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> For all the complaining, “neoliberal capitalism” has made it the best time to be alive there has ever been

That really depends on your point of view. For the average person on HN, upper middle class income or above? Sure thing, 100% agreed. Especially in the US however, if you're not part of that group, it would have been better to live 40-something years ago. Yes, you did not have all those fancy devices and cool tools that we have nowadays, but neither did anyone else, irrelevant of income.

> the remaining problems tend to be around choke points where there is some kind of monopoly power and proper competition is missing

Irrelevant of whether this might be true for Amazon - what about health care? Telco? Public transport? Basic utilities like water, electricity?

The US is a prime example on why "neoliberal capitalism" (at least if we're speaking about it in the Reagan/Clinton sense) is a complete and utter failure - it is the only developed country with a declining life expectancy, the richest country on earth with a sizeable amount of the population having multiple jobs and still living from paycheck to paycheck.

Don't get me wrong, I get your point. But it is really important to try to take the perspective of those who are the losers of the system, and for those people the current time is _for sure_ not the best to be alive. They are so desperate, so disassociated from the current state of affairs that they're willing to listen to snake oil peddlers like Trump, that they're willing to storm the Capitol or at least look the other way when others do, to disparage Science in the face of a pandemic because the class of the educated has left them behind earlier already, so why not this time?

> Amazon got to where it is today because overall the customer experience is so much better.

Relative to what? Compared to the "old experience" of having to go to a physical store - sure. But that's a damn low bar; everyone who can write a webpage can beat that these days. Amazon got where it is today because they straight-up ate the market, but not by being the best, but by being the ones who had the capital to sink everyone else before they went belly-up themselves (for how long is Amazon actually turning a profit? Not that far back, I reckon). In short, they played the market instead of letting the market play. And that's exactly my main gripe with what I'm calling 'neoliberal capitalism' here: The way Amazon played is not a bug of the system, it's a feature. It will continue to happen, until regulators kick in and set boundaries that go beyond anything what we can call neoliberal capitalism. It might still be a 'free market', it still allows for competition, but most definitely not in the barely-regulated sense that the neoliberal capitalism envisions.
> There’s no risk to your network unless you believe your device is compromised

Amazon is perfectly capable of shipping exploitable devices, as well as devices that stop receiving security updates.
Sure some of it is but certainly not all of it. Also there are reasonably sized mixers like GP said
do you mean PascalCase?
At least things things like Kitchenaid mixers are easily fixable if you still have it. Ours recently died after about 8 years, and it was a pretty quick turn around from model number > spec sheet > motor number > $80 replacement. The actual swap took less than 15 minutes with nothing more than a phillips screwdriver.

I did the same with our microwave when the door close sensors failed. The internet has made fixing things infinitely easier, as spec sheets and part suppliers are available to everyone.
Well said. And "This is why we can't have nice things" sums up this whole thread pretty neatly.
If an instrument is priced correctly, that is to say at the risk adjusted net present value of its future cash flows, then it absolutely will go up in the long term as it returns cash (dividends, buybacks) and as cash flows that are still in the future come closer to the present so become more certain and more valuable (time value).

There is of course the question whether the instrument is currently priced correctly. That's why you diversify, ideally into uncorrelated investments so that misvaluations balance out on the upside and the downside.
I would encourage anyone who has never used a bidet to go out and try one. Most modern bidets are Japanese style (built into the toilet itself or replacing the toilet seat) rather than European style (discrete units which sit next to your toilet) and thus are much easier to install and use outside of a new construction.

I had never used a bidet until I visited Japan a few years ago and I was instantly hooked after one use. Washing away excrement using pressurized water as opposed to smearing it around using toilet paper is more efficient, more hygienic, more pleasant, and results in a cleaner outcome. Bidets effectively let you perform a less-invasive enema which you cannot replicate with toilet paper. The one downside to using them is that the nice ones do require electrical power to produce heated water, so you need to employ an extension cord or get an outlet installed next to your toilet to use them.

I personally have a Biobidet 6800U which goes on sale for 50% off at Costco pretty regularly.
> The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages. Fuck, I said it. Fight me.

I see this in myself also. Static typing is such a fever at work especially amongst juniors and mids. Sometimes it’s almost as if they believe object types will spontaneously change at runtime, unpredictability.
This does not seem to be a well defined question.

What do you mean?/What are you trying to ask?
I sometimes comment as a way to bookmark the article
I’m not defending him and it’s funny you think this is some pro/con situation.

That being said misogyny requires intent, right. It means someone who hates or dislikes women. So if you make a statement that every time you criticize a woman, she cries and don’t have ill intent toward women, then that isn’t a sign of misogyny.

I don’t think women are any more likely to cry than men, but if there’s research that shows it so, is that misogynistic?

