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The numbers would be useful, but only Amazon has them.

The qualitative case the article is making is this:

1. Amazon enforces brutal delivery speeds, giving drivers huge incentives to behave recklessly (and, in fact, rewarding the most reckless drivers).

2. Amazon profits from this.

3. People are harmed (sometimes in mild ways, like getting stuck in traffic, but sometimes by dying).

4. Amazon aggressively refuses financial, legal, or moral responsibility for the harm that's caused, sometimes suing to get away from it.

Even if it's "just" one person and lightning is more dangerous, the point is that Amazon is creating danger that would not otherwise exist, profiting from it, and refusing to be pay the costs.

It seems like almost no one commenting on this article read it.
Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95
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How old are you? Did you never visit a mall in the 80s or early 90s? They were a blast! Nobody hanging out at the mall was lamenting the failure of society to provide anything.
Yeah the article really didn't have much interesting science in it. It was a lot of presumption and story but nothing really other than a poll to back things up. Anecdata isn't strong evidence at all.
I accidentally DDOS'ed myself creating my ssa.gov account and now I'm pretty sure I've got to visit a physical SSA office with identification to create the account.
is this a meme?
There is an included "priority zone" layout included that will probably work just fine for you.
Another option is Amethyst [1]. It does the tiling for you.

[1] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
Would you be able to sketch what makes PyTorch better than TF? And maybe why Google are sticking with TF -- it's not like Google lack technical ability to do / copy what PyTorch does.
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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol

That's straight out of Scifi.
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Gyms, parks, bars, and restaurants are the usual suspects. Dog parks are great too. I’m also trying to get into a community garden and take a class at an art center, I’ll likely be on the younger side in the last two.

Kayaking (not whitewater) and fishing are my two favorites especially if you combine the two. I usually talk to any fisherman I see and people come up to me at the ramp to chat.
> Moving beyond handmade goods was a deliberate move.

> the company would allow sellers to contract with outside manufacturers to help make their products, so long as they designed everything themselves and were willing to provide detailed explanations of their process to Etsy’s Marketplace Integrity team.

I think your interpretation is a wee bit wide of the mark. The spirit of being able to contract outside manufacturers to help make their products is somewhat different from a2tech's observation of sellers buying a bunch of cheap mass-produced crap and dumping it on Etsy.

There's a world of difference between a seller designing, for example, a nixie clock and outsourcing the PCB and perhaps some chassis/case fabrication, perhaps to China (based on your own design) and another seller dumping a bunch of imported cheap crap on the market.
Even my alma mater is $45,244 a year, and most kids definitely do not get a full ride like the big Ivy League schools. Education is absolutely ridiculous now.

https://www.rit.edu/admissions/aid/costs#2018-2019-estimated...
I’m not saying they’re right. I’m just pointing out that they’re probably not being purposefully inconsiderate like people playing really loud music

Also there is some evidence https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/projects/crime-lights-study
This is an emerging cautionary tale for open source maintainers - don't take a multi-year source of feedback intent on improving your project and find three times their feedback was discussed and retroactively call that tiring and ban the person privately as publicly as possible.
Investigation into FinFisher for illegal export of state spyware
The Spaceline: a space elevator alternative achievable with current technology
correct me if i am wrong here... i do: count = count-1 if both txs see count=1, we get count=0 at the end.

I, er, don't mean to be rude, but... both grogers and I have already explained that this idea is somewhat less than correct. The anomaly you're describing is called lost update, and is explicitly prohibited by both snapshot isolation and serializable isolation, the two isolation levels supported by YugaByte DB. Linearizability is not necessary to prevent lost updates. This is not only a theoretical fact, but supported by experimental evidence: we have extensively tested YugaByte DB for lost updates, and have not (yet) observed any.

i didnt say banking per se. can involve a simple billing system of a startup. or any critical data where you need to ensure you are reading accurate, uptodate values. maybe a leaderboard.

While linearizability may be a nice property for these systems to have, it is rarely necessary. Billing systems and leaderboards, like bank ledgers and shopping carts, are often designed as append-only ledgers with eventual consistency, employing sealing windows, compensating transactions, and time-shifting to handle late discovery of events. Others are designed as as reports periodically derived from some underlying datastore via, say, an ETL process; data may be not only milliseconds, but even days or weeks out of date. That's not to say this is a universal pattern, but I can think of a few dozen systems off the top of my head.

I know this because I've worked on several systems like this, including in fintech, and consulted for companies and government organizations building others. I can also offer some anecdotal experience here. For example, I have no fewer than three emails in my inbox from AWS's billing system informing me of missing data or other mistakes in the previous month's bill, accompanied by updated reports providing newer data. Last summer, my bank deferred visibility of some transaction data for over six weeks.

