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Ask HN: What would you ask at The Antitrust Hearings?
Ben Thompson (AKA Stratechery) had a list of questions in his Daily Update that he would ask if he were on the committee. And he did allow for distribution of this list of questions to Congressperson. Here's an edited subset: what would you ask?

Tim Cook, Apple
- Do you believe that Apple has been adequately compensated for its role in making smartphones the most indispensable devices in people’s lives? Does Apple deserve more revenue from App developers, including those offering free apps?

- Why doesn’t Apple simply charge developers directly for the cost of running the App Store? Has Apple ever considered offering its payment services on other platforms?

- Why does Apple allow WeChat to have a store-like interface for mini-apps, but does not allow the same for Facebook and other U.S. companies?

Jeff Bezos, Amazon
- Does Amazon require most-favored nation clauses with its suppliers? If not, does it implicitly enforce them through forced renegotiations?

- How does Amazon police counterfeit products on its site? Does its approach to counterfeits change based on its relationship with a particular brand?

- Does Amazon use individual AWS data to inform what services it decides to build for AWS?

Sundar Pichai, Google
- Larry Page once said that Google’s goal was to get users off the site as soon as possible and to their destination; now nearly half of a typical results page is devoted to Google-centric information (answer boxes, ads, etc.). Has Google’s goal changed?

- Why did Google end last-look bidding on its ad exchanges? What percentage of bids does Google win on its own ad exchanges?

- Does Google leverage data from Android and Chrome while bidding on its ad exchanges? Is that data available to third-parties?

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
- Why did you believe that Instagram was worth $1 billion in 2012?

- Does Facebook believe that Apple and Google are uncompetitively restricting Facebook’s ability to compete on iOS and Android?
Reportedly there are villages along the Silk Road in remote western China, where some people are blond haired, blue eyed, descendants of lost (or decided-to-settle) traders or soldiers from centuries ago.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/815449...
Hydro is actually pretty bad in terms of big safety incidents (Banqiao: 171000 dead, Machchu: 5000 dead, South Fork: 2208 dead) and solar/wind have trouble beating nuclear on metrics like death/watt because you need lots of infrastructure per watt. Picture a few large cities with contractors running around every roof tending to solar panels and compare to a few experts at a single nuclear power plant. For the contractors-on-roofs, the slip & falls add up even though they'll never get an HBO mini-series.

Anyway, I tend to agree that going forward solar + storage is probably workable. The storage part isn't proven yet but I have faith we'll figure it out. There are lots of promising options under investigation and the proven fallbacks aren't that horrendously expensive, all things considered.

It's just a pity we stopped building nuclear 40 years ago because it was viable all the way back then. Heck, we got to 20% nuclear! Compare to 2% solar today. If we had merely continued building nuclear at the same pace instead of stopping in the 1980s our grid would be 100% low-CO2 today instead of maybe 30 years from now if we hurry. But that didn't happen. We made the super-mature and responsible decision to fill our atmosphere with CO2 instead and now we get to live with that decision. So it goes.
> The thing though is, "trifecta" is difficult in practice and shouldn't really be a barrier to passing laws.

This is an illogical sentence. What are you trying to say here. That the US Constitution "shouldn't really be a barrier to passing laws"? Is this a joke? You seem to be utterly unfamiliar with how most constitutional legal systems work. It's not just a Western country. Even countries like India have a similar system. Imagine I go to India and say "the Parliament shouldn't really be a barrier to passing laws". People would laugh at you. You're making a really dumb and nonsensical statement. (And you sound facetious.)

> My observation was mainly about ...

You "observation" was an accusatory statement that the Obama administration "had 8 years to fix this, but they didn't" -- which I pointed out and explained was completely and flat-out wrong.

As I explained in my parent comment, the Obama administration made extensive and substantive changes to the immigration system, within the scope of the Executive Branch's powers. A lot of changes to the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) affecting immigration, many EOs, memorandas. DACA is a famous example of a positive change they brought about.

More substantive immigration law overhauls are outside the ability of the President to affect. Congress must do it. And Republicans in Congress blocked nearly every bill that was in any way pro-immigrant.

And, no, in the US, you can't say Congress "shouldn't really be a barrier to passing laws". You'll be laughed out the room.
They weren't pictures of him, but every time i looked at the test site, for a fraction of a second, i thought about my colleague's crotch.
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> and, as a result, they come to me.

Why do they go to you? (Your profile suggests you're a web developer, rather than a doctor).
Any resources that you have used and can recommend?
Let's give everyone a unique number and a barcode on their wrist. It's useful for "security and protection against theft". This has been tried before. There is a reason gun rights advocates have lobbied Congress to prevent the FBI and ATF from keeping digital databases on gun owners from the applications created when buying a gun.

