skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The merchant alleges he could offer the same products on Amazon at lower prices and with faster, more reliable delivery if he could handle logistics himself without being penalized for late deliveries. Merchants using Amazon’s logistics services don’t face penalties for delivery mishaps, which is why many choose to use it even when better options are available, the letter states.

It would be great if someone had numbers on how often Amazon logistics are late, as compared to third party services. If their logistics are indeed much more reliable, then I can understand where their policy is coming from. If a merchant wants to use a 3rd party service that is cheaper/faster but less reliable, that does seem like something the merchant should be penalized for. It all depends on their relative rates of reliability though.

Either way, the optics certainly don't seem to favor Amazon here. They may have to restructure their pricing and penalties, to avoid the perception of bias.
It's not just in the headline. It's in the article's body as well:

"The topic is immensely complicated, and Schurger's valiant debunking underscores the need for more precise and better-informed questions."
MTG Arena, their latest online effort, also has a "learn to play" mechanism built in.
Just wanted to correct myself but Baumol, although distinguished, did not win the Nobel Prize
Yeah, a lot of stuff should be more rigorously tested on single and dual-core environments.

Especially when it relates to OS-handling (specifically: Windows), I feel like we've papered over a huge number of poorly sequenced, blocking calls with "more cores!"
Can they sell the captured methane in the greenhouse gas markets?
Predatory pricing is a myth.
Why do you think that is plausible? What natural drivers are there that would be able to do that?
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21405779 -- "the creator should decide how his creation is experienced!" -- no, fuck you, I paid for this and I'm doing with it whatever I like.
I can not imagine them reaching that cost even in China. That $10 per kWh is basically the material cost.

On other hand, you can already source lithium batteries of cheaper varieties at below $100 per kWh in large wholesale quantities in China
The rules of Magic are quite complex so you'll be hard pressed to find a resource that actually covers all of them that's able to be digested quickly. The reason there is so much to learn is that cards have rules on them, and there are a lot of cards: this leads to a lot of crazy interactions, which is what makes the game very interesting.

This should cover the (very) basics well:
http://www.teachmtg.com/basics

If you want a video, something like this should cover the bare-bones basics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZyXU1L3JXk

Once you have a sense of the basics, the best way to learn is to play and look up rulings whenever you get stuck.

Basic official rules are here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/magic-gameplay

Comprehensive rules for the current season are here: https://media.wizards.com/2019/downloads/MagicCompRules%2020...

Whenever there is a ruling specific to a card and its non-trivial interactions, you can look the card up in Gatherer, and there will be a rulings section that will tell you the relevant info. For example, if you were using the card 'Felidar Guardian' and didn't know what would happen in a particular case, you'd look up its Gatherer page: https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multive...
What a brilliant idea - focus on prevention and not just putting the fire out.

It makes far too much sense to ever gain popularity - and whoops, I just looked at the majority of comments in this thread and am not disappointed :(
There's numbers for Amazon logistics in the article.

More to the point, Amazon themselves use UPS/Fedex under the hood in addition to their own system. But they hold sellers responsible for using UPS/Fedex if it's late only when not using FBA.
I gotta say one of the three top articles on City Journal is a big bag of 'yikes'.

"The Administration’s First-String Team
Two of Trump’s top lieutenants have their eye on what’s crucial."
https://www.city-journal.org/william-barr-mike-pompeo
- This in reference to Attorney General Barr and Secretary of State Pompeo who I hold in no esteem at all.

