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Could you please stop using HN for political battle and posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? These things are destructive of what we're trying to have HN be, as described in its guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd review those and take the spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
>Many sex toy and adult novelty manufacturers refuse to sell their products on Amazon, or even offer wholesale products to any vendors who have an Amazon or eBay presence3. Mostly this is due to the influx of potentially counterfeit products.

This is incorrect and shows the author does not understand the topic. The primary reason people don't want to sell to Amazon sellers is that it leads to price erosion. Amazon sellers compete on price, which has negative effects for other channels; retail stores will see products selling cheaply on Amazon and won't be willing to pay your regular wholesale price.

Obviously, selling wholesale to someone who sells on Amazon doesn't make the counterfeit issue any worse.
Universities are in a massive debt bubble right now. They need less funding, not more.
So the outside of a sphere is convex (positive curvature), a saddle is concave (negative curvature)... and the inside of a sphere (AKA a concave mirror/lens) is also convex (positive curvature)?
'typical'. Most people use their cars to get from 'a' to 'b', yes, you're quite engaged with the topic. But AMG drivers are typically not your average car consumer.
Right now if you use Aurora Postgresql 9.6 you don't have an easy way to migrate to 10, and 11 is not even available. They supposedly are working on a solution, but won't disclose when it will be available.
The main problem with software like this is not the MITM, but what it does with the data. All AVs and similar systems need to do it, and AFAIK even Windows Defender's "real-time protection" does it. I also have a MITM proxy that removes ads and other stuff I don't want. The difference is that this one is specifically for spying, while the "benevolent MITMs" don't.
How much are we wasting preparing for a war that would be so devastating it may end all life on earth for at least the next 300 million years. It's like being strapped to the front of an out of control freight train.
Stock buyback is just another form of dividends, taxed as capital gains if you do it right.
Do you care about the future of humanity as a whole? There's your religion
I find that a little sad too. I am also starting to wonder if big companies are actually creating wealth like it usually is said. Or maybe they just concentrate wealth that could have gone to a lot of smaller players towards themselves and in the end it's just a zero-sum game.
The tiny video store that survived Netflix
> How do you reconcile this hypocrisy?

Why stop there? President Barrack "Drone-Strikes-For-Freedom" Obama certainly has an interesting legacy on his hands and yet it seems to me that the entire world has given him a blanket pass on all of the atrocious things that went down under his terms.
> She imagines, for example, her future grandchild asking her why people called each other “binch.” “How could you explain it?” she asks rhetorically.

It's not that hard to explain "binch." Urban Dictionary managed to do it sufficiently in one sentence:

> What you call someone when you don't want to say the B-word.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing this!

About this proof, quoting from a talk by John W. Dawson Jr., an internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Kurt Gödel:

"And a final example of this sort of unfashionable pursuit is Gödel's
proof of the existence of God, which is a formalization in modal logic
of an argument — traces all the way back to Anselm — but in particular
an argument due to Leibniz. Gödel was very much interested in
Leibniz's philosophy, and so he felt that it would be possible to
formalize some of Leibniz's ideas. But because this was a theological
subject he was very cautious about this. Said very little about it
during his lifetime. And although word of it sort of leaked out, it
was only after his death that the details were really made public.

"In fact, when I was cataloging Gödel's papers, I realized that there was some concern among the triumvirate of mathematicians that were in charge of my work [...] that there might be some things in Gödel's Nachlass that needed to be restricted, that scholars would not be allowed access to. And it quickly became apparent that this was the primary thing they were thinking of. And it took some persuasion on my part to convince them
that while mathematicians may think it's silly to try to prove that God
exists, philosophers certainly don't, and that this was something
of real interest in philosophy. And so, eventually, unlike
Russell's papers, where — as you may know — large segments are
embargoed [...] you can see everything in Gödel's Nachlass, there aren't any restrictions on that."

Source: https://youtu.be/4vpTFZdyjKM?t=2179
s/banks/most businesses/
That really isn’t true, the republicans of Lincoln and even TDR’s time were fairly progressive socially (though they have always been pro big business). They didn’t become social conservatives until the mid 20th century. Claims like “they were never the party of” or “always the party of” need to be heavily qualified given how positions shifted over the last hundred years.
European banks hold their excess reserves (or at least their required minimum reserves) at the European Central Bank or their country's central bank; all of which are currently charging interest for the privilege.
No, they deserve to get a job and save up for what they want (including college). No one 'deserves' unlimited credit.
So what is? Why do you do what you do?