Your digital facial likeness will almost certainly be collected, collated with other data points, then both data mined and resold to data brokers. One of them will no doubt be dumb enough to leave their DB open to the wide internet and your data will be leaked and you will have no recourse because you can't prove damages in the US legal system and you aren't the customer of the data broker.
A friend of mine had pneumonia 30 years ago, and a physiotherapist told him to breathe with the abdomen as part of his treatment. I tried it for my asthma, and it worked pretty well. After a while, it came naturally and I mostly breathe this way all the time. Slowly, and from the belly :)
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I took Provo from the lede of the article you provided.
Congrats on being the founder.

>The default installation of Kubecost includes an optimized Prometheus server that only contains metrics that are useful to Kubecost. This optimized version retains 70-90% fewer metrics than a standard Prometheus deployment. You can also use an existing Prometheus installation.

I really like this approach. What do customers say about it?
Also check out this UK company which is instead going down the path of using stronger magnets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWYnbYsp3i8
1. Cool-that would be a good thing to put on your site somewhere. Since you're thinking affiliate fees, how you will avoid the agency problem? e.g. A ton of businesses push the premium cards (Amex Plat, CSR, etc) with high commissions but almost no one pushes cards that have small affiliate fees but that would generally be great for the majority of people. Think Citi Double Cash and the various limited 3x cards.

3. Personally, a blurb about your data deletion policy, putting it in your TOS that you will never sell transaction history/personally identifying info, and making Plaid (or VISA) more front and center moves the needle. I trust Plaid more than I trust some random entity with "bank level encryption." Not sure if I'm the right one to ask about this one as I'm not your target.

5. Cool. Didn't realize CC signup decisions were weighed so heavily by people. IME people just generally went with the marketing (think store cards and/or cards with big marketing budgets like Cap1). Maybe I'm desensitized after doing this stuff for so long.....
If you define your efficiency metric in a clever way, anything is possible: https://io9.gizmodo.com/breakthrough-the-worlds-first-net-po...
I think typically those predictions mean there's ~100 years of oil that's extractable with current prices and technologies, not that there won't be any oil left at all in 100 years.
Cool, good to know. I didn't realize that it was more like `nouveau`. That's awesome!
>This is just not true

A lot of smart people would beg to differ.
the "roman lost legion" thing is probably mythical. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/no-romans-need...
I'm not such a big fan. To me, I am constantly baffled by how on one hand he has first hand knowledge of altered states and the deep, unusual perspectives that come with them, but then he goes right back to conceptualizing the world mostly at a simplistic object level. Perhaps he should trip on a more regular basis so some of the ideas stick better.
>already the trend is heading down across the board

You mean the rate of increase of the increase in deaths is heading down...across the board?
There's even a village of Jews that was intergrated into society. East Asia likes Jews for whatever reason, even Japan an axis power didn't give them up.
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With tokamaks, there is a concept of confinement time. It turns out that plasma is not stable in a standard donut configuration and it likes to twist and break the continuous column, sending all the plasma shooting at the walls. The confinement time is how long it takes for this to happen. After the many plasma experiments over the decades, scientists have a really good idea of how the confinement time scales with magnetic field strength and volume of the plasma. It turns out that you want a big machine. With the JET tokamak they were really close. Iter is designed to have the confinement time well within the requirements for net positive energy, with like a 10-fold margin of safety. IMO it should work, but it is taking an unacceptably long time to construct.
> But, like, I think you'll have a hard time making the argument that run amok policing isn't at least somewhat attributable to Republican voters. It's not "sabotage", in the mostly-mythical Grover Norquist sense, but it's a public policy mistake they mostly own.

I’m not sure I understand. Baltimore just revealed a new budget that contains zero cuts to the police budget.
Even if we deploy batteries, wind and solar in an amount needed to mitigate a climate change crisis, the amount of mining and industrial activity that would take would greatly poison our planet in other ways. In terms of "other stuff you need to do" per MW none of these come close to touching fission. Fusion, being much cleaner than fission would be a holy grail of clean cheap energy.

I hope it only takes 50yr to figure out and scale up fusion, that would be great.
I have always one nostril blocked (not completely thought) and according to "Kundalini Tantra" book that I read it's usual state for most people. In the book it was connected to the activity of brain laterals (one is dominant) and forcing yourself to breath equally through both nostrils will make both halves more balanced. Not sure if the explanations were correct, but the practice itself provided me with some really high states. Breathing is extremely powerful tool.
I'd buy performance issues, but on that hardware that surprises me. My desktop was a 2700X with a 980Ti and I didn't notice issues, but it's good to know that that mileage still varies.