So I will certainly read this critique of Kendi's work albeit with my eyes wide open for right leaning bias.
Here is what he said about it later in an article called "So, Here’s A Giant List Of All The Dumb Stuff I’ve Ever Done (Don’t Worry, I’ll Keep Updating It)":

The “Enemy Civilian Casualties” Column. In this column, written when I was 18, I suggested that civilian casualties in war were of no concern. While the larger point of the piece — that we must calculate the risk to American service members when we design rules of engagement — is partially correct, the piece is expressed in the worst possible way, and simplifies the issue beyond the bounds of morality (particularly by doubting the civilian status of some civilians). It’s just a bad piece, plain and simple, and something I wish I’d never written. It’s also good evidence that a lot of the stuff you think is smart at 18 is just you being an idiot at 18.
> Nuclear isn't a good match for PV and wind, as those are cheaper when they're on. So you have a huge capital investment but only a low realized capacity factor.

That's the wrong conclusion. In a grid made of unreliables and nuclear power, electricity is worthless during the day and priceless at night. If you assume[^] cheap batteries, electricity is worthless in summer and priceless in winter.

[^] But remember, if you assume, you make an ASS out of U and ME.
Apple’s Gadgets Co-Star in Its New TV Drama
I was trapped in this mode of thinking for a few years when I was younger. I really regret falling for it, and try to help other people when I see them falling for it. I wish somebody had set me straight, so I'd not have spent those years searching for excuses to perpetuate my ignorance.
Not just know, have no comprehension of understanding. It's doubtful it registers as pain to them.

I was playing devil's advocate for a bit, there are much crueler things one can imagine. Freezing and unfreezing like this has been the dream in much of sci fi. And it doesn't cause any harm or difference at the end?
>> It is relevant though as k8s makes everything more complicated

More complicated than what? Without a baseline for the comparison it's not that useful. In our case we transitioned over the last four years from running hundreds of VMs provisioned with puppet and jenkins to running K8S workloads (on a lot fewer nodes than we had VMs) provisioned with helm/kustomize and using gitlab ci/cd pipelines. In my opinion the current platform is much less complex to understand and manage than the old one was. Yeah there are layers of complexity there that didn't exist in the previous platform, i.e the k8s control plane, the whole service/pod indirection, new kinds of code resources to manage, but it's all pretty consistent and works logically, and isn't really any harder to internalize than any other platform-specific complexity we've had to deal with in the past. And in terms of day-to-day development, deployment and operations k8s has been completely transformative for us.
I did that intentionally, and not because FUD. I hear ">100 levels of nesting", and think "huge document", which as demonstrated here isn't necessarily true. So I said "202 bytes" to emphasize "not huge document"; to emphasize that deep nesting doesn't really imply much about document size.
this is the old issue of dev and ops having different goals in terms of their jobs.
Ops wants stability because uptime and a non disrupting service is paramount, devs want velocity because they need to push new features to market.

It's a delicate balance to strike, especially considering having a product with a ton of features but lackluster stability doesn't get you anywhere, and neither does having a super stable product that lacks basic features.

"move fast and break things" doesn't work in a lot of sectors. It might work for an internet startup, but good luck applying that principle to fields like large infrastructures and datacenters.
https://xkcd.com/891/ is one, but I believe there are others.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=debunked

Seems to be used all the time for things that aren't a scam, a hoax, a lie or something like that.

This is one of the example sentences Mirriam-Webster gives for the word debunk:

> The results of the study debunk his theory.
No argument at all about per capita energy consumption. My point isn't to blame developing countries at all. It's to illustrate that as over 2 billion people try to emulate Western lifestyles, their energy consumption is going to skyrocket. And Western expectations that they should just limit their growth/advancement is the hypocritical view.

When you view Western energy consumption, it's growth is largely correlated to population increases.
On some level, anything that isn't a paperclip optimizer is irrational. People weight what's important to them, and strive for those goals.
You're free to read the original papers, collect your own data and write a refutation. I'm pretty sure you can get it published with high impact if your data is sound. There are billions of people who would like to hear that they don't have to change their way of life.
>GEDmatch hit the spotlight in 2018, when DNA data from its site led to the eventual arrest of a man suspected to be the "Golden State Killer," responsible for dozens of rapes and murders in California between 1976 and 1986.