This might feel counter-intuitive, but since money is fungible and addition is commutative, it's one of the easiest things to work with in a stale or even eventually-consistent manner. Where you really want linearizability (or at least sequential consistency) is in domains where operations don't commute. Linearizability is particularly important where those non-commutative operations involve side-channels, but that's a longer discussion for another time.

'most' is not a guarantee

This is true, but there is a qualitative difference between a system which exhibits, say, a 5ms stale read once per thousand transactions during clock skew, and a 10-day stale read one in every two transactions all the time. I mention these numbers to provide a rough characterization of anomaly frequency and severity.

the marketing on yugabyte's page makes it seems it can replace db's like cassandra and give you a consistent view of your data. but if one is seeing stale values, you are back to coding like data is non-consistent

Linearizability is not the only form of consistency model, and many models have no realtime properties whatsoever. You might find https://jepsen.io/consistency informative.
iCloud web apps have been completely abandoned. A bug with adding contact photos has existed for like 15 years.
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> So tell me how people that do not own cars, do not drink alcohol, have no interest in video game tournaments or rock concerts should fit in. Asking for a friend.

The four possibilities mentioned by skim_milk do not define the entire combinatorial space of possible human cultural and societal interaction. The world has billions of people in it who don't fit those criteria, yet somehow they manage to socialize. Your friend needs to not be so pedantic. Surely they have common interests with someone.
> No one cries racism when an article about affluent whites taking over a neighborhood.

I read plenty about the racism involved with decades of "urban renewal" and "redevelopment" and "gentrification". You might not hear a lot among you white straight male friends at the golf club about things like Rochester's Inner Loop getting demolished to restore the neighbourhood after it was taken over decades ago, but that's not because people weren't (and still aren't) crying racism. It's because you're insulated from what goes on outside the gates of your community.
> I gladly took donation from rich pedophiles.

What, is it Friday night already?
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Has Robinhood held your money hostage?
I have had problems with withdrawals and obscure reversal codes that charge me money. In the end, the withdrawal does not go through and Robinhood keeps my money.

Is this happening to anyone else?
>It's not like Microsoft ever made it impossible to install Netscape or a competing office suite.

OEMs were market participants who bought windows (aka customers) for the purpose of reselling and we’re prevented from exercising the usual freedoms in how they configured that software (“made it impossible to install Netscape”). Impossible is maybe a stretch but Microsoft was waving a very big stick at anyone who dared defy them.

> They got regulatory scrutiny because they were the hugely dominant OS in ways iOS isn't.

They got regulatory scrutiny not because they were big but because of their bad behavior. Modern Google got that same scrutiny long before they achieved anything resembling Windows’ dominance. Microsoft avoided scrutiny for a long portion of its rise while it wasn’t blatantly engaging in anticompetitive practices.

It’s not about agreeing or disagreeing. It’s about having a solid understanding of the history that helps understand the present. Taking shortcuts like ‘Microsoft was investigated because they were really big’ is misleading when there were deeper more nuanced reasons for the investigation. Saying they didn’t make it impossible to install competing browsers may be technically correct, but it paints a very incomplete picture when in fact Microsoft was vigorously trying to make sure that no one would be exposed to any browser other than IE and no other operating system than Windows.

There is one interesting parallel to the Microsoft case I’d like to highlight: Microsoft was required to document all of their APIs and protocols within 3 months of release. Apple using proprietary APIs to e.g. give Apple Music unique features is clearly anticompetitive and Microsoft got in trouble at least partially for similar behavior.

https://tidbits.com/2002/11/04/final-judgment-in-microsoft-a...

Please, this isn’t a personal attack just trying to share interesting information :)
I'd love to give this a try. The improvements to edge/corner snapping in Windows 10 already feel like they give me about 60% of a tiling window manager, and if this was 80%, that would be fantastic. Unfortunately, it requires a newer release of Windows 10 than my workplace is running, so it's out of the question for me for now.
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Stallman is very much like the saints of old: striving at all times to be coherent with his beliefs, walking the walk, preaching - and getting publicly celebrated and then mostly ignored or selectively quoted by “followers”.

Like with saints, we often need extremists like him to keep the Overton pushed wide towards the needs of humanity at large, as opposed to private profit. We can’t all wear sackcloth and give our life to $divinity to translate Arabic copies of Greek manuscripts, but we’ll always need someone who will.
Why cry at all? Isn't this the point of open source?

Can't the same be said for Git? Linux? Python? (That they didn't make the creator billions, and the creator is fine with that)
True, but since this is a Detroit News story, the real question is whether these will be United Auto Workers union jobs?
> "Is there an alternative to Etsy for actual hand-crafted goods?"

