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> Amazon is using its economies of scale to drive out smaller businesses. It is not unique in that. But the industries that Amazon affects may be unique to the nations that wish to preserve them.

Another way of phrasing that: France’s local book sellers are so bad at serving their customers that an American company that’s existed less than 30 years can totally undercut them, despite the local sellers’ massive advantage in understanding their local communities and culture.

I don’t know why folks are so willing to jump to protect small businesses that don’t do a good job. Local is fundamentally a good place to be. Local is an advantage. (Amazon knows this; see how they’re using Whole Foods to create a local presence and _improve_ their service). Large businesses got to be large because they were better at serving their customers than the small businesses.

My personal experience is that the small businesses are just worse at providing consistent, friendly, high quality service. They are rewarded by the market accordingly.

Government protection for heritage is maybe ok, but protecting lazy, self-entitled business owners from competitive market forces is not. If there’s really a problem with shipping costs that they desperately need to fix, they can just make postage cheaper for books, similar to the USPS media mail program.
> Certainly the "edge" could be even closer to the end user than data centers would allow.

Isn't this essentially what browser+js does? you download someones code and execute it locally. Reminds me of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1367/

however, after typing that out I think I see what you really meant: if I'm running something compute intense, why can't I just borrow cpu from a couple neighbors instead of going all the way to the datacenter?

Sandboxing would be important, but it would also be pretty hard to build applications that really take advantage of this model. concurrency on one machine is hard enough!
Don't you love their prices? I have seen some crazy prices on Amazon. I have seen prices as high as $1200.00 for a book. Not a rare, or out of print book either.

I think some wingding MBA said, "Lets go after the people who don't have the sence to shop around for price." Let our resellers jack up the price to Crazy because we will get our cut,

I'm a Watchmaker, and sometimes suprised by the hugh prices I see on books related to my interest. And yes, it's a niche subject, but a quick glance at Ebay usually exposes a reasonable price.

(In all fairness, all the big book sellers started doing it. The last holdout was Thriftbooks, but they are no different that Amazon now. Strike that--they realized some people don't care about price, but I have never seen a gut punching price on their website.)
Perhaps a tax that scales with the frequency that someone uses social media? If you rarely use it, the marginal tax is near zero. As your usage increases, the marginal tax applies increasing friction.
The recent whistleblower has also been suggested to be a tactic to control and set the terms of the concern about Facebook, utlimately not challenging its reach as a monopoly but to allow for certain censorship actions that facebook would be more than happy to oblige to do.
He is the single largest owner of farmland in the US. There are many ways to profit from this, with some options being to rent it or sell it.

I don't really know why billionaires do what they do, but he is investing in all that land for some reason.
So, some of the work I did for my previous employer was deemed patentable. I wrote up technical but still comprehensible documents describing each distinct invention for the legal/IPR folks. Months later, I was notified that patent applications have been filed.

The language in them is so horribly convoluted that I, the supposed inventor can't make any sense of them. Hell, it took me a while to even figure out which invention maps to which application.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACER_(law)#Costs,_revenues_an...

> Some courts such as the District Court for the District of Massachusetts have explicitly stated that "fee exempt PACER users must refrain from the use of RECAP,"[13]

I'm not sure if this is binding, or applies to fee-paying users.
Follow hyperlinks to unknown destinations.
I'm ok with sin tax, but I don't think that they should require a camera for porn to be legal... (ie: porn vs prostitution)
Debezium is awesome, thanks for the great work! It's in my toolbox for when embulk [1] batch processing doesn't cut it (or even in combination with).

https://github.com/embulk/embulk
Given how the average person and even the majority of people on tech have been acting the last 6 years I'm at the point where I don't care. I can protect myself, everyone else is their own responsibility.

The more we remove privacy by tech the less we lose it by law which I now think is the much worse outcome.
Yeah, let's replace all world cultures with monoculture of McDonalds, Coca-Cola and Disneyland. After all, US being able to pour printed money at absurd quantities means it has the best culture in the world, and all the others vastly inferior?..

It's so sad.
Ask HN: Toxic work env, what should I do?
I work at large company "B" in Finance. It was obv to me I was being managed out for some time now, and now HR is finally involved. I was excited to join a big company and had interest in finance as SWE. But those dream didn't manifest. I've started interviewing. But HR has been making my life hell. Everyday they call me, WFH, and give me list of "violations". Late to meeting by n minutes, slack wasn't green at 11pm, didn't complete x points last sprint... etc.

My question should I wait to find new job or get fired, or just quit now.

