be judged on its own merits and not "that art by that physicist chap".

He seems to have been quite good too:

https://i1.wp.com/www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2...
Sure charge $300 for a basic office visit with a $50 appointment setting fee if you are a cash paying patient and make sure the front desk person is as snarky and rude as possible toward people without commercial insurance
I'm just pointing out that "they just need to be trained for the plane's behavior" isn't on the table for the MAX-8. The contracts said it would have the same type rating, and therefore the MCAS, for better or for worse.

I'm not quite sure how that is related to beginner flight lessons. (?)
I thought the whole presentation was pretty cool. Those colonies are just visions of what might be built by future generations. He has new ideas about the future of industry and that's exciting. But I have a hard time seeing the scales he's talking about. Those colonies would not be able to hold billions of people. I'm not sure if moving industry off of Earth, especially for environmental reasons, makes a lot of sense. But when people imagine the future as being exactly like the present it's just tiring and stupid. I don't think he was acting like he knew all the answers but he's moving forward.
That's still anticompetitive if the 'approved' Apple list excludes competition. It's like the right to repair - just because you bought the car from a certain manufacturer doesn't mean you can only repair it at the 'licensed' dealer.
I’d rather the government make it more difficult for big companies like Amazon to exploit their workers, as opposed to making it easier for workers to be exploited.

Forcing a full-time driver into a contract role is pure exploitation, given that it absolves Amazon of a certain level of civic responsibility (now the contracting driver isn’t paying himself enough... and Amazon sees a nice reduction on the payroll).
Nope, it's definitely life-or-death.

According to a 2009 study, 45000 people die annually due to lack of health insurance in the US[1]. Due to the ACA there are now more people who are insured but it's still a massive segment of the US population (not to mention that healthcare plans have been covering less and less over time).

The number of people who die due to lack of healthcare is ZERO for countries that have universal healthcare.

Fourty. Five. Thousand. Every. Year.

[1]: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...
I don't know about a clinical diagnosis of ADHD, but in my observation, American kids certainly act this way, and have terrible behavior in general. You're right, this stuff has to be trained, but American parents have been failing badly at this for a while now.

I was recently in Japan on vacation, and by contrast, all the children there were extremely-well behaved. It made me think I might actually like to have a kid even, something I never feel when I'm in the US because kids (and adults too) are so poorly behaved.
A collection of research papers on decision, classification and regression trees
Some people open Fox News directly, and then Alexa thinks they're awesome.

Some people come to Google, and go past the Fox News result, and seem happy with the CNN result, or NYT, or WP, so Google thinks they're awesome.

And if Fox News viewers think Google is biased, and then avoid Google, then Google will become more biased. It's a vicious cycle, or virtuous cycle, depending on how you look at it.
I assume will only work with approved partners not with any nfc sticker.
Why is there a waiting period on a filling? Any dentist can do that.
> want people under 40, white

Multiple protected classes? Sounds like a lawsuit.
Firefox alt available? I don't use Chrome much anymore
It seems like they may have reached critical mass with the US Post Office and the gig delivery drivers. And they have since rolled out gray vans, maybe they see how expensive all that sunk cost is. And it would be better for someone else to pay it.
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You open up your email/website/app/whathaveyou and check there?

That's far from the most insurmountable problem of digital receipts.
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I meant them to be defined on the same space. It's a single experiment, the outcome of which are two rolls that happen to be independent.
I am not sure I can tell the difference between 'The Burlington Vermont Times' and some random news aggregator which decided to filter on location.

And there are individual blogs which have higher quality / better reporting than some regional newspapers. Should those be included as well? Which ones?

Once you start making decisions like these, you are quickly getting into controversial territory. So I can see why Google prefers to abstain and say "it's all users, not our fault!"
If space missions become common enough then we'll probably have some kind of navy designed to accommodate for this problem.

Like a stellar breakdown service, always in the area
Private care is already rationed based on your ability to pay so these arguments really don't hold water at all.

The insurance system is already bureaucratic as all get out. Creating one payer would actually streamline the experience.

The government has a monopoly on the national defense as well, a good that we all need. That works. Why wouldn't health care be the same.