Edit: this was meant as an honest query, so thanks for the downvote. I love how just shooting my point down with no thought or counterpoint gets upvoted, but asking a question in earnest gets downvoted.

As I’ve had nothing but “no you’re wrong”, I can only assume you don’t have a counter argument, and are just being contrary.
Without further insight into the numbers it's impossible to evaluate if FB is growing or not. I mean, imagine John Doe is logged into FB with some persistent cookie. Does every page view that contains an FB-thumbs up frame count as an interaction? FB could have hundreds of million thrice a year users that they count as active due to this.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-grew-monthly-averag...

"The world's largest social network is now even larger: Facebook reported 2.4 billion monthly active users (MAU) in Q1, per its earnings released Wednesday."

So every third european is active on facebook.com each day. The number doesn't make sense at all. I guess it's hugely exaggerated.
I'm told that Amazon meetings are focused around a prepared white paper on the subject at hand with 10 minutes of document reading at the start of the meeting. I find this idea fairly provocative and I'd love to see some of the documents in question.
It's a good line for a large chunk of megadonors though.
> There was no American flight that crashed.

But that's not because 737 MAX aircraft flying in US airspace somehow didn't have the problem that caused the crashes. There has been plenty of coverage online of US pilots repeatedly filing reports with the FAA of "near miss" incidents in 737 MAX aircraft caused by the same problem.
assuming it’s a fixed pie, which clearly it isn’t. If you simply walk around you’ll notice basic things that could and should be automated in some way that shows it’s yet to reach the limit.
This part struck me:

> “Study after study shows that good social relationships are the strongest, most consistent predictor there is of a happy life.”

I was having a similar conversation with some friends recently. In our parents' generations (boomers), folks tended to cluster in their communities, which were usually religious. As our generation has grown up we've shunned the oppressive religious thinking but ended up losing the community aspect. I believe that's where all this social anxiety and feelings of loneliness come from. I'm mostly introverted but feel happier and refreshed after spending time with friends. I've joined a group of other rock climbers and we do outings monthly. I love climbing but really love the mini-community we've created. I see the author here found the same thing. Being around other folks in a shared bond of movement (swimming, running, etc) fosters joy :)
Okay? It's not really. But it's the price of cheap labor in China and any other incentive they have for doing business there. Everything done in China comes with a no-privacy guarantee you can't take a shit in China without them knowing the color and consistency.
This, precisely this.

I suspect companies like this also have lawyers they can rely on, or they would be sued out of existence almost immediately. Just look at what Microsoft does with its "telemetry"... I'm sure many would want that to be illegal, but there is definitely somewhere in the EULA that such behaviour is specified and you agreed to it.
I’m not sure if that’s fair in this case. I wonder how many low income people in Alaska depend on that dividend? (I literally don’t know enough about the economics and politics of Alaska to say.)
Your model creates a very clear incentive to put new features in your drawer just waiting for a new major version.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513521
Yep, they are called radicals.
We need someone like https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice, tagging NLP papers with "in English".

The DisCoCat examples look like another riff on categorial grammar [1], which is not too adequate for languages with the concept of noun case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorial_grammar
Exactly. You "have to" deal with
Java for Clojure about as much as you "have to" deal with C for Python, or C++ for Node.js.

The implementation leaks for some dependencies, and it is easy to drop down into the lower language, but you can avoid knowing much about it.
Hold cash how?

If you mean holding in a bank. Some European banks are already charging negative rates for large deposits. They have to, because ECB is charging them. You see, all money is either physical or credit or excess reserves deposited at ECB. There is no electronic money outside of ECB system.

If you mean physical, it's also costly. Vaults, protection etc. And to make this option harder, they cancelled the 500 Euro. If people starts piling up 200s, they will cancel that too.
So you can stop the subscription then and not worry about a couple of thousands you’d pay as a single purchase cost.
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As far as I can tell, Boris has said whatever suits him with regard to climate change.

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environme...

Hardly an unbiased source, but the DeSmog organisation are pointing out that the new UK leadership are climate change deniers with regressive politics.