This Golden State Killer case was the biggest public relations boon to police wanting access to these DNA. In general the public wants rapists and killers to be caught. I think the public thinks that if these people don't care enough about their privacy to send DNA samples to a private company (that is not a health care company), then they should not object if police use that information to catch killers and rapists.
Nuclear reactors contain highly toxic materials. No matter how smart designs they use, they'll decay and leak if left unattended for a long enough period. We have huge spent radioactive material storage problems right now. Just imagine if every Dick and Mary had a reactor in their basement. If only 1% of these reactors go under maintained, we have a serious problem on our hands. That before considering a major civilization blip like a communist revolution or a world war.

As of China, they are the dirtiest civilization in human history. Not an example to emulate if we are to leave our children and grand-children a livable Earth.
At BangBangCon, they managed to fully capture the nuance of audio-based humor, to the point that their captions made funny things funnier.

Watch the video from BangBangCon 2019 on steganography for one example; the presenter hid data in audio files, so the stenographer carefully described the data-enabled files as sounding "perfectly normal, unsuspicious".
They absolutely can with the right amount of funding to maintain attractiveness.

The regulator should be adversarial; period. A well-meaning adversary, but adversarial never the less. Cutting manufacturers as much slack as has been is exactly what got us to the point we're at; a regulator that collected rubber stamped reports and only heard about things going wrong after tragedy has already struck.

It is better to have an active regulator able to intercede than to have the manufacturer coordinating everything internally, and asking for help when needed simply out of interest for removing the possibility to hide a problem discovery by never opening the floor to being questioned by the regulator.

If you tie the regulator's hands, then it isn't a regulator anymore. It's a postmortem service.
What's preventing you from using a query builder?
It has "Logojoy is now Looka!". This is what Google shows when you type Logojoy:

"Logojoy is now Looka! Design a Logo, make a website, and create a Brand Identity you'll love with the power of Artificial Intelligence. 100% free to use."
If you don't want your DNA searched in the GEDmatch database, then don't upload your DNA to GEDmatch.
Online Advertising - The new Dot Com bubble is here!
Cite?

Have fun with the googling. Feel free to check out the toxicity of plutonium (separate from radiation) while you're at it.
What's the "reverse averaging" that the article talks about?
I mean the system was designed as a military tool, with the primary scenario of surviveability being nuclear war, so the level of redundancy seen makes sense to me.
English link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
What if your listeners crashed/were down at the time of the `PUB` message? Does this mean the message falls into oblivion (since it will never receive a reply/ACK/get worked on)?
Then the accurate thing to say is "a SQL query builder is the best way to interface with a RDBS"
No, Go tags are like metadata which can be accessed through reflection at runtime. Java annotations allow you to actually generate code during the build phase.
Over-under on when the first "ML-based approach to parsing JSON" story hits HN: 1.5 years from now.
> One interesting thing to notice is that there isn’t much space for walkways inside the tunnels. In the image above, there’s no place to walk between the center wall and the train.

I wonder if air resistance becomes a problem with such small tunnels.
Browsers are not "20-year-old C libraries".

These issues are every bit as much of problems in C++. In fact, there is a reasonable argument that modern C++ is less safe than old C++, because of features like lambdas that practically invite use-after-free.
> Some tools make life easy in one way, some tools make life easy in other ways.

Exactly, you always choose between different set of trade-offs.
Is the surface tension of water different when in the presence of different gases?
Collect some data that shows that the current warming is nothing to be concerned about and publish a paper. You'll be famous.
People overlook that there's a common systematic belief that looks like this:

1) Developers don't code on prod
2) Prod needs to be protected
3) Therefore, developers need to be restricted from prod