I'm never working for loser corporations, where all toxic boomers gather up in HR. Like you must get off making people miserable, some people seek purpose and impact in their work, and some might be like oh boy can't wait to see that employee crack under pressure, I think today is the day, lets see what bs I can pull this morning. I mean how sad you have to be that's the bar of self fulfilment.

Teammates: A+

Processes: C-

Management: F-

HR: Cancer
Yes, Apple is also the OS vendor. What it would mean to say "Apple has no access to the user's device" is, whatever an average, unsophisticated user understands it to mean -- because their informed consent is ethically all that matters here.

It means precisely that Apple has no technical capability to remotely access the device.

It means any (consented) Apple software update leaves behind no hooks or backdoors that enable subsequent, remotely-initiated access.

It means there verifiably exist no code paths that allow remote exfiltration of data, other than those that pass through consent dialogs. The basic distinction between legitimate OS functionality, and malware.
One UI 4: Official Introduction Film – Part 1 – Samsung
Might be an extreme example, but I thought you’re not allowed to use the word in the definition:

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/extremology/eyJ3IjogI...
Webauthn. Do not ever, ever use SMS or phone. If a user has a more secure method like webauthn, do not ever allow SMS/phone to be able to reset or override it.
Im in east coast, and that's what puzzles me. Just heard from recruiter and he was like "I'm worried about your TC requirements, our TC budget is 170k"
I think that's the "building a brige" model of software.

But there is also the "writing a book" model, where a general plot outline is first, but the characters write themselves and often surprise the author.
Starting salary at FANNG is around 180k TC. That's no EXP, just avg CS graduate.
Loud pipes save lives.

I wanted to put quiet factory pipes on my used Harley but my wife wouldn't let me. She wanted to make sure cars and trucks would hear me even if they didn't see me.
So guilty of this, haha
Opioid tolerance will absolutely decline if you stop using. it's actually a significant cause of death. People will quit (or go without due to jail, etc) and then relapse with the same dose they has used before and have a fatal overdose.
Except a new internet directory probably wouldn't be very useful without some kind of search. If those old directories were big enough and didn't have a search worth using, the directory wasn't very useful.

If you need to develop one to have the other....
If I may be so bold as to recommend my in-progress Bel implementation: https://github.com/masak/bel

Caveat: I'm still working towards being able to recommend Bel _unconditionally_, not just for small programs. Right now you'll experience unreasonable slowness, terse/uninformative error messages, and missing documentation -- probably in that order. All of those are being addressed. But already today, it's fun to play with.
Gaming and Django with Cody Ingram – Interview
heck yeah, the clock app!

(why do they blatantly copy Apple stuff?)
Almost all of those can be very bad for children. Covid, not so much. There isn't a reason to take the vaccine if you are under 30. And none of you are under 18
HR never works for you. Only for the company.

Find new job.
> I think it’s fair to consider companies offering Agile training and certifications to be custodians of the Agile philosophy.

God no. There’s some good training out there, but a whole lot more bottom feeders. I include all the certification mills in that category. Certifications are a racket.

> Our team was sent to a week long SAFe Agilist certification course. Our management was notably absent.

Par for the course, sadly.

> I think Agile fails because the manifesto says nothing more about management’s role other than “business people and developers will work together.”

Agile’s a big tent and a lot of people have written about agile management. Johanna Rothman is particularly prolific. (I have a few things to say about it in my book, too.) If managers aren’t learning about Agile management, it’s because they’re not looking, not because the information isn’t out there. Although I think part of the reason they’re not looking is because Scrum was so successful, and Scrum is fairly anti-management, or at least has nothing to say about it.

(Scrum’s success has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, Agile probably wouldn’t be on everyone’s lips today if XP was still carrying the torch. On the other hand, Scrum’s surface simplicity and cash-grabbing certification scheme opened the door to some truly awful training.)
I agree that it was the management’s fault, and that’s a large part of why I moved on.

I just would also like to suggest that my experience on that team is not unique. I think that more companies might be successful in implementing Agile if the relationship between management and the development team was more clearly defined; and if the managerial role was more clearly defined (to include constraints on managerial roles). Empowering knowledge workers requires managers to relinquish some of their oversight and authority, by definition. I don’t think Agile training or the manifesto makes this explicit enough.
Squid Game global virality in Wikipedia trends surpasses other major TV shows
> Each node runs in its own K8s pod, which is not much more than a Docker container with a virtualized network and a bounded CPU and memory capacity. Dig down deeper, and you’ll discover a Linux cgroup that can reliably limit the CPU and memory consumption for the processes. This allows us to easily meter and limit SQL resource consumption on a per-tenant basis.