There are a few, none nearly so larger with such a large audience though. I think people that sell on them are often using them as a second option, Etsy as the first. One is aftcra.com. There's also a few services geared toward making it very easy for hand-crafted sellers to make their own shop-- Big Cartel and IndieMade come to mind.
The secret of the temple (2012)
Marine heat wave resembles killer ‘Blob’ that devastated sea life on West Coast
India’s first lunar lander about to try for risky touchdown
can this be used in generating textures for 3d models
Glad I am pert of the marginalized 21, who seems not to matter. 'Flyovers' are people too, dispite the sv bigotry.
New 3 hour series on how Theme Parks are engineered: “Imagineering in a Box”
I used to have a Facebook list specifically for the conservative part of my family so I could block the more "out there" stuff I wrote on the platform.

However now I just let it rip. I'm not trying to be weird like I was in my 20s, and I also realize I don't need to self-censor as much as I thought I needed to.
I understand that's a design goal of i3. I wasn't specifically talking about i3 though, in fact it seems like every tiling window manager has that philosophy and I think it is a mistake. Enabling effective use of the mouse doesn't negate the ability to use the keyboard effectively too -- they serve different use cases.
Millenials are older than you think. :)
There's no distinction between the "desktop" and "mobile" versions of GNOME Web. It's literally the same code (compiled for the appropriate processor architecture), just at a different window size.
When your brand name is a generic word that is also used by other products and services, and you're still the top search result, you don't really have that much to complain about.
This presents the RCT criterion uncritically, albeit citing a case where it would be hard to apply.

But RCT fails -- gives a nonsense result -- when the hypothesis under test is incoherent. This wouldn't matter, except that RCT is routinely used in such circumstances, and the results treated as gospel by people in positions of authority.

Consider: Outcome X may have six causes A-F. RCT tests B, and finds that varying B only affects one in six cases. With infinitely many trials, the relationship resolves, but with one trial the difference is indistinguishable from noise.

Substitute a medical symptom for X, and a medical treatment that addresses one of six causes, for B. After one RCT, B is "shown" to be ineffective.

The problem is not B. The problem is that X is ill-defined. X could be a mental illness, or tumors in a given organ. How often do we read "anti-depressants shown ineffective"? The only way we have to distinguish one variety of depression from the next is which treatment works.

The problem is not limited to medicine.
I'm pretty sure all dating platforms suck because dating itself just kinda sucks and, as hard as it is to believe for the HN crowd, there are some problems you just can't fix with a website.
This will certainly help people who work on new deep learning theories and model architectures, but not so much the large crowd of deep learning practitioners.

In his excellent interview with Lex Fridman, Yann LeCun was critical of any approach to AI that was not differentiable, even constraint satisfaction, and other solid optimization techniques. In the context of scaling to very large problems or models with many billions of parameters, he is probably correct.

I have had problems with the Swift and TensorFlow code drops. Sometimes they work for me and sometime they don’t. So, very good technology but perhaps wait for it to mature. I read that some students for the fast.ai course using Swift have also had some setup difficulties.

EDIT: you might also want to look at Julia for differentiable programming and Julia with deep learning libraries like Flux is also a ‘turtles all the way down’ system, where unlike TensorFlow where the guts are implemented in C++, for Swift and Julia the entire stack can be implemented in a single language.
Start complaining when a decent chunk of the urban population owns an electric car or stops owning a car and that somehow becomes a problem for you.
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Similar experience, we ended up building way more custom tooling and scripting than we wanted for our CI pipeline. We used Jenkins so speed was OK but I was really reminded that Kubernetes is not a PaaS it's Iaas. Basically we weren't really ready to go build a platform internally for our developers.

If you are curious I've been working on open sourcing some of the ideas we've built internally at my organization into some tooling built around deploying from GitHub: https://deliverybot.github.io/
I’ve encountered similar issues with macOS tiling window managers. At the end of the day, you’re bolting on behaviors that the original designers of the system didn’t intend you to, and there’s always going to be tension there.

When I’m on Linux I love using xmonad/i3, but on other platforms I’ve learned to accept the defaults; otherwise you just end up using things that work most of the time, but not really, and it’s really infuriating when you expect your workflows to be snappy and consistent.
I think you need to read the parent comment with a /s at the end.
"Nope. A-theist simply means someone who lacks theism."

Actually it was coined by theists without a strict reference to the greek and was defined as "To Deny the gods/God".

Lately, the OED modified the definition to "To Deny or disbelieve in the gods/God", which is actually quite a radical change and has thoroughly muddied the waters of discourse.

But really, think about it: if atheists are going to call religious persons deluded, or even think it, as they consistently do then they are true believers.

Also let's break it down (especially to counter the confused nonsense that is the wikipedia article on the definition of atheist):

Either you:

1)believe there is a god
2)beleive there isn't a god
3)have no belief either way.