One of my teams went through the process of "let's do DevOps!" with the intent of giving developers the ability of pushing something all the way through to prod on AWS. Months later, this resulted in having a poorly-supported dev-only VPC with IAM/policy restrictions, and other "official" VPCs that devs are locked out of in various ways. Since then, devs had little incentive to learn and are again reliant on Ops for any deployment problems.
Probably anything between "stream of consciousness" and "what a clearly expressed piece of prose", depending on the amount of editing afterwards.
Kind of amazing that you created an account just to misconstrue my replies and try to cast my words as partisan when I've said nothing to that effect.
I also didn't like SQL before, but I've come to realize it's mainly because there's a boundary/interface between set-based modeling and imperative/functional based modeling. The former models things as records and relations, and the latter two models things as data structures. And it's this mismatch that ORMs were suppose to solve, but it's been a quagmire, and often called the Vietnam of Computer Science.

However, I've come to appreciate it, and it's pretty great for what it gets you. Databases use to be very data structure specific. So if you wanted to migrate to a different database, you'd have to map the data from one db's data structure implementation to another!

Queries also use to be path dependent! That means you could only access data through a specific object, like json or XML. This can be problematic if you haven't fully figured out the query patterns. With relational, you can be flexible with queries, and don't have to know them ahead of time.

Lastly, when you think about all the imperative/functional code you'd have to write to execute a query with joins, it's pretty great that you can just express it declaratively.

As for some of your reasons, I'll just pick a few of my reactions:
5) a 300+ line program is small compared to most imperative code bases out there. But it is dense, I concede.
6) type checking is enforced in the schema
9) This seems to be property of code that works with data. Unless the data has a way of carrying versions and schema changes with itself, I'm not sure how downstream code of any paradigm would know something has changed.

Now, I think SQL could be improved, just not for the reasons you've given. Just because a language is old, doesn't mean it doesn't have good idea. Lisp is one of the oldest languages out there, and lots of languages have only recently caught up to its features. http://paulgraham.com/diff.html

I wish the query was written from big to small, where you pick tables first, join them, and then select your projection. It seems more natural to think of narrowing down your query.

I wish you didn't have to explicitly state the foreign keys and add indicies, and it'd figure it out for you, and only ask in ambiguous cases.

I wish there was a way to modularize it and make parts of queries reuseable--though I know there's a WITH expression.

I wish you didn't need to specify the tables and how they're related in the queries, and just ask for the data by columns.
You also have to ensure that none of your close relatives upload their DNA (very similar to yours) to the database either.
Does Squirrel cover your needs?

https://github.com/Masterminds/squirrel
If it's OK to exclude people thanks to 2nd degree taint like that, does this mean it would be fine for a conference to exclude everyone who supported Bernie because of his association with AntiFa?
Absolutely. I think this is one of the strongest things keeping people here. The golden handcuffs. Everything sucks, but our situation is unique. Many positions have lots of personal freedom such as flexible working hours. You can work from wherever, you can travel. That's hard to leave.
Not all Republicans, just the ones in tech.
The pattern I follow is that workers immediately poll once when they start - this means that when your workers restart after crashing, they'll pick up any missing jobs.
> Nuclear accidents in contrast are very hard to assess the deaths from because a lot of people don't die straight away.

Most nuclear power deaths are ordinary industrial accidents.

When there's a nuclear disaster, it's difficult to estimate the death count. But two important points:

* The way we usually estimate it is likely very pessimistic, using a linear no-threshold model. Even so we come up with very low numbers.
* The fact that people die later is a benefit: if they died immediately there would be more loss of life expectancy.
Sadly, many combo decks that are perfectly viable run up against the clock in Arena. If only there was loop detection to allow for "do this X times", it'd be far better.
> Trying to increase the number of women in STEM through affirmative action policies of one kind or another is obviously a capital-S Statement, but saying "hey, the fact that there are no women in science is itself proof that women just don't science well" is also a capital-S Statement.

I don't think anyone talking about being "nonpolitical" would disagree that both of those are political acts.

Would you argue that someone who has not made a statement or evinced an opinion in either direction is still engaging in a political act?
> The article mentions a possible orbiter mission to Pluto. Is it even possible?