Canadians and British folks seem pretty happy with their nationalized health care.
Yeah, when I saw that, I couldn't edit anymore.

My argument was also not aimed at the depth but at the unreflected "just dig a hole and hide it there" idea which reminds me of the dumping of nuclear waste into the sea.
While it'd be nice to ban sites that exhibit negative behavior, Oath sites represent some of the largest news properties in the world. Yahoo News is the #1 news site in the US, HuffPo is also in the top 10. Together, they have more traffic than the next 3 or 4 largest providers combined.

Further, several of their properties are specifically relevant to the HN community, including TechCrunch and Engadget. Not saying these are the highest quality sites out there, but they are the original source of reporting for many things discussed on HN. In fact, I see 3 different TC articles in the first 2 pages just right now.
I will start using Amazon again if they replace their dehumanized workers with robots
Most interesting: "Ferruccio Lamborghini confessed that he never actually invented anything, rather, would simply copy and try to improve on others’ work." Nothing to confess, in my view, but be proud of - he certainly created something unique out of it.
Nobody is saying that. That’s not even what this out of context quote is saying.
> Raising income tax to a simple flat 50% rate gives us extra 0.7 trillion or $7k per hh.

If income tax was raised to 50% flat and you keep all the social security and single payer spending, your paycheck would net maybe 25% of your salary. Who works full time for 25 cents on the dollar when they can just retire?

So then people won't work full time, your tax revenue, your single payer money, your pension money, it all goes down. It can't pay for your UBI.

Even worse, all this spending you are talking about redistributing isn't even paid for today. It's funded by debt. With the boomers retiring, there are huge amounts of unfunded liabilities.

It may not be obvious to you, but what you are proposing is that we can just all sit back, work less, print money and everyone will be better off. It's a fantasy.

To be clear, I support a UBI, but one has to be very careful about the actual amount.
Sounds more like we're blaming the manufacturer for concealing the fact that pilots needed to be specifically (re-)trained for this plane if they were to have a chance of handling it successfully.
Are you for real? At best involuntary manslaughter will get you usually at least 12 months in US prison, not to mention any financial penalties from the criminal or civil lawsuit.

Do you have any first hand experience with trucking? It really sounds like you are expressing your opinion from a place of ignorance (feel free to prove me wrong with reasoned argument). My background: I am a founder of a US based software company whose customers are motor carriers.
grownups who can read

That's an interesting take. In my experience, a significant proportion of adults who can literally make the right sounds come out of their mouth if asked to read words, and who can have a stab at telling you what any individual word means, nonetheless struggle to put meaning to any lengthy set of the written word beyond their typical day-to-day experiences (tending towards almost 100% of the population when confronted with the standard styles used in some industries). While they can literally read, I think "grownups who can read" implies a fluency in these situations that many don't have.
wal-mart or aliexpress
I question your assumption on #2. I’ve specifically made this point on HN repeatedly (contracting 1-person outfits are common here) and you could label me as “left”.

It should be like the green new deal - the economics of eg Medicare4All is similar in that it’d greatly improve life for small business as well as families.
So you want the government to actually care about its citizen well being ? Then do something like basic income instead.
Imagine if there were a CVE number for every API in the C++ standard library that could segfault if blatantly misused.
JS is a much better compile target than webassembly for managed / GCd languages for the foreseeable future.
Bezos has been pushing space colonies consistently since before he founded Amazon.
LightSail 2 set to launch next month aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
I've been in this situation and bought COBRA. It was a mistake. It's not nearly as good a deal as it sounds like. It's really expensive! It was double what I pay as an individual.

Sure, it probably had some additional benefits that my basic plan doesn't, because my employer got the extra super gold plus plan, but if you're only buying it for a few months to avoid being wiped out in case the worst happens, then you probably don't care about that.

My recommendation is to never buy COBRA, unless there is a specific element of the plan that you need, and you have a short timeline to getting a new full-time job with comparable coverage. Otherwise, it's just hundreds of dollars extra you're spending, for features you don't need, right at the time when money is tightest.
As others said, chances are the phone will still show you a payment takes place, allowing you to reject it, presumably while showing the amount to be paid and the payee.

I would also guess that:

- the first payment to a new payee to have a bit more UI.