If you say “women are shorter than men” is that misogynistic?

I think it largely depends on intent as if someone is trying to demean women or does hate women, that’s a big difference. Saying women are shorter than men as part of some overall argument on inferiority is clearly misogynistic.
I would encourage you to read it - it's a book that is part of our civilization now. It starts off with showing the horrors of unchecked monopoly capitalism. And then it switched to the remedy - a collectivist utopia.

The horrors are so shocking that you're willing to suspend disbelief and accept the remedy.

So as you go through life, I would make one observation - just because someone can point out the flaws, doesn't make their proposed remedy nesessarily correct.

The subtle flaw in state enforced collectivism is that people will only work so much for 'the common good' - people want to see some benefit to themselves for their hard work and will basically 'shut-down' if they don't. To combat this, the state now has to force the people to work - with the threat of bodily harm. That ability to force people becomes a source of corruption and you suddenly have a totalitarian state run by despots.

All because Marx though people would happily and selflessly work for the common good. It would be nice if he was correct, but he isn't and we have to deal in reality.
What you're saying is that you personally don't need to write network code that performs socket(), bind(), listen(), accept(), send(), recv(), etc. But the programming language and library you're using is using those calls, to talk to the kernel, which is doing a lot of the work, so your language/library doesn't have to. And it does that using a standard API.

This enables less context switching, faster processing, more uniform behavior, and more portable code. It also means your language/library does not need to implement a TCP parser, which can be quite complicated, and it means the kernel can maintain the more complex network settings that affect your TCP connections, benefit from a shared buffer/cache, network filters, routing, etc. Off-loading protocols into the kernel (or even better, the network card) is a boon to the whole OS and to your individual application.
Something we need is languages with conditioned types, that allow us to set a variable to match a condition without assigning a specific value, like this:

let x = a number that is < 7

That way we won't need to test with lots of random numbers.
That's fair to say it's standard, but then I'd say the standard is fantastic.

Not long ago I ordered 4 pair of sunglasses from a small outfit online. Only 2 arrived. Support took a few days to get back to me, then asking for pics of what I got, the box, etc. I don't think that was unfair of them to ask and I provided all that, but it's a stark contrast to 'yeah here's your money back' in 5 minutes, no questions asked.
I'm remodeling a bathroom to become part of our master bedroom in a walk-out basement. I had an extra water source and decided to build a small wall next to the toilet to hold a hand-held bidet sprayer. It's very low-profile, and relatively easy to install (since the wall was open).

Having a second porcelain appliance (and drain) for a full-on bidet doesn't make much sense to me, but I am really looking forward to completing the project to have it.

I often take a shower in the morning after I do my business for the sole purpose of cleaning my bum. This will save energy, water, and time!
Unless the hiring managers is looking for a cheap pushover who would work overtime and be on call 24/7 at no additional cost.
> But most would absolutely disapprove if they sat at the "God console" and saw other people's lives the way the vast towers of computing power and machine learning can.

Sure maybe they would disapprove but they would probably still use their phones even after being horrified by the god console. The fact is that the average person is already aware their phone is spying on them without being told by the manufacturer yet they still use their phones. On a visceral level, the benefit of their phone far outweighs abstract privacy concerns.

For example, a troubling amount of people were seriously paranoid about 5G somehow causing them harm. What percentage of that group do you think will continue to use their 5G phone? I would guess upward of 80%
Ha! They don’t know about the three shells!
Rejection Sensitivity
Would be better if they weren't selling trash though
Perhaps, we’ll never know as there’s lots of types of ads.

I was referring to the ads described in OP’s article- ones that show up around “real” content.

Of those ads, I’ve clicked none.
Futures are great, if used right. Too much leverage kills always.
It depends on duty cycle.

If you’re often using a computer chair (as many of us do use in a commercial setting), you probably legitimately need a chair with a high duty cycle.

Meanwhile, I have a $7 toaster that’s 10 years old. I don’t make toast very often. Even if my toaster fails today, a low-end commercial toaster wouldn’t pay itself off over my lifetime.

Poor people also have alternatives. Much of the world doesn’t worry about the repair bills for their clothes dryer or their dishwasher, because they hang their clothes on a line and wash their dishes in a basin.
After thinking about my own behavior I wanted to install an extension that would give me alternatives to amazon when buying something there. I didn't find anything that seemed to be popular/available in Germany.
A little anecdata: I was halfway reading this comment thread in my iOS DuckDuckGo browser when I switched to the YouTube app and refreshed a couple times to see what ads I got: some mobile games, an online car dealership, a shower head and... a vacuum cleaner. Then I came back and read this comment.