Nice use of K8s here and overall a great post! This is not related to CockroachDB but related to kube and cgroup. I am wondering if you guys have faced this infamous CPU throttling issue[0] when you guys were doing the metering and limiting.

[0] : https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/67577
> but your tactic of trying to pin someone down with these words

Sir, this is hacker news.

Ok, but seriously, to put it in a less-memey way. Many of the posts that I post about topics where I feel like "the word must be spread" are performative but interesting. I actually don't give a shit about convincing the parent poster of mine. Most of those people are going to be closed minded, bias-confirming, and unreceptive to rethinking their belief structures. I care about giving ideas to receptive people who are reading it with a memorable twist. Probably most people have not considered the injustice of sovereign debt explained in the context of "taxation without representation". These folks can then digest what I have to say, and re-articulate it with their own personal touch (possibly more effectively than the way that I did), and then spread the word to 100 unreceptive people with a low yield (say, 2%) and 100 more receptive people, who will then spread it, etc.

Anyways, given your response it seems to already have worked. Here you have given an alternative way to deliver the same message. Fantastic. Also, my response has enough upvotes for me to think, "gee, here are X more people now have this brainworm about the fundamental unfairness of sovereign debt".
Actuaries must have the lowest divorce rate because they know how much it costs!
In the 30 seconds I spent looking for it, I couldn't find the direct interview that I read, but this one was illustrative enough.

But here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/26/squid-g...

“It’s not profound! It’s very simple! I do believe that the overall global economic order is unequal and that around 90% of the people believe that it’s unfair. During the pandemic, poorer countries can’t get their people vaccinated. They’re contracting viruses on the streets and even dying. So I did try to convey a message about modern capitalism. As I said, it’s not profound.”

And here's another one: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/business/economy/squid-ga...

“The stories and the problems of the characters are extremely personalized but also reflect the problems and realities of Korean society,” Hwang Dong-hyuk, the show’s creator, said in an email. He wrote the script as a film in 2008, when many of these trends had become evident, but overhauled it to reflect new worries, including the impact of the coronavirus. (Minyoung Kim, the head of content for the Asia-Pacific region at Netflix, said the company was in talks with Mr. Hwang about producing a second season.)
How many rigorous studies have been performed on anything related to the vaccine really, because the data keeps changing. Anyhow, here is the study:

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
I'm kind of curious how Beeper will handle some of these - they claim to soon support WeChat, and emulating WeChat is a bit insane, because it collects so much data that it's a walking GDPR violation, there's no way to stop it, and we are talking things like "please repeat the numbers in chinese, then english, while looking straight into your phone" at login.
You’re being pretty offensive to someone who you don’t know, and who has only been polite to you.

(Note: thrway edited their comment after I responded.)
In parallel yes; since we don't know anyone, interested to see what thoughts others here may have - maybe some here are
Problem is there is not much push back, in fact people are willing to give up most of their rights for better security.
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> Say you’re driving a car in a straight line

Pretty much every real game map is going to have hills or elevation changes. You're really never driving in a straight line.
Like most things with COVID they didn't test the other way, but it is thought to be as effective and more so in order to prevent an initial serious infection, especially if timed adequately with the body has produced maximum resistance.
A quote from Orwell (which was also in the book):

“I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think.”

—George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Saw this in Linux Magazine: Penpot.app a FOSS figma/sketch killer
There are many hypothetical scenarios that can be cherry-picked. And many not-so-hypothetical ones - e.g. trans people getting harassed on Facebook, today, due to its "real name" policy.

Besides I don't see how you'd meaningfully implement it in the first place - i.e. how would you distinguish bots from actual people? Require ID? Surely you can see the potential for abuse inherent in that. Especially outside of liberal democracies (although they are by no means immune to that, either).
Exactly my thought. I haven't delved in to what's here but I suspect this copyright workaround is not meant to be foolproof
Howard is an HBCU
it does?
Some people die in general. How many deaths are attributed to COVID-19 that would have been unpreventable, like a car accident or suicide?
Scihub has been a life saver for me once I started working on some of the more obscure areas of AI such as signal/time series processing. Anything off the beaten path is locked up behind paywalls, and I'm sorry I ain't paying $40 just to see if someone's paper sucks or not (which 95% of them do, in this particular niche, especially the ones shielded from scrutiny by paywalls).
For me digital is useful for being able to do lookups of something I already know but forgot the details to. However learning something I don't know I cannot be constrained to a tiny phone screen, or a chair, or a laptop. Anything with a screen ends up being associated with other content and it's very difficult to move away from that. With a physical book, I can nest, and I'll actually read it.

My peers have it worse than I do, anything with a screen is snapchat, tiktok, insta, text messages, etc etc. There's so much distraction almost programmed into us.