I can't read the space.com article about the orbiter mission, but a lander concept was proposed in 2017. Their idea was to use aerobreaking with a giant inflatable balloon, using New Horizon data on atmosphere density as a guideline for the maneuver:

https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/solar-system/plu...
Yep. I don't really need something special to handle this, though. I do it specifically because I don't want to have something else.
So that means they fully accepted and swallowed Mei's fabricated, ascribed motivation.

Wonderful. Another big score for Mei's list of successful reputation attacks.
Near as I can tell, this "MAGA hat is a hate symbol" notion comes from people who want a group to embody evils X, Y, & Z so that group can be opposed. Lacking such a group, progressives have designated Trump supporters as such via wanton misinterpretation of legitimate, normal, and earnest positions. The term "alt right" didn't exist to any meaningful degree until Trump was elected, to the dismay of Leftists convinced Hillary would win; her supporters suddenly started using this term to slander the opposition. There are, for most practical purposes, no "white supremacists", "alt right", "Nazis", etc. (have you actually met any?). The Trump Right have been wrongfully slandered as "racist", "xenophobic", "sexist", etc; they just haven't figured out how to counter such libelous & intolerant abuse.
> That's not true: they are making an investment in housing, based on economical considerations, that they expect to cover by reducing the health liabilities of the covered individuals.

And why, exactly, is that a problem?

Not sure what planet you live on, but here in the real world economics is the primary motivating factor for all societies.

> But it just sounds silly when you say they are "trying to help ease the homeless problem"

Why is it silly to say that? It's EXACTLY what they are trying to do since it directly affects their bottom line. They have contracts with the state to provide medicare - this let's them do it far more efficiently. If they can also do it while dramatically improving the lives of those they serve why shouldn't they get credit for that too?

It just boggles my mind that the Automatic assumption in this country is that all corporations or profit motives are immediate evil/immoral. Talk about real silly ideas...
>legal pathways

And barring that, they'll just suck it all up anyway in secret and claim immunity from oversight due to undefined national security reasons.
Don't get married. And certainly not before your 50s.
> this isn't specific to k8s at all.

I don't know. k8s is pretty complicated. How many small/medium apps need more than this nginx/Terraform/Docker example? This would be a lot more difficult to set up in k8s (pods, ingress, etc.)

Terraform:

resource "docker_container" "app" {
count = 2

name = "app-${count.index}"
hostname = "app-${count.index}"
image = "app:${var.app_version}"
restart = "always"

env = [
...
]

ports {
internal = parseint("${var.app_port}", 10) + count.index
external = parseint("${var.app_port}", 10) + count.index
}

networks_advanced {
name = "${docker_network.private_network.name}"
aliases = ["app-${count.index}"]
}

depends_on = [
...
]

}

Nginx:

http {
...

upstream app {
server app-0:3000;
server app-1:3001;
}

server {
listen 80;

root /usr/share/nginx/html;

location ~* ^/api/ {
rewrite ^/api/(.*) /$1 break;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_pass http://app;
}
}
}
> And that's worse than continuing to work in fear?

My guess is people are just biding their time until they can find other jobs and quit.
I can't speak to City Journal at all, but I find Coleman Hughes to be a very fair-minded person who certainly has no love for Trumpism.
w is quite close to p on my colemak keyboard. Maybe they meant poo.
Honestly, I so very much appreciate you saying this. We have so little recourse to discuss these things. I've talked to everyone I feel safe talking to internally at this point and it seems the execs are just running wild. Clearly they aren't even listening to their legal team. It is nice for someone to offer a sympathetic ear, truly.
Then why can't the article person do volunteering and dopamine fasting?

My tangent has nothing to do with you; not everything is to do with you.
This is a GREAT point. I forget how Netflix has pigeon-holed me until I visit a friend and see drastically different choices on their accounts.