I’m not too worried though, probably coincidence. The only place I really see ads anymore are on YouTube and most of the time they are irrelevant.
But in theory, if we eat garbage generation after generation, eventually we'll evolve to digest it well.
Active doesn't only mean politically active. I actually meant it more in the "economically" active. Free, public schooling has lifted many, many people out of poverty and into the middle classes.

Most people aren't political. I don't think there's any way to change that, they just don't care.
I've had a washlet for a decade and absolutely am glad I spent what seemed like a scandalous amount of money at the time. Despite the built in dryer, paper is still required to get truly dry but other than that, it's great.

The article is a bit weird. The author starts off with a seemingly disconnected claim about prejudice that she never really is able to support except through rather weak conjecture. The whole thing reads like she needed to meet an identity politic quota and was working backwards to make it happen.

This finally ends with a pitch for a particular company's bidet toilet seat attachment. There are countless companies selling these on Amazon and elsewhere so it's a bit strange that this one company's offer is treated as something revolutionary and unique. Does The Atlantic get a cut of sales they send that way?
I agree, the Z-book are really amazing, but HP still has a bad reputation so it is hard to make people realize how far they went with this serie (from the old modela to the recent ones).
This seems off:

>> f(x) = x^2
>> f''(4)
0.9995297887
The services are not of equivalent value. And while I'm not saying you can't have a distributed remote team, the approach of outsourcing software labour to cheaper markets has repeatedly demonstrated that it does not work.

Unfortunately, few people in this field have the career longevity and experience to have seen this play out.

Remote work works when you've expanded your talent pool to get _better_ talent. And while it can help you stretch your budget, if you're at the point where you're lowballing the foreign talent that you're already getting at a 50% haircut on a newly-minted local developer, you're fucking doing it wrong.
To make my own recommendation along these lines, Bluffworks pants: https://shop.bluffworks.com/pages/technical-pants I've found them excellent for travel because they remain wrinkle-resistant and looking like I've just stepped out of an office no matter what conditions I put them through, up to and including a month backpacking with constant wear on hikes and irregular sink-washing.
I'm curious about them; what are some titles?
This is the only correct answer here. If you don't have other prospects, you're only worth what the job will pay you.
Dynamo is indeed a very powerful tool for specific use cases. A total heartbreak if the developer doesn't understand how/when to use it.
Never seen those here in Scandinavia either, actually didn't know they existed until a couple of years ago.
> A touch keyboard is a no-go for me, sadly. Especially for this kind of usecase

Get a USBC mechanical keyboard if that's your thing ; an amd64 tablet with a eink display and enough ports to connect a mechanical keyboard is quite unique.

If you plan to use it as a "laptop", you are missing 95% of the usecase: it's for taking notes with the wacom pen (55% of my use) and using the eink screen as the main screen with a physical keyboard (40% of my use).

The remaining 5% is using the touch keyboard to type a login when I can't be bothered to grab my laptop in the next room
I legit heard multiple Americans discuss it dismissively like it's a toilet dildo for homosexuals.

Even the fact it's a French word was a proof of that.
This is called PGP
Was it Mike Stonebraker's talk "My 10 Fears about the Future of the DBMS Field"? (2018 Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture, presented at the University of Illinois): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFKl_5JTnA
Yeah, it's certainly a phase I went through.
The impact of Amazon's market distorting power is somewhat overstated here, as the 30-45% includes FBA. Walmart has a comparable service, WFS, which looks competitive, but it's not always cheaper and can cost more than FBA (https://www.helium10.com/blog/walmart-wfs-fees-vs-amazon-fba)

Of course that doesn't mean Amazon won't inflate FBA rates and squeeze sellers further, but it seems like currently the issue is about higher (non-FBA) seller fees forcing higher prices on competing services with lower seller fees because of Amazon's most favored nation clause. Unfortunately, Stoller doesn't break this down with enough detail to get a good understanding of its impact. In fact, this is pretty misleading:

"Now, if this were all that was happening, sellers and brands could just sell outside of Amazon, avoid the 35-45% commission, and charge a lower price to entice customers."

Sellers will always have shipping and fulfillment costs, whether or not they use the in house service, so the real consequence seems to be over the fee portion Stoller quotes as 5-10%, and it's unclear how much more this is relative to Amazon's competitors. Amazon's behavior is still anticompetitive, but MFNs aren't rare or illegal, and they're typically enforced by a business with more market power over its competitors (how else could you get someone to agree!).

TLDR; It seems clear that Amazon is inflating market prices, but not to the degree Stoller suggests, and I suspect it will be a much more difficult case to make for the same reason. IANAL.
We’re Facing a Fake Science Crisis, and AI Is Making It Worse
Last I checked, NASA issues Blackberries and iPhones: https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/reports/FY14/IG-14-015.pdf

On the laptop side, they're using ThinkPads.
No, by any good faith source that I have read, BIPOC does not at all exclude Asians. "The acronym BIPOC refers to black, indigenous, and other people of color and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people."