- the phone’s setting to contain settings such as max amount to be paid per week or month, and max amount to be paid in one transaction.

- those tags to have some cryptographic signature with Apple vetting those wanting to get a key. A service like this can be highly successful if only a limited number of companies (¿a few hundred?) can produce such tags.

- Apple acting as an intermediary between iOS user and payee to protect their user’s privacy.

It also is possible that Apple will withhold payment for a few days or even weeks, to give time to detect and correct fraudulent transactions, and give its customers time to challenge payments.

If such challenges are handled by always repaying the iOS user, this won’t be more dangerous than allowing selected companies to withdraw money from your bank account whenever they see fit, something that millions of people in the world do because it is so convenient.

For example, if Londoners enable auto top up for their Oyster card (https://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/link/sso/0002.do), transport for London could transfer £1000 from their bank account the next day, even if they destroy that card seconds after signing up.

I would even expect that they can do that from any bank account even if it’s owner hasn’t applied for auto top up, or even has an Oyster card. This system is built on trust.
Canada has been taking Automotive sector jobs from U.S. workers. Detroit has seen a real cost savings by not covering health care for their Canadian workers.
Isn't non-native development on Windows a solved problem nowadays with WSL(2)?
It's a pretty great use of technology! The article is about Liftware's first device (now called Liftware Steady), also see their Liftware Level!

https://www.liftware.com/steady/

https://www.liftware.com/level/
I would use a json based logger like https://github.com/trentm/node-bunyan or https://github.com/pinojs/pino and use the elk stack which can parse JSON.
A non-issue, USA will guarantee in writing that will not face the death penalty in a trial. USA has done it many times, including for El Chapo.
You might want a bigger pool. I'm 40 and was healthy until October when I was diagnosed with head and neck cancer. That was treated and two months after my last radiation/chemo treatment they did another PET scan only to find that the cancer has spread to my liver. I just finished up radiation for my liver a few weeks ago and on Thursday start immunotherapy. As far as I know immunotherapy is a ongoing thing for the rest of my life and it isn't cheap.

I stopped counting when my medical bills hit $750,000. It is probably double that by now. Again, normal healthy 40 year old guy that rode his bike everywhere who woke up one day with a sore throat that ended up never going away.
It costs something around 1000€ for a 6m well. Without the paperwork.

But this is your usually drilling equipment for those depths.
Your solution may be the better product, but info on receipt has 100% user adoption compared to the extreme minority that will put in the extra work to download the app, scan the receipt, etc. Distribution is the big win here.
Moderately. From a few years ago, I remember Yahoo was still able to triangulate pretty well on whichever device you were using, but had more difficulty across devices. Deduplication was a bit of an art at that point.
ZeroMQ is not really a message queue, it's more of a networking library. It takes TCP sockets and adds other concepts on top, like request/reply or publish/subscribe.
> (or gzipped json of it)

Parent comment already covered that case. If the content is included in the code, it doesn't need to be stored anywhere.

Nobody said permanent, either. It'd be reasonable that the data expires after a certain amount of time. Preferable, even, for limiting exposure in the event of a breach.

Additionally, while I don't think this is the case for grocery stores, most stores do actually keep a record of every purchase made. The data and aggregated analytics on said data is huge, and it allows for things like faster returns and personalized coupons/recommendations.
No problem, thank you.

And just for clarification as I'm reading your other comments - my numbers above were salary only, not total comp.

Also something I think that is important to note is that these were small startups (5-50 people). I don't think you could use the same tactic successfully at a larger company with more defined roles. The ambiguity of wearing multiple hats makes it easier to showcase your direct value to the business.
>> And it so turns out that finding and surfacing the best content aligns well with the number of people who link to that content,

It's like saying Burger King offers "the best" food, because it's popular.

And there's not really a reason(besides a little bit of money) for Google, The global monopoly, to insist on doing that. It's not that hard to have an easy option for quality content.

For example: Google's forum search, which was cancelled.
"And for $13.75 an hour, it definitely isn't worth it."

A billion of people around the world would be happy to work with that hourly rate.
Second this, if you only work through the Khan Academy stuff on the various things like scatter plots, standard deviation, the normal distribution, etc. you'll be much better off for it.