(Now it's a 3900X with a 2070S and surprise, still none.)
> Proper written communication and literature searching skills are demanded everywhere in the workplace.

I'm getting deja vu:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496234

Seems the experience is very different in differing work places.

> Doesn't everyone dread getting muddled, poorly formatted emails because you have to guess the meaning or write back and forth several times to find out what's going on?

This is the norm at my (very successful and large) company.

> I don't get the pervasive hostility to education and academia in this forum.

I'm very pro-education, but I will point out that all the people I know who write very poorly have formal education, and often graduate degrees. Culture will dictate how well you write much, much more than education. If the work culture doesn't value it, people will write poorly.
You should also consider there is a "bottom" price for a rental property -- the damage accrued from general usage, and the risk of particularly bad renters, can mean that it's cheaper to leave it empty.

The risk of particularly bad renters is accentuated in areas with strong renter-favored laws -- it becomes difficult to get rid of the guy, and to recoup the cost of damage. COVID has made it particularly problematic; if you have a bad renter today, you can't evict in areas where courts have effectively stopped. So they don't pay rent, cause damage, accrue fines, and you can't remove them.

In addition, a bad renter can both devalue the property tremendously, as well as accrue an arbitrary number of HoA fines, which can wipe out whatever gains you made on the property. And in COVID-world, a good renter can suddenly turn bad, as soon as they lose their job, further increasing the risk -- and those bad renters are usually bad because they don't have money in the first place, so even if tried the courts, there's nothing to get back
It can never become permanent. Everyone will eventually be exposed to, and get, this virus. That rate of transmission is what needs to be controlled as much as possible.
I think what you describe is not uncommon among high achievers (especially younger ones like you); and a lot of times, some combination of aging and significant life events can help one take a step back and see bigger pictures in life. For myself, it was probably a combination of quitting the company where I made my most significant professional contribution and leap upwards (where I spent several years, went from Engineer to Architect, and earned a significant portion of my current wealth; a period of time in my life where the career was my identity), as well as various life events (getting married, having a kid, etc.) that helped me step back, gradually over time, and see bigger pictures and adjust my perspectives on most things in life (work included).

In our lives we're often shown examples of people who've made big jumps in changing their lives, but smaller steps are possible too. For example, you don't necessarily have to quit your job to fix this. You can look into switching teams or roles within the company. You can even have a talk with your manager and gradually move out of some responsibilities. Perhaps you'd have to be okay with change in career trajectory in the company, if you do such a talk. The point is, the action you take doesn't have to be drastic. Small steps can help over time.
What happens when your project unexpectedly gets to the top of HN? (2016)
I felt pretty anxious for much of 2019 and let it affect relationships at home and my general mental state, though from the general outside view I continued to function and perform at a high level like it sounds like you have. I likewise thought about work waking up and going to sleep, and ascribed much of my anxiety to my work situation.

I started by looking at the root cause for why work was stressing me out, rather than focusing on trying to remediate the symptoms like lower sleep quality and nausea. In my case, I found that my work was successful but didn't encourage the creative thinking that energizes me... My Sunday scaries and bouts of anxiety largely stemmed from the fact that I chose a job where performing a huge number of tasks very quickly was an important part of success. I know you say you don't feel talking to others will help, and that may be the case, but I found weekly therapy talking through this root cause to be super illuminating for what steps to take. Take that with a grain of salt because I'm an extrovert and process well out loud.

The solution, as frankly non-scientific and silly as it might sound, was to listen to my gut by doing things that allowed me to sense what energized me. I was really focused on what I was good at, rather than what I liked doing. So I started [1] cancelling and then not making as many social plans, [2] using Insight Timer for a 3m meditation in the morning and night, and [3] scheduling 6 hour blocks on Saturdays where I couldn't plan anything or do chores to self-soothe. I also [4] deleted social media apps from my phone to avoid anxious scrolling. I found that these tactics exposed me to more boredom and immediate anxiety symptoms, but eventually cleared enough headspace for me to imagine what would feel good to do. Surprise, surprise, the answer wasn't more work.

Partially as a result of these steps, I pulled a dramatic switch and quit to start a company, and have had an about-face in my anxiety levels. But quitting was only a solution because the actual type of work I was doing wasn't energizing, and the relevant thing to do was to quiet down for a few months and listen to myself.