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.desmog.co.uk/2019/07/25/b...
Many podcasts are 100% advertorial content. The ad is the podcast.
GitHub must be a free platform
The article was written by the founder of BeBOX and BeOS
My money market account pays 2.5% interest. SoFi Money is at 2.25%.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/
You mean inflation is high. But they claim inflation is not high.
Circle offers whole exome DNA sequencing for $189
I don't understand this point.
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Nobody lives or works in a building without air conditioner in those countries. At least those who can afford it.
That’s different, you’re just getting the same price as the entire world. Purchasing power is different, yes.
To clarify, when grandparent wrote "Fed" he was referring to the Federal Reserve Bank, of which City-Run banks would be member banks. The Fed would be forced to prop them up or wind them down in an organized fashion in order to maintain the integrity of the payment system. Political considerations wouldn't really be a factor, and which party controlled the federal government wouldn't matter.
> The DNC didn't want to listen to those of us in the party who were practically shouting at how unelectable Hillary Clinton was and the party got what it deserved, IMO.

And, many of us (I'm also a registered Democrat) that are watching things as they shape up in the DNC for 2020, are wondering if any lessons were taken to heart at all. It's frightening to me to sit here today and feel a genuine sense that Trump is going to win _again_ in 2020 because the DNC can't pull it's shit together and field an electable candidate.
The average person is so levered up they cannot afford to invest.
> First of all, how do you know that all these people claiming enlightenment - exactly as you describe it - aren't all full of shit?

Exactly as in any other field of expertise. Through your practice, knowledge/experiences you gain from that practice. Mere reading the books doesn't take one far in any field.

> Secondly, let's say it's all true. Why is that so desirable?

Who says it's desirable to everyone? It's individual's choice. If you get pleasure in learning something else, feel free to do that.

But someone might also want to go to the source of pleasure so he can maintain state of pleasure at all times regardless of circumstances outside, meditation is one sure way to that. Just like a hard core engineer may want to know how the whole thing works down to transistor, some people eventually get this desire to experience their whole being down to one's soul and even the super soul. Such people aren't satisfied being mere servant to the needs of body or mind for whole of their lives. They want to experience the eternity if there's such a thing. It's an arduous but a rewarding journey, with wonderful experiences at every little milestone on the path. But this thread isn't an appropriate place to write details about them.

Btw if you are thinking meditation or enlightenment means withdrawal from the world, or becoming something inert or passive, or stop enjoyment/learning, then you've not understood it correctly.
Scientists dismiss Newton's theory of gravity and warn Einstein is next
Given the distance, probable they'll stay gone. (though maybe that usually happens anyways, for those who are ambivalent about Alaska)
The article's description of his process was a little hard to follow. A time lapse was much clearer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFgLQVX86U
> more about working any amount of hours on something that you subconsciously believe is fundamentally misaligned with your core principles/true self.

That rings true to me. My speculation as to why: at the most general level, our 'work' in life resembles a hierarchical optimization process--goals and sub-goals (and so on) forming a structure defined by nested utility functions.

Our professional goals (and their day-to-day sub-goals), may be pretty significant, but they're still subservient to more fundamental goals implied by fundamental values.

I think burnout is working extensively on some sub-goal (that may be large enough to appear as a top-level goal in itself), that is fundamentally misaligned with some ancestor goal(s): working on it makes no progress or even regression on more significant goals.

I think a common source of this misalignment for tech people of my generation (I'm 33) is being taught as kids that we can do "anything we put our minds to" and that fundamentally we should be aiming to "change the world". Then we grow up and find ourselves faced with the practical reality of the large scale professional world where not everyone gets to run things and the vast majority of folks end up working on insignificant little corners of someone else's probably anti-altruistic money making scheme--just consider the opposition between the early-formed life goals/values and the day-to-day goals of your typical tech worker.

(And perhaps what makes it extra bad is that contemporary perception of how evil/exploitative etc. tech is, is quite high: our culture is steeped in the likes of Black Mirror and other sources of tech paranoia [or maybe just tech cautionaries--who knows].)
I'm not blaming anyone for wanting very safe, secure investments. What I'm saying is that, if people want safety, maybe the government should provide it?

Cryptocurrency is high risk, with both dramatic changes in price and insecure exchanges, so I'm not sure why you bring that up in this context?
Thanks everyone for their replies! It looks like there is a lot to offer that I didn't consider. It seems clear that you must choose carefully though... and the environmental impact still makes me balk.
Do you also believe that low birthrates and rampant athiesm are causing the degeneration of your race? Honk honk? Dogwhistle?
What differences would there be between those people? They still poop, eat, sleep etc. They probably breathe air as well. A drink things. And pee.