Now, we need a word for the 2nd. What is it to be if it isn't 'atheist', as you are claiming. And why should it not be 'atheist' when that was its original meaning? And that's what most non-atheists think it means. And by that definition it only has one meaning, which is seriously helpful in debate.

We should also ask, why are atheists telling us they merely lack belief when they walk and talk like they genuinely believe there is no god, even to callign religious instruciton child abuse (Dawkins). And why are they insisting on redefining 'atheist'?

Is it perhaps because the more educated atheists know their position and belief isn't provable, and so such a belief would be rightly called out as irrational? After all, beleiving in the unproven is not reaosnable. Belief means certainty, and you can't be certian without proof.
NT is not a bad OS, it makes some different tradeoffs than traditional POSIX systems and in some cases it’s objectively superior.

It’s just the ecosystem on top that is a pile of flaming trash.
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That's a valid concern, but psychedelics aren't really physically addictive the way opiates are. And given the possible use cases described by e.g. Michael Pollan, it's hard to imagine them being heavily overprescribed by doctors, if they ever even reach the stage of being a generally prescribable drug at all.
This involves simply exposing how the spinning rust drive works internally to software.

On most magnetic drives there is no inherent relationship between the sector number and its physical location on the track and the drive simply waits for the sector with correct sector number in its header to come under the head.
Right now there is an extremely strong PR campaign against Facebook, Google, and other leading light tech companies. I am not sure who is financing it, but my theory is dictators like Putin to create the Whataboutism effect where people feel everything is bad therefore don't act against true evil like what dictators are doing.

I hear more yelling about privacy issues than the torture and murder of dissidents in Syria, Hong Kong, Russia, Saudi Arabia. It seems like this campaign is working.
I've always used Treesize Free myself, used it once it did the job so kept using it lol
>I wonder at what point most gas (petrol) stations start to be become uneconomical to run?

They will re-structure and monetize electrical charging in some manner. After all, the global governments need a way to recapture the vast amounts of gasoline taxes imposed on regular cars.
for those unfamiliar with it, there's also 'divvy', which has a mac and windows client.

https://mizage.com/divvy/

I use it on my 34" monitor.
The idea doesn't sound like it would require much monetization. It isn't a site you actively browse, it just makes matches and dolls out notifications. You could probably run the entire operation for a major metropolitan area on a raspberry pi.
But, given x->y, if you prove !y, you can conclude !x, so in a sense kibibu is right (possibly requiring "proved" to be read as "indirectly proved"), and we should give them the benefit of the doubt.
It would make Etsy less money, so they wouldn't do it, but there are also plenty of sellers that are legitimately making handmade items and have ~1000 listings. They play the long tail game, and also list similar items multiple times, like in different colors, because it allows them to show options without making someone click through to a listing.
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I have been looking for a entry point to start learning containerization and other fancy, related tools that I've been reading on HN in the past couple of years. I mostly write backend code/scripts, so I'm very new to dev ops stuff.

The immediate need for me is to package up a C#/.NET web app and its components (DB, etc.) into a container so that I can deploy it on any big-name cloud provider (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud). Now after reading through the comments in this HN post, I am not sure if I should choose Docker or something else. If you have any suggestion, I would love to learn. I'm more than happy to provide you with feedback and such (even for free) if I can learn from your tutorials. Thank you.
hey do you know if i need to learn jacascript first before diving into this book?
chrome does have overrides in developer tools - it supports persistent script editation.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools#o...
>New Energy Vehicles (including full electric and hybrid cars) made up 7 per cent of total car sales in China during the second quarter of 2019, compared to 3 per cent in Europe and just 2 per cent in the United States. Chinese drivers bought about 350,000 NEVs versus about 100,000 in Europe.

From "China remains in pole position for electric vehicle uptake despite cuts to subsidies"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/05/electric_cars_canal...
I get what you mean but i think there's different types of authority. Your boss, your parents, your elders, the government. They all get treated very differently. So deference to authority isn't quite specific enough to be applicable imo.
Brave says Google is (still) secretly sharing your personal data with ad firms
cannoneshamster: "Your post is full of strawmen and logical fallacies."

You've made a lot of assertions about my 'logical fallacies' without any reasoned demonstration.

How am I meant to argue with that?

Meanwhile, what's your best atheist argument?
They already are making a legal choice when they choose to make the repo public. There is little point in not making that explicit.
Yeah, based on my experience with android and tensorflow they fail spectacularly at it.
He has a point. Why would he want his "performance" to be featured on proprietary video formats or platforms? Even ignoring the proprietary part, he'd basically provide exclusive content to yt without compensation.

Speaking of which, maybe he could address Github blocking indie search crawlers.