In the meantime, sending you so much support. Anxiety is so tough, but it will get better as you process what comes next.
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Conscious breathing and conscious hearing are both techniques for practicing mindfulness (some kind of meditation). It's really overwhelming how it can calm your mind, when practiced regularly.
So a place like Harvard has enough money in the bank to waive fees for everyone for a semester or even a year. There would be PR benefits and it avoids confronting the more fundamental and difficult question of what the the price of education should be. Are any ivies considering this move ?
You act like the Director of the USGS was acting in good faith. It's pretty likely that Eric Schmidt, or similar, already worked things out with high-level officials within the government and the USGS Director was not given any real decision making capabilities.
10 million in liquid cash, probably not, but the introduction his mother gave him to the CEO of IBM (they were on the board of United Way together) probably ended up being worth considerably more.
btw, Afrinic has probably the largest pool of unused addresses.
It does, but I guess this is for people who like images most of the time, and just want to avoid the tracking without sacrificing ux. I'm guessing it's inspired by https://hey.com/spy-trackers/, which also has a similar feature that works on a blacklist basis (presumably).
It is kind of strange to link it with Rome over China. Occam's razor and all that.

But, I thought the production and end product of garum were not known today? We know how much Romans loved it, but I thought nobody knew exactly how it was made or its texture, etc.

One thing that stuck out to me:

> the flavoursome dip was the second most expensive liquid on the market after perfumes, and is said to have had an unexpectedly pleasant smell. It developed a nasty smell only after it had become foul

As much as I love eating things flavored with fish sauce, its smell is... rank. It smells terrible, but it tastes great.
@saurabhsharan Signed up; my account page is blank and I am not getting any result. I am not getting any way to unlink my accounts or check what is being done with my information. Seems a little fishy so far.
I guess that for some people, and particularly in small reviews, it is enough with the list of files and inline comments.

I would like to have a tree view where I can see all the files at a glance, and, more importantly, switch back a forth between them. I find it hard to follow the code in Github's UX.

Also, Fisheye/Crucible gives you more flexibility to edit the review, by allowing you to remove files, and add or remove commits. Github PRs are based on branches, while Fisheye/Crucible code reviews are based on commits; it is an entire paradigm shift that gives the user more control. For example, I can create two separate reviews from the same branch on Crucible; that's impossible on Github.
I have the perfect formula. Just ignore how unrealistic it is.

We divide the knowledge and information into disciplines. We create awards in each discipline. If you accumulate enough awards you are offered the option to dedicate your life to the topic without exit strategy. (Quitting would cost 100 million) unless the topic is no longer of public interest.

You get: a house that you must live in, access to research facilities if (applicable), travel is pre-paid for if (applicable), a personal assistant who has to sign off on all of your expenses.

You yourself are not allowed to have cash or a bank account, no vacation and contact with friends and relatives is forbidden unless they can prove they have relevant expertise or are also in such committee.

Picture it, high priest of pokemon go. In charge of ordering search results and designing the portal widget.

No discrimination for artificial humans, we do full robotmancipation.
> it's pricing based on your past (and current!) behavior;

One solution could be to legislate uniform pricing. Would at least take away the incentive in many cases.
It's as far from SLC as Elgin is from Chicago. Claremont has a bunch of different colleges; it's still part of LA metro. The point is that Provo wouldn't have the economic advantages it's taking advantage of without the economy of SLC in close proximity.
Might as well ask it here, since goolgling this leads me down the hypochondriac nuts hole.

I've noticed I yawn ALOT. Furthremore when I yawning I feel like only 1 out 5 yawns are "proper complete" yawns that actually get enough air in (that's the best way I can explain).

I was thinking this might be a sign my nose is too stuffed normally and I'm not getting enough oxygen, but reading this thread I might be over oxygenating?

Some extra information, I've noticed this a while but I have been exercising a lot lately, and lost about 20 pounds, so I do feel relatively healthy and active.
Usually a difference in intensity. Love is what one feels towards their dog. Like is how they feel about their brand of dog food.
It's a seriously cool feeling to see worlds collide like this. The first half of his book Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is one of my favorite reads, but I had no idea he was actively programming as well (although it totally makes sense in retrospect).
If your employer offers a health plan, you are ineligible for subsidies.

As it stands now, I think the last I checked a family plan costs ~$3k / month for me.

If I qualified for subsidies, I could get the same plan free. And I think that was also factoring in my current income, only changing whether my employer offered a health plan.

Edit:

Looked it up. In November 2019, the cheapest family plan available on the marketplace in my area was a "Catastrophic" level plan with a $16,300 total deductible for $1217.90 / month.
Well, they were not exactly wrong.
Humanity as a collective would have been able to push the technology to a usable level in that timeframe, the knowledge for that was certainly there. But it would have required spending quite a lot more money on it.
The incentives for that were simply not there, and that remains still true today.

With the current level of investment and committment, it's more like 40-50 years for the first real generator, and another 10-20 until the first commercial one.
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> 3. Obviously without producing an H-bomb. Neighbours might get unhappy.

If you do it wrong enough the neighbors won't even know.
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