What you are referring to exists within the realm of lawyering. It doesn't change the physical world, humans are still humans, sand is still sand and water is still water.
At least in Europe (I mostly buy from Germany) there still seem to be a high number of these smaller E-Stores.

In fact everything thats more expensive than ~100€, I‘ll search for on my favorite price comparison website.
Very rarely Amazon has the best offer and ordering from a small E-Store isn‘t any more effort than ordering from Amazon, when they offer payments via PayPal or Amazon Pay.

When ordered before 18:00, almost all vendors nowadays will ship the same day and the products will arrive on the next one, just as when ordering from Amazon.
For context, this was when ISPs were planning on selling data, and someone was collecting donations saying they'd reidentify senators internet history. I said that people shouldn't donate to them, because it wasn't even clear what the ISPs would release. Their point was it doesn't matter what the ISPs release, they could reidentify anyone with deep learning.

> And it's not intuitively obvious which combinations of values allow you to recover which other ones.

I think it's pretty intuitive that Zip Code and DOB are identifiers. That's why they count as such in HIPAA, and are used to demonstrate identity by governments, credit cards, etc.

Personally I think this stuff just poisons the well when it comes to discussions of privacy. I think the goal is to remove the expectation of anonymity by claiming that it's never possible.
Why doesn't Apple et al let users know what they're sending and at least have a way to view and delete sensitive data before it's reviewed. Maybe store it online a month before it's reviewed and pop up a notification that you have Siri data queued for review. Most people would listen if it's something simple like directions would leave it but anything private they could remove.

Or have an audio queue when audio is being recorded some heartbeat like click so every few seconds while recording you hear a click and are like oh shit and can tell Siri not to send that recording.
As a former instructor of a composition class that was a basic requirement of the university where I taught, I'd claim that this perhaps more than anything is what distinguishes (or should) a university education from a vocation school or other certification.

(The explaining why part is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Many of those kids educated in Alaska universities will be later paying Californian income taxes also. It isn’t that simple, anyways, from the Alaskan government’s perspective (if you are concerned with just optimizing state revenue and not the moral problem of not serving your residents).
They do have corporate tax, which would raise funds from goods purchased from companies doing business in state.
I think he means fewer people need to borrow relative to giant pool of global money sloshing around.
Who are the prognosticators? I've not read and not sure you accurately can predict medium/long term inflation rates.

And what part of what cycle? I assumed when you said debauched, you meant quantitive easing and general money printing. If you, say, double the money supply there isn't going to be double the things to buy, so the cost of what there is will rise to compensate (inflation), or so the theory goes. That seems distinct from any kind of economic cycle, although obviously if you start printing money when theres deflationary pressures then that could act to stabilise the currency, but that doesn't sound like debauching the currency, and doesn't necessarily mean you need to keep printing the money when the inflationary pressure returns.
> The unusually high growth in that period was during an _expanding_ government role (and wider union membership and 90% tax rate for the extreme brackets).

And also during a unique period in history, when the US economy was the only one in the world not devastated by World War II and when there were huge new markets opening up that made corporations willing to pay high wages and taxes in order to capture market share. By the 1970s that was ending as markets saturated and other countries rebuilt their economies and caught up.
Amazon basically uses third-party sellers to outsource product discovery risk. By pressuring / enticing sellers to use Amazon's fulfillment platform they know where those sellers get their products from, and if a given product becomes very popular they can just contact the manufacturer and sell the product themselves, cutting out the third-party seller. It's understandable that sellers love the high reach they can get on Amazon, but by selling on the platform they provide Amazon all the information they need to eventually kill their business (except if they're producing the good they sell, in which case Amazon might have more difficulty cutting them out). In my opinion this is a gross misalignment of incentives, as the platform operator has a direct incentive to put you out of business as soon as you become successful.
Driverless Vehicles Delivering to Walmart Stores in Arkansas
Shopify enables new generation of Mom & Pop E-Store :)
I took the class these notes were based on at Caltech with Peter Schröder - it was one of the most interesting courses I ever took. Glad to see these notes show up on HN.
Kubernetes is complicated. But not so bad with hosted options like gke.

I put my relatively small app on it. We have just 3 nodes. One for database and the other 2 for application and supporting pieces like redis, and elk stack for reporting.

Docker compose doesn't work for more than a single node. I initially started using k8s for seemless deployment of updates in our CI.

Anything with docker alone was beginning to feel like a kludge.