I do respect that though. Some people learn better digitally or at least don't mind it, and that is the most accessible method. Thank you for your thoughts.
Did I mention OSHA? I gather you don't like the particular policy, but that wasn't my point and I didn't know what context GP was concerned about. Other people were talking about Europe.

Also, for the OSHA rules, they allow for a testing.
Cash is KING
Agreed about 161 years, though I'm not sure how you can say "161x future earnings"; we don't know what the future earnings are, because they're in the future. I presume you mean "161x current [annual] earnings".

Generally I'd expect service and repairs to be of the same order of magnitude as sales, because if you have to spend $5000 a year to service and repair a $20000 car, you'll probably junk it and buy a new car that breaks down less, while if it costs you $500 a year to keep it going you'll probably either keep it running or sell it as a used car. One revenue stream might be two or three times bigger than the other, of course, and the profit margins might differ, and the dealerships don't capture all the service and repair.

I'm not sure what the number of dealerships tells us about the relative earnings potential. B. Dalton had more dealerships than Amazon ten years ago. (Or do we count B. Dalton and Waldenbooks as "dealerships of Hachette and Penguin Random House"?)

We can probably do a reasonable Fermi estimate of total dealership profits, though; 1.3 million car salespeople in the US probably means about US$60 billion in car sales commissions per year, which is about US$250 billion in car sales per year and something like US$25 billion in dealership profits; at a reasonable P/E of 30 years, the capital stock of US auto dealers would be worth about US$750 billion in total. https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/us-auto-sales-st... says the number of new cars sold in the US is 17 million a year, which suggests that these figures are in the ballpark, since it would mean that the average car cost US$14700, which seems maybe a little low for the US but not absurd. However, used cars are an additional 40 million a year, so maybe US$1.5 trillion for the capital stock of US auto dealers. Adding in whatever they make on sales and service, say US$3 trillion.

The worldwide number is 74 million new cars per year, 4.4 times the US number, so if we just multiply the US number by 3 (probably the average car in the US costs more), we get US$6 trillion for the value of hypothetical worldwide car dealership capital stock.

So, yeah, it does seem plausible that all the Toyota dealerships in the world would be worth US$750 billion, with similar numbers for GM, Fiat, etc.

Another thing, though, is that Tesla's vertical integration goes both directions, and you're not counting companies like American Axle & Manufacturing, Mold Masters Co., Grand Traverse Plastics, and Bosch as part of GM's market cap either.

So, I think buying TSLA at a P/E of 161 years is a pretty daring bet, and there's a significant chance it won't pay off. But I don't think the comparison to other car companies makes it look nearly as crazy as you make it sound, even if TSLA doesn't end up running our power grid on its batteries.
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"Department" is not a fixed term between US colleges and universities (much less international schools): it can be anything from a single professor with a shortlist of classes to dozens of professors within a larger college/school of humanities.

The very large state school that I went to had a classics department (and I took many courses in it), but it was probably only about half a dozen professors.

Besides: "Classics" is a difficult department to fit within another department. It usually already has a few sub-departments, ancient Latin and Greek among them.
Elementary school teachers and RNs are historically "appropriate" for females, and a lot of jobs that skew strongly male seem to pair up with those a lot.
Some fun sites to explore: https://neocities.org/browse
Create a search engine, and put it online. I'd love to search the index but can't download 7 terabytes of data to do so.
Combining NextJS, AWS Amplify and Stripe to build a catering app
stress leave
I've never noticed a difference in distracted drivers pulling out in front of me when I'm on a quiet bike vs a loud bike. Most of the sound is going the wrong way anyway.
Yeah I think this is not really surprising. Why would bitcoin be any different than e.g. wealth more generally.
I agree that the pacing in Dune was uncommon, but for me it fit quite well with the story, as it doubles the feelings Paul must have felt within the audience. He and his family is exposed to bigger forces and can do nothing about it, while being exposed to dreams and visions of far off places, all with a hint of puberty which is disorienting in it's own right. So a lot of this emotional "unguidedness" is part of the material the director worked with.

Whether Paul or his family works as a projection surface for the viewers or not seems to be a bit of an individual topic. I personally didn't feel unable to empathize with the protagonists. If anything the untypical impending doom (like in a greek tragedy) that is so rare in hollywood cinema nowadays made me care in a different way. Yeah, Paul is the hero, but you can't shake the feeling it is not gonna end well. Instead it made me ponder more about the world and society that produces such fates and where one would find parallels in our time (opiates in Afghanistan maybe?)

I like it when the filmic world is the protagonist before anybody in it and these films are sadly quite rare, especially with a decent production.