Incidentally, one of the co-founders of the "BIPOC Project" is an Asian-American woman.

* https://www.thebipocproject.org/

* https://dbpedia.org/page/Person_of_color

* https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-bipoc-5025158
Gambling is trading money for a chance to win more money. Day traders use various market mechanisms to spend money for a chance at earning much more money.

Investing is the purchase of something you think will hold or rise in value. It is always possible the value could go to zero (Enron, for example), but by diversifying your investments, you can reasonably expect to avoid all of them going to zero.

Bitcoin, for example... hasn't crashed to zero (YET). So if you bought at $60,000 you would have lost about 40% of your investment, not all of it. You only realize gains or losses when you sell (which you can be forced to do if you are using leverage).

There is an old saying "The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", which I take to mean you should never use leverage.
Check my link for github, IIRC I think it's the same USB driver so it should work too.
In Hebrew we have "נכנס יין - יצא סוד", loosely translates to "Wine entered - secret came out".
Pretty sure the standard k-bar is only single edge.
I’ve shifted from the cheap bidet attachments on Amazon to the $300 Toto which includes both heated seat and water. It’s phenomenal, to the point that I added two new electrical outlets to my house to accommodate them.

Particularly with the toilet paper ‘shortage’ it’s wild to me that so many people still waste their time and money using paper.
Morphogenetic Code: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life (2020)
There's also an issue with how many full stack web developers who are actually capable of doing all the things he lists.

My experience is that at some scale it works out okay, but beyond a certain point it just falls flat for most. We deal with insanely talented developers, who will trash a database, because it don't understand how it works. Talented JavaScript developers, who don't really understand how HTTP works... or load balancers, or caching... or webservers. Sometimes you get these fantastic software machines as deliverables, complex, you can't monitor them, or configure much, and the it just implements a basic feature of HA-Proxy or Apache, but badly.

My point is that they should be paid poorly, because they fail to be excellent at every part of their job, but rather than: Yes, this should in most cases not even be a job title. If you find someone who can do all of this well, you almost can't overpay, but are you really sure that you want to tie everything up on one person anyway?
This is somewhat similar to my project at https://calcula.tech, although the usecase is a bit different. There are a few other calculators around that use Rust + WASM which is kind of interesting
At the same time I accidentally bought Bosch Professional cordless drill long time ago.

It's biggest problem is that sometimes I forget I have it, then fix what I was doing in few minutes. Also I sometimes forget to charge it, as it holds a charge for years in my practice.
What "tests" do you mention?

How do you evaluate people? Given the following information, how would you determine someone's skillset?

- hobby projects on the same technology stack

- open-source contributions (library with 15,000 monthly downloads)

- hobby projects on a different technology stack

- hobby projects on a different technology stack that made it into production with thousands of users

- previous companies
How do such bidets work in public bathrooms? Most public bathrooms, the only thing I reasonably trust to be clean is the toilet paper. Doesn't the bidet get exposed to there people's excrement, raising the chance of passing that exposure onto the next user of the stall? Genuinely curious.
I would pay for that site. Please feel free to harvest my email address in my profile.
Oh yeah, derivatives of higher order being less accurate is a known problem. I forgot to specify that, thanks!
I've had one for half a decade or more; using _just_ toilet paper feels gross and unclean, now.

It's saved my family a bundle, too.
There's a chicken and egg problem with cryptocurrency. If I want crypto, I need to go to an exchange and trade some fiat for it, which would imply that cryptocurrency is inherently gold-backed like the USD.

Then we have people claiming the USD is no longer backed by gold, and that the old concept of 'a dollar note is a receipt for a dollar of gold that you don't physically own'. Can someone please elaborate why I can't go to the federal reserve with a million bucks and trade it for gold?
that’s great and all until you need to buy 2 of the same thing and now you’re being extremely overcharged.

I always try to look elsewhere .
I’m operations focused (traditionally Sysadmin but I can code to a decent degree and do professionally) but I suspect we’ve all been bitten by something being inferred we didn’t expect.

YAML interpreting NO (Norway’s country code) as false being the most immediately obvious.

Bash has a lot of these kinds of issues too, I don’t remember all the rules so I quote everything to be safe and still get bitten by variable expansion sometimes.

Types that change depending on what the value is: that scares me.
To be fair, cryptocurrencies do have genuine cash flows as well. People who need to launder money out of the criminal economy or out of oppressive economic regimes will be willing to pay a considerable cut to do so, and that money goes to "investors" as well as to miners.
Now that you've said it, I realized that's how we say it in portuguese (computing science not computer science).